skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>people who model stormwater for a living.

>They are not software engineers. These aren't programs designed around security issues, or scalability issues, maintainability issues, or even following processes like pull requests.

That's been the obvious problem for a while now.

These are the people whom software engineers need to be cheerfully working for.

Any less-effective hierarchy and they'll just have to continue making progress on their own terms.
Agree. He isn't very hardcore as he isn't working 16 hours a day at my company for $10 per hour.
Came here to say this. This guy is a legend, and as legends have, they might seem outdated in many ways by modern standards, but they still are legends for valid reasons.
Nice looking UI on desktop. I am actually in the middle of a SAML setup and might give this a try.

Bug report: Both of the two links in the top right (Docs and SSOjet) give me a 404
I think anything whose soles are really thin and not too hard. I'm partial to Xero, but there's a lot of possibilities.

I do think all shoes, except those original Vibram Five Fingers, are not a great substitute for barefoot running itself. Running barefoot on a nice grass field feels so much nicer and more fun, too! But the minimal shoes do help force you to feel the ground and not just slam into it, so I think they can help.

Whatever you do, I'd only make changes slowly: try 10 minutes of barefoot running or with different shoes, a couple times a week at the end of a normal run, and go from there.
Minimum bend radius.
Happy to answer this. Polypane is a browser. If you don't keep your browser rendering engine up to date, you're opening yourself to a whole host of security issues (not to mention just generally diverging from what your end users use). Keeping that rendering engine up to date means dealing with a slew of potentially breaking changes with each new chromium version.

So there's two reasons:

1. The only way to do that continuous upkeep of the rendering engine that I have found to be sustainable is with a subscription.

2. I definitely don't want to be responsible for people using years-old versions of Chromium.
Ok cool, hard definitions of facism aside, his decisions and political opinions are not in line with a free and equitable society / civilization.
Face ID and Touch ID for the Web (2020)
Their use as evidence has been challenged by academics, judges and the
media. There are no uniform standards for point-counting methods, and
academics have argued that the error rate in matching fingerprints has
not been adequately studied and that fingerprint evidence has no secure
statistical foundation. Research has been conducted into whether experts
can objectively focus on feature information in fingerprints without
being misled by extraneous information, such as context.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint
Show HN: Generate docs from your public repos
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This is a super useful utility — until this there was nothing fast and easy that you could dump say 30 quick camera photos of a (room/object/place) into and get out a dense point cloud.

Instead you had to run all these separate pipelines inferring camera location, etc. etc. before you could get any sort of 3D information out of your photos. I’d guess this is going into many many workflows where it will drop in replace a bunch of jury-rigged pipelines.
If you mention Kerberos to most "security" people these days they will think you're talking about Kubernetes.
I can't ever imagine "sleeping on the floor" for any job.

Seems like an incredibly short-sighted and unsatisfying way to live your life.
I'm surprised it defaults to writing out key material into the filesystem[1] when SSH Agent has existed for quite a while. This use case seems especially relevant to sticking them in the agent given that (IIUC) these are short-lived certs anyway, so if your agent bounced you'd just get a fresh one without drama

I do see <https://github.com/openpubkey/opkssh/issues/6#issuecomment-2...> so I'm glad it's conceptually on the radar, I'm just saying I'm surprised it wasn't part of Cloudflare's best practices already

1: https://github.com/openpubkey/opkssh/blob/v0.3.0/commands/lo...
I see this more of an IDE/dev tool than a web browser. I'm not a web developer, but I could see why someone would pay for this to get more features than what you get in Chrome/Firefox/Safari.
> that doesn't make that usage correct

Eventually it does. That's how language evolves. Prescriptivism is pointless pedantry.
> Again, not sure how any policies will stop opensource code from being run.

There is already a bill in circulation that would ban the "import" of Chinese artificial intelligence technology and you can be sure that this means you won't be able to download the DeepSeek app or download its model:

https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-introduces-legislation-...

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/deepseek-users-could-face-...

The stated penalties are up to "20 years in prison and a $100 million fine."

This bill likely is an early one but this is the direction that many want to head in.
I experienced this with my older child. Ever since he could begin to talk he seemed to have exceptional memory, seemingly recalling things from even before he had words to describe them. But somewhere between 3 and 4 it's like there's been some culling of memories where a lot of things he would have known if you asked him on this third birthday he's seemingly forgotten by his 4th.

