skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, not a bad approach.

I think the one thing that'd be nice is if I could somehow tell the JVM from a class that this class is open for final mutation rather than needing special flags passed into the JVM or special manifests in the Jar. It's often pretty clear to me, as a dev, what I when I need something to have final mutation (generally only with serialization objects).

For example,

@FinalMutatableByReflection
class Foo {
final String bar;
}

That'd allow me to transition code by just adding an annotation where it needs to be while also getting the benefit that final is really final everywhere else in code that isn't working with serialization.
> Even the JS standard library struggles with this. ...

I don't think this represents struggling. There needs to be some way to sort in place. Sometimes you need to sort a big array and don't want to allocate.

And there should be some way to clone the array without mutating. That's slice. So you how do you sort a clone? .slice().sort()

I think by far the biggest problem with ES .sort() is that number arrays don't sort numerically by default.
Cryfa: A secure encryption tool for genomic data
Bad Religion had a song Ten in 2010 that predicted 10 billion people by 2010. Not only were they wrong about the total population, they were overly pessimistic about the ability of societies to feed and support that many people.
But demomakers have a good track record of turning appliances into computers.

I am not aware of a demoscene production running on a dishwasher, but I wouldn't be surprised if one existed.
Purely in the interest of pedantry: I think it was attempted murder, I think the girl lived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing

Not that it changes your point at all, which I think I completely agree with.
Army of Altruists, by David Graeber: https://harpers.org/archive/2007/01/army-of-altruists/

Thanks for the pointer, that was a very interesting read.
It wouldn’t take long to have a tight selection of bats for every player to try and based on each swing, the system can predict the best bat.
Bash-ini-parser: Advanced bash INI parser library
Maybe it has just been a long decline and the students of 10 years ago were indeed worse than those of 20 years ago, and so on back.
Is Google at risk of becoming irrelevant? Stock drop draws comparison to Kodak
You can certainly keep information on your pets and how to rebuild them in source control along with all the procedures used to update them. It's probably a good idea.

Nobody says you can't do CI/CD with pets too. You do have to keep the pets well groomed, of course.
Kids have many people they can ask for gifts from.
You would have to be completely indoctrinated to think an 8 year old is going to read the bible and see it as a way to live life, and not a confusing blood and sex fest. The only reason you think of it in such sheltered terms is your guardians said "Ignore the parts about donkey dicks, this is a guide to spirituality, we are told."

> Good luck with the latter strategy, especially if you want them to have a relationship with you as adults.

Again, you seem to live a sheltered life that you think people who don't read the bible are somehow broken people from broken families who are afraid of "scary ideas." I imagine if your child was reading the Quran you would not react this way.

Our families are fine. Focus on your own.
So long as it's not a one sided advantage, the game will be fair and way more exciting. Even now, there's a huge difference in attending, and watching on TV, a game that is 1-0 going into the 9th inning versus a game that is 5-4 going into the 9th. Even though those are even matches at that point in the game, one of them feels painful the other has had some excitement. Good defense is not as exciting as productive offense.
I mean you could easily argue that any election rules are undemocratic. The rules for the US presidential election are quite flawed for example.

The rules can be changed but again there are rules for how to do that! It's rules all the way down.

You can't have a functioning democratic system without rules.

The problems start when people start thinking that rules don't matter or aren't applied evenly.
Until someone buys it.
I've actually even played sports against ex-elite players in the sports they were once among the best in the world in, although it was pretty obvious I had no chance. I've also played other sports with friends who were professional ice hockey players and professional association football players. I think what characterizes them is that they once at a time really hated losing, and you can question whether that is 'having fun' but I do think they were having fun at one point too.

But I agree that sports at the elite level aren't about health. It's not unusual to be doing things that at least risk injury.

I think these kinds of rule changes are destructive though. They certainly are in tennis.
Gaza? You should spell things out. Regardless even more ink has been spilled on that and there doesn't seem to be any particular ambiguity on what is happening. It is major international news and South Africa are bringing court cases to the ICJ. Israel isn't doing anything subtle.
There is some really promising-looking work on using a mixture of LLMs and formal proof techniques and/or unit testing to perform reliable and idiomatic translation from unsafe to safe languages. See, for example, https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12511v2 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.10506, and https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17741v1

The nice thing about this approach is that the LLMs don't need to be flawless for it to work, as the formal analysis / unit testing will keep their errors at bay - they just need to be good enough to eventually output something that passes the tests.
They need to get some rugby coaches in to teach it. That's a super-basic rugby technique, which even I (as only a very casual rugby fan) can see most teams getting wrong.
That's neat, I like the UI. Looks really extendible to other filters as well!
https://archive.ph/RtgBj
There will always be poverty and there will always be huge wealth.

