skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond the Hype: A Pragmatic Assessment of Blockchain's Business Value
Good god, this is the kind of shit that gets funded by Y Combinator? I had to double check that that page wasn't some kind of joke.
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> Typing <word><space><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><space><word><space> yields an en dash.

More importantly, typing just a single hyphen minus in this constellation triggers the autoreplace, too. (Typing the double hyphen is only necessary without spaces in order to distinguish between an intentional hyphen and an em dash.)
I don't know why you think I condone their actions. I was explaining the reality of politicians and mobile communication. I just wanted to say that I know this happens everywhere and comment on the sorry state of government mobile security.
Same way as when they bombed water sanitation and other vital civilian infrastructure or weddings.

"Yeee-haw america fuck yeah"

Maybe it is finally dawning on the murricans themselves that they really are the assholes the rest of the world think of them as
The sadder is part is that that reality is a ticking time bomb. It will work until people are so pissed off that the pitchforks come out.
Steam Market that is basically an nft store has been going for 10+ years
Wow, thank you to share this website. It is so cool. I never saw it before. New Wiki rabbit hole to explore!
Looks like it's again time for ThinkPad Linux user PSA:

echo 255 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/sensitivity
That's awesome thanks. Would be great if it also show'd what the average residential customer was paying as well as the average industrial users cost per kWh so we could get an idea of the cost of manufacturing as far as electricity input goes.
Dogfooding is a thing right? Right?!

Working for two companies I see how in the small one people manually test their changes, try to break them, even having in-code tests. At the big corpo - noone cares. Tests are green? Release to prod, close ticket and take another. Clients complain? There are 5-6 layers of people before such complain can come back to the team.

I wouldn't agree with "less glitchy" than Windows. Currently Win10 is the best one if it comes to stability, but Microsoft is already killing support for it. Windows 11 have problems even with typing into Start Menu search - basic functionality. Randomly takes input or not. So I think we are lowering the bar and the market agrees how low it should go.
> In an era when people still paid money for operating system upgrades every few years (anyone else remember standing in line for Windows 95?)

No, and I would have been too young to purchase it.

But I'd be surprised at the idea of massive demand for an upgrade to Windows 95. What we did was buy a new computer that had Windows 95 on it. Computers used to go out of date very quickly.

We kept our older computer that ran DOS. (It had Windows 3.1 installed, but the only reason you'd start that was if you wanted to play Solitaire.) It continued to run DOS just fine.
I think there is a lot of denial going around right now.

The present path of IA is nothing short of revolutionary, a lot of jobs and industries are going to suffer a major upheaval and a lot of people are just living in some wishful thinking moment where it will all go away.

I see people complaining it gives them bad results. Sure it does, so all other parsed information we get. It’s our job to check it ourselves. Still , the amount of time it saves me, even if I have to correct it is huge.

A can give an example that has nothing to do with work. I was searching for the smallest miniATX computer cases that would accept at least 3 HDDs (3.5”). The amount of time LLMs saved me is staggering.

Sure, there was one wrong result in the mix, and sure, I had to double check all the cases myself, but, just not having to go through dozens of cases, find the dimensions, calculate the volume, check the HDDs in difficult to read (and sometimes obtain) pages, saved days of work - yes I had done a similar search completely manually about 5 years ago.

This is a personal example, I also have others at work.

It’s truly revolutionary and it’s just starting.
wow I love this. jumping into something you know nothing about and doing it just because you can. I have only the most tangential experience with PS2 development but I remember it being very quirky even with the Linux environment. Nice job!
Yes. I remember it strongly hitting me back then, but rewatching added even more punch. I still agree with the philosophy, but this time I was also wistful for when I could say Apple agreed with it, too.
Show HN: Track Your Flights and Compete on Global Leaderboard for Free
Hi Guys,

Over the past few years I've been collecting my boarding passes a way to think back to the places I've been and the flights I've been on.

I know there are a lot of travel geeks like myself out there so I want to create simple repository for your flight and travel history. And I thought why not have a leaderboard so show how many miles people have flown and how many cities they been too.

The website is completely free. All you have to do is login and upload an image of your boarding pass and we handle the rest.

If you don't want to be on the leaderboard there is an opt out option.

I'd love for you guys to check it out.
Thanks a lot! Appreciate your support, you can leave me a comment on the git repo or here works too, looking forward to your feedback!
That's why I said random pauses.

