skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. Here's viola, a web browser from the early 90s, with a replacement makefile (GNU make) that's a bit more sane:

CC = gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
CFLAGS = -g
LDFLAGS = -g
LDLIBS = -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lICE -lSM -lXpm -lX11 -lXext -lXmu -lXt -lm

VIOLA_PATH := $(shell pwd)/resources

override CFLAGS += -DPOSIX_C_SOURCE=199309L \
-D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE \
-D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE \
-DDEFAULT_VIOLA_PATH='"$(VIOLA_PATH)"'\
-DVIOLA

%.a:
$(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $?

viola/viola: $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(wildcard viola/*.c)) \
libIMG/libIMG.a \
libXPA/src/libxpa.a \
libStyle/libStyle.a \
libWWW/libWWW.a \
parmcheck.o

libIMG/libIMG.a : $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(wildcard libIMG/*.c))
libXPA/src/libxpa.a : $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(wildcard libXPA/src/*.c))
libStyle/libStyle.a : $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(wildcard libStyle/*.c))
libWWW/libWWW.a : $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(wildcard libWWW/*.c))

It's 155,000 lines of C code across 361 files. Not shown are the nearly 900 lines that make up the dependencies, but using `makedepend` (which came with my system) makes short work of that. I have a more complicated project that compiles an application written in Lua into a Linux executable. It wasn't hard to write, given that you can always add new rules to `make`, such as converting a `.lua` file to a `.o` file:

%.o : %.lua
$(BIN2C) $(B2CFLAGS) -o $*.l.c $<
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $*.l.c
$(RM) $*.l.c

Okay, that requires a custom tool (`bin2c`) but can other build systems do this? I honestly don't know.
I see lots of people playing smartphone and tablet games, usually at max volume, on public transit, in stores, at dining locations, and in many other public spaces. Mostly anti-social gaming and/or child sedation, though I saw multiple players playing the same online game once.

But I think you are on to something, and not just that kids (or adults) don't go outside or interact with friends as much as they did in the past. It's just very enjoyable and comfortable to curl up with a portable game system at home, much as one could with a good book (if we still read books.)
https://archive.ph/kZdKM
getting sick is bad for us. we should clean the air. i’ve been wearing n95 indoors for years, 1 cold (neg for c19) in 5 years
I wanted to level up my electronics so I decided to build a piece of test equipment. Big bench top PSU, multimeter, active load, logic analyzer, whatever else I can throw in. Plus a detachable wireless touchscreen for extra complication.
Maybe some of us don't want to devolve into cutting off people's heads and asking questions later?
> myself don't know all the supplements I need.

That certainly doesn’t mean that whoever decided to put extra iron into flour knows that you need it.

IIRC iron deficiency is pretty rare in men.

Also it might have made sense 100 years ago when most people had very similar diets and lacked similar nutrients, not these days though.
Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
Perhaps my question was unclear. I responded to "Even natural born citizens are now under threat." I asked to name one natural born citizen, not categories of people.

Perhaps, given you provided said categories, you'll be able to drill down and name a natural born citizen from them?
Yes, majority of the people are stupid. What a discovery!
One Bullet, Two Volts: How Seoul's Metro Was Born
Randall would maintain there's only the 1.

https://xkcd.com/566/
Tangential, are there DIY methods of activated carbon? I got pellets, impregnated sheets and a packaged one for my air purifier, but I dont know when they are helping and when they are exhausted.
In order: no, of course not; neither side is angelic but only one is corrupt and incompetent at a historic level; and yes, the fatal vulnerability in the system is that a demagogue can win a valid election, allowing them to ignore the safeguards and destroy the system.

The issue is not that a single party has control; it’s that a single person has control, having purged that party of all disloyalty or contradiction, and is now proceeding to remake the entire government according to their rather erratic whims, with very little effective restraint.
I don't think it's his textbook though, he's just asking people to find specific novels to have a discussion on (and the students are just using SparkNotes).
> There are labor law concerns. It is very unwise to be paying people to do for you what others do for you for free.

