skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Switched from notes to Microsofts cloud thing and Lync, notes was better. We also had hundreds of not thousands of small apps in notes. Supposedly Microsofts solution was going to be much cheaper if everyone got off notes, but we were given to time, budget, framework or even guidance when it came to the apps. Several years later they still paid a lot for notes.
Technically Russia's Plesetsk is in Europe. With hundreds of launches over the last 60 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesetsk_Cosmodrome
I've been working on a documentation system that improves how AI assistants understand project context. The problem I'm solving is that traditional documentation approaches are too fragmented for AI to effectively process.

After struggling with vague outputs from AI coding assistants, I started experimenting with MECE principles (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) to organize technical documentation hierarchically. Think of it as creating a "mental model" for AI rather than just reference docs.

Some early results:
- 40% reduction in back-and-forth iterations with AI assistants
- Much more consistent code style and architectural patterns
- Better preservation of domain knowledge across the project

Currently refining the metadata structure and creating templates for different project types. The system works especially well with Cursor AI and similar assistants that can process structured context.

If anyone else is exploring this space of "AI-optimized documentation," I'd love to exchange notes.
> you are never graded on whether you did your best and honestly report what you observe. From grade school on, you are graded on whether or not the grading authority likes the results you got. You might hope that there comes some point in your career where that stops being the case, but as near as I can tell, it literally never does. Right on up to professorships, this is how science really works.

This, so much this. I disliked any lab work in my science classes (in HS/College) for this exact reason. I can't tell you how many numbers I fudged because I wasn't getting the "right" results and there was no time/appetite/interest in figuring out why it was wrong, my options were lie and get a good grade or report what I saw and get a bad grade.

And yes, in college specifically, the equipment we were working was rough. There was so much of "let's ask the other 2 groups near us and we will all shave our numbers a bit to match/make sense".
It appears to be no longer available, https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkbook/thinkbook-s...
Thanks!

> Split Spanish between Spain and Latin America
Will do!

> Add difficulty levels (consider speaking speed and vocabulary used)

I'm working on splitting it up in easy/normal videos. That should be do-able to assess.

> Ability to select which topics I want the videos to be about (e.g. science, celebrity gossip, AI)

I'm thinking about creating a browser plugin where you can tick a box to automatically import it into Fluentsubs. Or create an exercise from an existing video. It will take minutes before it is fully transcribed but it can be a nice way to prep your own content without people blaming me that I serve biased content.

I'm not sure though if people are willing to install browser plugins. I'm always a bit weiry with plugins that are invasive on websites like YouTube.
How does this compare 'draw reduction' wise with
Chess480 (by John Kipling Lewis) or Chess18
https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/34852/chess480-why...
https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1crd700/thoughts_on_...
Madness, Melancholy, or Murder: An Ancient English Farm's 50-Year-Old Mystery
Yes, there was a race track at Brooklands. Some sections of it are still there including some steep banked track.
WarpStream marketing website with a terminal interface
Certainly fun to use. Maybe you will check the docs/demo more seriously, after you type the command in the UI..
>what’s the difference between the Hanson Scheme and a pyramid scheme?

Transparency is a major difference. Pyramid schemes are also are typically tired.
The cable gets hot after a couple of minutes.
A New Krita Plugin: Kiki Ultimate Digital Painting Companion
Gertrude Ederle: the first woman to swim the English Channel
Stop Expecting a Hammer to Cut Wood
In my view, the lying, demonization, and dismissal of importance were pretty typical for a government scandal. They all play out that way, as the guilty parties try for damage control.

The initial occurrence was spectacularly incompetent in a way that seems to me to be worse than normal.
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they're not hiring 4 engineers, they're hiring a team.

and this isn't just developers, R&D and design are iterative and will require proofing, QA, prototyping -- and that means bodies who can do all of that.
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... and then read The Freeze-Frame Revolution.
The Congress providing mere veneer of a republic isn't convincing. It's called Principate, and it's dictatorship.

A republic is an empire of laws, not men.

This executive is insisting he doesn't have to follow laws he doesn't personally like. A retroactive veto. It's contrary to the oath of office, and the duty to uphold the law. It's stated in the text.

This Congress is already merely decoration, serving an emperor, not their state's interests.

