skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you like this, you're going to love Polydnaviriformidae, the family of host-behavior and -immune-system manipulating viruses that's mutualistic with a couple of families of wasps - who vertically inherit the entire viral genome mother to daughter, along with that of a unique glandular bioreplicator - and, unless there's a somewhat new result in viral phylogenetics, not very closely related to anything else known in nature.
I perused the three posts on this blog, and believe that an LLM was heavily used, because I used one daily, and this is the way its content reads.

The leisure the author speaks of may be their own, and the research of which they speak today may be done by a machine.

I think the intent is good, and if you as the reader get insight from it, then it is still valid, but I cannot read it, because I don’t feel a thread of consciousness helping me experience life with them.

If an author chose to instead pair with an LLM to research on their own and write themselves about it, perhaps it would be different.

Why do these posts keep getting to the front and even to the top of the HN feed? We are no better than machines, I guess.
> This is unpopular every time I say it

Speaking for me, but this might be because while your points are valid:

> Every single aspect of the experience is worse

this is wrong (I can tell you that when my SO falls asleep hugging me in the bed, the mobile is a far better experience than a laptop to browse the web for instance - the tiny screen is a feature in this case), and it seems you are missing the elephants in the room that explain why people are using mobile despite those issues, and you are not addressing the use cases.

This makes your comment read like you are disconnected from reality. You might not be wrong, and it might just be a matter of changing the perspective a bit. In the new perspective, you would show that you understand why people actually browse the web on mobile and address the issues from there.

"You should not browse the web from a mobile" doesn't help at all. Most people do it, and although it's imperfect, people seem to go on on their lives anyway.

You probably need to motivate your view a bit more (so we can go from "is it indeed the case that we should stop browsing the web from a mobile?" to "this person is right, we should definitely stop doing this, what now?"), and address the specific use cases where people use the mobile and provide alternatives.

Alternatives like "just don't browse at the bus stop, allow your mind to be bored / to relax a bit" are perfectly valid. One can disagree with the proposal, but that's one solution.
And their lives are made unnecessarily difficult.
Hangzhou really gained prominence as a tech hub with Alibaba, which is inturn is because Jack Ma is both from there and went to university there (it is a top university).

But Hangzhou is a very famous, historic city in China, and especially famous for its lake and surroundings. It is the end of the Grand Canal and was capital of the Southern Song until the Mongol invasion (apparently largest city in the world at the time).
I'm doing genealogy. Practically everyone in the hobby is doing research for leisure.
Kind of like that, yeah. It may cause some people to re-evaluate what they even value about the whole thing and why anyone should honor the existing allocation (which is a good question). But it seems like a pretty obvious solution in face of such a complete breakdown.
Oh this is just great. As a connaisseur of molecular compounds, this is a well-rounded set, and I wonder why I never saw this website before.

From DMT to phosphine to octanone to dioxin to novichok agents... they're all there. Hallucinogens, carcinogens, chemical weapons. Cool stuff, and well-written stories to go with the molecules.
On client side you know because you're setting the async-commit on a case basis.

All transactions work the same. When/If the server fails, some transactions (that you allowed yourself) may be not durable (or not replicated). But all things are still transactional.
The framework that lets you collect messages and ship them god-knows-where but not send them?
The unskilled labor would be the parents, but I can tell the metaphor is lost. Not sure why I bother explaining that.
> Machines are orders of magnitude faster than they were 20 years ago; most software isn't doing much more than software did 20 years ago.

That seems like an absurd statement to the point I wonder if I’m missing something.
Even Canonical themselves sobered up and abandoned their v3 recompilation effort as it showed no serious benefits.

Distros who went this path is going the way of the dinousaurs, together with their confused user base.
I never advocated for that. There's nothing saying a fork has to be 100% in sync with upstream and can cherry-pick what parts it wants to keep. Besides that, there's other Blink-based browsers which are very similar but another level removed from Google

Using a fork to work around Google marking addons are malicious seems like a middle ground between "living with ads" and "using a whole new browser the author has political issues with"
Moka: Most lightweight self-contained wiki
Probably higher cost to send 2 notifications to the user compared to always fsync on all writes in a SSD.
I don’t think Apple would ever expose the encryption keys to your messages. Nobody would want it anyway: why reimplement the protocol when you actually just want to send and receive messages? And I fail to see why it would be frictionless for law enforcement, as they’d need to have access to your device.
I learned more about intellectual etiquette & inquiry from this book than from my teachers and professors. And I learned about the canon of european / western literature.
> Prosecutors accused him of corruption and aiding a terrorist group, calling him a "criminal organisation leader suspect".

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yren8mxp8o

> Authorities also closed several roads around Istanbul and banned demonstrations in the city for four days in an apparent effort to prevent protests following Imamoglu’s arrest.

