skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you check elsewhere in this thread, the author decided on Python to test out AI capabilities — they could have built it quickly in a language of their choice. I am sure I could have built it quickly in Python to a higher standard of quality.

Perhaps they wouldn't have built it because they did not set the time aside for it, like they did for this experiment (+ the blog post).
I read about some here...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu...

don't know if they're cherry-picking
Sure, readability is a quality of a font, and older fonts can be worse at it. But it's hard to use just readability to justify yet another designer pushing yet another font as a "A versatile, modern, humanist sans-serif with a neutral aesthetic, designed for legibility in both digital and print applications" by just that.

If it were a non-fashion criteria, surely we'd be hitting a local maximum on readability.

I don't need or want my everyday use font to "affect" me, or to "make impact" -- that's the branding world, again, and not aligned with readability.
Many Freedesktop-projects have very beautiful/elegant/professional/clear C code, e.g.:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/src/amd...

Also Blender, Chrome, FFmpeg, LLVM are examples for large and long scale projects codebases, that are almost like old vs. new brain, meaning there are old low-level codelines and on top of those cumulates all kinds of abstractions.

Geohot's tinygrad is great example of booting up codebase from scratch: set conscious goal for small max lines of code (e.g. 1k), then code the next state of working implementation, then clean and refactor it to cut the fat off. It feels that code wants to shape to specific form and size depending on goal.
as an example

https://elpis.ws

now to the point, what is needed:

1. respect the reader, write interestingly.

2. write as you think is necessary, do not bend to fashion

3. no advertising! no social components

4. only RSS subscription no other methods

5. reading should be like in old magazines,
so that the reader really gets the impression that he is
reading old magazines, and not an advertising catalog

thats it :=)
On an ecological scale, it isn’t the heat that is a problem, it is the speed it is increasing.

In the past, temperature changes have been slow enough for evolution and ecological systems to adapt, but now it is happening fast enough that these systems can’t adapt fast enough.
Conservation of what? Exact state of the ecosystem today? That goes until the next comet hits the Earth. And eventually all the life dies out when Earth core gets colder and volcanism ends. But with humans there is a chance to save and spread the life in general by moving to other planets, and using other yet unknown technologies.
Given (from what I remember from Numberphile) you can't write Graham's number down in the observable universe, how are you going to make sure that the loop terminates after outputting Graham's number of bytes? Because you definitely can't put `if count > G` in there...
'A case study in groupthink': were liberals wrong about the pandemic?
I wouldn't say it's important, I'm merey speculating on the likely outcomes of VC bros hitching their wagons to a specific political movement, and the public's demand for action after a financial crisis.
and what segments of the population do you think that structure helps in which segments do you think that hurts?
Or, the propensity to discount ingenuity and capability and to inflate the usefulness of doom based messaging, never really changes and I now find it ineffective and unmotivating.

And I will tell my kids (and you) that it's better to believe you can make positive changes than to try to bring about negative emotions in people all the time.

Don't tell me what to feel, show me what to do.
For those of you who are put off from trying the game by the category for today’s puzzle being sports, note there are other puzzles from prior days with more general topics.

Click the calendar icon at top of page for the archive.
Being the the previous poster was talking about their hunting practices it sounds like that is how they get water that has a bit of nutrient value.
> LLMs learn from examples where the logits are not probabilities, but how a given sentence continues (only one token is set to 1).

But enough data implies probabilities. Consider 2 sentences:

"For breakfast I had oats"

"For breakfast I had eggs"

Training on this data, how do you complete "For breakfast I had..."?

There is no best deterministic answer. The best answer is a 50/50 probability distribution over "oats" and "eggs"
Show HN: Turbocontent – Social media content generator with visual mockups
Does Russia have a comparably large automotive manufacturing industry & related industry in comparison to the U.S.?

I fail to see how public transit to shopping center in Russia is counter to my point that America likes to consume cars and that better public transit in the U.S. would hurt the selling (i.e consumption) of cars.

Also, again:

> Additionally there is a lack of infrastructure and culture to keep public transit clean.
Heyy I just build my first project I would like for everyone to try it, its all free I just use the test payment in stripe, maybe its helpful for someone
I don't have a lot to add other than I'm still using a T61p several times a week. It's got by far the best screen[1] I've ever had on a laptop and the keyboard is also lovely.

It's running Win7 and I only use it for RDP onto work. The battery is screwed, perhaps lasts 10 seconds so just enough to cover quickly moving it.

[1] 1920 x 1200 and very matt. It's just stunningly clear and easy on the eyes with great colour rendition.
i came to the opposite conclusion. people are vastly different. interestingly initially i was only traveling in western countries and i paid attention to the differences between say europeans and americans, western and eastern europeans, etc. there were plenty of differences, but those differences disappeared when i reached asia. i found a culture and attitude that is vastly different from everything western. while one year in new zealand was enough to learn about it. 15 years in china aren't.
And then coal mining will be highly paid work, as it should be.
The exact same as normal.