We have many examples of dictatorships with functioning courts.
Yeah, that’s more correct, thanks.
It will have many of the same issues too, common to all ground-effect sea planes, namely that wave height, rogue waves, weather conditions, and the ability of pilots to remain highly focused will be major limiting factors.
> A man powers home for eight years using a thousand old laptop batteries

... a single charge for each?

And speaking of applications that are too smart for their own good, why does Firefox start a drag operation when I click on a link instead of allowing me to select the text?
That fire extinguisher looks ridiculously useless for a setup like this. Good thing it's a separate shed, at least.
Testing the Big Five LLMs: Which AI Can Better Redesign My Landing Page?
One a bike I would prefer to see a rugged socket which would not break from a small amount of sand/dust - it's hard to keep a bike clean unless you ride only on dry and clean roads.
I was thinking something like this:

Have the cricket score site open in a VM or something. Then a webjob can take screenshots and process the screenshot to extract the score.
i'm loving it! added it to my daily tasks now!
You would never do this in a production product. You need batteries with similar internal impedances or undesirable things happen. This is the battery equivalent of the guy who welds two car front ends together and drives it around. It's cool and quirky but not a useful product for most people.
Would probably have far greater than human intelligence though. But with the paperclip maximizer reproductive instincts of a nematode.
Indeed, it is very easy to forget the struggle when one has sacrificed nothing to achieve it.

At least WWII, unlike those preceding it, has a vast well of literature to draw those lessons from. The trouble, however, is not just getting younger people to sit, read and analyze it, but also to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak, with all the propaganda and misinformation to be had these days about the events of WWII, the Holocaust, Hiroshima/Nagasaki and so many other things that would make this list exceptionally long.

Books, are not the same as having lived it, of course. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn put it best in The Gulag Archipelago.

“If it were possible for any nation to fathom another people's bitter experience through a book, how much easier its future fate would become and how many calamities and mistakes it could avoid. But it is very difficult. There always is this fallacious belief: 'It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible.'

Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth.”
Write your next novel in Scrivener
I used to write my undergrad history essays in rhymed couplets because I figured the grad assistant doing the grading would be grateful for a break in the monotony and it was faster and easier than writing an actual good essay. Probably wouldn't work in the LLM era, but it was very effective in the 90's.
https://archive.is/2Y4Pe
love it. but that makes me think that development is no longer the bottleneck —distribution and positioning are. and my bet that the ASim fucntionality will find it place in the current media platfrom.

say, if tiktok launches an ai app store, it won’t be for complex software—it’ll start with low-friction, high-retention apps: ai-powered video enhancements (think face-swaps, lip sync, object replacement) or micro-utilities, something like ASim does.

for platforms, it’s obvious—more engagement, higher monetization, and a new vertical.

for creators, it’s a no-brainer—why funnel traffic to some app store when you can keep users inside tiktok, get them to install, and even monetize directly?

even the infamous 30% app store cut could be creatively sidestepped—imagine launching your own meme coin for in-app purchases instead.
Ask HN: Why do text posts have such low contrast?
I'm curious why this color was chosen.

They look like they're flagged comments. I know my eyesight is getting worse as I get older but I can't be the only one who needs a custom css just to be able to comfortably read the posts.
4o-image lacks zoom-in/pixel-level entropy injection, unlike AI code gen
Show HN: Zig Topological Sort Library for Parallel Processing
I believe the best way to learn a language is by doing an in-depth project. This is my first Zig project intended for learning the ropes on publishing a Zig package. It turns out to be quite solid and performant. It might be a bit over-engineered.

This little library is packed with the following features:

- Building dependency graph from dependency data.
- Performing topological sort on the dependency graph.
- Generating dependence-free subsets for parallel processing.
- Cycle detection and cycle reporting.
I'm actually using a 1600W PSU. 1400W is my target max draw.
This is a dual EPYC (64 core CPU each) system btw. The max draw by the CPU+MB+Drives running at peak 3700MHz without the GPU is 495W! Adding 4x 4090 (underclocked) will quickly get you to 1400W+.
I'm working on the multiplication circuit in the Pentium; I've done a partial writeup: https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-multiplier-adder-reve...
The short answer is that multiplication uses a large tree of adders so it can add up all the long-division terms at once. It also uses base-8 for the multiplier to reduce the number of terms. The adders are 4:2 carry-save compressors that take four numbers as inputs and produce two numbers as outputs.