Wikipedia could fund Oka or other organizations. That places the responsibility in the hands of a third party. As long as Wikipedia remains hands-off, then there is no bias or unfairness on the part of Wikipedia.

> As a general practice, it's liable to devalue volunteer contributions.

> A 3rd party paying editors introduces a host of other concerns, but is probably not as harmful to the emotional economy.

Perhaps. But it seems like Oka will proceed anyway.

I suppose one analogue we can look to is Linux Kernel contributions. Many of the contributors are on the payroll of tech companies, though some contributors are simply volunteers.

There can be a tremendous amount of emotional stress and drama in open source contribution. So you're probably right about that bit. But the community does work and software still gets made.
Wikimedia sponsors librarians at various universities to share their knowledge and improve content. But that's in collaboration with the institution more than the individual.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedian_in_residence

Wikimedia also sponsors various outreach initiatives to get people into editing. If you're in a major city you can probably attend a physical event to learn how to edit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup

They don't directly pay specific editors because it'd conflict with the volunteer nature of editing and start a lot of drama.
.How Philosophy Changed the World
I wonder too if this is poor leadership not understanding that the streaming era is just a return to classic TV. Like hey, swinging and missing on a high cost major blockbuster is more devastating than greenlighting a ton of lower budget movies with up and coming actors.

Aka I like Chris Pratt or the Rock just fine but one movie a year is enough??
I think most teachers are not naive wrt the transactional perception of education in their students. However, what keeps a passionate teacher going is the belief that, if they do their job well, at least some significant subset of students will take genuine interest in the material. I don't think it's naive to hope for that, I've seen this happen a lot when I was a student.

What OOP is lamenting is that that's no longer possible.
My thoughts exactly.

I’ve lived in the USA and saw the Iowa caucus and election process up close. For a country that was the self proclaimed arbitrator of democracy all over the world, I’m shocked how fragile their own checks-and-balances system is. The lack of opposition to this complete takeover is astounding. I hope USA survives this phase and comes out stronger and more resilient to further such events.
I sense a lot Jewsphobia from you. Miriam Adelson is an American who happen to be Jewish, and has many many disagreements with the state of Israel. Are you going to classify everyone who does not seek the destruction of Israel as the pro-Israel Zionist lobby?.
A bit Freudian of you to associate some Jewish woman some shadow Kabal.

Jewish being targeted is like canary in a mine, never ends well.
Then when you stop the angular momentum of your car is transferred back to the earth.
Other than the fiber optic cable leading directly back to the controller?
I have started exploring missile guidance system on my own. Starting out with basics.
I'd point out that the top of the article on decomposition does have a reverse time lapse video of mold on strawberries https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Decomposition&old...

I agree though that more of this type of thing would be great.
I've got a self-hosted personal library management app more or less done here: https://github.com/seanboyce/ubiblio

An electronic board game similar to Settlers of Catan (https://github.com/seanboyce/Calculus-the-game), just received the much better full sized boards. Will assemble and test over the next few weeks, then document properly. I got the matte black PCBs, they look really cool.

A hardware quantum RNG. Made a mistake in the board power supply, but it still works well with cut trace and a bodge wire. Will probably fix the bug and put the results up in a few weeks. Can push out ~300 bytes of entropy a second, each as an MQTT message.

A hardware device that just does E2E encrypted chat (using Curve 25519). Microcontrollers only, no OS, and nothing ever stored locally. HDMI output (1024x768), Wi-Fi, and USB keyboard support. I originally designed it to use a vanilla MQTT broker, but I'm probably going to move it to HTTP and just write a little self-hosted HTTP service that handles message routing and ephemeral key registration. Right now the encryption, video output, and USB host works -- but it was a tangle of wires to fix the initial bugs, so I ordered new boards. Got to put those through testing, then move on to writing the server.

