skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that you think that of 7.5.3 — it worked, sure, but it could be painfully slow. System 6 was preferable as an OS — MultiFinder was better than 7, at least in the first couple iterations — but much of the software I needed demanded 7. 7.6.x was the first bright spot since 7.1 fixed much of what went wrong in 7.0, & there was a ton of waiting after that. 9 just chugged along for me, for the most part, which was nice.

Loved Snow Leopard too, & was shocked by how bad Lion was in comparison. Glad they got back on track after that.
Naturally. I've rented an mini excavator in the past to dig up stumps for a one time job. It made sense more sense to rent it since it was for a one-time task, and purchasing the kubota would have cost more than 5k.

Given we're on HN news, I thought it was implied that I was referring mostly to the exhaustion at being faced with a perpetually increasing amount of rent-seeking in the form of SaaS.
Man, I'm really keen for this. The GBA Sonic games are often slept on but I think they were amazing at recreating the feel of the original Mega Drive games, with great music and sprite work too. I've long thought they deserved a modern PC port in the style of Sonic 1 Forever or Sonic Origins, to free them from the cramped GBA screen.

Sonic fans have been making a lot of these unofficial, enhanced, moddable PC ports using decompilation, recompilation and emulation techniques, including Sonic 1 Forever, Sonic 3 A.I.R. and recently, the Sonic Unleashed PC port. PC (including Linux) is getting to be the definitive platform for playing a lot of these older Sonic games, which is great to see.
> Some style guides recommend "space, en dash, space" for this

Which one does that? I threw up a little in my mouth and wish to avoid such style guides in the future!
But how can you be sure that the info is correct if it made up the reference? Where did it pull the info? What good is a friend that's just bullshiting their way through every conversation hoping you wouldn't notice?

A third of the time is an insane number, if 30% of code that I wrote contained non existent headers I would be fired long ago.
I am a strong proponent of visualisations. I also have a tendency to write things in JavaScript that others might choose a different language. I'm now wondering if those things are related. Having the browser to provide an interface can make that a lot easier.
Recently I have been doing a fair bit of transformer and NNet stuff so consequently Python. I have found it a bit of a step back when it comes to visualisations. It's easy to used canned techniques to plot data, but not as easy to knock up a custom interactive visualisation.

Hmm, I wonder what python raylib is like, that might be the ticket.
space, minus, space is on the same level as manually typing two spaces after a period
One of the magic things about engineering is that I can make usefulness out of unreliability. Voltage can fluctuate and I can transmit 1s and 0s, lines can fizz, machines can die, and I can reliably send video from one end to the other.

Unreliability is something we live in. It is the world. Controlling error, increasing signal over noise, extracting energy from the fluctuations. This is life, man. This is what we are.

I can use LLMs very effectively. I can use search engines very effectively. I can use computers.

Many others can’t. Imagine the sheer fortune to be born in the era where I was meant to be: tools transformative and powerful in my hands; useless in others’.

I must be blessed by God.
I have decided it must be attached to a sort of superiority complex. These types of people believe they are capable of deciphering fact from fiction but the general population isn’t so LLMs scare them because someone might hear something wrong and believe it. It almost seems delusional. You have to be incredibly self aggrandizing in your mind to think this way. If LLMs were actually causing “a problem” then there would be countless examples of humans making critical mistakes because of bad LLM responses, and that is decidedly not happening. Instead we’re just having fun ghiblifying the last 20 years of the internet.
> I have no interest in renting my tools.

While I appreciate the sentiment, the world where you could use the same software for many years without updates is gone. These days developers have to invest significant time and effort into making sure the software just runs on the constantly updated operating systems and platforms — which costs money on an ongoing basis. Expecting your software to be updated regularly without paying regularly makes no sense.

