skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> instead of cheering that this era is ending, they seem to be all upset about it and want their collar to be put back on.

> Help me understand this

The answer is money.

All the get-rich-quick schemes/scams are coming from the US. For a very current example, look not further than Tesla vs Volkswagen valuation.

That level of dollars valuations that are completely detach from reality, and the capacity of getting real, tangible, value out of the scheme before it collapses as a house of card, is orders of magnitude above what you can get elsewhere in the world.

Hence the elites want to continue having access to that market, domestic market be damned.
This is amazing—made even more impressive by the fact that the author is just 15 years old!

Also, it's nice to see this mentioned:

> For this 10k-word write-up, I spent around a month finishing up the main parts, and refining/editing it took an extra while. Writing this is indeed a painful process. I spent the entire day on the weekend and 4-5 hours during the rest of the week working on it for around two weeks.

It's the kind of behind-the-scenes effort that often goes unspoken.
I'm not sure I understood...

Here's a pretty good overview article:
https://benjamintoll.com/2022/02/04/on-running-systemd-nspaw...
These days, LinkedIn may be ruining that network because of the sheer noise in it all.
Missed opportunity not calling it LegaC.
In general, I find Rust very readable. The areas I do find I struggle are generics and lifetimes, and I don't think it's a feature of Rust syntax that makes me struggle and is instead the fact that people tend to use non-descriptive names for lifetimes or generics. It's hard to pick apart a trait that has four generics name T, U, V, and W, or lifetimes 'a, 'b, and 'c.

Usually people will try to make it the first letter of something meaningful, but it is still much harder to parse.

My own preference is to use more descriptive names except in trivial cases. Having the lifetime mirror a struct member name or a parameter name is really helpful for understanding them, in my opinion.
Sorry, but none of this makes any sense to me. First rare wildlife, now lost colleagues? Tenerife has a mountain rescue service with helicopters and off-roaders.

Having empathy is great, but it still most likely that the availability of ultra-bright lamps is causing people to use them unnecessarily. There is an abundance of evidence that artificial light hurts natural ecosystems, not to mention inconveniencing astrophotographers, and I don't think it's unreasonable to take a dim view of those who use bright lights in uninhabited environments like this.
Sarah C. Paine, the professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College. I'm not aware of what you're talking about.
Indeed. There were probably a lot of January purchases (pre-salute and salute fallout) that were delivered in February; and that was only the start.
Honestly, Trump has said so many things that you can probably find everything and the opposite of everything coming out of his mind.

Yes, I do agree that we had been warned and since the Ukrainian invasion defense budgets of European countries increased. I also think such an abrupt change of mind from the US hurts both sides and nobody earns anything from it. Except Russia.

Even if European cointries increased spending before, the situation is changing in such a way that even nuclear weapons - something that almost no European country would have wanted if they already hadn't had them - are being taken into consideration to be developed as a nuclear umbrella from France towards other European countries.
Is there still a queue to buy a tesla?
> "wow, this is so unoptimized, I'll stick to coding in assembly for my career since nobody will ever use compilers for serious work"

I’m sure somebody said that, but I don’t think it was a common sentiment.

Rather, people said that there were still some cases that required some assembly programming. And it is true. It’s just a niche. One they gets smaller over time. If you are a generalist it makes sense to retrain. If you are a specialist, there’s some level of socialization where you can get away with continuing to program assembly.
OTOH, with dedicated servers you can have bad neighbors in the same rack, but with VPS you can have bad neighbors in the same server. I'm using both dedicated servers and VPS on Hetzner, and, anecdotally, I see more consistent network latency on dedicated servers than on VPS.
I see. Thanks for the html-to-markdown though, I used to just copy paste either the whole HTML or select all text on a website and feed that into LLMs but it is such a waste of context and it does not work as well. Claude has a specific format and simonw has a project that converts source code (?) to the format Claude "likes". I think it supports more than just Claude (?).
There are more Trump supporters here than you probably realize. They just aren’t ones to wear their political affiliation as a badge for approval, and aren’t as loud, generally.
Have you ever found your opinions of things, including people’s relative worth changing over time? Perhaps as you had time to understand the context, or as time revealed the benefit of an action that wasn’t so clear initially?
China's evolving punk scene draws a new generation of fans
> Our user-friendly interface, comprehensive API, and flexible pricing also set us apart from competitors.

Where's the documentation for your API? The `Documentation` link doesn't navigate anywhere right now.
>Government deficit.

And where does that come from? Obviously, it should come from the people of the country or its natural resources.

