skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I wonder whether it will graduate to a real browser sometime.

It won't. Someone will have to build a browser around it as Servo itself is not a browser.

What you downloaded from their page is "just" a thin wrapper around Servo. Only serves demo purposes.
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> once they realize it can do their work better
Citation needed? Google's Deep Research tool is considerably worse than OpenAI's (I haven't tried Perplexity or Groks). They don't have anything like Operator. I pay for Gemini and it's feature within the productivity suite almost never work the way I want them to. They can still win, but OpenAI is eating their lunch.
Well, top secret information isn't permitted on internet-connected desktop computers either.

But the thing about desktop computers is that they're not connecting to cell towers all the time. So if WiFi is disabled too as a precaution, and they're only connected to private secure networks via Ethernet and not the internet, you can consider them secure in terms of protecting classified secrets.
Super interesting on the ingredients feature. Kept trying to stump it with niche items and it’s pretty comprehensive. What did you use to source the list?
Show HN: Atono – A clean, lean, and unstressed alternative to Jira
Hi HN, I’m Mark, VP of engineering and co-founder of Atono. This week, we officially launched Atono’s GA—an all-in-one platform to plan, build, run, and improve software.

Today’s software development process often feels like an assembly line of disconnected tools—never-ending inboxes, Slack threads, scattered issues, and complex apps that create more overhead than progress. The cognitive load is heavy, and each tool adds complexity. Meanwhile, every role—PMs, devs, QA—ends up working in silos with little visibility into each other’s work.

Atono takes a different approach. It’s built for cross-functional teams to work together, not just alongside each other. We prioritize a clean, thoughtful experience, with in-context tools directly tied to the work you're doing—like toggling feature flags directly from the story you're working on or reporting bugs straight from your browser. And because software is never truly "done" once it’s in production, Atono supports the full software lifecycle—from planning and building to running and improving—with built-in feature flags and usage tracking at the acceptance criteria level.

If you’re a fast-moving, engineering-driven startup that needs just the essential features to build quickly and ship often, Atono is likely a slam dunk for you.
We’ve been working on Atono for 14 months and are eager for feedback. We designed it with the goal of addressing the pain points of modern software development, taking lessons from tools like Jira but focusing on the needs of today’s teams.
If this sounds like something you’d find useful, give Atono a spin at https://atono.io.
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Why would I want to use a pwa that hides the things that allow me to control what the browser does? I actively use websites over apps solely because I have more control over the interaction.
I usually have the opposite problem. There's even a joke about it:

How is Excel like an Incel? Both of them think everything is a date.
"...a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, ..."[1]

[1]: https://gwern.net/doc/cs/security/2001-12-02-treginaldgibbon...
They had support for PWA in 2021, before they pulled it. Hard to see this is anything other than a concession to its biggest funder, Google. Chrome, Edge and Safari all support installing PWAs, while FF, the biggest beneficiary of such a change, intentionally gimped theirs.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-pwa-progress...
Honestly I don't see any evidence that Microsoft wants anything. Every little fiefdom within Microsoft wants their own thing and no one cares about what is good for the company as a whole. There is at least one team that just wants to sell as many games as possible, and are no doubt looking at SteamOS as potential platform to target.
People think their justice system sucks or is wonderful, because the king is from their tribe. Or... when media fashion is to venerate rather than critique. Or when religious attitudes preference one or the other position.

It can (usually does) have nothing to do with how well the justice system works, or whether it favors those who can afford a good lawyer.

Anyway... name a country. Where's this country with just justice?
trimmed the version path off and went a bit too far! thanks.
I Built My Own Budgeting App After YNAB and EveryDollar Fell Short
Hey Hackernews

I’ve been into budgeting for a long time and, like many of you, I’ve tried all the big apps — YNAB, EveryDollar, Mint, etc. They’re solid… but none of them worked quite the way I needed. So I built my own: TheZeroBasedBudget.

It’s a zero-based budgeting tool — similar in concept to other tools on the market — but I’ve made some improvements that I think people will actually appreciate:

Completely independent — no ties to Dave Ramsey or any financial brand

$9.99/month — cheaper than most competitors

Structured but flexible — built on solid budgeting principles, without being overly rigid

Copy budgets from any month or year — not the previous month

Manual transaction tracking by design — because most bank-connected apps aren’t real-time anyway, and this keeps you engaged

No app required — the website is fully mobile-optimized, so it works great right from your browser

Refined UI/UX — built with clarity, simplicity, and real-world usability in mind

Personalized support — I’m actively helping users get started and build their first budget

This was originally a personal project to help me take control of my finances — but I really think it can help others too.

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1B1518OM5U
Try it here: https://thezerobasedbudget.com

If you’re trying to get better with money, I’d love for you to check it out. And if you want help getting started, I’ll personally help you build your first budget — no strings attached.