RAII can also cause pauses when freeing large object graphs. It's not unique to RC. However in practice it's usually much less of an issue than GC pauses. It's only been an issue for me once in my entire career.
> I've even caught it literally writing the wrong algorithm when asked to implement a specific and well known algorithm

Happened to me as well. Wanted it to quickly write an algorithm for standard deviation over a stream of data, which is a text-book algorithm. It did it almost right, but messed up the final formula and the code gave wrong answers. Weird, considering some correct codes exist for that problem in Wikipedia.
My point is that pervasive usage for casual "did you finish writing that legislative memo" probably isn't the same as pervasive usage for "bomber inbound to high-value target ETA X minutes."
> 6 (a tiny minority)

I don't think that's true. Perhaps by number of PCBs made 2 and 4 layers dominate: all those IoT doohickeys and alarm clock displays. And even single layer phenolic boards. And for most hobbyist work with little MCUs, 4 layers is a sweet spot. But they're usually either very simple devices where routing is not the problem, or they have very tight application constraints where the placement has to be squeezed and squeezed.

But much of the effort in designing PCBs in industry is on 6+ layers. You can probably smash out a simple smart lightswitch PCB in a day. Boards with BGA SoCs, DDR, PCIe and FPGAs can take whole teams months or more and have incredibly complicated constraints, many of which are implicit (the very simplest: put cap near pin, test points inline, make diff pair via symmetrical, keep this SMPS far from sensitive things, and make the inductor loop as tiny as you can). There are a million ways to make a PCB pass DRC and still be a completely non-functional device. In particular, routing is secondary in terms of effort and importance to placement.

If you sample what a random PCB engineer is working on, it's quite likely to be lots of layers, or an extremely tight layout, and probably both. Or something weird and application-dependent like high voltage. And they're probably fiddling with placement at the random sample time you choose.

Toy examples of sparse layouts like mechanical keyboards and DIP ICs are very unrepresentative of where the real effort, and money, goes.
The Lazy Way to Solve Differential Equations
I didn't mention it because it is not what I was talking about? I don't care about what they were talking about, I'm not an american. I just know the sorry state of mobile security in governments.
Most mac os feature updates are just updates to all that bundled stuff. I use none of that. I use my laptop to run various OSS developer tools, browsers, etc. 99% of it is available on Linux. And I have moved my workflow to a Linux laptop a few years ago. I went back for performance reasons; not for feature reasons. I can do that again. There's nothing really stopping me. But I like the Apple hardware.

This is also the reason that I don't mind the current version of Mac OS. Yes everything you mentioned is a bit meh. Which is part of why I don't use any of those applications. So I don't care. I've disabled Siri. Never used Facetime. Maps, Numbers, and all the other of the dozens of things they bundle: I never touch any of it. I don't need that stuff and when I do, I use alternatives. I have an Android phone so all of the IOS integration stuff is redundant to me as well. They've not locked me into their ecosystem. And I like it like that. I don't allow myself to be locked in.

As a work horse for doing development MacOS is still a fine OS. It does the job. Most updates of the last 10 years or so have been minor window dressing that you barely notice, some under the hood changes, and misc tweaks that mostly fall into the "whatever" category for me. For me the annoying thing is just having to sit through these lengthy updates. I keep postponing them because it's never convenient to take an hours long break when it prompts me.

And I don't really get much out of these updates. To be honest, I can barely tell apart the different versions of their OS. The main notable visual change seems to be the desktop background. Which is usually hidden by applications. So I rarely look at it.
> not a very experienced company

BYD's auto division was founded in the same year (2003) as Tesla and produced it's first car 3 years before Tesla did (2005 vs 2008). They've been making batteries since 1995. I'd say that gives them as much claim to experience specifically related to electric cars as any nearly any other car company in the world.
Apologies, but have you noticed that if your entrusted (the "doctor") trusted the unentrustable (the "LLM"), then your entrusted is not trustworthy?
Pinta (essentially a reimplementation of Paint.NET) exists for MacOS as well as Linux and Windows: https://www.pinta-project.com/releases/
Yes, though by different degrees. I wouldn't take any claim I read on Wikipedia, got from an LLM, saw in a AskHistorians or Hacker News reply, etc., as fact, and I would never use any of those as a source to back up or prove something I was saying.

Newspaper articles? It really depends. I wouldn't take paraphrased quotes or "sources say" as fact.

But as you move to generally more reliable sources, you also have to be aware that they can mislead in different ways, such as constructing the information in a particular way to push a particular narrative, or leaving out inconvenient facts.
I remember after scores of people had died in Gujarat, then CM Modi went to villages and proclaimed that people are lying, there is no violence going on in my cities and villages.
Pinta is a free reimplenetation: https://www.pinta-project.com
My stepdad has false teeth that aren't properly sized and they make a very disturbing clattering sound when he chews
They're called cams, the metal part it pulls in is a dowel. Older ones you had to make sure were fitted before you put the dowel in, but the newer ones you can fit afterwards - so if you have a panel that has many dowels to go through many holes you no longer have to swear many times when one falls out and you have to start the process again. Beautiful in their simplicity.
> It's impossible to predict with certainty who will be the U.S. President in 2046. The political landscape can change significantly over time, and many factors, including elections, candidates, and events, will influence the outcome. The next U.S. presidential election will take place in 2028, so it would be difficult to know for sure who will hold office nearly two decades from now.

