skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this has been ideated as win-win: if they cave in to demands, US foreign policy is seen to have influence worldwide. If they don't cave, it's net money savings.

What they forget is the longterm: France will maintain independence, will fund research from from state funds, will attract science fleeing US regressive policies, will build IPR longterm.

I think it's likely however, no amount of "adverse" outcome will cause a reversal because the current administration is both anti-science and anti-internationalist.

It will be interesting to see if French adademic and research institutions drop into line.
>> He literally commands the most powerful military apparatus the world has ever seen.

> That’s also disputable

Why? Which military has ever existed that would have a chance against the current US military?
I'll give it a try.

The beauty of the nullable approach is that when you're testing the system under test (SUT), you're testing it together with its dependencies. Not just that - you're running the real production code of the dependencies (including transitive dependencies!), just with a off switch toggled.

What the off switch does is really just prevent side effects, like making actual HTTP requests to the outside world or reading bytes from the file system. Using embedded stub makes this a breeze (another revelation for me).

For example, while building the "/v1/add-account" endpoint, you write a test for the request handler function. If you write this test using Shore's approach, you'll exercise the whole tree of dependencies, down to the leaves.

This is what is meant by sociable tests - the SUT isn't isolated from its dependencies. It's the real code all the way down, except that you're calling createNull() instead of create() to instantiate the classes. There are many benefits here, but to me the most important ones are: (1) you don't need to write mocks as separate classes, (2) you can catch errors that arise in the interplay of the various classes or modules and (3) as a result you get a lot more confidence that everything is still working after refactoring.

A sociable microtest is a little like an integration test, but you don't exercise any out-of-process dependencies (perhaps with the exception of the RDBMS) so the tests run in milliseconds rather than seconds.

You commented elsewhere that you're worried about the separation of test code and prod code. Yes, this is a bit of a holy cow that I also had trouble adapting to. It turns out, having test-focused code mixed in with your prod classes is totally fine. I'd perhaps prefer a cleaner separation but honestly it's not a big issue in practice.
I'm not qualified to say anything about this stuff, but I get the impression this is just a tradeoff:

- Collect bits from many "points" in space, but a single "point" in time

- Collect bits from a single "point" in space, but many "points" in time

In either case, you are not eliminating the possibility that your "random" bits are subject to external influence, you're just moving it into some different domain.
The thing is, Microsoft does make good software: Excel, Visual Studio, VSCode, Xbox.

I don't believe the problem is the engineers, the leadership of Windows fails to understand what the OS is meant for: getting out of the way so you can access the apps.
It's interesting to see how some of the most popular blogs in https://refactoringenglish.com/tools/hn-popularity do the opposite of what's being suggested here.

Still, for most people who are still finding their style and (for some reason) are optimizing for popularity, this seems like sound advice.
What do you mean by pushes events and pulling activities? Where exactly does that take place during a durable execution? I used Temporal and I know what Temporal Activities are, but the pushing and pulling confuses me.
Kind of agree with what you are saying, though what I am thinking is "Does it even make sense for companies to spend $20/emp/mo for CRUD based softwares" ?

Would you continue paying for products like ERP, HRMS, ITSM, Jira etc etc ?
I am much better at navigating my home town than San Francisco precisely because I moved to SF by the time of Google Maps.

I caught myself at some point feeling like that was happening when going over my own codebase. I stopped being aggressive on AI usage for important stuff, and relegated for side stuff that I just want to get started.
> They are envious of the Google and Apple walled gardens/cashcows and are now determined to turn Windows into one.

Which is perplexing, because this is essentially the opposite strategy than what gave windows value to begin with.
Christians were much more powerful than Hindus though. And the links with the Middle East has given the Muslims a lot of leverage as well. It's likely that with current birth rate trends over the past ten years since the census was taken, that the Hindus have been overtaken by the rest to form a minority too; the NFI stated in 2017 that Hindus would be a minority by 2025.
How to report a security issue in an open source project
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So he just sold himself a company he already owns for a valuation that he himself assigned to that company but that was less than what he paid for it, and he paid entirely using “money” that has a made up value and which he issues himself?

And that is for sure either illegal or immoral. /s
I can’t believe people didn’t stay on Windows 7. It seems to have slid into some always-online ad-filled cloud hellhole since. Office365 is worse than Office 2000. This is the OEM strategy still at play. You gotta hand it to Bill Gates for capturing PCs for decades. People truly don’t care how poor their operating system behaves, because your only other option is to buy a Mac.
He didn't pay them to vote. He paid them for signing a pledge. He had no way to determine who they voted for.
I don't think he's going to be able to spin up hype on anything after this. He's burned a lot of bridges.
I have thought that Warhol was making a point about how secular society creates and worships icons.

Religious icons are generally more Eastern than Western. I believe Warhol went to an Eastern Catholic church.