But we don't like to say that, do we?
Translation from corpo-legalese: Big Corp avoids any responsibility, normal citizen the big loser.
No ARM?
No, thanks.
It's the trillion dollar question that get discussed on HN a lot. My intuition:

- Private $ market: EU is decades behind the US in private capital management and the appetite for risk. In the US, it is not uncommon to raise $20M on an idea. In the EU (at least until recently), you'd raise literally 10X less.

- Piling effect: companies grow quickly by selling their product to the previous generation of growing companies: internet -> mobile -> cloud -> AI. Each wave feeds the next one, all currently centered in the US.
Perhaps something that highlights the limited scope of a test's predictive power? E.g. for a test run on Facebook "This test is likely to be very useful for a another Facebook ad campaign with the same parameters, and at least somewhat useful for a Google ad campaign with equivalent parameters".
They aren't: https://github.com/GossiperLoturot/densemap
> Not sure how much that's true. EU spends billions buying US military hardware such as the Reaper.

The thing is, West Germany alone had about 3000 tanks at the end of the Cold War, and reunified Germany nowadays has 300. Navies and air forces have been run to the ground across Europe, even the nuclear forces of UK/FR are nowhere near what they had once been.

The expectation over the last decades, especially after the pacification of the Balkans, was that open war would not return to Europe any time soon - on the one side because almost all European countries were either members of the EU, EEA or Schengen and thus were likely to more integrate instead of going back to 19th century fiefdom wars, and on the other side because the only realistic opponent was Russia... which we thought we could handle by "peace by trade".
This alone does not explain why new leaders do not emerge from Europe.
Wow, this a great analysis. Never thought of it that way. Very interesting!

I think it's also true that the reality that software lives within or tries to model, always exceeds to capability of that model itself (at least for anything of significant complexity). Software has limits in other words to how good and bug free it can be. Reality will always win in the limit, and you get bugs and designs that deviate from a 'perfect' ideal.

What do you think?
My comment above was written in response to an earlier version of the comment above it.

That original version was phrased as to blame farmers for the plight of Brexit, as if a small group who voted more or less in line with with the nation made any kind of difference.

Did farmers have it far worse after Brexit than the average Brit?

My understanding is the nation as a whole suffered, with the exception of well off Brits with significant off shore assests.
> What Europe didn’t understand or didn’t want to understand was the US agenda differs from Europe agenda , always has.

France would disagree with the "didn't understand" part. They have been continuously ridiculed for holding that view, until very, very recently.
Yeah, I like that definition too: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/
I hear a lot of astrophotographers take many short-exposure (5-10s) photos and then stich them together in POST. Missing 1 of possible 100 photos in OK I think?

Keeping in mind that you photographing a specific thing in the sky, not the startrails, as missing a frame will be very visible there.
> The service that many private weather services provide is to aggregate and weigh all of the publicly available datasets

Yes, and more people need to understand this. Too many people seem to think that commercial services won’t be impacted if NOAA stops doing what they do.
Ask HN: Which open-source and/or local LLMs do you use and for what?
I want to try some open-source and/or local LLMs. Which models do you use and what are they best at? I've looked on GitHub for "awesome-lists" but nothing was really maintained.

It would be useful if you included the number of tokens per second and your CPU/GPU so that other readers know what to expect, too.
I don't care about points, but I find however that very interesting for getting downvoted. As someone who has traveled the world and lived on different continents, I thought my comment would be pretty obvious. But it isn't for a majority, and I truly wonder who is disagreeing then:

1- I believe that Americans overall, whether left or right, let alone far right, can't disagree with that statement - that Europe doesn't (didn't) take its security seriously and Americans don't want to be involved anymore

2- Europeans? I don't know, maybe some still live in their bubble and all is good? Reading some of the comments, I can see such people but that's certainly surprising to see a majority

3- And then the rest of the world ... the ROTW doesn't care much about what's happening in Europe, and climate change is the least of many people's problems.
With all those sweeping upgrades to artificial generational technologies, a time will come where no one will trust audio-visual clues and evidence collection will be solely focused on DNA fingerprints.
Wasn't Elon part of the campaign to boycot bud light because he didn't like an ad?

So now people are boycotting Tesla for destroying American government and promoting fascism in Europe.
Depends on smartphone (and smartwatches). Not all have it, at times it disappeared from brands that had it earlier.

The smartwatch series I use explicitly include it because it's essentially the "all in one" version in a series that had smartwatches designed for aircraft use (including military versions where they serve as backup cabin pressure warning, apparently)
https://archive.is/UjNZz
I remember there was once great company that had supplied first rate scientific equipment, great printers and other things. Now we have a healthy racket business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Lilienthal
Smartphones are poison for boys' minds
IMO, even more important than funding is that NASA rockets are now designed by Congressional committee. It’s hard to innovate when you’re pressured into reusing Shuttle components to keep the money flowing to specific contractors.
>The police did catch the Golden State Killer by scavenging a used coffee cup or somesuch, however.

