skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The sooner the opponents of the current administration ...instead of going further left and screaming louder), the less damage Trump can inflict. My 2c.

I think the left may see that being conciliatory and moving to the center isn't the way to win. Trump didn't do that and it worked. I think people see that Bernie and AOC are the only politicians on the left that people are actually excited about. They can do the Trump playbook but from the left. Run as something new and untried.

Otherwise the left just becomes Trump-lite, undifferentiated and not as good as the original.

I think when people view the system as broken, they want to try new things. So be something new.
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people don't want smarter EVs, they want dumber EVs

give me a hyper economical '07 Corolla with a modern electric drivetrain and no giant tablet on the dashboard
What are you talking about? How about you spend like 2min doing research? Tesla solar roofs exist and are being deployed. Its just not the extreme growth market that Musk hopped for. And the trucks exist too.

The private moon mission is off because the costumer pulled out. But Starship is still in development and is contract with NASA for a moon mission.

Of course Robotaxi isn't close to existing.
These days there is no reason to use Windows at home. Just move to a distro like Mint or Ubuntu. It will save you money and help stop filling up Landfills.

I am on a 10+ year old Laptop with Slackware, for desktop use it is just as fast as any modern Laptop with Windows, I would even say it is faster.

Also you will find Libreoffice is just as good as M/S Office. Just ignore the fud. FWIW, I believe many foreign countries will start migrating to Linux and I heard that is already happening in China.
Show HN: Why Finding the Right Content Tools Is So Hard (and How I Fixed It)
Hey HN,

I’ve always found it frustrating to discover good content creation tools—there are thousands out there, but:

Most lists are bloated with low-quality or outdated tools.

AI hype is everywhere, making it hard to separate useful tools from gimmicks.

Pricing isn’t always transparent, and affordable/free tools are buried.

The real challenge? Finding the right tools for specific needs—like:
Turning podcasts into YouTube Shorts effortlessly.
Writing high-engagement LinkedIn posts with AI assistance.
Creating viral TikToks with easy-to-use video editors.
Generating email copy optimized for conversions.

So I built ContentCreation.tools—a curated directory of content tools, with:
No-bullsh*t lists—only high-quality tools.
Budget filters—find free/affordable options easily.
Curated tool stacks—get the right set of tools for specific tasks.

Would love to hear your thoughts! What are your biggest frustrations when searching for the right tools? How do you currently find them?
I’m enjoying the whole “why didn’t the Incas just…” discussion going on here.

It’s peak HN.
Show HN: Create presentations with smart animations using Excalidraw
I often create presentations where elements need to move (animate) from one slide to the next. This is great for explaining algorithms, workflows, or anything that benefits from dynamic visuals.

I used to rely on Figma prototypes with smart animations for this, but I wanted a way to do it in Excalidraw—maybe even more conveniently. So I made an Excalidraw fork which helps you present "frames" and interpolates animations between them.

Video demo (detecting cycles in a graph): https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/62033fca-03ca-489...

Instructions, tips, and current limitations: https://github.com/excalidraw-smart-presentation/excalidraw-...

Try it: https://excalidraw-smart-presentation.github.io/

Personal plug: I'm also currently looking for a full-time job. If you know of any opportunities or can refer me, I'd really appreciate it.
> I’m really not sure what the use case of Manjaro is.

People who want the benefits of Arch (e. g. pacman, AUR, arch wiki, rolling release, having only one package management instead of using deb + snap + flatpak + appimage + installing scripts) without needing to spend hours installing and configuring Arch.

> Fedora, Mint and Ubuntu both exist if you want a simpler installer.

In fact, nowadays it's harder for me to understand why would someome install Fedora. There are less rpm packages than deb packages (which is a downside compared to ubuntu/mint/debian); there's no AUR, you'll need to find a way to install what's missing; it is bleeding edge but not rolling release, which doesn't really make sense for me.