Even before AI you would have candidates of varying skill level so your coding questions should have always scaled depending on the skill of the candidate.

The purpose is not to check if you've memorized some algorithms - it's to verify that you're capable of mentally constructing the model of a problem in your head, thinking through it in a structured way, etc.

Giving a candidate access to AI doesn't eliminate the need to do that.
I think it’s pretty good, and it’s good to hear they’re working on better deploys and UX. But the big thing to note is backups. There just isn’t a good way to use this with critical data without bolting on some kind of custom backup solution. I am always terrified the hetzner server with all my random stuff will die before I get around to implementing a solution.
>The US should have caught this before she came in here but didn't.

How? Unless she said, on her (tourist) visa application or when she actually entered the country, that she wqas going to be working, they wouldn't know.

Years ago, my ex-wife came to he U.S. on a tourist visa specifically to work as an au pair. The agency she worked with and the family she worked for, all told her just to say she was coming here on vacation. No one at (then) INS ever knew. (When we decided to get married, she went home and we went through the seris K visa process.)
I'd definitely be curious to see if another session provides higher quality code — good luck, and thanks for taking this amicably!
The US has 2.5x the incarceration rate of China, and 1.8x the incarceration rate of Russia. How's that for "authoritarian regime"? Or is this "different" somehow?
Those who do not understand how AI works might think that it might correct all the falsehoods that come along. But if an LLM is trained on data full of errors and falsehoods, then the resulting model will only reenforce them rather than correct them.
Co-op is a UK supermarket chain and the brand used for the food retail business of The Co-operative Group, one of the world's largest consumer co-operatives.

This is the Exeter branch.
Is there utility for a software engineer to understand ML concepts to a deep degree if they don’t perform research?

Trying to gauge where I should focus learning for my career (which i don’t plan to do research in)

Roughly I see a gap in businesses needing AI/ML implemented, but outside some debugging, would it be worthwhile to develop a model from scratch or would some off the shelf model for use case X, tuned a bit, likely fit most use cases for a standard business?
Congress is 55-ish% Trump’s party and 45-ish% everyone else. Nobody in the Trump party would ever, ever, ever do something Trump didn’t want. The entire party platform is basically “whatever Trump wants”. Anyone who disagrees was primaried out of existence long ago.

There is no congress any more, not as an independent body. There is Trump, and there is a body of people who will, in the majority, do anything Trump wants them to do, and is not independent in any way.
Analyzing and Exploiting Memory Hierarchy Parallelism with MLP Stacks [pdf]
Tell that to Typescript and Azure teams, what can we say when DevDiv decides to bet elsewhere?
Also, nobody is crazy enough to argue that office parking buildings should have gas stations in them, and a charger is not an environmental hazard needing to have the whole lot excavated later, with the dirt taken out somewhere out of sight.
Hmmm, I might have a brilliant usecase for it:

https://github.com/ironcalc/IronCalc/blob/main/webapp/IronCa...

Thanks!
Works better when you're trying to hoard gold.

Not so well when you have a fiat currency that's also the world's reserve currency...
Anyone have a link to the study?
Unless not wreaking more immediate harm (or taking certain actions, like the one described) enables the wreaking of more harm over time, or taking further actions that result in a superior future strategic advantage or accomplishment that outweighs the former. (One possibility among others, no doubt.)
Cancer eradication seems like a clear example of where highly effective pattern matching could be a game changer. That's where cancer research starts: pattern matching to sift through the incredibly large space of potential drugs and find the ones worth starting clinical trials for. If you could get an LLM to pattern-match whether a new compound is likely to work as a BTK inhibitor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruton%27s_tyrosine_kinase), or screen them for likely side effects before even starting synthesis, that would be a big deal.
Ok, that makes it much more interesting, I get it now. It's the "execution eventually terminates" that is tricky. Thank you!
Question:
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/sr...

I want to change this to gitmcp.io. I directly modified it to:
https://gitmcp.io/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src...

But it doesn't work in Cursor. Even if I point to the index.ts file, it still doesn't work. Can anyone tell me how I should write it?
If you need basically rock solid evidence of X before you stop saying "this thing cannot do X", then you shouldn't be running a forward looking lab. There are only so many directions you can take, only so many resources at your disposal. Your intuition has to be really freakishly good to be running such a lab.

He's done a lot of amazing work, but his stance on LLMs seems continuously off the mark.
Very cool article and a great observation about the “French Touch” as a concept. The explanation is insightful and wonderful. It actually reminded me how much study I’ve done regarding the “Swedish Touch” which is best exemplified by Abba, Max Martin, and Avicii for the sake of discussion.