I also wrote about the Pentium's division circuitry and the infamous FDIV bug: https://www.righto.com/2024/12/this-die-photo-of-pentium-sho...
The short answer is that the Pentium used base-4 SRT division, similar to long division but generating two bits of result per cycle. It used a lookup table to determine the two quotient bits; an error in this table resulted in the bug.
Unless, of course, NDAs prevent you from using outside cloud compute. I'm benchmarking possible on-prem solutions because I know that I'll need an on-prem AI. But yeah, I'm not a normal user.
I'm interested in learning more about the benefits of MECE - I've never heard that before. In particular, it seems radically different from Divio's system [0], which presents the same information in many different ways.

0: https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/
It's a 1600W PSU (Coolmaster 1600 V2 Platinum)
Awareness and appreciation of the utility of humor increases with age and/or maturity.

Ms. Super-serious "I'm in university now and no longer find fart jokes funny" is liable to enjoy them again in her golden years.

There's no surer way to project a lack of self-assuredness than to be the stiff incapable of chuckling at a harmless prank.
From what I've heard, it is more economical to recycle the raw materials than to reuse small packs.

Reuse of vehicle sized packs seems to be pretty common, though. I'd guess that a DIY home backup could be built pretty easily from used vehicle batteries.
It was just 10 years ago too... To me, that underscores is how much of the current situation is bad-faith cultism.
F# is a wonderful language, one that I write as my daily for the second time during my carrier. It _baffles_ me how it isn't more popular than it is because it truly is very very good. And I say this as an experienced and avid functional programmer.

We even do the frontend in it using Fable and Elmish, which is to say: we basically write our frontends in Elm, but the platform is .NET.
This is the real-est static typing that exists. "Static" refers to build time. By definition static types are checked at build time, not run time. If you want types to be checked at run time, that's called "dynamic" typing.
I only took two electronics classes, but in the later one I was the class hero for just buying a bunch of potentiometers on amazon so that we didn't have to waste all of that expensive time sitting around waiting for our turn with the only good one left. It cost me like $10
I'm not sure where, I've just seen some of his videos where he takes apart scooters
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What worked for me was to pick up the guitar every day, and play it for 5 minutes (or more, obviously). No exceptions to the minimum 5 minutes every day rule. I'm pretty good at cowboy chords, barre chords and a bit of blues after around 10 months of this.
Thank you so much! I will let you know when it is ready
Forrest Fenn's Great 21st-Century Treasure Hunt
Make your LLMs worse with this MCP Tool
While reading AI Engineering[1], I was inspired to take a crack at an idea I've had for a while - diffusion-based LLM. The accessibility of shakespeare.txt[2] and the proliferation of tinyGPT implementations has made vibe-coding LLM research on the brink of possibility. It does help to have a familiarity in the datascience/ML/AI space in order to check and guide appropriately, but it's amazing how well the virtuous cycle is beginning to work.

1. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ai-engineering/97810981...

2. https://gist.github.com/blakesanie/dde3a2b7e698f52f389532b4b...
Threat spotlight: Backdoor in Chinese robots
My opinion AI generated stuff has some tells

But there are successful channels like Neural Viz though I think that still takes script writing
Makes sense to me. I've been thinking: The US was doomed from the start? Because of the laws that makes it a two party country? It was just a matter of time, and for mass manipulation tools to appear?

Are there any more doomed two party countries waiting to go authoritarian / fascist?
It runs on .NET, for god's sake. This is not a small platform.
it is time for a comeback
Costco in the US offers single-serve sealed just avocado, about 1/2 of a large fruit, that last for weeks. Absolutely perfect every time with more consistency than the real thing™.
Doesn’t seem downvoted to me
Apparently everyone gets them but the burden (% of beats being screwed up) is important. A high burden for prolonged periods means damage accumulation.

I had 2 24 hour monitors and one caught 700 eptopic beats in a day. Another couple months later, 15.000 in a day. The second one was a concern for the cardiologist. She ordered a couple more tests, started beta blockers asked for diet changes.

I still have a high burden as I can feel them but whatever..
I'm guessing it's to somewhat discourage text posts - more of a linksharing messageboard than a blogging platform with a commenting system.
Large Quantitative Models Are Revolutionizing AI and Industries
The question is, what evidence is there that the most simple structures we can call brains are doing something which is fundamentally impossible to do with something other than a brain.

Given that brains are fundamentally governed by the same physical laws as everything else, there shouldn't be anything about them which cannot be replicated in some way by something sufficiently capable of emulation of their processes.

