skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is more like driving at very high speeds, closing your eyes and then being surprised you caused an accident. They are ignoring all the usual checks safety mechanisms and the legal rights of the people they are sending to a prison in El Salvador that would usually apply.
If you mean the US, I don't agree. It has a long way yet to get there, but it's fighting really hard and making great progress at becoming more like a criminal gang.
I am not an expert there, but my feeling is that if those countries made a change regarding the US (like it used to say "it's perfectly safe" and now it says "hmm, be careful with the paperwork"), then it counts as a warning.
I can't really speak for other people, but I think the "democratizing creativity" part comes in in places where the specific creative part that the AI replaces is not a core part of the creative experience.

Take a look at Super Auto Pets, a pretty successful and fun auto-battler game. It literally uses a free emoji pack for its core art. It doesn't really matter that they didn't hire an artist for those (though I think they did hire an artist after finding success) since a free emoji pack was enough for the creative product they wanted to create. If they had AI generated emoji instead, it wouldn't have really mattered much for the final result (creatively at least, I assume audiences would respond poorly due to GenAI's reputation). At the same time, the ability to create their product without paying a lot of money for artists was critical to make it in the first place.

This is what it means to me to "democratize creativity", to allow creatives to realize their creative ambitions in an area they are proficient at (e.g. video games) without requiring a lot of creative skill in adjacent areas that aren't critical to the experience they are trying to make.
Helpful, thanks.

Plus I assume they get some sort of middle of the road base salary? How low is that if you don't mind me asking?
> Silly is actually too nice a word for such extortion scheme. As you see if rich enough/business big enough, it could be easily circumvented.

Maybe it could have been easily circumvented, but it wasn't circumvented in this case. It obstructed direct inheritance, thus, worked as intended for the rich.
It can ask, but how much time do you want to spend answering stuff?

Such dialog is probably nice for first time user, it is a nightmare for repeated user.
UK press has basically always been partisan, which was why the Daily Mail was publishing pro-Hitler articles on behalf of its owner.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Harmsworth,_1st_Viscoun...
So everyone disliking some EU policies or EU leaders, must be a Russian bot? You think no free thinking person can find some of EU's actions as being bad for them?
Please go read up what happened outside Krakow, Poland in the 1940s. I did. I actually visited.

Trump is still very very far away from that.

Assuming this man is innocent, we should rather blame El Salvador for actually imprisoning him.
I'm not so sure:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/27/canada-us-flig...

"Airline travel between Canada and the US is “collapsing” amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, with flight bookings between the two countries down by over 70%, newly released data suggests."
Who cares? They'll probably release some second rate, old model, and be done with it. They're just trying to garner some good PR after the public swung to DeepSeek.
the penalty could be relative to the value of the piece
Accidents like this are required in order to demonstrate the scale of the "will" behind the power.

This should be a un-ignorable reminder of the value of due process. Better a guilty person go free than an innocent person sent to their long, slow, undignified death.
If you want to increase the liklyhood of your contribution being merged, do:

* Provide unit-tests

* Good types

* No breaking changes

And if you want breaking changes or grand new features to be merged, you have to show activity in the issue tracker or fix open bugs first, to show the maintainer that you are willing to deal with the fallout or support requests that follow after a PR gets merged. This is not to be rude. This is seeing a PR through the eyes of a maintainer.
When the person starts out by describing a mainstream paper as left-wing propaganda, I think its fair to be sceptical about the degree of good faith, no?
>Comon law proved to be more adaptable to different customs and cultures.

...Which is why civil law is the system of 150 countries /s
I have to suspect that your post is based on assumptions from the (somewhat misleading) post title, rather than from reading the article content.

