skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried the demo on the homepage and I don’t know what kind of sorcery this is but it’s blowing my mind.

I input a bunch of completely made up words (Quastral Syncing, Zarnix Meshing, HIBAX, Bilxer) and used them in a sentence and the model zero-shotted perfect speech recognition!

It’s so counterintuitive for me that this would work. I would have bet that you have to provide at least one audio sample in order for the model to recognize a word it was never trained on.

Providing it to the model in text modality and it being able to recognize it in the audio modality must be an emergent property.
SGCL introduces the `tracked_ptr` smart pointer, which is used similarly to `shared_ptr`. The collector doesn't move data, which makes it highly efficient and — perhaps surprisingly — more cache-friendly than moving GCs.
libgd, the graphics backend of php. It's an ancient pile of shit yet the "maintainers" refuse An help, contributions and improvement as good as they can. The most popular example is emoji support on their text rendering. Questions on SO, bug reports to libgd and php go back at least 10 years, yet no interest by the devs to either fix it or accept any help in doing so.

A couple years ago I started investigating and it starts with the fact that their utf8 decoder accepts no more than 3 bytes per character, thanks to an ifdef. There's code to handle 4, so you change the ifdef and then it doesn't compile anymore because code rot. Fixing that you see the correct code points going into freetype but then something else I forgot about breaks. Then I saw there were already a couple patches on the mailing list and checking their github just now I see at least one PR with a bunch of back and forth and another couple issues with mostly no reaction or at best a few lame excuses.

If you could donate negative money to a project this would be a prime candidate. Sure, move fast and break things is bad, but this is the opposite of that, and not good either.
I am going to continue to stan for dokku for hosting web apps, docker images included

https://dokku.com/
For one thing, not all OSes have a "native WebView".
Sending them to a prison you don't return from isn't a deportation.
The problem isn't the first-time generating the code. The problem is when objects gain fields and people forget to add them to hashCode and equals (or worse, hashCode OR equals). It's the kind of thing you won't notice until months later when you have intermittent hard to debug glitches in your system.

Records have reduced the advantages of Lombok by a boatload. But there still are some things that can't be records.
For me it's https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/issues/3988

Even if it has to be bundled, having the equivalent performance accross OSes is big. Tauri is definitely piquing my interest again because of this.
Why Kagi launched "no use, no pay"
RFC 1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers
Also the Gary Davidian of Intel vs NEC fame!

https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/intel-vs-nec-the-case-o...
Star trek's crews overall are chosen in a way that seems to consider redundancies, as well as meshing as a team that can offer varying viewpoints.

It runs directly counter to that more capitalistic mindset of "why don't we do more with less?" when spending years navigating all kinds of unknown situations, you want as many options as possible available.
The transformer architecture IS the bitter lesson. It lets you scale your way with more data and computational resources. It was only after the fact that people come up with bespoke algorithms that increase the efficiency of transformers through human ingenuity. Turns out a lot of the things transformers do is completely unnecessary, like the V cache, for example, but that doesn't matter in practice. Everyone is training their model with V caches, because they can start training their bleeding-edge LLM today, not after they did some risky engineering into a novel architecture.

The architectures before transformers were LSTM based RNNs. They suck because they don't scale. Mamba is essentially the successor to RNNs and its key benefit is that it can be trained in parallel (better compute scaling) and yet Mamba models are still losing out to transformers because the ideal architecture for Mamba based LLMs has not yet been discovered. Meanwhile the performance hit of transformers is basically just a question of how many dollars you're willing to part with.
Actually - not a bad idea! Thanks will note that down! Social apps live or die by their mobile experience, so prioritizing native development makes strategic sense.
Loved the bit where he said “It always says people are better than me. I find this motivational.” The Office vibes
Oh, you mean copyright infringement, not theft
Just did one spanish video, worked really well. The interface is simple enough and easy, great start.
It would be great to have a translation appear after completing the words, and maybe a way to save words.
Was the historical Jesus talking about evolution? (You might be surprised)
This brings together thousands of hours of research over several years, and is a pretty fun and surprising topic, especially for any fellow fans of history.

And as unbelievable as you may think the title to be, I can pretty much guarantee you'll find it much more believable by the end of the post.
Arm Introduces New Developer Initiative to Expedite Migration on Cloud Platforms
You sir know how to appreciate the simplicity such service providers deliver.
> but near-impossible to write incorrect code.

Rust makes it near-impossible to make typos in strings or errors in math formulas? That's amazing! So excited to try this out!
CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep
I simply saw that as tongue in cheek about how the author wanted to use a more general core point. The lens of conversational interfaces makes a good case for that while keeping true to the idea.