Not enough to be concerned of any cognitive things, and he still otherwise seems to have an excellent memory.
> noone recovers wastewater energy,

You seem to have concluded energy use for hot water cannot go lower by excluding any approach that would lower it, not because it's physically impossible, but simply because such technology isn't being used.

Isn't this a vacuous argument?
Do you actually know anything about his life? I don't know how you can make that assumption at all.
Unremarked is that while those examples are visually impressive, they're also unhelpful.
No idea, honestly. Normally I'd think a few minutes at a time of barefoot jogging on a soft surface isn't likely to hurt and might help.
https://x.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1904221405618577650

> [National Security Council] statement: "At this time, the message thread that was reported appears to be authentic, and we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain. The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the Houthi operation demonstrates that there were no threats to our servicemembers or our national security." - NSC Spokesman Brian Hughes

And from the article, practical verification:

> According to the lengthy Hegseth text, the first detonations in Yemen would be felt two hours hence, at 1:45 p.m. eastern time. So I waited in my car in a supermarket parking lot. If this Signal chat was real, I reasoned, Houthi targets would soon be bombed. At about 1:55, I checked X and searched Yemen. Explosions were then being heard across Sanaa, the capital city.

And today, confirmation from Trump:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-stands-na...

> "Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man," Trump said Tuesday in a phone interview with NBC News.

> When asked what he was told about how Goldberg came to be added to the Signal chat, Trump said, “It was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.”
> People protecting titles by putting an arbitrary barrier associated with possessing a piece of paper rather than actually having skill and knowledge should be treated with scorn in my opinion.

What’s your solution then? No attempt at providing professional standards at all?

Systems made by people will always be flawed. That is the reason for and criticism of certification and regulation.
> So did I end up saving any time by building this?
Honestly no lol — it took way longer to build it than to just solve the bugs.

Love the honesty. Don’t tell me it can pay off the in the long run
Most consumer apps today don’t serve the user.
They serve engagement loops, ad models, or vanity metrics.

But what if the next generation of software didn’t optimize for time spent?
What if it optimized for human well-being?

Not "digital detox." Not "go outside."
I mean actual tools—designed with intention—that help us:

Think more clearly

Connect more deeply

Escape compulsive use loops

Have conversations instead of perform for attention

Use tech without feeling like it’s using us

We’ve normalized design patterns that train the brain like a slot machine.
But what happens when we start building tech that trains for presence, not addiction?

It seems like the next wave won’t be “anti-tech,” but pro-conscious-tech.
Thoughtful systems, not just minimal ones.
Fewer dopamine traps. More signal. More silence. More agency.
Sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mindfuse_app/
Website: https://mindfuse.io/our-story
Appstore: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/mindfuse/id6476620258
With all due respect to Dr. Lamport, whose work I greatly admire, I take issue with his example of the max function. The problem he sets up is “what to do with an empty sequence.” He proceeds to handwave the integers and suggest that negative infinity is the right value. But in realistic use cases for max, I want to assume that it produces a finite number, and if the inputs are integral, I expect an integer to pop out.

Apologies to Lamport if he addresses this later; this is where I quit watching.

There are basically two ways out of this, that I’m aware of: either return an error, or make the initial value of the reduction explicit in the function signature, i.e.:

max(x, xs)

And not

max(xs)
> no incentive to trickle anything down...

Of course you are not hoping they will do out of their good of their hearts.

They would naturally want to enrich themselves, and one way to do that is launch new business and employ people, which in turn leads to the transferring back of the wealth to the people. In this manner, this also boosts economy in ways that a simple tax hike would not.
"no filters", "what you see is what you get", "tells it like it is" has been said about a lot of pathological liars. I don't really get it. People said the same thing about Trump. There seems to be this thought that people who are saying extreme things must be telling the truth, and the rest of us are merely thinking extreme things but we filter it out. No, I am not thinking those things. I do not to apply some social filter to prevent myself from doing Nazi salutes. The reason I don't do Nazi salutes is that I have no desire to be a Nazi. He's genuinely just a liar and an awful human being.

I'd much rather live in a world where the fascist lying sociopaths are under societal pressure to hide their true selves, rather than the one where they can openly do Nazi salutes and threaten to jail their political opponents. Give me the walking PR machine any day.
But nobody can give you more time.

