skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Important Corollary Two. If you show a nonprogrammer a screen which has a user interface which is 100% beautiful, they will think the program is almost done.

> People who aren’t programmers are just looking at the screen and seeing some pixels. And if the pixels look like they make up a program which does something, they think “oh, gosh, how much harder could it be to make it actually work?“
> Win 98ME

Windows ME was not a release of, nor branded with, Windows 98 whatsoever.
Well, it’s quite common in France, especially for the particular activities one was convicted of engaging in (barred from politics for embezzlement of political funds, not allowed to trade equities if convicted of insider trading, etc. ) and even more common if the convicted person shows defiance of the courts, lack of cooperation, etc.

Make no mistake: this is completely standard and of LePen’s own doing.

Anyone telling you otherwise is either at best completely ignorant of French jurisprudence and the factual details of the case, or, at worse, intentionally deceiving you.
It saves the messages in a local SQLite database on load — so querying shouldn't be an issue as it doesn't contact the WhatsApp server. For sending, this does use the API however and needs more caution
This is wild. Was it a European thing only? I never heard of it in the states. I was stuck typing in games from the back pages of Compute's Gazette...
Inside a black hole just means inside its event horizon. The singularity can still be arbitrarily far away from that horizon (if the black hole is correspondingly large). The volume enclosed by the event horizon may be larger than our cosmological horizon (i.e. how far the speed of light allows us to see, given the finite age of the universe.) And the singularity of a black hole isn’t “where”, it’s “when”. The singularity of a black hole is in the future of all particle trajectories inside the event horizon.
Same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533857
An important detail: in France a "first instance" ruling can be appealed ("second instance"), and appealing is suspensive. That is whatever sentence has been decided gets temporarily suspended until the appeal concludes.

In this case the five year ineligibility sentence has a provisional execution clause, which means appeal will not be suspensive and the sentence must be carried out immediately.

This last part is the one creating a heated debate around the 2027 presidential election.
19 Hours in and that PR has already hands on from multiple people at MS. Incredible.
Is it possible to augment WhatsApp's SQLite installation with an extension?
Well, this is a modern OS capable of running modern software, for starters.

It's just Linux with a Win95-lookalike theme.
Really making it hard to not believe that France is trying to ban a legal candidate by making this cute shim where everything BUT being able to run is subject to the appeals process.
IIRC, he was sending pictures of the sunset on his jog every day, and the pictures were unusually large.

https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/01/04/ge_turbine_china_...
just to be clear, they aren't just detaining palestine protesters. they are also detaining labor activists: https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/26/ice-is-kidnapping-imm...

government is going after activists for other political issues, not just palestine protestors
Most security breeches find vulnerabilities in humans not their computers. Yes if you find a software (or hardware) vulnerability that you can exploit you can get many many computers are once, but those are much harder to find. However the vast majority are not from that source.

There is a lot we can do in UX to make human vulnerabilities less common, but no language change will help.
I'm working on an order and production management system for a company that fulfills orders for print-on-demand ecommerce sites. It handles things like graphics manipulation, imposition layouts (gang sheets), cutlines, printing, order batching and tracking during the production and fulfillment stages (barcodes) and everything necessary from what an order is received via API to when it is shipped.
It's balanced out by the right banning left-wing candidates in Turkey.
Correct
Readable
Idiomatic
Simple
Performant
Even if he held the glide without visibility (harder than it sounds) he would have had less than 60s before eating dirt (rate of descent was ~800ft/min).
> I have yet to run into a printer that doesn't just magically work under linux.

You haven't used a Canon IP-90 printer. :-)
Nabeel Qureshi – The Will to Care – AI, Slop, Creativity, Learning, Palantir [video]
In Romania there’s some room to argue this, but in France she just plain broke the law and embezzled funds.

Should justice not be served because she’s above the law?
We could expect an investigation into paying for votes in Wisconsin, but I wouldn't hold your breath.
It's always been a function of price, I've been shouting this for years: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/09/moore/

> The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.

It's incredible how deeply ingrained this misinterpretation has been, even among the very technical, without ever examining its original source or phrasing.
Interesting concept, forcing prominent crooked far-right politicians to face the consequences of their illegal actions.
I'm fully aware that in other countries skirting or blatantly ignoring the courts is becoming practice, but I'm definitely not a fan of that practice.
If, like me, you read comments before links, this refers to Umberto Eco, not low water usage cycles on washing machines
Win3.1 works great in DOSBox, and you can get an even more authentic '80s-'90s IBM-compatible experience using PCEm or 86box, which emulate a wide variety of PC motherboards, graphics cards, and sound cards.
> Programming used to be hard, and not everybody is as smart as you are.

