skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Are Squarespace and Wix sites worth it?
I’ve been involved in web dev in different forms for 20 years, but I’ve never done anything with these types of websites.

My questions are:

* When you register a domain with them, is the domain legally yours?

* Are there any SEO penalties for using these apps to build websites? Does anyone own a website or client site hosted on Squarespace or similar that’s ranking high on Google?

I can see the benefit for developers but I’m wondering about the benefits for clients.
Show HN: Internet button – April Fool's edition
A week ago I made a website with a single button and a live click counter.

Now I want to see how long it takes the internet to reach 420,000 clicks, except now you can unclick the button to decrease the counter.

There are no rate limits and no CF anti bot protection, go crazy.
The non-profit and staff were largely responsible for meatspace events such as writing camps for kids, resources for teachers, and supporting local writers groups via volunteer municipal liaisons.

The slides are really burying the details of the child grooming scandal. NaNoWriMo hosted a forum for their participants, including the children. (There were subforums specifically for the child-participants, so they can't claim they didn't know they had kids as users.) Moderators of those subforums were accused of using their access to the children to direct those kids to off-site places where they could be groomed. Then, when allegations of child grooming arose, the other moderators and/or staff claimed it was happening off-site.
Now I feel lucky to have gone to a school where universally the teachers actually understood the material they were teaching. The only poor teaching I had to face was on the teaching aspects, and this was only from a minority of teachers.
Yeah, and it's known that we humans behave pretty close to PRNGs. What even are our entropy sources? Could that be the soul? How litetal is "you are what you eat"?

I thought it's not yet classical, but not a new concept in Sci-Fi. Or is it not?
If that was actually the case Trump would have lost the primaries. Or they'd all be writing their Congressmen to impeach him yesterday. Trump is literally the most corrupt President in the history of our country. He makes most other politicians seem honest and clean by comparison
Lmao, training models off what is essentially a process directly inspired by imperfect "Good enough" biological processes and expecting it to be a calculator.

Ofc I'm not defending all thy hype and I look forward to more advanced models that get it right more often.

But I do laugh at him tech people and managers who expect ml based on an analog process to be sterile and clean like a digital environs.
> I do not have any particular interest in communicating with matrices; I don't really feel they have much to add to my world.

That's true, normally you multiply them.
It’s not just about passing prompts — in production systems like Ramp’s, they had to build a custom ETL pipeline to process data from their endpoints, and host a separate database to serve structured transaction data into the LLM context window effectively.

We’ve seen similar pre-processing strategies in many efficient LLM-integrated APIs — whether it’s GraphQL shaping data precisely, SQL transformations for LLM compatibility, or LLM-assisted data shaping like Exa does for Search.

https://engineering.ramp.com/ramp-mcp

PS: When building agents, prompt and context management becomes a real bottleneck. You often need to juggle dynamic prompts, tool descriptions, and task-specific data — all without blowing the context window or inducing hallucinations. MCP servers help solve this by acting as a "plug-and-play" prompt loader — dynamically fetching task-relevant prompts or tool wrappers just-in-time. This leads to more efficient tool selection, reduced prompt bloat, and better overall reasoning for agent workflows.
I searched for any link between OmniAI and Alibaba's Qwen, but I can't find any link. Do you know anything I don't know?

All of these models are open source (I think?). They could presumably build their work on any of these options. It behooves them to pick well. And establish some authority along the way.
Oh man! I didn't know him closely, but we'd come into one anothers' orbits on Google+ and he was a great source of technical (and other) knowledge. One result of that is sitting a metre from me as I write this, as he'd turned me on to the Turris Omnia OpenWRT-based router.

Pace, Dave.
Hello Greenland
LiFePO₄ (LFP) is overwhelmingly safe and cheap. Lithium isn't the problem here exactly.
I agree only in the sense that K think that politicians should be punished for their wrongs.

I would only see thorniness is the courts refused to punish Le Pen out of fear of punishing a somewhat popular politician, as this would embolden others to act in ways to break the rules, and would undermine the independence of the court, which is a core tenet of a functioning democracy.

I think you only see thorniness here because you wanted Le Pen to keep doing her thing. See? it works both ways.
In 1995, World War III almost broke out after a rocket launch from the exact same location [1]. It was only a coincidence that stopped the Russians from doing retaliatory nuclear rocket launches. So, indeed, launching to the east is not a good idea from this latitude.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident
It shouldn't be a vow of poverty but it shouldn't open corruption shouldn't be acceptable. Instead we should raise their wages a bit
Why should those who don't want to be productive be supported by those who do?
Formalization, correctness is about models. [1]

There are formal methods where the underlying model is mathematically sound. There are semi-formal methods where the underlying model is structured but not proven to be sound.

