skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's so far off the bell curve that I can only assume psychological projection is involved in his reasoning.
Good good, now show me the topology
I don't get 4) and 5). Plumbing for what? This makes me think it is not understood that github pages will just host any html you put in its repo. There is no magic plumbing in play here, not on your side at least.

1) okay, I can see that (also @simonw, the other comment). 2) is a tradeoff, you have a lot more work with setting this all up. but okay. For 3), if building the site is easy enough and documented properly, having to run a build script once and having it as part of the PR is in my experience not a problem for contributors - and there is also a tradeoff here against them having to understand what hidden steps the Github action will do, when wanting to contribute.
I think you can calculate "2^X mod (10^N)" where N is the number of digits using a modular exponentiation algorithm.

This would avoid using a lot of memory, and it would also be faster.
Isn’t that even more interesting?
Yeah it isn't the reason but I do have to say that typing on a pc is nothing like a mechanical typewriter especially an ancient one.

You really had to give the keys a hard whack and had to push them all the way down. It was pretty heavy and the hammers could really get stuck. All this did really limit typing speed.

When I was in school we had an optional typing course and I was encouraged to do it as a computer nerd. But I never thought it was relevant as they didn't even use electric typewriters. They wanted to teach the ability to hit every key with the same amount of force. A skill that is completely useless these days obviously. These days we hit keys with the least amount of force and our colleagues thank us for it :)
Hey everyone,

I've spent a lot of time building a Chrome extension that integrates popular LLM providers directly into your browser. Initially, I released it as a paid/subscription-based tool, hoping to cover some costs, but after sharing it multiple times here and elsewhere, it seems folks weren't really feeling the price tag.

Honestly, I'd rather see people using and benefiting from what I've built than having it sit unused. So, I've decided to make it completely free for everyone. No catch—just plug in your own API keys from whichever LLM service you prefer, and you're good to go.

It's pretty handy for streamlining your workflow or just having some fun experimenting. I'd appreciate your feedback or suggestions to make it even better.

Thanks for checking it out!
+1 for avoiding YAML at all costs

Also lol @deng
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43429532
> but a lot of younger developers only ever really learned React and are stuck the IE6 era it was designed around

Last release of IE6: 2008

Concerted campaign to make everybody stop using IE6: 2009

Microsoft joins that campaign: 2011

First release of React: 2013
Your employer doesn’t need you to buy food or pay for a roof over their head.

You need your employer to stay fed and housed.

There is a lot more downside for you than your employer, thus a massive power asymmetry. The only way to restore the balance is solidarity between workers and it’s usually a union (or a guild)
The 2% ...And your company logic should not be in the Macros.

"The Wall of Shame for the Worst Excel Errors" - https://www.solving-finance.com/post/the-wall-of-shame-for-t...
> mostly with web standards

IMO, the pain from "mostly" starts to show when integrating React Router v6 with legacy frameworks and applications. I'm sure if you go all in on React Router v6 it's great.

At my $DAYJOB we are migrating to Remix w/ GraphQL Federation. It's been a pain.

Especially because we haven't finished any of these migrations:

* ExtJS -> JQuery

* JQuery -> React class components

* React class components -> MobX-observed components

* Observable MobX components -> functional React components with context

* Functional React Components with context -> React Router v6

* React Router v6 -> Remix w/ GraphQL federation

I understand my situation is unique - I'm just bitter from needing to know ~6 different frontend technologies at once. Let alone all the Not-Invented-Here-Syndrome abominations in our codebase.
Oh I see what you mean that would be a neat feature. Assuming you can get timestamps though it should be trivial to work around the issue?
> a log burner for heat

for areas that experience winter, this is a decisive issue.

If you live in a passivhause-style home, air source heat pumps ("minisplits" for our US readers) may work, and you might be able (at least in the southwest of the USA, with high insolation during winter) to get away with local battery storage to cover your heating needs with PV.

But if you don't, PV-driven heating during the winter, even with the very high COP's of air source heat pumps, is not realistic without much larger battery systems than you could reasonably have on site.

Covering non-heating domestic electricity costs with PV these days is relatively easy, and we should do it as much as possible. Covering the heating part for places with winter climates (especially in areas with low insolation) is much, much harder and really requires effective grid infrastructure.
Text allows developers lots for flexibility to do other processing, including RAG, calling APIs yourself and multiple chained LLM invocations. The low latency of realtime API means relying fully on one invocation of their model to do everything.
Can't seem to access the site over https.
I've had plenty of colleagues that act like children.
My disgust and hatred for Elon Musk prevents me from giving Grok a fair chance. I realize this is my psychological problem. I own it, but as far as I can tell, I'm not missing much.
But with tech unions, situations like the parent's become non-existent because individuals can't negotiate for themselves.

