skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that any car mechanic working a local auto body shop knows engines well enough to design one. They just know which parts are broken.

Similarly we reach a point in coding where you don't really need to know how every API or language you use operates beneath the hood, you just need to be able to see where its broken.
Speaking as someone who enjoys reading after dark, I like lanterns, but I consider the ecosystem dire. No one seems able to propose a solution to the problem of how do I keep this lantern lit all night without soot and fuel on my hands. At home I refuse to try any fuel that I can't get from the meatpacker's leftovers anyway. If people are still talking about electricity and bulbs in five year's time, maybe I'll give it a go then.
If you've never used vinyl enough to "get it", then how can you say that it's inferior. The tactile experience of controlling the sound with the vinyl is so different than some digital plastic feeling controller. Yes, the higher end CDJs have a better feel to them decades later, but it is still not the same.

At this point we might as well be arguing about tab vs spaces. Using vinyl is my thing, and it is just not going to be possible to explain why I like it so much without the both of us being at the gear. Words do not convey the same as the touch
I haven't done much patching myself, but I've done it enough times to really appreciate having the capability when I do want to do it. It's one of the reasons why I have a huge preference for Python: its flexibility.
It hasn't been going on for decades. Prior banking crises were because of holes in regulation (and of course bad behavior by banks) that were unknown to the public, regulators, and most of the banking industry. Regulators didn't give the green light to participate in highly risky activities that the public was already aware of.

There is always risk - everyone takes some risks - but the matter of degree is everything. Some people risk crossing the street against the light, some people go skydiving, some people climb in Yosemite without a rope.
Let me show you in practical terms - I've searched for some neat cases for a Pixel 9 Pro (for a family member). I'm now receiving targeted ads for phone cases on Instagram on my Galaxy S25.

- Ads I'd like: More cute cases for either P9Pro or a Galaxy S25 I'm watching the ads on.

- Ads the company is pushing: iPhone-only cases which I can't use anywhere.

Quite staggering the incompetence of targeting those :)
Wow, I thought the sum was $40 million, but that's what the other law firm paid that showed a lack of principles and caved...

And another law firm is being blackmailed because it used to employ someone who worked for Robert Mueller (of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation)... Geez Trump's team is actually busy, but busy settling old scores.
What can Grok do that’s worth $80B?
The negative impact of Trump 2.0 on American scientific infrastructure will be felt for at least a decade after he's gone.
Thanks! I don't remember if I've seen it before.

In case it's down for others: https://web.archive.org/web/20250221070009/http://magic-1.or...

"This web page is being served by a completely home-built computer: Bill Buzbee's Magic-1 HomebrewCPU. Magic-1 doesn't use an off-the-shelf CPU. Instead, its custom CPU is built out of ~200 74 series TTL chips."

"Magic-1 is running a new port of Minix 2.0.4, compiled with a retargeted LCC portable C compiler. The physical connection to the internet is done using a native interface based on Wiznet's w5300 TCP/IP stack."

While I hate to condone using TTL rather than CMOS, this is extremely cool!

The CPU is documented at https://homebrewcpu.com/. Unfortunately the TCP/IP information was only posted on Google Plus, which has now been memory-holed by Google.

There's a clone by Aidil Jazmi documented at https://www.aidilj.com/homemadecpu/.
> sacrificing the listener's experience for cool points (including the physical issues with reproducing sound from delicate machinery in a chaotic environment).

I was with you right up until this point.

People care about the music, not about how tight the beats line up. I’ve heard some amazing DJs who were actually shit at beat matching but had unparalleled track selection.

I’ve also heard some technically amazing DJs who were incredibly dull to listen to because their songs and set progression just went nowhere.

I’ve also had far more technical problems, both as a DJ myself and as a clubber, with modern controllers than with vinyl. The fact is there’s less to actually go wrong with vinyl. And I say this as someone who never had any love for Technics 1210s as vinyl turntables.

To give an example of “less to go wrong”, I was at one gig and the turntable stopped working. We opened it up, replaced an internal fuse and it started working again. The whole thing took literally 10 minutes to fix. If a CDJ died like that you’d be looking at replacing it with a whole new unit.