My one gripe is the caption on his guitar. Almost spit-take level…seeing a Gibson Les Paul Honeyburst described as “humble” is tongue in cheek, but the sign of a person who could use a reality check. I get it’s an attempt at humor, but come on bro, that’s a brag haha.
The book makes a reference to Portia, which seem to be quite intelligent jumping spiders in reality, in the sense that they can plan long convoluted paths and may be able to count.

Research article: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
Thank you for the feedback. That is a good idea. I think this would work well along with other tags like - turboprop/piston, single/multi engine, fixed/retractable undercarriage etc
I like this reasoning. It is like being sat at the computer in March of 2020 and posting “These predictions of a bad thing happening can not be accurate — I should know, I lived through the 1973 oil crisis” in that “nothing bad ever happens” is more fantastical than saying something bad might happen.

We are quite literally living the aftermath of a Bad Thing that die-hard optimists were factually wrong about at the outset.
The article has a few salient points that apply to NY and their peculiar tax regime, but nowhere else.
Because we already have F# with much better tooling. :)
Their initial launch video mentions using nodes for scaling

https://youtu.be/kzDnA_EVhTU?si=d5mFHpyOOk2Bzc4V
We are also working on backups. The only big problem with backups for non DB Containers is that they need to be stopped to ensure data consistency, so we are looking at some filesystem level options but not sure yet.
Yes. Exeter is a city in England. Co-op (short for “co-operative”) is a chain of grocery stores that was originally founded on principles of shared ownership [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co-operative_brand
Discussions:

(91 points, 3 days ago, 99 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555898

(48 points, 2 day ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562005
CAMM was not good enough to saturate the memory bandwidth of AMD Strix Halo. Imagine telling people to use a standard that is already dead on arrival for top end machines
Logos as in corporate designs, not Greek / Christian logos.
USB bulk packets have a 16 bit CRC.
StoryCraftr – Your AI-Powered Book Creation Assistant
This is why it's important that LLMs are implemented as a convenience feature rather than a flow-requirement.

The user needs to be able to see what choices are being made via an LLM (e.g. categorization) and fix those choices when they are wrong.
Well done. 2 observations: when pressing the letters quickly it does not register them properly. I don't understand why the 5 letter limit.
It’s not a math problem, and you’re wrong. The importer is not sending his nation’s currency to the exporting country in any sense.

If you’re going to argue any more on this subject, please come armed with reputable references.
Agree to disagree on if a license change (to one that impacts nobody but potential resellers) constitutes a rug pull.

BSL and similar are the second best thing (after open source licenses), and still drastically better than proprietary/closed source. If it allows someone to pay the salaries of the people developing it, I'm fine with that. And not only because my own salary is one of them - I had the same view for MongoDB, Elastic, Sourcegraph, etc. In the era where massive behemoths can just ship your software as a service for free, companies need to protect themselves as much as they can. Do you ever wonder why there are very few profitable open source companies? Most people would know Red Hat and that's it.
>it is so large that the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies one Planck volume, possibly the smallest measurable space. But even the number of digits in this digital representation of Graham's number would itself be a number so large that its digital representation cannot be represented in the observable universe. Nor even can the number of digits of that number—and so forth, for a number of times far exceeding the total number of Planck volumes in the observable universe

How do you write the halt condition for your loop in the minimal number of bytes?
> I fully admit that I was looking at Spotify as a user and thus only as a music playing widget

This is the key insight here. Software is not the interface you see. There a whole lot more you don't know about (and probably no one knew before building it), and asking an LLM to find some JS front end patterns that abound in its training data won't come close to giving you.

That is why so many developers are skeptical of the amount of hype around LLMs generating code.
>> There is a path by which these policies can be implemented without material adverse consequences, but it is
narrow, and will require currency offset for tariffs and either gradualism or coordination with allies or the Federal
Reserve on the dollar. Potential for unwelcome economic and market volatility is substantial, but there are steps
the Administration can take to minimize it.

"gradualism", "coordination with allies", are things that this administration is famously good at, so it's probably all going to work out /s
No, a couple friends who lived in town stopped by for an hour.
Fun game but you should disallow plurals. Overall I’d say use the same word rules as Wordle. Almost all my words were plurals and so were uninteresting, but if that was fixed I would play this!
This made me laugh. Thanks for the story.
Oh, yeah I see it mentions that in the article. I didn't read the article before commenting because I had read another article about this project recently and didn't think there would be anymore information. I was wrong.
good point, I read it as about websites in general but in this case why not.
Amazingly, this can be done in literally a bit over 6 bytes, shorter than an empty for-loop in many languages...
The list of great minds who thought that "new fangled thing is nonsense" and later turned out to be horribly wrong is quite long and distinguished
Uh, I’m kind of lost here - in what way is this discussion about music notation? I’m genuine about this because I’m mildly obsessed with the intersection of AI and the arts. Is the discussion how Claude is repurposing one form of language into another use case?

