skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. What OpenAI did was simple and beautiful.

Also, I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding that MCP services are plug and play. They are not. Function names and descriptions are literally prompts so it is almost certain you would need to modify the names or descriptions to add some nuances to how you want these to be called. Since MCP servers are not really meant to be extensible in that sort of way, the only other alternative is to add more context into the prompt which is not easy unless you have a tone of experience. Most of our customers fail at prompting.

The reason I like the ai-plugin.json approach is that you don't have to change the API to make the description of a function a little bit different. One day MCP might support this but it will another layer of complexities that could have been avoided with a remotely hosted JSON / YAML file.
Nah, representatives left and right see the dumbfuckery now. They just need to know their constituents see it too.

Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
There was this song from early 80s by UK band Discharge: "Free Speech for the Dumb".
It came to US when Metallica covered it in early 90s and people there though that it was praising free speech - that 'even dumb deserve free speech'.

Meanwhile the song is about empty phrase that 'free speech' is. Empty phrase.
Show HN: Log Analysis Platform for Desktop
Just launched my open source Log analytics tool designed for Desktop first use cases.

Local browser based UI with rich search interface, ability to automatically recognize common log file formats while ingesting.

Full text search through million of log lines in Milliseconds.

The backend is Go and frontend is react. Indexing and search is powered through bleve.
Would love to get feedback on use cases, design and feature improvement.
Honestly, as a guy working in open source at the time, the massive brain drain when crypto came along and young people wanted to get rich instead of solving problems was increadibly dispiriting and frustrating. Seen in comparison, the AI stuff has a much bigger application space, is building tools, and is far less frustrating to me.
The Church of Norway became independent of the State in 2017. The Church of Sweden in 2000.
I’m currently exploring this for an AI context because I haven’t found a better solution for letting K8S manage AI workloads that need direct GPU access on OSx
Yeah, I had more luck with just giving an ai the openapi spec and letting it figure everything out. I like a lot about MCP (structure, tool guidance, etc), but couldn't it just have been a REST API and a webserver?
I see my mistake, thank you!

But also I have this view of Google as largely apathetic to its users and the things it creates, but maybe more to the point the things it created and then destroyed.

I may have misunderstood but I still feel like I have a valid take.
What is the revenue plan for 99% of open source library authors?
According to the GDPR enforcement tracker link helpfully provided by the sibling commenter, we'll be lucky to see a ~1% fine of the 2024 revenue of Oracle. That's assuming that the fine issued is in the top 5 GDPR fines ever issued. Even 4%, the cited higher maximum on your link, is kind of peanuts (not sure this breach would even qualify for the "higher maximum", as I'm unfamiliar with the laws, so it could be a maximum of 2% if counted as a "standard maximum").

To me, that's still in the "cost of doing business" territory, not the "punishment" territory.
Haha, so that's the first derivative of goalpost position. You could take the derivative of that to see if the rate of change is speeding up or slowing.
The second law adds ability to replace parking spaces with ADU's, which could be useful even in more denser metro areas.
Indeed, but here "re-identification" generally means the sort of attack where you have an aggregated genomic dataset, and you already have access to full genomic data for a target individual, and you use the genomic dataset to infer something about that target that you didn't know, like whether or not they participated in that study. Not to entirely minimize this sort of attack, but the NIH decided it was a sufficiently low risk that most of the sorts of datasets it applies to (like GWAS) are routinely shared with no access controls.
This is good to know, but we should note that humans choose also.
India’s ISRO is definitely a serious player.
I dunno, microcontrollers could help in this zombie apocalypse world we're imagining.

I would think even in small scale having things like a 3d printers, CNC machines, networked video surveillance and alarm systems, solar arrays etc would be very beneficial.