The following is a direct quite from the article:

"None of this is to say that LLMs aren’t great. I love LLMs. I use them all the time. In fact, I wrote this very essay with the help of an LLM."
23 byte version:

// Lib code>>
s={};call=(n)=>{s[n]()}
// <<

s.hello=()=>console.log('hello');
call('hello');
delete s.hello;
This is why due process is essential for everybody. The moment you deny it to one group, you can deny it to anyone by claiming they're in that one group.
That's... why there should be a due process with thorough checks before something like this happens - it might as well happen with tough checks, but up until now we've seen scenes of people being detained by masked officers not willing to identify or to explain the situation
Show HN: A GitHub action to publish Discord help forums
As maintainers of our open-source project, we provide support on multiple different channels: Stack Overflow, GitHub discussions, and Discord.

The problem: Most activity happens on Discord, where questions aren't indexable/searchable.

To fix this, we build a small GitHub action that generates transcripts of our help forum. We run this action every hour and then publish the result via GitHub pages.

The heavy lifting of the action is done by https://github.com/ItzDerock/discord-html-transcripts, a node.js module by Derock that generates chat transcripts. We just wrapped it into a GitHub action so it is more easily reusable.

You can see our help page at https://help.toit.io, with the corresponding GitHub action here: https://github.com/toitware/web-help/blob/main/.github/workf....
This is great. But I went for Svelte. Invested in Svelte and SvelteKit. Wrote a decent sized app (not toy example, pretty feature right, tens of forms and screens if you will) and later I looked back at React.

And I discovered that:

- React is not that hard if you understand the hooks.

- React is lightweight too. For my use case at least.

- React is boring technology at this point which is good.

- The ecosystem is huge. You cannot have React Query like library and that's just one example.

So I'm sticking to React for next few years especially when the React compiler is already being used inside Facebook and Instagram and released as public beta.

Even React Native supports React compiler and I don't see this support going away rather getting better.

PS Edit: React compiler leaves not much for runes in Svelte or its compiled nature. I don't like Svelte much after runes because it feels like you're not writing Javascript rather a notation that looks like Javascript. Post React compiler, much of the hooks hell is not needed in complex scenarios.
See also: An 'Administrative Error' Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison (theatlantic.com)

90 points | 6 hours ago | 24 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43542333
It is not in the abstract a bad thing, and things like this are fairly inevitable under the circumstances. It's probably not a great thing for the US's foreign policy, and particularly trade policy (if you can call the current random flailing a policy) if the cause of it is treating the US as a common adversary, however.

On some level, Trump clearly understands that this sort of cooperation would be a problem for him (https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-threatens-eu-and-canad...), but I'm not sure if he understands that it is _inevitable_.

> If American policy is what keeps them apart, which I strongly doubt

No, it's not that. Current US policy is _driving them together_, however.
Threathunter.ai Creates Thxai.ai and Then Announces Revolutionary Consolidation
I'm an AI-bro, but I think the value of equity in OpenAI or Anthropic is likely zero. They've achieved incredible things with their models, but big-tech only ever seem to be a few months behind and have the economies of scale to make inference profitable. I think both will be acquired with valuations significantly below what was invested in them.
Why wouldn't they be critical of Israel? They killed over 200 children in one day just last week.
Even then I believe they avoided even transiting via US soil to maintain this thin figleaf of legal protection for torture.
Not only that, but it's also inconsistent with the U.S. administration expecting non-US businesses to comply with executive orders even when operating in other countries [0]:

> An executive order that Mr. Trump signed the day after taking office instructs federal contractors not to engage in D.E.I., which the order described as “illegal discrimination.” The letter to French businesses said the order “applies to all suppliers and contractors of the U.S. government, regardless of their nationality and the country in which they operate.”

[0] https://apnews.com/article/french-companies-dei-letter-us-tr...
A Mercedes van to lug it all around is both hilarious and also probably the coolest way to do it.

