skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see/read a deep dive into the open mold carbon cycling frame world from someone in it sometime- it seems like it'd be pretty interesting.
> breaking into their social media, email and other accounts by guessing or resetting their passwords, the indictment said.

Password re-use seems to be too common.
I talk about this, kind-of, in my article about process visualization (in German, available behind paywall and in print). It‘s not rigorous in the sense that I give points, but a picture emerges along the way. Based on the full set of practical examples there, I would recommend the „v1“ of Claude 3.5 Sonnet. GPT 4.5 also looks good, but I haven‘t run the full suite.

https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/Prozessvisualisierung-mit-gene...
Boston Celtics Sold for $6.1B, a Record Price for Pro Sports
What’s the best library for fine-tuning VLMs at the moment and do they support this architecture or that for the IBM Granite vision models? Document understanding tasks seem in special need of fine-tuning.
"Vibe Coding" vs. Reality
Likewise I don't think I've ever seen anything even mildly criticizing Asahi here on HN and by comparison that's saying a lot.
I was lucky enough to help Singularity University launch their startup accelerator back in 2015 and have Be My Eyes as a portfolio company.

I say lucky because they were such good people with such a great mission. Hans (founder) and Christian (co-founder) were really, really fun to get to spend ~10 weeks with.

The new CEO is fairly recent so I can't vouch either way for him. Hans and Christian were an absolute joy with incredible hearts.
Care to explain what this does? I don’t get it from the readme
##*/ is probably one of my most used parameter expansions. This was definitely a better solution than the one I proposed lol
The article is about people trying to engineer electronic devices that take into account their full lifecycle?

The knee-jerk cynical "hot takes" on this site are getting really tiresome. It's intellectual cowardice and laziness. Anyone can say this sort of zero-calorie edgy nonsense
Such hubris in naming. Connaisseurs know that MCP is forever reserved to Tron's Master Control Program.
Thank you for saying this. I recently heard that story "if you let one Nazi in your bar, pretty soon you have a Nazi bar"
Large Libel Models

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/03/30/negligence-theories-in-...
I'm just saying I don't think they repeated that whole process for Claud.
Airships, Blimps, & Aerostats
All the alternatives are likely to result in more children being harmed. These models probably should exist. Ideally they'll destroy the commercial incentives for people to hurt children.
Heathrow airport closed after huge fire causes power outage
Build, Use, and Improve Tools
It's always good to see usernames I recognize from the other site.
That's DLP and it's because DLP uses a color wheel at 3x the frame rate.
Can these new LEDS do proper color spectrum or are we still stuck on incandescent bulbs?
Have been on both sides, running a company, and being an employee. Neither side is happy with current status-quo, but we're at some equilibrium.

How does this sound as new equilibrium: companies pay across board become around ~40%-50% less than it is today. Avg tenure and stability goes up ~2x what is today. Would we as an industry take this up?
https://archive.ph/AqDKW
> It's not that it's public. It's that it's in use.

And an API that isn't public can have its use restricted to a controlled set of environments and places, which inherently makes it easier to update.

> Apple can continue to update it's API's and devices at any rate it pleases. If the 3rd party devices don't updates fast enough to follow, well that's their problem.

Until the EU decides that a public API that changes without warning and "arbitrarily" to suit Apple's needs is also anti-competitive. An argument that would easily be made the first time Apple shipped an update to the API that broke a bunch of third party devices even while their own devices continued to work fine because they received an update at the same time, or even early in preparation.

Again, my argument is not that it is impossible to make a public API or to transition that API. My argument is that a public API by its very nature often implies a slower pace of change. Even in your examples, SSL and TLS upgrades often happen over many years, with deprecated older versions being supported along side the current version for a while.

