skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this really matter?

That 100KB feed is served by GitHub Pages, which should be pretty efficient - it gets gzipped and comes with ETags/last-modified headers, so good feed readers should be able to access it efficiently.

As a consumer of Atom feeds I find whole content feeds like that quite convenient, provided they don't get into the thousands of entries.

(Fun aside: I got the new Gemini 2.5 Pro to write me a quick Python script to confirm that GitHub Pages does indeed support gzip and ETag/last-modified: https://gist.github.com/simonw/7f6b167bd8288dccfbebbaf7e143e... )
I think it depends on what you mean by “engage.” Hell, I was morbidly shy in high school, so I would virtually never talk, but I was engaged with the material. It’s not a one-size-fits-all proposition. With class sizes being what they are, the best I can usually do is kind of figure out 2-3 groups of students based on types and intensities of engagement and manage from there.
Yes and it's verifiable via the leaked signal messages from VP Vance and SecDef Hegseth.
>Well, of course by losing the global throne us will lose a lot, the biggest economy in the world can't (like, it won't happen, not like legally can't) literally be like Switzerland that is surrounded by more or less allies and doesn't have to protect much of its global interests.

The US economy was doing great prior to WW1/WW2, back when we deliberately tried to stay out of European geopolitics.

>By the way, your rants make me think you're spending a bit too much time online, online you'll find a lot of people just bashing whatever you say in a rude way

You didn't argue against tossandthrow. I don't see any Europeans arguing against him, in fact. I think a lot of Europeans think like he does.
The ability to cope with boredom is an essential skill, and boredom is a necessary aspect of life. Great ideas come from boredom. Great questions do too. Boredom is not the problem, attention spans are.

Not to mention, who actually cares? Not every aspect of learning is going to be fun. Sometimes you have to sit down and memorize times tables, or read about an important historical event you just have zero passion for. That’s okay.

As for the screen-time, it’s not about having enough hours in the day, it’s about the concerns regarding what this is doing to kids. Losing out on interaction with your parents because they throw the iPad at you when they’re tired of parenting is probably affecting kids in some unknown way. If it were just an hour a day, probably nobody would be complaining about it.

As for kids thinking college or grades somehow obstruct their future… I have no idea how you overcome such ignorance. I’m actually at a loss for that one.
How can you see this? I don't see it.
Just adding to the praise: I have a little test case I've used lately which was to identify the cause of a bug in a Dart library I was encountering by providing the LLM with the entire codebase and description of the bug. It's about 360,000 tokens.

I tried it a month ago on all the major frontier models and none of them correctly identified the fix. This is the first model to identify it correctly.
Sheltered young people learn that work isn't a Disney cruise.
Sorry about that. Fixed now!

https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
While I prefer the aesthetics of only an initial capital in the title, title case in prose helps us distinguish the title from the rest of the sentence.
> There's no denying the place of Christianity in European history, but that doesn't mean that the good things about our societies are due to Christianity.

Well, the elimination of slavery, and development of human rights (every human is a 'child of God', whether king or peasant). Which is tied in with the concept of individualism:

* https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/27/inventing-indi...

The modern idea of science needed certain metaphysical assumptions that weren't really present in many other religions (and to the extent they were present in philosophy, aspects of said philosophy(s) were often mainstreamed by Christianity (e.g., Aristotle)):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)#Provid...

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:God_the_Geometer.jpg

And where "science" (or what passed for it at the time) existed elsewhere, it often withered or was snuffed out; the invention of the telescope was transformational in Europe, but not so much in Muslim lands, Mughal India, or Imperial China:

* https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/intellectual-curiosity-...

Various legal forms were promulgated by the Church (including that the authorities themselves were not (notionally) above the law: not something you'll find with (e.g.) the Chinese Emperor), as were universities:

* https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo562094...

And if they were not due to Christianity, I'd say [citation needed] on how they developed otherwise. And more than developed, but became 'mainstream' thinking in many parts of the globe (though certainly not universally, as Chinese Uyghurs are experiencing).
This is the type of thing that can get you on jail or even (quietly) killed during a normal US administration. I'm not surprised Goldberg GTFO intermediately.
People who have migrated a large enough production codebase to Svelte 5, what's your devex like?
oh it is most definitely a blog, by every possible definition of it
> The closest in modern times may be Hillary Clinton's email server being used for government business.

Wait, there's more!! https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/cummings-jared-kushner...
I've been defaulting to Claude 3.7 Sonnet for a while now as it produces Python and JavaScript that fit my personal tastes, but to be honest I'd expect any of the leading models (GPT-4o/4.5/o1/o3, Gemini 1.5 or 2.0 or 2.5, probably the larger Llamas) to be able to do this well.

