skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will obviously be a disaster.

Do you honestly believe it’s possible to rebuild ANY code base with millions of lines of code, to another language in MONTHS?

It won’t be a ”bumpy road”. It will be a total failure.
And rich and uneducated.
Good coders learn enough about the business to check the code. Domain experts can look at the running software.

With DDD you just get a third model that is neither the domain, nor the software, and both the domain experts and the programmers will have to work extra to maintain and understand it.

Worse, people often try to build this model up front, which means it will be wrong, hard to implement and probably get thrown away if you actually want to ship anything
We’ve been running our company (6ish people) solely on Fedora and it’s been a breeze, but then we’re a bunch of nerds, so not necessarily a surprise. The real test how much the Linux desktop has matured happened when I set up a fedora laptop for my parents to get around hp desperately coaxing them into some kind of subscription and an endless stream of ads/complaints from Microsoft to buy into a cloud service. After setting up the laptop and explaining the very basics of Plasma, I’ve had to deal with it again. Because with printers, it just works (tm)
Wasn't Trump impeached twice already last term without any consequences?
Many of the members of those militias are themselves military or ex-military. Which already tells you volumes about how likely it is that all of the US military would "decide they were honor-bound to defend the Constitution". Besides, those guys don't think of what they are doing as contradicting the constitution - quite the opposite! They are very obviously wrong, but that has never stopped fanatics from believing in their creed.

The real question, anyway, is not whether the military will obey Trump's illegal orders, should he issue them. It's whether the military would do something to stop the militias if Trump lets them off the leash with an explicit mandate.

And my concern is that most of the lower-ranking officers and people below them will prefer to sit it out. Because if they do something, and it's not enough, they are all looking at actual treason charges and likely death sentences.
Pen and paper takes 67 year old Susan top of 11M fantasy football league
But why less Europeans? A language barrier for some countries? More regulations about robocalls etc? GDPR and better privacy so our data isn't as easy to exploit?
I think its just perception. A place that is smaller will appear to have more movement because its across country, while in China or the US you would just move internally. Taiwan had amazing economic growth for 50+ years.

The reality is that in all places the most ambitious people are likely going to move, as such talents usually depend on specific environments.

And with things like TSMC in Taiwan, claiming anything close to 'no opportunities' is a bit ridiculous.
South Korean president is jailed for trying to coup, no? So there’s precedent.
It helps that marketing that is defined as fraud elsewhere is legal for you ... you get used to it.
I miss XHTML and XSL times. Time, when Web would have been more prepared for the AI consumption, less dynamic nonsense, and more focus on the actual content. Time shows all these Flash and Java gimmicks died off.
Apparently yes: https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/35ypb8/rust_running_o...
Have you ever written Markdown? Markdown is typically mostly human-readable text, interspersed with occasional formatting instructions. That's what XML is good for, except that it's more verbose but also considerably more flexible, more precise, and more powerful. Sure, you can losslessly translate any structural format into almost any other structural format, but that doesn't mean that working with the latter format will be as convenient or as efficient as working with the former.

XML can really shine in the markup role. It got such a bad rap because people used it as a pure data format, something it isn't very suited for.
The filibuster is a simple rule, and can be removed by a simple majority vote.

I actually expect Republicans to do so soon enough now that their control of the Senate is virtually guaranteed for the foreseeable future, and they are reaping all of the disadvantages of the filibuster without the benefits.
This is highly speculative, but I've been comparing responses from five different AI models lately, including ChatGPT and Grok, and I've noticed something odd: The similarities in phrasing, structure, and political tone between ChatGPT and Grok are striking — much closer than you’d expect from two "rival" companies.

That led me down a rabbit hole, and here’s my working theory:

Despite the public feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk, I believe OpenAI and xAI are quietly collaborating behind the scenes. Specifically, I suspect Grok is either running OpenAI-derived models or sharing infrastructure, and in return, OpenAI is gaining access to Musk’s massive data/compute resources via xAI and X (formerly Twitter).

Supporting points:

Microsoft is stepping away — They were OpenAI’s primary compute partner but have started signaling they’ll use other providers.

Grok’s rapid development — It came online way faster than would be realistic for a startup AI lab with no prior foundation.

Massive hardware investment by xAI — If OpenAI was looking for non-Microsoft compute, xAI could quietly be the supplier.

Grok's API being compatible with OpenAI’s SDK — suggests architectural overlap.

Recent political shift in ChatGPT’s answers — The model's tone has become more "centrist" or Musk-adjacent in the past year.

And now — Musk just merged X and xAI, combining their compute, data, and models into one company. That move erases corporate barriers and would make a quiet collaboration much easier to conceal.