In fact, TLS is a great example of this, where TLS 1.1 had fixed the vulnerabilities that made the BEAST attacks possible, and yet in 2011, when BEAST was discovered, it was still a problem because in 5 years, TLS1.1 still hadn't had a lot of adoption. Or consider that TLS 1.3 has been out since 2018, and yet I can still connect to this very site using TLS 1.1 with weak encryption keys. In fact, if I change firefox to require TLS 1.3, I can't even connect to this site. Or consider further that initial TLS 1.3 rollout was hampered by middle layers that had implemented the spec badly (https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-tls-1-3-isnt-in-browsers-yet...).

Again these are not insurmountable problems, but they are problems inherent with a public API or protocol that multiple vendors are implementing, and problems that Apple either does not have to deal with, or deals with on a much smaller scale with their private internal APIs and therefore can move faster when iterating on those APIs.
It creates a "pngtuber" i.e. a static image vtuber. So you get a very limited amount of animation that is voice activated (basically animated discord speaking icons). It's used for streamers who are getting into vtubing but who can't yet afford a full vtubing rig (or the hardware to run it).
I didn’t say “successfully sued”?

This doesn’t even make sense in relation to my prior comments… as unsuccessful cases also cost Apple, and various other parties, real money. So it seems entirely irrelevant to the point.
Heathrow Airport closes all day over power outage
Why stop at social security? All societal benefits derived from taxation can be said to be a ponzi scheme if you're determined enough.
But if it doesn't take off then it can't be strip mined to enhance shareholder value...
Would Nix work well with GitHub Actions? Or is it more of a replacement? How do you automate running tests and deploying to dev on every push, for example?
Audio is *surprisingly* tricky on both platforms. NES has DPCM, which cheerfully interrupts the CPU and causes untold issues with controller reading. Gameboy has envelopes that are semi-required with phase-resets, and a wave channel which you in theory cannot write new samples to, and developer hacks to work around both. Both systems have various hardware revisions that have subtly different behavior, and a handful of games that will break on that specific model. It's fun!
Comments about how one developer might actually be another developer qualify, I believe.
Didn't the democrat legislators write a border security bill, but republican legislators shut it down because they wanted to campaign on lack of border security, which they couldn't do if they actually did their job and passed a bill to fix it?
It might be related to
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393

I too had the impression people here love asahi Linux. But as the comment said those negative posts tend to disappear.

I’m not fully onboard (I don’t have a MacBook, supporting closed hw from a single vendor) but I see the appeal, and to me getting more people using Linux is major plus that outweighs the negatives. I’m not going to tell people who are generously donating their time to something not to do so.
Show HN: I built an Airtable MCP that lets you chat with your database
Hi! I built an MCP server that allows AI assistants like Claude to interact directly with Airtable databases. It enables querying, creating, updating, and deleting records using natural language.

In curious how people will use it!
Show HN: PostQuickAI - Multi-platform posting with built-in AI editing tools
Hey Hacker News Community,

I'm excited to share PostQuickAI, a simple yet powerful tool that lets you post content simultaneously to X, Threads, LinkedIn, and BlueSky—all from a single dashboard.

I built this because, as a founder and content creator myself, I was wasting hours manually posting to multiple platforms and spending additional time editing my content to ensure it was concise and engaging.

Here’s what makes PostQuickAI different:

One-click publishing to multiple platforms.
Built-in AI editing tools for proofreading, clarity, conciseness, and tone adjustments.
Clean, intuitive dashboard built with React and Next.js, and AI powered by Claude.
I'd love to hear your feedback:

www.postquick.ai

Thanks so much for checking it out!
Yeah, maybe in some ideal world where people never have more than one political priority at the same time…
Didn't the democrat legislators write a border security bill, but republican legislators shut it down because they wanted to campaign on lack of border security, which they couldn't do if they actually did their job and passed a bill to fix it?

> There is nothing Trump has done that any previous president hasn't already done.