Thanks for reading — open to any feedback, ideas, or critiques!
Stress Testing Sesame AI – Maya Is Astounding
So basically Pew is using garbage adware that pops up an intrusive popup that screws up automated language detection, Chrome is way too overeager to auto translate, and Google Translate is starting to go to seed now that everyone uses LLMs.
OpenAI is being graded on a curve. They are not a public company and are not making money. Google is. That said, they definitely floundered by not productionizing transformer decoders, just like with Google meet/Zoom. (Encoders like BERT were/are widely used.)
Your comment wasn't flagged, and the parent was. How does this impact your views?
They should kill it. It makes no sense that the EPA can't do it's basic job but this shakedown exists.

Conservatives haven't had to live with the consequences of their decisions. They still get their farming subsidies. Their phone and Internet subsidized. Flood insurance. Countless other programs overwhelmingly help red states.

We used to have an agreement in this country. That everyone was going to be better off. Now the conservative story is all about hurting the right people.

So let's do it. Every state for themselves. Blue states can help other blue states if they want to. Same with red states. Cut off the basic function of the federal government.

I'm tired of my tax dollars helping people who don't want what's best for me and my family while I go out there and advocate for them.
Just to be clear, “yes” does not mean “forks” in Spanish.

Google translate received a huge update a few months ago and it’s been a complete clusterfuck.
How would you rewrite that to communicate that idea?

Or would you just not communicate that idea? Why / Why not?
I really dig more content about how vector databases/tools handle problems like this!

In sqlite-vec, there's only a flat brute-force index (though DiskANN/IVF will be coming soon). But we do have a concept of partition keys[0], which allows you to "internally shard" the vector index based on a user_id or any other value.

create virtual table vec_documents using vec0(
document_id integer primary key,
user_id integer partition key,
contents_embedding float[1024]
)

Then at query time, any WHERE constraints on a partition key are pushed-down, so only matching vectors are searched instead of the entire index.

select
document_id,
user_id,
distance
from vec_documents
where contents_embedding match :query
and k = 20
and user_id = 123; -- only search documents from user 123

Definitely not as performant as a proper vector index, but a lot of real-world application have these natural groups anyway. Like "search only English documents" or "search entries in this workspace only", or even "search comments only from the past 30 days."

Internally sqlite-vec stores vectors in "chunks", so when partition keys are definds, every chunk is associated with a unique combination of all partition keys. Kinda hard to describe, but if you create a vec0 virtual table and insert some values, you can inspect the internal "shadow tables" in the SQLite database to see how it's all stored.

[0] https://alexgarcia.xyz/sqlite-vec/features/vec0.html#partiti...
Democrats' Attack on Section 230 Plays Right into Trump's Censorial Plans
I still think that Deepseek was mostly dramatically overblown. It was 6-9 months behind the performance of the best frontier models at a dramatically lower cost.....but dramatically lower costs 6-9 months behind is basically what has been happening for a couple of years.

I'm mostly convinced that the only reason that it blew up was that it was the first Chinese model that was even in the same ballpark as the American frontier models, which drove a lot of reporting, which caused a lot of normies that hadn't tried any AI model since CHatGPT very first blew up to try it and they were (understandably) blown away by the progress relative to what they remembered from 2 years previously.
No easy answer since most garments > 100 years ago were home-made. But I can confidently assert without data that the number of man-hours of labor in the average closet is substantially up.

garment makers chosen because of this recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43450515
Thanks, the paper is very readable.

> Abstract The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) in knowledge workflows raises questions about its impact on critical thinking skills and practices. We survey 319 knowledge workers to investigate 1) when and how they perceive the enaction of critical thinking when using GenAI, and 2) when and why GenAI affects their effort to do so. Participants shared 936 first-hand examples of using GenAI in work tasks. Quantitatively, when considering both task- and user-specific factors, a user’s task-specific self-confidence and confidence in GenAI are predictive of whether critical thinking is enacted and the effort of doing so in GenAI-assisted tasks. Specifically, higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking. Qualitatively, GenAI shifts the nature of critical thinking toward information verification, response integration, and task stewardship. Our insights reveal new design challenges and opportunities for developing GenAI tools for knowledge work.

It is be presented at CHI Conference https://chi2025.acm.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_on_Human_Factors_in...
OpenAI Is Adopting MCP
when/where I should start drinking whiskey
It's irrelevant to the experiment: he could learn synthetic language with human-like grammar and could not learn synthetic languages with non-human-like grammar. Regular people could solve the non-human-like languages with difficulty. Because his language ability is much higher than his general problem solving ability it gives strong evidence that 1. human language capacity a special function, not a general purpose cognitive function and 2. it obeys a certain structure.

> There's no contradiction because i never argued/asserted the brain didn't have centers tuned for language, which is really all this experiment demonstrates.

