skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually kind of a terrible article.

What she seems to be glossing over is the fact that the people displaced by prior revolutions were impoverished and traumatized and we only moved past it because those people died and new people not used to the old ways were born.

Like, she talks about Russia not getting past getting over communism and electing a dictator, and seems to not mention that the same pattern could be seen with globalization and Trump?

The problem is not an emotional problem of people getting over their fears, it’s a structural problem of having a system to take care of displaced workers. If you’re a data scientist, no amount of “learn AI” may help the fact that if we automate all of data science away, you’re just out of a job.

For people who came after the Industrial Revolution, everything was better. For those displaced by it? Everything was just worse.
I don't think you understand how money works. Federal debt doesn't matter beyond its relationship to taxes and inflation. The US needs to raise taxes and address inequality through greater investment in public services and infrastructure, as well as stronger regulations on consumer goods pricing, not less.
For the long-time HN crowd this must be like finding out, say, Richard Garriott is a blockchain bro now.
> Here in the US, everyone hates cops.

If you honestly believe that, you live in an echo chamber on this topic. This Gallup poll from 2024 reported a majority of Americans have either "a great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in the police: https://news.gallup.com/poll/647303/confidence-institutions-...
This one guy made, in bolt.new, a system that would generate song lyrics for a song and sync the text to speech to different parts of the song. Creative and interesting.

Someone else made an “exquisite corpse” drawing game.

And another, a way to annotate medical images.

I think of all these things as functional prototypes. It’s obviously not engineering. But it is pretty magical —
Not directory but maybe processes with namespaces. rfork controls that, and then you have bind.
The scenario is not occurring, and anyway... if you had information about an increased risk, you can use that information to mitigate the risk and avoid the harm. Even if you think insurance and doctors are good for you, efficient and help you feel better... they are much more effective if you as the patient have a pretty good idea of what might be going wrong.
self driving cars are here, just unevenly distributed. Waymo operates in several cities already, providing millions of rides to people. Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they don't exist.
Exactly. Where I live we have temps from -20F to 110F, which is -30 to 43C. Idk, seems to me the hottest normal temp being 90ish and coldest normalish temp at 0 is a decent scale.
Because it's the one green solution that actually works as base load (other than hydroelectricity, but that's terrain-dependent), works 24/7 without any other affordances, and doesn't open you up to dependence on other nations to anywhere near the same degree.

Solar and wind are only cheap because a foreign nation makes the parts (if they were made domestically they wouldn't be cost-competitive, obviously). So in 20 years, when your PV panels are degrading and your turbines are wearing out, that foreign country's going to be able to charge you a lot more to replace it.

And if you want to see the results of cheap industrial inputs becoming expensive one only need look at the post-Nordstream German/European economic forecast. Even the poor should be able to afford to keep the lights on and the A/C running once the sun has set.
That's a bit of a mistaken model, the bullet never rises above the boreline of the gun, the scope or sights are just angled down relative to the bore line to intersect the bullet trajectory at a particular point further down range. [0] The effect is larger if your scope is higher above the bore axis, because it requires you to point down more on the sight line to have the same zero, or if your zero is particularly close or far, for most rifle rounds and gun configurations 100 yard zeros tend to be all drop (the combination of realistic height over bore and bullet trajectories just work out that way).

[0] This is a pretty accurate representation: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/40/f3/05/40f3...
I don't think it makes a difference.

Spying through your microphone ala 1960's FBI wiretap is not worse than reading credit card history, location data, google searches, etc. Sure, it sounds more spooky, but probably they would have less data if they only listened through the microphone. That's probably an improvement over our current situation.
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The creator of FizzBee presented it at the most recent meeting of the SF Systems Club. The talk was some kind of meandering hybrid between presentation and tutorial and went far over time, but FizzBee itself sounds rich in features and simple to use. Its creator is pitching it as an easy-to-use verification tool for software teams in industry to document and verify the systems they're building.
No, I only use old.reddit.com
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Candidly, given existing law in the US, the highest use an insurer could make of the data is to opt families into specialized preventative care using the DNA profiles in the database. They might make pretty decent profits taking that angle, and possibly generate significant goodwill.
I Read Poems with Aphantasia
*stupid serial killers
Hm.

- Grok (X‘s AI) is first author of this paper.

- It is published in a journal which seems to be dedicated to questioning climate change https://scienceofclimatechange.org/articles/articles/

- Whose editor in chief has himself published questionable studies on climate change https://andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/a-hard...
As a counter to this, I had grok build an entire set of micro services and all I had to clean up was some format strings. It blew me away. Did in an hour what should have taken a week.
> This is the go community saying a computer will never best human go players.