So either you intend to run that exact binary that you downloaded (because that is the tool you bought), or the ongoing costs need to be covered somehow. Some companies do it through subscriptions and some play a game of "no, you don't have to update, but here is this new shiny (more bloated, too) version that we produce every 2 years, you can get it for $50 and OWN IT FOREVER (well, until the next shiny comes along in 2 years time". But it's a game, and the drawback is that there is incentive for bloating software instead of just maintaining it and fixing bugs.
You hold down command to see the path.
Some random dude is relocating.
The internets - "The brain drain is beginning, were doomed"
what about every university should get subsidies per student's head-count and let the universities decide what for the money is used? The market will regulate the demand & supply of places and the universities have an incentive to grow and to attract students by quality. If its mormon-university and mormonism happens to be in big-demand, so then its a mormon university that gets subsidies. At least, its in europe mostly like this.
Those were the Inca, not the Maya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
That's honestly less than I would have expected. I still have an old copy of Microsoft Office 95 though I no longer have the hardware with which to run it. Ditto a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS6 which I believe was the final version before they went full on subscription.
Thanks for the positive feedback! I was curious too and thought others would enjoy hearing what I learned.
What I gather from this is few if any non-software devs use Kagi

8 of the top 10 "raised" sites are software dev sites and with #6 being MDN I'm guessing it's not just any software devs, is web developers specifically that use Kagi.

Am I drawing the wrong conclusion? Does that mean Kagi's days are numbered? What would it take for them to get enough non-web-devs that the top 10 raised looked more representative of the average internet user?
Here's what Microsoft won't tell you: If you buy standalone office and it is not allowed to phone home to Microsoft at least once a month, it stops working. This can happen if you use it on a disconnected computer or you just have a reverse firewall rule blocking microsoft domains.
It has the worst commenting and track history I've seen. My company went to Google docs about 5 years ago and I have steadily walked the work product of engineers go downhill because of it.
>In Germany we don’t say “four bedroom apartment”, we say “4-Zimmer Wohnung” usually meaning 3 bedrooms and a living room with kitchen

Haha, yes, sorry — I wrote "four room apartment" first, but then spending too much time with Americans online rubbed off on me and I "corrected" myself :)

> And no, this is absolutely an expectation that a middle-income family with children should be able to afford a decent place to live in. We have an artificial housing crisis in most Western countries, but there’s no objective economic reasons for it. It’s possible to build at scale and with good quality 3-4 times cheaper than current market prices.

I think we're mostly in agreement here!

It _should_ be possible, and that _should_ be how our society works! We _should_ demand more!

But currently, it just straight up is not.

You can both be realistic about what living options are available as a single middle-class earner, _and_ be dissatisfied with the status quo. I don't think these are exclusive.
None it seems.[0]

> The Smithsonian Institution is a trust instrumentality of the United States ... Congress delegated the authority and responsibilities of the United States to the Smithsonian Board of Regents. ... The Smithsonian Institution is considered unique in the Federal establishment. The Smithsonian is not an executive branch agency and does not exercise regulatory powers, except over its own buildings and grounds. ... Thus, courts have held that the Smithsonian is not an agency or authority of the Government...

[0] https://www.si.edu/ogc/legalhistory
You can consider moving to a better district.
Almost everything matches my gamedev heuristics. I even have empathy for choosing JS. I'm making a game modding framework right now that operates on a lispy kind of s-expressions. Optimizing to accelerate creative iteration time > *, I've found.

A*, Lee's algorithm and the like are all cool. It's criminal to write any kind of floodfill without having an accompanying visualization, you're squandering so much dopamine.

This article has me wondering if all the gamedev things I *didn't* read about but are adjacent have utility in this kind of thing. I can't be the first person to think a boids router would be pretty fun. More seriously, I bet jumpflooding signed distance fields would provide you a lot of power.

