skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> uses those allegations as justification for huge funding cuts

I am personally not calling for that. What I do want is for the flow of money to this network of DC-based NGOs to get cleaned up.

Have you ever heard of a grant "poem"? That's an inside term for the fancy language that is written when an NGO or university requests funding from a US federal agency. It has to sound quasi-legitimate, even erudite. But the purpose is to secure more money, and for NGOs, the actual funds are almost entirely used to enrich the people in the NGO, and often to fund things that keep the left in power (like local protests, far-left media, "grassroots" left-wing campaign organizations, etc). Grant poems to enrich NGOs constitute fraud -- maybe not in an accounting sense, but it very much is a defrauding of the citizens who pay taxes.

Also, DOGE has so far found 14 "magic money" computers located in various agencies, including the department of the treasury. When a particular API call comes in, these computers will transfer money from nothing, essentially creating new money out of thin air. That is the worst form of fraud.

> If you don't see how problematic that is, then why not just avoid the discussion in the first place?

Because the faithlessness of the federal bureaucracy and its network of NGOs, combined with its sheer magnitude and entrenched power, is a very real problem. I guess I'm not articulate enough to engage productively with folks like yourself who inexplicably seem to think it's really great...

Modern democratic governments ought to implement the will of the people, not subvert it to enrich themselves and stay in power. Do you disagree?

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In summary, Trump will be gone in 4 years, Elon Musk is rapidly losing his money and influence. The wheel of fortune turns rapidly for elected officials and their administrations. But by default, these lifetime Washington DC residents (and their WEF allies) who exert enormous power over the populace will only be more rich and powerful with each passing election season. They hate the USA and those who love it, precisely because the freedoms and stipulations of the Constitution, and the hardy "free settlers of the frontier" ethos, threaten their power.

(I don't mean every, or even most of the residents of DC. I mean those who are the most personally enriched and who wield the most political power without being elected or appointed by someone who is elected. Most of these people are in the vast NGO network.)
OpenAPI agents SDK for PHP released
It's a fun switch on the idea that being considered cute to humans is probably the best evolutionary strategy for animals, since we tend to go to extraordinary lengths to save cute animals. Should we be cutemaxxing as an evolutionary strategy? lol
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but how is the actual game board / UI being rendered? I only see a MCP protocol definition.
Can someone knowledgeable explain SoftBank? Is it partly a Japanese sovereign fund...I've become less and less interested in its investments as it seems to simply act like a giant government money channel with questionable investments that don't seem to make sense from a typical VC/PE perspective. Ie is its ultimate goal not merely profit?
Let me know when there's peace in the Middle East and Ukraine, inflation is fixed and the economy is booming, and health insurance is solved.
Sorry, I misunderstood something earlier.
You only need to check the actual powers of two.

Checking about 10^10 of them is just about doable as vhcr correctly showed. (I mean it wasn't optimal, but 'leave this running for 400 hours' is far from impossible)
Or you could pay for BotStopper and have RPM/DEB packages too.
Depends on the purpose of the account.

For instance this requires an account

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245361
Statsforecast: Fast Python forecasting with statistical and econometric models
OLD NEWS:

Something you have.

Something you know.

Something you are.

Pick two.

NEW: Dismiss anything that is a hybridization. That is 1.5FA

It's 2025. 0-days are rampant. If you're not at 2.0FA, you're at a high risk of getting popped.
Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT's false claim that he murdered his kids
> I work for (as a data engineer) does utility scale solar + battery installation and site management.

Did you build your own excel/python nightmare or is everyone using 3rd party management software for this?

> as long as we collect data on the batteries they will be able to be warrantied

Can you share some of the data? Beyond power in/out, do you monitor humidity, vibrations, temperature ?
Gnome 48
I do not think things like the time command need to be compiled with such things. It is pointless, but your suggestion here is to do it anyway. Why bother?