Thread makes a good point that everyone should be evaluating their time investment in work vs. their potential upside, especially if they're sacrificing time to other aspects of life. (Relationships, family, travel, etc)

Giving everything you've got with a potential huge reward = risky but possibly worth it

Doing the same without a huge reward = you're a sucker, because your company is getting more from you than they're giving
maybe you actually have a MITM proxy stealing all of your traffic and keystrokes
Commercial VPNs are often blocked too. I found a p2p vpn to my home network + ssh socks5 proxy to work well.
I wonder if they had 3 CEOs because the name means 3 stars in korean
It requires only a little bit of imagination to figure which industries are most likely to be disrupted by AI. If you calculate the size of those industries, the upside is huge. Let's pick transportation and healthcare: we already have Waymo and probably in the future Tesla offering competitive autonomous drivers, and our current LLMs already surpass doctors in diagnosis accuracy. So why, I ask, why would you possibly think those industries won't be disrupted? Do you really think people will stick with mediocre doctors if they can use AI? Or that they will pay a premium for a human driver? Come on.
https://ann-benchmarks.com/
Low interest rates.
How sad. I'm sure your kids will speak fondly of how you missed major milestones in their lives so you could help Elon land himself on Mars. Imagine the headstone "Absent father but hey he wrote a kernel that handled Starship's fuel mixing servos."
I avoid AV1 sources for anything I care about, because of film grain synthesis.
this ^

GSSAPI can be more secured than public/private key if configured right.
Multi-mode transceivers used to be a lot cheaper than single mode, but now they're around the same price for short distances. From what I can tell, most datacenters appear to be making the switch to single mode even for in-room networking.
SR-71 Blackbird Speed Check Story (2018)
Southeast as well (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, etc). I don't know much about South and West Asian cultures
What a great way to remember your wedding!
The Army wants to get the load soldiers carry down to 55 pounds
Anyone else unjustified blocked by TecharoHQ/anubis?
Experience a silly 'Oh noes!' page and no help in the bug tracker ( 'we are new and experimental, pls. contact your sysadmin' ). Affected site: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME .
Not a dishwasher story, but related. We bought a whirlpool washer and dryer set and hated them. The set was one of the few name brand models without WiFi "features" added on. But they were still terrible.

The one highlight is that we learned about the brand Speed Queen from the sales person at Lowe's. She talked them up as being the best, but they aren't sold at any big box store. Speed Queen is only sold through mom and pop shops.

When we dug in and did some research, we found that Speed Queen has the best consumer ratings by a wide margin.

They still produce a fixed drum model for the washer, like the type that whirlpool and maytag used to make decades ago. We put up with the whirlpool for a couple of years, but when we moved we got rid of them and bought a fixed drum style Speed Queen (look for the models marketed as "classic clean"). Best consumer appliance I've ever owned. I expect it to last at least another 20 years.
But not every runner sees improvement in time. so-called non-responders exist at the elite level but I don't recall seeing any analysis as to why some runners run faster and others don't with these carbon-plate shoes.

[edit] a quick search found this article about supershoes and the range of response - see https://run.outsideonline.com/gear/super-shoe-hyper-responde...
I've used it a lot. Great product, emulates subtle device issues very well that Chrome device view doesn't
Yeah, I don't like this approach either. There was a lot of plumbing added to sshd to support pluggable auth methods, and having used a few of them (including TOTP, for instance), I am not really a fan of "extending" publickey.

(Am also not really a fan of having to eventually use a browser for authenticating a terminal session, but that's another problem.)
I have the opposite reaction.
Can it emulate email rendering?
Worried? Their mission is to make sure that AI benefits all of humanity. Surely they must be thrilled that there is a ton of competition undercutting their prices and eating their market share. I bet Sam Altman is popping champagne as we speak.

> We are building safe and beneficial AGI, but will also consider our mission fulfilled if our work aids others to achieve this outcome.

> Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity.

Source: https://openai.com/about/
Oh I wasn't even thinking about those things, but that's really cool! I was thinking more about different CSS implementation behavior, though that's less of a mobile-specific issue and more of a "every browser is different" issue.

I don't have a list of differences off the top of my head, but I regularly find big enough differences that I don't rely on "responsive mode" or even (as mentioned) Apple's iOS simulator (because it does not accurately replicate the real on-iPhone browser rendering, which has bitten me before).
I understand the use case of this, but when I see it I always wonder if, and think I would prefer, some external code generation step instead rather than falling back on macros in the preprocessor. Like an external script or something.
What do you think about trying this with CircuitJS?
In RA.Aid (https://github.com/ai-christianson/RA.Aid) we support normal tool calling, but we also have a our own agent backend called Code Is All You Need.

