skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMAP had its day in the sun, but the advent of big webmail providers (especially gmail) has killed off the advancement of email clients. Now all major development is focused on trying to recreate Gmail to varying degrees of success. It all ends up internal to one or another corporation so they are just all endlessly reinventing the wheel with IMAP just being relegated to a afterthought front end to some sort of search-based backend.

Actually having a email client software running on your machine is extremely nitch and is mostly in the realm of self-hosters and legacy holdouts that won't let their clients go.

A most advanced modern approach is to just use POP3 to download your emails to a local Maildir and have them indexed there non-destructively. And then sync between your various machines that you want your email accessible using some sort of file sync or P2P solution.

I use notmuch for this. It automatically indexes and tags emails and thus enables much more advanced email management solutions then what can be offered over something like IMAP.

The main advantage of this is that 'folders' are managed virtually. There is no shuffling or copying or editing of emails done normally. I only have to worry about backing up my emails and notmuch config as all the rest can be regenerated relatively quickly.

This is more or less replicating what Gmail and other webmail providers do server side.

Where as the traditional approach shuffling and moving and deleting of emails on some imap server is fairly dangerous and expensive operation. Mistakes can lead to data loss and are often very difficult to reverse.
I'm at the age where 30 years may well be the rest of my life (even assuming a fairly normal old-age sort of death) and 50 almost certainly is, so while I do care about what happens after for my kids, they'll also be quite old by then, so "the whole rest of your life during which you're still significantly active, plus all of your kids' lives up to as late as late-middle-age, by which time they're firmly set on their life courses and family planning and such, will suck" is... pretty bad.
Huh? It's additional power draw in the midst of an energy transition. It's not currently being used differently. What do you mean what's the problem with that?

Also don't forget it's just one of three aspects I can think of off the top of my head. This isn't the only issue with LLMs...

Edit: while typing this reply, I remembered a fourth: I've seen many people object morally/ethically to the training method in terms of taking other people's work for free and replicating it. I don't know how I stand on that one myself yet (it is awfully similar to a human learning and replicating creatively, but clearly on an inhuman scale, so idk) but that's yet another possible reason not to want this
Also consider the elder spectrum. As my father grows older with eye and coordination issues, he cannot use the intricacies of a smart phone.
I made this NES emulator with Claude last week [0]. I'd say it was a pretty non-trivial task. It involved throwing a lot of NESDev docs, Disch mapper docs, and test rom output + assembly source code to the model to figure out.

[0]: https://kaiokendev.github.io/nes/
Bro... you're vibing.
> Generally speaking, calcium lactate will be found on the outside of a cheese (usually a cheddar), and tyrosine or leucine crystals will be on the inside. Calcium lactate can also form on the inside of cheese, but tyrosine and leucine crystals cannot.

... Cannot form on the outside, presumably.
Has those results been reproduced elsewhere with other benchmarks than what Google seems to use?

Hard to trust their own benchmarks at this point, and Im not home at the moment so cant try it myself either.
Orwell's detail on that point is as follows:

> The milk-first school can bring forward some fairly strong arguments, but I maintain that my own argument is unanswerable. This is that, by putting the tea in first and stirring as one pours, one can exactly regulate the amount of milk whereas one is liable to put in too much milk if one does it the other way round.

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...

I wonder if wasting milk was a greater concern at the time, when the country had recently come out of rationing.

Personally, I am also milk-first. There's less risk of the milk denaturing as it heats up more slowly. This is especially true for alternative milks such as oat or soy (which Orwell no doubt would have despised).
Yes, actually! Search for user "O_MORES". They're active on Reddit and possibly Vogons. They have successfully dual booted Windows 98 and Windows 10/11 on modern hardware. The key is to use a supported PCI/PCIe graphics, audio, and network cards then slot them into a modern motherboard. The sheer speed of modern hardware makes up for a lot of shortcomings.

For use cases - for me at least, it's for fun, nostalgia, and because I enjoy diving deeper into old hardware and OSs that I didn't have the experience to when they were new. Everyone has their own reasons, but I think this is a common one.

No need to buy Windows 98 anymore though, clean known-good OEM ISOs are available on WinWorldPC along with accompanying product keys.
Forty-Seven
Do you want a vibe engineered pacemaker?
I'm working on a personal AI notebook called Lightpage.

I've always found it useful to have scratch notes about whatever's on my mind -- a mix of journaling/reflection, planning, project ideas, notes on things I'm reading, etc. But I wanted to be able to chat with an LLM that has full context & memory from these notes.

It's been surprisingly helpful for me and some of my friends! Some ways I've used it:

- Talking through fuzzy ideas & ideas to clarify them

- Having it re-inforce the healthy habits I want to build

- Using it to reflect on feelings or whatever's been bothering me

https://lightpage.com
There was no forced deportation of US citizens or legal residents in that article. Two illegal residents chose to take their citizen children with them when deported.