For example, in your case ("organizes knowledge") a formal method is ologs from category theory. That method assures that the concepts and their relationship in your knowledge base are mathematically correct.

When you want to transfer that knowledge base into a documentation system you might want look for a mathematically sound model, but I'm afraid there is no such model, so what's left is a semi-formal method / a likely-correct model.

Right now I'm building such a likely-correct model for writing, contact me for more info.

[1] https://www.osequi.com/slides/formalism-correctness-cost/for...
> We are becoming more interested in attempting to silence these comments/articles via flagging.

Which as always, is such a tell from those supposedly all about free speech and no censorship. You have Elon banning whomever he disagrees with or makes him look like a fool, press kicked out or people/companies critical of Trump essentially blackmailed. It's dangerous.
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say
Starting to put these in my hygroscopic fertilizers was a game changer. No more bricks of unusable waterlogged crap after a few years. You can regenerate the beads in the microwave and you can buy color-changing ones on Amazon that indicate their status.
Show HN: Prototype for New Computer – Lapis by Lapis AI, by Rozen, Inc
> In the case of the US, it's more heartbreaking because it's a rich country, and you shouldn't see people living on the streets of a place like San Francisco.

It is certainly not for lack of money all around that many/most live on the street. Money is the one thing that sloshes all over the place. Mental health care and friendly administrations of all kinds, on the other hand, not so much.
First, there are no Java GCs that completely eliminate stop-the-world pauses. ZGC and Shenandoah reduce them to very short, sub-millisecond windows — but they still exist. Even the most concurrent collectors require STW phases for things like root scanning, final marking, or safepoint synchronization. This is documented in OpenJDK sources, benchmarks, and even in Oracle’s own whitepapers. Claiming Java has truly pause-less GC is simply false.

Second, you’re suggesting there are moving GCs that don’t use read barriers and don’t stop mutator threads at all. That’s technically implausible. Moving collectors by definition relocate objects, and unless you stop the world or have some read barrier/hazard indirection, you can’t guarantee pointer correctness during concurrent access. You must synchronize with the mutator somehow — either via stop-the-world, read barriers, or epoch/hazard-based coordination. It’s not magic, it’s basic memory consistency.

SGCL works without moving anything. That’s why it doesn’t need synchronization, read barriers, or even slow-path allocation stalls. That’s not a limitation — that’s a design goal. You can dislike the model, but let’s keep the facts straight.
Markdown and the slow fade of the formatting fetish
Well exactly. Sure I could try hard to pass some Google interview with silly exercises and be lucky and get selected most likely by some interviewer who isn't one of the devs but works in HR.

But why? When they have so much management now and have just gotten so big that it'd probably be impossible to get anything done.
> That’s to say, it may be a legally permitted form of copyright violation, or it may be a legally prohibited form of copyright violation.

Where exactly is the copyright violation supposed to be occurring? Is it distinct from the 'copyright violation' that happens in the brain any time someone learns what a Ghibli frame looks like? What if I study Ghibli in an art class and write notes to myself about the art style, to jog my memory later?

If the problem is that model training is considered a weird kind of copying, what's the legal line between that (allegedly infringing) copy and taking a JPEG and re-encoding it as a PNG?
The few UX things can make for a really frustrating experience. You don’t want to push away your users in their first testing.

1. Change the word “gaps” to “blanks” for English audiences. It fits the common phrase “fill in the blanks” better. And maybe call it that too.

2. Don’t make the blocks move around for the drag and drop. It makes for a frustratingly slow process to find where the word you were about to grab moved to.

3. Don’t just correct a wrong answer, show what the user chose. I had too many moments where I was convinced the answer was what I had selected. Even using the red/green doesn’t quite make sense if you’ve replaced an incorrect answer with a now correct answer.

3. Consider doing the check after all words have been dropped in so they can read the sentence as a whole. And thus give them the chance to change their word choice.
Thank you for this guffaw
The irony.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-i...
No? I just mentioned the earliest case of US vs cartels I am aware of. I could have used any of the Mexican drug lord cases available (and they are many).

All including dea with intel and actual boots in Mexico.

The semantics comment was on the point that this is not technically the US military. Sure it is not the military it just has access to its personel and equipment.
Thanks for the interesting insight.
1. What would you recommend to model multi-thread or multi-process problems on the same system? Is there a good read to give recommendations?
2. Is there a good overview on trade-offs between CSP, Actor model and other methods for this?
3. Are you aware of any process group models?
This is silly and clearly fake.
probably https://minecraft.wiki/w/Legend_of_the_Chambered
Weight always is a factor since heavy batteries cost more to transport, period. It's always relevant, not least for the installation too.
Futuristic CMS concept – Flask and AI = a CMS you can talk to – thoughts?
I'm not on board with accepting AI-written articles. This is an article with little to no human input, farming clicks for ad revenue, that doesn't even link to the forum post, which is far more interesting and has pictures: https://secondlifestorage.com/index.php?threads/glubuxs-powe...

