skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WhatsApp nailed the onboarding experience. In a time where other services asked you to create an account with an email and password, which is enough of a hurdle already, WhatsApp looked up your phone number and said "I'm sending you an SMS, enter the number you received to check we got it right". And then, it never asked for anything ever again.
But rotation direction depends on the observer. If i see galaxy spinning clockwise, this means someone observing galaxy from behind it sees it rotating counter clockwise. So are we just located so in the universe that we see 2/3 spinning clockwise and another counter?
And it's a feedback loop, because higher EV sales means more demand for batteries, more efficient production of batteries, cheaper EVs and around you go.

Our failure to get on this carousel with domestic battery production infrastructure is going to go down as one of the biggest industrial policy makes of all time.
> I think the sudden and almost exclusive focus on memory safety is weird.

They're clearly panicking about people switching to Rust. I don't think it's surprising. Too little too late though; you can't just ignore people's concerns for decades and then as soon as a viable competitor comes along say "oh wait, actually we will listen to you, come baaack!".

> There are lot of things compromising my online safety and freedom, and certainly memory safety issues are not very high on this list.

Out of the things that programming languages can solve, memory safety should be very high on your list. This has been proven repeatedly.
If the universe is bounded by regions that are further away than the speed of light has time to reach us then that would be an ideal place to look for a singularity. unfortunately it is unmeasurable since so far the speed of light is a hard boundary for what we can measure.
TL;DR it’s dead in the sense, we’re falling short of doubling the transistor count every 18-24 months.

That said, in terms of horizontal expansion (tripling or quadrupling the number of computational cores), surely the main challenge must be the lack of bandwidth to the memory to power such insane data transfer rates.

You could of course dedicate some amount of memory to each compute node, then the problem is one of quickly splitting the workload into chunks and sending them their separate way with no need to move them around. In a way, LLM and neural networks do function that way. Maybe it is time to build hardware that maps 1:1 to the software architecture.
You think they (plan to) decrypt messages and then upload them again in plain text to a server?

Since on-device processing is neither as objectionable nor could be very large

I don't use WhatsApp myself because of who runs it and there are plenty of better options out there, so I certainly agree with the sentiment of steering clear, but this claim does seem pretty far out there
I don't use WhatsApp, I helped most of my family and many friends move away from it, and I feel like we (you and I) see WA in a similar way. IMO the main issue here is the network effect and vendor lock-in (for the lack of a better term -- I'm writing this from my phone in a rush).

> Where am I wrong? What am I not seeing?

English is my second language, so maybe I'm missing some context here, but every time I hear techies calling non-techies "Normies", it's used in a derogatory / condescending fashion. That's reductive (non-techies are not a homogenous group) and somewhat intellectually lazy.

To give you an example, WA users in the US and, say Portugal or Poland ended up using it for slightly different reasons and in a different technical context. WA used to be the best video chat app for quite some time in the UK, AT or PL (imo), and I know of many people who started using it for that specific reason (esp. important for large migrant communities). FaceTime wasn't that popular because Android market share in the EU was bigger than in the US.
In Brazil, during the 80s there was a service called "telegame". A user could use an Atari 2600 cartridge connected to a modem to download games from a catalogue of 150 diferente games.
> It’s working: The price of zero-day exploits has already increased.

The only thing they've shipped is no UB in constexpr code - i.e. code that wouldn't have been reachable by attackers in the first place. How could that possibly be the reason for the price of zero-day exploits increasing?
Is it really that much more easier?

I've heard of CCP affiliated Chinese nationals who essentially act as CCP police on foreign soil and force nationals to return to China.
FlowStorm A FOSS time travel debugger for Clojure https://www.flow-storm.org/
Interesting! That’s a great angle to look at.

But don’t know how hard it would be to process the data.
but I was under the impression that equal parts of matter and antimatter annihilate, which would make a 50:50 system remain as such, which is why its such a mystery?
There is no vite testing or debugging.
This is actually something I am curious about, if for example I use this and I and streaming all my contacts information and messages externally, surely I'm breaking privacy laws in some US states and certainly in the EU.

This seems sketchy to me.
Arguably, the Democrats put up way too much of a fight about democracy in the 2024 election, when surveys consistently showed that what voters cared most about wasn't safeguarding democracy, but the economy and immigration. You can argue that voters should care more, and prattle on about it, but that's how you lose an election and democracy.
Very much WIP: I'm working on an alternative to subscriptions for online publications. Instead of subscribing to entire publications / blogs, publishers would register their publication on this network and configure thresholds and pricing. Add a bit of code to the site and a paywall will show up, allowing readers to pay for individual articles. The prices would be minimal, amounting to less than a dollar in most cases. i.e. reading articles using micro-transactions

I know it's been tried before, but I thought I'd attack it with a few different angles - web based, no chrome extension, and thresholds to help verify the article is worth it.

