skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think saying “he used to be worse” is a good defence. Has he gotten better? Yes. Is his email gone professional? No.

I think you’re wrong about the end, it’s an unnecessary personal attack that’s only purpose is to insult and/or to make Linus feel better. If you remove the last two or three paragraphs it’s a perfectly fine constructive response. With them, it’s a shitty, unnecessary escalation.
As an investor (smallish): I think Alphabet/Google can do much better with a CEO who isn't Sundar.

Also: Generally: Do consider investing in companies that run services where you feel compelled to subscribe (like Youtube Premium and previously Netflix).
What experts?
That is how it works in Chrome, right? Or am I going insane? When I open a web app I made with Chrome, there's a small icon in the top right of my window that opens the extensions dropdown.
Successful politicians have, throughout history, been above-average when it comes to working the media to their advantage.
If you’ve seen Star Trek the Original Series it shows you precisely how much humans are into humanoid subspecies. They could be green for all a dude who hasn’t seen a woman in a week could care!
He mentions what he used here, https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/26/notes/.

https://github.com/simonw/files-to-prompt
https://llm.datasette.io/
Really? I would have said it was Claude-3.7 based on experience.
For me as a developer, reproducible builds are a boon during debugging because I can be sure that I have reproduced the build environment corresponding to an artifact (which is not trivial, particularly for more complex things like whole OS image builds which are common in the embedded world, for example) in the real world precisely when I need to troubleshoot something.

Then I can be sure that I only make the changes I intend to do when building upon this state (instead of, for example, "fixing" something by accident because the link order of something changed which changed the memory layout which hides a bug).
Agreed. These who would rather use a browser from an Orwellian company are not hackers. They are tools.
ASLR shouldn’t be an issue unless you intend to capture the entire memory state of the application. It’s an intermediate representation in memory, not an output of any given step of a build.

Annoying edge cases come up for things like internal object serialization to sort things like JSON keys in config files.
In my experience, design patterns cause a lot of problems when developers reach the stage when they understand them enough to know how to implement them, but not when (and even more importantly, when not).

Most design patterns were invented as workarounds to specifics and limitations of certain languages/paradigms, and work great in that case -- but are much more limited, or even downright dangerous, when used in other contexts. As a clear example, the GoF patterns focus on strongly typed OOP languages like Java or C++, and will result in difficult to maintain bloatware if copied directly to dynamic languages like Python, Javascript or PHP (source: been there, done that, got the t-shirt).
Reminds me of a fatal flaw of yaml. Turns out truncating a yaml file doesn't make it invalid. Which can lead to some rather non-obvious failures.
> “I think we should be ready to meet with anyone if there’s a chance it can help bring about an end to this war, which is causing the Syrian people so much suffering,” Gabbard said.

IDK... I don't have strong enough hatred in my soul to condemn someone for "meeting with a dictator" if they think there might be a path to end suffering. Honestly to me that sounds like someone with courage to do what's necessary to make a difference.

>

Gabbard said her trip included stops in Aleppo and Damascus, Syria’s capital. She also visited Beirut during the trip, which began in mid-January. Gabbard said she also met with refugees, Syrian opposition leaders, widows and family members of Syrians fighting alongside groups like al-Qaeda, and Syrians aligned with the Assad regime.

Gabbard said that the U.S. has “waged wars of regime change” in Iraq, Libya and Syria. Yet each has resulted “in unimaginable suffering, devastating loss of life, and the strengthening of groups like al-Qaeda” and the Islamic State group, she said.

“My visit to Syria has made it abundantly clear,” Gabbard said. “Our counterproductive regime change war does not serve America’s interest, and it certainly isn’t in the interest of the Syrian people.”

>

THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT THE LEFT HAS BEEN SAYING FOR DECADES. We need to get our hands our of other wars and stop causing suffering in peoples/cultures/nations we don't understand.