Dumping a chunk of HTML or JSON directly into a model and saying "write something that converts this to format X" tends to just work in my experience.
The parent Twitter post mentions:

Available as experimental and for free right now in Google AI Studio + API, with pricing coming very soon!

And the pricing page [1] still does not show 2.5 yet.

[1]: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing
I'm not aware of a good alternative right now. I used to use Firefox but the performance was abysmal on Linux, and they blew up the android experience - might be fixed now. There's no built in ad block and something about the sync has always given me pause. Chrome obviously has no ad blocking built in, now they're removing the best extension ad blocking, and I very much dislike how they tie it to your Google account. Safari only works on macos.

So if I want to recommend a browser to people that has easy ad blocking, is very likely to work on their device, and is fast and works as expected, then it's Brave. It could be Edge if only MS could bring themselves to not fill it with gumph nobody wants to see.

Everything on the list is pretty much who cares tbh. I don't like the founders political position but I probably don't like a lot of CEOs political positions if I knew about them. The other things are all mistakes, bugs, or stupid ideas in the crypto features that I would guess only a tiny tiny percentage of Brave users even turn on. And even then... creators being up in arms about overwritten affiliate links, cry me a river. As an Internet user, fuck affiliate links, just another way to track me and an incentive to try and persuade me to buy shit.
This is very true; I've experienced both extremes.

In one neighborhood there was a yearly block party where we closed the street and cooked out, kids played together in the street consistently and visited each others' houses, neighbors babysat, etc. Everyone on the street knew everyone else's name. Whether this was a suburb is maybe up for debate, I don't know, but it was at least all single family homes.

I moved directly from that to a more rural suburb. Homes were still pretty close to each other - nobody had much land - but there were no sidewalks and the neighborhood was a network of cul de sacs. I knew the last names of my two next door neighbors but only talked to them maybe three times in about ten years. I knew of some people ("a fire chief for a nearby town lives in that house, that one has a family") but that's really it.

My assumption is that this is getting worse over time as entertainment gets more and more individually catered. Basically _Bowling Alone_ but moreso and as the most civically-minded people die off. Not sure if there's anything individuals can really do about it other than be friendlier with your neighbors
In short if you get several million requests and expect to only get 100 you won't know which are the real requests and which are the AI ones - but it is obvious that the vast majority are AI.
Reverse Slowloris?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(cyber_attack)
Even if this is true, the condition can go as far back as your childhood as well. When it is clear that the organism should be doing something, it does it. If it is somehow not clear, it is likely just not necessary.

A significant confounding factor is the lack of awareness of the productive forces. The average suburban school kid has relatively little idea of how the world works and what workers actually do, and why, in part due to a culture of corporate secrecy.

"No phones in school" can be a stopgap but really produces a dead end arms-race situation, even if it worked for a time. The only solution is to make school genuinely interesting and relevant. Until institutionalized education is no longer interesting and relevant on the face of it.
I think you have to set your expectations low. Even if you have a great idea and/or product, the chance of it standing out in the crowd of other great inventions, are slim.

Start by telling your closest friends and colleagues. Seek feedback. Mention it in a few forums or other technical sites. Do a demo (a short one) and video record it for anyone to view at their leisure.

You will probably be disappointed if you expect some kind of viral response. It does happen, but like being struck by lightning, it doesn't happen often.
I’m raising two kids right now (4 & 6) and I agree with them. Strollers with built-in tablets are abhorrent and shitty parenting.

Learning how to be ‘bored’ is an important part of growing up, and any parent that is not teaching their children that lesson is failing their children.
Is there a meta tag I’m missing on my blog to have my name be consumed into something like this? Curious how they get the names
Largest preserved dinosaur claw unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert
I guess a full time vibe coder would develop an intuition based on experiences with vibe coding and launching stuff and getting feedback. This process would increase their level of understanding and intuition.
A friend of mine studies Chlamydia, which, when intracellular, replicates in a structure called an inclusion. So all of the Chlamydia researchers had to rewrite their proposals to say "parasitophorous vacuole" which had fallen out of favor.
Strongly disagree. You are allowed to create/do things that no one else know about. Share it if you want, keep it to yourself if you don't. Don't let other people dictate to you what you must do in order to be satisfied with yourself.
> There must be thousands of people working at these tech behemoths—many in positions of great responsibility—who are horrified by what their own companies are doing. They need to speak up, and lead by example.

This seems wildly naive. Everyone working at Meta knows that the sum total of their work is giving teen girls depression more efficiently.

