skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is, unfortunately, in every large and small organisation. I can't say I've noticed any particular qualitative difference between the efficiencies of government departments and corps of equivalent size when I was working for them; if anything, the government employees were always conscious of the fact they were spending taxpayers' money that was not theirs, although I can't talk of the practical results.

If these organisations were private, waste would be equivalent, but they would lose the mentality of acting in the public interest, and there would be a profit margin taken off. I'm pretty sure it would not be an improvement overall, purely from a viewpoint of efficiency.
Forget Model Context Protocol — we’re talking Meme Creation Platform. :-)

Because sometimes the only way to explain AI complexity… is with a Drake meme.

We built a natural language meme generator using Claude AI + Imgflip.

Type your idea, get a meme. That simple.

Perfect for dev rel, product launches, or just roasting your team’s JIRA board.

Happy April 1st — but this one’s actually real.
I just had a massive flashback, I thought it might have been this game, but the timing wasn't right, I'm too old. Turns out I played a ton of `The Games: Winter Challenge` - googling it and seeing those ski jump screenshots just induced that unlocked memory feeling. Love this stuff.

https://freebie.games/games/the-games-winter-challenge/
Which is quite hypocritical coming from a compiling framework and thus such a ridiculous stance.

We hate build steps in our build step.
Wasn't it just last week that the Financial Times had to walk back the breathless $1.4 billion story about Tesla accounting fraud?

https://www.ft.com/content/d2711678-af23-4b71-852b-1ef2e932e...

This is like a textbook case outlined in E.T. Jaynes, "Probability Theory -- The Logic of Science", section 5.3:

https://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussi...

...from my life experience with accounting departments and auditors at largish publicly traded companies, my priors for financial fraud of a company like Tesla at the corporate level is something like a probability of 0.001 (1 in a thousand companies). At the branch office level, something higher, say 0.01. Maybe double or triple that with Musk in charge. Someone reporting on an emotionally-charged topic in an effort to collect clicks? Especially when relying on second or third hand reported information? My prior for them misunderstanding or misrepresenting the numbers (like the time frames involved, etc.) is closer to 0.50. Other people's mileage may vary.
Sorry I mixed up BRC with BRS.

STOL = Short Take Off Or Landing (Usually involving downward thrust)

BRS = Brand of parachutes for light aircraft like this

https://youtu.be/jz9NoMPrH-I?t=2220

https://brsaerospace.com/

IMC = Instrument meteorological conditions (Fog/Clouds prevent you from seeing anything)
I'm kind of curious as to why this got posted.
If you are wondering "why do formal methods at all?" or "how is AWS using P to gain confidence in correctness of their services?", the following re:Invent 2023 talk answers this question, provides an overview of P, and its impact inside AWS: (Re:Invent 2023 Talk) Gain confidence in system correctness & resilience with Formal Methods (Finding Critical Bugs Early!!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXZXnkMDxs

Github: https://github.com/p-org/P
One of the critical differences about "this time" that is completely glossed over in this piece is that previous advances in "art technology" changed how one connects with an artist, but not the fact of connecting to an actual human artist. Art, for me, is about someone else sharing a piece of their soul with you through what they choose to express in their art. AI is a pile of linear algebra. I do not have any particular interest in communicating with matrices; I don't really feel they have much to add to my world. Perhaps you differ.

I do believe AI is a legitimate tool in a human artist's toolbox. I think it's one that's rather difficult to use well, but that isn't disqualifying per se.
More efficient route planning tool
Yup; it's a different legal structure (the IT one is a CLG), but same intent. I think there are a few other similar things around.
Thanks for sharing!

How do you incentivize sales to focus on deals that churn less instead of deals that close fast?
100 + 28 degrees are not harder to mark than 64, and then aim 0 and 100 properly. :-/
It seems you think the cartel and the government are separate. They are actually one, mexico is a narco state.

I love mexico btw
Show HN: Souschef – AI demo video from a prompt(v0 + Screen Studio + ElevenLabs)
Hi HN,

I’m building Souschef, an AI tool that creates realistic product demo videos from just a written prompt—no UI, design tools, or code required.

The idea came from a common problem we faced as founders: it's hard to pitch or test a product idea before it's built. Most tools assume you already have a UI or prototype. We wanted to go one step earlier — when you just have an idea.

With a single prompt, Souschef can:

Generate realistic UI screens

Animate user flows and transitions

Add voiceover narration

Export a polished, ready-to-share demo video

Use cases include:

Validating early product ideas

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Exploring product ideas before committing design/dev resources

We’re opening a closed beta for 100 testers in May, and gradually expanding access.
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Thanks for reading!
They said there were how many tens of thousands of these gang members? And these are the first, highest priority ones they choose to ship out? If their highest priority test cases are this crappy/low priority/not actual criminals, imagine when they get past the first ten thousand.
I worked a lot in F# and loved it. I love that it has a lot of great functional ideas without being too pedantic about being 100% functional all the time. (You can have mutating state or just call arbitrary C#.) I took a lot of its insights into my daily python code too. I especially love match.
Propranolol is such an underrated drug, or at-least it was when I first started using it twenty years ago (initially for hand tremors but I found it did more than settle just my hands). Glad others have been discovering its usefulness over the years.

