skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's SpaceSail is expanding where Elon Musk is stumbling
the only reason any company does or don't anything: not required for sales.

in 2019 i saw a fortune500 tech company put in place their own vulnerability scanner internal application which included this feature for our enterprise github repos. the tool was built and deployed to an old Linux docker image that was never updated to not be the target of the attack they were preventing... they never vetted to random version they started with either. i guess one can still use zip bomb or even the xz backdoor for extra irony points when attacking that system.

anyway, the people signing github checks also get promoted by pretending to implement that feature internally.
A New Perspective on Richard Rorty's Philosophy
For the matter-antimatter ratio, you would not expect 50:50, or would you? Because 50:50 would be a highly unstable system? In any case, you would expect that unstable states would be highly unlikely, and it would converge into a stable state.

I'm not sure about the other examples. But maybe it's a similar reason that it is not a 50:50 ratio?
As a demoscener, I think this cool (though maybe also a bit useless).

But the thing this highlights to me now is how weird it is that UNESCO heritage lists are per country. The design seems wholly unsuited to any sort of culture that has emerged after the invention of global communication networks such as the internet. IIRC demoscene is already recognized as UNESCO heritage in Finland and Germany, what are we going to do, go down the list of every country that ever produced more than a few demos?

I mean of course none of this matters, because there's not really any tangible benefit to one's hobby being on a list like this, but it's still kinda funky. As if culture stops at country borders.
Great question, and I fully agree — privacy in mental health is sacred.

We don’t train on user chats directly. Instead, we collaborate with a team of 42 certified psychologists who work with us to curate anonymized case structures, decision trees, and response strategies based on real but depersonalized therapeutic experience.

These professionals help us model how psychological support is provided — without ever using actual user conversations. Our system is trained on synthesized, anonymized session data that reflects best practices, not private logs.

It’s not buried in the T&Cs — we’re very explicit about our commitment to data ethics and user safety. No session data is used for model training, and user interaction is fully confidential and never stored in a way that links it to identities.

Our goal is to make high-quality support available without compromising trust. Let me know if you’d like more technical or ethical detail — happy to share!
Of all the mind-boggling answers explaining this direction-of-spin thing, they picked the one saying "Hey actually you know what, our entire (mind-boggingly large) universe itself is located in a black hole. That'll explain things nicely."
The fact that we have found left-handed neutrinos but not right-handed ones seems like another one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_neutrino
How Do You Track SSL Certs? We Built a Calendar View
Your reading seems to fail you. That's what they said :-)
> Hope CISA folks see it and update their guidance.

cope > hope @ CISA right now:

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/cisa-...
2 stories about ICE were in the top 5 yesterday and within 60 minutes one of them was at #80, the other I could no longer find.

It might not be a conspiracy but these stories do get removed one way or another.
I'm making a log search engine that fits in your pocket: https://humanlog.io/

The idea is to be able to ingest your logs locally and run queries against them without having to resort to a hosted prod-like environment. It's all focused on localdev-first experience. I use it when the o11y tools at work don't do what I need: I can just pull the raw logs locally and run my queries there.

It's still very rough around the edges but it gets better day by day. I want to add features like alerts and monitoring, metrics and tracing. A full o11y platform in a single binary with zero config. I would love any feedback.

(Also please excuse the poor onboarding experience, I haven't polished it as this is a side project and I have a day job)
This one you mean?

Politicians and oligarchs of poor EU states intercept all EU funding and defraud the funding. Most ordinary folks get nothing, pay high taxes, see everywhere "funded by EU" and wonder "where all my taxes go?!". Without EU poor states can create Slavosphere or Balkanosphere. Their politicians with oligarchs will go full Belarus or even start wars again.

Still FR and DE are net payers, no matter where the money goes so why saying that they benefit the most?
This is great and I believe it. But saying your game would be loaded "after a few minutes" might be true for a small game. I had the Commodore 1541 floppy drive while my friend had the Commodore Datasette. The speed difference between these were huge. The floppy drive was around 300 bytes per second while the tape drive was around 50 bytes per second (3KB/minute). We would literally go outside to play while waiting on the tape drive.
I'm not comparing it to tea that causes fluoridosis. Just normal tea sold in the US can have significantly more fluoride than is put into water supplies. I don't think it's a significant danger, like the amounts in the water supply aren't either.
I hope you never contacted anyone with a business account then.
I mean… yes, the earth’s rotation can easily generate power. All you need is a gyroscope spinning in a vacuum on frictionless supports to make that work. Of course it’s only 1 revolution per day, but still, if it’s big enough…

