skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is maybe not in the spirit of OP's question, but I do it by having successfully made the case early in my company's lifetime that we should open-source most of our code.

Nearly every piece of code I write at work is part of one of those public, Apache-licensed code bases. Which means I spend most of my time working on OSS.

Are these projects the kind of thing anyone else will ever use? Probably not, so long as the company stays in business. The business case my team made was focused on transparency and long-term viability: our customers can see exactly what we're doing with their data and how our systems work, and if we go under, they have a realistic way to continue using our software. This hasn't ended up being a huge selling point, but customers have definitely mentioned it as one of the things they liked about us.
I see no hint of an audio recording having been made, much less surviving & digitized, in the original article's description: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-histo... It's too detailed to be retroactive notes by Simon or Borges, so I would guess Borges's secretary or a student simply transcribed it as they went.
I assume you mean the line near the handles on this Corolla [1]? That whole part of the car is doing a lot of different things.

1. Flat vertical panels are a no-no. Adding creases increases buckling resistance.

2. That's a hugely important area for cabin noise because the side mirrors cause turbulence and the vehicle body needs a channel to constrain the turbulent flow and flex as little as possible near the door seals.

3. The skin needs to expand outwards from the line of the pillars to fit the window mechanisms, the handles/locks, and the side impact protection without intruding into the cabin space.

4. It makes the car look more sporty and interesting. The technical term for the crease itself is "character line", and it's the main reason why the Corolla has one. It's visual reinforcement for the modern standard combo of low hoods-high trunks that's considered attractive styling.

5. The greenhouse (cabin) narrows towards the top for rollover safety and aerodynamic reasons (a.k.a tumblehome), and this needs to blend with the rest of the body in a visually appealing way. The cybertruck is a good example of how unusual it can look if this is just a straight line on the body. Here's a comparison between the current design and an ai-generated "rounded" design [2] [3].

[1] https://file.kelleybluebookimages.com/kbb/base/evox/CP/44005...

[2] https://www.motortrend.com/files/67a2770e2906d20008bad29f/1-...

[3] https://static0.carbuzzimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploa...
Unless you're extremely privileged, privacy does play a role in every feature. There is no user experience if you're imprisoned for speaking your mind and your government intelligence has pwned Telegram servers.

Making a smooth app isn't that hard. Inventing the cryptographic protocols to enable group management without server-side control, and proving their security is the hard part. Something Telegram's developers haven't the faintest idea of how to do.
Would it be possible to give him a new username for this role like “darn”?

Then we can continue confusing the beginnings of comments that appeal to authority as interjections.
Because we all know there is no amount of factory manual labour going on in China.

Did you even think for a second before writting this?
The article is pretty light on details so I'm going to ask: why should I get this compared to something like fastmail or protonmail? Does it at least have end to end encryption? Is this just going to be a case of Mozilla partnering with another service provider (eg. mullvad for mozilla vpn), slapping their logo on it, and collecting a royalty?
Even when it is directly connected - ie. the people will see much higher prices copy pasted everywhere due to the Trump’s import taxes while Trump will be giving to the billionaires the tax cut financed by the tariffs - and the people will still cheer up on Trump.
A Man Who Almost Broke Math (and Himself) [video]
I'm talking about some companies that should have the best IT departments on the planet.
Trump is using century-old misinformation about tariffs to raise tax revenue to pay for tax cuts on the wealthy. In reality, it's an added tax on all spending that accelerates inflation.

