skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than ever modern interviews are pointless. I just finished an SRE technical interview where I had to efficiently solve a problem around maximizing profit in a theoretical market setting. I’m guessing it was just a reframed leet code question.
Yet not moments earlier they were talking about their needs with increasing visibility, improving deployment times, etc. At some point this has to break, right? If the article indicates anything, it’s exactly those high level analytical skills they should be testing. I almost think allowing AI would be even better because it allows a conversation about what it got wrong, where it can be improved or is not applicable, etc.
Is Apple's Spending on TV+ Content a 'Loss' or a 'Cost'?
Threatened by what?
But i think the states should take responsibility of the casualties of the wars they started.
The people seeking shelter here wouldnt knock on our door if foreign people funding their rebel groups or religious extremists.
Ever wonder why they got so many weapons and ammo? Russia and china was also interfering there so they grab the assets.
We provided airbases and barracks for the us-army, time to cash in the rent for so many years.
We dont have to take the risk getting our cities bombed because our lords and saviours found it funny to start a war in a foreign country...
I would suggest Trump should seek another country housing his war gear...
NO_NEW_PRIVS is quite irritating in a lot of contexts, since it breaks distant dependencies. For example, you can't run `ping`, so good luck debugging your networking!
Yeah, that's not happening. Summarily burning down bridges is a great way to stop people from mooching off you, but that's because they now know they can't rely on you to be a stable foundation.

If they can't trust us not to break our previous promises, why in the world would they trust us with their national security-critical business?
Basically making more debt that the future generations will have to pay? The end result will be the same. These are just financial tricks, money can be created out of thin air but not resources, energy, etc.
Exploring a Conversational AI Solution for Loneliness
Hi HN,

I recently shared my conversational AI journaling app (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43447217), a tool designed to help people reflect and process their thoughts through dialogue. Now, I’ve been thinking about broader ways conversational AI could make a difference.

Loneliness is more common than ever—many people don’t have a single close friend (12% of Americans from a 2021 survey - https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-american-friendship-change-challenges-and-loss/), while others struggle to express themselves freely, held back by fear of judgment or social pressures. Building on the journaling concept, I’m exploring whether AI could provide a safe space for open conversation—a place to speak your mind without fear of being misunderstood.

This isn’t about replacing real relationships or creating an AI companion for escapism. Instead, I’m picturing a virtual friend that listens, engages with your interests, and helps you build confidence—while gently nudging you toward real-life social interactions.

I’d love your input:
How can we design AI that supports human connection rather than replaces it?
What features would make it a bridge to real-world relationships rather than a retreat?
Does a tool like this resonate with you?

If these ideas interest you, I’d love to collaborate with early users to shape something truly meaningful, please reach out!
Are you actually condoning this practice?

Speeding is a choice, one that's extremely easy to change, and it ultimately an exceedingly trivial matter.

You are born with your genetics, and you can’t change them. You are them. They will likely impact how and you die. All you can do is be aware of them so you can try to be proactive.

So there’s really no comparison between that and voluntarily driving a car too fast

If that’s genuinely how it worked, where the more health problems you are at risk for, the more money you have to pay, this would result in the people who already have the shittiest stuff to deal with in their lives having that compounded by also having to pay more than everybody else.

Not sure what more needs to be said, but if there is anyone out there who is unconvinced, I probably won’t be inviting them to dinner parties anytime soon
2021 data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control:

Bulgaria and Croatia had the highest rates of trichinellosis at 0.42 cases per 100,000 population, accounting for 58% of all cases reported in 2021. Taking those two countries gether and extrapolateing to whole US population of 3400 hundred thousand (340 million) would be 1428 cases - definitely much higher that <20, which would be something like 0.0002 per 100,000.

The total number of reported infections in 2021 was 79 cases for the whole European Union / European Economic Area was 79 cases for a total population of 4500 hundred thousand (450 million), an infection rate of 0.02 cases per 100,000.

Discounting the two worst countries would reduce the number to about 40 cases per 4500 hundred thousand population would bring the rate of infection to something like 0.008 - not entirely too far from the US.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/AER...
The most important part is to have a standard, which doesn't need to be perfect. On argument parsing, I actually think the GNU way is the best so far. I have seen various deviations from GNU and I personally regard all of them inferior.
To clarify: OpenSpot doesn’t have a feed, followers, or any social mechanics. There’s no algorithm pushing content or encouraging endless posting.
You can succeed despite poor taste, but that doesn't make your taste any less poor.
> all on your profile, not for public engagement farming.

The spammers, the SEO farmers, the porn merchants won't care.

A link is a link.

I've been tackling spam for 15+ years and you will get hit. I wish it were not the case, but it is. Expect it.
The M-series of chips is quite possibly the most universally beloved thing Apple has done in a decade.
First world wages go to cover higher rents.

