skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being American right now makes this whole episode feel like a 1950s McCarthyism/Qian Xuesen-type situation.

Maybe another xenophobic red scare-type U.S. gov't overreaction will inadvertently export top talent to China a second time.
BMA acts against 4 Chinese for removing documents from SAO building
Tinkering with a platform for people who're interested in doing analysis/visualisation of data from professional Counter Strike games.

i.e. instead of them having to download demos, extract them, parse them and then only query data. I want to just have a database available so they get to skip all those steps.

Not gonna make me rich but if I can get it to cover it's own costs I'll be stoked.
Yes. Not because it's a good idea but because facilitating learning is their primary job and uploading the slides is generally helpful for all students, including the ones that do take notes.

Not doing so because it allows students to put in less effort only makes sense if you view college as transactional.
I find it intuitively absolutely bizarre that Cloud does not outright win at any scale. In my mind everything about it seems more optimizable with more scale. Obviously I am missing something, but all Cloud pricing looks so significantly more expensive than I feel it should in a healthy and mature market.
This was the norm in Germany for a while. Then we got a law ("Routerfreiheit") that forces ISPs to allow you to use and modem/router you want. Before that you couldn't do it with DOCSIS, but it kinda worked with DSL, if you could somehow get the PPPoE credentials.

Nowadays they have to provide PPPoE and voip credentials, and cable providers need to provide a service where you give them the Mac of your own modem and then it gets tied to your contract.
> That’s like saying the workers have all the leverage.

...they do? You can shuffle money all you want, if nobody can write the fucking code then you don't have software. I imagine it works much the same in any other field.
Redditor claims Anthropic credits expires
If we could get tabworks I would love that
> It will not look like a Hokusai-style wave, rising up from the surface of the sea and breaking from above. It will look like the whole ocean, elevated, overtaking land. Nor will it be made only of water—not once it reaches the shore.

This is true and why tsunamis are scary af. Take this and try to imagine a taller tsunami https://youtu.be/8zoX9H6xiPo. It's actually hard because it doesn't even feel like a wave of some height. It feels like ocean rising.

Also "we are 300 years into a 250 year disaster cycle" is not a thing you want to read on a Monday. Though it looks like they got the cycle length just by dividing the total years by total number of previous earthquakes, so who knows if it's correct
Only 1 building fell in Bangkok during quake: China construction firm in focus
A TRUELLY decentralised web! I’m about a quarter done, it works, and amazed nobody has done what I’m doing before.

Was doing it on the Fuel Network, but now that they let 30% of staff go last week (including me), I’m thinking about starting fresh and doing it on Solana.
Supporting your counterpoint too: MH370 co-pilot's mobile phone did connect to a cell tower mid-flight after the hijacking. [0]

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6839167/MH370-pilot...
Literally Bill Gates is the only billionaire who ever did any good for humanity
I assume "undocumented American" is a disingenuous way of saying illegal immigrant, and the headline is a disingenuous way of saying that the man was deported for being here illegally and not for an "Autism Awareness Tattoo".
They probably have good reasons if it's still in preview, that could be serious bugs, security gaps, potential breaking changes that would cause more harm than good if rushed, etc
people seem downvote you, but I think this is a good example of how discussions SHOULD work.

> A: makes a strong claim, suggesting it to be well known

> B: doubts

> [100 people provide credible sources]

Also congrats for being 1 of 10000 today i guess https://xkcd.com/1053/
> So if I can outsource the mundane, annoying and repetitive parts of SW development (like coding) to a machine, so that I can focus on the parts I enjoy (debugging, requirements gathering, customer interaction, etc), what's wrong with that?

That's ok when you already understand programming and can guide the codegen and step in to correct when it generates bullshit. But you don't get to that level without learning programming yourself. Education is built from the ground up towards higher and higher levels of abstraction. You don't get to skip learning arithmetic on your way to learning quantum physics, just because numpy will do all your arithmetic once you get there. In other words, it's ok for people who don't like cooking to order takeout, but you don't become a professional cook this way.
>I want to be able to teach kids skills that are more directly transferable to different domains

would the ability to pick up a new language/syntax be also a skill worth learning?
I’m working on yet another markdown, FOSS, self hostable personal note taking web app.

Check it out at https://panino.sh
I’m working on https://pikku.dev

It’s a TypeScript web framework that’s runtime agnostic, so it can work on serverless and servers (similar to Hono).

What’s different is that the focus is primarily just on TypeScript. There’s a CLI tool that inspects all the project code and generates loads of metadata. This can include:

• services used

• all the HTTP routes, inputs and outputs

• OpenAPI documentation

• schemas to validate against

• typed fetch client

• typed WebSocket client
(and more)

The design decision was also to make it follow a function-based approach, which means your product code is just functions (that get given all the services required). And you have controllers that wire them up to different transport protocols.