While working on set between 2012-2014, we were shooting all RED, and I had a 12-disk ATTO FC RAID10 rig on set at all times borrowed from RED. Not needed for speed of frames by this time of course, but for the ridiculous total storage required shooting 6.5k raw and the time needed to copy it all. On paper this system should've been good/safe enough. In practice, we almost lost it a handful of times within a month, each in a unique way, including the time a stunt driver messed up, veered off course, and plowed directly into video village, striking the RAID and killing exactly the maximum number of disks in one mirror it could tolerate, but thankfully no more. (Needless to say the shoot was a massive learning experience and I have never managed data the same ever since.) By the time the shoot was over, the RAID was alive, but it was absolutely beat to shit, and I was afraid of how the guy from RED would react when he came to pick it up. When he did, he was completely unphased. He chuckled and said, "You should've seen how messed it was after Ridley Scott's crew borrowed it!"

Very cool background though, I was not quite old enough to get into it all quite that early! When the Viper came out, I was still in high school, just exceedingly nerdy. I believe to this day I have PCs with ATTO Disk Benchmark on them
My first thought seeing this headline: "Please don't tell me he got sent to CECOT."

> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) admitted to mistakenly sending Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal CECOT prison.

:O

If you haven't heard of CECOT, go watch one of the recent YouTube videos on it. I'm glad that El Salvador has taken control over gang activity but, man, CECOT is one of the last places on earth you want to end up.
FYI Chrome Extension on the way, will publish the url soon as its published on the chrome store, thanks for your feedback.
if you live in a world where you believe that rockstar programmers are a myth, all I can say is that I think you're wrong. The world is vast , and there is some amazing talent out there -- no one needs to understand the entirety of all systems to affect change, especially with expert systems and modern documentation.

rockstars can still be rockstars even in the complex modern world.
The whole point of inheritance tax is to redistribute some of the accumulated family wealth across society. You think that's unfair? Grow up.
The Telegraph has long been compromised: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/peter-ob...

Having James Delingpole as climate change denial columnnist also is really unimpressive.
The video is hilarious
Ask HN: How does taxes in your country handle extra costs due to disability?
I'm wondering, I am in a little fight with the taxes in my country as I have a child that breaks significantly more things and eats significantly more than a normal child their age due to various diagnoses.

The tax system says that's too bad, parents pay what children break.

I'm wondering how various countries handle it, I'm hoping to find examples where I can say hey look this country has the understanding of statistics and that if you're paying much more than other people because your child has a problem that you should be able to deduct that.
Having the author come out and say that being untyped is a feature, is definitely one way to kill of any potential interest for that framework.
It's not surprising, but it never fails to amaze me that people hear about projects the first time, that have been around for decades. (This is not an attack). The first time I hear about MAME was maybe in 2004 or so. At that point the project was already over 6 years old. So for me that project is ancient, but when I heard about it the first time, someone was probably also amazed how I could not have heard about it earlier.
If the person was an actual US citizen, they wouldn’t be able to get them back? Now they were able to exchange an arms dealer for a pot smoking basketball player in Russia. Why can’t they do the same in Salvador?
Cruelty is the point. Cruelty is what the American people want.

The American people are not victims of a dictatorship, they voted for this.
100% agree. It’s less "product-market fit" and more "husband-wife fit." Wasn’t trying to build a startup, just trying to fix something that felt broken for someone I love.
And since it’s free, Faye doesn't need mass adoption. It just needs to exist for that one person who goes, "hold on...my health data ended up where?"

Or for when the next data breach hits and people start searching for local-only options.
5% one-time discount on something that has been marked up by 25%.

People will buy a thing that is 90% off reduced from $99 in preference to buying the identical thing for $5 with no discount.
Pro-duct-hivity tips update? AI or Wikis..? Tools?
Productivity tools are abundant. 'HOW' do you use 'WHICH ONES' and is Notion (wiki) or Workflowy say.. easiest. Info overload and structure of all of it will be more important.
Maybe AI has helped solve this? Any ideas or updates, recommendation?

Thank you all! -HG
> with conditions that would certainly be illegal in the US itself.