But oh no because she's willing to work with Trump and not against him she's a filthy fucking traitor. Your kind of rhetoric is what makes me sick.
Yeah, but the calculator analogy is apt. In the past, anyone who went to grade school could answer 6 * 7 off the top of their head, and do basic mental math. We've pretty much lost that.

With that said, I do worry that losing the ability to craft sentences (or code) is more problematic than losing the ability to do mental math.
While it certainly reads satirical, in the sense that someone writing a book like this now would come off comically evil, there is nothing to suggest it was a satire. That's just a reddit thing that's been trending, and largely put forward by one historian a long time ago.

There's plenty of reason to think he wrote this book earnestly to boost his own political standing with the Medici family. It was not written for the common man, it was written as a resumé for political leaders to peruse. However, he distanced himself from the book in his later work.
WASM is also great for enabling web apps to locally perform tasks that would be compute/bandwidth intensive if foisted upon the server.

E.x. the Cobalt video downloader has an experimental on-device video remuxing feature that uses FFmpeg (libav) compiled to WASM. It's a win-win for both the provider (who saves on hosting and bandwidth fees) and the user (who enjoys snappier functionality and enhanced privacy guarantees.)
I don't understand the use of JS benchmarks to compare Servo to Ladybird.

Ladybird indeed has its own JS engine, and it's very young and still interpreted.

On the other hand, Servo uses SpiderMonkey (i.e. shipping C++ code from Mozilla) as its JS engine.

So a Servo vs Ladybird comparison using JS benchmarks is really a comparison of Mozilla's shipping JS engine to Ladybird's from-scratch JS engine. And they're both written in C++.
Solving the Pain that is CI/CD
Guess they didn't need that top talent in the long run, they had plenty of their own top talent

https://polymarket.com/event/which-company-has-best-ai-model...
I wonder what his BAC was at the time.
Solar powered micro-controllers might be the way to go that could hook up to crude automated farm
machines. Depending on the life span of batteries, solar powered ebook readers to store those farming manuals and other guides, solar powered computers for spreadsheets and planning software, and solar powered cb ham radios for communications with built in encryption keys.
Any person's first contact with a PWA is going to be in the full-chrome browser. The user has to voluntarily choose "install as web app" to actually lose the browser chrome. Not giving users this choice and opting them into a windowed mode forever makes PWA support largely useless -- just open the app from your bookmarks!
Maybe congress will just rewrite a new USF. I wonder what satellite internet company would magically be the only one who can meet the new USF requirements?
JP here! Would love to answer your questions!

We listed a bunch of ideas for larger improvements in the blog: Instant app; Up-to-date docs; Prompt/product-first workflows; Browser IDE; Local/on-prem models; Live collaboration; Parallel-agents; Code variants; Shared context; Open source sharing; MCP marketplace; Integrated CI; Monitoring/production agents; Security agents; Sketching..

What would you like us to build?
You are talking about the hedonic adjustments which is a hugely studied part of inflation calculations. For any way to calculate broad inflation you’ll find products that inflated more than the calculation (and less).

Your own example is an interesting one because a) it’s very hard to compare clothing by objective quality b) you’re changing the goal posts. I’ve found a carhart product that nearly exactly matches your specification and msrp’s for $40. I’ve seen discounters selling it for $25. Which is getting very close to your specific target.
Quick question while we’re on the topic of CSV files: is there a command-line tool you’d recommend for handling CSV files that are malformed, corrupted, or use unexpected encodings?