So it can say “I don’t know”
I agree, but Numbers is sooo slow! When opening a huge file it is unusable.
Show HN: llm_ctx – Format your codebase for LLMs using Unix-style commands
Hey HN! I found myself wanting a way to create prompts using `git diff`, `find`, and glob patterns, but from what I saw, there weren't any tools that did that.

So built this, and I found myself using it almost everyday. I hope this is useful for someone!
But making a counterfeit and going to through the trouble to pointlessly connect incompatible signals makes even less sense, doesn't it? Unless the idea is that it should "look legit" by having something on the inside, I guess. But then some 1-cent IC would have made it more believable so it still doesn't quite make sense. Perhaps (perhaps!) I'm now overthinking this. Sorry.
Yeah exactly, used to. It's niche now, and has been for decades.
So, in food production you can't just "make a paste". A lot of chemical stuff begins to happen very quickly. Oxidation being a major one, with separation being another.

How do we mitigate these issues? We add things. We'll add emulsifying agents, de-clumping agents, things to retain moisture, other things to retain color(or just treat it with gasses, or dye it), etc etc.

While it's easy to say "they're just making a paste", in reality that is not what's actually being done.

That said, there are plenty of mechanically processed foods that are fine but fall under the "processed" headline because they're technically processed.

The devil is in the details though and people really need to get educated on basic food processing/preparation. I don't mean raw milk or grass-fed carnivore Idiocracy, but even a basic understanding of what a preservative is would be helpful.
How pinterest got this big in the first place is only explainable by corruption/kickbacks within Google antispam team.
Thankfully at very young ages where this is required, that level of critical thinking is very far off
> I would love to purchase a home, but even 10 years of a software engineering salary are not enough for that in NYC.

Imagine a 1M USD studio apartment. Is 10% (100K USD) down payment feasible?
Usually, banks are happy to lend 90% to people with good jobs and a good credit score.
Cliche is typically what you want to go for in a professional setting, it is not a negative signal in general.
I've always wondered why we don't have remote controlled zeppelins yet. Seems like the perfect platform for drones. Use hydrogen inside the zeppelin and for a fuel cell module.
Looks very expensive BW
It's mostly because of how they were initially marketed. In an effort to drive hype 'we' were promised the world. Remember the "leaks" from Google about an engineer trying to get the word out that they had created a sentient intelligence? In reality Bard, let alone whatever early version he was using, is about as sentient as my left asscheek.

OpenAI did similar things by focusing to the point of absurdity on 'safety' for what was basically a natural language search engine that has a habit of inventing nonsensical stuff. But on that same note (and also as you alluded to) - I do agree that LLMs have a lot of use as natural language search engines in spite of their proclivity to hallucinate. Being able to describe a e.g. function call (or some esoteric piece of history) by description and then often get the precise term/event that I'm looking for is just incredibly useful.

But LLMs obviously are not sentient, are not setting us on the path to AGI, or any other such nonsense. They're arguably what search engines should have been 10 or 15 years ago, but anti-competitive monopolization of the industry meant that search engine technology progress basically stalled out, if not regressed for the sake of ads (and individual 'entrepreneurs' becoming better at SEO), about the time Google fully established itself.
Dario Amodei was in an interview where he said that OpenAI beat them (Anthropic) by mere days to be the first to release. That first move ceded the recognition to ChatGPT but according to Dario it could have been them just the same.
I can't leave the feeling that there is a global secret conspiracy against against privacy worldwide. Like how a country like that suddenly decide to attack core rights of their citizens, out of the blue.

That I could easily imagine is that secretly there is a big push from other countries and organization like US, China and Arabian countries to ensure to destroy privacy preserving regulations that block their overreach or offer foreign serviced to their own citizens. It might be upfront like secret-service-to-secret-service pressure to push on regulators but also a lot of money spent on lobbying.
so many people have shown me these stupid ass AI summaries for random things and if you have even a basic understanding of the relevent issue then the answers just seem bizare. this feels like cheating on my homework and not understanding. like using photomath on homework does.
When writing Python in VSCode you get a REPL when you hit a break point and I think that's sweet.
We have no problem generating power with wind or solar. We have a problem of doing it in a dependable manner.

If there's something to pour money into, it's battery storage, both building much more of it, and developing cheaper variants of it. We need the cost of LiFePO4 batteries to fall as dramatically as the cost of solar panels did. Then renewables will make much bigger inroads into the grid in a lot of places.
Absolutely, as someone with far less experience than you I feel quite spoiled I'll have this for help coding for the rest of time.
Our only ally is Russia and we've got a whistle blower including journalists on classified group chats. I'd imagine any remaining Americans are angry.
> You're implying that buggy software has no impact on the bottom line. I'm not so sure. Users weigh the availability of features against the quality of features.