Tariffs are theoretically supposed to encourage domestic production, but rely on the false premise that all raw and intermediate materials can be sourced domestically at a cost below the import price. That has generally proven to not work unless tariffs are in the hundreds of percent. But at that level, import taxes tend to poison entire sectors due to supply lag instead of drive domestic economies.
Is this true? Are you suggesting that manufacturers are adding the packets for psychological reasons? Even if they are used up by the time a consumer sees them, are we sure they had no benefit at an earlier time?
agreed actually, I'm not preaching moderation or apolitical-ness, I'm arguing for merely acknowledging when a view is reason-based vs tribal in nature

see my reply to rdegges
Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread (2005)
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561809
Ah that's a good idea! Similar effect to this but I guess packaging it in a chrome extension lends itself to "set it and forget it". I also have some customization options.
Granted, the market for shared hosting has settled closer to $6, but OVH, Hetzner and Netcup all still offer shared hosting for $2/month, with a free domain on top. And all three are in this market for ages now. They limit you to static pages, PHP and a MySQL database, but you can do plenty of illegal stuff with that.
Tell HN: Google Authenticator lost all of my codes
Hi HN,

Today I opened Google Authenticator and found all of my codes were gone. Naturally I neglected to back them up, and I'm permanently locked out of some of my accounts. You know what they say about being dumb, Disaster Usually Motivates Backups.

I assume this was triggered by an automatic update of the app, so I wanted to warn people who might get burned by the same issue.
> When he goes, all the voters that voted for him will still be there, and they’ll still have all the reasons they voted for him.

IMO this is a problem with the Democratic party not connecting with voters. Voters voting for Trump don't feel represented by Democrats, and that is something Democrats should be solving for.
I know you were, and it’s troubling. You’re ascribing a sinister character to a literally normal phenomenon merely because you disagree with the outcome. And a normal distribution anticipates diversity within the sample: if there were no outliers, the distribution wouldn't look the way it does.

This kind of thinking led to the term “mainstream media” becoming a pejorative term, even though it fairly represented the majority viewpoint. In a well-informed society[1], one should expect the majority opinion to be the one closest to objective truth. (Consider the old “guess the number of jelly beans in the jar” experiment.)

[1] Yes, I am aware that this condition is doing some heavy lifting. :-)
I used to live and work on tall ships.

We never had this issue, but we also likely had better storage conditions in that there was precious little chance of actual seawater reaching our food cans. Cans would sometimes rust on the rim, but I don't think I ever saw a can rust all the way through, despite some of them being likely years old.

This seems like overkill unless you are very convinced that your cans will come in contact with seawater.
1. Download Cursor

2. Tell it to make you something

3. Get frustrated when it doesn't work

4. Think about how to revise your prompt

5. Repeat from step #2
I don't think there's anything wrong with permissive license for a piece of software. But if you're running a business that needs to pay developers, it's really not a good idea. Very few, if any, people are going to donate to your project out of a sense of duty to help you keep the lights on.
I believe the standard for annotating the utterance of deities is red text.
That's not a good argument. The easiest way to undermine security of everyone is to allow portability of keys features. Look for example at where Signal fails and for no benefit to a normal user.
I guess the dots should be described as "average of all views"

PG explains it better here: https://www.paulgraham.com/mod.html
I want a *nix laptop around 6″–7″, with a modem and GPS.
A tariff of some +x% doesn’t cause a +x% increase in retail prices. The ratio is somewhere between 2:1 and 10:1 for most products, depending on the markup, local value add, taxes, etc…

The real damage is business uncertainty, inefficient capital allocation, etc… all of which takes years to fully impact the economy.
It tastes nothing like coffee though. It tastes like other things that kind of taste like coffee, like chicory. They taste sort of like coffee and dandelion sort of tastes like them, so it's a little too removed.
I think tom(a)how would work too.
Why in 4 years they will go away? Is that assuming the new administration will reverse course? It’s my understanding that generally country don’t lower tariffs voluntarily. They are usually bargaining chips.
A traffic camera never planted drugs in my car.
GPT Should Stand for 'General Purpose Technology' for All
From Lincoln to Nixon, Trump's not first US president to shock the UK on trade
Oh you prefer China went back to Mao's Cultural Revolution agrarian economy from the 60's before neoliberalism?

Did YOU think for a second about what you wrote?
> I can't imagine what kind of talking points one needs ...