You can argue against something but also not think it's 100% useless.
Should we ban people from taking the train? They get a different experience, but they still get an experience
Lots of Greek colonies around Crimea [1], but I had no idea they settled so far inland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Crimea
The reporting is good. It's more the opinion pieces that are notorious for giving off "smug leftie liberal intellectual" vibes.
I think yd have been better off going with harbinger and no analogy here. This was a government agency acting on behalf of the government in a targeted arrest, not the government saying to citizens it's a free-for-all on targeting an entire group's businesses and homes (which is why "writ small" still fails here).

There's real levels of Naziesque behavior happening in the US and UK right now, but it's also not exactly the same and bad comparisons make it easier for many people to dismiss genuine concerns as hyperbolic (especially when one is in a targeted group, which i am, and trying to point out how bad things are getting).
I'm not disagreeing with "let them do it", but the comparison with computer music isn't really fair.

Computer music, as it existed a couple decades ago, still played exactly what you asked it to, and it wasn't filling areas where you underspecified the music with a statistical model of trillions of existing songs. And that's the difference, for me: the ability to underspecify, and have the details be filled in and added in a way that to the audience will be perceived as intentful, but which is not.
perhaps it's using openai advanced voice or another tts to create waveforms for comparison?
>the 300 tracking scripts every site has to try to squeeze as much revenue as possible

Let's say tracking for revenue is required and not an argument to be made. The question I never quite understand is why cant we have ONE scripts to rule them all? I remember there was a company / services that may be called Segment? And quick google search doesn't have anything familiar, that offers something like that.
That's true, but that is the input section of the diagram, not the output section where [specific and exact output] is labeled, so I believe there was legitimate confusion I was responding to.

To your point, which I think is separate but related, that IS a case where LLMs are good at producing specific and exact commands. The models + the right prompt are pretty reliable at tool calling by themselves, because you give them a list of specific and exact things they can do. And they can be fully specific and exact at inference time with constrained output (although you may still wish it called a different tool.)
Well either you can be a philosopher for yourself, or you can be one of their subjects, consuming what they throw down on you. The way I see it, you might as well understand the muck they're leading you to under the guise of utility.

But if you're never aiming for anything more than prototypes and school projects, I agree, do whatever.
Don't get me wrong, I agree! Especially performance-wise, I'd love to have the best primitives that let me build whatever I want and not some very generic primitives that perform a bit worse and I have to tune myself so I don't shoot myself in the foot.
Your try failed due to major inconsistencies with reality, so no, turns out you can't explain literally anything.
I've used platforms like these for copywriting in the past. I think they all have the same problems at some point:

1. The very best don't use them because it's not worth their time.

2. Even good feedback becomes useless if 5 people would take it in 5 directions and structure their feedback that way. You either take all of the advice and create a Frankenstein or you become confused and take none.
For the record, author is not crazy.

Svelte team also switched to JS with JSDoc a few months back[0].

You can see the majority of their repo is JS and not TS[1]

The cited reason[2]:

> As a Svelte compiler developer, debugging without a build step greatly simplifies compiler development. Previously, debugging was complicated by the fact that we had to debug using the build step. In addition, using JSDoc does not affect compiler’s development safety because the type is almost equivalent to TS.

There was a lot of noise when this happened. Rich Harris (Svelte team) even had a comment on this on HN[3]. Dev sphere similarly thought they were crazy. But Svelte seems fine and no one seems bothered by this now.

As long as author ships type def, it should behave just like a TypeScript library for all intents and purposes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35932617

[1] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte

[2] https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/8569

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892250
A while ago I saw someone mention that Tauri would soon also just include Chromium, because in practice using a native webview loses a lot of the ostensible portability of a browser-in-a-desktop app (they claimed native webviews can differ a lot between OS's). Maybe that was overly pessimistic
> 980k in 1963, off a population of 53m.

ONS[0] shows deaths of around 550k at the same time.

> 775k in 2008, off a population of 62m.

Same ONS chart shows more like 720k births, and 500k deaths as well.

> I feel like you're bending over backwards to pretend you don't understand the point.

Just as the 700k immigration figure I mentioned above I did so in good faith, making it net migration, I think you should operate in good faith as well and talk about net natural population change.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...
I’m building a spaced-repetition flashcards app. Unlike the competitors, the cards have audio, images and sentences. Additionally, it is possible to add words from ebooks, websites and YouTube.

https://vocabuo.com
I just dont get it.Sleep tracker? Dont you just know?, about something as personal and intimate as
your own state of restedness?,energy levels?
And quite honestly I worry about the cost of optimising ones life and managing everything for
what?, a better performance review?, and does this kind of minute management and reliance on external
sensors and data, leave a person able to make criticl descisions when facing anything outside of
a habitual and specialised routine.
Perhaps these could work as training and awareness devices?, which could be revealing, but
I think habitual use is only going to work, for the most dedicated ...military precision types....
but for them, it will be competitive, and it's bad news for anyone outside of that group, to compete with them.
And as a reminder, there is nothing quite so luxurious as well earned sleepyness, and the general feelings of well bieng and satiation that creates this, vs an off switch.
> it is hilarious to want a conversational UI to understand something better than you.