Even in Soviet Russia and Mao's China, that was true. And nobody can say they didn't try to fix that 'problem.' Virtually the whole would would all agree that we'd prefer to not have it, and so many have made attempts, but no one has eliminated poverty, and those who have made a run at wealth equality the most fervently, like Mao, also killed billions in the process of failing to accomplish it.

My only point is that it's clearly a much harder problem than you pretend it is.
I know it’s better to do this sort of thing yourself (or just set up a domain forwarder) but honestly, iCloud’s Hide My Email feature is so nice for this. Of course Apple can still link your spoof addresses to your parent iCloud account, but less-reputable marketing data companies don’t have visibility into that.
Zvi Moshowitz's blog [0] is IME a pretty good place to keep track of the state of things, it's well-sourced and in-depth without being either too technical or too vibes-based. Generally every time a model is declared the new best you can count on him to have a detailed post examining the claim within a couple days.

[0]: https://thezvi.substack.com/
Show HN: I made a QR generator in 2025
It feels silly - not even the slightest trace of any AI features; just trying to work on my frontend game since I am a infrastructure/ops/backend developer of 15 years (and a long time HN lurker). It's been really fun so far, and using Astro has been a really positive experience.

If you have any insights regarding ui/ux/frontend/anything please give me some feedback. I would appreciate that very much!
It's a bit heavy for my liking, but add some breakfast sausage and sour cream and you have basically every party queso.
I've built a local (for my country) news aggregator that basically clusters news and summarizes them based on multiple sources and gives me the rundown of the most important things, and things that can be found between conflicting sources. It's mostly a pet project for myself as it doesn't seem to have a lot of stickyness without the clickbait.

I gave the 'product' to friends and some of them told me "oh, you should do it like ground.news where I can see left, center, right". This idea turns me off so much. Why would I care if it's deemed left, center or right by some commitee. Just give me the information that's there in most sources and it's probably be going to be close to some objective overview of the situation.
Beeper is actually built on top of an open source protocol called Matrix, and they also open sourced all of the bridges, so you can host beeper yourself and connect the LLM to it. And even better - since the protocol is open source, you can also connect to the official Beeper server! You can even use alternative Matrix clients to connect to Beeper, I do this on my company laptop since Beeper is blocked.
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
The problem is Honey was dishonest about how it works.

Their marketing claimed that Honey automatically applied coupon codes for various online retailers during the checkout phase. Nobody really had a problem with this.

What got found out and landed Honey in hot water, is the affiliate link hijacking behavior which they did not disclose. Basically, any time you follow an affiliate link with Honey installed, it replaces the original affiliate code with their own. Leading to this flow:

1. YouTuber takes Honey Sponsorship and their followers install Honey.

2. YouTuber posts new content, with affiliate links for equipment or parts.

3. YouTuber sees their affiliate links aren't getting near the amount of traffic they used to despite their videos performing just as well as before.
Agreed. I always felt my computer engineering degree taught me how to approach a problem and logically solve it, weigh the pros and cons, etc. As well as introducing me to the hardware side of things - I already knew by high school that I could learn any programming language given enough time (already had Basic, C, SQL, a couple of DSLs and knew at least in part, 3 different human languages). I wanted to force myself to get a similar "baseline" for hardware.

Of course, it has impacted all parts of my life - I think differently than I did before studying engineering, and I sometimes try to apply this problem solving in non-technical parts of life with.. mixed results.
Ted was so right.
Something even cooler would be a model trained for 4 or less (1.33) bit weights instead of quantized after pretraining.

Math units are completely underutilized when I'm inferencing with batch size of 1, and post-training quantization under 8 bits loses too much of the precision to make a real difference compared to smaller models with higher precision.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that isn't going to be happening for this particular individual.
In theory it doesn't matter what the frame of reference is.

Instead of thinking of it like spin, think of it like heads or tails. Both are binary measures and frame of reference doesn't matter. For example if you're flipping a penny on a glass table and someone is looking from the bottom, they'll see the same ratio as you.

In a fair universe you'd expect pretty much a 50/50 heads/tails clockwise/anti-clockwise outcome. But instead we something like 66/34 or 75/25. The actual direction of spin doesn't matter. The fact the measurement is unbalanced does.
Makes you think the Dems should have been harder on Trump. Although he has been convicted he has served no time at all. And he could still run for President after Jan 6.
No surprise there, engagement is their base of income
> The only thing anti-democratic is to allow someone that does not respect the democratic rules for running for office, for they will undermine democracy from within.