* https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/19/turkiye-police-deta...
This commenter certainly doesn’t appear to be a native English speaker, what makes you assume they are American?
(Not an American) Is there no way to get help from the state / federal government?
It's very democratic - facts and fiction are settled by popular vote
> Use your web browser, or a third-party app. The tech adopted by the masses needs guard rails and secure defaults.

Do you think “the masses” should not use web browsers or third party apps?
In programming maybe? https://fortune.com/2025/03/17/computer-programming-jobs-low...
> due to Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's huge landscape of open source software that targets specifically Kubernetes, you can have a comprehensive platform on "any" infrastructure

Most CNCF projects and incubators are coming out of American, Chinese, and Indian teams at American or Chinese firms.

The 5G rollout in the US, China, and India in the mid-2010s meant an entire ecosystem of K8s and eBPF versed engineers exist in those geos.

There isn't a similar ecosystem in Europe, and all the major telcos in Europe decided to become resellers of white labeled American cloud products.
Nice, now I can procrastinate this afternoon
Lol, ok. Yeah, at 32 with €120k salaried I think you are pretty well off. Especially compared to the median in that area.
BigCo needs to buy SmallerCo to do anything interesting
Why does this webdesign make me feel so happy?
If only

https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2024-08-29-te...
LARD 450XL
It never goes into what is meant by failing except that it is perceived to be failing. Oh, this is from "naked capitalism", maybe that's the measure.

It then basically says EU isn't like a country. Well that's right, it isn't. Oh, and that it should have a common language. Not sure if the author has ever been there.
Nothing makes their English any less proper than yours.
The complaint about serde in particular... Everyone and their dog includes Jackson for webdev in Java.
Interesting!

Is that UUID also bound to just the requesting site? (that is to say: can't be matched to an ID on a different site?).

Do you happen to know where to find docs?
The rise of AI-assisted coding tools is lowering the barrier to entry in software development, leading to a surge in "vibe coders"—developers who rely on AI without deeply understanding the code they write. While AI can speed up work, real engineering skills—like debugging, system design, and problem-solving—remain essential. The future will favor developers who master the fundamentals and use AI as a tool to enhance their skills, not replace them.
> Cloud costs are higher than DC costs

Those aren’t the only options. VPS are a thing, cost less and are pretty easy to operate (even easier than cloud, I’d argue).

You can, of course, use cloud services for some stuff (databases? S3?) that are high maintenance, but some things (like the Cognito example from the OP article) just don’t make sense from the point of reducing costs – you trade some complexity for more complexity with a vendor lock-in and some additional costs on top.
Which part of Europe do you need a US engineers’ salary to put kids through college?
This is such a cool tool. It's a better approach to solving many of the questions I built MergeStat to answer (https://github.com/mergestat/mergestat-lite). It's been some time, but I also wrote a `git blame ...` parser in Go: https://github.com/mergestat/gitutils/blob/main/blame/blame.... :)

Amazing work and excited to dig into this more thoroughly
One of the underrated downsides of the professionalization of research is how much it sucked the "fun" out of things. It's strange, but research papers in most fields are written very differently from how people actually talk to each other. Professional researchers still communicate informally like normal humans, in ways that are "fun" and show much more of how they came up with ideas and what they are really thinking. But this is very hard for outsiders to access.
This is such a silly argument. They held the place for 20 years uncontested.

Retreating voluntarily because of nothing to do with their opposition, sure as hell isn't losing.

Instead of going back and forth constantly with this semantic bullshit, can we just agree at the least the US didn't retreat because the taliban forced and pressured them to?
HTML is a human readable source editable interactive document format, which can be optimised for reading.

When I peel an apple to optimise it for eating I’m not cracking an apple.
I have rescued 2 stray (lost really) animals. A dog I took to the vet. And a bird I was about to take to the vet. Heard the person down the street calling for them. But yeah. Vets! Microchips! Unless you are scared of the animal then fair enough use an app.
excuse me????
Compared to the very first test, everything worked better and looked greased. From the HD drone footage (via Starlink I presume), to the fast arriving boats, quick hypergolic fuel leak checks, roping up, loading onto ship, retrieving crew, going home.

Only thing missing really is landing on land and crew offboarding just like that by themselves.
I've been using Firefox for nearly 15 years and there's technical reasons, too. Mainly memory leaks (which I haven't noticed for a few years anymore) and loading just "feels" slower. Webrender with GPU acceleration helped but it was much more complicated poking at about:config than it "just working"

Recently, I've noticed a "this SaaS only works in Chrome" trend again. Usually that means "only works in Blink" but it still sucks if you need to use SaaS (for work) that has this silly limitation. I've noticed cheaper restaurant web ordering software tends to have problems in Firefox.