It’s hard to beat solar though.there are very few technologies that stack up better financially than “just buy more panels” in most of the populated world. Batteries are really the key.
Zuck is already piping it into much worse
working on Gainline (https://gainline.app/) with a couple of friends, an app for rugby fans to follow their favorite teams and leagues.
I'm not an astronomer, but my intuition is this:
When the source of the light is moving towards the observer, each successive photon emission happens from a position closer to the observer than the previous photon. Hence, from the observer's perspective, the time between photons is reduced, meaning more photons are observed in a given time, and the brightness is increased.
When we observe a galaxy that is rotating opposite to us, not only is the source of the light moving closer to us, but we are also moving closer to it.
And to protect the service provider from lawsuits.
OpenSNP Shutting Down
In C, we made clear in C23 that there is no true time-travel UB and have eliminated about 30% of UB in the core language for C2Y as part of an ongoing effort that will eliminate most of the simple cases of UB. We also have plans to add opt-in memory safety mode proving full spatial and temporal memory safety.

Having said this, I think the sudden and almost exclusive focus on memory safety is weird. As a long-term Linux user, this is not my main problem. This is what people building app stores and non-free content distribution systems need and they now re-engineer the world according to their needs. There are lot of things compromising my online safety and freedom, and certainly memory safety issues are not very high on this list.

Finally, what Rust achieves, and what a memory-safe mode in C will hopefully also achieve in the future, is also just an incremental improvement. As long as there in unsafe code, and in practice there will be a lot of unsafe code, there is no perfect memory safety.
Writing a science fiction book this year - after a year of planning (while working on other projects).

Also hoping to find some time to add a feature or two to my Video Hub App

https://videohubapp.com/ & https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Thanks for raising this question, and I agree it is important. Maybe encouraging independence from the russian oil would be a more efficient way to go. Of course, it can't happen immediately, but if some countries consciously don't want to work in this direction - such situation may constitute a safety threat to Europe - and this shouldn't be left without attention.
That's all motherhood and apple pie, but it's a red herring with no basis in pragmatic reality (i.e. not how the calculus of utility-scale power generation industrial planning/ops works), and wholesale disingenuous to posit that even a residual percentage of those households---say, asymptotic to the proportional marketshare of Firefox users in the state as a comparatively low friction proxy aspirational target---would even attempt this hack...to say nothing of its trade-offs or implied liabilities to the end user iff successfully implemented...or how Comcast would be incentivized if adoption achieved a critical mass that made the hack observable (either technically or monetarily) on their end.

Not to discredit the author for sharing the insight, but the hard sell of saving 2W consumption simply isn't a prime mover here. If anything, mitigation of implicit side channel RF interference when the hack is paired with a OpenWrt router (as the author apparently intended) makes a lot more compelling sense...but now we're talking about bootstrapping an additional appliance into the setup, rendering contextual discussion of power savings objectively moot.
How do you exfiltrate any portion of 80 billion dollars from Bitcoin without immediately making yourself a target for every criminal organization in the world?
I said this in another comment, but an easy way to measure the efficacy is to look at the economy surrounding the zero day markets. Long story short, over the years it has become increasingly more expensive to both produce/supply and acquire exploits. This is attributable to the increasing mitigations and countermeasures, which include the ones in this document.
I had an idea to screen the YouTube videos that kids watch through a suitable LLM to assess whether the content was child friendly. There’s an emerging issue with insidious messaging / themes creeping into child-focused content that looks completely innocent on the surface, and I wondered if the current generation of LLMs can pick up on this. (Initial tests seem encouraging.)
Too bad all the photos in the article are all so small. I would have enjoyed them in larger size.
I didn't watch the video but the article only mentions the F-16, not the F-35.
that's a low estimate if you live in India or south America.
Funny that people freakout about a local LLM while using Facebook products. They're probably the same types who use it to do their work.
A 50/50 matter/anti-matter system could still house stable local pockets of mostly matter or anti-matter. The problem is, from what I understand, that the universe seems to have sprung into existence with way more matter than anti-matter, and we don't know why.
> I claim it is easier to make this mistake in a GC language because it's not "in your face" that you're carrying around all these object relationships that you didn't need. In a toy system (e.g. your unit tests) it will work as expected.

I simply don't see how these mistakes would be any less obvious than in an equally complex C codebase, for instance.
Nothing.

Quite frankly, it feels great!
It's somehow related to self-referential news (where most "news" articles aren't reporting that a thing happened, but that another news agency reported that it happened) - it's almost "wikification", where what matters is the link and someone else having said it, original research is forbidden.

Of course, this problem has existed forever - rumor vs fact, the oft-misattributed to Twain "a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on".
If notes are kept in the localStorage, they won't persist for long on the iOS. Remote backup is, regrettably, a must.
Hey Julien! I’ve seen you advertising KWatch in lots of places, assume you’re connected to it / know the founder?