Everything about spatial hashing in particular matches my experience. Haven't found many occurences in almost 2 decades where any of the tree structures are worth the time. One notable exception. The lovecraftian text editor I made uses quite a lot of trie's for reactivity things. Nice way to compress 45,000 words into a compact state machine for event handling.
Nix Vanity Store Paths
That's because DeepSeek uses MLA which apparently does allow offloading the KV cache. That doesn't apply to all models, particularly the open-weight models that are primarily GQA AFAIK.
The AP Style Manual, a/the leading source for US journalism at least, says

<word> <space> <dash> <space> <word>

Outside of journalism, usually there is no padding, only,

<word> <dash> <word>

I'm with you: For searches, the spaces make the words easier to parse. Those rules predate computers, I would guess.
I agree, this bugs me too.
And this is different from Japanese's chuuonpu (U+30FC) which is a vowel elongation mark, and it's rendered horizontally or vertically depending on whether the text direction is horizontal or vertical, respectively.

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You can at least get 90% of the same experience with modern x86 laptops. Just exclude anything that has a dedicated GPU.
requests are not served by just machine, there is also a huge network of wires spread across the globe for transmission. and getting bandwidth on that is pricey when AI crawler spams you
That's just not true. But more importantly investing in nuclear now. As long as we don't even have sufficient renewables to constantly power us during the day, good weather... it has a much higher CO2 reduction impact to invest in renewables than building nuclear power plants.
System Crafters is a wonderful community overall. If you're interested, come join us on IRC at #SystemCrafters on Libera Chat, or check out the forum at forum.systemcrafters.net.
The NIH's Most Reckless Cuts Yet
>We find that the shared circuitry increases with model scale, with Claude 3.5 Haiku sharing more than twice the proportion of its features between languages as compared to a smaller model.

While it was already generally noticeable, still one more time confirmed that larger model generalizes better instead of using its bigger numbers of parameters just to “memorize by rote” (overfitting).
In all fairness, you do need to hold down the command key to show the file location in Sequoia. It is an interesting default behavior to pretend the files location doesn't exist, mobile-centric.
I ask Alexa to play Spanish guitar music at our family dinner table in an effort to attenuate both the kids "smacking" and my partners reactions to the "smacking". In my testing, it's resulted in less net "smacking" occurrences. So you could be on to something.
While I do recognize those concerns I'll note that it is still a viable model and not just for indie devs. Look to the DAW world (Ableton, FL Studio, Bitwig, Logic, etc.) if you're ever curious about building a sustainable business model around a flat pricing structure.
not those ones
M1 Max @ 32 GB. I can run Shadow of the Tomb Raider with max settings at native resolution (3024x1964 px) and get ~60 FPS.
Poetry routines breaks grammar rules. A lot of poems rely on very specific white space layouts that you'd never see in writing.

And your example shows how you can just use multiple dashes instead of having three different ones.
The company is not forcing you to interview for them. You can interview for a job that does not require you to solve a programming question, if that’s what you’d prefer. People who try to moralize their way out of lying are frankly despicable. Just own up that you’re a cheater and don’t care about honesty. It’s not a crusade; it’s self interest.
That's a concern as old as search engines themselves. https://tomslee.net/2008/03/mr-googles-guid.html
For any benefit the auto-router adds, it usually ends up costing a project later...

In general, impedance controlled UHF design work with domain specific simulation tools is the modern workflow. Thus, one manually does the critical tracks first, island-pours, and finally power interconnects.

KiCad is slightly better than nothing for layout, and trying to make it into yet another half-baked simulation tool seemed silly. =3
LLMs need to stay bad. What is going to happen if we have another few GPT-3.5 to Gemini 2.5 sized steps? You're telling people who need to keep the juicy SWE gravy train running for another 20 years to recognize that the threat is indeed very real. The writing is on the wall and no one here (here on HN especially) is going to celebrate those pointing to it.
How would race not be a biological reality? Recently there was an article posted on HN, "Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa" [1]. How could they distinguish stone age Europeans from Africans by DNA, if it's all socially constructed? Or how can humans, most of the time, tell someone's race by appearance alone, without knowing anything about their lived experience or upbringing?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00764-2
> if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon

What is wrong with an AMD Ryzen 9 with 16 physical cores? If you need more and you have a virtually unlimited budget, then Ryzen Threadripper is even better. Also: Is Asahi Linux an option for you?
i respect a fellow UI autist
Okay...given that a SWE job is literally "take problem description, figure out way to solve problem in software", what part about this is "alien" exactly?

