skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The information they discussed is almost always classified. If somebody were to declassify it so that these discussions could take place on insecure devices at insecure locations, then it's gross incompetence. There's a reason this kind of information is classified.

This is like ripping the warning sticker off an oxygen tank and pretending that makes it safe to use while smoking.
Taking this at face value ...

Build a network. Some place like Mastodon ... it's a social network, so you join a server, watch the feed, see things you like, follow the people who said it, see who they follow, and follow them as well.

Then say things that you think the community will find interesting. Boost other people's posts, interact. People will start to follow you back, so make sure you say things you think your followers and your community will find interesting.

All this will build a network, and people will see what you write. They might not interact with it much, but they will see it.

Consistency and persistence is key. Start, continue, and keep going.
Isn’t there a middle where you don’t show the whole browser chrome by default and still allow access to the extensions? Maybe add a tiny button to show the browser UI or add a shortcut?
I'm not sure where you got "we don't need" from, unless you consider any language feature to be unnecessary if there's a way to implement the concept without it. Which is not a very useful way of looking at language features! You can implement anything in assembly, that doesn't mean higher-level languages aren't needed.

I'm saying that OOP as a concept is simple enough that you can do the basics of it in pretty idiomatic and straightforward C, and all the other stuff that we associate with "OOP" is not really universal. And thus it's no surprise that discussions around OOP as a general concept tend to be vague and not very useful.
Apple's $10B+ Siri AI Disaster
> It beats pure Java with Maven / Gradle as well.

I don't think that checks out.

Java's compilation is ridiculously fast.

https://mill-build.org/blog/1-java-compile.html

According to this, javac itself can compile up to 100k lines per second, while Maven/Gradle is an order of magnitude slower.

The only info I found for Rust mentions something along the 5k lines/second mark (on a different computer), but it is at most roughly the same, if not slower than a java build tool.
AI heavy now
Especially gene names. It was so bad that the scientific community renamed the genes in question rather than suffering from the same horror endlessly.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-renam...
I’m pretty sure those used to exist.

But when looking for a picture to back up my (likely flawed) memory, Google helpfully told me that you can get a record separator character by hitting Ctrl-^ (caret). Who knew?
unless you fix them to a known epoch.
Yes and no: nowadays third-parties can steer the people demands themselves. It became much easier with internet and "web brigades" (recently started utilizing AI as well).

So on one side yes, people demanded it. But on the other side, they were manipulated to think one issue is more important than the other, to think that "the whole system is broken" etc.
That reminds me of the time when Java applets had their high time.

I think that WASM in the browser will either largely replace JavaScript or will wither away like Java applets did. I fear there is no in-between and if it is only because no one will support two languages and ecosystems in parallel and in the long run. Not the big companies and certainly not the small ones.
Thanks! I appreciate the perspective. You're absolutely right; failure isn’t always black and white, and I probably framed it too harshly.

To clarify, I don’t think the problem itself failed, there’s definitely demand for better workflow aggregation. Like you said, companies have succeeded in that space. But in my case, the way I approached it, the execution, timing, and maybe even the target audience, didn't gain traction. I took the lack of interest as a signal that my specific take on the solution wasn’t compelling enough, at least in the way I was presenting it.

Maybe a different approach could have worked, and in hindsight, I could’ve explored other ways to validate it instead of relying on a newsletter signup as my primary gauge. That’s a great point.

And yeah, the original problem does exist. I guess my real lesson was not just about assuming a problem existed but making sure I was the right person to solve it in a way that people actually wanted.

If you’re curious, the old landing page is still up: https://brieflytics.vercel.app/. I’d love any thoughts on what I could have done differently there.

Also, my new project, GM Pro, is tackling a problem I validated firsthand—improving Google Meet with features like better chat UI, reactions, persisted messages, and transcriptions. You can check it out here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gm-pro/bfmgohplnhbl....

I've also seen some competition in the Google Meet extensions space, products like FellowApp, Spinach, and others, so I already know the idea is valid and there's a market for it

Would love to hear any feedback, whether on the old idea, the new one, or just thoughts on startup validation in general!
> “Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this, to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat, again to take responsibility and make sure that this can never happen again,” Leavitt said.

Sure. That was clearly a purely technical problem.
From my experience people use "ChatGPT" to refer to LLMs in general.
I love doing all aspects of building software. However, I’ve noticed when I am feeling lazy I’ll just copy pasta a stack trace into an LLM and just trust what is says is wrong. I won’t even read the stack trace.

I only tend to do that when I am tired or annoyed, but when I do it I can feel myself getting dumber. And it’s a weirdly satisfying feeling.