This is true. But what if you swap "conversational UI" with something actually intelligent like a developer. Then we see this kind of thing all the time: A user has tacit, unconscious knowledge of some domain. The developer keeps asking them questions in order to get a formal understanding of the domain. At the end the developer has a formal understanding and the user keeps their tacit understanding.
In theory we could do the same with an AI - If the AI was actually intelligent.
It sounds like you probably mean OPEX, I mean unless you explicitly are talking about loan payments.
> A kurgan is a type of tumulus (Burial mound) constructed over a grave, often characterized by containing a single human body along with grave vessels, weapons, and horses. Originally in use on the Pontic–Caspian steppe, kurgans spread into much of Central Asia and Eastern, Southeast, Western, and Northern Europe during the third millennium BC.
On a similar theme, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unlikely_Voyage_of_Jack_de...
It sure would have helped if we'd hired those additional immigration judges that the bipartisan bill would have funded... before Trump shot it down to deny Biden a political point.

And being forcibly removed from the US is exactly the sort of power that due process is intended to limit, by Constitutional design for all people in the US (not just citizens).
My democracy for an example
> Even being a US site they have to be compliant for EU users.

Why? What happens if not? EU-wide DNS ban? I haven't seen that yet...
> React is a nightmare ... culture of shaming developers who haven't switched to the new React paradigm-of-the-year

proceeds to shame and suggests changing to the new paragdigm of the year.

> For a framework meant for serious adults
An e-bike that charges off USB-C
I just hope that the images we get are for show and that normally they let human beings actually walk upright and don't slap them around willy-nilly.
Think I implemented a unique feature in my feed reader
1933 isn't what the Nazis were known for. Many countries had coups or abandoned democracy or rule of law.

Calling someone a Nazi is saying he's a mass murderer. Don't cry wolf!
The battery charge curve is not flat. It will peak and then taper.
Python Polars: The Definitive Guide
There are alternatives that don't rely on jvm internals to accomplish their goals. They do like 90% of what lombok does. Immutables and AutoValue are two examples I've used that work fine.

The 10% lombok can do because it's peaking at internals isn't valuable. I don't, for example, need an annotation to create a static logger. That's dumb.
Gift link,

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-admi...
Surely this comment was generated by an LLM?
Yes, but in practice it's even rarer for people to have loads that have multiple spikes a day, to the point it's a rounding error you can mostly ignore outside of very unusual niches. Usually the day-night cycle entirely dominates in terms of traffic variations and is already long enough to make auto-scaling unviable in terms of cost.

You're right that if the longest window is short enough to make autoscaling financially beneficial over managed hosting, then you also need to make sure that you don't regularly have other spikes that can tip things back to being unprofitable.
There seems to be some part of the LLM capabilities being lost by hacking some benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 is a great example of a model clearly beating 3.5 in all benchmarks, but slowly destroying my code base by adding lots of extra lines or hacking around my instructions (adding ,,if'' statements when I want it to change the code to handle a case instead of understanding what change is really needed to be done for it).

I still prefer o1 pro and a lot of those leapfrogging in benchmarks don't translate to being smarter anymore.
Is it trying to sell Backbone.js-style MVC as a replacement for React?
> why cant we have ONE scripts to rule them all

Because those tracking scripts are provided by competing advertising platforms and they want to own the data.
Seems to be no support for TypeScript in the frontend? I mean, it is mentioned, but only together with Rust and Go for "computation engines".

No TypeScript = No deal with me.

I wrote my first Javascript application back in the spring of 2025, and I am not aware of anyone who is willing to pay me enough money to voluntarily write Javascript again in a project of meaningful size.
I stopped using it a few years ago because its usefulness and reliability had declined too much. I've never posted a question myself, though. Questioners seemed to be treated poorly often enough that it didn't seem worth the hassle.
The best executives to work for are the ones who are able to be as precise at their level of abstraction as I am at mine. There’s a shared understanding at an intermediate level, and we can resolve misunderstandings quickly. And then there are the executives who think we should just feed our transducer data into an llm.
love KOReader, recently jailbroke my kindle oasis with the new winterbreak exploit and installed it. The ability to connect via wifi to calibre is amazing.
I wouldn't want to roll the dice on being seized at the border by ICE for arbitrary and capricious reasons, detained and/or disappeared, to maybe get sent back to my country of origin.