I don’t see this. Board games are fundamentally different from software development problems. The latter have imperfect information, unknown requirements and constraints, fuzzy success criteria, and more.
> Please, do not confuse Europeans with the entities taking such actions

Both Spainish and Italian
governments created laws for which these companies are going after Cloudflare. Europeans elected them and work in those governments and courts.

Expecting large companies in any country not to have lawyers figure out how to use and abuse this stuff is pretty naive. Heavy regulatory environments are very popular in Europe and just like America they almost always benefit/protect entrenched powers while being sold (and defended online) as necessary to protect the small players and upstarts.

The internet has been warning about the risks of excessive anti piracy laws being anti-open internet for as long as I remember.
> because we believed a lot of the hype

Never buy the hype.

Buy boring and tested.
> As such I'm occasionally bemused at the sort-of monoculture here around Postgres, where if Postgres doesn't have it, it may as well not exist.

FWIW, I, as a medium-long term PG developer, are also regularly ... bemused by that attitude. We do some stuff well, but we also do a lot of shit not so well, and PG is succeeding despite that, not because of.

> Relatedly, the other interesting thing is the chatter about fsync. I know on Windows that's not the mechanism that's used, and out of curiosity I looked deeper into what MS-SQL does on Linux, and indeed they were able to get significant improvement by leveraging similar mechanisms to ensure the data is hardened to disk without a separate flush (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43443703). They contributed to kernel 4.18 to make it happen.

Case in point about "we also do a lot of shit not so well" - you can actually get WAL writes utilizing FUA out of postgres, but it's advisable only under somewhat limited circumstances:

Most filesystems are only going to use FUA writes with O_DIRECT. The problem is that for streaming replication PG currently reads back the WAL from the filesystem. So from a performance POV it's not great to use FUA writes, because that then triggers read IO. And some filesystems have, uhm, somewhat odd behaviour if you mix buffered and unbuffered IO.

Another fun angle around this is that some SSDs have *absurdly* slow FUA writes. Many Samsung SSDs, in particular, have FUA write performance 2-3x slower than their already bad whole-cache-flush performance - and it's not even just client and prosumer drives, it's some of the more lightweight enterprise-y drives too.

Edit: fights with HN formatting.
> What would you cut?

Nothing. Tax the billionaires.
My biggest concern about these so-called “isomorphic frameworks” is they’re trying to abstract away the server/client distinction. I don’t see how that doesn’t result in tons of security bugs. Or maybe I’m just an old fart.
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nice.
did you use grok web interface or some ide + grok?
Maybe just like with self-driving cars, trying to hook mechanical precision up to messy human society is going to be fraught and lead to blowback. Meaning that once planes start falling out of the sky from vibe coding Boeing contractors there will be PR and regulatory panics that soften the hype somewhat. Or, the next time Equifax gets mass leaked and they blame their security setup on generative AI. You can’t vibe code your way out of human stupidity and the consequences of production environments.
What product alternative to Nextjs would you say is targeted towards "good developers"?
What does this get you over vanilla express servicing a react front end?

Is it the rest of the deploy infra? The vanilla app you can push to Heroku or any of its clones.
'Naive' science fan faces jail for plutonium import
running cat isn't a --exec for one :)
How does genetic testing help connect with biological relatives - that only works if there's a database people signed up to ?
>Coercing the public to provide samples of their dna outside of criminal proceedings is unconstitutional.

Most people in the US are insured through private companies. How would it be unconstitutional for those companies to refuse to insure or jack up prices for people who decline genetic testing?

It just seems strange to believe that this data would be both incredibly valuable to health insurers and that they would have no new ways to gather it outside relying on decade old data from now defunct companies. Modern insurance companies don't identify smokers by buying the old Marlboro Miles database, they make disclosing smoking a part of the application process.
It's only common among trained experts. For most people, even simple code is astonishingly difficult.

I personally get more value from AI when coding more complex and novel things. Not fully automated, but English has become the most valuable language for me when coding.
VC influence in the web space has been a fascinating thing.

I hope Next's downfall sends a signal to the quality lib maintainers and changes direction (e.g. Remix and a f'd up router, TanStack w/ Start).

SSR frameworks make me vomit.
Not quite what you're asking for, but Tor users have long complained that Cloudflare basically makes it unusable (asking for complicated captchas on each page of a site, etc.)
Yes, nothing else to see https://web.archive.org/web/20250322162327/https://github.co...
expect you know, when you can bypass auth by adding an http header :)
For context, that is predicted based on seasonal demands for Easter, not a result of culling of flocks, etc.

It also doesn't take into account that there was just announced a large import deal done with Turkey and South Korea and other countries.

"We are talking in the hundreds of millions of eggs for the short term"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c743g135vj9o
For background,see:

'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook [1]

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk 'Hijacking' Republicans to Control Entire US Government [2]

PDF of their letter. [3] 630K

[1] https://www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-musk-ceo-dictator-d...

