skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're deliberately undermining the mechanism that funds our shared existence. They want the benefits of living in society without contributing to its maintenance.

So I pay income tax, property tax, road tax, sales tax and even my savings I have to put in the hands of the govt which has been unreliable, corrupt and mostly serves the interests of the few over the interests of the many regardless of which political party has been elected.
Why don’t they use an anti-bot solution like Cloudflare? It won’t block everything entirely, but it will at least stop low-quality bots
Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won
My point was that people usually have no idea they've been compromised therefore won't reboot their device so the malware becomes virtually persistent.
Unique, sure. Selling point? I really don't think so. This idea of "safely" running untrusted code in the jvm sandbox both never materialized (constant stream of sandbox-escape vulns i've seen over the years) and also was at the wrong level - anyone doing multi-tenant code execution is doing it via things like gvisor or at the OS-level.

I don't think I buy your assertion that nobody has upgraded. I know of a 3000-4000-strong eng org at a certain company that has upgraded all the way from 8 to 17 as of when i left 3 years ago. They primarily wanted the GC improvements because they translated into huge immediate efficiency gains on their workloads (huge Spark/Hadoop spend savings, and moderate savings for the non-big-data jvm workloads).

I do share your lament of applets though. It would've been a way better runtime for portable/install-less/JIT-install things than the current nightmare of html/css/js/etc. But they just didn't have the browser integration - it would've needed to be more than just "look we put a drawing surface into the web browser" - and they didn't have the "window into the world" either (that's browsers). Unfortunately, it's the front door program and platform that owns the users, and that's web browsers.
If anyone has questions about WebRTC + Realtime API I would love to answer them. I am incredibly/excited about the IoT/Embedded side of it especially :)

You can see a video demo of it here[0]. The code on microcontrollers is IMO delightfully easy to get going on [1]

[0] https://youtu.be/14leJ1fg4Pw?t=824

[1] https://github.com/espressif/esp-webrtc-solution
Template metaprogramming can be abused, too. Expression templates come to mind. You can do expression templates in D, but I have discouraged it and it has not caught on to my relief.

But templates still are a better choice than macros.
Yet, like most Go design decisions, they will end up retrofiting what should have been there.

Kotlin has the issue of being a guest language, and wanting to play in many playgrounds, eventually it will diverge as it always happens.

As it is already happening, like now how will Kotlin async deal with virtual threads expectations, including writing portable code that doesn't suffer from runtime semantics, depending on the target platform.
GPS Spoofing and Jamming: 310k Flights Spoofed in 2024 [pdf]
In 2024 alone, over 310,000 flights were affected by GPS spoofing, with peaks of 1,500+ flights per day. The rise of large-scale spoofing events in conflict zones, combined with isolated cases in unexpected locations (e.g., Hong Kong during a political event, Serbia during protests), shows how aviation navigation is becoming increasingly vulnerable to electronic interference.

Aviation has relied on GPS for decades, but modern aircraft now depend on satellite signals for navigation, terrain avoidance (EGPWS), approach procedures (RNP), and even communication (CPDLC datalink sync). When these signals are jammed or spoofed, the results range from minor deviations to severe flight safety risks, such as nearly entering restricted airspace or receiving false terrain warnings.

A notable case in December 2024 involved an Azerbaijan Airlines flight losing both GPS receivers in a conflict zone, forcing a high-risk diversion after multiple failed approaches.

This paper provides real-world data on where and how GPS spoofing happens, based on ADS-B data from the OpenSky Network.

We have built a real-time GPS spoofing and jamming tracker map: https://spoofing.skai-data-services.com/
Mattergen – Microsoft just built an AI that designs materials
You're not going to have a good time with a RX6600
I think it's clever how the logo is a different shape from Racket's to fit the name of the language, but they kept the same colors and kept the lambda in it.
Yes? I think most people find it reasonable for the federal government to use taxpayer dollars on land in ways they don’t for crypto. Or fine art or Porsches or other seized property.
I've used wiz in a previous job. Its a good product. I don't know if they invented disk snapshot based security scanning, but they certainly popularized it.

Companies like CrowdStrike have copied a lot of what Wiz has been doing (and I'm sure wiz has copied some CrowdStrike features).

This announcement is pretty disappointing to me. I would have more faith in Wiz as an independent company than as part of Google. I expect their innovation to fall off a cliff.
I mean, there have been a number of examples of people losing access to cryptocurrency trading during times of chaos. The rebuttal is "sure, but not the ones that are actually decentralized!". Ok, but the cryptocurrency industry doesn't actually want "you can only use Bitcoin and Ethereum and only via direct interactions with them, not via intermediaries" to be the message, because then what are all these other projects even doing?
Not for long. JDK 27 is coming out in September 2026
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That’s amazing! I have visited certain parts of the world where the access to resources are minimal in terms of learning English. I don't know the specifics of your story/background but especially when the native language doesn't involve the Latin alphabet at all, the learning curve is steeper. A fluent English speaker can begin coding immediately, while a non-English speaker has to learn two languages at once.