I've been in three different unions in my life. All three exploited me. All three were in the employer's pocket. All three unfairly distributed the work so that the union rep and their friends got the easiest work and the best pay. All three made sure I was paid the minimum.

My computer skills are what finally allowed me to punch my own ticket. I'll be damned if I hand that power back over to someone else.
Por que no los dos??

> Software companies should be able to hire and fire.

Almost every company in every industry makes this dubious claim. Then we rediscover the benefits of team knowledge and stability.

> We often need to have 24/7 oncall

This feels completely orthogonal to the discussion at hand, nobody is claiming that a union will somehow make doing on-call impossible. Many other professions that do have unions, have an on-call analog.
The capacitolypse was a factor in my teenage son figuring out component level repair. Years later I can throw almost anything at him and have it come back working.

I brought him to my pharmaceutical client; their gas chromatograph had some bad caps and the disassembly needed a deft hand. He dressed in his usual work attire of tshirt, jeans and boots because his dayjob is a forklift driver at bigbox hardware.

He fixed it.
Prime is almost an anti-influencer. He promotes not adding dependencies more often than not. He's the guy making fun of the Ai craze, while also genuinely reviewing the recent releases and saying people should just learn to code instead. I really wouldn't put him in this general category of fe influencers discussed here.
What UI framework did you use for mobile?
> stark raving mad

Was that reference intentional? Well done either way.

I also don't appreciate that he's sheltering and excusing his behavior under self-diagnosed mental health umbrellas. That only harms the perception of those who legitimately have those conditions.
You see the downvotes? Also for anything DOGE or Tesla? MAGA is all over HN now....
Marxist theory will bend to encompass the total automation of Amazon fulfilment centers. Expect future marxist arguments for UBI.
What's even more outrageous is that the work has already been done, there's a PR with Django 5.1 support that works great. So the only thing missing 5 minutes of somebody's time deciding to step up and merge it. And still the issue lurks there for months and these people will make time for it on q3?

What kind of "team" is this, where nobody has 5 minutes to merge? Are they robots or they are mocking us?
This applies to some people (it certainly applies to me!) but not to everyone. Insofar as any white collar worker can be exploited, which they can, plenty of SWEs are making <$100k, work long hours, have poor healthcare, etc. etc.
And even for those who are doing well -- isn't it better to stand alongside those who aren't? Why is the "proper" thing to do just going your own way and being happy that you got yours?
i sympathize but this is a myopic view. zoom out 5, 10, 20 years. It’s pretty clear the parent is correct. Historically anyway.

But what’s happening post covid is a mess and we’ll see how the future looks for us in tech.
A Generlink would have simplied your transfer switch rewiring. Just connect the external 240V supply (be it your vehicle, batteries, or a fossil fuel powered generator), and the Generlink shuts down the grid connection and delivers to your regular main service panel. You might need to turn some circuits off when using it, but which circuits and when remains flexible and context dependent.
Does anyone use GoogleAI? For an AI Company with an AI Ceo using AI language translation, I think their actual GPT products are all terrible and have a terrible rep. And who wants their private conversation shipped back to google for spying?
Gemma 3 is on Ollama now https://ollama.com/library/gemma3 but surprisingly they don't have Mistral 3.1 yet.

I've managed to run Mistral 3.1 on my laptop using MLX, notes here https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/mistral-small-31/
When ~white collar [researchers, programmers, managers, salespeople, translators, illustrators, ...] lose their income/jobs to AI's -> lose their ability to buy products/services and at the same time try to shift in mass to doing some kind of manual work, do you think that would not affect incomes of those who are the current blue collar class?
Except that OpenAI is very much trying to establish their products as being worthy of credence, disclaimers notwithstanding.
> There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton

Let the tooling figure out the formatting, just sweat the syntax. And build whatever you can!
What's a better model that can run on a single GPU?
Most businesses are not very profitable at all. Like 5-10% margin. If you took all their profits and made them wages (ignoring the consequences), thats not a crazy amount of pay increase especially compared to what tech workers make.
What are you talking about? Websites from ten or twenty years ago are still working. If there's one technology with good backwards compatibility, then it's JavaScript.
The whole point of ATC is that everyone in the area is able to figure out what is going on by listening in.

What/how is making listening in on that illegal ok?
> The US is clearly demonstrating it is an unreliable partner in defence.

This feels like exaggeration to me. How is the US an ‘unreliable partner’? Has any country had parts for their existing defense purchases restricted? This type of reaction to the US choosing to not spend its own taxpayer money or military equipment on a far away conflict doesn’t make sense.

If anything, the truth is the opposite. The other countries in NATO have been unreliable partners that did not meet their spending requirements. For example, Germany, France, and Canada all underspent but benefited from the US taxpayer spending a lot.

> Western nations cannot buy into a platform when its supplier might go from being a democratic part of the West to aligning with dictators and autocrats literally overnight.