> Genuinely I think most people just confuse distro with desktop environment

In the case of Ubuntu or Mint, yes, it happens. But not in case of Manjaro, if you go to its page you'll still need to choose one of the several DEs that are availabe, there are options even with i3 and sway. It's not like Ubuntu that you'll need to know the existence of Kubuntu
It is extremely rare for the us gov to bailout the _banks_. 2008 was an abnormality (and one that will be studied for a long time).

The normal procedure is that the blown up bank is sold to another bank and the _depositors_ are bailed out by deposit insurance.

There are ~4500 banks in the US and about 2 blow up a year https://www.fdic.gov/bank-failures/failed-bank-list
This is an understandable reaction to the ecosystem, but it also misidentifies the reason for the reaction.

Rails, Laravel, and Django exist. Elixir's Phoenix exists, and LiveView gives it even more of a full stack feel than the others historically have had. These frameworks have robust and well-defined ecosystems for all the essential bits of a typical web stack, and while yes, you have to install plugins for some of those things, that's by design and there are "canonical" options.

The real reason for his reaction is that he's recognizing that to build stuff to full production grade you have to make trade-offs and decisions and is surprised by that. This is a bit like being surprised that there isn't one standard bridge design that can be just copy/pasted across every river. On the surface every web app looks the same, but there are subtle trade-offs that have to be made: not every web app will need every feature and the total space of features that might be required is enormous, so every attempt to build an all-encompassing product or framework that covers all use cases has just ended up creating another option that you have to consider to decide if it covers your needs—each attempt at a cure all just further complicates decision making.

If AI is struggling to build a Rails app out of the enormous number of gems that are available and ready to be plugged in, that might be an AI problem and not a Rails problem.
The Mediterranean civilization and the further Enlightenment was due to sharing knowledge and goods back and forth, not by keeping the countries and tribes isolated.

Rock music it's a mix between Black and White cultures, creating something else, but better. In Spain we had groups like Triana in the 70's who mixed American Folk and Rock like Jethro Tull (the first two albums are almost a Jethro Tull wannabe, really good) with some Flamenco music. And Flamenco itself it's a mix of Arabic, Gypsy and -who knows- more roots...
That is the trend, but just because something is popular doesn't make it optimal. Developers are also excited about marginal gains from LLMs. The reality though is that most of those same teams could 2x their productivity by going back to a more retro stack, without losing quality, and also lowering costs in hosting and devops. The move to multi-service was for scale, but somewhere along the line people forgot to measure whether they needed that complexity at all.
Not yet. But you can be the change you wish to see.
I thought this would be more relatable, like, "chimpanzee
engineers found pretending to managers about estimates, chimpanzee managers found pretending to listen".
Sealioning is not respectful discussion. A respectful person would've taken the burden onto themselves of offering counter-evidence instead of firing off a barrage of obstinate questions.
> I look at Trump's popularity and it is still quite high.

Yes, but it is shifting. The recent special elections are good data points, though special elections draw very motivated voters.

To your point, I think media bans will be next (Trump has floated many times). If they can ban all media except Fox and X, MAGAs will be able to lie with impunity continuing to control the narrative.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/27/demo...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/gop-anxiety-persi...
Absolutely love it. Inspires me to think about porting my own productivity tools to an IRL device.
I don't think it's useless, it's just not "web development".

It's more "building the stack for the entirety of a company", but that's not web development, that's building the stack for the entirety of a company (minus HR, minus some accounting).

Filing everything a company does under web development feels a bit extreme. And if you don't, then this really isn't all that exciting, because building the software & hardware stack for a larger operation has never been a 10-minute-job.

It seems to me that the confusion stems from the fact that it's now feasible for a single person to do all of this by themselves within a reasonable time. Not super quickly, not without some frustration about narrow docs, but it's not going to be impossible or take a decade.