Why would you assume this? We're also under investigation for human rights abuses in our prisons. AFAIK most of the rights you have as a prisoner are civil rights.
The Dangers of End-to-End Encryption
People have been advocating avoiding the word accident in traffic crashes exactly for this reason:

https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accid...

> It’s a crash, not an accident. End the language of denial.

> I can’t help but get upset when people call a crash an accident. I lost my leg in a crash with a lorry. It was preventable – and even though the driver didn’t intend for the crash to happen, it was still his fault
You Can Still Read NASA's Deleted "First Woman" Graphic Novels
Pure JS is that interface... you're arguing for multiple unnecessary abstraction layers piled on top of each other.

More abstraction != easier to use.
Nazis came in power in 1933, not 1940. Give it time, MAGA has only been in power for 3 months. There's 4 more years (at least) of more and more unhinged Trumpisms to come.
Two technical professionals talk about being blind in tech
Hi,

Since I started my podcast go podcast() 3+ years ago everytime I'm saying to a guest that I'm blind and using a screen reader I always get the same reaction: "What, wow, I didn't know. I'd like to hear more about it".

I invited Ivan Fetch, a SRE that's also blind and we talk about challenges about being blind, not only tech-wise, but life also.

This will be a two part episode. I thought it might interest some people here in hacker news.

Thanks
Interesting, on that page using Safari, clicking on the home/nue logo or most other links/buttons results in a null error :)

I would hope React buttons work when people click on them though.
It's just a number. What makes v102 more sane than vX.Y? It's just what you're used to and personal preference.
> when I practice for more than an hour every day

> this creates horrible calluses on my fingers

I think both are good problems to have :-). Consistently practicing for more than an hour every day is quite difficult unless you are professionally into it. If you are able to manage it then that's commendable. And once the calluses are formed, it doesn't hurt as much. A downside of skipping practice for a week, besides the practice itself, is that the calluses go away.
I think it is your reply that is not in good faith at this point because either you haven't read my comments or you have chosen to ignore them.

Anyway it is getting excessively tiring not to be able to discuss or say anything so have a nice day.
> systemd, while not for everyone is a good for most people

Are you really sure?

systemd is a tool that automates system configuration with no interaction from the user, and it does it in such a way that the user doesn't have to know how the system works, then the user doesn't want to know, and then no longer actually knows.

When that happens, the user can't make any political decisions about his/her system, the "system" account gets to have higher privileges than "Administrator", the user is no longer the owner of the OS, can't control what the system does, not even what it does with his/her personal data, and finally we all turn into uneducated mindless drones. Oh, wait, we're already there. How did that happen?

Great for company computers ; very bad for users.
I agree, don’t really see as much quality journalism on the guardian as the thread implies.

I donated for the longest time until they succumbed to rage bait journalism.

For a while I started avoiding it entirely, especially during the worst of the Trump and C19 years sanity and objective information seemed to have left everyone.

Also HN remember this is NOT reddit, downvote only if the comment brings nothing to the discussion. The above comment is simply disgreeing with the current blind guardian admiration.

They do not deserve all that praise, and those who point it out are not breaking HN rules and thus should not be removed from the discussion with mindless downvotes.

Read the rules ppl !!!

( wish reddit users could just stay in their own ruined toxic echo chamber and leave the still relatively healthy forums alone. Dont you people have a Tesla somewhere to scratch??)
Criticker Relaunch – Movie and TV Show Recommendations
Guantanamo Bay is the real bipartisan moral stain here. It was set up exactly to cause this kind of situation, for the extralegal punishment of people deemed to be terrorists.

People claim that Obama "couldn't" close it, but I think DOGE have demonstrated with USAID that the President absolutely could have closed it by executive order and simply cutting off the pay of everyone there.
> I'm with you... would be nice to have:

You can do this right now already:

// For opening
<button onclick='document.querySelector("#dialogId").showModal()'>Open</button>

// For closing
<button onclick='this.closest("dialog").close()'>Close</button>

I think the problem here is that it is impossible to actually use the result from `close()`, as it can return a status, IIRC.

