skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a third, but also that’s not a criteria for “dictator” – the term refers to unchecked power, and while over time that tends to build resentment it’s not a given. This is especially true when they favor certain religious or ethnic groups where the beneficiaries like the dictator and everyone else does not.
The early 90s. I remember a time when you got one address, and found out they could have multiple. It was like black magic.
I suspect because we're way past robots doing practical tasks.

Your comment is kind of funny in a way — like telling someone in the demo-scene to just write a spreadsheet already.
Is it that surprising that Edge is surpassing Firefox given Firefox doesn't have the onboarding ramp of Microsoft and Google? Microsoft shoves Edge in your face every chance it gets, as does Google. What can Mozilla do to compete against that? Unfair to use market share as an argument.
I heard good things about fish audio
You might be able to hang an additional balcony system out a non-balcony window or something, or just keep it inside the window. Less insolation, but maybe not so much less that it's unprofitable.
X and Y exist right? Why can’t you divide them to make a proportion?
A possible answer to your first question, at least how it applies to me: At the intersection of art and technology, I realized recently that the Greater Internet was hampering my progress. By which I mean large public content sharing and delivery services.

Imagine if you try to practice a skill you're bad at like pottery, but all the windows in your house are open and random people you don't know come right up to them and stare at your work at arbitrary times. Even worse, it's nearly always dark outside so you can never tell when they're looking anymore. But sometimes, at unpredictable times, you can hear a fist knocking or a random phrase uttered at you from outside.

Even if you don't know their faces or reactions, or even if they exist at all, you just can't help but believe they're thinking something of you. And logic dictates that even if they don't happen to think something bad of your skill, their positivity is only transient as they're still strangers to you.

That sensation breeds paranoia, and I realized if I wanted to hone an artistic skill I needed to discard the Internet entirely and fiercely protect my individuality at all costs. My artistic muse is not to be given away for free so that people can point and gawk at it; it is far too valuable. There is only one me in the entire world, and they are irreplaceable.

I believe this is one of the main reasons most artists keep their processes a secret. Baring your entire soul for the world all the time is exhausting. What is released publicly is only a highly refined and focused sliver of such a soul, and the rest is tightly protected from prying eyes.

For me, the Internet was a red herring to being an artistic person. "Chock full of all the world's information," you understand, but also chock full of many other inseparable elements that are too stressful to be worth it. Thankfully realizing this means I can cut down my smartphone usage to 10 minutes a day at most; far too many important things to work on instead.

The most I will ever accept from the Internet is practical advice on how to accomplish certain techniques, but the rest I had no choice but to discard to have any hope at improvement and positive well-being. That includes professional critique online. I used to hang on to the belief I needed people on the Internet to judge me so I could improve, even if they were actual teachers, but I realized I could just as easily get private lessons in the real world. I feel a better connection to human instructors than chat threads. And a lot of art involves the perception of the world as it really is, not a virtual counterpart to it.
> Heathrow is massive and uses a lot of power (1-2MWh/day).

That number doesn't seem that high, compared to a single high-speed train running at about 300kph or above. Or lets say all of the London Tube/DLR.

Seems like nothing, actually.
"The machine is great at doing one specific, repetitive task."

Yeah that's why we build trillion dollar industry to make it 'think'
To get promoted you must just pander to your boss and completely ignore what your job is supposed to be and what the company needs.
This is a delightful app. Thank you for sharing! I like the user experience. I don't need to do anything except for write and press enter when I want to create a new line of text.
Meant to say "DIY" (Do it yourself). Thanks for letting me know, I've updated it now!
A lot of oss contributors work for big companies
I would argue it’s much worse that this. It’s one of the biggest law firms submitting to the administration. Either out of fear or opportunity, it leaves very little hope for the American republic.
Would you say the same about music or fine art? What is the "point" exactly? History's greatest writers and artists have generally been able to dedicate their time to working because they are supported financially by selling their work.
I mean, the CBO has a range of policies for fixing the federal deficit, most of which are pretty reasonable. I'm a fan of taxing the better off more (but I'm not a US citizen or taxpayer so that's easy for me to say).
The "number of people you've had under you" does provides insight into what a role entails, but there's still a lot of variance. What does seem to be uniform is that the "number of people you've had under you" determines whether a hiring company will think you’re qualified for a job. Companies simply aren't likely to take a "risk" hiring an outsider that hasn't been in a role with a similar perceived scope of responsibility. And since actual here's-what-you're-doing-day-to-day responsibility can vary so much, the "number of people you've had under you" becomes a proxy for that.

I understand the reasoning for why they put so much weight on the number of reports you’ve been previously responsible for, but it also explains why big companies stagnate. The people change but the thinking and strategy doesn’t.
I think this is big. The fact that it isn't saddens me.
And even with the chemicals, it's a notoriously convoluted process.