Because that is a thing that can happen now. If I didn't already live here, I wouldn't come here for any reason.
There was a time when everyone played this in Poland - because of Adam Małysz's hype. It felt like the golden age of ski jumping, at least here. The game ran very slowly on my first 100 MHz CPU, which kinda helped with timing the jump. I could get it to run a bit faster by pressing the magic "turbo" (boost to 120 MHz) button on the case for a while, until the system BSoD'd. Another popular thing alongside it was so-called "Małysz" malware, which would spread via infected version of this game. I remember getting the game on a diskette and finding out it just formatted my drive with Windows (95?) install upon reboot. Fun times.
who would have guessed that we're all lurkers here too :P Hacker News isn't just for linux stans - Windows devs like to hang out here too
Loading the page on Fast 4G connection takes 9,61 seconds before I see _any_ content on the screen. This is loading the "all contacts" page that shows 12 items with a title, excerpt, time stamp and user name. Is this expected performance? Network shows the app downloading huge 4/1 megabyte chunks.
Can I suggest Lightkeeper (I'm the maintainer): https://github.com/kalaksi/lightkeeper. I made it for my own needs to simplify repetitive tasks and provide an efficient view, and it has hotkeys and trying to stay "agile". You can drop to a terminal with a hotkey any time.
I recently discovered Beszel (https://github.com/henrygd/beszel) for monitoring all my homelab servers. It's quick, easy, and has a very clean and intuitive interface. Works especially well running inside of containers on hosts. I also wrote a very quick guide on getting it running inside of Kubernetes at https://github.com/henrygd/beszel/discussions/431.

While it's not nearly as powerful as say DataDog, it provides the core essentials of CPU, memory, disk, network, temperature and even GPU monitoring (via agent only).
Unpopular opinion maybe, but sync.Pool is so sharp, dangerous and leaky that I'd avoid using it unless it's your absolute last option. And even then, maybe consider a second server first.
1. Treat it as a stream - you can't catch all of it as there is so much info, just catch something interesting, read it, and don't stress out if you didn't catch something else. There will always be something else to read.

2. Most of the sources you've mentioned are push-based - i.e. someone else is pushing this new info onto you (newsletters, youtube, podcasts, news). This increases FOMO. Instead, try to implement a pull-based approach and only seek and read info that is relevant to what you want to learn, read. It's a lot harder than it seems, but my guess it's harder due to default.

Last year, I re-tried[1] the experiment of not using the internet for entertainment for a few months, only for work and life admin. To catch up with news, I subscribed to a paper-based weekly newspaper. If there is something important in the world, you will find out about it, someone will tell you. But this will help a ton with anxiety and mental health.

The other thing I realised - when I listen to podcast and go into info overload, I get burned out a lot quicker. Listening to podcasts while working is the worst. I removed all podcast subscriptions and only started adding those that I want to listen + limit when I listen to these episodes.

[1] https://oleggera.com/blog/life-with-no-internet/
>Is he (a) legally (b) morally entitled to open fire on them?

Given how these "arrests" seem to be done by plainclothes individuals who don't identify themselves?

Yes. Legally (depending on state) yes, and morally always.

(Arrests in quotations because anyone arrested has rights, something that seems to be skipped over here)
Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development
Besides this I'd also point to Immutables and AutoValue which both can make builders without touching jvm internals.
> that the democrats are on the right leaning side of “centre right”

This is repeated frequently, but, no, just no.

Name one position by the Democrats that is to the right of typical center to center-right parties such as CDU/CSU, La République En Marche, PP, CDA, ÖVP.

Immigration, abortion, environmental regulations?
Yeah, however at least COBOL wasn't designed without bounds checking, or pointer based strings, in 1959 hardware.
Yeah, wasp cis males such as Sam Altman or Peter Thiel or Brin, Page, Zuckerberg, Cook, Nadella, Pichai, Huang...
One point missing from this comparison is that cell phones just don’t take all that much electricity to begin with. A very rough calculation is that it takes around 0.2 cents to fully charge a cell phone. You spend maybe around $1 PER YEAR on cell phone charging per phone. Cell phones are just confusingly not energy intensive.
Yes, it's April Fools Day today.
Thanks for your reply! The misconception might stem from the lack of clarity in the documentation regarding how islands (components) work.

- How do I declare local states (instance variables) in an island?

- How do I fetch and display data from an API?

- Where should we place data that is normally kept in contexts/stores in other frameworks?

These are common problems faced when developing an SPA, but missing in the documentation.
How long was it since you saw an e-ink screen the last time? Resolution has been excellent for a while now. Refresh is still slow, but that doesn't matter for reading books. Contrast is fine, but not comparable to other display types.
Cutting Off NPR and PBS
I transitioned to svelte and I’m finding it around 3x to 2x times less complex than React