You can see the proof-of-concept here: https://paperwall.io/
The worst example of things popping up I've seen is Youtube's sponsored content warnings. These immediately appear above the active click target (video thumbnail) when you move your mouse over it, hijacking the expected action there. If you click things as a single action like every skilled mouse user does (rather than pointing and then clicking as two separate actions), it's physically impossible to react in time to avoid clicking them. And because only a part of the click target gets hijacked it's too inconsistent to learn to avoid it by intuition. I've clicked them accidentally several times and every time it's been disturbing because it feels like some serious and unexpected error.
The Curious Case of Jupiter Ace
I'm building an ERP to encapsulate the whole "customer" journey. I'm building it to be a business operating system of sorts with a goal of creating clear line-of-sight visibility for all activities along journey's like lead-gen to churn (but in a variety of settings).

The goal is make it easier for organizations to work with external parties that affect finances (customers, investors, vendors, etc.).

The idea was born out of personal frustration that I've faced in a variety of leadership roles in organizations, that lead to wasted effort, slower decision making, bad decisions made with equally unhygienic data.

I've solved this successfully in the past form of internal tools and a data governance layer (data warehouse with much more authority).
How does NoSQL (and which flavor are you referring to?) enforce that? RDBMS enforces it in that if you don’t do it correctly, you get referential integrity violations and performance issues. You’d think that would be enough to motivate devs to learn it, but no, let’s use more JSON columns!
The actual paper makes more sense: "the number of galaxies in that field that rotate in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way galaxy is ∼50 per cent higher than the number of galaxies that rotate in the same direction relative to the Milky Way."
I did this all the time... even used a double cassette deck to make copies... azimuth was the problem if the heads were aligned different.. so you used a small screwdriver and the top of the cassette had a small opening, this is where you had to align the heads by listening till it didn't sound distorted.. fun times

See also https://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/2016/11/what-was-first-co...
On Fedora this installs 187 MiB. Surely not small, but everything has dependencies and can have issues with them. It is a trade-off. It was an interesting article, though my solution was simple and worked for me.
There’s vibe rewrites though!
> The companies are already spending almost all their revenue on healthcare, there is very little profit anyway.

It would be more accurate to say that insurance companies are paying most of their revenue to healthcare providers (many of which are owned by the same people who own insurance companies), who are known to charge obscene amounts of money for services that cost a fraction of the cost elsewhere in the world.

Looking at the financial reports of insurance companies in isolation is insufficient when they're part of a much larger corrupt system.
Terribly, 59% is actually lower than the rate of sexual harassment for women in the USA, which is around 77% according to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center.

https://www.nsvrc.org/resource/facts-behind-metoo-movement-n...
Presidents can't declare war, so no, the US is not at war in either a technical legal sense nor in a practical sense.

It's also not "an invasion" as per the Alien Enemies Act as clearly, Tren de Agua is not a government or a nation.
There are no jobs in short supply to justify the level of immigration, this is all manufactured. This is done to keep wages down and to prop up the GDP (while the GDP per capita is actually decreasing, so people are getting poorer). 22% of people 16 to 64 are also "inactive" (i.e. not in work) so there is a massive reserve of unused local workforce [1].

In term of immigration the EU actually faces the same issue, and the people are voting more and more to make it known. This will end badly on both sides if governments don't get a grip.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68534537
Good question. If I had to bet I'd say something like half of the 70% would be prevented. Yeah it wouldn't really help with lifetime issues or type confusion but a huge proportion of that 70% is simple out-of-bounds memory accesses.

But don't forget lots of open source code is written in C and this barely helps there.
Why your mock doesn't work
How would you even define what is clockwise or not if there is no other particle as a reference? You can look at it from the other side and say it's spinning in the opposite direction.

I think it's enough to say that it was spinning. There was an imbalance tending toward a direction.
Vibe Coding and the environments that enable it are the Turkish Hair Transplant of programming.
I always like to check my assumptions, here is what ChatGPT said of the above:

Yes, there is truth to that argument—both in the limitations it describes and the vision it hints at. Let’s break it down:

⸻

1. Bandwidth Bottleneck with Horizontal Scaling

• True: As you scale out the number of computational cores (SMs in NVIDIA GPUs, for example), the global memory bandwidth becomes a bottleneck unless it scales proportionally.

• GDDR6, HBM, and even on-package memory (e.g. Apple’s M-series) are attempts to address this.

• Still, there’s a ceiling: latency and contention start dominating.

• Problem: Many workloads, especially in ML, are memory-bound rather than compute-bound. Doubling cores doesn’t help if data can’t be fed fast enough.

⸻

2. Local Memory per Compute Unit

• True and Already Happening: Architectures are increasingly moving toward giving compute units local memory:

• NVIDIA’s SMs have shared memory (very fast, but small).