This allows interesting design concepts, like writing WebSocket code via serverless format, while allowing it to be deployed via a single process or distributed/serverless. Or progressive enhancement, allowing backend functions to work as HTTP, but also work via Server-Sent Events if a stream is provided.

It also allows functions to be called directly from Next.js and full-stack development frameworks without needing to run on a separate server or use their API endpoints (not a huge advocate, but it helps a lot with SSR). Gave a talk about that last week at the Node.js meetup in Berlin.

It’s still not 1.0 and there are breaking changes while I include more use cases.

Upcoming changes:

• use Request and Response objects to make it truly runtime agnostic (currently each adapter has its own thin layer, which tbf is still needed by many that don’t adopt the web spec)

• smarter code splitting (this will reduce bundle size by tree-shaking anything not needed on a per-function basis)

• queues (one more form of transport)

Check it out, would love feedback!
it has done very well IMHO
Would you recommend your tool to use with a single instance for a local community that won't be interested in federating? I mean self hosting by one person, likely via docker, exposing to a few hundred people, not federating at all, all data should be kept within the community, not public.

If yes, do you think it's already mature enough to give it a spin?
Psychological problems can still be a result of upbringing.

In the GPs case, a lack of commonality with “regular” folk due to zero access to electronic devices, which lead to intense fear interacting with “regular” folk.
Hence other extensions like uMatrix and "Cleaner Fandom" extension.
I am continuing work on https://reliquary.se - a VPN for the hackers - based on my fully privilege separated and sandboxed VPN sanctum (https://sanctum.se).

It is shaping up nicely towards an actual 1.0 release in the near future, with a little less keccak based AEADs this time around. It was a fun experiment but in the end I have yet to do any cryptanalysis on it or provide security proofs for it - neither which I have time for at this point - so the swap to AES was expected on my end.

For fun I also added a fully e2e p2p voice chat client on top of this as the sanctum protocol is now available as a library (https://github.com/jorisvink/libkyrka) - this voice chat works with one or multiple peers and can is available at https://github.com/jorisvink/confessions.

Either way, I guess you can say I'm having a little bit too much fun with this.
Working on the Monokai Pro website for my color theme for code editors, and the Monokai Pro plugin for JetBrains, which has just been released. Working out some optimizations, which will be pushed in the next update.

Monokai Pro has been running for more than 5 years now for VSCode and Sublime Text, and the original Monokai almost 20 years.

https://monokai.pro
there are ways to isolate code from CI from CD, it's just not as easy as setting up the classic repo. One can use multiple repos for example, or run CI and CD with different products.
Oh no, Mr Musks "speech = $$$$$$$" could be curtailed.
i'm sure it's because they were white noise generators essentially.
comaintainer here, here's the docs for the arm build: https://docs.projectbluefin.io/lts#differenceserrata

Here's the issue for homebrew on linux/arm: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/19208

And here's the FOSDEM talk: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6373-home...
$2 trillion to develop something that can't even dependably fly and the Pentagon can't even pass an audit. What a joke.
Isn't that a question for the Salvadoran government? The US is responsible for deporting illegal immigrants, and it is up to El Salvador whether the persons are criminals that need to be imprisoned in El Salvador or left to return home like a regular Salvadoran citizen.
The F-35, like most modern fighters, is highly unstable in pitch without active control. Yaw and roll have some aerodynamic stability depending on the plane's mode. VTOL mode is even less stable. In VTOL mode, no visual reference, failing flight instruments, with multiple fault indicators and what appeared to be a failed transition to conventional flight mode, it's hard to blame the pilot for punching out. The transition is one-button automatic, with automatic coordination of engine power and nozzle positions.
It's possible to reverse the process at any point in the transition, although that didn't happen here.

The "Command report" is available here.[1] But at the point that relevant flight data recorder data ought to appear, it's censored. Power faults and crashes of one of the redundant flight computers are mentioned. No full timeline. The report mentions that the transition to conventional flight mode did happen after the pilot punched out. But there are no technical details as to whether it was slower than normal.

Not enough info to form an opinion.

[1] https://www.hqmc.marines.mil/Portals/61/Docs/FOIA/F-35%20Mis...
Working on a tool to make playlists on Spotify using Autogen + Deepseek's R1. https://github.com/anshumankmr/sporky

Got the basic happy path to work, albeit still some tweaks are needed to get it working a bit better and seem more conversational.
Interesting. Will try.
>Education is built from the ground up towards higher and higher levels of abstraction.

How many people who write SW professionally worldwide, know everything about the OS underneath, the sys-calls, disassembly, memory allocation, CPU architecture, network layers, internet routing, cloud and virtualization, etc?