Assertions in release builds are a bad idea since they can be fairly expensive. It is a better idea to have a different variety of assertion like the verify statements that OpenZFS uses, which are assertions that run even in release builds. They are used in situations where it is extremely important for an assertion to be done at runtime, without the performance overhead of the less important assertions that are in performance critical paths.
For a long time I've thought about various sorts of weird pointer organization (think of the compressed pointers used in modern JVMs or "tiny pointers" [1] or 8086 code that uses a 16-byte aligned segment pointer to point to a struct or array and uses and ordinary pointer to point to things inside that structure)

It doesn't seem too weird to me to make some kind of composite pointer that is a pointer plus some extra stuff. I've done some design work for a fantasy computer that has

- 48-bit words (fills up most of a Javascript double)

- 24-bit pointers (point to a 96 Mbyte address space)

- a "deep" extension that adds 6 bits to point to a starting bit and a 6 bit length field for an up to a 48 bit long extent -- extravagantly and maybe unrealistic for hardware these could extend into the next word. A zero length deep bit pointer could point to a UTF-8 character inside a word and there would be a load instruction that unpacks the next codepoint [2]

- a "wide" extension of 6 bits that points to one of 64 "address spaces" which are the unit of virtual memory management and could be contiguous to emulate a big address space bigger than 4GB with some room left for I/O spaces, video ram, etc.

- you're still left with 6 bits of "tag" to fill out a 48 bit word used for something defined by the OS or application

The backstory is that something like the IBM 360 had a baby with the PDP-10, had the word size doubled to get to VAX/370 XA size then had a baby with the Neo Geo arcade console to make a "home computer" that supports single/double width Unicode text. There would be extra points for there being a 24-bit instruction subset built in.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12800

[2] ... wouldn't it be nice to find a use for the illegal offset+length combinations?
Funny how that always happens. Passkeys were supposed to be great and what you ended up with is platform players abusing their position to push lock in to their own passkey solutions over fair access to arbitrary 3rd party providers.

When they do work smoothly they aren’t useless though.
Fwiw at Amazon it’s expected that the first 33%-50% of the meeting is reading time.

The rest is time for feedback, discussion, and ideally a decision or collecting action items.
Sounds like "fiery but mostly peaceful protests."
Cool, but playwright doesn’t use your cookies.

Increasingly I want to stop spending time on twitter, but it’s also where the AI news drops first - and I can’t just scrape the data without being logged in.

If there was a way to have the ai go ahead and gather the data for me, that would be great.
Interesting that the keyboard for these[0] is not a QWERTY keyboard but instead has the buttons arranged alphabetically. That must be a pain in the ass to type in. Is that because the tech is 50 years old from before QWERTY was the standard? Do newer planes have QWERTY?

0: https://acarsdrama.com/fmc.webp

Unrelated, this one is cute: https://infosec.exchange/@acarsdrama/114194436695883209
> all Gnome developers should pay a small sum to be able to access it?

There's access via (e.g.) the git protocol (git://....) and access via http.

These attacks all happen via the latter, since the former is already access-controlled.
Tesla Recalls Just About Every Cybertruck as Decorative Steel Falls Off
This is something I agree with. The world would be more secure if we made SMS obsolete and Apple making a push away from it is arguably net positive.
Show HN: Mouse shooting range web game 2D
Then you aren't doing what the author is talking about.
Works great in firefox on android. Text takes exact screen width and is not too small nor too big, and there are no stupid floating right side icons overlapping the text, what more do you need

It does have an unneeded text-scrolling-up effect, and breaks reader view which means they're doing something sinister, but at least reader view isn't actually necessary in this one for the way it looks
I don't have a Facebook or Instagram account, but I definitely eat tacos and I was put off when I couldn't see a new taco place's opening hours without an instagram accoutn.