My experience with CSVs is mostly limited to personal projects, and I generally find the format very convenient. That said, I occasionally (about once a year) run into issues that are tricky to resolve.
Alibaba Debuts AI Model That Can Process Video, Audio on Phones
Just here to say that you can order small samples of natural Uranium on Amazon.
If you try to build incompatible code and it doesn’t work, that’s not a bug
1. if 90% of the people don't want a toolbar in a PWA (I'm being generous about 10% wanting it), it makes sense to not have it

2. It is not harder to implement a button to show the toolbar menu

In all case, it should be (it already is by the spec!) a developer option, not something enforced by the browser.
I found this in the Authors GitHub repo. Looks interesting. Will use this to complement my learning resources
https://github.com/farhanhubble/discover-drl/blob/master/Red...
Probably around that time, Google once translated "Berlin" with "Paris" or something like that. IIRC, it was in a sentence about head offices. The training materials consisted of parallel documents, including manuals, where the German document would say "contact our head office in Berlin", and the French one "contact our head office in Paris." So it learned to translate capitals in certain contexts.
Really nice and clean UI.
No setup needed to start working on your ideas.
I switched to JSONL over a decade ago and I would recommend everyone else to also have switched then.

This whole thread is an uninformed rehash of bad ideas.
pipe (|) separated or gtfo!

sqlite3 gets it right.
I think the biggest thing Google has working against them is the move to put lightweight models in everything for everyone. Whatever model they use for search is probably somewhere around an ~8B model, and flash 2.0 is decent but still a light weight model.

People now associate Google AI/Gemini with shitty search results and bad answers.

Meanwhile, their SOTA models have been strong, and Gemini 2.5 looks like it might actually have taken the AI throne yesterday.[1]

[1]https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/25/gemini/
> We humans love quantifiability.

No. Screw quantifiability. I don't want "we've improved the sota by 1.931%" on basically anything that matters. Show me improvements that are obvious, improvements that stand out.

Claude Plays Pokemon is one of the few really important "benchmarks". No numbers, just the progress and the mood.
I've been thinking on how to build a benchmark for this stuff for a while, and don't have a good idea other than LLM-as-judge (which quickly gets messy). I guess there's a reason why current neural decompilation attempts are all evaluated on "seemingly meaningless" benchmarks like "can it recompile without syntax error" or "functional equivalence of recompilation" etc.
And yet, most of the efforts are geared towards using it outside of the browser, where better alternatives to JavaScript have always been available.
I agree with your point! Old electronics aren't going to be appropriate for every situation, and modern alternatives are superior for lots of situations. But that doesn't mean that it isn't worth maintaining projects to keep the old ones useful. Plenty of people are still using technology developed thousands of years ago even when there are modern alternatives that are thousands of times more efficient. It just suits their situation better. Putting one of these things in something like a tractor or a dam or anything that has enough energy to spare is exactly the use case. And the relative simplicity of old technology can be a benefit if someone is trying to apply it to a new situation with limited resources or knowledge.
Simon W's https://datasette.io/ is also excellent.
> those with the capacity to make the system more fair are incentivized to maintain the status quo

Often true... but networks of incentives are subtle in how they build up. It's rarely just macro, societal-level incentives.

Anyway... one major aspect is that lawyers do law for a living. It's an industry. An industry that thrives, and has thrived since at least antiquity, by representing the interests of well paying clients.

Besides that... formal truth is expensive. It's expensive to have a procedurally validated scientific truth (eg drug testing). It's expensive to create a judicial truth via trial. Very expensive. That's why we do so little of it, even though judicial (and scientific) ideals demand quite a lot of it.

Most legal matters are settled by lawyers negotiating. Courts are a rubber stamp, and (usually) theoretical last resort. Most (vast majority) criminal convictions involve a confession. In Medieval Europe they would publicly torture convicts, obtain a confession and then hang them. These days, you can confess and serve 2 years in prison... or contest and serve 12.

Otherwise, courts could not handle the volume.

The problem here is high standards. People know about the ideals of justice. Expect justice to live up to these standards. IRL it never has. Not close. Justice is an institution of society that exists to solve problems. Often sticky, ugly problems. The ideals play a role, in keeping that institution balanced... but the ideals are not the balance.
The genious and madman behind the Linus Operating System.
Is the build infrastructure for Debian also reproducible? It seems like we if someone wants to inject malware in Debian package binaries (without injecting them into the source), they have to target the build infrastructure (compilers, linkers and whatever wrapper code is written around them).