How many presidents managed to crash a booming economy in just a few months?
I fully understand why they do it, and yet I choose to interpret it as blatantly lying. (To be clear I mean the thing where OpenAI seems to announce things relating to news cycles without actually having the thing working yet; I don't mind a limited rollout. But like, that Advanced Voice demo they did--which was clearly just to take some thunder from Google--not only took a long time to get into the hands of anyone, it is nowhere near as good as their demo claimed or made it out to be.)
The Republican dream for education has been to introduce vouchers so the wealthy can get a big break off their private schooling costs while simultaneously draining tax dollars out of the public education system. Ultimately, it will either force the public school system to start charging fees or close shop in favor of private alternatives, and the vouchers will inevitably fall short of the total cost presented to parents, ensuring the poor lose access to education entirely.
I feel like more time is spent getting CI working these days than on the actual applications.

Between that and upgrading for security patches. Developing user impacting code is becoming a smaller and smaller part of software development.
Kafka at a Crossroads: Cloud Streaming, Batch Convergence and 10x Cost Cuts
Kafka has dominated data streaming for years, but cloud-native platforms (Snowflake, Redshift) now ingest data directly, batch-streaming convergence (Iceberg, lakehouses) is reshaping architectures, and cost-efficient alternatives (WarpStream, Redpanda) are cutting costs by 10x. This article explores whether Kafka can adapt—or if the streaming ecosystem is moving beyond it.
If you're not breaking them open and eating them you're probably fine.
No. It's like the Vertu of keyboards. Seems unnecessarily expensive without any corresponding benefit. Plus, kinda ugly retro look.
What's vtubing?
This is actually very helpful to me! Thanks for posting!
I agree it doesn't need to take off! And yet, I still want it to have enduring impact, to entice & encourage folks towards taking the journey themselves. Cool can be small, but it should still have on ramps, encourage more, beget more.

Honestly the tenants of indieweb have seemingly gone very little distance across well over a decade of time. My feeling is that there is a distinct anti-ambition that eskews well known good protocols & systems, judges them in a suckless.org style of claiming identity mostly as against what is more than what for. Valorizing small while too often forsaking using good mainstream well known protocols.
>Some people think applying old concepts to new areas counts as invention, some don’t. Debating the point isn’t useful because there’s no objective truth to get to.

This is most of philosophy :) arguing about the definitions of words especially in the edge cases. But it does matter, because how we quantify, reward, and protect "invention" matters, to do that you need an accurate definition, and boring folks to hash over what counts and what doesn't.

Around here people care a lot about patents and what should be patentable, and that really revolves around what is and isn't actual innovation, actual invention. Sometimes a thing is truly new and unique, other times it's a trivial obvious change, most of the time it's ambiguous and having precise language to determine which one and to what degree a thing is, can make all the difference.
Heathrow Airport closes due to major power outage caused by substation fire
"The United Kingdom's biggest airport, Heathrow Airport, is experiencing a significant power outage due to a fire at an electrical substation that supplies the airport's power and it will be closed until midnight on March 21."
It's widely known among EEs. It's used for lots of interesting things, such as temperature control, motor control and positioning, and LED lighting. You can do it in hardware old-style with a 555 timer or hex inverter, but most modern systems I've worked with do it with a microcontroller.

An addendum to this that you may find interesting -- I've experimented with turning the LED on for a few microseconds at higher than rated current, then off for tens of milliseconds. The average current stays far below the specifications. This results in very high apparent brightness per unit of power consumption.

Using the IV curve of the LED, this also let me eliminate the typical current-limiting resistor. The power savings are more than the power cost of the MCU that controls it (modern low-power microcontrollers are awesome).

Anyway, the end result is a little LED + CR2032 cell + magnet that you stick to furniture, and it runs for about 3 years. I made it so that elderly people I know who wake up at night to go to the bathroom don't bump into furniture (especially in an unfamiliar place, like while traveling). Without creating a thing they have to think about often. If you're curious, I posted the code here: https://github.com/seanboyce/tinylight

An additional one you might like: I did PWM for LED dimming in the tens of Mhz for some 1 Watt red LEDs. This is for my wife -- when she has a migraine she prefers very dim red light to complete darkness. In the Mhz range, there's no visible flicker by a longshot (although it costs a little more power). Most PWM systems I've seen that flicker, use lower-frequency signals.

