skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a report of another similar incident:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/furry-hackers-fbi-raided/

Once is happenstance, Twice is a coincidence. But I'm way more suspicious of coincidences than I was even just a few months back.
I'm working on a webpage to share my notes from science/engineering classes. It includes a node graph of all the topics in a particular course, and you can click on a node to find what I've written about that topic.

Here's a demo (click on "Limiting Reactant"):

https://owenpalmer.com/webnotes/
This has literally nothing to do with the article for this post.
The assumption that most HN readers wouldn't even bother skimming the article is kind of amusing despite how correct it likely is.
Ah, I meant cost cutting elsewhere. For instance the Bosch dishwasher I have came with two utensil holders, no WiFi, and real buttons. The newer versions come with one utensil holder, fake buttons, and WiFi.
Show HN: PipZap – Zapping the mess out of the Python dependencies
Clearly Satoshi was doxxed and is now on the run
No, and that's a good call-out.
I think you need to read the OP again. Not just the pictures at the end.
Thanks for the feedback!

1. The bottom nav links are fixed now, really appreciate you pointing that out.

2. > ...an About page with screenshots
great suggestion! We’ll work on adding that soon to better showcase what Aponlink is about.
"my kids drop the devices and try to do the same activity with me. Its tiresome and charming at the same time."

Are you having a laugh? It appears that you have discovered how to describe useful parenting in mildly broken English, with a final flourish designed to set the reader's teeth on edge.

In other words: that is how you deal with the little darlings!
Exactly! I learn all kinds of things besides coding-related things, so I don't see how it's any different. ChatGPT 4o does an especially good job of walking thru the generated code to explain what it is doing. And, you can always ask for further clarification. If a coder is generating code but not learning anything, they are either doing something very mundane or they are being lazy and just copy/pasting without any thought--which is also a little dangerous, honestly.
So what are you saying exactly?
> Obviously there can be some prior information that makes „he was exfiltrated by Chinese intelligence services“ more likely than „he was disappeared by US intelligence services"

The obvious one being if the FBI is arresting a spy they would not be doing search warrants on his properties weeks after he goes missing. They do that stuff immediately.

Instead if we're speculating, this far more sounds like the FBI are playing catch up to circumstances that became suspicious after a few weeks.
A website that provides transparency into the new/used car market in Australia:
https://carvalue.app/

The goal is to allow anyone to know how much any car is worth at a given age/mileage, and eventually help people make better purchasing decisions.

Be warned: It's still a very buggy prototype at this stage and the data confidence for all but the most popular models is low!
A social network for techies, https://wonderful.dev
> a shocking experience for anyone who still holds reductionist views on life.

As far as I understood he doesn't state that life cannot be explained by physics. But that it might be more productive to choose a more high level view.

Makes sense. If a set of physical laws allows life at all, life will maintain its own set of rules (related to reproduction, goal-directed behavior and so on) regardless of low level "implementation details" that are dependent on particulars of the physical laws.
I think he has to be vague in the economic policy front considering the spending and monetary policies of the first term followed by the current tariff whiplash.

Nothing he's done so far is outside of campaign promises so if anyone's pleading ignorance they went well out of their way to avoid information.
All of that is good, its likely not to be enough, especially not in the short term. With luck, enough people doing that builds up and ends the abuses before too long, but history is full of cases where government abuses could not be stopped by peaceful opposition.
I’ve been dissecting stock market data with code to see how dark pool and automated trading behaviors are evolving and impacting the market. The market is the most adverse possible brain battle where actors constantly try to outsmart and make money off of each-other. Greed and fear playing out and conditions changing constantly. AI is also used but it gets funny when the market adapts and plays against past behavior to take advantage of AI traders as well.
> It just needs to be able to deliver 80% of your output at 20% of your cost

Yeah. The average cost of a senior engineer in an IPO'd company is about $500K in the bay area (salary, stock grants, and all the company expenses). That's enough to buy 500 Cursor business licenses for 2 years. It's a brainer that companies will be trying to figure out how to replace as many engineers with AI licenses.
We don’t let our children smoke or use other addictive substances. 99% of tech, particularly on the content consumption side (which is largely what kids will use it for) is built to be highly addictive often in negative ways. Kids have obviously loved TV for decades but it didn’t have addictive feedback loops feeding them personalised content.
You Need a Groundhog Day Codeword
Hacking on new online music apps for http://dopeloop.ai and also fixing bugs in my online daily roguelike at http://rogule.com.
Victims or prisoners or hosts or hostages? Not sure what the most appropriate descriptor is here?
Why does the Chinese leader need to continually prove himself or else the population will overthrow him? Why do you think the Chinese people are just waiting to press the trigger on revolution? You can get to awful conditions and people still won't revolt.
Would be great if this lack of popularity for sociopaths applied more generally. One can hope!
> The difference is that China has a dictator who needs to continually prove to the Chinese people why they shouldn't overthrow him, while the US has a dictator whose democratic election gives him the permission to do whatever the hell he wants to for 4 years.