But some people are willing to learn brutally hard.
weird. they didn't charge leaders of the confederate states of america with insurrection either (aka the civil war)
Love it! I liked his other short stories as well:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35502775-the-egg-and-oth...
For AI, even poorly designed APIs are still more understandable than they are for humans. Since accessing APIs directly is more straightforward, what's the necessity of MCP?

Many people claim it's a standard protocol, but I've tried it myself and the experience is terrible—for humans, that is.

But I suspect that for AI, there's no real difference between MCP and API.
IIRC with XP they late loaded a lot of things to get the desktop showing faster than 2000. My experience at the time was that while the desktop might have loaded faster it wasn't actually usable for quite awhile after I was looking at it, but that might have had more to do with all the crapware on many XP machines I used at the time.

XP definitely needed more ram than 2000 to function acceptably. I remember 128mb being slow but tolerable on 2000 and absolutely brutal on XP.
Technology and society are never separate things. The question if why something is seen as important or not, and what is funded, very much depends on societal questions. I am using Linux for almost 30 years. I have never been hacked, or know anybody personally, who was hacked because of a memory safety issue in any open-source component. I know such people and companies exist, I just know many more which are affected by other issues. I know many people affected by bugs in Microsoft software, including myself. I am also affected by websites spying on me, from email not being encrypted by default, etc. A lot of things could be done do make my safety and security better. That you cite Google actually demonstrates the problem: Memory safety is much more their concern, not mine.

And C definitely will have memory safety. Stay tuned. (And I also like to have memory safety.) I do not care about C++ nor do I care about Rust. Both languages are far too complex for my taste.
I've heard people on the radio (ha yes I listen to that ;-)) that they disagree with Le Pen being banned from running for president.

That seems strange to me as this was public (eu) money that was funneled into her own movement, i.e. bolstering her popularity in some way. So letting her run in the elections would basically mean she would get away with the fraude.
Hah, it's literally Schopenhauer's hell: Humans as both the tormenting demons and as those doing the suffering. In this case, one human -- which further frames suffering as an inescapable, masochistic cycle. "You were victimizing yourself" says the demiurge.

That everything is predetermined and that time is nonlinear is also something that should trouble every contemplative person.

It's basically a devil's brew of nihilism and determinism that frames existence as a solitary, predetermined journey toward an abstract goal (maturation into godhood?!) that renders individual lives expendable and morally ambiguous. And it plays out over a trillion or so years. Horrifying.

It's especially funny as the author, with very little awareness of what he was writing, tried to strike positive "we are all one" notes... And ended up with something that would give Ligotti nightmares.
How are you getting gemini 2.5 pro for free?

In the gemini iOS app the only available models are currently 2.0 flash and 2.0 flash thinking.
> something like half of the 70% would be prevented

Sure, but the other half are use-after-frees and those would not be exploitable anyway because of CFI and shadow stacks.
Nitpick: It's not 'pirating' when it's for your own use, only when you 'distribute' it to others. Of course nobody cared either way ;)
I'm not sure why you'd say there's room to argue about Romania (lying about campaign funding is probably the only easy provable reason to be banned) but it's not the topic here.
Looks good, but I'd never trust anything like this I cannot self host.
> even mentioning Rust as an alternative seems taboo, idk.

Rust is even framed as an "attack on C++" by Stroustrup himself [1]. No wonder it's taboo.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/c_creator_calls_for_a...
Unless you have reason to believe the ruling is unjustified, it is a great day for rule of law, upon which democracy rests.
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Enforced Disappearance
I don't know why you'd think that a fairy, with the power to fetch teeth from under your pillow and deposit payment undetected, and the power to monitor for for written letters that don't even emit denta particles to scan for, would lack a fraud unit.
removed.

my bad.
> Otherwise, have you missed the primary cause of the majority of CVEs issued in the past decades

Only because CVEs are never issued when humans are compromised. While that is probably the correct action on their part it means your argument is flawed as you don't account for human vulnerabilities which are much more common. Yes memory safety is a big problem and we should do something - but as an industry we need to not ignore the largest problem. There is a lot we can do in UX to prevent most security vulnerabilities, and putting too much emphasis on memory can take away from potentially more productive paths.
lol, I’m glad it wasn’t just me that thought “woah wait. wtf did you just say??!”
Republicans stopped the ice cream bribes.

Edit:
https://bsky.app/profile/kfile.bsky.social/post/3llodejyyl22...
For most people, their life isn't stored in neat Notion database.