I don't know what you are trying to say then.
Their approach seems very compelling, but I don't understand if/how they are building a differentiated product? The space of code agents is already pretty crowded.
Cloud veterans launch ConfigHub to fix 'configuration hell'
What do you mean? I can have an app that i use a lot in its separate window accessible by cmd+tab, without unnecessary toolbars on top, it's not hidden among tens of other browser tabs and windows i have open. Works offline. That seems quite useful to me.
Agree that other location-based apps (like Happn) have run into that problem with being overly specific in how they share location data. That's why on our app you can only see vague info limited to "they're also in the West Village." It doesn't update in real time or have their exact location.
It's worth noting that lawyers make the laws...including those about whether or not they could be replaced by AI's.

And that, over the decades, I've seen lots of egregious errors on 100%-human-generated legal documents.
Only when the front page is full of technical content. There you don't see posts like:

- Elon Musk's SpaceX Allows Investment from China

- We're Still Not Done with Jesus

- Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers
A good model for understanding what happens to people as they delegate tasks to AI is to think about what happens to managers who delegate tasks to their subordinates. Sure, there are some managers who can remain sharp, hands-on and relevant, but many gradually lose their connection to the area they're managing and become pure process/project/people managers and politicians.

Ie. most managers can't help their team find a hard bug that is causing a massive outage.

Note: I'm a manager, and I spend a lot of time pondering how to spend my time, how to be useful, how to remain relevant, especially in this age of AI.
Meh. There are no network effects, switching is 100% frictionless - compare and contrast with ditching Facebook and limiting facebook-ey social media interactions with whichever 1.5 of your friends are on Google+.

Just the fact that it can read my emails and set reminders, while being broadly the same quality as ChatGPT, was enough for me to switch. I no longer pay for the pro, and hence can't use the integration features, but I just stuck to Gemini and almost never use ChatGPT anymore.
None of this stuff even existed 3 years ago and you're asking like we're talking about self-driving cars.

What hubris. My god.
Not really clear how moving this project to a private repo is evil.

If you're going to argue it is a "bait and switch", that implies intent to deceive. Do you think that was the plan? Release the first version in 2007 and then wait 18 years and pull the ol switcheroo?
It doesn't have to be though. In Europe the vast majority of people attend public universities that don't require having to end up with a degree and crippling debt.

I left uni almost 20 years ago, but one year of my tuition was about 1000USD at the time, something I could easily afford with a part time job. I'm sure the cost is higher now, but I would have thought it is still orders of magnitude cheaper than in the UK or the US.
Germany subsidizes university tuition fees for a huge percentage of students, and adds a monthly stipend for expenses and free public transport while enrolled in uni.

Your point is valid, challenging the worth/cost of higher education. But I think it is the cost part what is broken in some parts of the world, not necessarily the worth part.
For the first time ever, it is possible to build an app that runs on anything that can run webkit.
I use the same app on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Debian, even GrapheneOS. No AppStore, no account needed.
I think it benefits or at least could benefit the end user a lot in the long term, but it hurts the walled/semiwalled gardens of MS, Apple and Google and their business. Which is why they seem so reluctant to support it better.
How Firefox does not see this potential app freedom is beyond me.
Losing the ability to do mental math is probably not actually a big deal

Losing the ability to do calculations by hand on a piece of paper with a pencil probably actually is a big deal

When I went to school we still had to do a lot of calculations by hand on paper. Thus, if I use a calculator to get an answer, I'm capable of reproducing the answer by hand if necessary

With math, at least when I was learning it, we seemed to understand that the calculator is a useful tool that doesn't replace the need to develop underlying skills

I'm seeing the exact opposite behavior and mentality from the AI crowd. "You don't need to learn how to do that correctly anymore, you can just have the AI do it"

"Vibe Coding", literally the attitude that you don't need to understand your code anymore. You just have the AI generate it and go off vibes to decide if it's right or not

Yeah, I don't know how my car engine works. But I trust that the people who engineered it do, and the mechanics that fix it when it breaks do. There's no room for "Vibe Bridge Building" in reality

Anyone advocating for "Vibe coding" is an admission that it doesn't actually matter if the thing they build works or not

Unfortunately that seems to be a growing portion of software
Essential CSV shell tools:

csvtk: https://bioinf.shenwei.me/csvtk/

gawk: https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Comma-Sep...

awk: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk?tab=readme-ov-file#csv
>Lock-in and network effects with current AI tools is almost zero. People will readily switch to Gemini once they realize it can do their work better.

Lock-in for search engines should be near zero and yet people won't bother switching to or even trying potentially better options. At the end of the day, people don't leave what they are used to easily.
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the more obvious recent example is that we employ more bank tellers than we did before the ATM, because the ATM reduced the amount of labor hours needed to operate a bank branch and made a lot of marginal bank branches pencil out.