They don’t care or they’ve made excuses or they’ve made up a story about how that’s not really what they’re working on - that’s those other people, their work is different.
I’ve got Virgin cable and can pull 6Gb a minute from fast.com. Your hypothetical 50Gb steam game would take a whole 9 minutes assuming steam can saturate my connection. So that’s like enough time to hit start download , make a brew and come back to the pc.
Why bother.
CISA explicitly promoted Signal for use by top level government officials. The fact that an outsider was invited to a conversation they didn't belong in is troubling, but basically nothing else about this seems to be outside of recommended policy.

The administration is also claiming that there was no confidential information in the conversation, which I think is certainly debatable, but the rest of the story seems overblown to me.
Ah, fixed now. Thanks!

https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
That's just phishing.

Signal could make the pairing attack impossible by eliminating the device pairing feature, but that would also reduce its appeal and harm its mission of bringing secure communication to a broad audience. It could add steps to setting up a group chat and inviting additional members to make it less likely users will invite the wrong person, but that, too would hurt its popularity.

Security is a process and a spectrum, not a binary that can be guaranteed by using a certain product or service.
Yeah that was kinda the point. :shrug:
I think things could also 'creep' in the other direction where the group communication becomes overwhelming. The article mentions that someone actually sold an item through the WhatsApp group. My worry would be that the WhatsApp group becomes and meetings turn into Craigslist, where it's people looking for dogsitters and Buy Nothing posts.

The point, if I have one, is that editing and saying no, especially with the technology, will help the group stay together. In person, obviously, neighbors can talk about whatever they like.

In my opinion a broadcast/newsletter would be the better fit for group communication.
If it was 1 or 2, there would be a long Rachel-style post ranting about it and explaining exactly why.

It has to be 3.

And she knows her stuff, so I'm listening. Luckily we don't use atop.
Getting an outgoing dog has a similar impact. Suddenly on every walk our dog wants to meet their dog and we know neighbors we wouldn’t have otherwise. Even more so than our kids and their neighborhood playmates.
Do you have any references that describe this behavior? That sounds like exactly the kind of thing that could conceal a backdoor of the sort this seems to be warning about.
Apple would say that, but I think most Mac users would say Mac. I know I think so and I've been a lifelong user.
CISA explicitly promoted the use of signal by all top government officials.
I'm not familiar with atop but the website mentions netatop is optional and what I've found suggests you have to manually install it. Do you know if any distributions/packages install this by default alongside the atop install?
They've also been targeting cruise liners for the fava beans and chianti.
I started by writing them by hand, but it was taking forever to read enough of each author's blog to write a summary and topic list, so I used an LLM and then spot-checked.

I just updated yours, but let me know if you'd like something different.

https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2...
oh my god.

I literally walked past this group of people a few weeks ago and thought to myself "I should walk up and introduce myself because they seem like they're having a great time".

But I had to rush past.

Next time!
> For the world to benefit from your work, and therefore for you to benefit fully from your work, you have to make it known.

"Fully" seems to be doing a helluva lot of heavy lifting in this piece. Does anyone think that they mean anything other than "making money", as they quickly segue into talking about entrepreneurship and founding businesses?

I'm happy to concede that if you don't tell anyone about the stuff you do, no one will know. But I am not willing to concede that you only "fully" benefit from your work if you sell it. Nor am I willing to concede that work only has value if sold. I'm also not entirely certain the author is pushing those views. Still, something about this piece doesn't sit well with me.

Human endeavors have value beyond the monetary.
yup, actually most that I've seen are impersonating amazon
When I was a kid and got bored I roamed the creek or biked miles around. Sometimes even with a real or bb gun.

All these things now end in arrest or investigation or at the least a Karen stirring up shit, unless you are real rural. I weep for today's kids. You can do almost nothing nowadays what I did as a kid unless your parents are rich enough to not work and accompany you. The parents want to let their boredom drive them to discover the world, but they usually can't. Instead they're locked in with a tablet where a Karen can't snitch on them for being a kid.
Delaware set to soften governance laws on threat of corporate exodus
The real test will be the midterms.
I went to school in Richmond Va. Our flats had big covered porches. Summers there were brutal. The buildings were brick. While sturdy, bricks are excellent. Storing heat and releasing it slowly. None of us had AC. Porch life dominated. Everyone would sit out. Some folk had gliders. I once sat on porch as Dave Brockie strummed away on guitar working out some of his songs

It struck me that no one really did that in San Francisco. For one there are few if any big front porches. For two the damn cold evening fog chases the women inside. It took me a minute to realize the social life was at the corner boozer.
I see this kind of argument fairly frequently, and it just always seems like such a surface-level argument against prompting AI in this way.

This isn't a dig at you specifically, but the pithy answer to this kind of skepticism is, in a general sense: So what? I don't believe you have any of that either.