The US is not aligning with dictators. Pushing for a resolution to a conflict that is costing the world hundreds of billions, not to mention huge amounts of Ukrainian lives, is the only reasonable path. The EU has literally no solution for this conflict - just complaints that America is now seeking resolution and doesn’t want to keep wasting money or lives.
It's my first time hearing of this, so I went and found some screenshots: https://www.zdnet.com/article/first-photos-windows-mobile-6-... , https://venturebeat.com/social/windows-mobile-65-screenshot-... . The software is from the year 2008.
BamBot Open source, low-cost (~$300) humanoid robot
There have been multiple reports here on this website about exactly this happening to people in recent weeks. I understand that the fear is surreal but it’s happening to some.
I wonder how long until everyone gets a cryptographic public key and has to sign every HTTP request to not be blocked. Or every site requires login to use. And social media and things like bug reporting all requiring real ID.
>What I say on this forum is self-actualization and deep therapy saying all the stuff I can't say to my coworkers' faces when they wag their jaws.

This is not what HN is for. We should not use it as a place to vent frustrations.

>This doesn't change anything: apple still operates at deep cost to the public. All that profit could be being put to productive use outside the reach of centralized capital.

That makes no sense. If that profit were put to better use elsewhere it would be. Either Apple itself would invest it elsewhere or people would invest it elsewhere instead of giving money to Apple in exchange for their products.

If you think a business making money "costs the public" that money you fundamentally misunderstand the very most basic principles of economics. It is the equivalent of saying that you think integers in computers are stored in base 3 or confidently proclaiming that "single entry accounting is the standard way to do it" or something. It is so so so wrong.
I think too, is the cost of taking work home.

Many jobs, including construction, service jobs, even many medical jobs, do not require even the thought of work outside of working hours.

Anecdotally many in these positions that I am friends with will attest that it's great to get off work and pretend work didn't happen and go on with their real life, because they don't have deadlines or projects to stress over, arduous performance reviews, or extensive office politicking and empire-building.
can't wait for scam calls after this gets perfected
Yep, if a civilization doesn't destroy itself it creates everything it wants. Some don't want simulations, so let it be for them. Some want, they can have it, too. Only you yourself will decide. It's a thought experiment to maximize non-enforcement of things on each other, maximize freedoms. By definition it's highly speculative. But don't die please, if we are in fact in the multiversal simulation, death doesn't lead you there or to some utopia.

It'll just be unfair for death to lead to something good, it's not freedom if before or after death, you'll have this thought: "ha-ha, you just needed to die, stupid!" Nope, you can recall your "multiversal powers" as a quiet thought as baby or at any moment of your life, possibly even live some time as a ghost (if you chose it beforehand), it can be fun to be a ghost for some time for some.

You'll still be alive and will be able to recall and forget as little or as much as you want. Or the whole thing. You don't die, you can stay and you can go at the same time (by basically choosing to make a clone of yourself who is as free as you. Who can pursue multiversal exploration, while you yourself stay and probably choose to forget about your multiversal powers again). It's counterintuitive and hard to explain, basically everything is possible but there are some things that happen more often because they cause less unfreedom.
Tim Cook Has Put Mike Rockwell in Charge of Siri, Reporting to Craig Federighi
My mom had a Heat Pump water heater at her house and I was always having to go and fix it or clean the filter. It would start beeping loudly in the middle of the night when it wanted attention. The hot water was frequently not very hot.

Hopefully the new heat pump water heaters are better. The advantage of resistance heating is simplicity and cost, with no moving parts. Solar panels are so cheap now they make it hard to justify the expense of the heat pump, assuming you have room to mount the panels.
To be fair to Silicon Labs, they don't claim the smallest BLE module but FDK did exactly that [1].

[1] The world's smallest Bluetooth® Low Energy Module, the new model "HY0021":

https://www.fdk.com/whatsnew-e/release20241021-e.html
I had the exact same thought.. "doesn't Google maps already solve this problem all over the planet?"
About a decade before I remember using Google's 'hub'(I don't remember what it was called) in a couple of EU capitals. Free, super fast internet, clean spaces, free desks, whiteboards all around. You had to pay if you wanted a 'room with a door' and a projector, but apart from that if you didn't mean the eavesdroppers it was perfectly fine (and relatively quiet).
Its fun to pick it apart sometimes and get it to correct itself but you often would never know unless you had direct or deep cut knowledge to interrogate it from
I'm wondering how small of a model can be "generally intelligent" (as in LLM intelligent, not AGI). Like there must be a size too small to hold "all the information" in.

And I also wonder at what point we'll see specialized small models. Like if I want help coding, it's probably ok if the model doesn't know who directed "Jaws". I suspect that is the future: many small, specialized models.