Instead, if you have calendar + email + their main messaging apps (e.g. WhatsApp) you cover the majority of it. It's messy and unstructured — but luckily LLMs are great at that
Further reading:

Fabien Sanglard in driving compilers:
https://fabiensanglard.net/dc/

GNU binutils with their own take on how to process static archives (libfoo.a)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32006

Linkers:
Mold:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26233244

Wild:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42814683

List of FOSS C linkers:

GNU ld

GNU gold

LLVM lld
mold (by LLVM lld author)

wild

EDIT: typesetting
For the same cost* was left out of my post, but it is extremely important to Moore's law not being dead.
Not sure what happened with Claude 3.7, but 3.5 is way better in all things day to day. 3.7 felt like a major step back especially when it comes to coding even though this was highlighted as one aspect they improved upon. 500k window will soon be released for Claude. Not sure much it will improve anything though.
Now that she was convicted, it's not "allegedly" anymore is it. Why then this formulation?
I just finished adding support for ChatGPT's new GPT4o image generator to <https://martiansoftware.com/chatkeeper> and it's working great. Testing it over the next few days and then it'll be ready for release.

This is a tool meant for heavy users of ChatGPT who want to sync their *entire* conversation history to local markdown files. If that describes you, I invite you to check it out!
From my use case, the Gemini 2.5 is terrible. I have a complex Cython code in a single file (1500 lines) for a Sequence Labeling. Claude and o3 are very good in improving this code and following the commands. The Gemini always try to do unrelated changes. For example, I asked, separately, for small changes such as remove this unused function, or cache the arrays indexes. Every time it completely refactored the code and was obsessed with removing the gil. The output code is always broken, because removing the gil is not easy.
https://aistudio.google.com
Find me an absolute point, and I'll move the world.
So this is a special case where two wrongs DO make a right when directed at a single victim?
AI systems like Manus that can directly operate browsers make APIs not even necessary.
Not exactly the same but this reminds me of an idea I had for shareable shopping carts. You add things to a shopping cart and then you share it via a link (text, dm, chat, email, etc) and the receiver of that link clicks on it and the contents get added to their cart (alternative could be an import button that you paste the link in to make it more explicit).

Why? Plenty of times I've been ordering food with friends and we just pass around a phone to put in the order or someone dictates their order. Sometimes this can involve a friend who is not physically there and so they text you their order in just plain text. I thought it would be cool for everyone to be able to get on the same site, customize their order how they want, and share their link. That way there's no way that anyone misunderstood or forgot anything when placing the final order.
> That seems a bit unfair to pin it on Hegel. Most of the damage could have been avoided if people like Mao were champions of liberal values. however the fact that he was in a position of power at all was because he came from a rather backwards society that didn't champion liberal values.

Considering that the "liberal values" were the ideology upon which China was previously attacked and destroyed by western powers, and that the KMT, under more liberal values did the Shangai Massacre against the comunists, ending their alliance, this would be improbable. Yeah, history show how progressive is the liberal ideology and their champions...
I was reading this and thinking, what if there’s no such thing as scale. Like, obviously there is in some sense, but what if there’s some kind of theory of relativity for scale as well, maybe scale is relative to gravity and gravity isn’t constant or something like that. So for example a universe as detailed as ours with sentient beings and all that could exist inside a quark, and we could in fact be living inside a proton or something, seen from someone else’s perspective. And it’s that level of detail, forever, in every direction.

Or maybe not, anyways back to work.
> PS: Also, a few eons ago in many countries SMS had a cost, and WhatsApp was free, it was so another good point to use it.

That was the starting point for sure in many European countries.
This was also my thought, since selection bias seemed like a good explanation as well. The survey only covers 220 square arcminutes out of a total of about 148 million. Interesting data point though, definitely seems like something that one should measure!
If there'd just be an alternative to claude code...
> But to pretend like nuclear can magically become cheaper through technical breakthroughs, while storage is an unsolvable problem is disingenuous.

I didn't say storage was not solvable and I even gave a better storage solution than your silly "batteries" example.

> Based on the projections for adopted climate scenarios, the average annual energy loss of the global nuclear fleet is estimated to range between 0.8% and 1.4% in the mid-term (2046–2065) and 1.4% and 2.4% in the long term (2081–2100).

From your own linked article - do you think this energy loss is even close to comparable to solar for similar conditions? You've linked an article but don't seem to understand the point they're looking to make.

Anywho, I don't think you're looking to argue in good faith and seem to have an anti-nuclear agenda, despite talking about an "energy mix". Save your policies for whatever echo chamber they were derived from, thanks.
Ah, well, that's America for you, they've always been weirdly okay with criminal politicians.

But more broadly, no, it is not a democratic norm that politicians should be allowed to commit multi-million euro frauds with no consequences.
> What would happen to world power consumption if 1% of WhatsApp chats would be fed to ChatGPT?