Which is why China is beating America because too much expenditure goes on rents and by rents I don't mean building rents, but the whole chain of bodies that take the cream of the top of everything that is produced, even before the production starts.
> When there's no toll I can drive right onto as many roads as I want and never pay a dime. Sure, my car isn't free, but that's a sunk cost.

Do you somehow have access to free fuel or electricity?

> Housing? Doesn't matter if it's San Francisco or Iowa, if I want a place to rest for a night I need to pay.

You want to ignore the fixed cost of owning a car but not the fixed cost of owning a home?
Exclude every search engine?
Hopefully this is raw. Too much data is hidden behind obfuscated layers of "corrections"
Interesting, i already do something similar and never had a chance to check if it really works. Here is my code:

var buffer = dm.audio.createBuffer(1, 1, dm.samplerate);
var source = dm.audio.createBufferSource();

source.buffer = buffer;
source.connect(dm.audio.destination);

if (source.start)
{
source.start(0);
} else
{
source.noteOn(0);
}
Firefox (@Android) blocked it.
Sure thing! Adding to todo list.
this could have happened if he tried to get this worked out behind closed doors. doing this shit he’s doing it would be a political suicide for any country to go along with it. if our former allies are no longer such, they won’t come to US to pay for shit - they will go elsewhere
There's a login, but also if you aren't https, you're going to be seriously de-ranked by search engines like Google.
Vibe coding is now a skill requirement for real, actual jobs but, thankfully I guess, no place I want to work (yet). The other day I saw a YC24 company in the "financial services industry" with a "vibe coder position". A prerequisite for the position was at least 50% of your current code being generated by AI; vibe-coding experience was "non-negotiable". Traditional programmers need not apply. And you'd better be ready to grind, 12 hours a day up to 7 days a week. It pays up to $120,000 a year plus squat for equity and relocation to San Francisco is required. That's like, McDonald's money in San Francisco, so guess they figure running a vibe-coding sweatshop is a huge savings for them.

Oh, and the cherry on top? The "financial service" this startup provides? Automated robocalls demanding money from debtors on behalf of debt collectors.

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/domu-technology-inc/jo...

YC has entered its villain arc.
> So I built OpenSpot: a public, curated platform where you can showcase who you are — with video, audio, and proof of your work. No endless feeds. No humblebrags. Just real people open to new opportunities

You can already do this in many places and it still will be more noise than signal.

This pitch seems more aimed at solving a want from the type of companies that want a one way interview (film yourself telling us who you are) to save on resources than anything else.

It's even worse when you consider that in the word of LLMs they'll still want to parse those automatically into recommendation and filter systems.

I don't think you'll really love our thoughts. Heh.
A note on LibGen and the unauthorized use of our authors' work
Love this. Bookmarked - going to import some of the patterns into Ableton later.
My friend makes a sort of artistic twine from the stems.

For some odd reason that has made me much happier to see a lawn full of dandelion flowers
Show HN: Python tool that scrapes email addresses from GitHub commits
Just wanted to show off this little Python script I made for viewing email addresses from Github commits. This makes it much easier than manually sorting through every commit someone has made to different projects.
A mistaken belief; an unsound argument.
Typedeffing away pointers means I don't know when copying or passing something if it's by value or by reference.
Ok, if you want it spelt out, the logic would be something we all learnt in grade school. The only language bullies understand are consequences. Putin annexed part of another sovereign country in 2014 and faced no consequences. He therefore launched a full on occupation of the same country in 2022.

Also, there is no need for ad hominem attacks. Contrary to what you might think, they don't actually serve any purpose in putting your point across.
We're not even to fun part yet - when vibe coding just becomes "coding" and we have to specify "real coding" to mean coding.

After that we can expect it to simultaneously mean its opposite too, literally.
serious question... How does that not help? The USD is a stable currency because we have f35's and the most powerful military in the world. How does Germany spending over the next 10 years, what we spend a year change that? Our ally is stronger because trump has been pressuring europe to invest more in military, why does that not increase our military capability now that our allies are a bit stronger?
It’s an optical illusion. Probably because the human eye tries to interpret stars/galaxies of different brightness classes as sitting on different layers, and the speed perception is influenced by brightness (dimmer stars may slightly lag behind in human perception). It’s likely reinforced by the fact that the speed on the “canvas” isn’t uniform (the dots move faster the farer away they are from the center).
I had to regenerate ssl cert, give it some time and try again.
Its not about the product or features any more - LinkedIn wins because of its network.
Does anyone know if it supports networked play (eg fleet operations or even ship vs ship)?
It was definitely not clear to me that you just wanted to add words. I took you as meaning that you wanted the headline to be "Feral pig must transmits brucellosis", which would be significantly less clear.
Sounds what people ar looking for is a "professionals only" feed where average Joe has nothing to say. I honestly don't know enough about social media to say whether that's realistic. All i can think about is YouTube Community but with a set limit of subs/views
I recently stopped using Pi-hole. I honestly think it’s great, but it just breaks too many websites in really subtle ways. With DNS caching it’s tricky to troubleshoot too.
It all depends on what you want.

