skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the education pipeline is depositing students with a far lower attention span and capability than ever before, in college classes, for all subjects, including Math.

Unsurprisingly. In the past:

1. Those with lower attention spans generally didn't try to go to college in the first place. They often didn't even graduate from high school[1].

2. If they did try, colleges rejected their application long before they ever arrived on campus. Now colleges seek to accommodate them.

College used to be just for elites. At some point we decided it should be for everyone. When you try to shove more and more people into college, you're going to find out that most people don't have what it takes. It is like us deciding everyone should get to play in the NFL and then wonder why the talent is so poor...

We can't have it both ways.

[1] When I was in high school the graduation rate was only around 60%. Nowadays it is around 90%. That is a substantial shift in relatively few years. Did the students suddenly become better students out of the blue? Of course not.
It's not AI, but I have good news for you though : what you seek already exists !

https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d
A civic duty is not a legal duty. You have the legal right not to vote. My opinion is you are failing your government and your own interests when you don't vote.

I agree that plurality voting is bad. We should have a system where candidates are ranked, so voter sentiment is better expressed and more than two candidates have a chance at winning.

The system we have now needs to be worked, until we get a new system. If you dislike all options equally, then vote for someone else as a protest. If you have a preference of one major candidate over the other, it is in your interest to express that. Sitting at home and doing nothing is the worst.

I challenge you to at least research ranked-pair or ranked choice voting (or any alternative form of voting) and write your city councilman about it. Or contact a voting reform organization to ask how you can help change your city.
The close and far sides get shifted too, and those have different brightness.
The comparably priced Mac comes with half the RAM, so if that's a constraint, it's already lost. For applications that aren't memory constrained it would be very interesting to see some benchmarks. Although I suspect it's going to come down to the quality of the relevant CUDA vs Metal libraries as much as anything else.
That’s a completely reasonable thing to happen - no computer melting here. And as you said you can configure your desired behavior.

Did you know you can accidentally write infinite loops in rust?
I think you're right on most accounts. What do we do?
YouTube kids was banned quickly in my house. My kids can select a movie and sometimes a kids show. They can also play this playground app, 2 iPads can connect and they can play together.

They also don’t have free rein over iPads and maybe they get access to once a week in the car or something. They are 6 and under so I’ll probably tweak rules as needed.
Assange: 17,256 emails deleted from the drive of Spanish CIA military officer
Wow, that is a blast from the past. I don't recall my frame of mind in writing that, well. Hopefully it isn't quite as cynical as I feel the past few months. At least, hopefully that isn't the part that is resonating! :D
You and I start from the same base information: the power from the solar in real-time isn't enough to drive a "real car", immediately. But we come to totally different conclusions.

The solar hitting the roof of this thing over the course of a day is enough to make my average commute in that thing. That's what batteries are for. I'm not driving from sun-up to sun-down. (And you can plug it in anytime you want.)

Yes there are some huge trade-offs to make it work: It's not a 3-row minivan, it's not a 4-door sedan, it's a bizzare-looking car-like thing that moves only two people, but does so in the comfort that I desire for my daily use. And the solar part is only going to work out in a sunny place, if you park it in the sun. That happens to be exactly what I'm looking for.

Even if it didn't have solar, it's a ridiculously efficient EV, which I'd prefer over a ridiculously fast car or very large SUV.

I would understand "That seems like a small market" or "that's too many trade-offs for me", but "It's just not a good idea" seems like harsh judgement for a vehicle because it doesn't appeal to your visual preferences or usage.
I remember this article and I'm laughing before I even click the link. What a delightful read. Even more delightful I've never encountered this molecule.
That's moving the goalposts. You initially stated that they do not deal with immigration action. Now it's that immigration action is not its primary role. Those are mutually exclusive arguments.
https://archive.is/QExaD
The university administration doesn’t discourage that. In some cases they encourage it.

They won’t get denied tenure for protesting the current thing. It’s more likely they could get denied tenure for not loudly protesting the current thing.
Discrete Dynamical Systems – Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors [video]
Learn about discrete dynamical systems and their eigenvalues/eigenvectors in this friendly video!
I mean if you emit compiler commands from any build system they're going to be completely illegible due to the number of -L,-l,-I,-i,-D flags which are mostly generated by things like pkg-config and your build configuration.

There's not many optimization flags that people get fine grained with, the exception being floating point because -ffast-math alone is extremely inadvisable
What's ex- about it? Presently still convicted, unless I missed an appeal?

Anyway POTUS is likely the only job a convicted felon can get.
Sounds OK in vacuum...
I honestly start thinking that the idea "everything should be symmetric in some way..." is completely wrong, and an example of wishful thinking "...because it would be cool if it did". Even if nature is in some way balanced on a scale large enough, it's extremely unlikely for us not to be in some local pocket. Most likely we're a part of some bigger structure that has certain properties, and this affects our perception of the laws of physics.
50 billion different innies
I still almost remember all of a certain infamous "FCKGW" key for WinXP.