• AMD’s Infinity Cache, or on-chip memory on M1/M2, is another example.

• TPUs and custom ASICs use SRAM close to the compute logic for matrix multiplies.

• This is reminiscent of scratchpad memory in SIMD systems or old-school Cell processors.

⸻

3. Workload Partitioning and Data Locality

• Critical Insight: Yes, mapping data locality to compute locality is the key.

• LLMs and other neural nets are mostly large tensor operations.

• These can be tiled and distributed to cores with minimal inter-core communication if partitioned right.

• This is why hardware-software co-design is becoming more important:

• NVIDIA’s Tensor Cores and transformer engine

• Google’s TPU with XLA compiler

• Apple’s use of unified memory for CPU, GPU, and ML cores

⸻

4. Hardware Matching Software Architectures

• Emerging Trend: We are already seeing this:

• LLM accelerators (e.g. Groq, Tenstorrent, Cerebras) aim to align hardware with transformer-like workloads.

• Neuromorphic chips and systolic arrays are trying to escape the Von Neumann bottleneck by mimicking data flow instead of instruction flow.

• Vision: Instead of generic ALUs doing many different things, you have domain-specific architectures (DSAs) optimized for matrix math, attention, etc.

⸻

Conclusion

You’re touching on a real and current transition in hardware design: as Moore’s Law slows and workloads become increasingly specialized (especially ML/AI), the bottlenecks shift from FLOPS to memory bandwidth, latency, and data movement.

Yes, scaling horizontally is increasingly limited by data movement costs, and yes, future architectures will (and already do) look more like the software they’re meant to run.

Would you like a more technical breakdown of how LLM workloads are actually split across GPU memory hierarchies or how specific hardware like Cerebras or TPUs tackle this?
I don't see it working on anything outside the most popular of frameworks and libraries which have the most example code to ingest. Vibe coding will have hard time creating novel solutions by definition. It devalues the already lowest common denominator and lets people create more buggy CRUD applications.
On current computers the screen whizzes past so fast that it is almost impossible to read and remember the error code. The new design doesn’t really help with that.

And the QR code points to a general BSOD page instead of the error, which could be improved.

Unfortunately, I notice these too often because Windows 11 produces a lot more BSODs for me than Win10.
data as a business, now everyone needs good data to plug it into their ai.
I found a wallet and left a note in a way so only the real owner could call me
I think the key is "as they depend on operations or components that may not themselves be fully memory-safe" indicating Rust is used a far bit more to do interop with memory unsafe languages unlike Go or Java.
I've noticed this too, freelancing/consulting around in companies. I'm not sure where this idea even comes from

Internal company accounting can be weird and lead to unintuitive local optima. At companies I've worked at, what was objectively true was that cloud was often much cheaper than what the IT department would internally bill our department/project for the equivalent service.
I would assume that they're talking about redshift.
1987: https://cpcrulez.fr/applications_graphic-NWC-demomaker.htm
> When might this future arrive? It's uncertain. A good indicator, however, might be when engineers confidently say "yes" to the question: "Would you happily go on-call for a system of fully AI-generated services?".

I dare say there are already people saying this, but I don't know of any SWEs (or anyone who has maintained a significant codebase) who would be willing to go on-call for such a system. But I would hesitate to go on-call for even an entirely human-built system unless I'd done some in depth review of its architecture and playbook.

Maybe there's a middle ground here, like willingness to update the codebase of a vibe-coded application. Do that enough times and maybe the confidence in the system increases enough to be willing to on-call for it.

I agree with the position that the value of an "engineering" role in this context should be judged by those who have held that position, moreso than the opinions of management or media in that regard, anyway.
I don’t know, real-time graphics programming is and has always been about hacks. Today it’s perhaps not often hardware-level hacks, but the ethos is still “cheat as much as you can, and then some more for good measure”.
> I feel that today having a nuanced view, is itself a rebellious act.

So brave. Enjoy making six figures sitting behind a keyboard, acting like other people's rights are a sport not tied to any material consequences.
Newton is not responsible for gravity because he didn't create it.
I've been following this news for the past couple of weeks-- in essence your statement is what they are hypothesizing, and that the "something at the center that unites the two poles" might be that we are within a black hole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_cosmology for the curious.
I understand the impulse here, but I think it's important not to jump too far ahead to conclude that of course we're not going to have elections, because it actually just shifts the overton window to the point where now we're arguing about whether we should.

It also just jumps ahead of where we are in reality. You could just as easily say "of course Trump is going to execute his political enemies on the lawn of the White House, because all the checks and balances that would prevent that have been removed!" Yes, that could happen, just like us not having an election in 2028 could happen, but that's a massive change that would effectively be the end of the republic, the end of the constitution, and likely result in a full-blown civil war. We may get there, but we are nowhere close to that yet.
Flavour Enhancers in Food Products
"Glutamate is naturally present in many foods such as ripened cheese, soy sauce and tomatoes. The nucleotide IMP is abundant in meat and some fish products, while some mushrooms, oysters and meat are rich in nucleotide GMP."