If 3/k of your items are about soccer or 2/k are about cryptocurrency then you get 3 and 2 clusters for them respectively whereas on some level you might want 1 cluster for each of them and also want one cluster for a topic which with prevalence 1/3k. On the other hand, having 2 clusters for a topic with 2/k could be seen as fair on another level... one way or the other I appreciate the system not having too many parameters and not being too sensitive to those parameters and I'd expect it to do roughly the right thing if k is set a little too high.

Early one I had a fight with the system where it kept showing me articles about soccer despite hating soccer because I had roughly 1/k articles about soccer (an RSS feed from The Guardian!). I wound up thinking a lot about feature engineering for sports and started reading soccer articles in detail and pretty soon I was amazed by games that were 0-1 and an own goal or that went 8-0 and pretty soon I became one of those people who is watching soccer at 9am on Saturday.

Related to that is the question of “should it show me more articles from clusters that I like better?” which defeats the point of diversity but certainly would improve most quality metrics (though I’d get sick of arXiv papers about recommender systems, which was most of what I got when k=1 in the beginning, and would be screaming for articles about cricket or something instead.)

I haven’t done a lot of work to try to improve that system because I like the feed it makes already and I’m not sure what to optimize to make it better. If it has a weakness it is that it has a lot of latency but there are certain things like sports articles and Ken Shiriff’s blog which are more timely and I’d like a way for some articles to “jump the line” without seeing too many of those articles overall…. But I’m not sure how to quantify what success is.
> Engelbart's demo also featured an input device known as the keyset, but unlike his other innovations, the keyset failed to catch on.

Chording keyboards were popular among the "wearable computing" researchers (who then went on to work on things like Google Glass). For example, the Twiddler.

One advantage of them is that you only need one hand to operate it.

And some designs mean you can simultaneously hold it with that same hand, without a steady surface.
Show HN: Vibe coding your project? This will save you
Pay As You Code exists to support the vibe coding devs that are shipping fast, iterating faster, and don’t want blockers slowing the flow.

It’s a micro-consulting platform where you can get expert help on demand through the feature. Whether hacking on a side project, pushing features for a startup, or exploring something weird with AI agents or LLMs—you can instantly tap into high-signal advice from engineers who’ve done it before.

Who it's for:
Solo builders & indie hackers who don’t want to hire but need help now.

Startup teams push fast and need outside context on complex choices.

Expert devs looking to earn from their knowledge without grinding content.

Would love your feedback, and feature requests, or if you want to try it out. I'm giving discounts if you book a call.
Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than
> Nah, the article is generalizing from a single sample of current state, ignoring the larger trajectory (that, for AI coding, went from sci-fi to reality in two years).

You seemed to have missed the part of the article that clearly lays out the recent progression of AI coding. You’re also refuting the arguments the article makes against the future of vibe coding, but the article doesn’t make any arguments about the future of vibe coding!

We all just end up talking past each other if no one is actually talking about the same thing.
I’m surprised Google doesn’t penalize pages such spammy ad pages.

These ads are worse than most spammy thin content ai blogs
rm has a --preserve-root option that's enabled by default, which prevents you from removing / . I wish it had a --preserve-home option too.
After a wave of AI-written slop floods the software supply chain, there will be even greater demand for 10x software engineers.
> three ways to declare a variable

FWIW Python has three (default, nonlocal, and global).

And many languages have two.
Congrats on the launch. Another big annoyance of LinkedIn is that the UI performance feels sluggish on desktop. The app kills my battery on mobile.

Had a look at your site and the carousel seems to slow down the entire site for me. Scrolling becomes janky and it's a drag to scroll down. I'm using Firefox and also tried it in a chromium based browser.

The carousel itself also jumps to the beginning when it reaches the end, i.e. it's not a seamless loop.
Trump is pursuing the only negotiations Putin could agreed for. Ukraine is losing on the battlefield, Putin does not see any reason to talk with Zelensky, as in his view, he needs to continue the war for another year and Ukraine will run out of people ready to fight. This is brutal mathematics, Ukrainian to Russian losses are 1:2, sometimes even 1:1.5, Ukraine is not able to persist with such ratio, as they have potential soldiers.

This is all Biden's fought, he was constantly afraid of "escalation" and upsetting Putin, he was delivering military help in insufficient quantities and too late. He panicked so much that during Prigozhin's Putsch (Wagner Group rebellion) he ordered CIA chief to call Putin to tell him that USA is not behind this situation. Totally idiotic move that appeased Putin that he is save and does not need to worry about "toothless West".

