skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have found the Gemini 2.5 Pro summary genuinely interesting: it adequately describes what I've read.

Have you thought about automatizing hn-summaries for say what the 5 top posts are at 8 AM EST?

That would be a simple product to test the market. If successful, it could be easily extended to a weekly newsletter summary.
That's simply rationalizing the use of tariffs as leverage for trade deals, and only makes it desirable to the US. But that was not the question. A poorer country that exports raw goods does not necessarily have the spending power (or need) to import the same amount of goods - having a trade surplus is desirable for them, and not necessarily bad for the US.
I wonder if Elon is willing to... lubricate... that kind of request. Maybe a shell company in Malta could buy some $TRUMP.
Sorry for the misunderstanding, Active MCP requires two processes.

1. mount the Engine and then `$ rails s`
2. `server.rb` to start the MCP server. `$ ruby path/to/server.rb`

`server = ActiveMcp::Server.new(name: "ActiveMcp DEMO", uri: 'https://your-app.example.com/mcp'
);server.start`

Then, with an MCP client such as Claude Desktop, configure the following.

`{"mcpServers": {"active-mcp-demo": {"command": "/path/to/ruby", "args": ["/path/to/server.rb"]}}}`
With T9 you had to tap multiple times to get a secondary letter. Here you can tap or swipe to get any letter without multiple presses. I think that's a huge difference.
We definitely need to argue about the line. This is the internet, isn’t it?

And, honestly, how do you know? I don’t think it is clear that all cars are fair game for all ads, nor that all billboards should be banned. We might not need a line, but we need criteria for value
Let's talk about the modern world then. You want to get away from the grind of working for someone else and sustain yourself on your own.

Perhaps you could turn into a subsistence farmer making every home product you own on your own or in a small commune, or perhaps you and a group of employees could buy your existing employer.

But the other more realistic method is that you would start your own business so you no longer have to work for someone else.

19% of all American adults are starting or run a business. It's a very common way to make a living.

IMO the idea of removing advertising entirely would essentially entrench the status quo even further. People would only know brands like Coca-Cola, Tide, and Apple, the brands they knew about the day the ads shut off. There would be no chance for other companies to enter markets because they would have no realistic way of spreading the word about their alternatives, not even for small local businesses.

The proposal is not just radical, it's downright moronic if you've ever been in the shoes of owning your own company.
A company can do R&D into new approaches while optimizing and iterating upon an existing approach.
I can still remember ads on TV from when I was a kid. Mind worms, embedded deep. And it makes me angry.
Note that:

1. Registers are not allocated individually, but in clusters of 32, and...

2. The max registers a single thread can access is 8 clusters (256 registers). The minimum is 1 cluster.

You don't really need much of a binary search for this.
This approach works even better with a firecracker-style linux kernel (faster to start), and with cosmopolitan binaries (so you can do qemu tests not just with linux): a bash cosmopolitan binary is useful if you want to test your bash shell scripts in qemu
Discussion (54 points, 31 days ago, 38 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261218
That Gemini 2.5 one is impressive. I found it interesting that the blog post didn't mention Gemini 2.5 at all. Okay, it was released pretty recently, but 10 days seems like enough time to run the benchmarks, so maybe the results make Llama 4 look worse?
Should go into production around the same time that the Primer does.
The abstract mentions:

> Here we present a full-waveform seismic tomographic model

So presumably, you would actually do the seismic tomography (if they haven't already). Instead of radar, you use the waves from earthquakes!
I bought a year sub to Copilot when they first announced it and I have no idea what I'm even getting from it anymore with all the changes lol
But the way you frame the problem suggests it's not tech people's responsibility at all. It's a much bigger issue of governance that society as a whole must decide. Has there been any society on earth that has made the decision to ban advertising?
Let's see how that 10M context holds up, 128k pretrain is good indicator is not a scam but we're yet to see any numbers on this "iRoPE" architecture, at 17b active parameters and with 800G fabrics hitting the market, I think it could work, like I'm sure next year it'll be considered idiotic to keep K/V in actual memory.
> oh i see. you were being sarcastic. forgive my earnestness.

haha, not sarcastic! I do think your work is interesting, I just thought I’d write "that sounds awesome" under your post that has made an absolutely valid point about unhelpful comments that say "that sounds awesome."

> I thought HN is overrun with men LOL

Oh, it absolutely is! I’m sticking around anyway.

Cool to have you here!
Many men aren’t happy about balding, especially earlier in life. They feel distress at their body not presenting the way they want it to (with hair!). hence, gender affirming care.
This was me. I loved my co-op job, but I had no family money and no prospect of ever being able to buy a home on that income.