And yes, there already are solutions to many common problems. The task then becomes finding a best-fit, and adapting these solutions to the specific needs of the usecase...which is another instance of the same task.
> Try Our New York – London Flight Connection.

I'd wager serious money that if you put that on a sign and surveyed people, at least in the US, they'd all still conclude it is a "New York" to "London" flight.

What's the use of a communication tool, if it doesn't actually communicate anything to real people?
I'll keep bringing up this example whenever people dismiss LLMs.

I can ask Claude the most inane programming question and got an answer. If I were to do that on StackOverflow, I'd get downvoted, rude comments, and my question closed for being off-topic. I don't have to be super knowledgeable about the thing I'm asking about with Claude (or any LLM for that matter).

Even if you ignore the rudeness and elitism of power-users of certain platforms, there's no more waiting for someone to respond to your esoteric questions. Even if the LLM spews bullshit, you can ask it clarifying questions or rephrase until you see something that makes sense.

I love LLMs, I don't care what people say. Even when I'm just spitballing ideas[1], the output is great.

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[1]: https://blog.webb.page/2025-03-27-spitball-with-claude.txt
Tesla is valued based on the hope that it'll be the first to full self-driving cars. I don't think stock markets need to make sense, you invest in things that if true, could have huge growth, that's why LLM is being invested in, because alternatives will make you some ROI, but if LLM do break through major disruption in even a handful of large markets, your ROI will be huge.
Fermyon WASM Functions on Akamai
There was a deeply unsettling moment there in the waning days of the first term. It’s not unreasonable to be concerned about what may unfold at the end of the next one.
The average internet user is never going to pay for search. Trying to target them would likely be a mistake.
It must be depressing to be a prosecutor now.
Flat TVs, digital audio players (the iPod), the smartphone, laptops, the smartwatches,... You have a very selective definition of advance in tech. Compare today (minus LLMs) with any movies depicting life in the nineties and you can see how much tech have developed.
The professionals who still use unstable platforms are forced to rent their tools, sharecropper style. What about professionals like me who made the leap to a stable platform? "Exact binary you downloaded" hasn't been in my toolbox for a long time now.

I don't know many people left who pay for their OS these days.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501482
I feel your pain. I hate pushy upsells and promos. Also the cluttered settings App "Remember to setup Apple Pay" promos. I do value user education. They need to consolidate all of the feature promo services into a revised Tips tool that allow users to engage with new features at their own pace.
need to bake some refactoring time into regular tickets. PM should only care about features, while software devs should provide reliable estimates on the velocity of sustainable software development
Elon Musk and DOGE team give behind the scenes look at their mission [video]
How about sending my children to the school 20 miles away that is doing orders of magnitude better than my local district? Not an option apparently. Even tried several routes, including appealing to the school board, and I'm effectively ignored on every attempt.

Anyways, moving is not an option for me, as I have local dependents that I am responsible for taking care of and who would be abandoned if I left.
Right that’s why I don’t care that much about AI use in interviews even when it’s “banned.”

People are going to break rules.

There are rules you would break that I wouldn’t break. There are rules I would break that you wouldn’t break. There are rules other people would break that you and I wouldn’t break.

I decide the rules that I’m willing to break and don’t particularly care what other people are willing to break. I can’t control them. I can control me.

A lot of people breaking a rule might make me more willing to break it myself or it might not. Depends on the situation and the rule.

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make?
Someone else said the same. How can that be when most word processors, and at least some phone keyboards, automatically insert em dashes?
> etc,

actually it's "etc."