> It would just make so much sense.

That way above that I propose is about as sensible as the way you propose. If there are any problems with my proposal that are solved by your proposal, I'd love to hear it.
This is missing the subscription feature?

Multiple independent listeners should be able to attach a callback that fires when “hello” is called.
> since users themselves don’t clearly know what they want.

Knowing what you want is, sadly, computationally irreducible.
Hey, can you try again?

Thanks!
I believe Calibre (very) recently added a feature to make conversion to kepub automatic when transferring to a Kobo, so things may have changed on the ease of use front.
Show HN: I built a tool that finds real web vulns and tells you how to fix them
Hey HN – I’m a solo dev building PenZen, a security tool for people who run websites but don’t want to become security experts.

It runs a headless scan using OWASP ZAP under the hood (so it finds real issues—like vulnerable plugins, misconfigs, open ports—not just “is your SSL valid?”). Then it adds an AI layer that:

Prioritizes issues based on actual risk

Explains them in plain English

Suggests relevant fixes based on your stack (WordPress, Laravel, etc.)

You stay in control—PenZen doesn’t auto-fix anything. But you can mark issues as resolved or ignored, and get alerts in Slack, Discord, Email, or via webhook.

It also includes uptime monitoring out of the box, so you don’t need a second tool just to know if your site went down.

I built this after dealing with one too many vague vulnerability reports and noisy dashboards. Would love feedback—especially from folks who’ve built or used security tools before. What would make this genuinely useful for you?
Pebbles Form Planets
I would count the police presence as a far better reason to not visit this country than the crime. By a wide margin.
But this is why LLMs are so amazing. They understand context and nuance, and they have reasoning skills now. So you will not get a long list of garbage from a good model.
Happy to answer any questions about how this works under the hood—like how I’m orchestrating OWASP ZAP in headless mode, how the AI layer generates fixes based on your stack, or how alerting and issue resolution are handled.

Also very open to feedback on what’s missing or what feels unnecessary. I’m trying to build something that’s genuinely useful for devs—not just another dashboard that gets ignored.
Luckily some other countries have free speech.
English (Traditional) vs English (Simplified)
The software they "let" do that is at the opposite end of the scale in terms of how well it is understood, specified and tested. Or they "lose bank".
Both my Israeli and American passports are apparently engaged in a race to the bottom. I did not expect that.
I feel for the pilot who has been made a scapegoat. There was no way for him to know in which state his aircraft was in.

Officially the heavy rain has been ruled out as the cause of the incident. However, it's an interesting coincidence that just 5 minutes after entering it the cascade of faults began.
Show HN: CoLaunchly – A marketing co-pilot for devs who hate marketing
Hi HN,

I’m a developer who’s launched a few side projects and micro-SaaS products, and I always ran into the same wall:
I’d finish building, then freeze when it came time to actually launch.

I didn’t know what to post, where to post it, or how to talk about my product without feeling overwhelmed or cringe.
So I built CoLaunchly — a lightweight launch planning tool for devs and indie makers who want a clear, simple strategy without all the marketing fluff.

What it does:

Creates a personalized launch plan based on your product type and target audience

Suggests content ideas and templates for different platforms

Recommends channels and timelines

Provides a simple checklist so you can launch with more clarity and less stress

Right now, it’s in early access and the waitlist is open. I’d love feedback on the idea, the positioning, and whether this would have helped you with a past project.

Website: https://colaunchly.io

Thanks for checking it out!
Your home setup is much less efficient than production inference in a data center. Open source implementation of SDXL-Lightning runs at 12 images a second on TPU v5e-8, which uses ~2kW at full load. That’s 170J or about 1/400th the phone charge.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/accelerating-...

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01671