Iterating on hardware stuff is pretty slow. I try to test more than one bugfix in parallel on the same board. Iteration time is 2-3 weeks and 8$. If I have all the parts in stock. I don't have very much free time right now due to work, so this suits me fine. A rule I live by is that I must always be creating, so I think this is a reasonable compromise.
> You should stop caring about Trump and care about what people care about.

Not sure what you mean? All I shared was a set of exit polls?
i'm improving my chat site aimed at programmers and technology lovers <https://chat-to.dev>
When workers have leverage they unionize and can force management. If professors can't have a leverage in this society, then all hope is lost. We are talking about people who are supposed to be at the top echelon of society.
I recommend reading these two recent reports by Shura Burtin, these go into some details about impact of drone warfare:

* https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/27/please-don-t-use-my-... - less focused on the subject.

* https://meduza.io/feature/2025/03/25/terminator-veschiy-film - more focus on the subject (no English version yet, use Google Translate or something).
The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine
Agentic AI Needs Its TCP/IP Moment
I also prefer SML over OCaml. I wonder how F# feels and want to give it a shot.
Chipping away a pillar always starts with something that you can say was a good reason.
Those were probably anti-tank missiles such as the BGM-71 TOW. I don't think there are any MANPADS that use wire guidance: all of the modern ones are IR.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250330200515/https://www.nytim...
Are there any good book that cover deep linux stuff like this? I'd like to learn some lower level stuff so I can maybe write some cool projects?
I hate school I'll learn everything on my own write when I want to cheat on whatever you give me don't make me do anything.

^I really like living like this. I couldn't imagine being the "good student" ratting out the guy in front of me for gambling! We have to make our own way, school is like this bubble - even if you excel within it, you're just excelling WITHIN it. It's meaningless to me.
Just sharing my random AI workflows that I find useful
So many of the writer's issues with students today are things I did myself a good amount when I was in college around 15 years ago at this point. I skipped classes all the time and I was often browsing the web on my phone / laptop even if I did goto class.

If I'm being honest, a lot of my professors (perhaps a big majority even) were just bad teachers and I got much more value out of the textbook, looking up stuff on the internet, or just tinkering with the at home assignments. I can say with 100% certainty that ChatGPT would have been infinitely more helpful in me learning calculus compared to the professor who taught my class in university.

I also don't really align with the issues he has with students asking for the slide decks used in class. If it can help your students learn the material, the whole purpose of the class, then what's the big deal? This point in particular almost made it seem like he's a bit salty over his students not being deferential enough to him.

All in all, despite doing many of the things that this writer takes issue with when I was in college myself years ago, I have a great career and I'm good at my work. So I think the kids are going to be just fine.
Cuts have changed a lot in the last 5 years due to a generational shift. Millennials are now coming into their prime as producers. The 2010s saw increasingly slim tailored cuts. The 2020s are all about drape and how you can construct a shape, not reveal it.

There is always going to be a generic cut of suite that changes slower for the person who wears suites a few times a year. But for more fashion oriented cuts, there has been a change for someone that wears them everyday.
Does it matter if the other party has drones too and knows where everyone is?
> BlackRock, State Street, and the Vanguard Group are significant institutional shareholders in Fox Corporation

How much control do they have? Have you heard of the Murdochs?

> At this point you should realize my question isn't naive or "stupid"

If you said television media, it would have still been wrong, but not stupid. (Because it depends on understanding how voting control and passive vs active investing works, none of which is common knowledge.) Generalising to all media, most of which isn’t publicly owned, is.
Reading your other comments, I don't think it's possible to convince of what you don't already believe regarding Dear Leader. You live in a different universe, and are a lost cause. Just have to hope there aren't too many like you.
I am trying to finish the first draft of my whodunnit novel, before I hit the two-year anniversary from when I started out. I've had good periods with streaks where I write 45 minutes in the morning, but also longer periods where the project lies dormant. 100 pages in so far.
The comments from the HN link from 1 year ago aged so badly. They were all skeptical that fiber optic control would become popular.
Is the US not? $7,500 EV tax credit, 30% EV charger installation tax credit for lower income census tracts, pretty much every county pays at least a few hundred dollars towards EV charger installation.