[2] https://bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblo...

[3] https://america2.news/content/files/2025/02/Musk-NRx-Memo-Fe...
Firejail and bwrap are setuid sandbox frontends. You can wrap e.g. a new xz invocation to let it work on your private keys.

But Nix relies on ephemeral shells and flakes, and they don't play so well with each other. The interface is clumsy. Guix, in contrast, has a pretty nice set of CLI switches for these features.

Even normal distros should prioritize some simple graphical UI for this. Running programs with minimal privileges would result in a significant enhancement of security. The kernel features for achieving this are already there.
Capital, and its inequal distribution.
> basically

> probably

> bunch

> hopefully

> pretty sure

> almost
Yes, that is basically the idea.
I nearly replied, "RTFM." Given the README says you can either use the ISO or the packaged release found within the repository's releases...except...

There are no releases (no installation executable, nor ISO).

The README does make it clear that it's a work in progress though.
> More generally, the entire concept of using middleware which communicates using the same mechanism that is also used for untrusted user input seems pretty wild to me.

That's basically the same way phone phreaking worked back in the day. Time is a flat circle.
I'm of very two minds with regards to Next.js. On one hand it gives you so many things to like out of the box, especially when you pair it with something like T3 and the like. On the other hand, it's such a massive goliath that it blows my mind how it gets going at all. It's slow to the point where usually you don't even need to think about performance for basic web apps, but with Next.js you do. Etc. As with any tool, it comes with tradeoffs. Luckily for you, a saving grace of Next.js is that if you ever decide it really does not work for you, you can probably get off of it with comparatively less pain than some other stack change. Your frontend is just React, that will still all work. And if you squint a little, your backend is just Javascript, so you can take it to regular Node land.
That's a bold claim, that's easy to refute.

Next.js is a bad choice for a lot of apps, javascript is slow at a lot of things.

Next.js would be a terrible choice for any app that has any non-trivial compute, for example.
I was referring to the economic benefits being concentrated.

AI and other automation allows more to be done with less labor which increases corporate profits, and all that is pocketed by a very small number of people. Meanwhile everyone else is unemployed. There is no mechanism to distribute these benefits to anyone.

The money goes to inflate stock and other financial bubbles and asset prices, including housing, which makes living even more unaffordable.

Long term this eventually collapses since the economy doesn’t work with no customers.
how so?

$ landrun --ro /usr/bin cat a

[landrun:error] 2025/03/22 23:50:16 permission denied
This isn't about blocking "misbehaving" AI bots. This is about blocking the competitors to the big boys like OpenAI and Anthropic.

I help administer a somewhat active (10-20 thousand hits/day) site that sits behind Cloudflare.

ChatGPTBot has been a menace - crawling several pages per second and going deep into site for years old content, which is polluting/diluting the cache. It also happens to be hitting a lot of pages that are very 'expensive' to generate. it also ignored a robots.txt file change for almost two full days.

Yet...I try to crawl my municipality's shitty website because there are announcements there that are made nowhere else and they're too lazy to figure out how to set up email announcements...and Cloudflare instantly blocked my change detection bot running on my home server. It hits one page every 24 hours, using a full headless version of Chrome. BZZZZT - cloudflare's bot detection smacks it upside the head.

If you think this is by chance or they don't know this is happening: bridge for sale etc.

This is just more collusion with other large tech firms, working to kill each other's competitors, small services and sites, and innovators. Really cute, given half of SV got where it is by "disrupting" things (ie breaking laws and regulations - it's cool bro, It's An App!)

Gmail will allow endless amounts of shit to stream into my inbox from "email marketing service" companies like mailchimp because I bought something 6 years ago from that company - but the second I need an email from a small community group mailing list that uses their own email server - a domain I've sent and received numerous emails to *and repeatedly clicked "Not spam" for - Gmail still keeps right on sending it to spam. I've checked. Their domain and IP range are both completely clean. It's simply Google saying "this wouldn't be happening if you were using Gmail for your domain's email."

We desperately need to claw the internet back from these corporations or it will only get worse. Remember when you could run a web server on dialup and nobody fucking cared? Now you even so much has have port 443 open for some self-hosted stuff only you know exists and your ISP bitches a fit. Remember when you could use any client you wanted for services like AIM, but now we have Slack and Discord and they'll ban you for using a non-official client?
"Learn AI” is the new “Learn to code”.