(I wouldn't usually be a pedant, but if you think the difference between "--" and "—" matters, you should probably try to get the basics right too.)
The ads make this hard to read on mobile.
> <word> <dash> <word>

That one I’d usually parse as a hyphen, as in e.g. well-known. “Word space dash space word” is much clearer, in my view.

> The AP Style Manual, a/the leading source for US journalism

One of the things I can easily get away with by not being a US journalist :)
I could never remember which was the longer dash. Now it's easy, because the en dash – is the approximate length of a capital N, and a em dash — is the approximate length of a capital M. Today I Learned!
Wiki tells me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazzite_Linux

> Bazzite is named after the mineral, as Fedora Atomic Desktops once had a mineral naming scheme.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazzite

> Bazzite is a beryllium scandium cyclosilicate mineral with chemical formula Be3Sc2Si6O18.
Religious institutions should only be supported by voluntary contributions from those who believe in its mission. No state should ever give money to a religious institution, for any reason, because no state should favor one religion over another. To do so leads to religious authoritarianism, which is a direct precursor to religious segregation and persecution. Money given to the state should only be used for purposes that benefit all citizens equally or to level the playing field for the less fortunate.
I wasn’t the one outraged at the “theft” of ancient works.
Permissions needs a complete rewrite. Layers and layers of permissions screens. To get anything done takes 4-5 forward and reverse UI stack traversals
And that's part of the problem - you're thinking of it like a hammer when it's not a hammer. It's asking someone at a bar a question. You'll often get an answer - but even if they respond confidently that doesn't make it correct. The problem is people assuming things are fact because "someone at a bar told them." That's not much better than, "it must be true I saw it on TV".

It's a different type of tool - a person has to treat it that way.
Pretty sure this was a major plot point of the latest resident evil game.
I just tested this with a picture of me sitting at a restaurant and told it to draw a picture of Ice Cube (the rapper) sitting behind me.

What it won’t do is draw a realistic picture of me in a superhero costume and says it violates the policy. I didn’t name the hero, but I described the costume.

Second anecdote: Earlier today, I sent a friend a ChatGPT modified picture of him wearing a MAGA cap and standing by Kanye West with Kanye’s arm around him.

I tried modifying my own picture with a MAGA hat and it wouldn’t let me. I could add another random hat with a logo.
Better avoid British journalism then, and many other languages on top of that.

It’s very common outside of America, even in English.
The author of the tweet is a physicist. Her work is at the edge of the boundary of human knowledge. LLM’s are useless in this domain, at last when applied directly.

When I use LLM’s to explore applications of cutting edge nonlinear optics, I too am appalled about the quality of the output. When I use an LLM to implement a React program, something that has been done hundreds of times before by others, I find it performs well.
It's still waiting for good linux support.
Can uv install Python?

Is it possible to curl the uv binary and then invoke such a packaged script with --no-cache to run everything, including the Python installation, from /tmp?
I’m not sure you need to support every SQLite feature. I’m unconvinced of binary formats, but the .dump output is text and simple SQL.
How so? One is the only way to approximate an en or em dash on a typewriter or in a charset that doesn’t have one, the other seems like a workaround of a typesetting bug at best.
Not every business sets out to be the next Google

Loyal Kagi customer here, based on their posts and in my dealings with them, they are doing their thing and doing well

They are focused on privacy, do a great job of it, and their AI assistant is top notch (highly recommend you take a look, can choose from many models and swap out responses instantly, not even getting into the awesome search features)

Not commenting on your (good) who is the main audience question, rather the other point about if Kagi is doing well

I subscribed my girlfriend to it as well and tell people whenever the moment is appropriate

Really rooting for these guys to succeed long term

As an aside, when I got my Kagi subscription the first thing I did was lower Pinterest results
That said, 43k paying users is quite a bit of money, so if their team is small enough, that’s good enough, stable and steady income
Microsoft deactivates pirated versions of Office and tells you to buy a copy.