Do you remember that China only allowed its dictator to rule for 10 years and that the current dictator/sycophants removed that term limit?

Do you think America is on the same trajectory where the 4 year term limit could be amended via politics and coups? Like the one attempted on Jan 2021?
I am currently working on and beta testing an app called Malak. It is an opensource version of Visible VC/Carta/Angelist. as a previous founder, toolings to send and manage investors' updates, decks, fundraising and others were ridiculously expensive and now I have built one completely open sourced but I have an hosted cloud version.

Product live at https://malak.vc
OSS source code at https://github.com/ayinke-llc/malak
Homeownership is 'an investment,' lawmaker says. Fewer adults are benefitting
Given the explicitly-stated attitudes of the people running my country (into the ground), it probably ain't unwise for your country to be ramping up the patriotic messaging.
My median grade was an A+ and my brother got the silver medal for second highest GPA in the faculty.
I don’t know about more, just different. Google App Script can interact with Google docs, and wiring it up so that you can make a Google doc on your phone and have it auto publish. You could also setup such a thing with markdown, just with different apps, (hopefully not via ssh) but that really seems like 6 of one, half dozen of another.

If that's a use case you want to support because of convenience, I really don't see a reason to use one over the other, other than personal preference.
I'm glad that finally someone pointed this out. Debt slavery for a country that dared to fight back.
> Perfect security does not exist.

Having your CI/CD pipeline and your git repository service be so tightly bound creates security implications that do not need to exist.

Further half the point of physical security is tamper evidence. Something entirely lost here.
Yes, type checking works very well with AI since typing provides a step of verification. The more precise the type system is, and the more guarantees you can have. At some extreme, you can entirely specify the program with types. So if the program type checks, it is guaranteed to implement its spec and you can trust the AI. I assume the AI will have a hard time to write the code though. But I had very good results in Rust, less in Haskell. I think it's also because the Rust compiler gives more meaningful error messages, which helps the AI to iterate.
I don't remember too many knots, but anything that stuck was learned from that book. Amazing product: subject, content, presentation and quality construction!

My only complaint: I remember it was hard to make it fit on my bookshelf :)
Not to mention that there are now also LLM’s to help you understand difficult topics!
anyone cheering this on really has no idea how bad this is. higher education is an area in which the US has had a completely dominant position. the smartest and most driven people from all over the world come here to learn, and start businesses here afterwards. it's a tide that raises all ships. it's not at all a mixed bag like outsourcing or the loss of domestic manufacturing.

that dominance is ending now, because of the cruel whims of one man. none of this is based on rules or process. it's the exact kind of fickle brutality people come to this country to escape. the entire thing is like cutting your nose off to spite your face.
This doesn't have to be geopolitical or cryptography-related. He could have committed some ordinary crime -- say, he had a hobby stealing Legos -- then someone at the university said "Why is this closet in your lab stuffed with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Legos?" University isn't the police, so he's not arrested -- he's just put on leave until they figure out WTF is going on with this bizarre situation. Removing contact information might be SOP for any university employee placed on leave for this type of investigation.

(Note, I have absolutely zero reason to believe this man is stealing Legos. This is just a hypothetical example of a slightly bizarre but not entirely implausible crime that has nothing to do with politics, geopolitics or computer science.)

Of course in this situation, being placed on leave by the university has thoroughly tipped him off that the cat is out of the bag, and it's only a matter of time until he's arrested. So he skips town before the police get involved.

Why's the FBI involved?

- (1) Maybe it's a FBI relevant matter (e.g. there's a whole Lego theft ring)

- (2) If he told his family where he went, the court system could force them to reveal that information to the police, under threat of jail time. It'd be safer for his family if he didn't tell them where he's going or why. So he ends up as a missing person, which triggers FBI involvement.

- (3) Maybe the FBI is just as confused as we are. They get involved it's thinking it might be national security related because of the international intrigue or cryptography research angles. They don't know it's merely an "ordinary" crime (or at least they didn't when they decided to get involved -- maybe they've investigated enough to figure it out by now.)
Confabulation means generating false memories without intent to deceive, which is what LLMs do. They can't hallucinate because they don't perceive. 'Hallucination' caught on, but it's more metaphor than precision.
ive never seen aws give a useful error where i could say which resources need a handshake of permissions, or which one of the two needs the permission granted, or which permission needs to be granted.
I had a lecturerer who recorded every lecture and posted it to a player you could control the speed of.