But maybe training compute will just get to the point where we can run a full-featured model on our desktop (or phone)?
Does anyone use GHA - full stop? Their stuff seems "me too" in most cases, they are definitely a follower, like microsoft Bing search ... google AI ...
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Show HN: I built a pSEO site for 182 bilingual books in African languages
Hey HN,

I'm a solopreneur from Burundi, now in France. I saw how fast kids in the diaspora lose their mother tongues. So, I self-published 182 bilingual children's books in 26 African languages (Kirundi, Yoruba, Swahili, etc.) on Amazon.

To share them, I built Lingu.Africa, a Next.js site with programmatic SEO. It auto-generates pages for each book-language combo.

I also built a content system that posts a new blog daily, storing content as MDX files in the repo.

Tech: Next.js (SSG), TypeScript, TailwindCSS, MDX blog. Built with Cursor IDE and Claude 3.5.

Would love feedback on architecture and SEO approach.

Lionel
And don’t forget members of the “parasite class!”[1]

(Fucker is still invited to YC’s AI Startup School, by the way.)

[1]: https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-musk-reposted-meme-120...
My initial reaction to this whole thing was the same as yours (not that I have any love lost for academics). Software engineers do basically no physical labor and usually get paid better than many people who physically work way harder. On the whole, software engineers are not "the victim," as you said.

However, your examples made me think.

> In other places, you can have a typical 40h/week job at a salary way better than the average 9-5 job.

Can you? Can everyone? I've job hunted before and known many more people who've taken way longer than me to find a position at all, in several different locations throughout the country (not coastal metropolises). You're kind of suggesting that unemployment isn't an issue in the industry, which is a pretty blanketed take.

> Or you can freelance a dozen hours a week and live in a remote cottage.

Can you meet friends while living in a remote cottage? Can you raise kids well in a remote cottage? (Does the remote cottage even have internet?) This one is technically true, but ignores many of the reasons most people work/live in the first place. I say that as someone who's considered going that route.

So while I agree software engineers aren't a "victim class" as compared to other industries, I also think using the "it could be worse" excuse to avoid working for better conditions that are totally feasible isn't a great thing to do. The majority of software engineers are middle-class, and when the middle-class is under attack, they're going down with the rest of the ship, not up. Perhaps it'd be better to foster a little more solidarity instead of inviting us vs. them mentality.
I can see how that aspect can be useful.
I had already suspected that I hadn't found all the possibilities regarding Tortoise TTS, Coqui, Piper, etc. It is sometimes difficult to determine how good a TTS framework really is.

Do you possibly have links to the voices you found?
An old (new) adage: Pops the business owner is upset that he paid $5k for a law consultation that could’ve been done for free with a GPT model. Little did Pops know he paid for the verification of the GPT output.
But he did say he is giving his heart. You can't divorce that from what he did.

It literally looks NOTHING like a Nazi salute from any angle. This is such an obvious example of psychological priming.

I have waved plenty of times and nobody thinks it was a Nazi salute.

You are being taken in by propaganda.
He also effectively dismantled one of the rarest and most coveted achievements in marketing: the transformation of a common verb into a universally recognized reference to a specific product.

By renaming Twitter, he erased the cultural shorthand of "tweeting," a level of brand entrenchment that most companies can only dream of attaining.
The realtime API can be used to call tools [0], but I agree with your general point on the flexibility of working directly with text.

[0] https://github.com/openai/openai-realtime-agents
Both you and this post can be correct. It is the case that being a software dev is a position of relative privilege. It is also the case that many people feel burnt out, the system doesn't support them, and labor solidarity is important. This is a classic trap. Just because your body isn't being abused by the system to the extent that others are doesn't mean that you can't argue and fight against the abuse you are suffering from.
Rather than top scientists, the fund should target the young scientists, and or promoting companies that will employ these guys locally. Once lost to somewhere like the US, they rarely return. Me and a Lot of my friends who left in 97 and I still keep in touch with would never return without similar opportunities locally or the same seed funding we can get in US.
Some quick math…

Jet fuel is about 7 pounds a gallon. So we’re talking about something like 4000 gallons. A bus is something 40 feet by 10 feet by 10 feet, which is like 20000 gallons. So it’s about a fifth of a school bus.

Still a lot, though!
Kickstarter only voted 97.6% after absolutely bitter internal conflicts and a semi-forced exodus of people who weren't on board with the plan. The in-fighting was extremely bitter, extremely personal, included death-threats and I know several former Kickstarter employees on both sides of that mess who are in therapy over how that all went down.
The next time I want to program in YAML (which is NEVER) I'll use GitHub Actions......
> It's like devs are allergic to any semblance of labor solidarity.

No, it's because we know how good we have it. Yes tech layoffs can be brutal but we all signed up for that. I knew even back in college that tech jobs can be flaky and I was likely to be out on my ass a few times in career. But I took the deal anyways because I can make six figures wearing pajamas in my basement.