Why keep it secret? Because the brands are oil and water: OpenAI is publicly "woke"; Musk is toxic in mainstream circles. If users knew Grok was OpenAI-powered, Musk’s fan base would revolt. If OpenAI users knew they were working with Musk, the backlash would be massive.

It’s just a theory, but the pieces fit too well for me to ignore.

Curious if anyone else has noticed this or has data points to support or refute it.
...and yet it was enough not to verify my account (which I didn't do because it included consenting to my address being shown) to get it removed with all its apps.
Europeans have less money than Americans. Even if there are no differences in law or practice scammers are still going to make more money off the wealthier people.

I suppose in some sense we could jot that down as more regulations leading to less scamming.
Slight correction: there's a thing called "enhanced driver license" that some states issue that complies with the relevant federal standards and can serve as proof of citizenship (they are only issued to citizens). It is, in effect, a passport card combined with a driver license on a single card.
He can say whatever he likes, but in reality, what he did is literally throw in the garbage the complete intellectual baggage of the European socialist/communist movement and basically copied what Western allied South East Asian nations were already doing.

If it makes him feel good not to call that 'capitalism' then that's fine. I guess it wouldn't have played well with the base back then.

But in reality and operations, its is how capitalism has worked in practice.
Postgres Language Server: Initial Release
Hey HN!

We have released the initial version of the Postgres Language Server we started working on almost two years ago[0]. You can try it out by downloading the binary from the repo[1]. It is also available on npm, as a vscode extension and via nvim-lspconfig and mason.[2]

We fell into plenty of rabbit holes along the way, but dug our way out of each. We're now using mostly pragmatic, almost naive solutions for our problems.

You can find more details in this blog post.[3]

Try it out and let us know what breaks. Bug reports, ideas, and contributions are all welcome-especially if you want to hack on some Rust.

Last, but not least, we want to give a shoutout to Biome[4]. We spent a lot of time studying their codebase and have been adopting many of their approaches. We wouldn't be here without their work.

[0] Announcement Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37020610

[1] Repository: https://github.com/supabase-community/postgres-language-serv...

[2] Installation Guides: https://pgtools.dev/#installation

[3] Blog Post: https://www.supabase.com/blog/postgres-language-server

[4] Biome: https://biomejs.dev
>ffs

Doing this is the equivalent of throwing a small piece of litter in an otherwise clean alley. Humans being what they are, the alley will soon be a trash heap.
I would wager that autocorrect/predictive text on your phone is to blame for that. It is such an overlooked convenience to a problem we solved decades ago that it is on virtually any smartphone.

Typing in a hurry or you forgot to add one more s in the word 'necessary'? No worries! Keep typing incorrectly and the phone will take care of the proper spelling of the word for you! And it will do so faster than you figuring out the right spelling for the misspelled word. Many of us have probably regressed in our spelling ability to some degree at this point.
Reinstalled windows recently, now it has the window resize bug, which apparently has something to do with display sleep mode. Reportedly linux struggles with sleep modes too, but to think I should try linux for better hardware support, duh. And new windows is very fiddly, constantly tries to install new metro apps, adds them to lock screen, installs new services, runs a shit ton of services that constantly write a lot of data on the disk. Enshittification is in full overdrive now.
Scandalous ?
Newspeak phrase of the day: Conglomerate Discount.

Some inverters believe they suffer from "conglomerate discount" [1]: that their whole conglomerate can be worth less than the sum of its parts. Who decides what the parts are worth? The investors, of course. Buying shares of their own company is a pretty standard way to fix the "discount".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conglomerate_discount
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Wealth sitting inside pension funds?
I believe there is certainly some hubris involved in their projected timeline but I think at least part of that is due to a belief that we have much, much better tooling today than was available to teams that attempted this sort of thing back in the day.
This is why hacker news is so cool
I second that, everything "just works" as you'd expect it to.

If StreamOS can get widespread and they start to introduce desktop apps to the store, I think they can take some market share.
Not that there aren't massive downsides, but I do wonder where the spend side of this $1T goes. If it's shifted out of the USA then its being spent somewhere else.

I've never seen a decent write up of how the crooks invest the money, where they accept losses (muling?) and how they re-invest.
The waste does not at all stem only from different risk tolerances. SpaceX launches NASA astronauts which means that they also need to comply to the same standards. Pork barrel projects like SLS is the real reason why everything NASA does is so expensive and late.

The statement that NASA would have achieved reuse eventually is weird considering that NASA still exists today, 35 years later, without succeeding.
Language proficiency seems like a significant factor. India and Nigeria have the second and third largest number of English speakers by absolute population, I don't think it's a coincidence that both countries are also notorious for their scammers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English...
Recently I was practicing QA with ChatGPT, I wondered if I say "stay silent for 4 seconds before talking" will it work? lo and behold, it didn't.
It'll give a good life for software developers
”Some hubris”. Ok, let’s disagree to disagree.
Looking at the amounts still lost and reported that is not the problem. There is plenty to go around directly available.