The same thing that happens now, when 100% of power consumption is fed to other purposes. What's the problem with that?
> has one million in context window

Is this effective context window or just the absolute limit? A lot of the models that claim to support very large context windows cannot actually successfully do the typical "needle in a haystack" test, but I'm guessing there are published results somewhere demonstrating Gemini 2.5 Pro can actually find the needle?
I'm working on AssetRoom, a free service to email you noise-free, easy to digest summaries of SEC filings from companies you're interested in.

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Evidently you don't know much about humiliating moments for NATO members.
My two cents, I'm wearing my exploit writer's hat, but my current day job is SWE on legacy/"modern-ish" C++ codebases.

> Enable STL bounds checking using appropriate flags

This rarely helps. Most of the nice-to-exploit bugs were in older codes, which weren't using STL containers. Or they are even just write in C. However, if enabling these flags do not hurt you, please still do as it does make non-zero contribution.

> Enable mitigations like CFI and shadow stacks.

Shadow stack is meh. CFI helps a bit more, however there's some caveats depending on which CFI implementation you are talking about, i.e. how strong is it, for example, is it typed or not? But in best case it still just makes the bug chain one bug longer and maybe completely kills some bugs, which isn't enough to make your exploits impossible. It just raises the bar (that's important too though). It also depends on what the specific scenario. For example, for browser renderer without sandbox / site-isolation etc, CFI alone makes almost no impact, as in this case achieving arbitrary R/W is usually easier than taking over $rip, and it's obvious you can do data-only attack to have UXSS, which is a serious enough threat. On the other hand, if it's a server and you are mainly dealing with remote attackers and there's inherently no good leak primitive etc, various mitigations soup could make real difference.

So, all in all, it's hard to tell without your project details.

> How much of the "70% CVE" statistic is relevant to such a C++ codebase?

Uh, I'd guess, half or more of that. But still, it just raises the bar.
Stroustrup: Languages Like Rust Are an Attack on C++
The inner black hole did not come from the outside, it formed inside and if i had to guess, it is stuck in the inside together with all the other matter, unable to interact with the outside of the outer black hole.
Personally, I believe that in a democracy, courts shouldn’t have the power to disqualify individuals from running for office. That’s just my opinion, though, and I’m not familiar with the situation in France.

Separately, here in the U.S., I take issue with the fact that ex-felons are denied the right to vote. I believe we should push for a constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to vote for every U.S. citizen—regardless of their criminal record or other issues.
No, war by proxies is not peace.
Reintroducing Capsul
> I'm still a firm believe that the majority of the work we do with computers today could be done within the Windows 95 shell.

Wasn't that one of the ideas behind SerenityOS?
Is there a less biased discussion?

The OP link is a thinly veiled and biased advert for something called composio and really a biased and overly flowery view of Gemini 2.5 pro.

Example:

“Everyone’s talking about this model on Twitter (X) and YouTube. It’s trending everywhere, like seriously. The first model from Google to receive such fanfare.

And it is #1 in the LMArena just like that. But what does this mean? It means that this model is killing all the other models in coding, math, Science, Image understanding, and other areas.”
Their Terms of Use specify:

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So that would be full blast for over 40 hours...
British authors 'sick' to discover books on 'shadow library' used to train AI
I had a chance to visit a couple of times. Once during the heyday of Bell labs, which was magnificent. Then, later, after the AT&T break up when the whole place was down at the heels. IIRC was for a meeting about a DSP architecture that an under-resourced team had come up with that had a guaranteed throughput architecture, instead of the usual RTOS-like DSP OS. It felt like a last gasp of innovation.

The scale of it is stupendous. It looks like a normal building at a distance but when you get up close, it hits you. I wasn't optimistic about it being repurposed because who needs that big of a building. It's heartening that it was put to good use.
"The left". Would be nice to see how you came to this conclusion. Justice applies the law and she was found breaking it.

Also the current government is, by the most lenient definition in France, center-right. Although it shouldn't interfere with the justice system in any direct way, lest we want to enshrine even more the fact that politician in position of power shouldn't ever face consequences.

I think we can agree this would be bad.
Even more so Citizens United and Reganism.
Ah you're right, too late to edit.
While not versed in French law or their view of personal liberties, from an American lens, this seems fine. Barring running from public office could be reversible on appeal and that stipulation isn’t irreversible—you could run after the ban is reversed—, so it’s not depriving you of something significant enough that that should rise to a level of stricter scrutiny.

The prison sentence being suspended until appeals are exhausted also seems sane to me for a nonviolent crime.

So, overall, it seems reasonable. The ban on a run isn’t infringing on fundamental rights in a way that is permanent and there’s no deprivation of liberty until appeals are exhausted.