Haven't installed it in... 20 years?
That's great but why didn't you enable two factor authentication?
Even serious discussion of Chinese soldiers in Canada or Mexico is clear casus belli and surefire way for those countries to be occupied. Chinese soldiers on the border is existential to US and when dealing with existential risks countries tend to put funny concepts such as UN charter or human rights aside.

Canada is absolutely indefensible with no strategic depth or ability to get new supplies. Mexico is harder to occupy but their military is a joke and again easy to block all external supplies. Very doable.
Check the address. If the building is still standing, then no.
Can BCH Flip BTC?
Show HN: Cloud-Deployable Bridge Between OpenAPI Endpoints and MCP
Hey folks, I've been building AI agents that need to talk to various APIs, and I got tired of writing custom integrations for every service. So I built the MCP-OpenAPI Server to solve this problem!

It's a simple bridge that lets AI agents discover and use our existing OpenAPI endpoints through the Model Context Protocol. No need to write custom code for each service - just point it at the OpenAPI specs, choose which endpoints to expose, and you're good to go.

What makes this different from other MCP servers is that it uses SSE transport instead of stdio, making it work well for multi-tenant cloud setups. It handles authentication forwarding and generates properly typed arguments based on your schema (handling nested types, arrays, etc).

This can be useful for:

- Server-side AI agent developers who want to easily integrate with third party SaaS tools like Stripe, Zendesk, etc.

- API providers who want to expose an existing API to MCP

- Anyone prototyping AI/API interactions before building a custom MCP server.

I'd love to hear what you think!

GitHub: https://github.com/conorbranagan/mcp-openapi
>I guess depends on the task? I have very low expectations for Gemini, but I gave it a run with a signal processing easy problem and it did well. It took 30 seconds to reason through a problem that would have taken me between 5 to 10 minutes to reason. Gemini's reasoning was sound (but it took me a couple of minutes to decide that), and it also wrote the functions with the changes (which took me an extra minute to verify). It's not a definitive win in time, but at least there was an extra pair of "eyes"--or whatever that's called with a system like this one.

I wonder if you treat code from a Jr engineer the same way? Seems impossible to scale a team that way. You shouldnt need to verify every line but rather have test harnesses that ensure adherence to the spec.
Show HN: Speak, capture, type - my voice assistant works anywhere on your system
I built Vibevoice, a tool that lets you dictate text and run voice commands with screen context anywhere on your system. It works like this:

For regular dictation, hold the right Ctrl key while speaking, then release to have your words typed automatically wherever your cursor is - perfect for coding, emails, or chat apps.

The more interesting feature is the AI command mode: hold the Scroll Lock key, speak a prompt, and a local LLM responds based on both your words AND a screenshot of what you're looking at. The AI's response gets typed directly into your application as if you typed it yourself.

Everything runs locally using Whisper for transcription and Ollama for the LLM (I recommend gemma3:27b for best results). No cloud services or API costs.

The tool was inspired by Karpathy's "vibe coding" and builds upon Vlad's whisper-keyboard project. I extended it to work with local models and added the screenshot context feature, which makes the AI much more useful for everyday tasks like writing e-mails.

Let me know what you think!
Usually they're trying username/password combinations that they got from some other breach. They figure people often re-use passwords, so using the same username & password on multiple sites to try to log in often works. That's what a "password spraying" attack is. Even if a breach forces people to change a password they've used on one site they'll often not change it on other sites, so this still tends to work.
What about black hole new mass/energy converting into orthogonal space ??? ( ..is it part of Principia Unitas ??).
Better than broken JS libs but my main concern is the layouting yank, when there are many options and how to reach them without accidentally closing the select.

> It doesn't trigger built-in mobile operating system components.

Yeah so this is scary, but how is layouting done then?

> Shown options positioned with anchor().

Ok, also experimental, but maybe this is the best part of all? Floating UI? It’s become a reusable thing with JS, it would be amazing if it was in CSS and actually worked.
Thanks for reading and sharing your inputs.

1. To answer this, I will try to record a video this week. It's not a short answer because, if you’ve heard of Anthropic's computer-use, browser-use, or OpenAI's operator, this takes a slightly improved approach. It was demonstrated by Playwright MCP, which leverages the Accessibility Tree. In my testing, this worked well for a very clunky web app with many Shadow DOMs and iframes.

2. There is a built-in mechanism to deal with this. Once I hear more feedback on its performance, I can make improvements.

3. Right now, it does not use vision. The reason I didn't add vision in v1 is that I wanted to run tests with lower token costs and prove it works equally well without vision. I plan to add vision as an option for those who don’t mind the token cost.