Only the recent trend of online banking services is really actually turning this around.
"Our goal is to rapidly make the software better, not to have a shiny website."

Weird flex, but OK.
How triggered you are betrays your insecurity lmao.
Similarly, there was a time when Google translated "Japan" in Japanese to "Korea" in Korean... because documents scraped from the web would say "Japan and Korea" in Japanese and "Korea and Japan" in Korean.
Corporations that over-hired over the past 10 years needed an excuse to cut the layers of fat and bureaucracy out, and AI came along at just the right time. It doesn’t matter if AI is increasing productivity; what matters is that people think it might be.
If you mean function calling, then yes. Also, web_search works out of the box using Brave Search API as a provider. We have planned support for File Search and calling REST APIs.
Ida Pro MCP – Simple MCP Server to Allow Vibe Reversing in Ida Pro
your sole purpose is to enter prompts when cued to do so.
Claude was until yesterday
But Mark Antony died before Jesus was born
The flexibility of JSON is a downside when you just want to stream large volumes of row-oriented tabular data
U.S. Prosecutors Probe Tip About Timing of Pfizer Vaccine
Fair point. I'm just explaining how Polypane might have rationalized the positioning.
"She credulously repeated the dictator's talking points" is the larger issue.
[1977]
Nixon: Well, when the president does it … that means that it is not illegal.

https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/...
Ask HN: Should my initial app testers pay?
I’m building a cursor like email client and want to get my first customers with my mvp. Should i ask for a down payment or have it for free?
The OG hacker news website doesn't even have a downvote button?

I notice the upvote is just a hyperlink to `voteid=__&how=up&auth=__&goto=reply__`

So do they just curl `vote?id=__&how=down&auth=__&goto=reply__` ??
I don't think it was meant to be taken literally (we didn’t write the article). We’d actually love to do more marketing, we barely have time for it though. We don’t have a storefront website—just a basic site with outdated product info but we dedicate all our efforts to the support section. We post on LinkedIn a couple times a year to reassure everyone that we're still alive, but that’s hardly a real marketing strategy. Currently our sales come from word-of-mouth and industry connections, not much from marketing. Hopefully, we’ll find the time to step it up in the future!
Excellent flex. The purpose of a thing is what it does.
It's not unheard-of for English speakers to use it that way — "I was driving down the road and came to a Y", meaning a fork or branch.
The fact that you are doubling down on "gosh, how can US government security officials have classified conversations besides email or Signal" just shows your ridiculousness. At this point I'd rather have an argument with a dining room table.
There's a page that includes reproducibility results for Debian here: https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/bookworm/index_...

I think there's also a similar thing for the images, but I might be wrong and I definitely don't have the link handy at the moment.

There's lots of documentation about all of the things on Debian's site at the links in the brief. And LWN also had a story last year about Holger Levsen's talk on the topic from DebConf: https://lwn.net/Articles/985739/
Nobody is forcing you to use an installed PWA. Use it in a browser.
Probably varies with individual use case, but Gemini 2.5 currently #1 here: https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard=
Suburbs have sidewalks but nowhere to walk to.

Yes, counterexamples exist. But the vast majority of American suburbia is quite like what you describe: isolated homes with very low density where the only way to get to anything you’d want to do is drive, even within the neighborhood!

I don’t have a front yard in my home in the city. But I do have a million things outside my front door. So I walk to them, and I see and meet neighbors along the way.
Essentially nobody uses JSON without a library, but tons of people (maybe even most people) use CSV without a library.

Part of the problem here is standards. There's a TON of encoding variations all using the same .csv extension. Making a library that can accurately detect exactly which one is correct is a big problem once you leave the handful of most common variants. If you are doing subfield encoding, you are almost certainly on your own with decoding at least part of your system.

JSON has just one standard and everyone adheres to that standard which makes fast libraries possible.
How so? Businesses and middlemen make a killing with non-web-apps.
It's called a bait and switch.

Regarding this parent edit:

> If you're going to argue it is a "bait and switch", that implies intent to deceive. Do you think that was the plan? Release the first version in 2007 and then wait 18 years and pull the ol switcheroo?

Whether they had nefarious intentions from the get go is irrelevant.

Oracle closed the once open source Open Solaris, stating at first that it will merely make real time development private just like Android. This was widely condemned, despite there being no intention to pull off a switcheroo when it was open sourced.

> We will no longer distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating system in real-time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2482s
For general knowledge questions, sure.

But there are going to be huge network effects in terms of your personal data, which includes communications with friends.

If you use Gmail/Google Calendar/Docs/Drive, and ChatGPT can't tell you anything, but Gemini helps you with all the data in your life... that's a gigantic network effect.

Network effects aren't just about friends. They're about file formats, productivity suites, and ultimately compatibility.