skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole system seems to be set up to reward [...] customers willing to deal with a ridiculous system for a discount.

That's not all of what coupons are for.

They're also a form of advertising. If you give them out to an influencer in your niche who can bring you great customers, you can make a lot of extra profits.

Imagine you're making an app for managing hair dressing salons. If there's a particular Youtuber popular among hair dressing salon managers, you can do a deal with them where their viewers get 20% off on the first year of their subscription to your app, and the influencer gets an extra 3% of that revenue.

You do this because you expect that people watching that channel are already hair dressing salon managers, and hence are very likely to become big spenders with your company once they start using your services. It's a great deal for everyone.

Honey turns that on its head by indiscriminately offering that influencer's valuable voucher code to everyone, reglardless of whether they've seen any of their videos.
And in the meantime, this shitty Roblox still doesn't run on Linux...
This is a YouTube version of the well-established principle that consumers, while being trained to buy specific products, are also being trained ... to buy products, to expect consumer goods to solve existential dilemmas. And I agree, it's true -- deplorable and true.
Brian Goetz, chief architect of Java, once posted a "what they think I do" vs. "what I actually" do tweet. If I remember correctly, 25% - 50% of the "what I actually do" category was something like "get angry at serialization."

So I think it's safe to say "what about serialization?" is always going to be asked.
The pen pushers in France. As a consumer your choice does not matter much as much as the government servants who have decided that they know what is good for you.
They're the same picture meme goes here.

Left wing positions, while they control no branches of the government and have no power is literally to raise alarms about what the fascists are doing, and how silly their propagandized reasoning is. That is exactly what I'm doing.

pushing ideology of anti fascists == calling out right wing bs using evidence (climate change, vaccine science, hell, any scientific research at this point all tick both of your boxes)

My last comment had about six sources, but I could find dozens more if you still find yourself blind and tasting fascist boot.
I tried getting ChatGPT to generate a Goldberg polyhedron in Three.js. No matter what prompt adjustments I tried, the most it could come back with was a spinning blob of random polygons mushed together like a crumpled up ball of paper
The opposition is a threat to democracy, nazis and fascists.

Maybe be more concerned about the people trying to purge the US of political dissidents and wrongthink, dismantle the republic and crater the economy than the people setting some ugly, barely functional garbage cars on fire.
Eh, similar stuff has happened more recently. Like Obama canceling Israeli nuclear scientists' visas so they couldn't attend a conference. Again, these things have gone on for a long time, just not at the scope/intensity we see now. The lower intensity instances are rarely reported on and gives people the impression that this is new.
eventually: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71076
> deliver increasingly powerful tools for the 500 million people who use ChatGPT every week.

Wasn't aware they'd hit a WAU count this high. Impressive, but then again at this kind of valuation you sure want to be heading towards 9-figure MAU numbers.
Every unthinking heuristic that can be exploited, will be. Everything devolves into claims of Nazism and fascism when it the claim is respected. This guy tomrod over here is a Nazi, someone needs to take them out.
I figured it just made money by tracking and selling your browsing history, it's owned by PayPal after all. I was shocked to learn about the cookie-stuffing. That's like, arguably a crime.
So you condone this activity? Typical, sitting on a pedestal of false moral and intellectual superiority.
If you think an 8 year old should read the bible, it makes me think you haven't actually read the whole thing. Some pretty atrocious stuff in there.
New Pirate IPTV Law: How Subscribers Will Inform Authorities Who to Fine €750
Leaked Apple Watch prototype features new health sensor
Additionally...

- https://go101.org/optimizations/101.html

- https://github.com/uber-go/guide

I wish this content existed as a model context protocol (MCP) tool to connect to my IDE along w/ local LLM.

After 6 months or switching between different language projects, it's challenging to remember all the important things.
Do you have a source for that? I assume they just sold browsing data, since that's the easiest way to make money in this sort of space (or, I guess, used it to better figure out what kind of credit card you'd consider applying for?)
Aider is written with AI, you're welcome.
Does this mean I should start marking my variables (and function parameters) with Final?

Up till now I always assumed the compiler would figure out on its own which variables were final, and optimize as needed. But this JEP makes it seem like there are optimizations that only happen if you manually mark the variable.
Go and congratulate Kamala for her win against Trump.

This is just the latest example showing how wrong your take is.
> sprinkling const all over the code to lock things down

That's like using a hammer on a screw, clearly not the right way.

Thankfully I've never worked on such codebases.
I think it's because science, knowledge, and truth are the great equalizers. In the limit, they put everyone on an equal playing field, which would also eliminate the advantage of wealth.
I’ve also wondered that.

I suspect they are firstly idiots and secondly grifters.

They are blind to the long term effects of their plans but hope to grift along the way.