So I could listen to lecture at 1.5x speed and skip any parts I thought were filler. Of course I didn't show up to class...
Of course it does. The National Post article I linked to is about Mahmoud Khalil, who is indeed mentioned in the Zeteo article.
> It’s why the jet stream only goes one direction

Yet local winds blow in almost every direction. So to access that energy you'd need a structure 5 miles tall.
Still https://grugnotes.com — an htmx/old school but also ai first notes app. Recently added some cursor style features. Best use case is training and workout generations right now. Mostly think about how to make ai useful for every day things.
Breaks compatibility. They remove or rename functions often and openly say they are not going to maintain compatibility.
> In the last century, typesetting used to be a big industry. It once required specialized skills and machinery. You could make great money being one. However, in the 1980s, desktop publishing software suddenly enabled anyone with a computer to design and print content. This democratized publishing led to a decline in traditional print jobs and a rise in graphic design and DIY publishing in its stead.

A big difference here is that typesetting can be done by individuals as an ongoing task accompanying writing. So, software indeed replaces this profession. On the other hand, we do software engineering all day long. It's a stand-alone profession. A more relatable historical example should be automation in chip industry. With CAD and automation, the chip industry requires a lot fewer engineers, even though chip design and manufacturing are still very challenging. But then, this probably has more to do with limited investment (therefore limited demand for talent) than how much automation in the field.
Probably because humans are supposed to naturally live in groups where human friends are plentiful, but lots of human children instead live only with parents.
> It’s the fact that the institutions e.g. Congress, Judiciary are not able or willing to push back

Even worse, the population at large seems or acts indifferent.
A DNS zone management tool, made for having decent interface when using coredns as authoritative DNS: https://github.com/holysoles/zoneforge

Also considering working on a traefik plugin + helm chart for sending LLMs that ignore robots.txt to a tarpit like iocaine/nepenthes
Startups often skip middleware to ship faster — and pay the price later in brittle integrations, unreadable logs, and business logic sprawl. This post argues that middleware isn’t overhead; it’s future leverage. Based on real lessons from scaling fintech and real estate platforms, it breaks down when middleware architecture becomes essential (and when it’s just added latency), and outlines how to build just enough abstraction without grinding velocity to a halt.
You omitted perhaps the most uncomfortable truth: CIA political intervention and USA investment in the Dominican Republic. Whether its legal or not, this helped and this is contrary to the standard view of USA involvement in the Caribbean and Middle and South America.
Oh yes please. Do you have a "preorder" on the App Store yet?
This is so true. The most frustrating thing in the world to me is waiting for the UI to catch up to my actions… that should just never happen in 2025. Not only is it frustrating to wait, but as you elegantly stated it forces the menial task to enter working memory.
> The fact pattern doesn't fit well with ICE, because Indiana University cooperated

Disagree: There are reasons to think the Indiana University leadership would willingly assist with something dodgy from right-wing politicians.

There was already a big controversy against the IU leadership enabling political censorship last year, which lead to an overwhelming no-confidence vote from faculty and students.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2024/04/17/i...

https://www.idsnews.com/article/2024/04/behind-the-vote-facu...
Wait, but the point of the piece is that although college has always been transactional, behavior has changed.

If so, why would transactional-ism be the cause?

Read on:

> The average student has seen college as basically transactional for as long as I’ve been doing this. They go through the motions and maybe learn something along the way, but it is all in service to the only conception of the good life they can imagine: a job with middle-class wages. I’ve mostly made my peace with that, do my best to give them a taste of the life of the mind, and celebrate the successes.

And then, crucially:

> Things have changed. Ted Gioia describes modern students as checked-out, phone-addicted zombies.
The magnetic field is coherent. The energy from the Sun is not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FacYAI6DY0

What the hell is security?
Both Catholics and Orthodox Christians (collectively making up the majority of Christians) would strongly object to this comment.
For Mac Users, Qbserve is a pretty good time tracking app that observes you as you use your computer (not just the browser, although it has plugins to identify the sites you browse), and is a good way to start getting a grip on time management, even if it can be a little overwhelming at first.
To a degree, but unless you need to serve a literal thousand-plus humans per second (AI bots don't count, modern problems require modern solutions and "your own" is not a solution, use an AI maze SaaS), it's still irrelevant: every modern CPU and even inefficient scripting language can serve hundreds of concurrent connections as long as the content itself is proper content instead of "modern" nonsense bundles.

Sending pre-compressed html and css (with a sprinkling of JS at best to enhance the experience after it's already in the browser) is kilobytes of work at most (irrespective of how much it unpacks to on the client).