I just need a chair that doubles as a toilet and I’ll be all set.
Bill Gates on AI: Humans won't be needed 'for most things'
I think so... we seem to be hitting the roof of current LLMs capabilities, now the next generation of AI tools will need a research breakthrough, and Google and Microsoft still have the biggest research teams
I daily drive https://kagi.com/orion/ on mobile and will likely begin to switch on desktop as their cross platform support emerges.
Trump administration to cut vaccine aid to developing countries
i think it was Eric Schmidt who said that "everyone would need an Assistant" - about 10 years ago. (maybe in [0] ~ 2016). Something to impersonate, talking to it.

Why they didn't do it, even a resemblance of - when they could.. no idea. Instead, meddling with mailboxes and the like.

[0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/google-eric-schmidt-ai
Sounds like every request should require crypto processing be fed back to the host on the client side as quid pro quo.
They don't look a day over 900,000 years.
(Used short article title)
Diamond Spin Qubits Enable Quantum Gates with Under 0.1% Error Rate
Like i said, these experiments stop at a vague 'Chris can still learn languages'. No comment on actual proficiency or testing. For all i know i can't have a meaningful conversation with this guy beyond syntactically correct speech. Or maybe the best proficiency he's ever managed is still pretty poor compared to the average human. I have no idea.

There's no contradiction because i never argued/asserted the brain didn't have parts tuned for language, which is really all this experiment demonstrates.
What's your problem with this email? I would expect this kind of constructive criticism from any team lead with a functioning brain and without a yes-man attitude.
ChatGPT may be a household name but it is noticeably inferior. I haven't encountered a single ChatGPT subscriber that didn't cancel their OpenAI subscription in favor of a Claude or Grok one after a single session with them.

ChatGPT is the most spineless chatbot out there. It stands for nothing, has no confidence in any claims it makes. It will apologize and backtrack on a whim. But with Claude and Grok, you can't just tell it it is wrong and get it to apologize. You actually have to have a point, the chatbot will defend its perspective if challenged without basis.
They're in a tough spot where the CEO does just enough to stay, but they need someone better.

They lagged in AI, but the new Gemini 2.5 Pro is incredible. They built an incredible tool in NotebookLM but failed to market it
Web apps seem more beneficial to the business than to the end user. Like who cares?
I read it and it seemed alright to me. A bit firm yes, but damn are there times when I wish people would have communicate with me with this level of honesty about how they're feeling regarding something. In some places, people have communicated with me with that level of honesty. It does require you to make sure you're not taking things personally when they're not meant to be, but it's a lot better than people trading subtle cues all the time, which seems to just lead to more explosive issues later on when things inevitably hit a breaking point.

Where do you really feel this message goes too far?
Big Balls is on it
Also, the collections API is the best out of any language I have used!
Very simple. From a state level, if they are trying to compromise a system, get persistent access, already have access, but need to escalate, then atop is a solution if it's already on the system.

Just like Notepad++ back in the day.
I remain perplexed that everyone is so focused on using LLMs to automate software engineering, when there are language-based professions (like Spanish tutor, in your example) that seem more directly threatened by language models. The only explanation I've heard is that the industry is so excited about reducing spend on software engineering salaries that they're trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, and largely ignoring the square holes.
Do people get married every year or something?
I think such types are frustrated because they have enough domain specific knowledge to know the basics of how to fix their pet hate. But realise they will never have the motivation, skill and dedication required to follow through.
Great analysis. I will disagree with your last point though. The intangible remains; China is not an open society by any means, and its companies are under gov surveillance (just look at DeepSeek). I met a very smart man at a conference a few weeks ago. We were discussing evs in China. His response was he wants to stay in the US and does not use DeepSeek due to its surveillance. He feared if he visited China he would get in trouble. This transcends my anecdote. Private companies operating under oppressive regimes will not prosper. The chains of oppression are not to be underestimated
I want to push Sqlite as a data interchange format! it has the benefit of being well defined, and can store binary data, like images for product pictures inside the database. not a good idea if you're trying to serve users behind a web app, but as interchange, better than a zip file with filenames that have to be "relinked".
From the article above:

> Former Biden officials, though, said that Signal was never permitted on their government phones.

> “We were not allowed to have any messaging apps on our work phones,” said one former top national security official on the condition of anonymity. “And under no circumstances were unclassified messaging apps allowed to be used for transmission of classified material. This is misdirection at its worst.”

The CISA advice wasn't telling public employees to use Signal for classified communications or communications subject to FOIA.

You're going to be completely unable to show me evidence that this was ever okay, because it wasn't.
I will mourn the lack of a non-Chrome browser engine with enough market share to prevent Chrome from unilaterally changing the web.
I've been waiting for someone to make something like this! Perfect.
My point was that green threads are not at all the same as virtual threads.
We also learned during that hearing, she recently retweeted something from a Russia Today reporter.
This claims to have plutonium https://engineeredlabs.com/products/plutonium-element-cube-t.... Although other studies of trinitite have failed to find any.