Their lawyer isn't claiming citizenship or residency, but poor treatment and asking for humanitarian release back into the US to get medical care of their citizen children.

I agree it is a pretty fucked up situation, but it doesn't support what you quoted
there might be no rule of law but it's important to point out these exceptions because it weakens Apple's position when they harass other developers with the excuse of maintaining whatever it is that the walled garden provides
it was a huge anchor around the dem's neck, it was a huge conversation during the entire election. They were unable to convince people that Trump would be worse for Gaza than them.
Probably. An infinite amount of bullshit can be created for free, but checking it is expensive. Actual truth gathering is also very expensive.
Being banned from all forms of broadcast pop culture is a completely different thing than having limited access to phones and social media.
> and firefox will become even less relevant

No; Firefox can easily afford financially to add this feature. Firefox is already irrelevant; no developer will shed a tear about just blocking Firefox if they refuse to implement. Boycotting won't work either, because boycotts almost never work.
The fact that I'm disproportionally excited about this probably dates me as an early 2000s web developer. But since selects can do things that you simply cannot recreate in HTML, e.g. have options drop downs that extend outside the viewport boundaries, makes this a really helpful feature.

Now, do autocompletes and tag selectors next...
> ... but it's still probably an understatement if you look at what has been happening.

That's exactly what I would question. Does the author look just as hard in the other direction and, with intellectual honesty, defend those cases? (should he? why? why not?...) My general sense is the "other side" may have experienced similar treatment that is now being complained about. No, I don't mean it is therefore necessarily justified. I really mean that—I do not think it is therefore necessarily justified.

If I side with any of them, either side may decide I'm no longer in the in-group. Rather than either side being right, both have the same potential for corruption, and that's the real enemy.

This is not a specific answer to the effort you offered in explaining the situation. I would have to look deeper into it.
Curious if you’ve tried this yourself yet? I’d love to see side by side of a human solo vs a human with copilot for something like this. AI will surely make mistakes so who will be faster / have better code in the end?
There is no end to what a(n old) white man thinks he can do. ;)

As an old white man who switched from C++, for a over a quarter century, to Rust, about seven years ago, the fallacy at the root of Herb's piece is all too well understood by me.
Couple of things:
This must be new to the M4? I've played Civ VI for hours and hours on an M1 Max without issue.

If someone is looking at this Nvidia box, they're likely fine with a desktop footprint, in which case they'd be looking at the Mac Studio which should not have any thermal issues whatsoever. I'm guessing you're on a laptop?

If they are insistent on a laptop format, you can alleviate overheating issues pretty easily with some thermal pads and running the laptop on a cooling base when you're running heavy operations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACHo5y9Los
Surely there will be a sizeable increase in performance from the die shrink from 4NP to 2NP.
Broken screen pictures are slightly blurry. Might need to increase their DPI to have realistic effect.
>> Amazon makes it easier for developers and tech enthusiasts to explore Amazon Nova

Well, you don't. Can't find a simple way to try it out. Not that i expected anything else. The only thing saving AWS in the AI wave seems to be their deal with Anthropic.
It was called "checksummer" which is a funny pun on check sum and "summer" which is the German word for buzzer. Oh, I should add that it made an annoying buzzer sound when you made a mistake.
> But given where the language is already, and given their explicit stated design goals

I fully agree, which I tried to say at the end. All I was saying is that you don't need all of the stuff you're talking about to make this work.
It's definitely an attempt to compare models, and Gemini clearly won in the tests. But, I don't think the tests are particularly good or showcasing. It's generally an easy problem to ask AI to give you greenfields JS code for common tasks, and Leetcode's been done 1000 times on Github and stackoverflow, so the solutions are all right there.

I'd like to see tests that are more complicated for AI things like refactoring an existing codebase, writing a program to auto play God of War for you, improving the response time of a keyboard driver and so on.
How long until cheese makers start adding the crunchy crystals to give the appearance of quality without the actual quality?
6-ish hours of use isn't that much, compared to 15 or more for a normal city bus.
Orwell's original essay says:

> one should drink out of a good breakfast cup—that is, the cylindrical type of cup, not the flat, shallow type. The breakfast cup holds more, and with the other kind one’s tea is always half cold—before one has well started on it.

So I suspect that "tall" is a byword for "not shallow".
Last week a build broke because there was space after the Wl, some-linker-option
The Warning messages can't be very challenging to decipher.

Most importantly: Are the warnings show-stoppers? Not in part of my pay grade.

There is a pragma to ignore specific warnings. This is "#pragma GCC diagnostic ignore "some-compiler-warning" which is useful when dealing with several versions of the GCC compiler.