But of course there's always someone who's done it in their garage[1].

[1]: https://emulsive.org/articles/darkroom/developing-film/they-...
> I just don't think IPv6 addresses are human readable compared to IPv4 addresses

Then you just didn't read enough into IPv6 documentation yet. IPv6 addresses can be short if you want because of the `::` operator.

Example: Instead of IPv4 where you'd have the addresses `10.0.0.2` - `10.0.0.100` for clients on your LAN + a single global IPv4 address, you just have `2001:db8::2` - `2001:db8::100` (where `2001:db8` is the "house address" part of your LAN and `2-100` is the specific device address)
Yes, but ... A PV system is not accessible to many. We have a small 800W system in our garden, but for many the price or just getting permissions from their landlords makes a PV system unfeasible.

Also, if you are heating with solar you could heat water directly. But that path is also only available to house owners.
> The EU may have something to say about the rate Apple drops of depreciated API's. Maintaining them does impose a burden,

So you agree then that a public API would likely necessitate a slower pace of change. It’s good to finally get on the same page.

> If you're using it as an example of how a public API can't evolve then it's a lousy example.

I agree, so it’s a good thing I have never once claimed that a public API can’t evolve, or that would have been a terrible example of that. In fact that argument would be completely ridiculous in the face of a number of APIs that have absolutely evolved in public.

What my argument is and always has been since the beginning is that a public API imposed costs on that evolution and almost certainly implies a slower pace of change. And TLS absolutely backs that up. If you want to use TLS1.3 everywhere, you can’t. If you don’t want any sites to use TLS1.1 anymore, you can’t make that happen either. And the folks that make TLS can’t do anything about that either.
Calibre is amazing, but I have one big gripe with it: In its default settings, both the main application and the ebook reader insist on modifying the source file even when only viewing it (to store the current page).

I think I've even seen (self-published) ePubs getting contaminated with these annoying bookmark tags, and as a result had Calibre open them on some random page (presumably precisely the one at which the editor or author have closed it before deciding that it's now fit for publishing).

Imagine VLC storing the current playback position in every audio or video file! I think not even iTunes does/did that, unless the user actively edits some metadata, and that wasn't very considerate with source files either.

And then, on the other hand, Calibre does not automatically propagate actual metadata updates to the ePub file even after explicitly editing them in the library manager view – the one place where that's usually arguably user intent... (Except when opening and closing the book source editor without touching anything, because that rewrites the metadata at every opening time in its default settings, i.e. not at saving time! Make it make sense...)

The most infuriating thing is that these decisions can all be overridden with some preferences – it just happens that the default is exactly the opposite of what I'd expect to happen. (The reader should not write things by default, but if it must, the metadata editor should damn well too.)
For math too, 0-based indexing is superior. When taking sub-matrices (blocks), with 1-based indexing you have to deal with + 1 and - 1 terms for the element indices. E.g. the third size-4 block of a 16x16 matrix begins at (3-1)*4+1 in 1-based indexing, at 2*4 in 0-based indexing (where the 2 is naturally the 0-indexed block index).

Also, the origin is at 0, not at 1. If you begin at 1, you've already moved some distance away from the origin at the start.
I'm not an expert in networking but every time I've had to deal with dual stack it feels like IPv6 introduced a bunch of problems.
I was thinking the opposite. I was thinking (after seeing another company selling a pop-up button for $8) that here is a company that is actually making shit — and constantly (perhaps slowly) making it better.

From dog to human. And, as I understand it, from hydraulic to electric. Looking in particular at video #3, I get a sense that there has had to be a lot of very expensive iteration to get to something that has nearly exactly the degree of motion of a human.

Maybe the problem with the videos is that we have come to expect this as "normal" and no longer viral. Now, that's kind of a wild thought.

But to your question about when they will be deployable — I would hazard to guess that cost is the issue. If these came down a few orders of magnitude in cost I suspect we will start seeing them deployed.
And what do you propose, make it dark grey on light grey and fill it with wizards that cover only 20-30% of the old functionality?
Love it - I use a mix of Claude Code and Cursor agentic mode the most locally from this list.

I'll (biasedly) throw in "Diamond" - https://diamond.graphite.dev/, and in general, AI code review tools as a whole category :)
Some other reviews of the board:

https://www.phoronix.com/review/sifive-hifive-premier-p550/3

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/sifives-hifive-premie...

https://hothardware.com/reviews/sifive-hifive-premier-p550-r...
Mathematicians aren’t expected to be paid royalties when someone uses their discoveries.