Absolutely though the top priorities would be much simpler things though like food, clean water and shelter.
Timestamps, timestamps, absolute paths (i.e., differences between building /src versus /home/Cort3z/source), timestamps, file inode numbering ("for file in directory" defaults to inode order rather than alphabetical order in many languages, and that means it's effectively pseudorandom), more timestamps, using random data in your build process (e.g., embedding a generated private key, or signing something), timestamps, and accidental nondeterminism within the compiler.

By far the most prevalent source of nondeterminism is timestamps, especially since timestamps crop up in file formats you don't expect (e.g., running gzip stuffs a timestamp in its output for who knows what reason). After that, it's the two big filesystem issues (absolute paths and directory iteration nondeterminism), and then it's basically a long tail of individual issues that affect but one or two packages.
> At a high level, the request format and endpoints.

I think we fundamentally disagree on what "request format" means in context of a large language model.
This is rather timely—I started playing with PDCurses after being inspired by Zed Shaw’s “Rogue is the Best Project”. It has been an interesting experience
Is that the idea behind Tails OS? It runs from removable media and disappears when ejected?
I'd suggest you look at Aporoval Voting as a simpler solution than Ranked Choice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_voting
None. Kind of like the difference of using a REST api or inventing your own api format. Both will work. One is standard.
These are not "MAGA talking points." I speak my own opinions. And they come from bringing a modicum of critical thinking to a situation where people (including the MAGAs, I might add, who want to scare people away) are trying to get you to catastrophize. And like I said, the only source of this we will ever have is a very biased one whose story is as untrustworthy as Alex Jones' would be.

Most of these CBP agents are the same people who had the job 6 months ago. And 6 months ago, people who lied (possibly by omission) on visa applications largely got exactly this treatment. The news just didn't report on it.
Oh, it’s the new HATEOAS? A pluggable framework for automatic discoverability of HTTP APIs is incredibly useful, and not just for AI :)
This again requires Java Virtual Machine to be installed on the system, which most normal user don't have and won't install.
I don't understand why CSV became a thing when TSV, or a format using the nowadays weird ASCII control characters like start/end of text, start of heading, horizontal/vertical tab, file/group/record/unit separator.

It seems many possible designs would've avoided the quoting chaos and made parsing sort of trivial.
"Medical (vibe) Coding"

Oh lord, that is a phrase I did not need to think about today
For myself, I think it's just as much how to word things properly to most effectively get your point across, as it is to be ready if your report has some kind of backlash or isn't seen the way you meant it. You need to be mentally prepared to handle the response you get back, even if it's no response at all after you spent many hours putting a report together and worrying about how to make it just right. Obviously this will change depending on how important what you're reporting on is, and whether your work contributed to that report's findings.
In China WeChat is the dominant messaging platform, SMS is only used for delivery notifications, spam, etc.
1. it makes tool discovery and use happen elsewhere so programs become more portable

2. it standardizes the method so every LLM doesn't need to do it differently

3. it creates a space for further shared development beyond tool use and discovery

4. it begins to open up hosted tool usage across LLMs for publicly hosted tools

5. for better or worse, it continues to drive the opinion that 'everything is a tool' so that even more functionality like memory and web searching can be developed across different LLMs

6. it offers a standard way to set up persistent connections to things like databases instead of handling them ad-hoc inside of each LLM or library

If you are looking for anything more, you won't find it. This just standardizes the existing tool use / function calling concept while adding minimal overhead. People shouldn't be booing this so much, but nor should they be dramatically cheering it.
My wife and I were in Greece while the inhabitants were angry at Germany for the freshly introduced austerity measures. We sometimes spoke Flemish to each other, which for them sounded like German. We got some anger directed at us a few times from random people around us, and a shopkeeper stormed outside and threatened us with violence, completely unprovoked . We were very confused, we didn't know what we were doing wrong, and never saw that on previous visits. When our penny finally dropped and we made clear everywhere we were from Belgium, not Germany, the mood lightened considerably and we got apologies.