Most SW jobs are just routine plumbing, connecting one FOSS pipe to another in whatever way works for you, till you get the desired result which often is unoptimized slop but if it serves the business use case and makes money nobody but the cool-aid drinking stickler developers care that it's slop. It's not rocket science that requires you to know assembly or CPU architectures or linear algebra and optimize ever single bit to perfection, but low cost and time to market is more important.

You can try to educate people about everything but not all jobs are gonna require you to know everything. In fact, jobs are being more and more specialized where you'll have one HW expert, one networking expert, one compiler expert, one typescript expert, one GoLang expert etc.
No, I was just in a different frame, seeking cultural significance while missing the obvious.

I expected something more along the lines of:

There is this cultural group some people refer to as WASPs, but they usually would not self-apply that designation. They are not a formal organization but more a fixed social group into which an individual is born within a particular system of social stratification.

Their cultural lives (and to a large degree their business processes) are organized along an annual cycle starting shortly after the northern winter solstice, even though they claim this is the date of birth of their religious leader.
During that time and before a new cycle starts, their businesses practically come to a standstill for a week of celebrations.

A certain subgroup of them has become highly influential in the tech industry. Their most prominent leaders and their companies often gather in and around the zip codes 94024, 94040, 94301, 95014, 95030 in an area called "Silicon Valley."
A classic is to publish who paid for what. So how much USAID money did they get? OKA would be more believable if the source of their funding was clearly stated, with who funded what.
Your appealing to authority with a lancet article but the article just concludes that kids don't spend less time on their phones because of the school bans.

Irrespective of brain feedback mechanisms after school it is still a better teaching/learning environment for students to have a device ban during school time.

What kids or parents enable after school is beyond school policies. Nevertheless teachers should be minimally protected in their ability to teach and kids in their ability to learn.
I think it’s worthwhile to point out that the HN and SO OPs appear to be the same person, and that both accounts are not only old, but also have a fairly high status (fake internet points wise).

It is not clear who they represent, if any concerned party. At this time, the SO post has been taken down, and it appears SO posts with the related tags (anaconda, etc.) are still up.

It seems a tad strange for the user to repost their otherwise seemingly-unnoticed SO post to HN, so my only conclusion is that perhaps they were trying to have it gain attention for some reason?

As other commenters alluded to, this all seems a bit odd.
Where does your intuition for how long actions take in a cockpit come from?

I'm not a pilot, so i have no idea. But from watching vasaviation on youtube, it always seems to take like 5-10 minutes between when they first radio the control tower there is an emergency, then they go through their checklists and stabilize things, and then they're ready to talk to the tower for the next step. Now add more back and forth and the time to actually fly to get back to a regular path, and 15 minutes might even seem too short a period of time before you've finished resolving everything and can now kick back and tell the passengers the end result.
I didn't say anything about "realtime".

But also, both realtime and non-realtime translations are real problems. They might not be your problems, but I for one use LLM as translators pretty much daily.
Ambermoon is a lost gem. Game is ambitious and well polished but unfortunately came out just as the developer (Thalion) was collapsing, leaving us with only the German language Amiga version officially released. Thankfully people have managed to preserve a beta English release (that mostly works... except for a critical bug in a side location and some text issues, again optional things I think). The game box is an amazing piece of art, there's the obligatory world map, a runic table, a short story introduction, the whole business.

The game came out on whopping 9 disks but was somehow still playable without a hard drive (loads and loads of swapping obviously). The only real weak part of the game is its soundtrack which... well, it was definitely an artistic choice and a half.

Anyway, Ambermoon Advanced is a godsend of a project and absolutely the best way to play the game.

Also read more: http://thalion.exotica.org.uk/games/ambermoon/ambermoon.html
While making a good thing is easy, avoiding harm is way more difficult. My impression.
I'm working on OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com), a tool for getting an alert when your team vibe-codes your product offline. Just hit 4 years of running the business.

Currently adding the ability to pause checks on a schedule (for when you have scheduled maintenance on your DB and don't want alerts during that time).
Rust makes it hard to represent mutable graphs. If I have a value that can be updated by multiple GUI nodes, I have to architect my way around the borrow checker in Rust. Is it safe? yes. Is is performant? for a skilled Rust dev, yes. But it takes me >25% more time to do compared to C++. 25% of a year long project is 3 months
That's just the chicago theme I'va had for years now on my XFCE, I think it's a bit lame to steal that theme (not from Microsoft but the maker of that xfce theme), put it in a repository, give it a different name, and pose it as your own work?

The repo literally adds nothing, just a name change.
Once you know that _usually_ people use white cotton gloves when handling museum artifacts, I find it a bit distressing that the person halfway down the article is not wearing any while holding the priceless 700-year-old pages.
I am currently a CS student in germany and our python lecturer told us at the first lesson that "we didn't really need to learn python" because AI was going to take over anyways and we will not be writing any code after we graduate. He then encouraged us to use AI on all assignments he gives us. He even allows us to cheat at the final exam by using LLMs.