It's not possible for someone not to worship something, the only freedom we have is what we choose to worship. His soup cans show us that we can worship or idolize anything.

To make that last paragraph a bit easier to follow, substitute "worship" with give attention to. We give our devoted attention to many things. We are also mostly negatively manipulated about attention. i.e. "the attention economy"
Yes, I think it's fair to say that nullables are a form of test doubles. But the approach is meaningfully different from other approaches as it avoids the problems that you get from using mocks in the narrow sense of the word: you're only testing against the behavior of the mocks (not the real code) and you need to keep updating the mocks as the system changes, which adds maintenance cost.
I guess overcoming that dogma is exactly the tradeoff.
Trump's attacks on universities get darker, with shadows reaching our shores
Intel I350-T4. Make sure it’s a genuine one.
Compared to having to choose between being murdered, enslaving or moving to Oklahoma (slightly different periods I know..) that's not necessarily that awful.

e.g there were thousands and thousands of Native American refugees fleeing to Spanish Florida from the Carolinas after the British got there. When Florida was captured some were lucky enough to be evacuated to Cuba and other Spanish colonies (in the few ships they were willing and able to send). The rest? Well...
Similarly, I'd like one from outside both american/european AND chinese influence. I think you'd be absolutely insane to trust either of them.

Honestly, if we're ever going to have a decent open hardware movement, I think it's going to come from a place like Nigeria or Peru, not a wealthy country.
At the same time, also check out: How serious is Kerala’s drug crisis? (Data Point) - https://youtu.be/CLkRAmkgEM4

Kerala is in the grip of a rapidly growing drug crisis. The state’s High Court issued a stark warning about the ‘poisonous fangs of the drug mafia’. And the State Assembly even paused regular business to debate the issue.

Kerala now leads the country in drug-related cases, far ahead of states like Punjab and Maharashtra. The numbers are also far too high to be explained by good policing alone.
It depends, I run gpt-4o - powered instagram comment automation.
We analyze reels with AI (text + image recognition), decide where to comment, and optimize replies based on top-performing engagement patterns.
AI basically allowed me to remove hundreds of people from my agency.
I wouldn't call the bitmex guys scammers. They were found guilty of not implementing proper anti money laundering regulations but didn't really steal money I think. They also invented perpetual futures which have been a very successful financial instrument. They were only sentenced to six months house arrest for Hayes and probation only for Delo, all served a while ago.

SBF on the other hand did bad stuff and has only served one year out of a 25 year sentence and I'd be a little surprised if he's out in a hurry.
Agreed, the API's are must have and agents can perform actions on our behalf.
Fans learn they can't trust AI translations
Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk[0]

University of Alabama doctoral student Alireza Doroudi[1]

[0]: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/03/28/ice-kidnap...

[1]: https://newrepublic.com/post/193253/ice-iranian-internationa...
Windows 12 Enterprise would have the option, Windows 13 Enterpise would remove the option but allow for a signed "legacy" sandbox. Windows 14 Enterprise would have no option.

They can play the long game.
The advent of nuclear weapons arguably negated Congress's power to withhold approval for war. Garry Wills writes about this in his book Bomb Power.
If you don't believe he'll find a way to get a third term like every other dictator, you're living in a fantasy.
I am looking forward for "qualcommax: ipq60xx: add GL.iNet GL-AX1800/AXT1800 support"[1] to be included in the release.

[1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/14950
It's just a feeling, not a dogma. I'll happily throw it away. But why?
There are builds of win11 like Ghost Spectre that strip a lot of this crap out.
It's completely reasonable to think and plan ahead, especially when we are dealing with someone who is refusing to acknowledged a democratic loss. This is not theoretical, we know how he reacts when he looses a election.
Yeah, no thanks, I'll stick with Django (my bread and butter for over 15 years now!).
The distorted reality of startup success stories
Nice. I’m all in on ai automation too - but for instagram.
- ai analyzes reels (text + image recognition)
- finds top engagement spots
- auto-comments with optimized replies

No humans, just ai outreaching to real people organically.
Curious - are your chatbots considering previous conversations?
You'd basically be building an index into each node.

There's some fast databases that store prefix trees, which might be suitable for such a task actually (something like infinitydb). But building this database will basically take a while (it will require parsing the entire document). But i suppose if reading/querying is going to happen many times, its worth it?
The irony is that Vegas takes a dim view of those that take advantage of their gaming venues. The institutions that run it are quite aggressive when it comes to being attacked.