The article contains little detail, and has lots of filler like the quote in the parent comment. It's highly upvoted on HN's front page, which is surprising to me because I think there is quite a bit of distaste here for low-effort content to drive clicks.

The thing the article is referencing is interesting, but the article is trash.
I recently came across another new one that looks really nice - Canine [0].

I haven't tried it myself yet. Has anybody else given it a spin?

[0]: https://canine.sh/
Did OpenAI train on copyrighted book content?
Another one of these fascinating super absorbent materials is SAP (Superabsorbent polymer).

It is heavily used in diapers, tissues, water retention for plants, etc.
SAP can absorb liquid up to 30-60 times its own volume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superabsorbent_polymer
It’s not clear that those controls are for the video on first glance. I thought they referred to the exercise itself (eg, restart exercise).

I think you’re not thinking like a new user.
How is the support for LFS? Also, what backend language? I have some Go code for implementing an LFS server and auth but did not want to build a full code forge. All of the major Git hosts have woefully bad LFS management (e.g. if you want to purge a file from history have to delete the whole repository).
Yep, all while shouting "free speech, no censorship" and claiming to abide by the constitution. How embarrassing for them.
Well, on the flip side, I had a couple of classes in which we were supposed to "critique" papers, for the laudable purpose of learning critical thinking skills and how to evaluate papers.

We also were supposed to read the greatest papers in the field to learn about the field from the primary sources, also a laudable purpose.

Unfortunately, these two things were put together, and we were expected to produce "critiques" of the greatest papers in the field.

Now, I've told this story a couple of times, and always some anklebiter jumps up from the replies to point out that even the greatest papers can have mistakes or be improved or whatever. Which is in principle true. But when Einstein comes up to you and for the first time in world history explicates his new theory of relativity, you aren't doing him, yourself, or the world a favor by "critiquing" his choice of variable names, quibbling about his phrasing, or criticizing him for not immediately knowing how to explain it the way physicists will explain it after over 120 years of chewing on it.

In practice, there is no practical way to "critique" these papers. They are the ones that have slugged it out with hundreds of thousands of other papers to be getting recommended to undergraduate students 20-40 years later. There is no reason to believe that anything a college junior, even one from decades down the line, is going to give any suggestions that can improve such papers.

So what I learned is that I can just deploy a formula: 1. Summarize the paper quickly, ideally with some tidbit in it that proves you really read it 2. Use my decades of foresight to complain that the author didn't do in this paper something the field built on it later, quite possibly led by the same author (I dunno, I didn't check of course, I'm just complaining) 3. Say "more research is needed"... it's a cliche for a reason -> Get an A every single time, despite putting no real cognitive effort into the critique.

I did at least read the papers for real, and that was fine, but my "critique" was 100% presentation, 100% genuflection of the ritual words of science, knowingly shorn of meaning. Heck, even now I don't think I feel bad about that; I just delivered what was asked for, after raising the objection once. At least we read some of the literature, and that is a skill that has served me for real, in real life, even though I did not go into academia proper.
https://archive.ph/Syur7
from what I've seen over the past few years, a surprising effect of this conversation has demotivated a whole generation of people. its a mixture of nihilism and demotivation.

like with the 'privilege' discussion, even when defined as 'fewer roadblocks', people just realize they weren't born in one socioeconomic bracket so there's no point in bothering.

I'm surprised because when I look at some individual circumstances, I see lots of opportunity available to them that they can't perceive. They didn't 'check their privilege' at all, actually, despite telling trust funders of certain phenotypes that.

Play the cards you're dealt, but actually look at the cards.