I think they've even recently found use in cancer therapy [1].

Sir James Black the pharmacologist who developed it is an absolute legend [2].

1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2162402X.2023.2...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPe0sLghRBQ&list=PLVV0r6CmEs...
>Feel free to prank your friends, but don't bring it to work or the Internet, please.

Hell don't even prank your friends, most of them don't appreciate it either.
If you think the Guardian panders to those on the right you need your head examined. I would love nothing more than a left leaning socialist government and even I shake my head at some of the nonsense the Guardian publishes, especially in their opinion section. It's an effort to get clicks and cause outrage and some of it is no better than the tabloids.

I also disagree that there has been a "fairly organic process where the world had otherwise become more naturally more accepting of immigrants and LGBTQ+ minorities". That's a rewriting of history. Equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community were incredibly hard fought for over many years. It's been anything but organic. It's important not to forget how recently most of the civil rights we take for granted in many areas of life were rights that were denied by a majority.
While very interesting, that seems like it would be one hell of a fire hazard as well. Especially for the ones that are tightly packed in the middle of each bundle.
Because it's literally a physical=desktop keyboard, just smaller in size while almost all current mobile interfaces are touch based?(also, the question wasn't about uniqueness, but productivity levels of a desktop productivity app, think about code editors with extensions, keyboard and mouse gesture customization.

What did they have in their touch interfaces?
Just wait until that teacher is your graduate advisor.
Even if LLMs can't do everything yet, I have a feeling there is a malaise of wanting to do work in the tech industry.
DNS Resolver, 1.1.1.1 (not a joke) (April 1 2018)
I was thinking the same thing. I need more simulations like this!
"Decane, undecane, and dodecane were detected in a Martian sample" from the paper at PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2420580122.

A NASA article: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-detects-...

Science article: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/alkanes-mars: So why didn't these newly announced larger molecules show up then?

That's because this time the samples got a different treatment (two cycles of strong heating) before the mass spec analysis.
I distinctly remember a student arguing with a teacher for a mark.

"Look sir, here in the scrawl at the margins is the answer you just said was right"

"Yes Dylan, but this was a 1 mark question. Part of getting the mark involves putting the answer inside the space provided."
You seem very angry yourself, and willing to let that anger guide you to harming someone. Are you so different from that teacher? In fact, you might be worse, while he only gave a grade (one of many surely, likely to have no long term impact on life prospects or survival), you would have this man made homeless? Don't be so quick to assume a teacher (at least in the us) has been able to accrue sufficient savings to endure a ruined livelihood. Sounds very, very extreme to me. Might there be a more charitable interpretation of the words, might there be information that we don't have that would, say, humanize the human being you'd like to ruin? Maybe we could take the time to understand these impulses in ourselves and be the example we want rather than reflecting the pain we hate to ever increasing magnitudes.
Supposedly, you have a working internet connection. In no time, you can check the name of Hayao Miyazaki. You can see how he draws his manga, in a style which would be really hard to animate. You can see how he designs his characters. Well, maybe the colour palette can be attributed to “his style” in some works. Still, you can learn that Ghibli had famous background artists and art directors like Nizo Yamamoto and Kazuo Oga. You can compare characters drawn by Yoshifumi Kondou and Katsuya Kondou with Miyazaki's, and guess who was responsible for what in different works. You can learn how in the era when everyone waited for computers to make economical marvel of “three dee” real, Isao Takahata used computers to transfer pen and brush strokes to animation in “The Yamadas” and “Princess Mononoke”.

But you don't want any of that. You want to have a familiar pop cultural label (“Miyazaki”) that produces a familiar reaction (“Oooh!”). Purely decorative, symbolic objects. Stories, ideas, hard work? Eh, don't bother me with that nonsense.

There is nothing new or “cutting edge” in ignorance. And AI companies know perfectly well that they work for exactly that audience. Despite all the talk, they don't create the next genius artist, they want to be a next “enhancement filter” in TVs, something that no one uses, but everyone has to add to impress the public. That's just parasitism on lack of ability to discern.
Yeah, my first thought on reading the article was that it didn’t detail his fire control systems..
Gleam lacks lisp-style macros, and its implementations of BEAM and OTP are not exhaustive. For example, Gleam does not support:

- Hot updates.

- Full distributed system support.

– Low-level process manipulation.

- Named processes.

- Advanced supervision strategies.

- Behaviours other than GenServer.