For LinkedIn monitoring we use the voyager APIs. It’s not perfect because it gets posts but not comments, but it’s pretty good.
They aren't individually gangsters. But collectively, it is equivalent to a form of extortion.
> which has seen her hit with a four-year prison sentence, to be served with an electronic tag, and a five-year ban from running for office

Arguably burying the lede a bit.

Meanwhile, with absolutely no apparent irony:

> "More and more European capitals are going down the path of violating democratic norms," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a briefing when asked about the decision.

I hadn't realised it was a democratic norm to just allow politicians to do random crimes because they're so special.

Also:

> Matteo Salvini, Italy's far-right deputy Prime Minister said that the ruling against le Pen was a "declaration of war" by the EU that would not dissuade her far-right allies.

In which the EU somehow controls the French courts.
Likud is a mainstream party in Israel. Their prime minister has been making genocidal and atrocious statements for a very long time. Mainstream television in Israel has been in overdrive to secure popular consent for absolutely obscene crimes for more than one and a half year.

80% of israeli jews in Israel approve of genocidal treatment of palestinians in the Gaza strip in the form of ethnic cleansing, while 14% believe the public statements about this from world leaders to be a distraction and 3% consider it immoral.

The broad israeli opposition, i.e. the large demonstrations in Tel Aviv and elsewhere and the politicians that support them, disagree with the government in which order to do things, not on whether the palestinians should be treated genocidally. They want to make the palestinians 'freyer', suckers, by signing any deal that brings israeli prisoners and hostages back and then continuing the genocidal process anyway. Meanwhile the government considers the prisoners and hostages better positioned in captivity, hence why they have been refusing negotiations, and then broke the ceasefire deal they went into earlier this year.
I’ve been developing an observability platform [0] for small teams and indie developers where they can track logs, live metrics, and get alerted in realtime through webhooks. I intend to develop a dead simple on-call calendar as well in the coming weeks.

After using tools like Sentry on apps serving millions of users, I always felt I was missing a cheap and dead simple approach to following what happened in my apps and apis, and basically became my first customer for all of my side projects and even got some friends using it for their SaaS and apps.

[0] https://app.getboringmetrics.com
Even orthography is trickier than one might think, as the title demonstrates.
Management works.

Are you sure people finishing projects thanks to agile and not despite agile?
I am not using 10 different OSs/distors, but across every potential user of my tool, it could very easily be 10+.
Show HN: Draft Party – The game I built because the New England Patriots suck
Since 2019 my friend (a Broncos fan) and I (a Patriots fan) have played a game on NFL draft night where we try to predict the first round of draft picks.

The original game was built with a very delicate spreadsheet with 200+ line equations involving dubious scoring math. But we enjoyed the game nonetheless and have always pondered out loud "There should be an app for this".

The wonderful thing about following an unwatchable team like the recent Patriots is that I have so much more time on my hands. 3 hours every Sunday and no playoffs to boot!

I took advantage of the time, turned off yet another "draft talk" podcast and slogged away on Draft Party, replacing those dubious spreadsheet equations with real code.

I built Drafty Party for myself and my friends but I also built it for other Patriots fans and fans of bottom dwelling teams everywhere. When your team sucks, you need hope and the draft represents hope. And when your team's front office also sucks at drafting and stomps that hope into the ground, you can at least have some fun among friends.
NASA and Boeing make progress on the Calamity Capsule
Note that NeXTstep actually did the right thing with window controls -- close is on opposite side of the window from the others, so you can't accidentally hit it.

Windows3 and Motif hid this stuff under a menu, so wasn't a huge concern.

But then Windows95, and then (oddly) MacOS through this away in favour of throwing them all together.

Awareness of spatial patterns / frequency of use seems to have been higher among early UX/UI designers than after. I guess maybe because mice became more accurate?
Microsoft is redesigning the Windows BSOD and it might change to black
Busy building some personal infrastructure around information. Think mix of scrapping and filtering, scoring and summarization.

Clearly all of the info space is getting ever more polluted and I just don’t trust anyone else (with their own agenda) to manage and filter that for me. If one is to abdicate that sort of responsibility to a system wholesale then I think it has to be fully under one’s control, own data, own design, self hosted etc
Certainly not the case for me, but I reckon I could do plenty via whatsapp

- Group Chat for the family (Immediate, Extended Mother Side, Extended Father Side)

- Chat with hole in the wall restaurant to order sometinhg to eat after work

- 2FA for local shop

- Customer Support for local bank

- Work Chat (Informally assigned tasks and general info)

- Chat with Taxi

- Delivery Tracking for local courier

- LLM wrapper

- Invoice/Receipt Sending

- Appointments for many services (Like barbers)

I could more or less do anything, from work related task management, to requesting a new credit card from inside whatsapp
Thanks for the feedback! For saved terms we show you the number of matches we’ve notified you about, which always starts at zero, whereas during creating we show you how many you would have matched. That’s a confusing UI and I should improve it
I mean, the technology is not the issue. Someone can read your past conversations today and take diligent notes to unearth the same insights an LLM might, if they were so inclined.