On the same vein, there are plenty of people with all of the necessary resources and subsidies that do nothing with their life. Fall into substance abuse, or derailed in some other ways. Many now choose to marginalize themselves in order to "live their truth". Which means someone financially successful or acknowledged for their contributions can still be celebrated for playing the cards they were dealt.
Yes, it's called "How to lie with statistics" :)
Sure, there was never a perfect meritocracy. I believe we should move towards a more meritocratic society and hiring based on gender and race goes against that.
There’s no perfectly safe energy storage. The danger comes from the concentration of energy. Water can cause flooding or you can drown in it. Flywheels can disintegrate into shrapnel. It’s always risk management.
Movie theaters aren't dead - maybe multiplexes playing nothing than the same regurgitated soulless IPs are, but I love going to our local single-screen cinema, because they have a good programming: not only blockbusters; also old movies instead of just contemporary, new stuff. When I'm watching classics like Blade Runner for the first time on a big screen, it's much better experience (it helps they have beer on tap I can drink while watching, and the tickets cost half than in the nearby multiplex) than watching at home .
>but the computation is (at least) a level of abstraction above the physical layer

I think you're kinda right, but the tricky thing here is that the computation itself is physical too. The abstraction may just be whatever it is that the computation has in common with the thing it's modeling in brains, which could mean it, too, has consciousness, or is 'doing' consciousness in some sense.

If the physical process is "the important part" then that can be modeled in an abstract way, too.
For me the biggest selling point is being able to write application backend logic in Rust. That's a big win.
I didn't find this in the article, so:

You can "recharge" silical gel by baking in the oven at 120 C for a couple of hours. If you do, be careful to remove the casing before you do, unless it is heat safe.

I have a small collection of oven safe dessicant packs that I keep on hand for emergency drying electronics.
Are you aware of this thing called a "metaphor"? Do you also find it aggravating when someone tells you about a program that is "running" because it's not using its legs to move along the ground? Or when someone says that they're going to "take a rain check" on an activity that doesn't have an entry fee?

>You don't pay off a car loan with procrastination.

Following the metaphor, the car loan itself would be the result of procrastination (i.e. you procrastinated when you decided to put off paying for the car by taking on debt).

>You don't decide to put off painting your house and then call that a loan.

I mean, I don't see what would prevent you from doing that, as long as everyone understands what you mean.
Unfortunately, that 'sell back to grid' price is often only a small fraction of the ~17 cent/kWh purchase price from the grid. The battery is less for backup but is instead to help make economic sense for your home, by storing the excess you produce when it is sunny...
Neither are or were the Google or Apple of AI as chatGPT is. Just my guess that if chatGPT released their own phone (Microsoft could help with the hardware) that was like H.E.R. (the movie) my bet is it would become the next big thing.
I didn't capture why author decided that it doesn't exist, but I think it as most of the time is just not white/black situation, but more many shades of grey.
I've built austen [0] which generates story relationships between book characters using Mermaidjs diagrams.

[0]https://github.com/herol3oy/austen
You wonder if people who wrote those articles never played a game in their life, like not even Pac-Man or some kinda of gatcha game.

Funny though, my son used to play Krunker, and in Krunker there are exactly 24 NFT artifacts which are purely cosmetic

https://opensea.io/collection/krunker-collection

but one person owns almost all of them. He did see people with them in games from time to time. Krunker actually has pretty good trading mechanics that add fun to the game and you'd think it would be a good case and it works and all but there isn't broad interest in owning these artifacts.
Readability (in the sense of "How fast can the average developer parse code in the given language?") and proneness to errors are a thing, though.

Consider, e.g., how in TypeScript object literals ({ a: b, c: d, e }), object types ({ a: b; c: d; }) and object destructuring ({ a, c, e } = … ) can all look very similar. Same thing for lambdas ((a: b) => b) and function types ((a: b) => b). Also, additional parentheses are needed to prevent the compiler from mistaking an object literal ({ … }) for a function body ({ … }) when it is returned in a lambda expression. In short: Some of TypeScript's syntactic constructs are heavily overloaded and their meaning depends on the context.

For an example of proneness to errors, consider that in Nix function calls (<function name> <param1> <param2> …) and lists ([<item1> <item 2> …]) look almost the same and it's very easy to confuse the two and mess up, e.g.

```
let foo = [
item1
myFunction "arg1" "arg2"
item3
]
```

defines a list with 5 items, not 3, due to missing parentheses around the function call.
I use a food dehydrator for this, but the principle is the same.
And has been around everywhere else. It's not even defensible. Something is rotten in Hacker News too and unfortunately for the cabal, Gruber wrote a very popular article that shined light into their back room dealings.

Guarantee you it's more popular than the million "nautil.us" or whatever junk posted here.
I put together a quick-start guide to F# Computation Expressions — showing how you can go from C# async/await all the way to Result<> workflows with let!... and!... expressions, and even a custom validation {} CE. [0]

This is a practical side of F# that doesn’t get enough spotlight — but one I’m using daily.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42636791
What is the ETA on the kit shipping if I pre-order one?
Given that a tiger is different from a brain state:

If I am thinking about a tiger, then what I am thinking about is not my brain state. So that which I am thinking about is different from (as in, cannot be identified with) my brain state.
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