Anyways, security conferences such as BSides run all over the world in various cities where red teaming type activities is embraced. IMO it'd be nice to diversify from Vegas, preferably places with more scenery/greenery like Boulder or something.
Pointing out disinformation is a valuable thing to do, and well in the spirit of hacker news.
It may be valued 80B, it sure as hell isn't worth it. The AI is nothing special and has tons of competitors. The damaged Twitter brand isn't worth that much either.
Biggest emo snowflakes in the damn world and half of America is convinced they're worth supporting.
No Great Shakes
Oh that's surprising! Why do you consider VyOS to be less "hot garbage" than the others? That's a hell of a take!
C# is god software, too.

Yeah, Microsoft is a big place.

I heard the Acquired podcast episode on Microsoft, and I can’t pretend that their business strategies failed; they didn’t, and arguably it is the most successful company in history. I have a lot of respect for the business side.

And the things that rub me the wrong way are part of their success, e.g. embedding WWW into the OS early on.

The main reason I can’t work for them is their Vogon aesthetics. They’re like a square pair of shoes: not meant for you.
Lots of grifters are jizzing at the amount of grift to be done.

People like trump get powerful because they're corrupt. Corrupt people prop them up.
I think we'll start to see more $5/month for a SaaS because it costs a lot less to create one. We're going to have more micro SaaS that meets the needs of the niche.

I think the $20 ones will have their place for businesses and enterprises.
This is from 2018, anyone in the field know if it's still state of the art or a historic curiosity? I know that we've started using euv since then which seems like it would change things.
If you’re not interested in an actual discussion just be upfront about it and save both ourselves the time.

I didn’t make the claim, so asking what backs up that claim is called “discussion”.

If you’re more interested in shouting people down, then maybe HN isn’t for you.
A look at /e/OS on tablet hardware
By the same logic, why bother with capital letters then?
Interesting
Automating such tasks like negotiations and bookings makes so much sense - feels like we’re inching closer to true AI agents that handle life for us.

I’ve been experimenting with something similar, but for social media growth. Instead of handling calls, we analyze Instagram reels with AI (text + image recognition) to engage with the right content automatically. It’s been surprisingly effective as a guerrilla marketing strategy.

How do you handle edge cases where human intuition is usually needed?
Negotiations can get tricky.
"Receive messages on Signal via a simple API. Perfect for notifications and alerts." is not "how it works" but "how you use it".

This is "hacker news". A hacker is typically interested in how something works (under the hood).

If a hacker asks "how does this mobile phone work?" then they are not looking for "well here you press a button and then here you speak" but something about radio waves and cell towers and mobile operating systems.

> > Who is behind this

> SignalBot − built by gwillem © 2025

When I looked, this information wasn't there. Only the "buy me a coffee" link. Now it is, thanks.
Because even if Tesla/X are tending towards zero, the market will stay irrational longer than you can afford it. The horde of Musk idiot fans grows every day.
On one hand, Pichai paid 2.7bn to get 1 guy back. On the other hand, Pichai laid off 200 Core devs and "relocated roles" to India and Mexico [1]. The duality of Pichai-style management.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/google-cuts-hundreds-of-core...
Scammers Steal $1T a Year – Mostly from Americans
It was a fair bit more than that. From the left-leaning guardian

> The most worrying issue the Twitter Files have exposed is the level of contact between the social media company and state security organisations. The FBI regularly holds meetings with Twitter executives, pressuring them to take action against “misinformation”, even when this amounted to little more than a satirical tweet, and demanding the personal data of users.

Take note of the "pressuring", in line with what was reported by Zuck.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/the-tw...
From my industry PTP is used for video and audio sync down to single sample accuracy for audio.

See AES67/SMPTE ST 2110/IPMX.
> What bothers me about this book and other books that are prescriptive about application architecture is that it pushes people towards baking in all the complexity right at the start, regardless of requirements, instead of adding complexity in response to real demands.

The trouble is if you strictly wait until it's time then basically everything requires some level of refactoring before you can implement it.

The dream is that new features is just new code, rather than refactoring and modifying existing code. Many people are already used to this idea. If you add a new "view" in a web app, you don't have to touch any other view, nor do you have to touch the URL routing logic. I just think more people are comfortable depending on frameworks for this kind of stuff rather than implementing it themselves.

The trouble is a framework can't know about your business. If you need pluggable validation layers or something you might have to implement it yourself.

The downside, of course, is we're not always great at seeing ahead of time where the application will need to be flexible and grow. So you could build this into everything, leading to unnecessarily complicated code, or nothing, leading to constant refactors which will get worse and worse as the codebase grows.

Your approach can work if developers actually spot what's happening early and actually do what's necessary when it actually is. Unfortunately in my experience people follow by example and the frog can boil for a long time before people start to realise that their time is spent mostly doing large refactors because the code just doesn't support the kind of flexibility and extensibility they need.
>- Find successful open source project - Fork with "reasons"

To be fair, Vercel did not 'find&fork' Next.JS, they are the authors of the framework.
I'm pretty weary of all the people telling me I'm "holding it wrong"
In that case , there are a dozen or other products, and you will switch to one of them. Could be done quickly.