> The Democrats did have plenty of policies. Realistic ones. Not the most exciting. If the public wants to be excited, and aren't picky about it, then indeed they should have that. But I'm not going to be able to provide it.

I think it's obvious that such an approach doesn't work; does that matter to you? You seem defiant to me (though interpreting tone from text is very uncertain); who are you defying? There's nobody to defy - you either get the results or not.

It's also obvious, IMHO, that the issue isn't policies but politics and ideals - freedom or oppression, humanitarianism or cruelty, power or democratic equality, democracy or authoritarianism, etc. How many bridges to build next year doesn't measure up, and if that's what a politician talks about, they are clearly hiding from a difficult reality.
That you believe "conservatives ostracize less than liberals" tells us 100x more information than any number of articles could have.

Ask any gay kid how true that is.
I've always resisted that, and I suppose it's fair to say pg did too. It feels like an unnecessary barrier between us and others.
> Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

This is an insightful quote. Death and relationship breakdowns tend to change everything suddenly and then you have to rethink your approach to everything.
Do you have some required reading to share here? As I remember it, the body of knowledge on economy is that tarriffs are good for collecting revenue, but bad for economic growth.

What is the phase called? What is this amputation and what spreading is it stopping?
> "You're basically treating everyone with kid gloves all the time. Never tell someone they're wrong, go out of your way to praise people, treat everyone like the noble protagonist in their own story."

The book says that a person can deliver criticism and disagreement in ways that don't make the recipient defensive and that people respond positively when their accomplishments are recognized in a sincere and meaningful way. As for the last, that's simply the way most, if not all, people are; it's a failing that's almost universal.

It's about learning to be a person that is thoughtful to others and considerate of the foibles of humanity. I suppose a person could use it as a template for faking empathy and generally being manipulative but that's very much not what it suggests.
Zig CC + Vulkan would solve most of these issues:

1. Zig's toolchain statically links with musl libc, producing binaries that depend only on the Linux kernel syscall ABI, not any specific glibc version.

2. This eliminates all the symbol versioning nightmares (`GLIBC_2.xx not found`) that plague distribution across different Linux systems.

3. Vulkan provides a standardized, vendor-neutral GPU API that's supported across all modern graphics hardware, eliminating driver-specific dependencies.

4. The resulting binary is completely self-contained - no external library dependencies, no version mismatches, no containerization needed.

5. You get forward AND backward compatibility - the binary will run on both ancient and cutting-edge distros without modification.

The only real limitation is for NVIDIA CUDA-specific workloads, where you'd still need their proprietary stack.

Furthermore, for those who prefer a higher-level API, Zig CC + WebGPU offers similar benefits with a simpler programming model, though with slightly less mature implementations and a possible small performance overhead.
If you wanted to make a donation to everyone, you'd use a copyleft license.

The point of permissive licenses is to grant the ability to exclude people from the enjoying the benefit of improvements.

I.e. they're not for creating public goods. They're grants for making it easier to create excludable goods.
the LLM does have the ability to send garbage output in protest
That example made me wonder if this was satire...I'm guessing not, but pretty funny nonetheless. I bet my boss would love me texting him the names of random people from LinkedIn.
Welcome Tom!
Yes! I'm a fastmail user and every couple of months I do a survey of JMAP support and come back disappointed.

Speaking about thunderbird, I liked their UI redesign, but it seems they are taking away quite a bit of plugin capabilities, e.g. there used to be the possibility to run firenvim (a plugin to run neovim in the compose window), but that's not possible anymore.
Lest anyone take this seriously, these assertions are confidently-misinformed, conspiracy-minded thinking.

No asthma medications whatsoever have utility as a chemical masking agent, nor are there any plausible mechanisms for that to happen.

Beta agonists (mostly clenbuterol) have been abused independently in the past as a way to cut weight in weightlifting/cycling/etc., since they theoretically provide a marginal boost to overall metabolism - but the effects are marginal. They're de facto useless as a general PED.