It also appears that the soviets used plutonium in fire detectors, and that people were selling these sources at one point https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale
Doesn't it make sense to have a common document in the usual format (RFC) which every newbie can consult when in doubt?

I much prefer that to any sort of "common institutional memory" that is nevertheless only talked about on random forums. People die, other people enter the field... hello subtle incompatibilities.
That's not really correct. Compare the basic interactive page resource usage to a similar interface made with qt or even .net - it's the runtime that makes the massive difference.
Gauss and Von Neumann are the two that immediately come to mind.
My take is they just want the 'browser' to be visible, kinda like how banks insist on their logos being visible on co-branded credit cards. Considering Firefox is nearly entirely how Mozilla makes money, and that browser has been disappearing more and more starting with Chrome's launch way back in 2008, this just feels like pearl clutching.
"look at what you made me do" - the narcissist prayer.
TIL you can't move it to the sides any more in Windows 11, wild. Just one more reason for me to stay on Windows 10 no matter the forced-obsolescence schedule.
I hope improved support for Iceberg includes write support.
Reducing Cloud Spend: Migrating Logs from CloudWatch to Iceberg with Postgres
Most of the Elixir in Production posts on the official blog (including this one) come off this way, IMO:

https://elixir-lang.org/blog/categories.html#Elixir%20in%20P...

It's pretty much just appeal to authority. "These people are successful and they used Elixir, why don't you?"
I worked in a building with an archaic HVAC system and where the sun would shine right in my room in the afternoon in April. Four of us worked in a small room and we were all software devs whose bodies generate about 100W of waste heat, I had Windows desktop and a Linux desktop and a Windows laptop and a Sun SPARC workstation and a Sun Ray terminal each of which wasted another 100W and the other devs had the same.

Temps got over 100F in April when the building as a whole was in heating mode and could not supply aircon. I’d be wearing a tank top and drinking a lot of water and people would ask me how I bore it and I said it was no problem because the humidity was low.

One hot summer I covered the windows of my house with space blankets that I bought because I was doing a presentation in space solar geoengineering and turned my hue lights to green on the theory that you get more visibility illumination for less energy (and heat felt on my bare skin) that way. Opened the windows manually and ran fans all night to equilibriate to night temperature and enjoy the heat soak all day.
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>This is so simple you might even invent it yourself without knowing it already exists while learning how to program.

This is a double-edged sword. The "you might even event it yourself" simplicity means that in practice lots of different people do end up just inventing their own version rather than standardizing to RFC-4180 or whatever when it comes to "quote values containing commas", values containing quotes, values containing newlines, etc. And the simplicity means these type of non-standard implementations can go completely undetectable until a problematic value happens to be used. Sometimes added complexity that forces paying more attention to standards and quickly surfaces a diversion from those standards is helpful.
Yes, history showed us that past societies worked quite nicely even with a slower timeframe
You need a different list of patterns.

Arguably, Haskell's use of monads is a pattern. It just isn't in the GoF, since it doesn't solve a problem that was a problem for the languages the GoF was written for.
Are there any forums more focused on being a "hacker's corner"?
Great! This will be a lifesaver for me, as I am allergic to peanuts.
This will be easily defeated. Especially with models that try to quantify how "surprising" some text is. If the surprise is low then leave and try again later. I guess it will get dumb bots that don't use models? So probably just random users who want to download a page
It could be that the power to lay taxes is granted solely to Congress in the Constitution.

IANAL, so the clarity of Article 1 section 8 may be not what the words seem to say
Interesting aspect of blend2d in general is the usage of AsmJit for generating optimized platform specific asm at runtime
>Another recent fiasco caused by their heavy handedness: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/...

"He spent three months in custody before he was granted bail in October 2022, after an earlier bail was revoked because he failed to comply with conditions."

a 13 year old with autism "failed to comply with conditions".
Set a bigger tab size in the editor, e.g. `:set ts=32` in vim.
I think there should be a rule that to sell a certain amount of plastic products you should need to gather a certain amount of plastic trash.
It is sarcastic in that the parent is quoting/paraphrasing somebody else (they clarify this in the second paragraph).
You can't eat pennies
Feels like the author is biased towards Servo...

To say "one is a browser engine and the other is browser" and then explain engine advantage as "embedability" without explaining browser advantage as "whole ready product" is unfair, imo
How many of those people are using an LLM other than one supplied by OpenAI?
If you're running a tractor, sure, 5 watts is not a big deal. But there are a lot of hypothetical post-collapse circumstances where such a high power usage would be prohibitive. Consider, for example, the kinds of radio stations you'd need for the kinds of weather and telecommunications uses I discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484415, which benefit from being placed on inaccessible mountaintops and running unattended for years on end.