For technical or even semi-technical folks those aren't an issue. For non-technical folks, those issues above can easily lead to a poorer web experience without them understanding why. On the other hand, the author didn't actually call out technical issues
> My understanding was that the PoW would be done in-browser, in which case this doesn't hold -- the attackers would simply use the multitudes of residential browsers they already control to do the PoW prior to making the requests, thus perfectly distributing that workload to other people's computers. What kind of PoW cannot be done in this way?

I could be mistaken, but I don't think these residential VPN services are actual botnets. You can use the connection, but not the browser. In any case, you can scale the work factor as you want, making "unlikely" endpoints harder to access (e.g. git blame for an old commit might be 100x harder to prove than the main page of a repository). This doesn't make it impossible to scrape your website, it makes it more expensive to do so, which is what the OP was complaining about ("externalizing costs onto me").

All in all, it feels like there's something here to leverage proof of work as a way to maintain anonymous access while still limiting your exposure to excessive scrapers. It probably isn't a one-size-fits-all solution, but with some domain-specific knowledge it feels like it could be a useful tool to have in the new internet landscape.
Ok but that strong trust lets them do exactly what was mentioned above.
Requires download of vpn. Shall I call this a Trojan horse?
I feel like the other commenters whooshed here.
> What did the US get?

It improved the quality of life and security for the people their immeasurably positively. If the withdrawal had not happened, and better leadership was displayed, the would have been completely wiped out.

What they were trying to get, was another ally in the region. They could have to, if it weren't for poor leadership.
Nice tool and it's great to see BlueSky allows you to backdate posts!

My main problem with BlueSky is that I get barely any interactions compared to my old Twitter (which also wasn't stellar).
It's becoming a tool to listen to a few good devs (which I periodically check on), while trying to ignore all the pr0n, but not a social network I can use.

Building an audience seems way harder.
Bookshelf is a community-driven platform that connects people through books
Try a paperclip or bobby-pin. Had to do that recently due to my cable not charging my phone reliably.
One of my favorites:

https://thorehusfeldt.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/soda201...
Prior to Musk's shift to the right, Ars ran frequent Musk puff pieces; post shift, they run frequent Musk hit pieces. It's just as grating, and when every other news org is reporting it more measuredly you should be very cautious before calling their summary 'good'. For example, this article claims the political reasons are unspecified, but they were in fact discussed at length (I think Musk even mentioned them on a podcast at the time, though can't remember which one).

The choices were whether to leave them up there longer as the next crew rotation, or let them come home and send up another crew like normal. One would save the government the cost of a new Crew Dragon launch (not insignificant - $100m-150m), and the other would save NASA's valuable astronauts from the long term health effects of a year in space (usually crews are rotated every six months for health reasons, like bone density and muscle mass problems).

NASA reported that the factor keeping them from being brought home was cost, and they didn't have the $100m for a new Dragon launch in the budget. But this was bunk. The next launch was already budgeted for, because this is on a well-planned-for rotation. It could have been because they wanted to keep the $100m, but if they falsely claimed it wasn't budgeted for, then (as Musk postulated) it's a good bet that the real reason is that this would have been a big PR win for Musk, saving America's cherished astronauts from Boeing's massive screwup, and since he had already begun bankrolling Trump's campaign, Biden did not want him to have this PR win.
Tech employees are getting the message: Playtime's over
https://archive.is/2025.03.19-092511/https://www.businessins...
dm-crypt largest practical keyfile? (2018)
The problem isn't requirement of ID, but how hard is it to get an ID to begin with? It does seem to be almost uniquely US problem (even when 90% of voters are also drivers).

Given social security, where you are about to receive thousands of dollars in support while you are unemployed, why would a $100 ID matter? Like if you can't even pull up your pants and organize this key item of life, why should you receive support?

Voting is more interesting one. Supposedly better educated and better well off democratic voters aren't able to procure an ID? WTF I am reading?
I always "upgrade" to laptop or dual monitor desktop for those reasons but it's impractical to carry a larger device around all the time. There should be some middle ground where mobile is still usable without being incredibly slow even if it's still not an optimal experience.
> A voluntary retreat is not a victory. You are arguing it is, which is extremely odd.

If I come in to your country, invade it, and have complete dominion for 20 years, than I've successfully invaded your country. Victoriously.

If I then change my mind and decide to leave, after 20 years of having a provisional government because I got bored, then yeah, my victory still stands, and the rest is details and semantics.

> It would be like claiming victory against the Nazis if after some years both the US and USSR left Germany, and in the following day the Nazis were setting up concentration camps again.