This might a actually be helpful for people with poor memory or neurodivergent minds, to help surface relative context to continue their conversation.

Or sales people to help with their customer relationship management.
This happened continuously during the Biden administration when they formed an entire network of public-private censorship and liberals told us “freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach.” You can also reference the entire saga of Russiagate, and litany of lawfare against Trump that was looking for every and any way to jail him and his family.
China launches classified TJS-16 spacecraft
If we want everything sensitive to be written in Rust, we need many more Rust programmers...

... and we also need to be more paranoid about what makes its way into globally significant crates, otherwise we just trade one class of vulnerabilities for another.
The Tectonics Behind the Myanmar Quake
No, Moore's law is the number of transistors on a chip doubling every 2 years. Quantity not cost.
It's looking good, Sacha!
If the studen isn't paying out of pocket themselves, the tax payer is. Demand better. I am strongly on the side of a well funded government, education should at the very least be subsidized, and all that, but it's people like this that can be used to justify Doge and other insane """efficiency programmes""".
> novel could have been set in post-independence India and a lot of the themes

The colonialists did, but the baggage never left. Turns out oppression/corruption/subjugation/feudalism/communalism/obscurantism/cronyism is politically and/or economically profitable. The current ruling class learnt well from their predecessors.
They say as Trump says “I’m not joking about a third term”.

What would conservatives done if Obama said the same? Trump is “ingroup” and the law only protects him, it does not bind him.

Obama? Definitely outgroup, and definitely bound by the law.

Liberalism, in the classic sense, is the opposite: the law protects and binds all, equally.

I doubt you are as “in group” as you might think you are.
Here's a link to the actual guide from midway through the thread: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278...
This is definitely the biggest surprise for me about Brexit.

Given how loudly the politicians talked about it, given how loudly the press talk about it, given how negative so many comments still are about it even today, I had assumed that the UK was broadly in consensus with wanting less of it.

I can see the same dynamics in the USA today — for all the negative talk about illegal immigrants, they're so economically useful it would be a disaster for the USA to actually remove them, yet the talk remains. So, will the US do the same, keep complaining even as they bring in more needed immigrants?

And conversely, I wonder what will happen if and when we finally do get useful humanoid robots. Even assuming the robots need remote control and don't have AI, and those remote workers connect from another country, how will people react to this — will they react like loom-smashers from 1811, or will they treat it as immigrant labour taking their jobs, or will they frame it as per current discussion on imports-and-tariffs?
Would it help if you tried to have a demo class at a community center and could point at the UNESCO decision to get proper handling and shut down the "kids these days" arguments ?
Also check out rtty and FT8/FT4 for those interested in other "digital over analog" modes.
Autonomous project management for developers (https://lanes.pm)
I've been working on some email stuff and I think probably four things are vexing about IMAP:

- The grammar is hard. I built a parser using lpeg and I'm incredibly glad I did--doing it ad hoc won't lead to good results.

- It's an asynchronous protocol. You can send lots of requests to a server and you have to tag them so you can match them up with responses later. You don't generally want to do that in a client; i.e. you don't want to do these transactional things over an async connection and track state across all of it. You want to like, block on deleting things, renaming things, sending things, etc.

- IMAP is multi-user--it's built around the idea of multiple clients accessing the same mailbox at the same time and streaming updates. Another thing you really don't want to deal with when building an email client.

- There's functionality that you basically shouldn't use; the big one is search. Even the specs more or less say "good luck using this".

You can group all this under the a heading of "we thought people would use this over telnet", but attachments and non-plain-text email I think made that non-viable.

I think this all means probably every non-web email client treats IMAP like POP and keeps its own store. I haven't done a survey or anything, but I'd be surprised if that weren't true.
Ask HN: Can you solve this 6th Grade Math Problem
I have posted an interesting Math Problem from my upcoming book on Math Brain teaser and it looks like already buzzing
You mean, the police has low IQ or higher IQ police is policing me, the low IQ poster?
> In What Technology Wants, he argued that technology evolves like a living system.

Such an interesting take
Headline marketing "AI TOPS" is also based on whatever smaller format a new generation supports. E.g. doubling headline marketing performance from Ada to Blackwell by going from FP8 to FP4.
The biggest benefit is in bringing legitimacy to preservation efforts and curation of historic records (photos, videos, data, binaries, sources) on the history of the Demoscene.

There is a large chunk of software history prior to pre-cloud services that has died in someone's hard drive, floppy, CD.

Maybe because it was tied to IP or maybe just because they didn't think much about its historic value or didn't see it as ground breaking or note worthy.