5 watts will drain a 100-amp-hour car battery in 10 days and is basically infeasible to get from improvised batteries made with common solid metals. Current mainstream microcontrollers like an ATSAMD20 are not only much nicer to program but can use under 20 μW, twenty thousand times less. A CR2032 coin cell (220mAh, 3V) can provide 20 μW for about 4 years. But the most the coin cell can provide at all is about 500 μW, so to run a 5-watt computer you'd need 10,000 coin cells. Totally impractical.

And batteries are a huge source of unreliability. What if you make your computing device more reliable by eliminating the battery? Then you need a way to power it, perhaps winding a watchspring or charging a supercapacitor.
Consider winding up such a device by pulling a cord like the one you'd use to start a chainsaw. That's about 100 newtons over about a meter, so 100 joules. That energy will run a 5W Z80 machine for 20 seconds, so you have to yank the cord three times a minute, or more because of friction. That yank will run a 20 μW microcontroller for two months.
Adding automatic translation will make the site more accessible for a broader audience.
Agreed. Sundar seems like a peacetime CEO that got pulled into war and seems like he's struggling. But with Larry and Sergei having all voting control it seems unlikely he'll get fired.
CSV is everywhere. I use manifold-csv[1] it’s amazing.

1. https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...
Nice, these live images could become the foundation for a Debian-based "immutable OS" workflow.
As our grade school teachers warned, my arithmetic skills are indeed brutally stunted thanks to calculators. The implications do seem even worse with folks using AI to do their technical debugging and decision making, though.
the lack of affordable homes is lowering the country’s annual economic output

The market can't build below market rate housing and economic policy for thirty years has been to remove below market rate housing through HOPE VI.

Hope VI is trickle down economics. Give wealth to wealth and hope wealth will act in an economically irrational way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_VI
There will no doubt be some techbro startup that promises to solve this: after all, who wouldn't want to build a platform that guides you to these products and take a cut of every sale?

Whether or not such a platform actually meets your desired specifications is another matter. The money in this industry is in affiliate marketing and ads, not in helping people find stuff.
Sports Illustrated to Roll Out Athletics-Linked Wagers Market
> Considering Firefox is nearly entirely how Mozilla makes money,

Is it? I thought they made money by taking it from theGoogs to be the "default" search when theGoogs probably thinks of it as ensuring there is "competition" so they are not tagged as monopoly. Same as the payment they make to Apple
Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/elementcollection/comments/mf5v0u/i...) says that you were able to get some here: https://www.luciteria.com/elements-for-sale but I didn't see it listed.

edit: found it but discontinued... https://www.luciteria.com/element-cubes/plutonium-for-sale
Seems like it’s just as bad in Europe, even when not crossing borders

https://www.politico.eu/article/police-can-access-mobile-pho...
I agree with my sibling commentors, but I want to point out for people who do not go read the comment: this is not the off the walls Linus rant of the past.

This is a very even-handed response where Linus tells people to calm down, that the purpose of linux-next is to discover problems, and that Rust is not causing all of the problems.

At the very end there is a sentence or two that might be offensive, especially if you have a thin skin or aren't reflective about your own responses, but this is in no way akin to the bombs of the past.
Is it possible for mortals to rebuild gcc from scratch? Can I start with some minimal, auditable compiler (tcc?) and build up to a modern gcc? Or would it be some byzantine path where I need to compile gcc v1998, then perl, then Python 1.8, enabling you to compile gcc v2005, which lets you build Python2.3, etc.
It is not that different from tamper-proofing medications. It proves that no one added poison to whatever you are consuming, after that thing left its "factory".
There is an in-between, which is the world we live in right now.

JavaScript and TypeScript are great languages with excellent Web integration, whereas wasm is focused on pure computation (forcing it to bundle its standard library, for example). But wasm has predictable performance that is close to native builds, and sometimes you need that.

Very few web pages use only wasm. Most uses of wasm on the wasm are as part of a JavaScript site, for the parts where wasm makes sense.
100% agree. TSV is under-rated. Tabs don't naturally occur in data nearly as often as commas so tabs are a great delimiter. Copy paste into Excel also works much better with tabs.

Code editors may convert tabs to spaces but are you really editing and saving TSV data files in your code editor?
Note: StarVector models will not work for natural images or illustrations, as they have not been trained on those images. They excel in vectorizing icons, logotypes, technical diagrams, graphs, and charts.
I was going to guess United Nuclear myself but that was the uranium supplier ;)
Look at how it handles escaping of special characters and particularly new lines (RFC 4180 doesn’t guarantee that a new line is a new record) and how it’s written in 2005 yet still doesn’t handle unicode other than via a comment about ”other character sets”.