Widespread doping in high-level sports is absolutely commonplace, and it's very easy to not get caught - but asthma medications have absolutely nothing to do with that.

See WADA masking agent list here: https://www.wada-ama.org/en/prohibited-list

Well-informed paper about real evasion strategies available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03037...
Quantum Computing: 2075?
> If greyscale dominates the physical environment, then it's a reaction to something equally pervasive.

My impression from the data is not that greyscale now dominates the physical environment, but that browns once dominated. Presumably because things like wood, copper, etc. once dominated the materials we engrossed ourselves in. As we've expanded the paints and other materials we live with, we've found much more balance.
Consider it a blessing. Those orders were about controlling history much more than 'secrets': Many things done in war are later considered war crimes. Your admiration might have taken a hit had he started talking gleefully about the time he - just to pick a random example of things that happened - heroically shot fleeing "enemy" children on the ground.
Hi, sorry for missing this. I'm usually a lurker on HN.
Right now, it's just a general purpose VM that does the basics of what anyone would expect any VM to do. We are currently in the midst of implementing the MPC specific aspects to the VM, namely distributed computation and allowing anyone to plug in any MPC protocol they want as long as it conforms to our set of interfaces. We will be providing MPC protocols that we think are worthwhile for use cases that we know have users and as such, if you aren't a cryptographer but have a sense of where you want to use MPC, you can just use our VM and associated APIs without having to fiddle too much with the actual cryptography.
Unfortunately related: Tell HN: 2FA code for Google account gone after Google Authenticator update https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42510300
Capitalism needs justification. Neoliberalism is an awful policy. Do I need to school you on the history of US foreign intervention?
It seems a lot like the Emperor Joseph II - Mozart situation or countless others like it through history. You could ask Mozart to start a nonprofit, find customers etc. but it sure is convenient when there is a Joseph II around who appreciates the arts.
I thought their laptops were going to get modular graphics (amd or nvidia) graphics. Is there a schedule for that?
Scheduling lunch is a great example. It's the kind of low-grade information which would be marginally beneficial to adversaries (who might arrange to, say, bug a restaurant if they knew VIPs would be meeting there), so it's worth hiding, but it's not really of public interest so doesn't need to be recorded durably. And the downside of leaking impending lunch plans to a journalist, one time, by accident, is likely inconsequential compared to, say, leaking impending military attack plans to a journalist, one time, by accident.
Hey now, we're also using AI to automate debt collection phone calls.
Show HN: Compare Cloud and Bare Metal Servers
I built ServerSearcher (https://serversearcher.com) to make it easier to find cloud/virtual and bare-metal servers that match specific requirements like RAM, location, or CPU.
The idea came from my own frustration trying to compare cloud servers across dozens of provider websites. There are a lot of server marketplaces and hosts, but I couldn’t find a single place to search across all of them with proper filters. So I made one.

ServerSearcher indexes servers from a few providers but I have only just started and there are more providers being added at the moment.

Next I'll be looking at adding GPU support as that was a second frustration.
Public data is incompatible with secrecy. Expunged records still appear in newspapers archives if the local reporter on the Crimes beat captured the proceedings. IMO, "expunged" means removed from Official court records - not from the public memory, including newspapers, archived websites, police blotters and prosecutors' files.
Yeah, Bill Clinton is a very effective speaker; wow. Or compare people like JFK or Bobby Kennedy - look up their speeches. Or Ronald Reagan, to be bipartisan. It's like the Dems have forgotten that leadership involves vision, charisma, inspiration, courage, ...

However, I was referring to the lack of a mechanism. Whatever the Dems say, almost nobody hears it. Name a major statement by a Democrat in the last week? In the last month?
Why? He isn't relevant to HN at all. Is every celebrity death newsworthy on HN now?
I use excalidraw, even upgraded to pro out of my own pocket. It's not git-compatible in the sense that it's not text (though you can export to SVG and commit that, which I've done). But I love that it has the feel of an approximation or just a quick sketch rather than a formal promise of how a system works.