- Type-safe distributed messaging.

- And several other things that I value in BEAM and OTP.

I can't justify trading the full power of BEAM and OTP for static typing. To be fair, though, I've written a lot of code in both statically and dynamically typed languages, and static typing isn't something I value much (to the point that you might say I don't care about it at all :D).
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How Big Is OpenVMS?
Men's turn: US scientists unveil a hormone-free male birth control pill
I'm rarely intimidated by a textbook but I was intimidated by a set of cardiology books I saw at the vet school. The topological structure of waves in the heart is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_wave

because cardiac cells circle around a loop with phase from 0 to 2π, contrast that the usual oscillator which has position p and momentum q. An oscillation in that space can rotate around the center and look like a phase but it's also possible to go right through the center, whereas for cardiac excitations the p variable is on the unit circle. This astonishing book covers the topology of this kind of thing:

https://archive.org/details/geometryofbiolog0000winf/page/n9...

particularly the cases where you have just one phase (e.g. jet lag or cell division or plant phenology) but it applies as well to those spiral waves where every element in the medium has a phase.
RAG Without Vectors – PageIndex: Reasoning-Based Document Indexing
We were frustrated by vector-based RAG systems that rely on semantic similarity and often fail on long, domain-specific documents. In these contexts, domain-specific terminology tends to be semantically similar, making it hard to retrieve the exact content users need. It’s also difficult to incorporate expert knowledge or user preferences effectively. So we started exploring a more reasoning-driven approach to RAG. Inspired by the tree search algorithm in AlphaGo, we came up with a reasoning-based RAG system that uses tree search to guide retrieval.

We open-sourced one of the key components: PageIndex, a hierarchical indexing system that transforms large documents (like financial reports, regulatory documents, or textbooks) into semantic trees optimized for reasoning-based RAG.

Some highlights:

- Hierarchical Structure: Organizes lengthy PDFs into LLM-friendly trees — like a smart table of contents.

- Precise Referencing: Each node includes a summary and exact physical page numbers.

- Natural Segmentation: Nodes align with document sections, preserving context — no arbitrary chunking.

We've used PageIndex for financial document analysis with reasoning-based RAG and saw significant improvements in retrieval accuracy compared to vector-based systems.

Would love any feedback — especially thoughts on reasoning-based RAG, or ideas for where PageIndex could be applied!
Why do I need to sign in at all to view ?
This is an interesting point really. At what level of duck-ness do we decide that it's acceptably close to a duck? I agree that taken ad-absurdum, just because something looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it doesn't mean at all that it is a duck. I can enclose a raspberry pi in a fake duck and it will fulfil the above criteria, and perhaps from a distance it can be mistaken for a duck, but it has practically nothing to do with ducks. At the same time, it might be enough if our objective is to make some low cost garden decorations :)

What I'm trying to say is: as long as the simulation fulfils the objectives set out, it's useful, even if it is very far from the real thing.

Then the next question is: what are the objectives here?
Any path with the word "camel" seem to trigger this: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=camel | https://registry.npmjs.org/camel123 | https://registry.yarnpkg.com/camel456

Some discussion here https://github.com/npm/cli/issues/8203

Edit: this is resolved now https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/hdtkrsqp134s
> I don't think years of experience is a good measure of merit.

I didn't point out years, you did. Any relevant experience. Though, merit is effectively a function of years of experience baring extreme circumstances.

> If you believe they're worse at their jobs, you should demonstrate that in some other way.

While I do think that they are effectively worse at their jobs, you're asserting that I said something that I didn't. I said they in the positions without merit. Which they all are. Linda McMahon has no education experience. RFK has no health experience. Kash Patel has no law enforcement experience. Hegseth has no DOD experience.

You can't say meritless those guys (dei) bad, but meritless our guys (Maga) good with any sort of consistency. And that's assuming that all of the dei guys are meritless. I can point to many who were of merit, but not sychopants, thus removed.
1. AI so far has moved us exactly oppositely from solving poverty and disease. In my opinion their ownership structures and their design prevent them from ever being a positive force let alone "solving" it.

2. At a high enough level, isn't helping other people the most valid possible source of meaning? Finding beauty and sharing it? If AI can somehow impossibly replace humans ability to ever help another human then we are done. No meaning is possible. Nothing matters.

The article writes like this is an inevitability and I think that's weird and wrong.
I think you're right on the marketing. I'll tone down.

The comparison uses the non-wasm version at mpa.nuejs.org
If you like this stuff Jehu Garcia on YT does this

Those scooters in the streets get discarded/buy em in bulk and re-use the batteries for ex
Tailwind, at least for the last couple major versions, only adds the classes you actually use (plus the resets). Baseline size of the resets is far below 50k.