What existing incumbent is being protected? The policy, even as passed when Democrats were in power, protects whoever manufactures in the US, regardless of where the shareholders are.
So they’re just slapping any old package manager in there? That’s not how you get a cohesive system
I wouldn’t call myself an “absolutist” of anything, except perhaps regarding free political speech. Child porn is pretty much where I draw the line, and frankly even that is a fuzzy line.

I absolutely object to suppressing Gaza protests and banning LGBTQ books, or any other books for that matter.
Should've called it Folie à Doo Doo.
I've been working on an alternative to JSON called XferLang, and along with that a "CLI construction kit" that will let the user create a CLI for interacting with RESTful APIs (and, eventually, more).

https://github.com/paulmooreparks/Xfer
https://github.com/paulmooreparks/Xfer/tree/master/ParksComp...
I haven’t watched either yet, but is the sequel a bad movie or just not at all what one would be expecting?
So it's a natural progression. From agriculture (primary) to industrial (secondary) to services (tertiary). The AI revolution means services go the same way as industrial. Everybody goes to the 4th level.
Working on a full on Riichi Mahjong web client because I really like the game and want to make a more serious english client without anime.

Did it also to learn rust, which made it easy to convert the engine code into webassembly and create a hand score calculator for the game :)!
https://cerpins.com/mahjong-tool

Plans now are to finish the client, then freshen up the calculator with some QOL and visuals, surely a bug fix might be needed here and there as well.
> Wikipedia could fund Oka or other organizations. That places the responsibility in the hands of a third party. As long as Wikipedia remains hands-off, then there is no

I don't agree. Let say that Wikimedia Foundation founds OKA, and OKA pays freelancers to systematically edit/moderate content with a certain political view, or a strong bias towards a certain religion. I would keep Wikimedia Foundation accountable just as if they did it directly.
> My feeling is that the F-35 is "too big to fail"

Allies cancelling orders may force Washington’s hand: the cost of additional jets, parts, et cerera skyrocket if spread over fewer planes.
Going through the past threads, a lot of comments are about how the backup instruments were still on and functioning, while in this article he's said to have 0 visibility and no idea what is still accurately working and what is not, with no possible communication and the HUD rebooting 3 times before going dark..

Did more information come up during the time period ?

Either way, asking a pilot to not bail out in these circumstances sounds crazy.
I wonder what that "expensive controller" is, and why it can't be something like a jetson nano equivalent + yolo for <500$ at scale...
> I just trust and follow the law

Trust but verify. (For those who think critically.) Blind faith, on the other hand, is more comfortable.
It’s bizzare to think that high command in the US is that shortsighted.
I think that author's next article does a great job explaining. While they don't say it with these words, I'd say that by learning math you are able to speak the same language as the model. This does wonders for interpreting what is going on and why it is making certain decisions. The "black box" isn't transparent, but neither is it so dark. And it the space is so dark that you should be trying to shed any light that you can on it.

https://irregular-rhomboid.github.io/2022/12/27/math-is-a-la...
Yes because most studies that end on up HN are there because they were reported on somewhere as news.

This usually happens in usually these cases:

1. when a paper is extremely good and it's results are groundbreaking, or

2. when a study itself claims it has groundbreaking results, or

3. when it's a regular study that's gotten some great marketing/promotion e.g. by their university.

The case of 1. is extremely rare, and even when everyone believed the results and they were peer reviewed by a reputable paper like Science, some of them turned out to be academic fraud that was later retracted.