My best guess is English proficiency. While most people here speak it, they will never talk to a "bank" employee in English. Which is probably why the Microsoft scam does work as people expect some non native language there.
It feels like this should be illegal.
I don't think anyone really does this, at least on the GPU.
Yeah that was my thought exactly. It certainly looks like a lot of other so-called depictions of Shakespeare, which are all based on images we know are not images of him but of other people.
Like MarkLogic?
Thanks, this helped me understand some things. Unfortunately I don't have time to write a real reply right now, but I think I'm more convinced than before. Thanks for taking the time.
It goes a bit into the same direction rust went by shipping the unit tests usually inside the module. The thought is intriguing to keep the „mock“ setup up to date even when doing refactors. But I wonder if this solves the issue.
I tend to not use mocks. And I try to stay away from spies. These two tie the tests to close to the implementation like the article also described.
The reason why I don‘t ship test setup in production code is the simple fact that the test / spec should not be based on production code. Hard to put in words for me but the test should be impartial. It sets up its test world and run the subject in it. It should not use the subject to describe the test environment. I think this will lead to false positives.

I have an example where a coworker used constants from production to assert return values. I stated that the test can‘t use them because the test is the specification and needs to be in control what is correct and what is not. Even if that means we write duplicate string values. In this case somebody changed a const value to a wrong value. But for the test this was all fine.
FWIW, the first thing Putin did after he got elected wasn't to mess with the elections; rather, he methodically strangled all remaining free press in the country above a certain threshold. Basically no opposition TV at all, only a couple of radio stations and newspapers. Massive electoral fraud orchestrated from Kremlin only really began post-2008.
It’s 20+ years since I lived in Germany (Berlin). At the time it was pretty easy to rent a high quality property for a reasonable price. I know a lot has changed since then, and the “global housing crisis” is also affecting Germany. Sorry can’t give you more details than that.

I am confident my language skills advice still applies.
The controller with two halves will be unusable. There will be nothing to hold the half steady while you try to hit buttons or move the stick.
>as if it were a web page.

Why the "as if"? Isn't it a web page by definition?
I have one of their travel routers (Beryl), and they beat a U7 Pro (the one with horrible still unfixed firmware) in consistency and throughput with one device connected to 5 GHz. While I sit next to the UniFi AP and the Beryl sits behind a concrete wall. And it's not a small difference either. I run it in AP mode for game streaming now because the UniFi keeps dying, even when I'm the only device on 6 GHz.

The polish I'm missing on supposed premium products.
1 trillion? (x)doubt...
Humans will be ready for space when we stop thinking of it as for “trips.” Humans will be ready for space when humans are at home wherever they are.
Do banking apps work normally if downloaded from the aurora store? I'd very much like to fully degoogle my next phone when I get to replacing it, and it's the last stumbling stone
That's odd. Tesla's per-car warranty repair costs last year was less than
1/2 of Ford and about 1/3 of GM. I'm not sure where you get your comment
that they "fail and fall apart at a rate few other auto manufacturers can
match". The warranty fund is available in the manufacturers financial reports.

Please cite your sources for your claim since it clearly is not from the
public financial data.
> Its unfortunate that hyperbola begins with a root that is similar to super.

The choice of the word "similar" by the author is not really appropriate, because this is not a random similarity.

The words "super" and "hyper" mean exactly the same thing and they descend from a single Indo-European word, the former being the Latin variant and the latter being the Ancient Greek variant, while the corresponding English variant is "over".

"Superbola" would be ambiguous, because that could be a "superparabola".

I am among those who dislike the mixing of distinct languages inside a compound word when there is no need for that.

Therefore, while "superquadrics" is a correct term, instead of "superellipse" and "superhyperbola" I would prefer "hyperellipse" and "hyperhyperbola". And instead of "Superman", "Overman" :-)
I was looking to move to Linux for my gaming PC, just about pulled the plug when Respawn decided that all cheaters in Apex Legends were supposedly using Linux and decided to block Linux users from playing...
Europe somehow is often a bit lagging behind the US - in good and in bad - the obesity pandemic is also just really starting to show here as well.

Scammers upped their game here also in the last few years and especially months.

No week in the local news without a love/crypto/elderly scam going into the 10s to 100 thousands.

Especially in the last few months, in my social circle, scammers really increased in density and quality - fake email accounts, AI calls, real people "you opened a crypto account with us" and "it's your niece Mary" calls.