If we had a similar evolution in working with materials and a single person could build entire factories by themselves in 3 months, I'm sure we'd have similar complaints. But there are no complaints because no sane person thinks they can build a factory in 3 months by themselves.
Would anyone say the same about Cathie Wood? Also, Starship "done well?"
Yes, but it says "mostly from Americans", so I cut it in half, then halved again just to be conservative. The argument holds at 2% and 4% as well as it does at 1%.
It’s actually more, right? Because it’s $33b+$12b of debt, which means he’s saying it’s worth $45b.
Let's say e-commerce is 25 years old; Serious scaling should be a fundamental feature or available as an 'architecture kit' yet that still doesn't exist. Time after time, its

1. Architecture-via-developer-pet-interests

2. See what happens

3. If it doesn't fall down, begin adding features via above procedure.

4. If features are failing but business is not, hire someone else to begin at 1.
There is also the "first buddy" benefit. The whole thing is being actively rebuilt at a time when Musk has been heading a department which, amongst other things, openly backdoored the treasury. It's pretty uncharted waters.
Greybeard here but it gives me shivers that in a mailop ML people top-posts.
Good question. If you rarely change your db, it'll probably not be as useful.

But some platforms (such as Supabase) rely on many parts of Postgres.

You use INSERT hooks to trigger queue insertions, Row Level Security (RLS) to secure data, SQL functions for aggregate queries. Plus the schema changes you do to support business use-cases.

Normally, you'll write these things into SQL migration files. Without an LSP, you'd have to look up the current state/implementation of schemas/functions, and you'd have to run the migrations to see whether there are errors. With the LSP, that's easier.

steinroe and I both use a lot of migrations in our day jobs (a whatsapp newsletter and a fintech startup).

Hope this helps.
Item Flow, Part 1: A new unified concept for layout
Garmin Ticked Off Smartwatch Users with Its New Subscription Fee
I've a similiar problem with Google Translate that breaks my web app. Users, using Google Translate, complaining my app is broken, but it was Google changing the state of my app from a higher meta level. Really bad practice..

I am trying to detect Google Translate and print a warning then.
Stock market graveyards are full of people that shorted TSLA. I remember reading about people who lost it all because of a TSLA short at least since 2020. The lesson here is that markets can remain irrational longer than we can remain solvent.
Some people say that Manjaro is bloated, and I understand. But if you want a customized setup I find it easier to install Manjaro, remove what I don't want and them customize than installing doing the opposite with Arch
It's amazing to think after the debacle of 2022 that Softbank still has any money left.
Very cool! I was just looking for something like this last night to generate quizzes for my middle- and grade-school sure kids as supplement to their normal work. So far I’ve settled on NotebookLM.

One thing I’d love to see is some examples of what the generated quizzes look like/work like before I upload something. Right now, I have no idea what I’ll get before uploading something. Some examples or demos on the front page would be great.
Assuming it works, this is a game changer.
Currently I use DBeaver for SQL linting/autocomplete which is great.

What about parsing Py/C++/Rs/Java for SQL statements in strings? Perhaps by using multiline strings, VS Code could use a different language server depending on wether the line is within an SQL multiline string?
That would allow statically checking and autocompleting SQL statements within strings in code.
What are your thoughts on that?

In an ideal world there is static checkability of everything. Somehow, ideally, potential errors must be caught before runtime. For many type safe languages we can do this. With SQL we can do this now thanks to this language server.
However, will it work when the SQL is embedded in code?
The goal of actual spacewar is to make a auto railgun bullet hell with near c pellets from outside the system, then move in with railgun drones to lure your opponent into the rain or redirect the rain were the opponent will be forced to go. not to dissimilar to 3d flak.
So much financial sophistry going on here, can almost see the sequel to the CDS infused trauma of 20 years ago coming down the line
Oh, this is such a wonderful thing. Hope it can support a minimal, secure version of a modern browser.
Not much you can do, user agents continue to act as agents for the users, meaning you can serve them stuff but beyond that it's up to them to dictate their experience, for better or worse.