Great point about the dialog element. I used it in a project recently for the first time... It was very nice to not involve a framework-heavy "portal" scheme, etc.
The “proportionality constant” is doing a lot of work in that claim. A lot of “constant” parameters are swept under the rug. If you fix enough stuff that claim is indeed correct, although I agree a bit simplistic
When I was in college, in 1996, several computer science professors told me I was playing with toys and no serious organization would use Linux as an operating system.

In 1997, I asked a math professor about a statistics program, and he said R would never be used for real work.

In 1998, I was told that sure, I could learn Python if I wanted, but I should learn Java, but if I insisted on a scripting language, I should stick with Perl.

I don't use tools because I think they're popular, I do what I enjoy.

Also you didn't ask me why it might be easier for me to learn the lyre, which has to do with physical limitations I have.
>In 2013, neuroscientist Henry Markram secured about 1 billion euros from the European Union to "simulate the human brain" — a proposal widely deemed unrealistic even at the time. The project faced significant challenges and ultimately did not meet its ambitious yet vague goals

Ah, so this is where 45% of my salary goes.
Qwik has the right idea for speeding time to interactive for complex web applications. This seems to be doing the same old thing as every other framework.
If you look at the demo, all of the payload comes from react and the tailwindcss classes that the shadcn button refers to.

It's dishonest to call this the payload of "one shadcn button" since it's basically all react/tailwindcss fixed cost and not literally a shadcn button.

But still, that's a decently broad demo to fit in a small payload, so the exaggeration kinda takes away from that.

The main thing I care about in client development is the state management solution since that's where most of the complexity comes from, and it's what makes or breaks an approach. In React, I use MobX which I see as the holy grail.

Whether Nue is nice to use or not for me is gonna come down to how nice this is to work with: https://nuejs.org/docs/interactivity.html
Show HN: Generate Geocities style pages on any subject
It very clearly is an April's fool joke. And a bad one (it suggests an unhealthy obsession) - but an evident one («I'll be retiring, now that AGI has been achieved ... [signed] // Vancouver, BC // April 1, 2025»).

(The post got delayed for almost an hour for technical reasons.)
Thanks for the reminder, the power and performance of Sidekick were amazing, and it just lived in RAM…one hotkey away - it was revolutionary.

I miss that era of lighting fast utilities.
Looks awesome! How do you plan to monetize down the road?
The MIT Scientist Behind the 'Torpedo Bats' That Are Blowing Up Baseball
How would you spec such a "lower powered" Android device?
We built this because we kept running into the same issue: pitching a product idea without having anything to show. Curious how others have solved this problem.
Exactly! And i really want to find out how much of this is pure hype.
Come on, you're a tech person aren't you? Maybe a programmer? How many times have you had an idea guy come to you with a "great idea for an app" if only they could find someone to program it for them?

Sorry, but most ideas aren't great. It's the painful process of refinement, hard work, and iteration that results in something great.
> has never developed the tech

Well... an European company controlled > 50% of the commercial orbital launch market back in the late 80s and 80s.

That might have been tricky to achieve without developing the tech first.
Convict employers of workers not allowed to work legally and people will self deport. Oh but that would convict the wrong sort of criminal. We don't go after the criminals that exploit an underclass, that hire illegals so they can avoid paying into social security, that hire illegals so they can pay under required wages, that hire illegals so that they can exploit them all kinds of ways. Instead you propose we deny due process to gay barbers and send them to overseas concentration camps as step one (ignoring the administration can't even fill the first batch of a few hundred out of tens of thousands of claimed 'gangbangers' with actual criminals).
This is mainly to steal attention from Amazon in this news cycle.

"Amazon’s New Movie Strategy Starts With Theaters:
The streaming giant is planning to release at least 14 movies a year in theaters around the country, rivaling other major studios."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/business/media/amazon-mov...
Big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43536146
dum?
Thank you all for the interest in the article and the kind feedback.

I'm a medical doctor with an interest in engineering and coding.
My PhD was quite focused on signal analysis and coding, and my supervisor is a medical engineer.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/VectifyAI/PageIndex/
Open to feedback and suggestions.
What saddens me is how certain I am that nobody at OpenAI asked Hayao Miyazaki or anyone at Studio Ghibli for permission, not even to use their artwork to train their AI, but merely to use their signature art style as an example for demoing their technology.

Presumably if you're OpenAI and choosing showing that prompt as an example, it's because you have an appreciation for the artwork that created that style. Shouldn't you show those creators the respect of asking for permission? Not as a legal obligation, but a moral one, out of the very sense of appreciation for the source material that makes AI-Ghibli-homage artwork feel charming?
"You'll have some false convictions if you want a justice system. Nothing is perfect, breakage inevitable."

Perhaps this is an assumption you are making which is not true.
Copyright is also just an outright fabricated concept intended to protect interest of authors. It can be expanded or removed as needed.

It's just like an API. The very definition can be changed upstream by patches. People seem to miss that.