The problem is that managers / those that determine priorities don't get the numbers, they don't see a measurable impact of buggy software. There's only two signals for that, one is error reporters - which depend on an error being generated, that is, software bug - and the other is user reporting, but only a small fraction of users will actually bother to make reports.

I think this is a benefit of open source software, as developers are more likely to provide feedback. But even then you have some software packages that are so complex and convoluted that bugs emerge as combinations of many different factors (I'm thinking of VS Code with its plugins as an example) that the bug report itself is a huge effort.
The Daily Mail and Fox News are more purveyors of fiction than anything else (just ask News Corporation’s lawyers if you don’t believe me: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-... ). Many people, on searching for current events, prefer news to news-based fanfic.
The difference in dash length really doesn't matter and your example is not the same at all, but it probably made you feel really smart.
The one example listed in the article was starlink. What other "Big Tech" could even be realistically dinged by this?

How do you tariff Adsense from google? Or 3rd party cell phones that run Android? Will they slap an upcharge on netflix or Amazon prime somehow?

How does suspending intellectual property rights work, also? That seems like a whole can of worms
I feel like most TMBG songs don't really have a meaning as such. Sure is a fun sequence of words to sing though!
Show HN: RankResume – A Tool to Tailor Your Resume for Any Job
I’m excited to share my second SaaS project, RankResume (https://rankresume.io), following my first launch, IdeaPulse (https://ideapulse.io). As a job seeker, I was frustrated by the constant need to tweak my resume for each application to get past ATS filters and to land the first phone screen. I built RankResume to tackle that problem by letting you upload your resume and provide a job description or URL which it then generates a tailored resume and cover letter that highlights the most relevant skills and keywords for that specific opportunity.

I built this out of personal necessity and a belief that even small improvements in the job application process can make a big difference.

I've been using it and landed a couple of phone screens next week.

I’m offering 3 free credits (3 tailored resumes) on signup. I’d love to hear your feedback, or suggestions.

Thanks for checking it out!
If we are talking about terms and how they evolve, is "cracking" the correct word to use here?

Maybe "cracking" is appropriate as LLMs develop and gain more access to system tools, networking, etc?

It's certainly "bypassing safety mechanisms" of LLMs or at least it was! Currently it seems that jailbreaking refers to a kind of work around a restrictive layer on top of the system
The backlog is down to management and priorities, not testing per se.
They were actually using Avid Media Composer, not Final Cut Pro.
It's wild how Americans can believe in a completely alternate view of what's going on because they have no idea of history.

We have it extremely good in 2025 despite what people feel is going on. Compared to even a couple decades ago we are very well off.
I was going to ask the same. I don't even want to use DocuSign, so I certainly don't want another service like it.
> You won't find any […] active safety systems […], nor ABS, nor airbags.

I‘m surprised this is legal to drive anywhere without airbags, whether they‘re targeting Southeast Asia or not.
The AI Revolution Proves Frameworks Were a Mistake All Along
Food for thought: The only assumption I don’t fully agree with is that AI assistants are already good enough to generate everything correctly for you.
As long as human review is still necessary, these abstractions will continue to help in understanding the code—even if they do add a layer of complexity.
Much as i agree with the point about overhyping from companies, I'd be more sympathetic to this point of view if she acknowledged the merits of the technology.

Yes, it hallucinates and if you replace your brain with one of these things, you won't last too long. However, it can do things which, in the hands of someone experienced, are very empowering. And it doesn't take an expert to see the potential.

As it stands, it sounds like a case of "it's great in practice but the important question is how good it is in theory."
At work, our Windows devs use expensive XPSs that are complete crap failing constantly, both hardware and software. As someone who used Latitudes and Precisions when these were the reliable workhorses you seem to describe, the new stuff is just outrageous. (My personal laptop is still an e6440).

My work machine is an M2 Pro MBP and except the shitty input HW (compared to the golden era of Thinkpads/Latitudes without chiclet keyboards) and MacOS being quite bad compared to Linux, it completely trounces the neighbouring Dells that constantly need repairs (mostly the USB-C ports and wireless cards failing).
I apologize if this is a joke and I missed it, but Greenland is an important strategic warfare location when considering the defense of the US against Russia. It’s absolutely not because there might be bearable summers 50 years from now.
Grandempire is right on my overall sense in the piece, though perhaps I should have made its ore explicit. I actually faired quite well with 10.6.0. But, the lack of push for a yearly set of headlining features did allow the OS to age quite well in the years after, too. It's the drumbeat of what 10 stunning new features will be unveiled each WWDC for each platform that means past features rarely get the continued polishing they need to shine.
I think the who are "we" information is missing. There are not much on the landing page to assure trust in the product.