At the end of the day, I never really cared how the music was performed just as long as the music was good. Because of that, I was one of the early adopters of Ableton. But these days I have a family so just DJ vinyl at the occasional house party.
Intel Reportedly Cancels Its High-End Xe2 Arc Battlemage "BMG-G31" GPUs
Everything Is Ghibli
When we got “create anything” and all made the same thing
If a check point is in a remote area, it is usually a checkpoint manned by forest officials: illegal logging and other stuff.
AI Engineering at Jane Street [video]
Why would someone be upset over getting xAI on top of having twitter equity?
No X shareholder in their right mind will object to getting a $45 billion valuation (including debt) when their latest valuations have the company at <$10 billion.
I also continue to say Twitter and prefer others to also do so because X is a terrible name to search for. It has too many common uses besides as the new name for Twitter so there are way too many false positives.

For example let's say you want to see all the times you've mentioned that site in your HN comment history. If you search for "author:tomcam twitter" in the search thingy at the bottom of most HN pages it turns up 34 comments and it looks like all of them are actually about that site or contained links to content on that site.

Change that to "author:tomcam x" and there are 13 comments. Only 4 of those are using X to mean Twitter. The x in the others come from OS-X, X-rated (in two comments), 2796 x 1290, x.into(), X.js, X-Files (in two comments), 4 x 8.
A soldier comes to their own assessment then a court martial decides later on if they agree. Just like every other form of action: do what you believe is within bounds, then find out later if the courts agree
This: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/26/us/pedophile-...

> Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral
Yet these companies add a few dollars to each item and then make shipping cheap - for presumably the same reasons Amazon does.
Why does that warrant an acquisition?
Debian 12 / AMD -- love it, no problems at all. Just make sure you have the latest kernel from backports.

1000% recommend a framework laptop w/ linux
What was previously broken? What can they both now do that they could not do before?
State of Vue.js 2025: A Decade of Growth and Innovation
Point is, they need a link saying there is an option available, even if it's not the new new new (which is in pre order).

I just bought an AMD 13", and had the same "wtf, that's silly" thought about the site.

Also, Ubuntu 24.04? Lts works great. Suspend eats some battery, but can't be more than 1% an hour. If I suspend it overnight, it's not the end of the world.

I have it hooked to some Amazon USB4 dock, with wireless dongles for keyboard and mice, and 2 1080p displays. One horizonal, one vertical. Those work as expected, and all scaling between them works and makes sense. It did take a few moments to get it all to align up but once it did it's worked great.

New bios update mangled my battery charge limit behavior in weird ways. Prior to mid month update, it worked great! Sometimes now it works, sometimes it's at 100%. Since the battery can be replaced in no time, I've honestly not fret it much.

The speakers are not great but I found some customized eq settings for an app. (Easy .. something) That made them sound 80% better, immediately).

Battery life, I dunno. I'm one of those people who kills all their batteries by panicking at 56%. If light duty, 6 hours no problem, maybe 8?

I love it. A bit of coin but I'm hoping they stay around so when things break , they can be replaced.

Tired of forced updates and controlled subscribe behaviors. A laptop one can replace broken pieces themselves and an OS that thus far lets you use the damn computer.
Tesla made 50% of its revenue in the US in 2024. It's a global company. Trade wars will not be the massive boon Tesla investors are hoping for.

Remember that their current P/E ratio is ~134, so the stock price already has a ton of growth priced in.
He does not need to convince judge, but other shareholders who agreed here.
Musk gets away with a lot because he does deliver sometimes - the cars and the rockets have done well. The investors and lenders are not totally dumb.
> I have no idea what corporate law is like in Texas.

Nobody does, really. Texas is relatively new to its 'corporate registration friendly' game, and at least on paper the statutory law is the same. Texas courts don't have to follow Delaware's case history, but it's also not a given that they will rule in a vastly more owner-friendly manner.
"yet does not lose support"

Trump is losing support at unprecedented levels. Typically new presidents have a honeymoon period for the first ~6 months or so were they actually go up a little bit in support. Trump has been losing support from day 1.

https://www.natesilver.net/p/how-low-is-trumps-popularity-fl...
XSLT is great for nerd cred, when someone selects "view source" on your page and there's not an HTML tag in sight. I did this once.

Maybe it's good for compression, but probably not by a factor much bigger than gzip/brotli/zstd.
Many of the optimizations here rely heavily on the size of matrix and it's relationship to hardware specific details, like LDS size, how they're banked and register count.