I'm not sure why you think why people who don't have a Facebook account wouldn't eat at restaurants
Well the product was fine 10 years ago. They could have stopped development and called it feature complete.
You might want to check what happens woth the law company that sued Trump. Trump is now using his executive power to destroy them - and punish any company that hires them.
The Writer's Web, a.k.a. Blogging
> We're not destroying peoples cars to replace them with EVs.

Exactly. So what's the problem with switching to EVs as ICE cars wear out and die?

> You change the planning rules and things change over time.

And keep burning gasoline in ICEs until all the single-family homes are replaced with apartment buildings?

> You not only have fuel, you got tyres, you got the roads you need to maintain

Even in a world where most people take public transport, you'll need roads and tires. Buses and taxis and bicycles need roads and tires. Delivery trucks need roads and tires.
I live in Mexico. About 30 mins from where I live, Amazon and others have built data centers (presumably for AI) which consume water. This is affecting agriculture in a region that is already suffering from drought.

https://www.context.news/ai/thirsty-data-centres-spring-up-i...
One thing I haven't seen much coverage on is how to tap into the giant batteries we're driving around in our electric vehicles. These are much bigger than what's currently being deployed in houses.

The V2H standards are just now coming online: https://electrek.co/2025/02/21/nema-bidirectional-ev-chargin...
Daily dev updates on twitter https://x.com/devstorymemory/status/1902704985713811830
Maybe reframing it can help you. You want the people to make money who produce the things/content you want to use and consume. It serves you as well as them.
These nodules aren't even that valuable. It's not like they're full of Platinum group metals...
> Yes, if you're a well-meaning tourist, nothing will happen to you.

Perhaps this is what you meant, but I'd rephrase that as: if you are a well-meaning tourist with all the proper paperwork then it is very unlikely that anything will happen to you.

I've had a few "well-meaning" friends and colleagues who experienced significant life impacts due to paperwork problems with US Customs and Border Patrol. One example was a student who didn't realize they needed additional authorization to work part-time, another overstayed their visa on a prior trip and is barred from re-entry. Being "well-meaning" is entirely insufficient bordering on irrelevant compared to having the proper paperwork and following the proper processes, especially if you are young and/or from a non-European country.

For decades this has been a topic of discussion amongst international attendees at US conferences and events, and for every person who is denied entry there are several who are reluctant to visit the US due to experiences at the border. Given the particular zeal with which the current administration enforces entry rules it has become the dominant conversation amongst international participants.
I don't know about today, but in the 1980s, "water resistant" for wristwatches meant that you could wash your car and the hose-spray wouldn't turn it into a brick.

Can today's "water resistant" smartphone be dropped into a swimming pool with no ill effects? I don't know. But "resistance" as a marketing term is often far overblown, even with strict product standards in place, and for cryptography/authentication there is zero consumer protection or transparency.

Any accountability for service providers is usually lip service anyway. Read your software licenses: there are no warranties, for any purpose, ever.
China has been communist-in-name-only since Deng, you're accidentally proving the parent's point instead of refuting it.
30 bucks a month on hetzner for a dedicated machine with 12-16 cores and 64 gb of ram and unlimited 1gbps bandwidth.
Letter of Recommendation: The Useless Machine (2016)
> Cheap goods are not part of the American Dream

The difference in manufacturing between a $100 and $500 jacket is like 20-30 bucks of material and labour. Patagonia boxer and dollar store boxer like $2. Occasionally you have products like $4 costco wool socks with same performance as $40 darn toughs.

Reality is US can fill their big houses with cheap, none crap, but brand extraction,market segmentation etc.
Show HN: AI Photo Editor Powered by Gemini 2.0
Apple Might Be Having Its Windows Vista Moment, Says Analyst
What about workflows are not agents?
https://archive.ph/2IThL
What else would you call it? Words don't end profitable businesses. Especially not in the energy industry.
They just happen to have real problems to get profitable. The big difference is that other companies are expected to earn money while Musks somehow just don't have to.
I don't feel

>always promoted crypto and AI scams

is very accurate. In my experience it is pretty cynical about those
FWIW no consumer implementation of passkeys is device bound for exactly this reason. The threat of a user losing a device is much bigger and pressing than getting phished. All passkeys are backed up in a sync fabric.
I've been detained in Morocco (while they had issues in the territory they consider "their" south), they've been nothing but polite. I had to wait a night in a cell, but i wasn't chained, i was fed surprisingly good food and they did send me back as soon as possible (my insurance paid for it i think).