Also, is someone else also compiling these images, so we have evidence that the Debian compiling servers were not compromised?
I wonder how the ratio of people making garments relative to the total world population has changed though in this example.
It's certainly true that Europeans take more vacations and spend more time abroad. They also win on spending less time at work and more time with their loved ones.
Then prompt the AI to provide its outputs in a way that keeps the human user engaged and aware of where they are in the thought process: maps, diagrams, repetition summaries.

We have the cognition science to make it happen - or at least learn how to structure it.
Aaaand now I can fit like 3 fields next to each other before they wrap and the field with arbitrary length text still misaligns the field after it
Every PWA starts in a webpage, and you have to manually install it as PWA.
If it's important for you to see the url, use it in the browser and don't install it? Installation only makes sense if the website/app is build for it.
There are some specialized text editors for editing files with tabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_stop#Dynamic_tab_stops , https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ , https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/
I'd bet the current state is not sustainable and we will see a consolidation one way or another.

The danger for WASM is that JavaScript doesn't stand still either and we might as well see improvements that make the gap to WASM's selling points smaller.
The article lays out why the students are “coping”. It’s not because teaching them geometry is “broken” - it’s because learning it is hard and there’s no dopa hit when you memorize sohcahtoa. Watching TikTok is easy, and there is a dopa hit every time.

This isn’t a “schools are bad” thing - this is a fundamental attack on young people by meta, Google, TikTok and the rest. Pretending that if your Memphis school just let kids bring guns or pot to school you’d have not needed your phone (there’s a reason they were searching bags, after all) is bizarre.
Would love to see eighth grade students of today, try this test from 1912...I sense disaster....

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/13jhckh/...
Sam Altman said they will add MCP support across OpenAI products
lobste.rs is way more hacker and technical.
dang, we should maybe set aside ONE day where you're allowed to just let loose and blast us all with zero suppression on your end. April 1st ...? :D /s
If there were visible well known characters that could be printed for those and keys on a keyboard for inputting them we would probably have RSV files. Because they are buried down in the nonprintable section of the ASCII chart they are a pain for people to deal with. All it would have taken is one more key on the keyboard, maybe splitting the tab key in half.
> ChatGPT is already a household name, and nobody has even heard about Gemini.

Just yesterday I polled my household, the 8 year old knew about ChatGPT and "China's R1". The teenager knew ChatGPT and Google's was a bit hard to remember but eventually they did remember "Gemini", however they didn't know about R1. Both kids consider Siri and Alexa in the same category for Apple and Amazon, respectively. They don't know what Meta/Facebook have at all.
Had one late last year, but had to return it because the firmware bricked within a few hours of use and no support was forthcoming. Wouldn't leap in just yet. The issue was triggered by running a repeater, whereas client-only use was fine.
Someone can fork chromium if need be. There are at least a couple organizations with chromium-based browsers that have maintained their own engines in the past. Chromium is objectively very good so it’s not like it’s the time when we were left with IE5. The biggest problem now is Google trying to protect their ad business and the other Chromium browsers have been working around that. I don’t think we are nearly as bad off as we have at other times in the past.
https://miller.readthedocs.io/
I would like to see them re develop positron (firefox + electron) https://github.com/mozilla/positron
Bug report: only the very top of the bottom row of tiles fits on my screen, and I can’t scroll down to see what’s on them because it gets misinterpreted as dragging a tile. So that’s frustrating . iOS safari.

Looks nicely done otherwise.
Then use it as a web page?
> This looks like the Google+ vs Facebook story all over again.

Lock-in and network effects with social networks are very strong. Facebook, Twitter, and eBay only have to be good-enough.

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.
hey what are the supported tools? Can I use custom tools in this one?
I'm a parent and sure we posted the children's art on the fridge etc. We even kept some of it as momentos.

But of course it has no value beyond the sentimental- the nostalgia and so on.