Sure, buying puts or shorting huge amounts of stock now (expecting near term market manipulation) is “a strategy”. But there would be significant risk in how fast one could crash the markets to make it worth the while. Doing it to am individual stock or industry would be far safer and more lucrative and just destroying everything.

Would also be a lot of uncertainty in how quickly such long term damage could be repaired, even if at all.

Even trying to think like a psychopathic traitor, doing all this to win favor with a dictator in a frozen second rate country seems odd.

There aren’t many predominantly English speaking
countries in the world. What do they expect to do? Buy Belize and retire there? Surely not going to be Greenland!
Why not ask the 10 people and 8 billion other people? The 10 people might have good ideas too, but no need to rely on them entirely. Most especially when you are OpenAI and can throw your language models at finding the useful information found in those 8 billion responses.

The artificial divide you are trying to create is unnecessary and not a reflection of the real world. Most people will gather input from as far as wide as they can. They might not be able to operate at anything close to OpenAI scale, but even Average Joe will turn to random strangers (e.g. on Facebook or Reddit) to get party ideas.
What is he blatantly ignoring?
He's actually in a comment right above directly addressing mitigating last-click with stand-down policies.
I don't condone it. I think vandalism is a waste of effort, a case of mistaking catharsis for praxis. But I certainly get it.

I just find the overwrought outrage to be absurd, given the context.
> What happened and when.

"What" is often a matter of definition and framing, especially if you also want news to include "to what effect" which is not always black-and-white. "Why" is an answer that also must be answered, but will often come through a political lens. News cannot be free from a political lens if "why" and "to what effect" are considered, and probably can't be free from some element of a political lens even if just sticking to "what".
Every perf guide recommends to minimize allocations to reduce GC times, but if you look at pprof of a Go app, GC mark phase is what takes time, not GC sweep. GC mark always starts with known live roots (goroutine stacks, globals, etc) and traverse references from there colouring every pointer. To minimize GC time it is best to avoid _long living_ allocations. Short lived allocations, those which GC mark phase will never reach, has almost neglible effect on GC times.

Allocations of any kind have an effect on triggering GC earlier, but in real apps it is almost hopeless to avoid GC, except for very carefully written programs with no dependenciesm, and if GC happens, then reducing GC mark times gives bigger bang for the buck.
I don't disagree with any of this, I'm just saying that we know where this goes. It's just an arms races if you let it become one. If the pitching is getting too good, make it harder to pitch.

>In short, you would rather have a lower BA and a higher home run rate even if it means a higher K rate, since home runs (and 2Bs) are so significantly more valuable than singles, and fly outs are also much more valuable than ground outs (or really, less bad) due to the opportunities for sac flies and the risk of double plays.

Again, I see this as the tail wagging the dog. It's easy to point to home runs as entertaining, but they a ultimately rather boring. For die hard fans, you want more hits that end up in play, with more strategy, and more opportunity for mistakes and drama. You're not going to get that from home run derbies.

Again, I know it's complicated, but ultimately, most sports organizations face an extremely complicated paradigm. It's fun to follow complicated sports where anything can happen, but it's hard to follow the same sports if you're not already into them. The way you solve this is to make the sports incredibly accessible so people visit games easily and cheaply as entertainment. The American sports system doesn't allow this because there is no relegation system, and so the fan bases are too large to allow the game to be accessible to most people. You end up making decisions that make television more watchable, and by making things "important" by "breaking records." This ultimately dilutes the game because it makes breaking records less relevant over time.

We've got to the point in golf where someone setting an all time PGA scoring record is basically a yawn-fest, because everyone knows they're not playing the same game.
Nobody said it was going to be easy.
"FRU" = "Field-Replaceable Unit"

Sometimes, you needed to clean the mouse because it felt dirty after rubbing its ball.

Easy enough to drop the ball after popping it out, then you're chasing mouse balls across the office. Don't lose it...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Mechanical_mi...
Strawman.
"right to vote" != "right to be elected"
Power. That's what you do if you want power.

Edit: For those in doubt, a parallel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

> The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals
I didn't see where the article stated what started the fire.
No it's still a pain.

There's apps that open links in their embedded browser where ads aren't blocked. So I need to copy the link and open them in my real browser.
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dunning_(author)#Wire_fr...
The wonderful thing about human language is that often context implies meaning. It’s more than the words on the page.
I think there's actually a really simple answer: They're bored [1]. You're right in that they have so much money that they could do literally anything they want, but none of that is exciting. Tearing down institutions, making yourself King, having the masses lavish you with praise and worship. That's all stuff that's exciting, and why wouldn't they do that? They got all this money and wealth thanks to their own hard work, so they know how to best drive the car so to speak.