Surely you see the catch in this belief. If there is a group of people who can "allow" others to run for election then the system is not democratic at its core.
Microsoft redesigns BSOD, drops QR code, frowning face, blue colour
I hope the justice system goes hard on Doge and Elon for this.
I did see one YouTuber mention Ground News: FriendlyJordies.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bfHx4CfKFqQ
I've gone back and forth dozens of times about how much religion is responsible for the awful stuff in history vs. just a bunch of selfish and/or very stupid people using it to justify what they wanted to do anyway.

It's easy to say "Deuteronomy says to murder all non believers!" and then point to an example of a Christian killing a Muslim (or something) and assume that that was their motivation, and maybe it was, but also maybe it was just a homicidal maniac who gravitated to this book specifically because they could use it to justify what they were going to do anyway.

It's really tough to say, and I'm not going to pretend I know the answer.

Suicide bombers (e.g. the 9/11 terrorists) might be an example in your favor though. You're probably not driving airplanes into buildings if you don't really believe in what you're doing.

I don't know. As I said, I've gone back and forth.
Cool! I made a multithreaded version about 10 years that works for binary files like .zip files: https://github.com/century-arcade/src/tree/master/tools/vain...
https://archive.is/zCjU4
I don't think the goal was to reduce drug use, it was to create a legal marijuana industry and reduce policing which was a broadly popular sentiment in 2020.

https://ballotpedia.org/Oregon_Measure_110,_Drug_Decriminali...

I don't have a copy of the original voters pamphlet with all the pro and against arguments, but I don't recall this ever being advertised as reducing drug use.

I think it did succeed in its goals of legitimizing marijuana in the state, and it did succeed in reducing police involvement in drug enforcement. Whether consequences emerged from these goals is another topic.
For the record, there's already a bunch of custom select-a-like replacement elements out there; I'm partial to select2. The main reason for this is that selects don't come with what we used to call "combobox" features; there's no type-ahead completion, and you can't lazy-load options from a larger data source because of that.

My main gripe is the loss of rendering outside the browser pane. To be clear, we already don't have that on mobile at all; if you've ever used an iPad with Stage Manager you'll note how popovers - all of them, including native apps - are neatly conformed to the bounds of the containing window. Pop-over menus are supposed to break the window pane, but they don't, for reasons I don't quite understand but can guess rhyme with the word "security".
Apple Intelligence denies rewriting a sentence that contain "protests in Turkey"
An interest in something that has ha a huge and pervasive influence. Even if you are an atheist who would never reed it, if you are from a historicist Christian culture it has shaped your worldview.This is very well argued in Dominion by Tom Holland.
Agreed. A course that did not distribute slides / lecture notes 35 years ago when I studied (well known engineering school in Canada) was considered annoying / the prof trying to force students to attend.
Yes, Safari is not exactly like IE because IE had a dominant user share once upon a time.

We don't see "best viewed in Safari", but we do see plenty of sites that can be viewed in Safari, despite the extra effort used to get them there. And I'm not even a regular chrome user.
Depends on your use case.

DeepSeek R1 is far better at producing maintainable, modularized code as a coding assistant as an example.

The big deal is that the distilled versions like DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B are good enough that anyone with a few old 1080 Ti's sitting around can run them and get most of the performance.

When you can run gemma3/qwq/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-.../etc... you can easily switch models when one fails too.

And you have consistent performance that doesn't degrade over time, have the ability to avoid leaking prompt data between client etc...

It is all horses for courses though. For me o1-pro is roughly the same as o1 with just higher limits etc... but is still worse than o1-preview IMHO.

In my experience the few percentage points on synthetic benchmarks that o1-pro was claimed to have doesn't matter much in real world problems.

R1 pretty much matched o1-1217 on every benchmark and the distilled models like DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B only lost a tiny fraction.

A few months of o1-pro costs will get you a local usable model of GPUs if you are fine with ~20 eval tokens/sec.

But if o1-preview wasn't better for your use case than o1-proe...the calculus can change.
Sorry, misread your post.
>because I can’t imagine that many people sign up for the paid service. I

It's new media, and in the grand scheme of things, youtuber sponsorships are dirt cheap compared to traditional means.

The news model is well established by this point of ads + no-ad premium subscrition, so I don't think there's many potential dark arts here. It also feel everpresent simply because they are smartly targeting youtubers covering politics. And US politics is a burning hot topic right now.
I haven't found this to be the case in my experience.
There are attempts at module based electronics. Google had “Project Ara" https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara

The HMD fusion budget smartphone has a pogo-pin port on the back for peripherals https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/hmd_fusion_review/

Not sure why they fail in the marketplace. Maybe look at other similar market failures like power tools with different interchangable heads? I suspect the sticker price of the individual modules scares consumers.
I'm religious myself. What you are describing is not taught by the bible as it is in its pure form, but is a selection of specific parts of it by the tradition that you are part of. A different, lesser known selection was posted in another comment, about rape and murder. You could also select very boring parts about family lists. Or meticulously detailed instructions about the beard of the priest. It is not wrong to try and live a good life, but that is part of a tradition, not purely based on the bible.
The 5-part series by Fabien Sanglard is really good. Thanks for sharing!
Ah, I found the phrasing quite confusing.
Less of a FOOF and more of a BOOM
My clock also runs clockwise, when seen from one of two sides...
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel
Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway,
But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel,
How Mutability in them doth play
Her cruel sports to many men's decay?