It might not be wise to loudly declare yourself American in the EU or Canada right now.
Surprisingly, there aren't any, unless you go doom-scroll the celebrity stories. The only thing I get is an occasional IAP upsell to their premium features.
Sometimes "ROI" isn't measurable. What's the "ROI" of a well rounded populus that gets along and doesn't want to kill each other? What's the "ROI" of creating beautiful works of art, or producing great culture? What's the "ROI" of happiness?

Sometimes the purpose of central government is to make a negative ROI into a positive one, because there are greater purpose than the return
Skills will more or less be the same. Communication skills may be slightly more important depending on people's understanding of whatever language is used.

The biggest issue will be cultural. Don't be a workaholic. Don't live to work. Don't bring that culture here. It is fine if you like to work, but don't project that as expectations on others.

Source: I'm US person who moved to Europe. I've worked for US companies as well as global and European companies.
Which pet owner doesn’t have 3 days of food in store though? That’s not really something you need to specifically stockpile because at least the cat and dog owners I know always have huge bags of food which last many weeks.

So for the humans, you don’t need any food, and for the pets, you probably have it anyways.

(And also, some pets are arguably low-priority in a real war situation. Cats and dogs maybe not, but stuff like guinea pigs might be.)
Private, locally running AI notetaker
So I'm tired of existing AI notetakers. Building my own. Key ideas:

Your device only - All recordings stored on your device.
Your choice of LLM - use any preferred LLM.
Your existing workflow - easy connect to existing tools like Notion, Slack, etc..

Any thoughts? Check the landing, drop a comment!
>You'll never escape it.

I see what you did there.
Nix can also set it to things other than 0; I think my favorite is to set it by the time of the commit from which you're building.
Politically stable, relatively low corruption and economical acceptable. They are doing many things well relative to the rest of Africa. On the other hand, 30% of their women have HIV.
And if we needed more, here's Rubio calling it a "big mistake".

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/politics/rubio-signal-...
I'm sure there are dozens of people in Germany who actively prefer iMessage but I haven't met one yet. Whatsapp achieved pretty much total market capture here back when SMS still were costly and the network effects that arose from that are among the strongest I've ever seen. I'm pretty sure if someone was to do a survey, almost everyone would say Messages is for SMS only and I think most of them wouldn't know it can do more than that.
The other one is flagged.
The good thing to note is that (AFAIK) MCP is intended to be a collaborative and industry-wide effort. Whereas plugins was OpenAI-specific.

So, hopefully, we can contribute and help direct the development! I think this dialogue is helpful and I'm hoping the creators respond via GitHub or otherwise.
Chaordic Age Organizations – Dee W Hock
Maybe a lot, sure. But at least the top 10% are elite at their craft. DeepMind, Google Brain, the TPU people, the datacenter people, etc.

Sadly, Pichai is firing Core teams in USA and moving them to India.
Sadistic police state masquerading as something else since they have elections.
I hear even the US government trusts Signal
The weird thing is, why is that the case?

I'm trying to think of a mobile OS feature addition that has made me say "I need to upgrade my phone" and it just hasn't happened recently. It's more like, damn it, the dastardly thing stopped receiving security updates and now I have to replace it for no good reason.

Isn't Android done yet? What further development is required that couldn't be done by the community?
Putin's Speech at the Munich Conference on Security Policy (2007)
Is that extension publicly available?
According to https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma... iPhone also has > 50% market share in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia and Japan. FWIW I live in Australia and most group chats are via WhatsApp vs SMS/iMessage.
Nonsensical take. Quick question: What scarce resource is it that knowledge workers hoard? If a knowledge worker acquires knowledge does that mean they've reduced the pool of knowledge available to others? It's not at all the same as hoarding capital or property, is it? Anyway, all labor is knowledge work. The plumber has specialized knowledge that the software engineer does not, and we all sell our bodies and minds.
> Their marketing around how good their hardware is for AI is total BS.