*Summary*: This is a lightweight library, making it easy to adjust and improve.
I'm working on a tool called Canyon to help jobseekers land their dream job by helping them perfect their resume, be much faster at applying to jobs, and practicing with our mock interview tool.

https://www.usecanyon.com/
Soundtracker was German

Noisetracker was Swedish

Protracker was Norwegian

MED/OctaMED was Finnish
What are you even trying to say? These events are simply not analogous to the events of previous administrations. Please stop trying to reduce it to a partisan debate.
I have no comment on what your professor said, but reading the replies here just confirms to me that cynicism, pessimism and doomerism are certainly the mood of the current zeitgeist. Optimistic outlooks are too often met with a kind of reflexive dismissal or despair in a "I feel like things are really bad right now, have never been this bad before, and thus can never improve" diatribe.

There's a pervasive sense in online discussions these days that if it's cynical, dark or depressing, it has to be the truth. It's like Occam's razor for today's modern doomer: the bleakest explanation must be the correct one. And I'm not saying that things are easy or that democracy is guaranteed, but I am saying that pessimism isn't inherently more realistic than optimism.

Cynicism sells in the 21st century.
The worst part is that it wasn't even free, you were still paying for the data unless you were on wifi. Standard text messaging was so expensive (and so terrible) that data rates obliterated standard phone services in both quality and price.

I remember paying 23 cents per SMS. Still, carriers were somehow surprised when people moved away from them.

Funnily enough, now that RCS is slowly making its way back, people seem to forget that free unlimited messages are hardly guaranteed with these services. Can't wait for the backlash when the first iPhone users start getting charged for RCS messages with their Android contacts.
The world gets both better and worse.

It doesn't have to get worse. Conversely, it doesn't have to get better, either, but at this point, we've got a lot of history that shows us what has and hasn't worked. I think the measure of how people are doing worth focusing on is how much of their potential they've fulfilled. I'm not really interested in how generally well off someone is today compared to someone in some random point in history because there are too many outliers on both ends of that one.
Priorities? Profit incentives?
> In practice people will not build perfectly safe abstractions that are then used by 100% memory-safe code

Yes, in practice they quite commonly will. `unsafe` is rare, so it’s feasible to spend lots of extra efforts to validate it.
Tangentially related: FreeOutput[1], which summarizes the copyright ownership of AI generated content from various LLM providers.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43517585
surely you would include whatever is supplying the magnetic field as part of the robot?
I Made a Video Game of "The Artist Is Present." Marina Abramović Walked Out
Culture. Humans have pretty stable moral intuitions about the basics - fairness, reciprocity, value of life; AFAIK they're consistent throughout time and space as far as history goes[0], and form a common base from which more complex morality stems.

In short: "theft is bad" is something people are born with[1]; "pirating media is bad" isn't; the former will be universal wherever you go, the latter depends strongly on who you ask[2]; the former is constant throughout history, the latter can change within months or years.

On a more general point, human society is the poster child of "the whole is more than the sum of its parts" - there's a lot of ideas and institutions in our lives that are purely abstract, and exist only in the shared, social sphere. Things like money, rule of law, countries or corporations - they exist as long as people expect them to exist, but ultimately they can disappear overnight - unlike the more fundamental concepts like self-preservation or reciprocity, which are anchored in our selves.

--

[0] - If it weren't, we would have much more trouble understanding or relating to the past; the saying is that the past is a foreign country, not that it's an alien species!

[1] - Or at least it's as close to innate as we can get.

[2] - And, of course, the progress of science and technologies that made this question meaningful in the first place.
A buddy of mine and I realized that if one of us read the code while the other typed, it was much less prone to errors. Once we got it all typed in, we'd switch places when debugging the inevitable typos made. The DATA lines full of nonsensical text (what we now know was hex encoded data) were the go to place for checking for typos.
> This means no "Scenic Mode" ads and no YouTube corporate ads, only ads embedded by video content creators, which I skip over with a pointing device because the video is being controlled by a browser, not a TV.

You skip over the ones that are obvious, but not the ones that are more stealthily integrated into the content. IMO if a video creator sells out and adds sponsored content of any kind they are no longer to be trusted to not be manipulative in other ways.
You guys really need a Docker build. This dependency chain with submodules is a nightmare.
The traditional 3rd option was the patronage by a rich benefactor. The modern version is patreon. It's imperfect but seems to work pretty well for some.
Dioxygen Difluoride

That both words start with DIe! is enough to warn me off.
I mean responses like this one:

I understand the desire for a simple or unconventional solution, however there are problems with those solutions.
There is likely no further explanation that will be provided.
It is best that you perform testing on your own.

Good luck, and there will be no more assistance offered.
You are likely on your own.

This was about a SOCKS proxy which was leaking when the OpenVPN provider was down while the container got started, so we were trying to find the proper way of setting/unsetting iptable rules.