The fragmentation of Europe might really help here - no one in their right mind will pick up on a call from another state anymore (or some people, even an unknown phone numbers are off limits, for that matter).
"Crony Capitalism" is just a term socialists came up with to shit on capitalism. The reality is every society is going to have some amount of corruption and cronyism. But "Crony Capitalism" isn't an actual coherent concepts, it doesn't have 'principles', its just highlighting something negative that happens in countries, including capitalist ones.

Socialists love to add some negative word 'X' to capitalism to highlight that all bad things in the world are connected to capitalism, and if they could finally defeat capitalism, then the world would be perfect. Instead of actually trying to fix 'X' they will tell you that what we really need to change is 'capitalism'. Surveillance Capitalism, Crony Capitalism, Disaster Capitalism and so on.

Trying to fix corruption, to hard, lets just destroy property rights and money instead. Great idea!
Same. I still remember almost getting suspended in high school for "hacking" the school computers in the mid 90's. Now I get paid as a security researcher.
Also have genX friends who do more tangible stuff like auto mechanic, architect, trucker, dentist and chiropractor. All are doing just fine in their respective niches.
Musl's allocator has a reputation if being slow. Switching to an alternative allocation like jmalloc or mimalloc should avoid that. (Not sure if that was your problem, but it's a common complaint about Rust+Musl)
Microsoft knew they were losing the client device market to iPhone and Android (after their Windows Phone flopped). So they essentially gave up on improving Windows, and decided to turn it into a thin client for Microsoft cloud services. For this model to work well, they need to force users to have a stable identification, aka Microsoft account, in order to login to the thin client.

Windows is over. I moved to Apple silicon a while ago and never looked back. Even though macOS has its warts, it's not hostile to its users.
It doesn't have to be enforceable at the point where voting actually occurs. It's just a prepared excuse to disqualify electors. Let's say Republicans in Congress circle the wagons around Trump and refuse to admit any new members from states that ignore the EO, like, physically. What then?
>I can’t believe people didn’t stay on Windows 7.

Normal mainstream users can't stay on very old operating systems like Windows 7 because they'll eventually be forced to install newer software that's not compatible with it. Outside actors other than Microsoft force os upgrades.

- buy a new printer and it only has drivers for newer os like Windows 10/11 and later

- need for installing newer software like latest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Adobe suite, TurboTax 2024, etc. They don't install on Win7. For Windows 7, the last version of Chrome was January 2023. Last version of Firefox was August 2024.

So setting aside commercial apps like Adobe, TurboTax, etc. -- why can't a user just stay with old version of Mozilla Firefox that's compatible with Win7 and turn off updates?!? Because bank websites like JP Morgan will block the user with an error "You need to upgrade your web browser" because the SSL/TLS encryption algorithms in old Firefox versions are obsolete.

Deliberately trying to freeze your computer on Windows 7 or Windows XP means relegating it into a "museum piece" that becomes less and less useful for practical real-world tasks. That's ok for an isolated machine that runs old video games but no good for online banking.
> I know that we've started using uev since then which seems like it would change things.

Are you asking about EUV lithography? That's a manufacturing technique, but this thesis is about modeling the physics of how a transistor operates, not the process of building the transistor.
If you enjoyed the article, consider listening to the Fall of civilisations podcast. Episode 12 spends 3 hours on the whole chilling saga.
Can't we have TURN over something like bittorrent or ifps so that it's decentralized ?
I'll give you a simple and silly example which could give you additional ideas. LLMs can be great for checking whether people can understand something.

One day I came up with a joke and wondered whether people would "get it". I told the joke to ChatGPT and asked it to explain it back to me. ChatGPT did a great job and nailed what's supposedly funny about the joke. I used it in an email so I have no idea whether anyone found it funny, but at least I know it wasn't too obscure. If an AI can understand a joke, there's a good chance people will understand it too.

This might not be super useful but demonstrates that LLMs aren't only about generating text for copy-and-paste or retrieving information. It's "someone" you can bounce ideas with, ask opinions and that's how I use it most frequently.
The sibling examples where good as well, but I think missing a major one: Consumer access. xAI can just merge their chat bot into the X/Twitter app, and suddenly they have a couple hundred million users on this thing. In a commoditised market, distribution is everything.

Also seems to fit with Musk's vision of turning Twitter into some kind of US WeChat, an app people do a bunch of stuff in. Using LLMs to do a bunch of stuff seems to be the way the hype is going right now.

I don't know if I see long term value here, but I can't say I don't see the story.
All three of those plus more, but language barrier might be the biggest reason. Most Europeans speak English, but most scams are only plausible in your native language or the national language of your country. Europe is a patchwork of different languages. English has a much bigger "market" of victims for international scammers, many of them might already know some English before their career