Even if basic materials exist in other languages, most advanced documentation, debugging tools, and libraries remain in English. Do you think that creates a significant disadvantage for non-English speakers?
HN seems to be really struggling with the why here. The bubble that people live in on here is wild to me. Maybe you have issues with the tactics, but the why is pretty clear.
Clients can have their lawyers jump up and down but the data is there, you just KNOW the mothership gonna use it. All they need is some obfuscation and plausible denyability. It's just too good to not use it.
so wonderful to share this country with folks like you! please consider shifting your scope outside yourself and your own personal protection, and consider the greater good at least occasionally, please.
To be fair some people genuinely do subscribe for this, but it's best to think of it as a justification to do the "right thing".
I've seen them at trade shows and heard good things. I had also heard that Google tried buying them last year but it didn't go through, I'm curious about how/why they did it now
> blind one trade per-minute granularity

"Blind" meaning that no orders can "see" each other.
It is the Java Virtual Machine, not Kotlin Virtual Machine.

Thus Kotlin will always be a guest language and not the target of all companies designing JVM implementations.

That is left for Google with their .NET flavour, ART + Kotlin, where Android Java plays the same role as J# did for .NET, after Microsoft had let go of J++.
Feature request: allow the Windows 3.1 Minesweeper cheat code. But I guess you'd have to disable scoring or even participation if you allow this.
dogs don't have agency. I get that they have different conformation and temperaments, but every single one of them is the responsibility of their owner.

what bothers me about "research" like this is that it is designed remove agency from the owners and fearful anxious and irresponsible people, turn it into regulatory power, and undermines my culture, which has lived in harmony with other beings in nature for millennia.
How often do you boot up instances? Do you measure detailed metrics for the time from the RunInstances call to the earliest possible timestamp you can easily get from the user code, to quantify the amount of time spent in AWS before any instance code gets control?

If so, I'd love to see your measured distribution of boot times. Because I've observed results similar to your observations on EBS, with some long-tail outliers.

Thanks for the analysis and article!
How is this not a good thing for everyone involved? Or am I wrong for reading the comment in a tone that I perceived to be critical?
As someone coming from Node.js: virtual threads are amazing. Async behaviour without the async/await headaches.
Localizing everything could make collaboration harder if different people refer to the same function by different names.

But what if we had a system where people wrote code in their native script, and it automatically translated into a universal format when shared? Would that help keep things accessible while maintaining collaboration?
Ami Luttwak apparently liked the first category enough to become a Talpiot program graduate and hence deepen his ties to it.
I hear the Internet is on computers now.
Hey, sorry for the late answer.

I'm based in Austria.
And we only use Stripe (payment processing) and Resend (email service).
Unsurprisingly, this submission is far removed from the front page.

The people stealing and ddos-ing literally do not care. Nobel prizes are handed out for this crap. Politicians support the steal.

Thanks Drew for being an honest voice.
> Some nobody company

That was the fastest to $100m ARR in history

> Some nobody company

That was a Decacorn ~3yrs after its founding

> Some nobody company

With ~half of the Fortune 100 as paying customers.

I get it - most people here aren’t in cybersecurity, nor do they understand the space, but let me put it this way - if you are looking for the top 5 cybersecurity companies by mindshare of people in the industry, Wiz is in the conversation.
Almost any infosec professional whose company uses an IaaS provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc) has heard of them. They are probably the most notable tool for assessing your "Cloud Security Posture". It basically looks at your cloud configuration and alerts you for security issues caused by mis/sub-optimal configurations. It also identifies vulnerabilities, software updates, permissions issues, etc.

I'm sad they're being acquired, especially by a FAANG company. This constant consolidation is bad for IT (and the economy in general). I am happy for the employees holding shares though!
'One of my favorite stats on this is something that Nate Cohn put out a couple years ago: Working-class white voters who’ve read a book in the last year are much more Democratic than working-class white voters who haven’t.'
This looks great and well polished!

Brings back memory to the hackathon project that's quite similar to this that me and my friends did back like 9 years ago!? https://github.com/SpanishArmada/Minesweeper-Battle?tab=read...
Indeed. Was Beepboop arguing that inflation is the mechanism that funds our shared existence?

Why do you think cryptocurrency at its philosophical core enables wealth hoarding? If I don’t pay my property taxes, I lose my house, regardless of how much cryptocurrency I own.

Why can’t we have a separation of money and state where the state receives its due through taxes and is unable to inflate the money supply?
Dogs are highly regulated, do you know how draconian courts are about dog to people attacks? In most cases the dogs dont get a second chance.

Monster Animals?