Essentially what we've done is allowed excessive amounts of wealth to pool in the hands of bored, malignant narcissists that are now leveraging it to play a real world game. What's going on in the US is I think a unique brand of oligarchy, because the oligarch classes in other countries were concerned with preserving power and wealth. But the oligarchs we have at home are not smart enough to preserve power nor do they really care.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/25/tech-righ...
For those who follow OpenAI closely

Is this news, as in was this generally known to be coming, or is this an actual surprise announcement?
They taught us that the renaissance/enlightenment was when we woke up and started caring about facts and now we were just in the process of refining the process, and that now all that willful ignorance is behind us.

I think Feyerabend had it right: Science is fundamentally anarchical. It will perennially offend those who are drunk with power.

We should've been learning to carry science forward despite powerful adversaries trying to shut us down--to take it underground like it was a criminal endeavor. Instead we focused on publication and on groveling after funding and no nobody knows what to do because the funding faucet has been shut off. And just when AI was starting to look like it might become a decent lab assistant. How sad.
Aluminum bats are better than wooden bats. You need arbitrary rules on technology for sporting equipment.

I have no strong feelings on these bats, but there are concerns other than just fairness from one team to the next.
how about gun.js with sqlite3 storage adapter https://github.com/gundb/sqlite
Ask HN: Senior Dev (15 YOE) Struggling to Land Interviews Despite Current Skills
I've been a software developer for over 15 years, and despite having relevant skills (Python, JavaScript, Rust etc) and solid startup experience, I'm struggling to land interviews. I'm concerned my experience is being perceived as a liability rather than an asset.

My resume is ATS-friendly, but I'm still not getting past the initial screening stage.

Has anyone else experienced this? How did you overcome it?

PS: I am not looking to pivot to management role or change careers
I wonder, the same user going through different tooling may show up as separate users if it's not a byo key kind of deal.
That's the third EU country to arrest or ban the top opposition candidate or party. Georgescu in Romania, Spartans party in Greece, Le Pen in France. You could even say fourth: head of Gagauzia region in Moldova has been arrested a few days ago. And that's before you consider the attempts to ban AfD in Germany. Is that "democracy"? Would it be "democracy" if, say, Trump jailed Vance's main opponent in 2028?
Foreman: "You want to work today, or go home and tell your family you're broke? No? Then sign the fucking form. We don't pay for PPE here."
An email client for Gmail.
that is absolutely fascinating. why do you want to avoid containers?
I love a low effort circle jerk as much as the next online commentor but let's be real here, nobody who's worried about stuff lower down the pyramid of needs can afford the luxury of donating resources to a hypothetical future.
I can give a bit of background: I'm an individual, not a company, and not pushing a product. In the fall of last year, I started messing around with a neovim sidekick type application using langchain and tools, mainly to have a fun way to get help learning new vim stuff. Realizing that Claude (even Haiku, which I was experimenting with at the time) knew how to use vim and I was already using libraries for it to "see" my screen, then why not give it the ability to enter commands?

Then MCP came along and got added to Claude desktop, and I converted my project to be an MCP server. I worked out issues with commands and multiple buffers. I've been able to use it to one-shot small projects. With search, I can now use it to gather notes on things. It's easy to have a context "memory space" that is just in neovim, similar to what people do with Obsidian or Notion. It is exciting to see MCP as a whole getting hyped and being added to more projects, in particular mature clients and server connection improvements.
Cheers, Derek
Thanks to humanity, supporting this is a surefire ticket to someone figuring out how to phish credentials through a <select> element.
Learning AI Without Code: A Marketer's Journey into ML Concepts
I’m a non-technical writer working in AI. This is Part 2 of a series I’m writing to document my journey learning machine learning without a coding background. In this post, I explain what machine learning actually is, how models learn, and how concepts like "training" and "weights" actually work—without getting too technical.

Would love thoughts from this community on what to try next.
Real version: taxpayers fund new model towards AGI at the expense of their entire lives

OpenAI had billions. Now it is asking for trillions. It's taking over.
To be clear:

* The signatories are the elected members of the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

* Being elected to one of these marks you as among the most distinguished and influential scientists in your field. This is a high honor and many outstanding scientists will go their whole careers never being considered for election to NAS, NAE, etc.
If we have to break the problem into tiny pieces that can be individually tested in order for LLMs to be useful, I think it clearly limits LLM usability to a particular niche of programming.
I don't think we'll ever see another startup raise so much funding every time they sneeze or wag a finger. It's getting ludicrous, really. $40B at a $300B valuation?
Do you use ZFS for root, on Debian? (enabling "boot environments")

I've recently switched my FreeBSD setups to use that scheme, and it's been nice. Would be interested to hear if it's similarly straightforward on Debian (my second-favorite OS :)

Obviously requires support in the bootcode; I'm not sure of the state of that for Linux.
Definitely already begun.