What are you comparing it to, and what do you consider "edge computing"? iPhone vs Samsung benchmarks show a massive difference. Macbook shows great performance, when compared to other notebooks with battery lives longer than 30 minutes. If you're comparing to a $1k gaming GPU, with an order of magnitude more power usage, then sure, things fall apart. The definition of "edge computing" being "can run > 4gb models locally" is pretty new. Who do you see as doing better?
Show HN: AI Rankings – See the Fastest Growing AI Tools Today by Web Usage
I built AI Rankings to track the hottest AI tools using actual internet traffic. It's a bit like a SensorTower, but for AI.

It works by analyzing billions of daily web requests from millions of users worldwide. We only include domains in the global top 1 million, so every tool listed is already getting serious traffic and attention. Rankings update daily, showing real usage - not just social hype.

Use it to:

- Discover breakout ai tools early

- Track growth over time (24h, 30d, 90d trends)

- Cut through noise and spot what’s actually getting used

I built it because I was tired of relying on launch tweets and upvotes to guess what AI tools are actually worth using. I wanted hard usage data!

Would love feedback or ideas.
Let's not flirt with false equivalences. I've seen languages that do error handling worse than Go. I've also seen languages that do better.
The Rise of Vibe Coding
SEC Fact Sheet: Public Company Cybersecurity Disclosures; Final Rules - https://www.sec.gov/files/33-11216-fact-sheet.pdf
> SpaceX didn't spend an absurd amount of money getting Falcon 9 to where it is

That's part of the genius of SpaceX's approach, which culminated in achieving what no one else has achieved on a comparatively shoestring budget.

Credit where it's due: Elon Musk (a) comprehended enough of the technical challenge to ask great questions (and see through BS answers), (b) set and maintained a ruthlessly efficient operational vision, (c) repeatedly took existential financial risks to achieve the next milestone, and (d) set a company vision that motivated people to work extremely hard to achieve what was previously impossible, and (e) worked his butt off solving problem after problem alongside employees.

Love or hate him, very few leaders have ever existed who led companies to accomplish similar feats.
Bravo, well done. And big ups for sharing!
Great, your work on open-source SLM are much appreciated ! (btw: seems like the google page does not respect the theme device "auto" setting)
The integrity APIs are horrible. Why can you not send RCS messages from a rooted phone or use the ChatGPT app?
My point was that Republicans are hypocritical and will happily throw "core" beliefs down the drain if "those nasty other people" start taking advantage of them.

I lived in Western Pennsylvania during Reagan's terms of office--I assure you that my beefs with his governance are WAY more substantive than a stupid issue like gun control.
Looks great! Bookmarked so I can play around with it later.
This would be wholly illegal, but companies could screen candidates prior to extending offers to them. After they get your primary details and history, they can look you up in the gene database. They could look for a whole host of genetic markers, including but not limited to:

- Markers like ADHD and other neurodivergence and performance signals

- Disease likelihoods to reduce their insurance burden. Cardiovascular, cancer, neurodegeneration, etc.

- Markers for intelligence and tenacity. Personality type. Conversely, dishonesty, neuroticism, etc.

They could screen for literally any hypothetical condition that could in theory impact performance, risk, cost, etc. By excluding candidates with "low genetic scores", they might think they're saving margin.

There is a ton of literature beyond what 23andMe is legally allowed to report on with respect to the SNP data they collect. These studies report on a wide range of phenotypical states and behaviors that could impact job performance. The stack of research is deep.

> And what’s the scam angle when the DNA is known?

Look for any markers that indicate IQ, agreeableness, neurodegeneration, schizophrenia, personality type, etc. It gives scammers a hypothetically better hit rate.

And again, they don't need your DNA to do this. Just a relative's.
Well, we don't. it's just nice that the American agents in the pre-clearance area are outnumbered and surrounded by Canadians.
I don't understand how the invisibility makes it "easier" for people who aren't Google or GMS subscribers. You could have exactly the same workflow and merge structure and still let the commits be public.