(Edmund Spenser, 1596)
and guess what

they did announce they'll release open weights :)

https://x.com/sama/status/1906793591944646898?s=46&t=6NqVriD...

to be honest many of us never saw that coming... LOL
Close plays on the base paths are pretty exciting.

> I mean I find the whole infield outside of maybe a triple play more boring than all or nothing home run, intentional walk, and strikeout.

The problem is that the strikeout or walk is much more common than the home run.
Maybe it's just iframes that are the issue but they were a devil and a half to get working in chrome (or blink ig) without relying on third party cookies.
You're right that this test would be UB for signed integers.

See here for that in action, as well as one way to test it that does work: https://godbolt.org/z/sca6hxer4

If you're on C23, uercker's advice to use these standardized functions is the best, of course.
Thanks for the recommendation for GNU cash will give that a look. What resources would you recommend for learning double entry accounting?
(DBOS co-founder here) DBOS embeds durable execution into your app as a library backed by Postgres, whereas Restate provides durable execution as a service.

In my opinion, this makes DBOS more lightweight and easier to integrate into an existing application. To use DBOS, you just install the library and annotate workflows and steps in your program. DBOS will checkpoint your workflows and steps in Postgres to make them durable and recover them from failures, but will otherwise leave your application alone. By contrast, to use Restate, you need to split out your durable code into a separate worker service and use the Restate server to dispatch events to it. You're essentially outsourcing control flow and event processing to the Restate server., which will require some rearchitecting.

Here's a blog post with more detail comparing DBOS and Temporal, whose model is similar to (but not the same as!) Restate: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/durable-execution-coding-compariso...
I'm curious what the courts can do about this. My thought is that a president should not have this power to intervene with foundational government processes without congressional approval. Otherwise the next president will re-write the software to cater to their political agenda, and so forth.
Thanks for the recommendation, will take a look at Starling Bank and FreeAgent.
The famed IBM Field Service Memo:

https://www.neystadt.org/john/humor/IBM-Mouse-Balls.htm
> 98% of swimming medals were won by someone wearing one of these suits.

> This gave a huge advantage to ... teams and swimmers with ... sponsorship deals

Is the former caused by the latter or caused by performance enhancement?

Speedo sponsoring all likely medal winners into their new product seems like a reasonable explanation. Given that I've never heard of another brand, I assume speedo has a fairly large budget for sponsorships. I don't know anything at all about swimming though, just wanted to throw that out there.
Health insurance CEO admits to hiring investigators to dig up dirt on patients
> But wasn't Honey paying them?

Yes, but Honey was also stealing from them. Most youtubers make a significant portion of their income via affiliate links.

So, consider the following scenario. I made up these numbers, I don't know if these are accurate:

Honey pays a youtuber $1k for a single ad spot. Due to that ad, many of the youtuber's audience installs the Honey extension. Afterwards, the youtuber's affiliate link income goes down by $2k/month, because all of those affiliate referrals are being stolen by Honey.

Also, Honey never disclosed that they were doing this.

So, of course, you can understand why the youtubers would have grievance. Pretty much nobody would ever agree to give up $2k/month of income forever to get $1k right now. (And it's probably not right now, it's probably more like 90 days when they settle their payables).
head start on 1-9...measure twice cut once, and prep work pays dividends
While the percentage shows that aviation is not a *priority* for climate change, the required reductions in CO2 emissions for the climate to stabilise are around 99.9%, so aviation-induced emissions will have to come down at some point.
That's what happened - some officials trusted the electorate at some level and decided that the rules the electorate chose to make via their representatives should be followed. Those officials also trust the electorate to change the rules if they want to.
I think the legal drug economy has a hand in it as well.
150M is ridiculously low for a company with a 3.34T market cap.

It's the equivalent of fining a millionaire 150 EUR, or a regular person fifteen cents.

That's not a fine, it's a show put on for people who can't do division.
Show HN: SQLite? Postgres? Use both with omni_SQLite
omni_sqlite is an extension that adds the capability to use SQLite databases as a first-class data type within Postgres. It uses expandable datum technique to ensure no additional serialization overhead for data in-flight.
If it's really about entertainment, then it has no appeal. Then you end up with professional wrestling. Professional sports are interesting because there's something fundamental, something challenging where someone's skill can shine.