Yes, it happens.
LLMs are not data archives. They are god awful at storing data, and even calling them a lossy compression tool is a stretch because it implies they are a compression tool for data.

LLM's will always benefit from in context learning because they don't have a huge archive of data to draw on (and even when they do, they are not the best at selecting data to incorporate).
Doesn’t it have to spiral? Think of the gravity well, anything not orbiting is just falling. The only things not racing towards the black hole at the center of the galaxy are the ones that are orbiting.
Oh yeah, it's one of those pieces of software that goes out of your way and just does its assigned job so well that you literally forget about it.

I remember switching to a new computer at work and noticing something was weirdly missing without being able to put my finger on it. It wasn't until one of those moment where I used to use the extension that I noticed it wasn't yet installed on this machine.
Ask HN: Are You Vibe Coding?
I've been using Gemini 2.5 Pro with Roo-Code a lot these past few days. It has really helped me a lot. I managed to get it to implemented entire features. (With some manual cleaning up at the end)

The fact that it's free for now (I know they use it for training, that's OK) is a big plus, because I've had to restart a task from scratch quite a few time. If I calculate what this would have cost me using Claude, it would have been 200-300 euros.

I've noticed that as soon as it makes a mistake (messing up the diff format is a classic), the current task is basically a total loss. For some reason, most coding tools basically just inform the model they made a mistake and should try again... but at that point, it's broken response is part of the history, and it's basically multi-shotting itself into making more mistakes. They should really just filter these out.
Whenever I see someone talk about "vibe coding", I take it as a tacit admission of "I don't know how to program". No idea why you would otherwise subject yourself to the horrible quality of AI-produced code.
I'm not the person you are asking but the point of this whole thing seems to be as a test for how possible it is for an LLM to 'vibe code' a port of this nature and not really because they care that much about a port existing.

The fact that they haven't done the port in the normal way suggests they basically agree with what you said here (not worth the ROI), but hey if you can get the latest AI code editor to spit out a perfectly working port in minutes, why not?

FWIW, my assessment of LLMs is the same as theirs. The hype is far greater than the practical usefulness, and I say this as someone who is using LLMs pretty regularly now.

They aren't useless, but the idea that they will be writing 90% of our code soon is just completely at odds with my day to day experience getting them to do actual specific tasks rather than telling them to "write Tetris for XYZ" and blog about how great they are because it produced something roughly what I asked for without much specificity.
These legal nuances don't seem like that. The court held that creating a traffic jam between states did not violate a civil right to travel between states (because that right does not exist). And that it wasn't fraud because it just made people's lives miserable as opposed to depriving them of something physical.

What crime do you think was committed?
I would rather have them as martyrs. Let them all be martyrs.

Better than not doing anything and allowing them to become actual leaders.
Visited Gouda in the Netherlands and learned this. Best cheese I’ve ever had.
In practice, "some applications" seems to include almost all of NumPy and Python. Good call.

Like with the Java sin() fixes: if you don't care about the results being correct why not constant-fold an arbitrary number? Way faster at run-time.
Whenever I read about LLMs or try to use them, I feel like I am asleep in a dream where two contradicting things can be true at the same time.

On one hand, you have people claiming "AI" can now do SWE tasks which take humans 30 minutes or 2 hours and the time doubles every X months so by Y year, SW development will be completely automated.

On the other hand, you have people saying exactly what you are saying. Usually that LLMs have issues even with small tasks and that repeated/prolonged use generates tech debt even if they succeed on the small tasks.

These 2 views clearly can't both be true at the same time. My experience is the second category so I'd like to chalk up the first as marketing hype but it's confusing how many people who have seemingly nothing to gain from the hype contribute to it.
If it’s anything like AWS then that makes sense. Why is the UI for all cloud providers absolutely dogshit? Has anyone written about this?
It's actually crazy that we don't have a basic typeahead component or tag selector in this day and age with HTML. Every web page I've ever built has needed these components and while there are libraries out there, they all have an annoying bug here or there.

But considering we are just now getting Select tags with styling, signals how long it might take for a typeahead which is vastly more complex.
If there were 10 pennies and 7 of them were spinning the same direction, you might say one direction appears to be favored.

Spiral galaxies spin, they do not tumble unless hit by another galaxy.

Elliptical galaxies are like gravitational convection and don't really have cohesive "rotation", however.
They're using it in the sense of "the scope of this document covers this scenario," so the answer to all of your questions are out of scope.
How Working-Class Life Is Killing Americans, in Charts (2020)
The storyline (immediately) continued and deepened in The Matrix Online and some of us did hope for a revival of The Matrix Online, given most people missed playing through that story, with a better budget and a goal to finish its planned storyline.

Matrix 4 was interesting in that it seemed to leave The Matrix Online canon (the Wachowskis seem earnest in trusting there cross-media plays in the franchise to be/remain canon) but didn't answer some of the old questions. On the other hand it did deliver a few nice things.