I worked in tech long enough to pay off debts, put a down payment on a house, and no longer have to live in fear of a minor crisis bankrupting me. I didn't got rich, I stayed long enough that after leaving tech I could continue to work a normal job until normal retirement age - the thing that used to be in reach for the working class, but no longer is. The continue pursuit of money beyond a basic safety net wasn't worth the harm.

I still love technology. I have no love for the tech industry.
No, lol
But when I go to Instagram, I go to look at my friends posts, or at whoever I follow. I don’t go to look at products/ads.

If I open a product catalog, I do that to purposefully look at products.
We can start by banning ads for products and services that cost money.

> And how would that work over the Internet? Are you going to block foreign websites?

We just address the big platforms. No need to be exhaustive in the first attempt.
Google and Facebook sure, you could even make the argument that their non-adtech businesses would be collateral damage, but Amazon and Microsoft have substantial non-advertising related businesses. I'm curious why you lumped them in?
Wouldn't phone books and catalogues count as advertising?
One of the alternatives in the US, especially for issues regarding laws that infringe on rights, is to have a court adjudicate if the law is allowed.

You almost always need to break that law to get that to happen.
Author's points are all still valid and worth the read.
You can still have that with a count up timer (like the GP suggested) but then you don’t put people off like myself who don’t want to be timed out of games
Almost but the formula actually says trade with B is X, deficit is X, their effective tariff on the US is X/X =1 or 100%, the US tariff on them would be half or that or 50%.

There's a list of real tariffs for various countries here https://x.com/ianbremmer/status/1908609257756336239

The circular situation seems not so common but countries like Camboidia don't import much from the US because the people there don't have much money, so the Trump formula makes their 'effective rate' 97% whereas their actual tariffs are 7.9%. The net effect is to hammer the poorest countries.

Ironically the Cambodians don't have much money to buy US stuff because of terrible governments that got in partly as a result of the US destabilizing things by bombing the country. They don't seem to have much luck with the US.
If it has sustained an industry for 35 years with no drop off in growth even through a shock like COVID I don't think you can call it a bubble.
Having it disappear. I've been employed full time for 41 years. According to the last statement I got, I, and my employers, have paid in over $400,000 during that time. If I don't get monetary support after I retire, I've gotten robbed of almost half a million dollars. Musk and Trump better give me a big check if they're going to wreck the system so I can actually retire. Otherwise, they need to leave it strictly alone.
But should it contain emoji? I can copy and paste bold text from one rich text editor to another just fine. Why not use XML to encode emoji?
Me too! Much rather have herds of these than fleets of cybertaxis.
Start with just outlawing political advertising.
Sure, but often the duct tape and plywood makes it difficult to make things that are reliable and stay out of your way.
He is preserving power by delaying elections, and his party (who control the parliament) is preserving their majority by delaying elections. Many a dictatorship has been kicked off and maintained by strictly legal means with the help of a complicit legislature.

Ukraine should hold elections. Delaying them is bad. This is the pro-democracy position. Calling it "Russian propaganda" is nuts. Pretending that Trump's support of this position is evidence that he is controlled by the Russians is literally insane.

Fair enough--the one poll funded by the American government (through the International Republican Institute) found that Crimea wanted to stay in Ukraine, after 5+ UN polls found 60+% supporting annexation for several years in a row.

Is citing the UN data evidence of Russian mind control? No. Arguing otherwise is insane!
> Japan and Germany engineer those producing versus consuming choices deliberately

> Americans wanted to change that

Isn't 'smaller government' a one of the top mantras for republicans in the US? This is all extremely contradictory.
Most users are not happy with addictive apps. The psychology of something you pay for is fundamentally different to something that's free. If your choices were paying for TikTok, or paying for actually good entertainment, I think a lot of people would do the latter.
Yeah.

Today I learned about how, early in his first term, Trump told his son-in-law Jared Kushner to select a trade advisor, giving him a few vague ideas. Kushner searched Amazon for these terms and one of the first results was Death by China, by Peter Navarro. This is reportedly how this guy was hired. Navarro often cites an supposed expert, "Ron Vara" to back up his claims. It turns our "Ron Vara" does not exist and is just the anagram of "Navarro". The trouble is Navarro believes every import decreases the GDP of the US, an idea every economist except him seems to know is incorrect since at least the 19th century if not earlier.

Wild story.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doesn-t-exist-maddow...

One would think a "genius" like Elon Musk would be better at choosing who he supports when so much is at stake... One would be wrong.
I really don't need one of these, but I really want one of these. Still, I think I need battery life measured in "weeks" not "days" before it'll work for me...
Which rules would be different in particular, you think?
Is this a word game? In all honesty I don't see how it isn't just 5 anagrams with a related theme. I don't know if I'd call that a word game.
Do you think that is sustainable forever? If not, how long?
You may enjoy Peter Watts, especially Blindsight and its sequel, Echopraxia.