It's probably not surprising that you can grind a decent improvement over a general solution, and many of the improvements shown here will need to be re-balanced, or even simply not work, for kernels working on different matrix layouts. Similarly for trying to work on different hardware - even in the same architecture and generation these sort of details are often changing.

And all that required going down to the ISA level, which is a lot less easy (certainly less documented) for Nvidia - for example the "inspiration" post linked [0] on CUDA didn't beat cuBLAS also didn't try modifying the SASS directly, so there might be similar level gains unrealized there.

[0] https://siboehm.com/articles/22/CUDA-MMM
In all fairness the highway code specifically says that you should not violate it to let ambulance pass.
Might be down to sketchy council, but they normally place signs "new layout ahead" and the like when limits, lanes change.
Google owns half of the emails in the world which may be more valuable.
Solar City did not work out well. What are you talking about? That acquisition was a fraud
> Air France did not say where on the plane the phone was lost — or where it was ultimately located. “After checks by the maintenance teams, the device was found and the aircraft was able to take off again quickly,”

The toilet. It fell into the toilet, toilets slowly explode. https://www.salon.com/2002/10/03/askthepilot13/
It seems to be a controversial stance, but; I have no issue with this capability in the right hands.

I would immediately surrender such information either way, in the interests of the community - say for a missing child?

These capabilities should have well defined intent/objectives and transparent controls to protect the privacy of individuals to which are out scope.

With all the above said; it’s been proven time and time again that even with clear intent - the purpose of these systems mutates (ie between governments). Said governments then wonder why public trust is lacking?

(Example; see Australian Government customer ISP DNS requirements)
Spatial transcriptomic imaging of intact organism with volumetric DNA microscopy
Ejabberd 25.03 / ProcessOne – Erlang Jabber/XMPP/Matrix Server – Communication
99% of this does not depend on Oracle, you can do this on any vm hosting platform you can get. The only point of using Oracle is the price point which will vanish as soon as they can cease using it to build market share. Good to show btw. Nice instructions. They're mostly platform neutral. It might be a different interface to manage on another host of course but the outcome would be much the same.
I think family loyalty is deep rooted, where as socialism is something people debate (maybe more a mix of neocortex I.e. planning and lower emotions coming from morality and political identification)

No matter what their politics most people will look out for their family especially their kids.
So you are saying the individuals (not affiliated to any corporate) in a field are collectively doing/did more harm to people and environment, on purpose, than all the harm corporates in the same field are collectively doing/did, on purpose?

Corporates have power to sway governments/FDA/X in their personal favor (unlike a common individual for his own personal favor). As bigger the power of entity gets to the power of government, more government looses power over it, more at the discretion of its decision makers its users become. Why would a rational actor not do bad for profits if they can get away with it? Why would an entity, with a power, not exercise it, if net benefit to self is positive?
Archive: https://archive.is/g0BNN
You can just google the oaths that people take.

- enlisted: https://www.army.mil/values/oath.html

> I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

- officers: https://www.army.mil/values/officers.html

> I ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God. (Title 5 U.S. Code 3331, an individual, except the President, elected or appointed to an office of honor or profit in the civil service or uniformed services)
More likely is that competitive districts flip blue. Republican primary voters don’t seem to be upset. They’re getting what they wanted. It’s independents/undecideds that flip flop every election that could sway back against the GOP after getting tired of democrats in 2024
Fun! It reminds me of my own attempt at this: https://github.com/louisabraham/ubuf

It can generate efficient JS and C++ from a simple YAML file.
> What you are suggesting is using ai to learn to drive when you should be getting in the car.

No it isn’t.

> For someone who has done 100+ meetings I'm not sure I see the advantages

When you’ve tried using AI to assist in your meeting prep what has your experience been like?
The solar city acquisition was for "only" $2.6 billion. This deal is way bigger. I'm not sure what the Tesla valuation was at the time of that deal, but I have to imagine it's proportionally way bigger too. A $45 billion acquisition when the acquirer, xAI, has an $80 billion valuation will threaten the integrity of xAI. Particularly because that's just a paper valuation and xAI doesn't have much of any revenue.

If I were an investor in xAI I would be furious about this. They're almost certainly overpaying for Twitter and there's definitely going to be litigation.