It must have been cool to play with LEDs in the 70s. We sort of take them for granted now, but they are so awesome. Truly we live in an age of wonders.
But this feature directly contributes to the problem in the article I linked.
>Just for example, if you're a local table tennis hotshot who can beat every rando at a local bar, when you challenge someone to a game and they say "sure, what's your rating?" you know you're in for a shellacking by someone who can probably beat you while playing with a shoe brush (an actual feat that happened to a friend of mine, BTW). You're probably 99%-ile, but someone with no talent who's put in the time to practice the basics is going to have a serve that you can't return as well as be able to kill any shot a local bar expert is able to consitently hit.

And it's very easy to forget when you're the guy going to the club just how bad most regular players are.

I'm in a table tennis club, my rating is solidly middle of the pack, and so I see myself as an average player. But the author is correct, I would destroy any casual player. I almost never play casual players, though.

Not sure how applicable this is to software engineering.
Yes, I was also thinking of this.

"proof of pay" or "proof of a transaction"

An advantage of this would be not wasting electricity for the proof of work computation.
Very impressive, that machine is a nice example of web handling equipment. A fascinating discussion of web handling is found in Exact Constraint: Machine Design Using Kinematic Principles by Douglas Blanding. These tapes seem relatively stiff and narrow.

I was under the impression that work with carbon fiber should be in a purpose-built facility, enclosed, negative pressure with dedicated, purpose built air handling and filtration equipment. You would want to compartmentalize and contain any potential dusts and fibers.

Not sure if this process doesn't generate such fibers, or if there are other engineering controls present? From the picture and video, there don't appear to be much in the way of controls at all. Depending on the dusts generated, I think I would fully enclose this machine.

Is it just that there's no shearing of the fibers? Or have they have worked with so many composites for so long that they no longer care?
Here’s a small HN discussion on the topic from eight years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13600211
In the US there's also been an interesting rise in sexlessness and male virginity recently [0] which is a fun one to compare with exposure to pornography. There is evidence that real-world conditions have a lot more to do with real-world action than pictures on the internet.

[0] https://ifstudies.org/in-the-news/young-adult-sexlessness-sk...
> something has gone wrong

Wrong for you individually, perhaps, but please note that "The Good of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few", and as citizens of the Western Empire, we are called to make sacrifice in order that justice be done in the world. My personal private toilet is insignificant and inconsequential compared to the almighty almond.
> VTuber (Japanese: ブイチューバー, Hepburn: BuiChūbā) or virtual YouTuber (バーチャルユーチューバー, bācharu YūChūbā) is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_YouTuber
Thanks? I’ve learned to check whether an assertion is clearly defined and falsifiable before engaging. Otherwise you get “obviously frobulation is better than defrobrulation”
It generally gets flagged, but there's definitely been some bad comments.

I don't think that what I've seen, if directed at me, would get the same response -- but I obviously don't see it all, nor have it directed at me, so it's not really fair for me to say.
PG&E asks to raise rates for California customers so it can pay investors more
Take out each reference to AI and the meaning doesn’t change in the slightest.
https://www.pge.com/en/newsroom/currents/energy-savings/pg-e...
Arguably this is classic VC maths, bet on many companies and the few that succeed will succeed enough that the rest don't matter.

YC does the same thing at the very early stage, A16Z and Sequoia do the same at later stages, and arguably Softbank made their money doing the same thing at a later stage again, although all the lines are a little blurred.
That’s fair, but I was referring to releasing in response to external events. It’s very clear they are trying to one-up each other and create hype, vagueposting etc. I don’t think sama is alone in this but everyone especially from the Thiel school of thought.
I'm generally in favor of unions, but I don't understand the game theory under which an L3 up to L8 (for example) have enough in common that they would be a single bargaining block.