Let me ask you this, do you believe that statistics about certain races committing a large percentage of violent crimes should be interrupted as them being innately more dangerous? Would you suggest we ban them from cities? I'd truthfully like to know.
Pre-Columbian 'puppets' indicate ritual connections across Central America
That's exactly the opposite scenario though: the reason you can get away with having blank keys on a keyboard or a modal input in vim is that the inputs never change, you can commit them to muscle memory and then never consciously think about it. That all gets blown away if the interface is dynamic.
This tracks perfectly with Khun's Structure of Scientific Revolutions. The paradigm only shifts when the old guard dies off. Scientific progress has much more to do with ego, institutions, and human nature than scientific method.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
The number of O(10)B$ companies acquired that I never heard of is alarmingly high. Someone should curate a list of them so I don't feel so clueless..
Of course the founder is a normal civilian. Israel has mandatory conscription so you'd expect any normal civilian to also have served in the IDF at some point.

It might sound weird to people from the US and many other western nations. Most people there aren't concerned with serving in the military - they either leave it to working class folks to serve, or they don't really have any neighboring enemies.

The Israelis aren't as privileged unfortunately. Israel requires all its citizens to serve so that its military is large enough and strong enough to defend against attacks from the many regressive and murderous regimes that surround it, or even better, deter them from even trying to attack.
With ray tracing Nvidia made a new technology that breaks everyone's PC performance then they sold the solution to that broken performance as a card upgrade with better ray tracing hardware. Even though the Ray tracing doesn't necessarily look any better, just different, we now have to upgrade cards to solve the broken PC performance Nvidia caused themselves...
We are supposed to believe 'rivals'? When deep seek came out, the press (and many in the tech community) believed the hype with no proof. When it finally came out that the initial claims were false, everybody just moved on.

What actually happened was that Nvidia stock crashed so that the Chinese firm that built Deep Seek (interestingly enough, an HFT firm) could buy the the dip and make millions.

Most likely what's happening here.
Don't Make Things Work
Half-Life 1 was groundbreaking but still very much of its era. Half-Life 2 feels like a modern game, though.
HL1 is a very different experience compared to HL2. If you haven't played through HL2 I would still give that a shot. I love both games, but the second one was a lot more polished.
Most games allow you to adjust brightness. I assume the brightness can be turned down to get closer to the original lighting and mood... I hope.
There are plenty of places that are at least on Java 11, so I highly doubt the "no one upgraded" part.
Yes. It's entirely a value judgement about which assets are useful for the government to hold and which aren't. Count me on the land useful and crypto not useful side. (Although I don't have a huge issue with them holding onto the seized crypto, and would have been / will be very mad if they start open market acquisition of it.)
They were only requesting the HTML, not using a headless browser.
> Ford and most of the German and Italian automakers have fascist roots and were involved in forced labor.

Thing is, everyone involved in that is dead, and in the case of the Germans the ownership has entirely changed (any continuity between today's VW and Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH is, well, incredibly tenuous, say). Like, it's hardly comparable to a company where the _current CEO_ is flouncing about doing Nazi salutes and tweeting Hitler apologia.
By the time I got around to playing Half Life the graphics were so dated that I found it difficult to enjoy (that's obviously a personal preference thing...). I was excited, for a moment, at the possibility of finally enjoying what I'm told is one of the greatest games ever made...until I realized that I do not (and will not any time soon) own a 50xx series graphics card. I suppose a GeForce Now subscription is a possibility.
Should I say it before after they get their government subsidized insurance money?
Funny thing is that it cost them more than you might think. It was the ability to switch to the riscv which made it (much) easier to glitch. See the "Hazardous threes" exploit [1]

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/security-through-transparen...
During my PhD (2011-2014), I had naive dreams of changing science (http://offtopicarium.wikidot.com/v1:open-science-2-0). Instead, I understood that I cannot change the world, but I can change myself - and moved to data science (https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2015/12/sci-to-data-sci).

> Don’t try to reform science. Not yet. Not in your PhD.

So, I don't agree with that. While yes, you won't succeed - without this kind of idealism, academia is doomed.
What if I don't want to pay capital gains?
Java’s version growth has been interesting to watch the past few years. I remember thinking “wow 9 is out, now 10, 11 is an LTS, we’ll go to that”. Still on Java 8. Too much other things to do.
The values posted above cannot be far from the real values.

Perhaps they use something like 700 A at 1400 V.

It is unlikely that they use a voltage over 1500 V, because the semiconductor switches used in the converter become much more expensive at higher voltages. A current of 700 A or even 1000 A can be easily handled by a single IGBT module. There are much bigger semiconductor switches that can handle several thousand ampere currents.
There's a difference between 'history' and 'present', is the thing.
Yeah, I mean now we can start using VTs on any system / lib without being worried of pinning. Isn't this a "huge" deal? Why is the community not shouting from the rooftops about this?