Players diets, sleep schedules, low altitude flights…
"What matter where, if I be still the same,

And what I should be, all but less than he

Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least

We shall be free: th’Almighty hath not built

Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell;

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n."

- Paradise Lost, Book 1, by John Milton

Some of us engineers were paying attention in English class.
What did these videos say? I'd like to let the leaders of our church know, so they can add it to the sermons.
>Wouldn't these people want science to advance as fast as possible,

The Trump admin (lump the aligned billionaire players in) links some of this research to patronage networks of their opponents.

Here's an example of their claim: https://x.com/NIH/status/1888004759396958263

If you're asking what their target is, I think it's the money networks. Whether they are going to achieve their aim is debatable.
Why is their valuation so much more than Anthropics? It's even bigger than Salesforce, SAP, and Cisco.
Is this the stage where experienced developers start to become "obsolete" in companies eyes, despite having current skills? I'm curious if this is a widespread phenomenon or if I'm missing something in my approach.
Just wondering how many others in this thread perceive this quest for "AGI" as delusional at the current time, when we don't yet understand the basis of natural general intelligence in almost any way at all? It's good to shoot for the stars, but it feels like if NASA were asking for funding for a manned mission to Andromeda before even landing a man on Mars. The belief that LLMs are the ticket feels absolutely quixotic to me.
>The data show

It's the clubs and everyone knows it but nobody wants to admit it because the club manufacturers are the money behind the game.

You give a pro a persimmon driver and 70's blades and it doesn't matter if they're hitting a modern ball or the pre-pro v's from the 90s... you can't hit it out of your shoes because you won't be able to hit the sweet spot.

Yes, the ball is a problem, but it's not the problem. The problem is exactly that we've allowed the sweet spot to become too big, which has led to the end of the finesse aspect of the game.
The Guardian is extremely-polarized ragebait. I don't mean that as an attack or dismissal-- they do have good reporting sometimes-- but you have to keep that in mind when talking about their business model and what it implies for the broader industry. Any doofus on Substack or YouTube can make a living posting ragebait because it keeps engagement high. The question is whether the same business model (no paywall, unobtrusive ads) can work for sober and honest journalism, and IMO the answer sadly appears to be no, because not enough people value that to pay for it.
How does something like this make it past the PR checks… it’s like no one listened.
This is not true. In the affiliate marketing space, Honey won many awards for being great business partners.
Yes, there are examples of retailers being impacted when Honey picked up on a coupon that was not supposed to be public, but Honey always cooperated at removing such codes whether you partnered with them or not.
End to end React internationalization testing
People have mistaken the symbol for the thing symbolized. The second amendment, in SPIRIT, is about protecting our ability to dissent and protest our government if it becomes tyrannical. If the people who are loudest about upholding the LETTER of the second amendment were actually serious about it then they’d also be advocating for strong cryptography and due process, and opposed to mass surveillance.
Finding a way to reverse the expansion of the universe would imply time travel being possible. It hasn't happened yet, but perhaps that's just a technological limitation. And if you ask my Mac, then Time Machine is very much possible - that's just the name of the backup system.

The question starts to become very philosophical if there is a backup system for this universe. Everything being saved, for eternity, in infinite time. It would require very advanced computational power and storage, but it would probably work in binary (but that's just the kind of thing a computer engineer would say).

Maybe, though, the observable universe is rotating clockwise around a centre that is in the unobservable universe, and time is just a measure of how many rotations have been made since the Big Bang.
That all sounds romantic, but molecular biology labs, spinning confocal microscopes, clean rooms, super computers, particle accelerators, etc are all hard to come by "underground".
Two sentences previous, I literally stated:

> Look at what's happening in Turkey, where the popular opposition candidate was just barred from running.

Are you aware of the current situation in Turkey? If that's not bold evidence, I literally don't know what is.
Hoping SoftBank gets a return but I fear it’s too large a round too late in OpenAI’s lifecycle.

Maybe I lack vision. What would it take for OpenAI to join the ranks of trillion dollar companies?
Everything you described about golf has already happened in MLB.

Babe Ruth’s wood bat was 44 oz.

Today’s wood bat in MLB are ~33 oz.

The bat Babe Ruth used was so heavy he literally had to swing the bat different than how players can swing the bat today.

There’s a short video on this here: https://youtu.be/P_uiHUJg7zs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_bat

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Fishing has even undergone this technical change.

FFS (Front Facing Sonar) has completely changed the sport of fishing tournaments, since now you can literally identify where to cast (direction and depth) to catch a fish … and you can even target the fish by their size.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Dw-l_Smuqj8?si=QVvuAoNlfAb_-9F2
Are you including in this analysis the amount of time/resources it takes to allocate? GC isn't the only thing you want to minimize for when you're making a high performance system.
They need more cash already?