That's not to say it's simple. Just that brains obey the laws of physics, and as long as that's true, they should be able to be replicable.

Unless your contention is that brains are somehow able to operate outside the constraints of the laws of physics, in which case we're going to have a fundamental difference of opinion as to the nature of the universe and whether things with brains are particularly special.
Wow for SDR, 0.75xMRR for each demo? So if your typical MRR is $1000, you'd pay $750 per demo?

My wife used to be SDR and I seem to remember she got paid much less, maybe like 0.1xMRR.

Obviously your economics work & scale, just curious to understand how - is your close rate really high?

If an AE closes an annual deal (worth $12k in this hypothetical), and there were 4 other demos that didn't close, then you are paying $2000 to AE and $3,750 to SDRs, or almost half of your revenue on comp.
Isn't the argument something about how grandmasters are incentivized to play it safe to a draw much of the time, which results in less interesting games?
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Yeah that's what the ICO thinks and it's clearly wrong, since you don't consent if the alternative is paying.
I think of MCP as a way to constrain the AI down a happy path because currently, LLM's can't follow that happy path on their own.

MCP won't be needed once LLM's can be trusted with root and a Unix Shell.
Is Doge Securities Fraud?
I think it does change things by how you are introduced to things and what parts of culture you associate it with.

I have the upmost respect for Bill Waterson for not merchandizing Calvin and Hobbes and the cultural memory of the work is better for it imo.
this looks dope. has anyone built anything substantial with phlex ?
This is how I remember my own undergrad physics and chemistry labs: Terrible equipment and no time. The students who turned in faked but plausible data that looked like what the professor expected to see would get A's and the students who actually did the experiments and reported the crap they measured got lower grades. Everyone just learned the wrong lesson: Figure out what the data should look like and fake it.
Construction projects get reasonably accurately estimated every day. Probably because:

1. People have been doing it long enough that estimator is a job description.

2. That it is a job description, means money is spent on estimation.

3. Money is spent on estimation because getting it wrong can cost money.

I think the problem with software estimation is that there is usually no culture of estimation, usually very little direct incentive to get it right, and no regime of formal training for those responsible.

To put it another way, software does not have standard documents for estimating.
What about mini cpm v2.6?
There was not taking over, the car was always in driver's control. The driver was using cruise control not anything self driving.
That's your profit source. Make AMD as viable an option as nVidia and you massively increase their stock price. (and probably reduce nVidia at the same time if you're in the shorting game)
Saying "you don't have a right to pass on your property to your family" is the opposite of high trust. I'll grant that the moral answer beyond a certain point is to limit your children's inheritance to what will give them a comfortable life, and then engage in philanthropy a la people like Andrew Carnegie.

But claiming the government has to force people into this is low-trust to the extreme. It's saying "we're going to take these things we already taxed you on, because you can't be trusted to use them responsibly and we can."

You can't regulate your way into everything. Good government can only exist alongside the unwritten rules that made people like Carnegie decide that the right answer was to give their wealth away to the public.
This is true of most of the SF Bay Area on a 100 year timescale too. I grew up in a house on land that was formerly a cherry orchard. Some of the most ideal farm land in world has been converted to residential neighborhoods and is far too expensive to use as farmland, well, except for Walter Cottle Lester.
At least it's not mice for once.
Every Music Genre in the World
thanks for the kind words! yep, this is exactly how we're thinking about this space as well! we think as software dev costs compress, it'll become a new modality of expression, similar to how we've seen images and video platforms take off as creation costs start to really compress.
Chat history will be stored in git /s
I had a physics class in my high school. 2014? 2015? Around then.

The teacher had us using a stopwatch on our phones. We would repeat the experiment several times and average the result, because manually doing a stopwatch was terrible- multiple samples kinda helped.

My group figured out we could get things way more accurate if we videoed the experiment in slow-motion with a phone, keeping a digital stopwatch in frame. It took an extra step of math, subtracting out the start time, but in slow motion we could be accurate to 1/120th of a second. Our results were easily the most precise in the class. Equipment can make a huge difference, and slow motion video was considerably more accurate than “Mike trying to time it right”
> and if it's on by default there'd then have to be some opt-out which there isn't a good mechanism for.

Good is subjective, but the mechanism is something already implemented: https://pkg.go.dev/structs#HostLayout