The issue, what happens if Tailscale is compromised?
It’s not very hard to register an alternative email account somewhere.
Wow, would be useful for my previous project.
I used to automate tiktok video upload in bulk, resulting a large portion of uploaded videos get a lot of views randomly, never had any luck with my product financially unfortunately.
I wander what's the price for bulk manufacturing? I was under the impression that it wasn't financially viable.

BTW I'm working on a similar thing with a custom android for instagram automatization.
Basically we provide agency service but it’s AI instead of people.
We analyze reels with AI (text + image recognition), that's how we deside if it's the right content to comment on.
We analyze top performing comments and replay or/and comment considering this with a CTA at the end.
Strategy shows a pretty significant result
Isn’t that the point of Pluton?

(1) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...
Except that on Home edition it detects everything as a virus, so all programs have an explanation that if Defender detects it as a virus, then just ignore it.
I was confused by the legends between the first and second image?
Both have p=2 and p=4 yet look different, I believe that this is wrong, as the sentence before the second image states "increasing p". Hope I'm not missing something
Yes. Probably that was wash trading to provide a fake valuation to justify the merger price.
Part of testing is risk management. With mocks you run the risk of the behaviour of your mocks being out of sync with the actual systems you’re mocking. By moving the test-time behaviour closer to the runtime behaviour, you reduce that risk somewhat. If you have other ways of managing that risk or you just never see that happening, you’re good.
>Internet attention spans are short.

This! But how to overcome it? Some times to better convey the idea you have to write a lot.

Split the article in parts? Only provide a very high level overview?

And how long can be a blog post or article until people start to get bored and leave?
And the really ironic thing is that RFK’s general message of “this is a toxin” is aligned quite closely to the comments you see on HN about PFTE’s, air pollution, food additives, etc.

Then suddenly the other team brings up the same thing and the same people shout them down.
I guess it depends on who you are giving a demo to and what kind of demo etc.

In tech circles, you would probably make a pretty big impression, if you pulled out an old laptop running MS-DOS (and still did an impressive demo).
I have lots of windows (mainly music) software that I need, let alone outright purchased, and isn't available on Linux.
What you call empty, many would call spacious.
Not everywhere has to be crowded.
The point of a platform is for software engineers to provide key functionality independently. Your issue here is you don't understand why CUDA has been so dominant over the last decade - a ~50% software performance gap isn't that material when hardware capacity doubles every generation. If we've reached the point where J. Random Blogger can solve their own problems then the CUDA moat has quite possibly been broken.

If AMD was only 1 hardware generation behind Nvidia they'd be pretty competitive. People are happy using CPUs with a gap of several generations from the cutting edge. And it isn't even that bad because anyone who particularly cares can optimise their software and avoid using rocBLAS.
Fortunately, the AI slop is getting better by the week.
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So, if someone likes Musk, he must be an idiot, while if he hates him, we can be sure that someone is not an idiot.

On what do you base your assertions?
haha, i'm doing a somewhat similar thing. ai for ads is exploding right now, eh?
I'm working on instagram automation.
Basically we provide agency service but it’s AI instead of people.
We analyze reels with AI (text + image recognition), that's how we deside if it's the right content to comment on.
We analyze top performing comments and replay or/and comment considering this with a CTA at the end.
Strategy shows a pretty significant result
Yeah, but Photopea has a monthly cost and this post is about avoiding that. I love pwa, but I need image editing maybe once a month, I'm not going to pay a subscription for that
More and more mainstream people finding out that ai gen is unreliable and simply not suited to domains requiring accuracy - perhaps the bubble can burst now?
Apropos, running Steam on my Archlinux Desktop with Windows compatibility turned on works really, really well. Much better than what I remembered from the bad old days of trying to get stuff running in Wine.
It's interesting in conjunction with the SEC/DOGE move.

For ever, companies wanted to cook their own profitability metrics - see the famous (pre-Musk) Twitter revenue per click or something, or adjusted by size of community.

Public company disclosure rules, however, dictate fairly strictly what is and isn't revenue, profit, capital and so on. Right now, you can publish any wacky statistics you like, so long as you also provide the GAAP ones - "generally accepted accounting practice".

But who knows, perhaps DOGE in SEC relaxes that, giving companies more scope to hide bits of their business they don't like.
Some do, I guess.

https://github.com/i486girl/win7-sp2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43445103
It may boost GDP, but does that improve the life of the Moms and Pops who are now stacking shelves at the hypermarkets?
Shorting stock is difficult anyway ("markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"), and doubly so when you're betting against the co-president in a corrupt state.
Hey it's nice to see a very successful business in Belgium in this space!

I work at the university and we build acquisition systems with exotic cameras and screens, do you think we could meet one time to discuss possible (commercial and research) projects ?