More, Biden (or, in fact, Blinken and Sullivan) was stopping other from helping Ukraine, he never agreed to pass Polish Mig-21 war planes, which eventually were disassembled into parts and miraculously "lost" by Polish army in the forest on the Polish-Ukrainian border and then someone miraculously found them and put back together.

Similarly he opposed passing Polish T-72 and PT-91 "Twardy" tanks to Ukraine, finally he agreed after pressure from Polish president A. Duda, when Biden visited Warsaw (see investigative journalist Zbigniew Parafianowicz book "Polska na wojnie" (Poland on the War)).

Trumps at least tries to do something except pretending military help. He might fail, obviously, but at least he started some process that could end the war at some point.
Woah, nice work dude.

I had to regenerate ssl certificate, ovh says it's done but it will probably take some time to take effect.
Safari is too good in this regard, it deletes first party cookies after 7 days, so any site you haven't used in a week it acts like it's never seen you before and is completely signed out.

As far as I know, you can't change this setting.
> The only language bullies understand are consequences. Putin annexed part of another sovereign country in 2014 and faced no consequences. He therefore launched a full on occupation of the same country in 2022.

So yesterday and the day before that were rainy, therefore we come to the conclusion that it has to rain tomorrow as well, am I right?

If only we knew a bit more about how the weather works!

> Also, there is no need for ad hominem attacks.

The "unless you are an ignorant" wasn't directed at you, I just used it to make a point.
AI is killing e.g. React Server Components and Svelte, but for different reasons.

Vibe coding doesn't care about the implementation details, so Svelte is dead.

A unified codebase might be better for humans. But a FE/BE database is better for AI, because you have a clear security boundary, separation of concerns, and well-known patterns for both individually.
That is exactly how Firefox containers work. That’s much more powerful than what the person you are responding to implied.
This is cope, fixing ai slop will just be what software engineering becomes. Its the new requirements of the job, not a failure state
See here: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid... and here: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/euclid-science-image...
LinkedIn even has Tiktok like videos (near misses, etc.). Every time I see those, I just wonder "why"?
Prevents some MITM attacks. You can also run your own TLDs where the registries are public enough.
TBD = trunk-based development
thanks for the feedback, working on this now!!
Thank you this makes it so much better!
Ok, admittedly, that's more than I expected. And hey, if they found some use cases in the embedded world, fine.

Nevertheless, it's not exactly how it was pitched. This Microkernel thing always had a "Linux is doing it wrong, we're doing it better" story behind it. They wanted to be a replacement for a general-purpose OS. That cetainly hasn't happened.
This! It always nice to get the 101st message from random recruiter that ends up in a decent job. And I must only keep my profile updated.
The Razer Blackwidow v3 works fine for me. It is pleasant and responsive to type on and gets the job done.
> bowing out or actually switching sides.

Isn't the opposite actually the case? Hegseth has called it a "division of labor." [0]

Ultimately when war breaks out with China, and a year in to that conflagration Russia (ever the opportunist) decides to take a few bites out of the Baltic states, who's going to defend Europe? The US military isn't omnipotent.

[0] https://www.defense.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/%204064...
You're welcome to be upset at the lack of peer review or details. However, I will point out that the post includes that this is deliberate. I also pointed out that the knowledge can be dangerous, which is why it wasn't expounded on.

There's some questions in the person's post that I was providing some reflection on. The truth of my comment, or any peer reviewed study for that matter, is up to the reader.

It's funny because the idea of a mental placebo requires the user to place their trust in the very same.

Have a good day.
In those cases it could be that a country needs to be small enough that it just makes sense to go into the USA market first than anywhere else.

If the country were any bigger the domestic market becomes the defacto, limiting growth....
Do you think that there is form of communication where you reach a higher understanding? Are we average Joes on HN?
Disagree. Unified frameworks are better for AI, you can cohesively build a feature with the single output of the AI and it has an easier time integrating the two.
> Most of those people are silent quitting or refusing to go back to work.

Come on, you know you can't just throw that out. Support your claim.
Some different statistics in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43439164

Particularly it looks like if you want a new home, it is harder to avoid a HOA
that's fair. on the other hand, i'd rather use a platform with higher quality people (regardless of quantity) than a platform that simply values vanity metrics. i guess it also depends what you're using linkedin for.
Many of those are setting properties, not variables.

A variable reference can lookup properties on the global object, or other objects with ‘with’
Intentionally making friends is a concept unfamiliar to me. I have a small collection of good friends, all made long in the past and deliberately maintained. Friendships are forged in shared experience and more easily when young - that's just my personal experience I know its different for others. And they cannot be primarily virtual or they wilt. I feel like if there was any sense of an intentional attempt to make friends I would push back and away. Of course your experience is different because friendships come in many forms.
I just wanted to ask if you're EU based but this answers it I guess.
I was being somewhat facetious.