The way it works is we prompt the LLM to generate code to call the tools directly. We then parse the AST to validate it and restrict it to a very small/safe subset (whitelisted function calls.)

HF smolagents does something similar and there are a few papers out there validating the approach.
> What should be done?

You should research your appliances better before purchasing them.

Also I guess they should be less user-hostile, good luck with that.
Its going to be funny to see the cognitive backlash when it comes out that Elon has a serious ketamine addiction and has essentially been a drug addled raving lunatic for the past half decade.
Not yet! Really looking forward to it. Their development pace is hard to keep up with.
You can dynamically create events with custom Google Calendar links
Show HN: Surf – open-source Web Access for LLMs
SURF (Search Utility & Reading Framework) is an open-source API that bridges LLMs with the web. It provides a standardized interface for web search and content processing that preserves formatting of tables, code, and complex layouts.

Key features:
- Multiple search providers (SearXNG, DuckDuckGo, Brave)
- HTML cleaning and smart content extraction
- Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for Claude and other AI assistants
- Self-deployable with minimal setup (Docker, bare metal, cloud)
- API key authentication

I built this to make it easier to add web capabilities to LLM applications without complex web scraping code, with emphasis on proper content formatting and attribution.

Repository: https://github.com/44za12/surf
As my flight instructor told me "It is better to be on the ground wishing you were flying than flying and wishing you were on the ground."
Would you agree to calling him and Trump authoritarian or in support of moving towards an authoritarian regime, then? It is "characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law." Musk's role is in "Ill-defined executive powers, often vague and shifting, used to extend the power of the executive." (Juan Linz, An Authoritarian Regime: Spain, also yes I'm quoting from wikipedia because why not).
vp9 is widely used (e.g. YouTube is mostly vp9, av1 and fallback h264) and not much worse
Lost me at "A new program is needed on the client". Completely.
Wayland? Mainline Surface Flinger already.
> I recently built a small iOS app for myself. I can install it on my phone directly from Xcode but it expires after seven days because I’m using a free Apple Developer account. I’m not trying to avoid paying Apple, but there’s enough friction involved in switching to a paid account that I simply haven’t been bothered.

Nope, screw that. I am trying to avoid paying Apple, considering I already paid them once for the phone.

Web apps > all. It's the one thing that actually meets the "write once, run anywhere" condition.
> every time you retrieve a memory from long-term storage, it gets re-encoded before it goes back to storage

I don't know how literal you're being (e.g. read once, fully overwrite previous), but it's a good model for "reinterpreting past events, with a new perspective".

This may be a tool/strategy for therapists -- I've spent zero hours in clinical psychology classes.

But anecdotally, very few people are open to reflecting on past events with greater charity for the remembered villain of the story. :)
A modern day lynching; horrible
I agree, but GPS for knowledge work does sound like something that will pan out to be a big industry, right?
Can generative AI write contextual text descriptions?
I think search has killed experiences like this but enabled other areas that have made it better, such as allowing communities to figure out things years after release (like speedrunners for instance). It only takes self control not to search, so I don’t see it as a problem or a black/white thing. It’s just way different.
I would say GPT correctly identified the locations of about half the videos - I probably could have bumped that up a bit with a bit more prompt engineering, but there are also a good chunk of them where that wasn't able to be inferred from the metadata. There were a few where I had to kina play GeoGuessr to find where it was.

I did do a manual check of everything to add in any GPT missed, and double check the ones that it did get.
How censored are Quad9? I find it annoying when DNS providers try to cut me off from foreign news services so if I were to switch I'd like to know that they won't.
The bulk of roto-rooter calls to clear home sewer lines of tree roots happens during winter.
Looking at the output, which is impressive, I want to see this pipeline applied to splats. Dense point clouds lose a bunch of color and directional information needed for high quality splats, but it seems easy to imagine this method would work well for splats. I wonder if the architecture could be fine tuned for this or if you’d need to retrain an entire model.
You can pay at most online websites straight from your bank account in Europe?
Folksy management sayings inevitably compel me to innocently ask inconvenient questions.

Because either (a) the person using them really knows their shit and will have a response or (b) they're just full of shit.