Paying to lease a server or for access it, sure, but software itself? It’s nonsense.
Your last sentence is inaccurate, though: there's a broad understanding that only the absolute top performers will make money on music and everyone else will make an amount that rounds down to nothing. Software stands out in that even the median software developer is making about double the median salary in the market as a whole, all while the products of their efforts are expected to be free.
The idea is a place for anyone to get off any kind of drug they want to get off of. Note the "they want" part. Who are you to fault someone for deciding they no longer want to take a substance but need help doing so? Or someone trying to help that person?
Businesses don't care about opensource, and they already use standard electronics, just not modular, because modules are expensive.

E.g. many Haier/Candy mostly use esp32 microcontrollers, led displays don't even need modules, lcd displays use usually one of few standards, etc.

A cheap microwave costs 50euros, a washing machine 200, that's retail price with a 5year warranty, sometimes even with delivery, there is no place for modules that noone will actually use.
Um, "snarky"? How do I ask "is this last element optional, and does it have to be an emoji?" without snark? And it's the most egregious (in the "glaring" sense, not "outlandishly awful") things about the example, you don't often see emojis being a part config/programming languages outside of embedded strings, everything else is pretty self-explanatory dialect of YAML.

The use of emojis looks quite similar to the way parameter/argument labels are introduced in Swift: in the function signature, you use two names (separated by a space) before the colon, instead of one. So, is this second part a shorthand alternative name, or just a visual comment, or?..

ENTITY_DECLARATION ::= NAME [SPACE COMMENT] COLON ...

ENTITY_DECLARATION ::= NAME [SPACE SINGLE_EMOJI_COMMENT] COLON ...

ENTITY_DECLARATION ::= NAME1 [SPACE NAME2] COLON ...

ENTITY_DECLARATION ::= REGULAR_NAME [SPACE EMOJI_NAME] COLON ...

What is it?

Don't get me wrong, I am not opposed to emojis on principle, they are just 1) a tad too outstanding in the text for my taste, 2) a tad too difficult to enter unless you're on a mobile keyboard, 3) I personally would rather not edit program source code/configs on mobile.
So why it is significant?
Isn’t the investment to avoid a revolution? To avoid those that cannot find work from dismantling and tearing down everything around them so they can get what they need. Some might consider that to be a benefit to taxpayers and not a poor investment.
the point of it is that I don't have to check. otherwise now i've just added an extra set of typing and validation.

plus, now i've been biased by the immediate response. if it says "these CVEs don't have vulnerabilities" then I'm now thinking they're probably okay and just need to validate, instead of starting from zero and doing due diligence. this will lead to confirmation biases or laziness.
I have explained this idea to a friend just a couple months back! Thanks for building it, and with such polish.
Thanks for the advice and resource.
would you say it's been a success then?
> decades of programming languages choosing 0-based index is hard to ignore

Yes - many file formats also work with zero-based indices, not to mention the hardware itself.

One-based indexing is particularly problematic in Lua, because the language is designed to interoperate closely with C - so you're frequently switching between indexing schemes.
Indian government trying to create a browser to spy on users
> The ebook reader UI is terrible.

I don't think the reader UI is there for ... reading books. At best for checking out what the conversion steps did.

I just drag books to it, sometimes edit the titles and then export them to a Kindle.

When the Kindle gets fully locked down I'll get a Kobo or whatever is in fashion and works well with Calibre at that time.
OK, this one confused me. There is Chimera Linux, and also ChimeraOS - I believe they're unrelated but I had never heard of Chinera Linux and ChimeraOS is a gaming focusses distro.

Odd that there are two with Chimera in the name:

https://chimeraos.org/
https://chimera-linux.org/
Totally agree here. I tried the following and had a very different experience:

"Answer as if you're a senior software engineer giving advice to a less experienced software engineer. I'm looking for a Rust crate to access PostgreSQL with Apache Arrow support. How should I proceed? What are the pluses and minuses of my various options?"
Also on the battlefield: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2024/08/16/what-w...
No, almonds are grown in California because of a uniquely favorable climate. They're profligate with water because they're allowed to get away with it.

If water were priced by auction, which I support, almond growers would invest in less wasteful irrigation methods, mostly subsurface drip: https://wcngg.com/2018/08/02/subsurface-drip-irrigation-has-...

More to the point, if water had a market-clearing price, California would stop growing so much alfalfa. Alfalfa uses half, half, of California's water, and California has no unique advantages at all in growing alfalfa.

But to reiterate, your first paragraph is absurd and very silly indeed. Lots of places have super cheap water but California still grows four out of five almonds on Earth. It baffles me that you thought cheap water was a plausible explanation for this.
It doesn't mention a new category: when people generate code FROM unit-tests

For example:

https://claudio.uk/posts/unvibe.html
Show HN: I hated generating PDFs with existing tools, so I built a simpler one
Hey guys!