Compensation and authority scale up pretty quickly in large tech companies. Also, much of that compensation is in stock, which makes the tech workers capitalists. I'm skeptical that you're going to encourage unionization by telling people they're evil for owning capital.

So if the goal is collective bargaining power you first have to figure out what mechanisms need to be in place if L3 and L<N> have diverging interests. Then you need to figure out if waging a 19th century holy war against capital is important, in which case you have to make a case for why tech workers should give up the ability to be compensated by shares.

Also if you want people to come together, maybe stop trying to bully them? Some of the comments on this thread are really beyond the pale.
Yep.

And emphasis on the plural in crises, as this is hardly the only instance currently ongoing.

(Don't ask me how many, I'm barely keeping track, largely to preserve the remaining shreds of my sanity, or what I like to think is.)
might be --> actually is.

Nobody has any doubts left at this point in time.

Whole deal is ridiculous.
I have an original Philips EnduraLED that still works fine.
Shouldn't "downloading and cracking encrypted passwords" be functionally impossible? This third party must have had atrocious practices.
The #1 tell is that all their projects are solo.
Working on a team,
working with peers,
building software systems the live in production for years,
through change and expansion,
all seem beyond the typical influencer.
That’s a good start! 199.75 billion more to go before we recapture the full amount stolen during the pandemic. I wonder if this is on the list for DOGE to audit?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/new-federal-estimate-fi...
The head of South Korea's guard consulted ChatGPT before martial law was imposed
Hi Jeff, I have an app that already supports the Whisper API, so I added the GPT4o models as options. I noticed that the GPT4o models don't support prompting, and as a result my app had a higher error rate in practice when using GPT4o compared to Whisper. Is prompting on the roadmap?
Amazing to see Asahi Linux push ahead despite the headwinds - gaining D3D12 AND microphone support AND fex, AND bundled nicely up with all the goodies in Fedora 42.

Thanks to a very small number of generous humans your M-series Macbook will still be usable even after Apple declares it vintage - and in the meantime you have an alternative which works better for gaming, and hardware support will only keep getting better.

Congrats to those whose work made this update such a bonanza.
Can you recommend any tutorials/resources about designing and training simple multi-modal models like CLIP? Or should I just be reading the papers and following along?
Anything that requires reasoning rather than regurgitating. For a simple example, try the classic river crossing puzzle with non-trivial substitutions. Gemma can't solve it even if you keep pointing out where it fucks up. To be fair, this also goes for all non-CoT 70B models, so it's not surprising. But QwQ can solve it through sheer persistence because it can actually fairly reliably detect when it's wrong, and it just keeps hammering until it gets it done.
Discussion (99 points, 10 hours ago, 115 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425561

(44 points, 11 hours ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43424776
At this point in time, Asahi would do well to officially disassociate from problematic drama-attracting developers.
Was coming here to find this comment, seeing the table inheritance to create a table looked like a big red flag.
Try giving it a river crossing puzzle with substitutions. QwQ can take a lot of time but it will solve it. Gemma will just confidently give you a wrong answer, and will keep giving you wrong answers if you point out the mistakes.

Now, yes, QwQ will take a lot of tokens to get there (in one case it took it over 5 minutes running on Mac Studio M1 Ultra). Nevertheless, at least it can solve it.
Seems like a really cool idea except for the fact that the main focus seems to be converting The Blind into a new market segment. I’m a little preoccupied but are there examples of this being used for non commercial activity? Or like… compensation for volunteers that facilitate the capture of profit for large companies on behalf of those with a chronic disability? Sorry if this comes across as too cynical but as a person with a disability I immediately question a “volunteer” service with a lot of corporate sponsors/use-cases.