The fact that tourists with Visa issues (mine was because of geopolitics and my father's place of birth rather than a bad visa) can and do stay more than a day in cells, with chains? I would expect that in Salvador or some SEA countries, not the US.
I'm a human so I can't provide an AI summary.

Check this summary out though I typed it out with my hands:

- airplane people use radio based on some standards from the 1970s to talk to ground people

- said airplanes fly over a guy's house so he can receive airplane people messages

- guy filters out human readable parts and has a bot that picks few of them that could be funny

- bot posts it online
Is gnome4 HDR native 16bits ARGB?

Are high-DPI display surfaces properly handled? (you know, for those "end game" 166PPI OLED 4K 748374Hz monitors).
CSS Animation with Offset-Path
There is this technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

which is related to the El Dorado technology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis

which is the renewables equivalent of the Fast Breeder Reactor. People will say "... but we had syngas plants all over the place" and I'll say that they made so much pollution that explains a huge confused spot of nothing near the downtown where I grew up and that there are periodic scares about the old syngas plant across the street from the elementary school that serves the black community in Ithaca.
Thirsty data centres spring up in water-poor Mexican town (2024)
Do you mean your package.json literally has no dependencies declared (or you don't even have package.json)? If so, you're not using frontend tooling like 98% of development teams.
> I think ideally you'd want work that was easy for the server and difficult for the server.

That's exactly how it works (easy for server, hard for client). Once the client completed the Proof-of-Work challenge, the server doesn't need to complete the same challenge, it only needs to validate that the results checks out.

Similar to how in Proof-of-Work blockchains where coming up with the block hashes is difficult, but validating them isn't nearly as compute-intensive.

This asymmetric computation requirement is probably the most fundamental property of Proof-of-Work, Wikipedia has more details if you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_of_work

Fun fact: it seems Proof-of-Work was used as a DoS preventing technique before it was used in Bitcoin/blockchains, so seems we've gone full circle :)
Even if you did QWERTY, how would you arrange it in a 5x6 matrix?
decides to swap out a working package manager for another for no apparent reason

"Why do JS people keep doing something new for no apparent reason?"
I also left out Qt, Swing, etc. on the desktop. I'm comparing a direct lineage of replacements, not showing diversity of choice.
The backbone of your business–your loved ones – Mark Klein – TEDxSanDiego [video]
The AI anime girl has 6 fingers btw, combating AI bot with AI girls.

Edit: I will probably send a pull request to fix it.
If you're in the java world, I feel that Vaadin the "java-only" frontend framework is heavily underused. Yes, http sessions, but no it's not a big deal unless you're scaling beyond 10k+ users and even then so. It's been around for 20+ years, with paying commercial features if needed and they seem to have survived from JSF all the way through the latest version of sveractular.
If your question is whether it will be more work for Apple, the answer is yes, to some point.

If you're also wondering whether Apple being mildly inconvenienced matters for the EU court or most users in general: honestly no.