Edit: It sounds like the combined entity is taking on Twitter's $12 billion of debt from when it originally went private. As of last December xAI had raised "more than $12 billion" in total [1], so the deal attaches Twitter's debt to that ~12 billion pot of VC money. Unless I'm really misunderstanding something this deal looks like a bailout of Twitter and a huge new liability for xAI.

It's definitely possible my hot take is wrong and the xAI investors support the transaction. I hope so because if not there's going to be some brutal lawsuits over this.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/technology/elon-musk-xai-...
We're joining the fight against infectious disease on the side of infectious disease. Maybe HHS can put some guidelines on avoiding the miasmas.
Java tried to, and mostly successfully did, run trusted and untrusted code in the same VM. Your applet code ran in the same VM as all the code for managing applets. However, holes were frequent enough that they abandoned the whole idea. (Instead of sandboxing the VM as a whole? Why?)
Of course he did, why keep it while many doctors are concerned about Bird Flu jumping to Humans.

Well at least we know what to expect should it become a pandemic.

Now I am waiting for them to say Condoms are useless to prevent sexual transmitted infections.
Respect++ for what you said about Peerjs. I used those servers myself for testing when I wrote my own TURN client and always felt a little bad about it. But it saved me tons of time before setting up my own. Now I have my own server (though not as well setup as yours -- your guide is good.)

This is a valuable contribution. IMO, the Internet needs more STUN, TURN, and MQTT servers. It's even more valuable if they support as many protocols as possible and have IPv4 / IPv6. For STUN -- running it with two IPs means it can support bind requests which is necessary for testing NAT types.
CDOs allowed more finance to flow to housing, which in itself is a good thing - we need more housing. The problem was that the investments were highly risky - to the point of almost certain disaster - and regulators and most of the financial industry overlooked it.

But securitizing housing finance isn't in itself a bad thing.

> This massive failure is what created the need for bitcoin

How did the 2008 financial crisis create a need for cryptocurrency? How does it solve the problem of unregulated, high risk financial activity? How does it stop those things from tanking the whole economy? It would seem to make regulation even harder.

> rehypothecation

?
If you stick with x86_64 land and > Swift 6.0, there is nothing infeasible about it.
Probably longer. People will retire, find work elsewhere, or leave the US and getting people back is really hard.
I think it's because it's mostly old people which tends to come with being uninspired and jaded from previous hypes. There's always been the same attitude towards cryptocurrency. Young people are drawn to exciting new things that really break open their existing worldviews. Bitcoin was pioneered by teenagers and young men.

Also, people in general quickly adapt. LLMs are absolute sci-fi magic but you forget that easily. Here's a comedian's view on that phenomenon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBtKNzoKZ4
Half of the Great Depression was caused by tariffs.
I'm starting to resign myself to just enjoying the benefits and let those who can't evolve fall behind.

I'm growing weary of trying to help people use these tools properly.
Great stuff, thank you for sharing
"But that guy George Soros surely is up to no good!"

It's probably being spoken by some podcast that helped get Trump elected.

When they have an actual conspiracy, with actual billionaires paying the president and getting full access to the government, while getting public contracts... all of this being live streamed... they're still stuck in George Soros and the Deep State lizard people fantasy.
Just keep in mind this is all funny money !

The valuation of those 2 companies combined should be < $10 billions if we are very very generous.

X is heavily in debt, diminishing user base, and bleeding money. 0 profits

xAI is yet to make any actual revenues outside of ... X. Also bleeding money

Although I would admit, that these companies are not valued based by their economics, but rather on political power they provide to the owner.
I wonder if the Gates foundation will pick up the slack. Somebody should. I'd prefer states. Any state frankly.
These guys are biohackers not vaccinating their children.
> watch its thought process

You mean, watching a parallel stream of "spoken internally" dialogue lines generated for the fictional character's performance in a film noir movie script document being extended by iterative LLM passes? :P

My cautionary-point is that it's really easy to get caught up in the illusion. The character is not the author, the puppet is not the puppeteer, etc.

The same basic system can give you DraculaBot "thinking" it should reject your offer of pasta because there might be garlic, but that exposition from a fictional character doesn't really tell you how the LLM-author operates when generating more story.
I know that wearing hand me downs was common in history. I've worn plenty of hand me down clothes when I was a baby/growing up. But currently, where circumstances aren't pressing, I refuse to wear clothes worn by somebody else. I can be a bit of a germaphobe, so that probably explains most of it