The biggest lie the modern web sold us is that information needs to be packed up in complex datatypes and be interpreted on the client before it's information again.
I'm in the exploratory phase of a few projects, meaning I haven't decided if they are compelling enough (or within my skillset) to push me to develop them properly. That said, the one project I've explored multiple times, each time getting a little closer to making the full mental commitment, is a word processor.

Not a "text editor" for code and whatnot, but a real-deal word processor for writing novels and such. I cloned Visicalc (onto the Pico-8), so my "How does a spreadsheet work?" itch has been scratched. I think it's finally time to answer for myself, "How does a word processor work?" (in pure C, to level-up those skills as well) So lately I've been working on small programmatic experiments to understand the underlying subsystems necessary to build one.
20 years old in a few days; still relevant: https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Read his entire body of work if you want deep thought, thorough research and definitive opinions.
whats the soap box referrs to?
No sound ios brave dopeloop
Yeah , the missing ingredient here is “SERVE PEOPLE”. That needs a market familiarity .
> The Navy isn’t constrained by economics.

In what way is it not? It has a budget and a mission. Economics are a huge part of their existence. Far more is spent on health care every year over the Navy.
That depends. The rich kids with horses are very much on their phones and filling their Insta with pictures. They're usually boarded at full care barns and don't have to do the work. I can see it usually working as you describe for the middle class kids.
Six unsettling thoughts Eric Schmidt, Google's former CEO, has about AI
How long has it been since you last heard from them?

Were there any other investors?

Has there been any other signs of progress?
I am creating a node- and timeline based animation editor for html pages: Nodeflow Studio, ready to start my beta shortly: https://nodeflow.studio

It is designed for users who want to create interactive animations on their websites without the need for coding, making it easier and giving more precise control of the animations.

If you are a web developer and think you will be a good beta tester, then fill out the beta test form on the website.
Yeah I just wanted to check the weather...
Or an axe murderer. Hard to predict which one you'll have.
"The Looming Future" chapter of the article. I didn't know all those hortiboe things are planned.
The degree is still highly preferred (if not a hard requirement) for basically all white collar/middle class jobs. It's still, generally, a +EV proposition, so I don't think it's a convincing claim that it's just a post hoc rationalization.
lambdamoo rewrite https://github.com/rdaum/moor/
I'm working on tooling to turn kids from consumers into creators. I'm focusing on game development initially, but have plans for video production and hands on crafts.

For younger kids I've modified Overcooked 2, a traditionally co-op game. I've replaced the second player with a visual scripting platform that allows kids to code their way through levels — worth noting I haven't removed co-op, there's still room for 2 other players:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ackD3G_D2Hc

For older kids I've been making contributions to GodotJS, which allows you to build games in Godot using TypeScript rather than GDScript. GDScript is pretty nice, but I want to be able to teach kids skills that are more directly transferable to different domains e.g. web development:

https://github.com/godotjs/GodotJS/pull/65

I used to be Head of Engineering at Ender, where we ran custom Minecraft servers for kids: https://joinender.com/ and prior to that I was Head of Engineering at Prequel / Beta Camp, where we ran courses that helped teenagers learn about entrepreneurship: https://www.beta.camp/. During peak COVID I also ran a social emotion development book subscription service with my wife, a primary school teacher.
> Why does it matter whether they can learn?

Because nothing of consequence can be done in a single pass.
It's rather telling that you group substance abuse together with rather common and generally benign human conditions such as anxiety and neuroticism, and I find that your rather heavy-handed generalizations of people's capacity to help others based on their conditions and indeed their trauma dilutes your point.

It's as if you wish us to say, "I've figured everything out, let me show you the way." I don't find that particularly reassuring, and it's not exactly the kind of humility that I think you want to convey.

If your bar to helping others is ending all suffering within yourself, then I'm afraid we're all going to be living a very lonely existence if we followed your lead.

Now, I think your larger point is that folks in crisis should tend to that crisis, which I think anyone who has taken a plane ride would understand. Apply the mask on yourself first. But to extend that analogy, you can have a broken hand, or even a broken heart and still be able to help your neighbor.
I am working on creating a GAN for predicting the next few heartbeats given an ECG signal and hoping that the administration does not defund this project because I am being paid by a university project funded by the NIH.
> Are we totally rejecting the society we've built for ourselves?

Looks around at, everything.

Yup!
Vibe Coding: A 20-Year Engineer's Love Letter and Warning
I just submitted a TinyML paper last night, focusing on creating a reproducible pipeline for model selection, compression, and deployment on constrained devices. I hope it gets accepted!
This was also the average college student yesterday and it will be the average college student tomorrow.