They're at fault in the first place, and if for a new feature that took 2 years to build, users have to wait some extra months because of that decision, so be it IMHO. That has always been happening with the US only launch features, and nobody's been crying a river.
Let's have it then: what is great about your "pellet grill"?
There are 65M+ annual visitors to the US. I would love to hear what chance you think you have of being accosted in any way by CBP for your opinion of Elon/Trump. Maybe there's a disconnect somewhere that I don't understand.
Yes it's indeed an obvious campaign. Against politics in general. From the guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Card—specific info given on a need-to-know basis. App—all info broadcast to everyone all the time, often for sale. Requires hardware, power, data plan.
Nailed it. 2FA is about businesses doing risk management.
Not sure it's that HN has blessed the regime so much as it's flagging them so it can get back to tech etc rather than 527 trump/musk stories. There's always reddit etc.
As much as we lampoon capitalism in western countries, it's interesting the companies above a certain size are treated as public goods and not as a private venture. No one would enforce this on mom and pop shop or even a small chain store.
The "AI" we have now is just a tweening algorithm on a different medium. You won't be able to get it to do anything specific, except when that's a point between 2 existing works. As for this blog, it's nigh unreadable for those not following the current fad web frameworks. Who's to say the user doesn't have to log in to get to the gateway? Gateway can mean different things. Why can the user choose to upload images instead of logging in? What was the purpose of the log in?
It's a stream of data. Can you AI summarize the twitter firehose?
So the idea is each request would require the client to pay a toll of some amount of work towards mining a cryptocurrency? That's actually brilliant. I'd take this over ads any day. But I do see a few problems...

1. Using the web would become much more compute/energy intensive and old devices would quickly lose access to the modern web.

2. Some hosts would inevitably double-dip by implementing this and ads or by "overcharging" the amount of work. There would have to be some kind of limit on how much work can be required by hosts - or at least some way to monitor and hold hosts accountable for the amount of work they charge.

3. There would need to be a cheap and reliable way to prove the client's work was correct and accurate. Otherwise people will inevitably find a way to spoof the work in order to reduce their compute/energy cost.
Which web folks have been changing their frameworks all the time?

If anything, I think a valid criticism of modern/current web development is that it's entirely a React monoculture. I'm happy writing react, and have been at countless companies for the past 10 years.
Nothing significant on the face of it and I think that's pretty much exactly what's being suggested: don't have anything particularly interesting in the .yml file, just the bare minimum plus some small number of uncomplicated script invocations to install dependencies and actually do the build.

(Iterating even on this stuff by waiting for the runner is still annoying though. You need to commit to the repo, push, and wait. Hence the suggestion of having scripts that you can also run locally, so you can test changes locally when you're iterating on them. This isn't any kind of guarantee, but it's far less annoying to do (say) 15 iterations locally followed by the inevitable extra 3 remotely than it is having to do all 18 remotely, waiting for the runner each time then debugging it by staring at the output logs. Even assuming you'd be able to get away with as few as 15 given that you don't have proper access to the machine.)
(and if you set it up on a raspberry pi and run it full time you can get a free business plan subscription to flightradar24)

https://www.flightradar24.com/add-coverage
I agreed that EVs weren't enough, so clearly that's not one of the climate denial factoids I was referring to. (It's kind of a non statement though, nothing you or anyone else is suggesting is a silver bullet either).

Other dubious things you claimed:

More particulate emissions. False (reduced brake dust being a big factor)

More expensive. False. Already lower TCO in most of the world, lower upfront cost in China already. Generally heading downward.

Bigger. False, nothing about EVs requires them to be bigger, they scale in both directions better than ICE.

Higher maintenance/early scrapping. False, already we have enough data to show they last longer.

Mining. False, as already stated.

If you need this many false statements to back up your point, maybe it's a bad point?

What's wrong with "EVs can cut GHG by half and reduce imports of fossil fuel from unfriendly regimes, but (electric) trains, (electric) busses and (electric) bike-friendly city designs are even better than that!"

No need to sound like a Fox News talking head to promote those alternatives.
At some point we'll have to create our own walled gardens and throttle traffic to non-logged-in users heavily or outright forbid them.

Its sad that it has to come to this. But especially when those "scrapers" are in a foreign country, you can't even do anything legally.
Yep. Some rich dude’s company named something dumb doesn’t control my ability to park somewhere .

I can put quarters in the meter.