I was previously a co-founder of a growing B2B SaaS, but I wasn’t happy working with my partners. Even though I had the co-founder title, I never really felt like it was my own company.

After four years of growing the business from the ground up to $2 million ARR, I decided to sell my stake back to my co-founders and start fresh—as a company of one.

I wanted to tackle a recurring problem we faced: generating PDFs at scale without constantly relying on our development team.

We spent countless hours using outdated libraries, wrestling with broken layouts, and trying to implement best practices. Either the HTML wasn’t built correctly for printing, or it was complicated to handle complex components like charts, or the library syntax was too cumbersome and annoying to make the PDF match our application’s design.

To make things worse, every time we needed to change the layout, we had to involve the dev team. Because it was so time-consuming, we often just avoided making changes altogether. It was really frustrating!

So I decided to create pdforge — a platform where you can generate modern PDF documents using an opinionated no-code builder powered by AI agents.

The best part? My former co-founders became my very first customers—even before I officially left the company!

I’m currently at $1k MRR, and my goal is to reach $83k MRR as a solopreneur.

Do you think it’s possible? Any feedback on the product or advice for the journey is more than welcome.

Cheers!
What's Inside the Best Open-Source General AI Agent?
I'd be curious if either of you would have a link to actual projects (projected or realised) with their respective costs?
> None of my Samsung phones have ever advertised anything to me.

I had a Galaxy S8. It definitely did.

> Unlike iOS,there are any number of music player apps on Android that stay out of the way and don't try to be a "platform".

iOS has other music players too. It was a choice that e.g. doubleTwist stopped supporting iOS when pivoting to CloudPlayer.
The point of that rant was the culture that got rid of the telephone sanitizers was subsequently wiped out by communicable disease.

A lesson we still struggle with…
> The whole interface is dated

Oh, so you're advocating redesign for the sake of redesign?
Whoa cool! I built a bespoke tool eerily similar to this several years ago as an intern at Johnson Space Center for logging mission communications. I’ve wished I had something like it for meeting notes every time since then. I’ll be giving it a try ;)
Counter-terror police investigating 'unprecedented' fire that shut Heathrow
Presumably it doesn't matter whether the person has depression or not. All that matters is whether they want to get off a drug and want help doing so.
People do this all the time actually. "Cotton is fungible", "oil is fungible".

The grading is assumed.
From a very inhuman perspective, and one I don't find appropriate to generally use: A human physical worker is a high capital and operational expense. A robot may not have such high costs in the end.

Before a human physical worker can start being productive, they need to be educated for 10-16+ years, while being fed, clothed, sheltered and entertained. Then they require ongoing income to fund their personal food, clothing and shelter, as well as many varieties of entertainment and community to maintain long-term psychological well-being.

A robot strips so much of this down to energy in, energy out. The durability and adaptability of a robot can be optimized to the kinds of work it will do, and unit economics will design a way to make accessible the capital cost of preparing a robot for service.

Emotional opinions on AI aside, we will I think see many additional high-tech support options in the coming decade for physical trades and design trades alike.
I had a look and it doesn’t seem to. There’s basically no tail on our last release so what we actually need is more eyeballs, which means making more content. The marketplace is saturated, like the App Store, so really our audience is coming from organic growth - playing gigs, and trying to get radio play or playlisted on Spotify
Demystifying the Enigma Machine – A Functional Journey by Isaac Abraham [video]
Isaac Abraham gave an interesting presentation at the last Func Prog Stockholm about modeling an Enigma machine in F#. Some interesting history in there, also a good introduction to F# if you haven't tried it before.
No one needs hairdressers? How do you figure?
I see automation scaling the less useful things, while the stuff we really need (on site trades, healthcare, child care, farming, etc) is having a hard time scaling.
Is that all you got?

It's really hard to take people seriously when you know they are not arguing in good faith and offering data to try to prop up their misconceptions.

Is it so hard for y'all that composing more than one sentence while posting a reply in a thread meant to generate a useful discussion leaves you mentally exhausted and unable make a coherent rebuttal?

We have all likely heard the old saying that if you aren't part of the solution then you must be part of the problem.

Do you have any original thoughts to share?
> Every month a crazy asylum seeker drives into a crowd of people here,

Did you forget (or not hear) the Magdeburg x-mas market car attacker was an AfD supporter and antiislamic? And the Mannheim one was a German gardener with "Reichsbürger" connections?

It doesn't quite make for snappy headlines, so a lot of people never hear these details…
Compute Optimal Scaling of Skills: Knowledge vs. Reasoning
With shareware, if something had been working for years and the developers released a new version when everything became premium, you could have stayed on the previous version. Not with these cloud tools, and that's why enshitification is a thing when it wasn't before.
If you are a dev on a JavaScript/CSS development website and can't figure out how to script this yourself, you deserve to pay extra.