However when present in a food together they are synergistic. In fact it has been demonstrated that the interaction between glutamate and IMP or GMP creates amplified taste perceptions in comparison with those generated by a single ingredient. This justifies the simultaneous presence of nucleotides and glutamate in food products such as stock cubes, ready-to eat meals and salty snacks."
If you don't see anything, staying in the aircraft doesn't make it any less of a missile. If he didn't eject, he could have still crashed into houses exactly like it could have after ejecting.
11 million in China, 6.1 million in the rest of the world.
Regardless of what you feel, it is long dead.
This comment has brough me much joy! ...and, er, sorry about your desk. :D
Depends what you mean by "C++ people". I think most of those C++ people who are happy about Rust would say they are now Rust people who may be forced to use C++ sometimes.
Ghost was descended from my absolute favorite late-90s / early 00s tool, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoBack which, as you say, let you undo absolutely anything you did to your machine.

I wish I had something like it on Mac.
Anatomy of an LLM RCE
I still don’t understand why it uses a fixed interval instead of being triggered by focus/title changes. In my usage that would miss a lot of actions. Other apps like ManicTime are local-only, no uploading as well.
He says all kinds of shit, most of it doesn't happen the way he says.
"La suite vulgate du Merlin" might translate as: "the vulgate follow up of THE Merlin", which I find quite curious. Modern French would rather say: "DE Merlin". It was as if Merlin was not a proper name but the name of some creature of the Merlin species, or some kind of properties.
Azure’s RBAC system usually tells you this, at least when accessing the Azure management APIs. (Other APIs using RBAC, like the Azure Storage or Key Vailt ones, usually aren’t so accommodating. At least by their nature there’s usually only a handful of possible permissions to choose from.)
Minimodem with and without Icecast can do today. But better if you share small games like the ZMachine ones.
Of course. This calculation obviously only applies to an abstract life.
The more hard constraints one imposes on generative AI output, the more that it becomes exponentially harder to constrain that output to those constraints: so much for "embracing the exponentials" -- constraint-exponentials dominate vibe-exponentials.

With only a few dimensions of constraints there are zero relevant examples in training data, with only a few more, there are zero similar examples. This is why programmers are employed: it is always a R&D job, if it existed under relevant constraints, it would be purchased and installed.

The art of vibe coding, such as it can be developed as an art, is in segregating system design to localise (constraint-induced) novelty. There are certain applications of genAI where it makes sense to give up on a plan, and take good-enough. Software "in the large" is not such a place.

It's no accident its data scientists who began vibe coding -- it's a fundamentally "in the small" activity with no hard constraints: much like the throw-away exploratory programming of data science. Hence, I suppose, the alarm and confusion amongst software engineers -- perhaps they just aren't aware they're speaking to a radically different kind of "throw away programmer" that exists in the AI space, they've always been vibe programmers.
I've been re-energized to work on some programming things I'd mostly left on the shelf or only picked up once in a blue moon on some quiet weekends. Mostly this is all thanks to LLMs and how enjoyable tools like Claude Code can be to use (when they actually give you what you want!), and how much more social they make the experience for me.

Not a professional developer so I suspect these projects look a lot more like slugging through mud and trying to navigate through a maze in a pitch black environment, and I've found these tools to be helpful especially in small refactorings that would normally result in me just slowly losing interest in the project.

Anyways, https://pianobooth.com is the latest one! Gave me an excuse to learn some Blender as well. It'll play your midi files (well, it might play your midi file) and show the notes being played on a keyboard. :)

Lots of room for improvement. It now works on most of the midi files I've tried, but it's still glitchy and buggy. But at least it works sometimes!
I sense OP's referring to raw pointer operations permitted by the unsafe dialect of the language.
> I hadn't realised it was a democratic norm to just allow politicians to do random crimes because they're so special.

You must've not been paying attention to the US ...

I'm not even talking about the president. Lower level things like Bridgegate [1] resulted in everybody involved receiving no punishment (eventually).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lee_lane_closure_scandal
This is probably non-obvious if you've never interacted with the system, but school buses are not public transit buses and would be ill-suited

- They're much less accessible, as typically there's a separate route with a specifically accessible bus.

- they need to be immediately available and in the right spot the instant school lets out, which means the downtime is typically a little bit shorter than you would even expect so they can all be in place.

- they likely have MUCH lower milage-per-day specs, including things like general wear and tear and number of hours of continuous use.

In reality, You would likely have to rebuild from the ground up and go the other way around, starting with a mass transit system and then dedicating certain buses and routes to pick up and drop off
They should transfer that heat to steam engines to deliver more power back to DC... /s