I was about to have a word with him after the lecture but when he started talking about how crypto is going to replace fiat any second now I knew he was a lost cause.

I asked around with my fellow students what they thought about them and not one minded that they were essentially enrolled in a "how to proompt" class. When I asked one student that it was all nice and well that you pass the module but isn't the ideal outcome that you actually know the language by the end? He laughed and said "Yeah sure, do you think the same about maths"?
AI, LLM basics. A hundred hours won't even scratch the surface of recent advanced, but I’d like to understand how LLMs work and the main approaches (diffusion, RLHF), their pros and cons.

Theory of relativity. I’ve never quite been able to wrap my head around it. Given some free time, I would really want to understand how two simple postulates can lead to such far-reaching conclusions.
The problem is reversed. For companies trying, it's in their interest to wall off all their customers' info (and totally block all agents except, perhaps, their own). Agents are a nightmare "for personal information". Not really of course, or they are, but no-one cares. For companies they're just a really easy way to download your competitor's customer list, or having yours downloaded by your competitor.

Just like we have anti-scraping now, it seems to me to be in the vast majority of companies' interests to block agents from working. The big innovation of AI for companies and ad companies is simply that it may bypass companies security measures in a legal way.
It also helps that you need to have a certain _rank_ to be able to downvote on here, as opposed to the default rights you get on reddit.
It's questionable that the humanities teach thinking. This stream of essays by humanities profs isn't a good advert for their own thinking abilities, let alone their ability to teach it. In fairness this specific article isn't too hard on the phones, but the essay could have been shrunk to one sentence: we aren't allowed to fail students so they see no reason to study. That the entire explanation needed. Everything else is just flavour.

So if they're all about teaching how to think, where are the brilliantly thought out ideas for tackling their problem? Surely that's where their own skills should be valuable?
Mostly snowboarding. Trying to get 30 days this season! A few more weeks to go (I’m at 26)
I mule my account every few years. Just post something super-offensive to get banned and then create a new account.
> or employers stop relying on the signaling value of the credential

Employers haven't recognized such signalling in my lifetime, if ever.

However, there are a sufficient number of professions (e.g. medicine) where it is legally required to attain accreditation through the college system to keep the aura of being job creators. The average teenager, with no life experience other than sitting in the classroom for the past 12 years of their life and playing soccer on the weekend, deciding what to do after high school doesn't know the difference.

To make matters more complex, said teenagers don't recognize that not all people are equal. They hear things like "high school dropouts make x% less than college graduates" and think that means they must go to college to not suffer the same fate, not realizing that the high school dropout cohort is dominated by those with disabilities and other life challenges that prevents them from earning more in industry. Surprising to many, handing a Harvard degree over on a silver platter to someone with severe autism will not cure what ails them.

So there is really no risk to the system. The incentives are by and large already based on misunderstandings with so much religion in place now to keep those misunderstanding alive and are otherwise driven by legal requirements that aren't apt to go away.

Besides, even if all that is destroyed, the primary reason one goes to college is still for the dating pool. Academic rigour remains necessary to keep the quality of potential partners up. Tinder and the like may have tried to encroach on that, but I suspect it has only made it more desirable to be on/near campus to increase the likelihood of a match. Users of those services aren't searching the world over to find "the one".
People will really come up with the flimsiest excuse for lying and think they’re acting with a deep sense of justice and retribution.
My experience with "portable" software is that it's portable as long as you're using the same OS and toolchain as the author.

Other systems exist, and plenty of us are less belligerent about our choice of OS.
> You can't force someone to buy what they don't want.

The opium wars would disagree
Higher Education. A University. So, senior management are much the same as anywhere (although maybe with at least enough sense to realise that the mission is now different) but many other people are there because of the mission. Researchers, teachers, even if what you actually do is marketing, there's a very different sense of purpose behind that than if you were selling garden furniture.
I think anthropic is down right now too.
I believe this is no longer encouraged.
> You have to install the flat pack runtime to begin with so that’s one obstacle for distribution.

Only if you're using a distro that doesn't come with it preinstalled. But that doesn't make it distro-specific?

> And now I have to host a flat pack repo and get the user to add my repo if it’s proprietary software.

You don't have to do that, you can just give them a .flatpak file to install: https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/single-file-bundles.html

The reason to host a repo regardless is to enable easy auto-updates - and I don't think you can call this bit "smooth and simple" on Windows and Mac, what with most apps each doing their own thing for updates. Unless you use the app store, but then that's exactly the same as repos...
In my experience as a regular MacOS user, the "portable" solution is to install the version of make that everyone else uses (i.e. it's not portable)
Fast-Mcp: A Ruby Implementation of the Model Context Protocol