It really sucks when extensions do fudgy stuff in global space and sometimes break your stuff though, agree. Best approach I've found is to have a help page you can link to so people can go through the typical steps of "disabling all extensions, clearing cache, etc, etc" when things break in very unexpected way and you find no causes for it.
I mean this is exactly the reason why they won't want to put Trump in jail - so that it doesn't turn out like in Korea. After all, where you can put one president in jail, you can put a next one in jail too.
multiple times
This would be a lot more convincing if served with an example of a language where subtyping doesn't lead to more rough edges.
I think it makes sense, actually.

I can plug that port into an existing 10G switch and get 5G over that link, which can be a nice sweetspot (10G can be excessive in terms of power/heat) while we can fully saturate one of the 2.5G ports routed over it without saturating the uplink.

And if not it will still play nice at 2.5.
I guess you could figure out valid states for your page's DOM, and a few seconds after the page has finished loading, scan it for "hostile" elements and CSS styles, and delete them...

Having this idea and opening a random page (from The Guardian) on DevTools, somehow somebody's inserted scripts and iframes pointing to twitter.com.
Thanks, this is interesting. I'm also a big fan of your blog posts :)
fruits: lower, tastier, juicier. Choose two
Yes but they make a lot of fuzzy decisions, so they are better compared with e.g. alchemists or deep learning researchers.
You can't really exploit something when its attack surface is nearly nonexistent, which is the case for most people who use an outdated OS on their personal device, for example.
The inverted pyramid principle is like a cold shower: it feels harsh at first but is overall good for your fitness as a writer, as it requires you to 1) understand your own main idea and distil it, which is not always easy if you are not writing a factual news story, and 2) not indulge and get to that distillation immediately, allowing the reader to stop whenever they reach the level of detail they want, which may not jive well with a “free” ad-based publication model but is absolutely reasonable in a subscription-based model (which is, I suppose, where the rule originated).

It is among the few useful things I learned at the university.
Coding Malware in Fancy Programming Languages for Fun and Profit
There's always the French foreign legion. Ukraine has one too.
I am pretty excited about this. Thank you for all your effort.

My initial tests fails whenever there are CTEs. Are they not supported? I get

processing panicked: cannot start statement within statement at Some(Token { kind: With, text: "with", span: 0..4, token_type: ReservedKeyword })

whenever I try a file containing a CTE (this one was a file with this query: `with test as (select 1 as id) select * from test;`).
If I may split hairs a bit, I do want a smarter EV. But that should imply less hassle, not more.

It's the kind of smart that is not easy to make.

> Hyundai’s next-gen infotainment system, Pleos Connect, is an Android-based system with a “smartphone-like UI.” It includes features like multi-window functions and an AI voice assistant.

... and it's clear that Hyundai is not making the kind of smart I'm talking about.
Downvote and move on.
Do you have an example for such an app? I don't know anybody using 3rd party file transfer apps. Usually files are uploaded to some cloud service (iCloud, OneDrive, ...) and then shared with a link if they can't be sent via messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal.
Maybe related, from 2 days ago: https://www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2025/03/21/how-a-glitch-... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43441880
It doesn’t, I believe it’s borrowing a large portion of it.
That's patently not true. The connection exists only as far as if you're uneducated (and/or have subnormal IQ), you're likely to be poor, I suspect because you're not smart enough to master the basic skills to function in society, so it might be because of the latter.

Outside of the US there are very few countries where being highly educated (as in having an in-demand degree from a prestigious university) nets you anything beyond a small earnings bump over the middle class, and the people who have this are a small elite (no more than a few percent) everywhere.
> One of the most obnoxious things about enshittification is the corrosive effect it seems to have had on technical users’ curiosity: instead of researching and fixing problems, people now seem very prone to jump to “the software is evil and bad” and give up at doing any kind of actual investigation.