I mean my initial response to the headline was to knee jerk answer “Because it doesn’t understand music because it’s not a human being with emotions” and that actually kind of works if Claude basically is looking at language and using a pipe wrench to hammer nails into wood.
Exactly. Negativity in headlines/attitudes gets higher engagement - whilst the challenges are real, the opportunities are also truly astounding. Distance yourself from the naysayers.

Focus on the positive, the possibilities and what you can control and do. It's always time to be optimistic.
Not a fan or foe of protectionism per se yet getting books printed literally across the ocean and then shipped back on fossil fuel-guzzling container ships isn't my definition of an environmentally sound activity.
The top hint makes it bit too easy, but I guess if there’s only multiple valid words you need to narrow it down by some prompt
Advocating for free speech does indeed mean defending the rights of people to say reprehensible things, including those who advocate for deeply offensive or dangerous ideas. But it's important to be clear-eyed about the historical record.

The Nazis did not rise because of an excess of free speech. During the Weimar Republic, there were hate speech laws and Nazi publications were censored or banned multiple times. Hitler himself was banned from public speaking in several German states in the 1920s. Despite that, the Nazi movement grew, driven not by open dialogue but by a mix of economic despair, nationalism, violent intimidation, and institutional weakness.

Far from championing free speech, the Nazis used paramilitary violence to silence opponents even before seizing power. Once in control, they moved quickly to eliminate all free expression, banning parties, censoring the press, imprisoning dissenters.

So if anything, the historical lesson is that censorship and suppression didn’t stop fascism, and that once authoritarians gain power, their first move is often to destroy free speech entirely.

Free speech is a super power. Strong free speech rights require defending the rights of terrible people to say terrible things. That doesn’t mean what they’re saying is good. It just means that it's easy to defend the rights of meaningless or popular speech, but your own right to truly speak your mind is only as strong as the rights of those you disagree with most. Someday, something you believe passionately might be seen as reprehensible by the majority.
In that case, on a computer with an instruction cache, you can probably optimize your program by not unrolling the loops that aren't hot. Maybe you can compile those parts of the program with GCC.

Micro-optimizations are in many cases not justifiable, for the reasons Knuth explains in his paper. But sometimes they are.
Freedom of the press means you have dishonest press. Fox News is just ESPN for news consumption. Out of sight, out of mind. If they reported the bad news, these people would change the channel anyway.
from the article: LeCun has been working in some way on V-JEPA for two decades. At least it's bold, and, everyone says it won't work until one day it might
For many uses, the reverse proxy is the cloud load balancer. That's probably what the grandparent is thinking too.
Anything created by the Pallets team: https://github.com/pallets
Normally.
These aren't slice-of-life photos you can deconstruct like this, it's a professional shoot with amateur models. Professional models are paid to look happy to be there after hour three under hot lights. Amateur models thought you were going to snap a few pictures.

It's entirely possible that everyone in the photo needs to pee.
I believe it is very important to do fact-checking yourself. For me, this means reading original documents, court reports, etc… Certainly not checking the current NYT/WSJ/FT takes, as they themselves have to be fact-checked.
My mistake. I am sorry that early 2000s memories of Windows malware disguised as virtual friends is failing me.
From the post: All diagrams that look like the top image or the mermaid example after the complex one, could just be a list of steps.

For the complex one, maybe yes, it makes sense to have an overview and I think maintaining that vs text is also easier. However from what I've seen, most things can be boiled down to a list of 1, 2, 2.1, etc.
Yeah, even though people say they are shipping faster, the software my work pays for is not seemingly getting better at any faster rate.
everyone is using kernel optimisations at that size. (because it's worth it, because there's a well known pattern of load, file/chunk sizes (so I/O in general) and metrics to shoot for)

nginx is a big state machine built around epoll, and there's not much to do with the raw kernel ABI anyway (of course using safer and more powerful tools helps with the general quality of the end result, but not really with speed). it took many years for the uring ABI to emerge (and even using it efficiently is not trivial).
It's hard to see where you're coming from. With o1 Pro or Gemini 2.5 Pro I can give a detailed text specification of a module I want to write to it and it'll write code to do exactly that, with fewer errors than I'd make on a first try. It'll also generate unit tests for it. Writing a text specification then reviewing some code for me is way, way faster than writing all that same code by scratch.

Are you working on code that's heavily coupled to other code, such that you rarely get to write independent logic components from scratch, and IP restrictions prevent you from handing large chunks of existing code to the LLM?