But yes a Warner Brothers execute hoping to boot up a Matrix branded money printer would not have had the sense to talk to anyone previously involved in The Matrix Online, despite owning Monolith (RIP), Matrix 4 was never really about continuing the story to the people demanding "we need a Matrix 4 by such and such quarter".
I think this take comes from a place of western privilege. Biden has always been extremely pro Israel, more than even the average politician here. Biden refused to recognize the ICC war criminal ruling's on Bibi and Israel and also gave them whatever weapons they wanted. It doesnt really make a difference if Trump is more rude and annoying about it, neither of them like Alive Palestinians.

I mean, the whole thing went down under the Biden Presidency. If he thought getting those votes was important he couldve shut it down, it wouldnt even be the first time a president did that. Reagan reigned them in all the way in the 80s.
We downloaded from the radio and copied with our cheap Japanese ghetto blasters[1]. It was the easiest and fastest way.

[1] We used to use the term "boombox" but I am afraid no one still knows that term, so ghetto blaster it is.
How does CPU-based inference compare to GPU-based inference, performance-wise? And aren’t these machines likely to be used for training?
i've been working on a database management tui called rainfrog (https://github.com/achristmascarl/rainfrog). it supports postgres, mysql, and sqlite, and we recently added several new features such as:
- favorites tab for frequently used queries
- exporting query results to csv
- configuring database connections in the config

feature requests and bug reports are appreciated!
I answered my own question! It's called Rogue Moon (1960) by Algis Budry, and was in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two
This has not been my experience using it with Windsurf, which touches on an interesting point: When a tool has been optimized around one model, how much is it inhibiting another (newly released) model and how much adjustment is required to take advantage of the new model? Increasingly, as tools get better, we will not directly interact with the models. I wonder how the tool makers handle this.
For RISC-OS's future, it'd make sense to invest on a RV64GC port.
Yes, I was talking specifically about the log analysis part. Yes it is a good idea and will be a useful service. Especially where we need to configure servers on cloud, it can be implemented that it can decide the packages required as well as the hardware specifications according to the use case provided. As these things are really hard to decide at the start if a person is not having any experience in configuring the hardware specs.
I remember hearing about people who were really into data broadcast over shortwave radio. They were mostly prepper types, but I'm sure there were some pirates among them.

Here's a pretty thorough article on data over radio:

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/may2015_Steber
What are the consequences for this breakage? The article says current models do not easily fit the asymmetry but does not state what parts of our understanding will break if those models are wrong.
I thought we were getting close to the limits of electrons and issues of quantum tunneling into adjacent circuits and such. Would a different material even change that?
Tech. companies left to their own devices will push technology that benefits them. People (the majority of society) have to take control over society so that we can find the proper balance: technology that makes our lives better/easier/simpler/more enjoyable and that doesn’t infringe on our attention and so on.

I’m already happy with a lot of software that I use that interfaces with the governmnet. The government wants to do less work. I want to do less work. The software ends up being less work than the prior technology was.

Why are you supposed to rely on Facebook for communicating with your local volunteer group? Why isn’t there a viable option (according to network effects)? Nothing says that we need predatory social media companies that sell people’s data in order to operate local volunteer groups. That’s absurd and and a falsehood that Bit Tech simply wants to convince people of.
Aside from cheddar (or similar), the crystals are always inside the cheese, so the appearance is nearly the same as those without the crystals.
We have come full circle #applets

Twenty years ago running java in the browser would have just been called "using the internet"
This is so true, I think a lot of the hype conveniently leaves out the fact that there are many low- or no-code solutions which are quite succesful in their niches (like complex form builders forgoverment tax forms, insurance etc).
Still can't seem to do RAG or otherwise answer questions about a specific URL. Seems kinda useless compared to even copilot or Gemini 2.5 unless I'm missing something.

I asked it to summarize this thread [0] and it just said "that thread is about the monthly "who's hiring"' on HN", not even close.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43533516
> Lastly, wondering if MS still sells Windows 98 if someone needs because of some specific reason.

They do, in fact buying Windows in a commercial setting basically entitles you to all the prior versions: https://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/9/68964284-864d-...
> basic typeahead

It isn’t perfect, but have you tried <datalist>?

Totally agree about tag pickers, I was bummed to see that Bootstrap didn’t have a tag selector component either.
Costco sells the Coastal cheddar which has a lot of this kind of crystals.
I'm talking about the actual product interface here: https://nova.amazon.com/chat

Unless I've missed it, which is totally possible, I don't see anything in the UI or the settings that lets me change to a different theme.
This is the main way I used to play Minecraft in the Beta days, thanks!
I'm at 3k LOC on a current Rust project I'm mostly vibe coding with my very limited free time. Will share when I hit 10k :)