There's little here worth being curious about. Tech companies made sure of that. They mostly aren't doing anything particularly groundbreaking in situations like these - they're doing the stupid or the greedy thing. And, on the off chance that the tech involved is in any way interesting, it tends to have decades of security research behind it applied to mathematically guarantee we can't use it for anything ourselves - and in case that isn't enough, there's also decades of legal experience applied to stop people from building on top of the tech.

Nah, it's one thing to fix bugs for the companies back when they tried or pretended to be friendly; these days, when half the problems are intentional malfeatures or bugs in those malfeatures, it stops being fun. There are other things to be curious about, that aren't caused by attempts to disenfranchise regular computer users.
Diagnosing a Slow Network (2020)
Somewhat related, Western Australia's newest billionaire, Laurence Escalante, got rich by running a sweepstakes betting company that operates only in the US.

https://www.afr.com/companies/games-and-wagering/escalante-r...

The company does not operate its games in Australia, where that kind of gambling is illegal (or rather, there are far more rules before people can enter the draw). Are Americans just easy marks?
Google is an Advertisement company. Everything they do revolves around slurping up the most valuable data to better identify people and be able to identify trends. They’ve become increasingly less and less open as year goes by and they still haven’t found their next big cash cow to offset decline to their current cash cow.
They can try, but they shouldn't be surprised if the people welcoming them then change their mind and become upset. Sounds like basic stuff to me.

Again, you are free to speak your mind. Just, that, if I invited you to dinner at my home and you start criticizing everything I'll gently ask you to leave and go have dinner elsewhere.
I mean, yes? Where you can put one president in jail (for trying to demolish democracy and establish oligarchy/autocracy), you can put a next one in jail too (if they try to do the same)

This is called upholding the constitution and it’s fundamental for a democracy. If you say president is immune, you get current US.
> Japanese giant SoftBank logged a 608.5 billion yen ($3.96 billion) gain on its Vision Fund tech investment arm in its fiscal second quarter ended Sept. 30, posting a steep quarterly increase after swinging back to black in the three months to June.

> The Vision Fund has been cashing in on the success of the September 2023 listing of smartphone chip designer Arm Holdings, in which it owns a sweeping majority stake of around 90%.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/12/softbank-earnings-q2-2024.ht...
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> Whoa there - those are very different claims!

I suspect that the stronger claim is true - but even the weaker claim would invalidate the article's statements that "existing programming languages have little or no subtyping" and that OOP was a "fad" and has been left in the past.
Did you read any other comments?
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> From my high horse, I would rather not to visit the site

Same same. I was mildly curious about the topic, but not enough to click the link to the site.
let's see if the "mega round by softbank" as sell signal is still valid
They need to cover their debts. If someone uses private equity raider tactics to load the company up with debt, it’s likely to be bad for the company but it still counts on their books just as taking payday loans is ill-advised but legal.
So the final solution is a masked police force abducting people off the streets and rushing them onto a flight to a death camp in El Salvador?

I get you are being cute, but let's be real. Nothing "the left" did compares to this.
As to the iPhones: Apple does some really neat stuff with respect to tolerance stacking. As an example, they had a video from the iPhone X showing how they would measure the camera module, and then pair that to a cover that fit it best.
And? Just, uh, boot without secure boot and patch things until they work again without enforcing code signing? The only way this sort of thing could be possibly partially enforced is by remote attestation for apps that depend on a server to function. So do what iOS jailbreaks did, except you don't need a vulnerability to start because secure boot will always be optional.
Their timescales are clearly extremely unrealistic, but I don't understand the motivation for doing this at all.

> “DOGE thinks if they can say they got rid of all the COBOL in months, then their way is the right way, and we all just suck for not breaking shit,” says the SSA technologist

I'm struggling to believe that this is the real motivation. But what is it?

Speculation: they don't know how to backdoor the legacy codebase/platform so they first need to transform it into something they can more easily subvert?
You both are correct.