Obviously you & chatGPT aren't built the same, but in a practical-results kind of way in this scenario you are, because you're almost certainly unable to completely avoid your preconceived biases when asked any kind of complex question. You aren't aware of your subconscious biases, or how they're weighted against your overall thought process, and you can't tell me exactly what it is that happens when I ask you to try to ignore them. If we did some kind of implicit association test and found one of your subconscious biases, you may not even know how those biases came to be.

All of that to say: chatGPT can ignore its training as much as many people can ignore theirs: Not very well, but it'll certainly adjust the responses towards the thing you asked them to.
Wow, the optimistic UI example is so simple: https://svelte.dev/docs/svelte/$derived#Overriding-derived-v...

I wonder what Ryan Carniato, the author of Solid, thinks of it.
EU paves the way for iPhones and Android devices to ditch USB-C
Damn I miss the 90s.
Why Is Everything Binary?
TIL about SHRDLU. But regardless, when you say "AI" in 2025, it means something broader than that. The root of the tree may look like trying to pass the Turing test, but many of the leaves don't.

Call it what you want, but there are lots of video processing tools out now with a technology lineage which includes generative/FM/LLM/NN DNA. Not sure about this one, but I know for sure of others.
It's all about the $$$.
You broke the site guidelines badly in this thread, and we've already had to warn you about this before. Moreover, you've been breaking the site guidelines in other threads lately as well.

If this keeps up, we're going to ban you. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
Yeah, I have always firmly maintained that there is less fundamental difference between LLMs and human brains than most people seems to assume.

Going a bit further, I'll speculate that the actions made by a human brain are simply a function of the "input" from our ~5 senses combined with our memory (obviously there are complications such as spinal reflexes, but I don't think those affect my main point). Neural nets are universal function approximators, so can't a sufficiently large neural net approximate a full human brain? In that case, is there any merit to saying that a human "understands" something in a way that a neural net doesn't? There's obviously a huge gap between the two right now, but I don't see any fundamental difference besides "consciousness" which is not well defined to begin with.
Please elaborate. From what I know fascism has components like having the collective prime over the individual, and cult of personality, that Trump's administration does not have.
(Before you think I'm a Trump supporter/fascist, I'm not even American, and my great-grandparents fought Nazis)
Discussion (503 points, 1 day ago, 400 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457666
Why won't they add benchmarks against o1?
Where? They recommended it for members of the public as part of their general recommendation for end-to-end encryption but that’s a very different scenario than government employees who have official systems.
that's probably dalle
How does it match the definition of facism? From what I know fascism has components like having the collective prime over the individual, and cult of personality, that Trump's administration does not have.
(Before you think I'm a Trump supporter/fascist, I'm not even American, and my great-grandparents fought Nazis)
Related EU confirms Apple can make a portless iPhone without USB-C (28 points, 6 days ago, 50 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43411390
1) is possible because it uses some interesting options like nice/mlockall/changing its oom score so if the atop process went out of control your box would probably be fucked.
Json2Protobuf – A JSON to Protobuf parser, encoder and decoder proxy
I figured this might be useful to some of you - more than once I've had a project that uses Protobuf without gRPC, and developing against Protobuf over HTTP services has been a bit tiresome due to lack of tooling - this seeks to solve that issue to an extent. Use a client like Postman or Insomnia to send JSON requests to an HTTP endpoint, specify the protobuf mesaage types, and let this proxy handle the rest. No more manual encoding/decoding/general unwanted friction.
OpenVoice Added to AI Runner
I added experimental support for OpenVoice to AI Runner today. Here's how you can try it out
I get what you (intended to) mean, but living within your means doesn’t leave anything to invest - you just don’t have a growing mountain of debt.
Contrary to apartment buildings where you have to go inside to your unit and there's not a great place to hang out and meet people
You skipped the last section "Tarpits and labyrinths: The growing resistance" of the article.
D'oh! Fixed now.

https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2...

Sorry again!
On the web version, click on the image to make it larger. In the upper right corner, there is an (i) icon, which you can click to reveal the DALL-E prompt that GPT-4o generated.
This to me is the clearest example of why there is no actual physical simulation understanding of the world in these models
Project 2025 was a real proposal written by many people who were in his first administration, working with his campaign, and now his second administration. A significant fraction of the proposals are being implemented: https://www.project2025.observer/
Nick Denton on Betting Against Elon Musk and Aligning with Peter Thiel
It would solve a lot of problems, including taxes spent on all the process, facilities, etc., and to provide services to people who become indigent and sometimes unemployable, and to their dependants.

Through someone in jail unnecessarily for a felony, and now you've taken a productive person and made them negatively productive (in jail) and destroyed most of their productivity when they return (nobody will hire or train them for anything valuable). Now their dependants, such as kids, also lack resources. Family lose not only their futures, but homes, health care, education, ....

Obviously prison is necessary in some cases, but other countries have low crime rates with far less incarceration.