Watts is himself a biologist, with a refreshingly unromantic perspective on humanity's place in the universe.

(His other great story sequence, The Freeze-Frame Revolution, is some of the darkest sci-fi I've read since Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream".)
You can spell “this is the shit” without needing angled letters
Because the intent of the tariffs is to prompt currency exchange rate moves and/or defense deal reevaluation.

Everyone is reacting to this like it's a mystery. The architect literally wrote down the why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43594549
>> We'd just be freed from the increasingly sophisticated machinery designed to override our decision-making.

That isn't all advertising. That is the modern algorithm-dependent systems that curate ads for individual viewers. In the good old days of print ads, ads targeted at say the readership of a particular magazine, we did not suffer from the downward spiral. There is no reason websites cannot have static ads. Many do. The issue is not advertising per se.
Exploring Operating Systems: Daily OS Explorations
Why are there zero examples of 88x31 buttons in this article?
Billboards however are banned in Vermont and Marin County, CA.
And that's—a problem somehow shared by someone who doesn't want to be advertised to?
Lots of good gems

> And yet, when people talk about the labor market, they think “oh, a company wants to give me a job! What a relief!” As though having a job were in itself some special privilege for which a company is the gatekeeper.
>
> Dispel yourself of this mindset.
>
> A job is just a deal. It is a deal between you and a company to exchange labor for money (and other things you value).
>
> Negotiating is a natural and expected part of the process of trying to make a deal. It’s also a signal of competence and seriousness. Companies generally respect candidates who negotiate, and most highly attractive candidates negotiate (if for no other reason, because they often have too many options to choose from).

I'm far from a great negotiator, but there are definitely lots of good lessons from here that I've learned the hard way over time and through experience.
> switch-based bytecode VMs

I am finding a switched byte interpreter to be very expedient on my computer. It seems that if the # of cases is kept small enough, your chances of getting a good branch prediction can go up substantially. Something like a brainfuck interpreter runs extremely fast. In the worst case of randomly guessing, you are still going to time travel with a 12.5% success rate.
Current administration already made a bunch of radical decisions. What's another one?
Not thinking big enough. Make paid-for public speech illegal. Make speech free. Eliminates advertising plus punditry. Imagine a world where no-one gets paid a kingly sum to whisper poison into the ears of millions on a daily basis.
Do you think early startup product might be an exception?

Since whole features can be quickly ditched frequentl. Sometimes even complete product pivot.
The flip side is when you've carefully tested your software, only to discover it wasn't the software you should have been writing. Doing the thing right is useless if you weren't doing the right thing. An exploratory system that tries to figure out what the right thing is doesn't have to be well tested, at least at that point.
Sure. But that's one less level of indirection than if you also had to jump around to get the reference to the object in the first place.
But male pattern baldness is a male trait. So to affirm, wouldn't it be more of this? Men getting their hair follicles removed to emphasise this male condition.

It doesn't really make any sense to say that preventing a natural feature of men from progressing is being done to affirm men.
IMO advertising itself is ok, if not targeted by profiling user. I'm reading about bikes and I'm offered a bike or helmet? Fine by me.

Problem starts, when I'm scrolling $socialWebsite and I see ton of biking ads, because some Orwellian ad network is tracking me through time & space.

Then content starts to serve as means to push ads into my eyes whenever I dare to open them. If content is crap - doesn't matter - if I switch to other source ad will follow.

What's worse - many people were brainwashed into believing that's normal. I remember guy from Chrome team, who published draft for web attestation. He was convinced he's doing good thing because brands have "right" to be sure they're getting real eyeballs and he was just making this process "better" for the users.
Anecdote: If you are driving through Canada and start seeing billboards beside the highway, you are very likely crossing a native reservation. Billboards are generally banned but native communities have more direct control over their own land use and so regularly operate billboards.

(Billboards also also reasonably good as sound reflectors, reducing the highway noise in the community if positioned properly.)
NPR's Left, Right & Center discussed how conservatives are embracing degrowth arguments from the left to defend the tariffs. Economic growth and lower prices are no longer important. An interesting political horseshoe moment.
https://archive.ph/8w7Mq
Baldness IS a male trait. preventing baldness is about looking attractive, not about "being a man."
Presumably, they are excluded from consideration because manual tests[0] are, by definition, un-automated, and so are a bottleneck. Every manual test added to the "test suite" adds seconds (or, more likely, minutes) to execute, whereas the majority[1] of automated tests should run in milliseconds. The "confidence generated per time spent execution" of a manual test is far lower.

[0] which are discussed later - "Now, to be fair, most engineers are not skipping testing altogether. They’re probably doing some manual checks with Postman, watching logs, or visually confirming debug output. The resistance isn’t to testing itself, it’s to codifying and automating those tests."