If they had held dominion over the Nazis for the entire time they were there and left voluntarily because they felt all of a sudden it wasn't there fight, it wouldn't be wrong to do so.
If you're not banned, why not simply create an account and message them properly? If following the platform's basic guidelines feels like too much effort, perhaps the communication wasn't that important to begin with. The barrier to entry is quite low (for a human) and you don’t even need to connect the account in anyway to your other online personas. The biggest benefit would also be that YOU can be found when people want to connect with you…
> who also heard D.S. flush the toilet — suggesting that D.S. may have attempted to flush his phone down the toilet rather than provide it for inspection. Later that day, Rippling had the plumbing of its Dublin offices inspected, but did not locate any mobile devices.

I really have a boring life...
1. Crew cleans capsule from toxic fuel

2. Oh look cute dolphins came to watch

…are they dead now?
I don't think Google is buying Wiz because they hope that revenue from Wiz will make it worth their money.

They surely expect some kind of strategic advantage from that, probably something to do with security of their own infrastructure, or maybe competitive advantage for gaining government or gov-adjacent contracts, or maybe they were afraid that Microsoft or Amazon could buy it and hurt their existing business.
> don't have to deal with asset depreciation

Rolling your own doesn't mean only building your own data center. It can mean renting beige boxes or even virtual beige boxes without being locked in to the "cloud services".

You tend to pay fixed costs for those beige boxes instead of per api call costs that aren't predictable and tend to exponentially compound each other.

Edit: and just as a reminder, unless you work at Google or Facebook you won't have their scaling and dynamic resource allocation needs.
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Not that this is the whole solution, but I can send you a used MacBook Pro M1 or M2 (can’t remember). You can use that to go on Mercor and see if any of the roles suit you.

Reply to this thread, if interested.
There are malicious ads and dark patterns around ad design to trick users into clicking them. I don't think it's security in the "vulnerability" sense or "privacy" sense but more in the "phishing prevention" sense.

Think of those "click here to OPTIMIZE YOUR PC" adware junk you'd prefer anyone you provide tech support for to never see
The official reasons can be found here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstati...
"Temporarily" is in no way certain here.
You'll be happy to know that recently I shipped a bug that only crashes (in) Chrome, but not Firefox, because I only really develop in Firefox.
But they will become considerably less rich while beconing no more powerful.
Yeah, that's the problem with a real Full Self Driving. It's either 100%, or it's not. 80% doesn't make the cut.

Do you seriously believe the company was valued at >1T$ because investors believed that an "FSD 80% delivered" is enough ?

Tesla and Elon claimed ALMOST 10 YEARS AGO, that the car will drive itself from Los Angeles to New York. Just think how insane this is, even today. And then look up the state of their technology 10 years ago.

Of course self driving will be solved one day. Probably not by Tesla. But it doesn't matter - they were selling this stuff for almost 10 years already, knowing perfectly well it doesn't work. But hey, next version will blow your mind !
Start with the conclusion that Apple's actions are necessary and morally good, find a reasonable-sounding but ultimately weak technical explanation and confidently present it as the only solution, then fearmonger less technical users into accepting the preconceived solution with all of its drawbacks using anecdotes and hyperbole.

Lastly, ignore or dismiss any evidence that invalidates your preconceived conclusions, like the fact that these "floodgates" have always been open [1] and yet people credit non-existent floodgates for solving the spam problem.

Anecdotally, the amount of spam I receive across Signal and Telegram is zero, and SMS is very close to 0, maybe one SMS every few weeks.

[1] https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/765844/UV5RnfwM#0d8e0...
- `brew list` doesn't include apps you install from 3rd party taps, or casks, so `brew list --full-name` + `brew list --full-name --cask` is better

- Many apps store their config and user data outside of the home dir. I always find it dishonest when people say backing up home is enough on Linux. You did say "mostly ready to go", but that's exactly the tricky and important part that most people pretend doesn't exist

E.g. Docker volumes are in /var/lib/docker

So /etc/... and /var/lib are generally worth checking as well, but that probably still doesn't cover everything, as not all apps behave as maybe XDG specifies.
Asahi Lina Pausing Work on Apple GPU Drivers
> And the goal here is to protect her from malwares, not trackers (well at least that's not a priority).

Given how intransparent the programmatic advertising industry is and how often malicious actors have abused such advertising networks to spread malware... there is no distinction to make.
I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks
I run a pihole and I don't regret it, but it's nowhere near ublock in capability. Ublock's more important filters are selecting individual scripts and even page elements.
Didn’t he very publicly offer to fund fixing world hunger then ignored it when an NGO came up with an actual plan?
Agree! I spent the last 15 years teaching myself genetics and human biology. I will send emails to researchers and we often some long, interesting, conversations. I even assisted a researcher at Stanford, helping her set up a study on a nutritional genetics. And another even stole my idea about ethanol addiction and did a study on it as well.

They have no idea I only have a degree in American History and Secondary Education. When they do ask some actually get upset thinking that I was tricking them! I used to get upset, but I know now how much some people hold their degree close to their ego.

Science needs more "art", that is the fun part.