And it required detectives to follow him around until he left whatever it was that was adequately isolated. It's a little different from a database of 7 million.
Helpful infornmation about touch icons
Who broke Engima -- the German encryption used during WWII?

Polish mathematicians.

Depends on who you want to credit I suppose. Such huge tasks are usually accomplished in bits by many people.
Back in January I was planning on getting a Model 3 around now. Probably I'll get an Ioniq 6 now.
> I understand MCP, the problem it solves, and why it seems a good idea

I don't.

Can you ELI5 why it's a good idea for me?

I see what people are doing (1), and I see what the intent is (2), but no one seems to have an explanation of why it helps.

The original MCP documentation has some vague hand waving about (3) about having prompts that would help ... with, something. ...but I don't see it in practice.

?

Is this why people are asking "does this actually work?"

...because, its obviously not any better than the 'tool use' API that everyone was already using. It can't be. It doesn't do anything differently.

I would bet that it actual makes agents less capable when you overload their context with unrelated tools that aren't relevant. Right?

How can it possibly help?

It sounds a lot like it rests on the assumption that adding tools is a zero-cost zero-impact +capability action only, but that can't be true.

(1) - https://github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers

(2) - https://modelcontextprotocol.io/quickstart/server#what%E2%80...

(3) - https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/concepts/prompts
NOAA marine forecasts and FAA integration is critical infrastructure for marine transportation and aviation. If they shut that down it will result in direct losses much larger than NOAAs budget, and thousands of lives lost through disaster and workplace accidents.

I sure hope those “smart” people are capable of understanding that.
They offer managed PaaS services such as databases, logging, secrets management.
They also offer quite some managed SaaS services like ServiceNow or soon SAP Rise. These are not (yet) advertised on their website.
Show HN: Build 2D and 3D apps without coding. Triplex for VS Code now in beta!
Launch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEvvJ5Siff8

Hey folks! I've been working on Triplex for a few years now. It started out as a CLI app, then moved to a Standalone app, and now a VS Code extension.

The focus has been on reducing friction for coders, so getting as close to their code as possible is where Triplex for VS Code was born. It lets you open any React component (both 2D and 3D) and edit it with visual and input controls. If those controls aren't the right tool for the job you can jump down to code and keep working there, when you save Triplex gets synced and you can keep working however you want.

There's a few hundred people using Triplex now, with small and steady growth. Keen for anyone here to give it an install, open a component, and build awesome shit with it. If you have any thoughts or feedback for me would love to hear it.

Cheers,
Douges
Why anyone bought HP printers in the last decade is beyond me. They aren't even good printers.
Job applications already get inunduated with hundreds, thousands of candidates, of which 90% are bots submitting for canddiates. Some companies are resorting to the dreaded video submissions to filter that out, but even that may not be safe long term.

Photos may not be the final solution to this flood of automation, but it's being dabbled with.
People were doing this in the days of printed phone books. There would be an "AAA Plumbers", "ABC Taxis" and so on.

Reputedly, "Apple Computers" coming ahead of "Atari" (Jobs' ex-employer) in the phonebook was one of the reasons for Apple being Apple.
That's an interesting take! Complexity is necessary defensiveness. Exactly - a lot of it can be that. Like well-designed complexity. Complexity because of the model. Whereas maybe we can say 'bad complexity' is complexity in spite of the model.

I guess this is exacerbated in waterfall type designs or processes without iterative feedback loops. I like to code with tight loops to know the behavior and adapt.
> You're correct that this election was more lost by the Democrats than won by the Republicans, but Trump didn't actually get the popular vote.

What do you mean? In 2024, Trump indisputably won the popular vote - as in, he had more total popular votes than any other candidate (77.3 million votes compared to 75 million votes to Kamala, and nowhere remotely close for anyone else), which is what "winning a vote" means. In 2016 you're right that Hillary won the popular vote but still lost the presidency, but that's a different matter. And you're also right that he could have lost the popular vote again and still won the presidency, but that's irrelevant to the question of whether he did win or not.
The internal refugees in Syria occurred because of multi-year drought. Burma, 2008, was a cyclone. Leaving out some theories on proxy war is like leaving out any other kind of challenge.
> and they wanted to extort even more money and dependence from EU

Trump wants countries to lower tariffs and not steal US jobs. So he hits them with reciprocal tariffs and dis-incentives for making stuff out of US.
Trump does not want other countries to think US will defend them. So he makes it clear to them.