[1] Yes, there are exceptions. That's why I said "the majority".
Read up on psychological warfare techniques. And these have been embraced by adtech companies and are being applied to children ...
> Surely we shouldn't want a US YouTube, a French YouTube, a Japanese YouTube, etc.

Why not? What's so special about having all content on the same website? You can generally only consume videos in your own language or others you can understand. There's generally only a handful of countries that speak a certain language, and aggregators would likely appear.

If each country had their own localised platform, local culture would have a much greater chance to flourish.

I know plenty of teenagers who know more about US politics than their own country's, who barely know local artists, who know certain expressions in English but have no resources to convey a similar message in their native languages.

I wouldn't mind going back to a world a little more diverse, a little less homogeneous.
While you seem to imply NASA is wasting money how many legacy projects did that Voyager era budget have to support? Oh yeah, close to zero. When a company implements an ERP system, a HR system, etc. the IT budget tends to increase to more than before.

How many weather satellites did NASA operate during the Voyager program verses now?

How many Landsats like Landsat 8 and 9 now https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/projects/hls

Anything like GRACE and GRACE-FO?

Perseverance rover? https://phys.org/news/2025-04-perseverance-rover-witnesses-m...

Were Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) missions ongoing?

Anything like the Juno project around Jupiter?

Complex projects like OSIRIS-REx?

Telescopes matching the ongoing requirements of James Webb Space Telescope?

Were there Psyche style missions ongoing? https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/psyche/
Honestly...I blame the internet (overstimulation from games, porn, addictive scrolling).
Would you be interested in making a comment that adds to the conversation, instead of whatever this was? The person you're replying to identified constraints that prevent him from imagining it - any system for restricting advertisements will either be permissive enough that it's ineffective, or strict enough that it will be abused for political reasons. This sounds like a reasonable concern.

Can you imagine a realistic way around this issue?
Good luck getting e.g. Formula 1 to take down their sponsorship banners.
this is THE definition of it
I'm against advertising that presents a simplistic, beautiful world — in other words, manipulative advertising. Which is basically all advertising currently. Nevertheless, there must be ways for producers to communicate the existence of their product and its advantages to the consumers. Comparable to how programmers put links to their projects here. How do you inform potential car buyers that you have built a car that consumes one liter less gasoline and travels 25 km/h faster, if you are not allowed to advertise?
jfc do some reading about North Korea before making idiotic comparisons like that.
> Some who

2 people (one claims he voted for Trump in 2016)

> attack American teslas

Also a small number of people who have actually “attacked” Teslas
This has been true since 216, let alone in 2016 or now in 2025. It will still be true in 20,216.
I also only use the code completion. I recently started using the Continue extension in VSCode running local models. They get the job done and it's free.
People like to pretend that baldness is just about men being vain, but in reality, it causes serious mental health problem. If you want to be a feminist ally, find the cure for baldness. Watch the incel population go down 90%. And women will be extremely happy with the lack of baldness in males.
> Probation only moves the activities underground.

That implies that people want ads and they're going to be consuming underground ads from their ad dealers. Which actually already impinges on advertising because advertising doesn't want to be secret, advertising wants to be as visible or popular as possible. Advertising is inherently easier to regulate because of this.
yea, so hard being a man… :)
'National Grid ESO underusing batteries'
National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) is consistently underusing batteries, even when they are the cheapest and fastest solution to meet the needs of the GB grid.
When plane is crashing, one wouldn't suggest the pilot to jump off to make the plane lighter.

Same here, if life has any chance at all to survive long term, that chance is through humans.

Sadly we are not all powerful and some species will go extinct before being restored, but if humans are "removed" these species living a few more years on a doomed planet is not any better.

Moreover, saying that ultimate goal of nature conservation is removal of humans is simply counterproductive, it makes people ignore the nature conservation efforts as suicidal mental illness, while we are mindlessly wasting priceless library of useful genes and proteins that took billion years to develop.
I know that friend, it was a joke
if that is a serious slavery problem , what is it thats libya having?
Here is your Visa killer: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...
No, that should be banned as well.
https://www.minutecryptic.com/
The strongest steelman I can make of not testing is that if your system architecture is a mess, then tests accomplish very little except wasting devs' time. If your data flow and module hierarchy is sufficiently bad, then you end up having no choice but writing tests with "mocks that mock mocks that mock mocks", and those are almost never actually useful - at that point you're testing the mocks, not the system.

The rebuttal, of course, is that even in this case the tests are still providing value - they're telling you that you badly need a major ground-up refactoring. As a rule of thumb, I've found that mocks are OK, but if I ever see or write a mock which returns another mock, that's a sign all the modules involved need a rewrite. It's not true literally 100% of the time but it has served me well.