Theoretically it means, Java has now bettered Node.js "async / await" approach and that too without the two colored function approach. One process can now spawn thousands of threads to service IO and none of those threads are blocking / waiting (and with this release there is no gotcha / pitfall remaining).

Not mention all the Netty / reactive libraries have no use now (not that I am complaining).
Some Inside Info on NSF budget cuts
My first experience with virtual threads was way less memory used.
Not useful for me at environment setup time because I never want any of my data deleted. The only time is if I decide to abandon that cloud provider.
It's true that a false theory can survive indefinitely, especially if it doesn't have real-world impact. Classical physics survived for centuries before being disproven by modern physics, because the differences are subtle except in extreme circumstances. Maybe quantum physics is accurate enough that the circumstances for non-negligible differences between it and "the truth" are so extreme, we never test them, therefore it's never disproven.

However, right now people are spending large amounts of money to build quantum chips. They're not explicitly trying to disprove quantum physics, but implicitly testing it through their experiments. And if these tests suggest that quantum physics has fundamental issues, they'll investigate, at least so if they realize quantum chips are impossible, they stop spending money trying to build them.
Volcano Watch 2023: Mesmerising Rivers of Lava [video]
When I was at a small IT consulting shop ~15 years ago, this is roughly how it worked. We'd get paid 24x7 for a week on-call at minimum wage + 1.5x normal wage for any hours we had to log in.
Intellectual Inflation
APL and possibly Erlang aren’t based on English, yet they never became the global standard.

Do you think it was because of technical reasons, or was it just easier for English-based languages (C, Python, JavaScript) to spread globally? If we designed a non-English programming system today, do you think it would actually gain adoption?
Stand Your Ground. Plant Some Flowers on It Too
Yeah, that was the one. Really burned itself into my mind.

The movie was OK, but you can only get shocked once.
the speed of capital formation and lowered barrier of doing so has been great,

the obsolescence of capital controls has been great as well, from the strictest nation state level ones, to the most benign private sector ones. all overridden and circumvented.

at this point I would just say if you're not the target audience that has nothing to do with anyone else that garners their own utility out of the ecosystem.

I think people kind of want to be convinced about why they should adopt with examples of a use case they only make rebuttals about, and that's unproductive for everyone.

tl;dr "you do you"

but if you want to know why and how other people are using this ecosystem, there are plenty of user stories
The only way they’d not be API accessible is surely if they contained some new and extremely difficult to replicate innovation that prevents important capabilities from being commoditised.

What reason or evidence do you see that that is (or will be) the case rather than those features simply representing a temporary lead for some models, which others will all catch up to soon enough?
[narrator]: Excellent, until now! Soon, their beloved cloud infra security scanner will to be sucked dry of all the juicy usage data on AWS and Azure customers, bled of its innovation, to be discarded in a few years time...

I like it too. Don't care much for google buying them, it can only end badly.
Isn’t Google degrading your user experience well enough?
So when will it be OK to own a Tesla again? After this administration's term? After this generation dies? Who decides this? Is it zero sum?

My argument isn't that we should be punishing consumers of VW, Audi, and GM. It's that consumers are one of the last people that should be responsible for how their money is used. If you go that route everyone is complicit in something awful. There are better ways to make change than blame the consumer.

Are liberals responsible for DOGE because they own a Tesla? It's nonsense.

These social movements have little room for nuance and decisions of who to target are rarely morally consistent.
One glaring defect in our collective ability to think critically about blockchain is that many have invested in it, making it extremely difficult to be objective.
Now for someone to figure out blocking FireTV OS
This is probably an ignorant question, but what's stopping states in the US from developing new planned cities? I can see myself moving to a place that's somewhat remote, if I had good reason to believe that I'm getting in on the ground floor of a new >1M population city with public transport planned from the get-go.

... the only problem is that I don't actually see myself believing such a promise, especially given the current disdain for public investments.
I think the more interesting part here (besides the fact that AWS SLA's sneakily screw you over and make it hard to guarantee static stability) is the remediation aspect.

This is a consistent letdown across most AWS products; they build the undifferentiated 90% of a thing, but some PM refuses to admit their product isn't complete, so instead of having optional features flags or cdk samples or something to help with that last 10%, they bury it deep in the docs and try not to draw attention to it. Then when you open a support case they tell you to pound sand, or maybe suggest rearchitecting to avoid their foot-gun they didn't tell you about.
Just yesterday I started paying for a Tailscale subscription even though I don’t even fully utilize what they provide for free. I just find it valuable and am glad I have the option and ability to support them. I don’t think most people do things like that, but some do. We’ll definitely see how it works out for Wired (I’m already a subscriber there, too, due to great coverage/work).
Still short sighted though. I feel like they are speed running "how to create backlash".