My proposed solution was to just drop all incoming SOCKS traffic until the tunnel was up and running, but Gemini was hooked on the idea that this was a sluggish way of solving the issue, and wanted me to drop all outgoing traffic until the tun device existed (with the exception of DNS and VPN_PROVIDER_IP:443 for building the tunnel).
The mid market film has died thanks to Disney monopolizing the box office with their tent poles. (Though this is questionable hypothesis and more of a complaint about Marvelization.)

The healthy revenue from long box office legs and DVD sales has died thanks to streaming. And the youth that would rather get their dopamine fix elsewhere.

But the streaming wars have done incredible damage to this once thriving industry.

Amazon and Apple have come in and subsided their own studios from unrelated business units. (Where is antitrust?) They're teaching consumers that the price of movies is free.
I really like that thought.
I was initially working towards that like to generate just the code. The issue which i found was, when our app changes, we will again have to redo the code generation. And since it is code, we will still need someone to review it.
I am not against all this.
But my first goal was to prove that the job of Automation Tester is taken over by AI now.
Next, as i get more feedback and response, i will try if it can start generating code along.
Really appreciate the feedback.
Yes, exponential growth gets quite large quite fast. Think about how a $300 graphics card today competes against one from 15 years ago. They're orders of magnitude faster, more memory, etc.
Ideally, it sucks the most ass of all.
Sorry, I should have added my second thought. Your original comment about isolating MCP servers is also good!

These are tools where the AI may tell you it’s doing one thing and then accidentally do another (I had an LLM tell me it would make a directory using mkdir but then called the shell command kdir (thankfully didn’t exist)). Sandboxing MCP servers is also important!
At some point you’d think we’d learn that our economic system, and the way that we manage work, has stopped making the sense it made centuries ago when we developed it.
Im building retro style text editor with Open GL shaders, its a work in progress. I have ported st.c to imgui and have mostly working terminal emulator, now im working on LSP adapters and extending language support.
https://github.com/nealmick/ned
Good to know WhatsApp is at least somewhat proactive against scammers.
I agree with you on vandalism, but how are the protests idiotic? And what's your suggestion for Americans saving their democracy?
I built an app to help in improving English vocabulary:

https://www.woor.app/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/woor-vocabulary/id6740453162

Initially started as small webapp to help me learn Dutch words. Made it out of the frustration that in Duolingo I cannot specify the words I want to learn and Quizlet exercising and progression felt limited. I also wanted to target the specific meanings of the words.

Then I decided to try out CapacitorJS and wrapped it into the mobile app. For now only English is available as the target language as it was easier to validate the content, but more languages are coming.

Along with it also started the podcast with language tutors about the teaching & tech. Please find the links here: https://www.woor.app/tutorandtech
Show HN: Awesome-CV: curated list of awesome Curriculum Vitae
We then made turbo tapes out of them and crammed tens of games onto single C-cassettes.
I'm too far away from a windows machine for far too long. Is it possible to run Windows 98 on modern hardware especially when no one would be shipping any drivers?

Also, what's the use case for it?

Lastly, wondering if MS still sells Windows 98 if someone needs because of some specific reason.
>And a reason Luigi is seen as a hero in the vast majority of circles.

source? Only 17% of americans find the killing was "acceptable", which isn't same question as "hero", but I think most would agree that an action being "acceptable" is a prerequisite to being a "hero". At best, he's anti-hero.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/united-healthcare-ceo-killi...
I'm amused that all of the responses focus on the differences; but none seem to cover why they have to be that way.

In general, I don't think there is a hard reason for it? My argument would include many of the cities that have public transit will happily utilize the transit busses and trains for some of the same reasons.

I think some of the more rural routes for schools will be a bit more than some transit authorities would want to cover? Though, that is probably a bit self fulfilling?
The funny thing is that this article makes the author sound like the "lazy" one here. They're completely engulfed in their own experience with no ability to put themselves in a student's shoes.

Students ask for lecture slides and that bothers you? Pare down your slides so the content is rendered useless unless they come to class.

Attendance is down? Mark attendance with a simple, 1-question quiz every lecture that students need to be in class to access (QR code, iClicker, etc.). Make it count towards a whole grade-letter percentage of your grade.

Students leaving to "use phones" during class? Students can take classes back to back. Sometimes with almost no break in between (unless you consider racing across campus from one class to the next a break). It's not easy to switch subjects like that and meaningfully contribute to both spaces.
No, 'like_any_other has it right: any physical system is 1-to-1 isomorphic with its mirror image, which is spinning the opposite direction.

Whatever asymmetry you're visualizing for one galaxy, its mirror-image galaxy is equally physical, and possesses the same asymmetry.
Ok, I thought you were telling us we wont get UB until we read papers which are proposals for future standards. If you find any corrections in this thread about existing standards, please comment.