What is this deal about extortion and increase dependence?
Wow, that's more of a rabbit hole than I realized. There are more claims to first flight than are even listed in these threads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_the_first_airplane_f...
Usually I try to tie the clusters to some kind of a bottom line metric. It's not always possible though.

To be honest I am not a big fan of segmentation as is, since it results in a set of subjective decisions when both deciding number of clusters and their interpretation.

An alternative is DBSCAN which comes up with natural clusters, but its also not 100 % foolproof as it has a group of unclusterables which at times ends up too high.
Well i kinda did. Not anymore. It ran dry.
The Nature preprint references this zenodo archive with data and code in a big 13GB .tar file: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13158382

I haven’t downloaded it to see what’s in it.
"It is the destiny of computers to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for all people pervasively networked
worldwide."

JCR Licklider initially called it the intergalactic network, now know as the internet.

>We can build something else

Some of us tried (with internet fish swimming around) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM

https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf
bootc is a great evolution for rpmostree IMO. Fedora Atomic had decent build tooling, but all of that was thrown away for Fedora CoreOS due to the ignition use. I was never a can of Fedora CoreOS but I really liked Atomic.

This seems to be a sensible pivot back the other direction. We don't need the CoreOS parts that never really delivered any value. And now building an system image is a simple as writing the container file.

This way of doing things probably offers little to the average Linux user. However, it's a great model for distributing 'appliance' images, or having transactional updates on your servers. In the cloud, transactional updates aren't that big of a deal, you can do a rolling replace of your instances. On bare metal machines, doing in-place transactional updates is a big win.

Rancher also has an interesting project called Elemental. It seems to be a little more portable for other distros, but I haven't played around with it.
It's also possible that people who were interested in buying a Tesla are not interested in buying a car from a man who will sig heil twice in public. There are actually still a lot of people that find Nazis revolting.
No one claimed he won the majority of the vote though. The claim was just that he "won the popular vote" (this time, in 2024, not in previous elections). And winning a plurality is winning the vote, in almost all electoral systems (of course, the popular vote is ultimately meaningless in the USA, but that doesn't mean we should apply some other arbitrary threshold for what it means to win it).
Build your own S3-Select in 400 lines of Rust – DataFusion is ALL YOU NEED
I really hope other EV brands are picking up the lost sales, rather than demand being displaced back to ICE vehicles. Hating the owners of Tesla stock is one thing, but the owners of oil & gas stocks are far worse.
> protecting [people] from themselves

I finally understand what exactly I dislike in Apple. It's an authoritarian company.
What is the point of it?
I'm not a fan of any car company. Especially ones that eschew buttons for a touchscreen. I am however looking forward to see how the new Ramcharger does (RAM 1500 with all-electric drivetrain (145mi) and built-in V6 generator for extended range (690mi)).
Of course a 100% drop would be better, but at least it's a move in the right direction. (No pun intended)
I think we can say that a successful airplane was inevitable in the early 20th century because of the other work being done in the field at the time. Other designs were getting close, but didn't quite have the necessary combination of power to weight and lift to drag. The most important innovation from the Wrights was the realization that aerodynamic roll control was necessary; it's harder to say how many years would have been needed for someone else to try that.

That's not to say the same thing is true for any other invention or technological advance.
Maybe their actual interests are different from what others think they should be.
i'm looking forward to seeing the hard numbers on the april 29th earnings call
My 5th grader vibe-coded a daily spelling game
Hey Hacker News,

My 5th grader wanted a fun way to study for his upcoming spelling bee, so he came up with the idea for Spellingbzz (www.spellingbzz.com)—a daily spelling game inspired by Wordle but with a spelling bee twist. He designed it, and of course, I helped with some of the coding to bring it to life.

Check it out, he'd love some feedback.
I mean, sure, it'd be disruptive. That is, unfortunately, the nature of current geopolitics. There are a lot of companies who'll currently be having serious unexpected conversations about tariffs, say (if you have a profit margin of 3% and your main input has just had a 25% tariff slapped on it, then you'll be looking at big changes, more or less immediately, or else going out of business).

If the wheels come off the current arrangements that let European businesses operate on US-owned cloud services, then a lot of companies will be having similar conversations. Those companies who've investigated this _before_ the wheels come off will be in better shape. Some companies have been investigating and/or actively doing this for _years_.
> that Europe jails people for thought crime at a much higher rate than US or even Russia

> Right now, my data is more private in US than in most of Europe.

Could follow the train of thought until it catastrophically derailed in the last three sentences..
I think it’s replacing data assimilation. Ingesting observation data from lots of sources. Not replacing observations themselves.