And speaking of the future, it’s amazing to me just how quickly people have pivoted away from at least pretending to deal with global climate change, to build more power plants for AI, because everyone thinks that’s where the money is. We’ll burn the planet to a crisp for money.
As per usual the qualifying question if it can handle the Mandelbrot renderer -

https://github.com/erikdubbelboer/brainfuck-jit/blob/master/...
I think you misread ChuckMcM. Of course it’s the sight that is angled down. What he wrote was accurate.
NixOS is really irrelevant here because the xz backdoor specifically targeted RedHat and Debian. It's equally relevant to say the xz backdoor didn't affect Windows (ironically the backdoor was ultimately found by a Microsoft employee, an oft-overlooked detail).
GitHub Actions, at least at that time, had a lot more coverage than circle CI.

Anda a lot more flexibility in terms of what can you do.
That’s hilarious to me suggesting that DNS can facilitate privacy.

What about the people who own the copper that’s transporting the piracy? That actually seems like it’s more of a direct link than DNS.
I’ve seen this same story in exploit writeups - it’s funny to see “living off the land” techniques used non-maliciously.
In our economy, the value of things is determined by the attitudes of everybody who interacts with those things. That's what I mean by everybody--we all get to decide whether to shame or praise each other based on the decisions we make.

Quite a lot of money has been spent ensuring that people believe--for better or worse--that the symbols that we surround ourselves with are an expression of who we are. That if we wear the right brands, or drive the right kind of car, then others will know that we're the right kind of people. Why else do people wear MAGA hats? Sentiment around symbols is the board on which on which billionaires play power games.

Are you proposing that it should only work in one direction? That it's fine to drive Apple stock up by expressing approval of somebody's MacBook, but it's forbidden to drive Tesla stock down by expressing disapproval of somebody's Tesla? Because that's absurd.
When countries do this it's "real GDP growth"
It could have made up entries added to authentic ones, but if you know someone who has applied to NYU in the past few decades you can easily verify its authenticity by asking if their data is accurate. (Names were supposed to be redacted by the hacker but they missed a column in one of the CSVs)
SSR is fine. We used to call it "PHP" or "Ruby" or "Java." People need to stop reinventing things, but feature development outweighs maturity when you have funding.
Yeah, but this time the cartels are the invading force and they are facing off against trigger happy Texans. Don't think there's many parallels, here.
> This would make it convenient to run every single process with restricted privileges, including no access to ~/

Please no. I understand why Flatpaks do it, but this is one of the most ridiculously annoying things about the Flatpak sandbox. You can often only drag 'n drop from ~/Downloads/, and from any other location either causes the receiving application to glitch out, fail silently, or fail with a general error. Hell, you sometimes can't even copy-paste an image from one application to another via the copy-paste buffer! Meanwhile on macOS and Windows it works perfectly.
Do you see a reason to trust the data is real?
They failed to fully remove the PII.
I think people miss that "vibe coding" is a senior engineering tool. You still have to architect the project. You still have to ensure security and performance are handled (if relevant for the task). You still have to envision edge cases and usage patterns. You just don't have to type it out.

Now non-programmers can fumble forward to a working demo. But junior engineers are walking around with a loaded weapon - if they are not learning from how AI solves a problem or using it like StackOverflow to answer specific questions, they are blowing up their own careers.

The future is we are all product engineers or domain experts. No one is going to want an army of React engineers in 2 years.
> for the sake of discussion can we unflag the parent? There are some legit interesting conversations that will be missed due to the parent comment being flagged

Also, the parent comment (while not especially interesting or insightful) isn't breaking the rules or anything. "Flag" is not a mega-disagree button, people.
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> too many links in the README

In other documents too. And very repetitive.

I don't need a link to Wikipedia every time "PoC" is used. Or to an online man page every time strace(1) is mentioned.

I get it that a documentation can have more than one "entry point", and hyperlinking all occurrences solves that.

But I think assuming certain audience leads to a document that is more effective. You don't explain addition in university-level textbooks, to make it easier to children from primary school.

This product is simply not for people who hear of strace for the first time.
It isn't news that AI is the newest tech grift (and just as power hungry).

Sure, some few legitimate and cool uses. So much if it isn't though, and we're just getting started.
Why is MLX Apple silicon only? Is there something fundamental that prevents it from working on x86? Are some core features only possible on Apple silicon? Or do the devs specifically refuse to port to x86? (Which is understandable, I guess)

I'm asking because it seems to have nice autodiff functionality. It even supports differentiating array mutation (https://ml-explore.github.io/mlx/build/html/usage/indexing.h...), which is something JAX and Zygote.jl can't do. Instead, both have ugly tricks like `array.at[index].set` and the `Buffer` struct.

So it would be cool to have this functionality on a "regular" CPU.
This is where I need to shout out to everyone's favorite developer Justine for keeping Linux cool:

https://justine.lol/pledge/

Which also points to landlock-make[0] or vice-versa (the original project that made me aware of the kernel functionality (although didn't realize it also isolated network which is great).

[0]https://justine.lol/make/
but layoffs are happening _now_, purely based on what people who stand to benefit directly claim AI will do.