Most studies that pop up on HN are of types 2. and 3. That's just because otherwise they would not get news attention.

But most studies in general are in category 4: the ones an academic or professional would read going about their daily business / research. These range from terrible, to OK, to really great, but 99% never make the news.

As a (former) academic, I've read lots of papers and like in real life it's usually the people (papers) that get attention who scream the loudest. There are some gems too of course, and it's right to not ignore anything.

But in my personal experience and over time, I've been very right to be very sceptical once a result turns up in the news because of the 3 ways it can get there.

This is amplified even more so with papers that base their results / outcome purely on statistics, such as most experimental studies done. These derive their results from the statistics (sample size, experiment design, etc) so their power and the probability of their result being correct (what the authors say) it directly coupled.
I speculate that not a few of them are paying some attention to what brings power and influence in the world, and see that the most powerful man in the world is the opposite of what college would form them into if given the chance.

It’s hard to believe in the system we’ve got going.
Alas. Perhaps if you attended to your studies more, you'd learn the power of the comma. Your comment really demonstrates the disappointing reality of your approach. Thank you for making it.
> Are u talking about incurring technical debt from the generated AI code

I think they're talking about the marginal cost and capital cost of running all those GPU's, as well as the capital costs of training foundational models. With GPT-(n+m) projected to require new nuclear power plants dedicated to GPU usage, there's a question of what the payback time will be and whether the marginal costs will exceed that of a human.
Seems like there was already a thread about this. But after reading the article, my one takeaway is this: Pilots can decide in less than a minute to bail out of a fighter jet aimed at who knows what and that's OK??

I don't expect every pilot to go down with their plane, but holy crap. That plane could have taken out half a street of houses. I'm not sure how one pilot's life is worth more than potentially dozens of innocent people who happen to be living under a plane's flight path.

It's a miracle the plane landed in a swamp, of all places. Especially given how long it was in the air flying around on its own. Pretty much anywhere else besides the open ocean and it could have been an epic disaster.

I'm sure this has been expressed in the other thread, but I figured I'd share my shock for the others just reading about this now.
what do you mean by "squat on"?
Standardizing agentic AI prematurely could stifle innovation and diverse approaches.

Unlike networking protocols, AI agency may benefit more from competing frameworks that explore different philosophical and technical foundations before converging on standards.
So change them but don't change them? Cool advice. We're one quiet part away from letting "the right" group of people tell us which traditions are the right ones and which ones are so bad we need to cull them from the group.

Hubris is about not knowing your place with regard to those above you (the Greek pantheon) and the inevitability of the reckoning when the gods decide to put you forcefully and often brutally back in (their opinion of) your place. Implying that someone wanting to do what they think is right is both naive and deserves divine retribution is a nasty take indeed.

This "do what you're told", "don't make waves", and "let others handle government/systems/things outside of your zone" sounds an awful lot like the walrus and the carpenter to me.
My cynicism about this article is clear - are you students really worse today? Or do we just have more students and a lower average? Getting students to read and analyze challenging work has never been easy. Why should it be now?
Matrix Resurrections had a super trippy premise, which was in line with the original film. The first half of the movie was momentously expectation-breaking mind fuckery, and I immensely enjoyed it. (I wish I had shut the film off after the reveal.)

The action sequences and set pieces were absolutely lackluster and downright boring despite the film's budget. (Not sure if this is due to the age of the actors - the John Wick series seems to have figured this out just fine.)

Most damning of all, the story arc, character arcs, and final resolution were phoned in and utterly forgettable. It's tragic, given the ludicrously audacious start of the film. The setup was there, but there was no investment beyond the trick premise.

Lana swung for the fences but struck out. It felt like an M. Night Shyamalan letdown.
I think there are many other moving parts in this story that aren’t public knowledge.
This is long overdue. Cisco's decade-long refusal to deliver binaries, or even hashes of the binaries, over an https connection astounds me.