It sounds like corporate bullshit for "better for us but we don't want to say it that way so we'll veil it with a euphemism."
Why remove it? It doesn’t change what they say.
This is a good write-up of the issue. To see where this craziness could have led, see the C++ overload resolution logic, which isn't the exact same problem but does smell the same: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/overload_resoluti...
Is what you are insinuating that the only licensing model for independent MCP authors is open source? Are you assuming that MCPs are only viable as free (as in beer) projects?

I feel like software license and business revenue models are only very loosely correlated. I guess if you are assuming there is no money at all to be made in MCP then my question wouldn't make sense.
Zorin is moving to Brave, a Chromium browser. So, no containers in the stock browser. Download Firefox to restore functionality.

Past that, what's the state of Brave?

As of today, Brave supports manifest v2 and can run uncrippled ublock origin. That's good.

However, bringing up ublock+brave in the same paragraph invariably draws responses about Brave having Brave's own-not-ublock-origin ad blocker!

Yes but I also block things that aren't ads - like the endless hamfisted attempts to cram AI features into my browsing experience.

I have Brave running on this desktop (1 of my 5). It's mostly to run a Google login in isolation. I continually find myself reaching for ublock origin.

What I can say about Brave is it isn't Opera or Edge.
So true. I think most people don't realise how hard it is really to build a engine that works.
Agreed, you put it well. It's really hard to develop a work ethic or learn how to study properly so late.

You lack all the foundational habits and are just used things working out naturally. There are zero consequences, only positive outcomes despite doing the bare minimum. And then it all goes to shit.
It’s never too late, glad to see feature work that gets attention.

Hopefully they keep building from here & do full PWA and then from there to an answer to Electron!
Responding to person with non-company email.. eek.
Given a land area of 510 million km², in the worst case, that's a sudden event producing 14 bodies per km², about 25 meters from one body to the next. If I were one of a small number of survivors in that situation, I'd dig a mass grave, dump 14 bodies into it, and enjoy my nice, sanitary square kilometer all by myself. Probably boil the water from the well. Until I die of starvation because I don't know how to hunt, or from an infected wound, or something.

In more plausible cases, we're talking about a population collapse where the deaths are either concentrated in cities, spread out over several years, or both. If they're concentrated in cities, maybe avoid the cities for three to six months until they finish rotting. If they're spread out over several years, those who die later will be able to bury those who die earlier; it only takes a few man-hours of labor to dig a grave.
According to [0], TI were launching new graphic calculators with Z80s as late as 2016 - the TI-84 Plus CE-T Python edition (which is still available on Amazon UK[1][2]!)

Not a hugely compelling argument for "the z80 is still a popular microcontroller", mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Texas_Instrument...

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Texas-Instruments-TI-84-CE-T-Python...

[2] Mild cheating going on though because it runs the Python on an ARM copro.
It’s actually the Jevons paradox, non possessive, named for William Stanley Jevons. I thought it was possessive too because many people write it that way.
That kid stated he tried to contact ISIS, had pledged allegiance to the current ISIS leader, expressed a desire to be an ISIS recruiter, and to build and detonate a bomb at a government building. (June 2021).

It looks like he was searched on 6 October 2021 and granted bail on 8 October.

I don't know what the conditions of his bail were, but when it was revoked in June 2022, his

Google searches involved topics such as “10 ways to cover up a murder”, “how to murder”, “16 steps to kill someone and not get caught” and references to a schoolteacher.

https://www.childrenscourt.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-01/Application%20for%20bail%20by%20Carrick%20%28a%20pseudonym%29%20%5B2022%5D%20VChC%204.pdf
The first tweet I linked to is Mark Rober's unedited video of the crash. The second tweet I linked to is a video of someone trying to reproduce the Wile E. Coyote test. Unless you think the videos are faked (one of which was posted by Mark Rober), I'm not sure what objection you're making.
Will they still push all the native commits once they release?

I think it's OK if they do the dev internally, but if they just release source snapshots and we lose visibility of the dev process that occurred to get there, that will be a big loss.