Of course your child's work means something to you, but the work itself isn't the value. It's the reminder of what they were.
Stack Overflow. Not a 'forum' per se but is otherwise built around the discussion of browser hacks.
A SCIF is a place. It may be a meeting room, but it could also be an entire building with multiple desks. Signal is a service/app. Apples and Oranges.
A Daft Proc-Macro Trick: How to Emit Partial-Code and Errors
> Meeting them makes Tulsi complicit.

What? That's simply not true even by a long shot. In no way shape or form is she condoning anything by being willing to engage with someone non-violently.

Go read my other response. I've quoted Tulsi talking about her trip to Syria. She's trying to find a way to end suffering. I'm not sure you really understand how much damage our own government has done to people and how we appear to others. Gabbard has more courage than you'll ever know.

> Maybe my morals just make me ill-suited to meet murderers (in a non-official capacity nonetheless).

So you're a pacifist. War is war. I'm not defending Assad I'm reminding you that people and countries do horrible things in war on both sides. The US, the atomic bomb, missiles from the sky in the middle east, collateral damage, killing families of terrorists. I think you'd have a hard time if you tried to apply your moral framework to "the good guys".

Painful as it may be, there are valid moral frameworks where ending suffering may be more important, immediate, and urgent than refusing to acknowledge another state's leader because they're horrible.
Spanish youngster wants to learn English, and finds the office of a language school. He enters, finds the office of the principal, and knocks on the door. After a short while, he hears: "If, if, between, between!"
Mitnick was advising the FBI, not running their systems. There is a huge difference between listening to a talk or having an outside consultation offer advice and giving them highly-privileged direct access.

Even that was controversial enough that it made the news, too.
More than half of its front page is identical to HN's.
>without having a lot, a lot of time at hand

Of course he has a lot of time at hand. He's a teenager.
> I dunno about you but I find it pretty discouraging

same :)
Elon already receives subsidies from USF. All of Elon's riches come from government funds. If Elon has a company or project, you should just assume it is funded by government contracts, grants, and subsidies because it likely is in some capacity.
> there are many lawyers who would gladly work for success fee

For personal injuries? Absolutely. For federal civil rights violation cases? Few and far between.
> Because CSV is so simple, it's common for them to avoid using a parsing/encoding library.

A but unfair to compare CSV without parser library to JSON with library.
> If you don’t want to believe

Ah, there's the rub. What I want to "believe" is whatever truth shall be revealed to me. It's not like I want to not believe in God, I simply haven't been presented with compelling evidence to lead me there.

And as for other's, they should be able to believe whatever they want (but there's a catch). My only concern for what others believe is how that translates into real world outcomes. A prime example of this is that the current US Administration is Christian Nationalist and want to pass laws on their interpretation of scripture -- then that become mine and everybody else's business.
Thank you for introducing me to the term "disguised query". I've been looking for a way to describe this aspect of how people discuss sex.
Haha my wife lived on Pine Grove and I lived a couple blocks from that spot in Lakeview. Small world.
The US and Israeli governments are murderers and terrorists via their actions. You're complaining about a slogan.
> I see OOP as fundamentally one key concept: that there are functions which "belong to" specific types, and all other operations on those types go through the functions that "belong to" them

I would go even further:

All programming essentially consists of two things only:

1. data structures (often, but not necessarily, formalised as "types")
2. mechanisms to transform that data (functions, methods, algorithms, tasks, whatever)

Programming paradigms essentially describe different ways to organise these two: functional programming, for example, keeps the two strictly separate; in OOP the mechanisms are "attached" to the data they operate on. Of course, in practice there are many combinations and variations, with more and less flexibility (from strictly closed objects to mixins and similar), but this is the foundation.
The Humanizing Impact of Soup (2021)
Thanks. I'm curious about the internal representation. Is Turboshaft using literal SSA names for sources and destinations, or are destination implicit somehow?
Yes, it is unnecessary, but then again, a lot of things I say are unnecessary, too, so I ought to look in the mirror.