When I've used dot or mermaid to build diagrams I've always found it hard to specify layout, colours and sizes, which I use to emphasise different views on a system. I'd love some sort of middle ground where I get the benefits of version control but also the sketch-like character of excalidraw
Good call. Oracle does charge somewhat reasonable $8.50/TB after the first 10TB/month. Despite my dislike of Oracle it's not a terrible choice for this until you get some serious traffic.
Every task is different. There are some “dimensions of complexity” that affect where to operate on the “vibecode/handcraft” spectrum..

First is the degree to which your target framework, language, and domain are in-distribution for the model. You’ll get far rather in python than in Verilog, for example. You’ll get further vibecoding next.js than whatever people use for web apps in Elixir.

Second is the amount of context gathering. A greenfield project has no context - every project starts from the same zero point: an empty repo or generated scaffold. Large codebases must be loaded into working memory even for humans. This is why professional software engineering depends so heavily on getting into “flow”: https://i.imgur.com/3uyRWGJ.jpg

It’s just horses for courses.

My prediction is LLMs will get there; they’ll scale to larger and larger codebases as context windows get larger, and working out-of-distribution will happen thanks to scaling inference-time compute and agentic capability to research, read code, build understanding, and store said understanding in a scratchpad dedicated to you.
No such things yet. Just marketing hype for a product people are creating.

It's currently a blanket term for gluing together a series of interactions via code and relying on LLMs for interpreting input or creating output data.

LLMs, no matter how clever can go off right now an execute an API request (e.g. execute something in a bash terminal like `curl -XPOST --data 'blah' <https://api-endpoint>`).
The Framework 16 does have modular gpu. But as far as I know there is only one gpu available.
Didn’t Pico used to be a shell grep like search? Or was that another project?
The American people have proven over the past few elections that they don’t care about policy or the economy even

“It’s the economy, stupid” is over

It is now the era of “It’s the vibes, stupid”
AES-IGE is not best practice. Neither is this https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-ecdh/

The difference is Moxie isn't an amateur when it comes to cryptographic design. Wikipedia actually lists him as a cryptographer. The company has also employed an actual mathematician/cryptographer, Trevor Perrin.

Meanwhile, Telegram employed the CEO's brother who's a geometrician, which is not the same. You wouldn't hire a dentist to perform brain surgery even though both studied medicine.

Signal protocol's double ratchet is considered best practice by pretty much every competent cryptographer.

MTProto's main issues are not the teething issues of the yester-years. It's the fact every chat is sent to the server that can then read the messages. Telegram only has E2EE in internet debates about it's non-existent E2EE in practice.
Peter Navarro says it's going to be good.

>“The message is that tariffs are tax cuts, tariffs are jobs, tariffs are national security,” Navarro told Fox News Sunday. “Tariffs are great for America. They will make America great again.” https://inews.co.uk/news/world/peter-navarro-behind-trump-ta...
Waltz was Congressman from Florida before National Security Advisor, and it makes sense that he would have contact info for The Atlantic editor-in-chief.
PaulXStretch – Extreme Time-Stretching
Pretty unrelated, but if you are a developer and don't have a lifetime SDF.org membership, you should.
The title of this post is certainly a very selective reading of the announcement from the Whitehouse!
https://telegra.ph/Why-you-should-stop-reading-Durovs-blog-p...
The best way to provide feedback is by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. I've received a reply to literelly every email I've ever sent (all credit to Dang and Co for being extremely kind and consistent in supporting my inner troll rehabilitation effort).

There is no site mechanism to alert moderators about @mentions, and due to sheer volume of messages the site operators will typically never get to see your well-intentioned message.

This thread does have better odds of being read than most, though :) cheers
I propose it should be based on the specified accent color ("topcolor").