skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends what you do with the estimate. If you have to deliver a product/a functionality where X people depends on it to continue. It's best, in the general case, to overestimate a little to not have the X people preparing to work when they can't. If you estimate to schedule the task for the week, it can be more useful to be more aggressive since missing the deadline is less impactful.

For example, there are a lot of task that I depends on which can be completed in one week or three month. I don't care which it will be, I just want to know when it will be done so I can schedule other tasks before.
I have solved an incredible number of problems just by looking at strace output very carefully. Strace combined with Wireshark or Tcpdump are incredible as a toolset for capturing what a program is doing and for capturing what the effect is either on the USB or the NIC.
This is it. The value of Tesla is now the bet that Musk can just straight up transfer arbitrary amounts of wealth to himself.

They have no believable product vision, they have no moat beyond vindictive federal policy against their competitors.
Meanwhile...

> General Motors' sales rose 17% in the first quarter of 2025

> Electric vehicle sales nearly doubled in the quarter, rising 94% to 31,887, making GM the second-largest seller of electric vehicles in the U.S. behind Tesla.

Of course GM still sells way fewer (EDIT: electric) cars than Tesla!

(But the gap is closing.)

> Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) today reported March 2025 U.S. sales of 231,335 vehicles, up 7.7 percent on a volume basis and up 11.8 percent on a daily selling rate (DSR) basis versus March 2024.

> Sales of electrified vehicles for the first quarter totaled 288,796, up 39.6 percent on a volume basis and up 43.3 percent on a DSR basis representing 50.6 percent of total sales volume.

(That includes hybrids, which they sell a lot of.)
Show HN: Board Game Bench – arena-based evaluation of reasoning LLMs
Board Game Bench is an arena for comparing the performance of LLMs on competitive board games. While board games are simple for humans to play, LLMs struggle to even understand the rules well enough to consistently make valid moves in many situations. For example, none of the Scrabble games in this arena end in a complete game, it always comes down to how far the LLMs get before finding themselves unable to make a valid rule.

Since it's a competitive setup, and there are hundreds of board games that could be implemented, this arena approach shouldn't become instantly saturated like other benchmarks, although it's certainly possible for individual labs to finetune their models for the specific games selected.

A notable gap is the exclusion of o1 and Google's Gemini's 2.5. I may add o1 if there's enough interest, but the arena is a bit expensive to pay for out of pocket, and Gemini's rate limits were too low for me to add it right now.
This isn’t a good study. First, aren’t researchers passed treating all muscle randomly? Don’t genetics play a role, particularly with adenosine triphosphate synthesizing? And second, shouldn’t creatine have results for those working out 5+ times a week? I’d like to see a study of one ethnic group weight training 7 days a week for 12 weeks and one half taking the supplement and the other not.
fwiw, I did not have the same take away as you from that part of the comment. I think the intent, and the way I read it, was, "Even when eliminating bandwidth and latency as a factor it still takes 10 seconds to load."
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548212

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543933
I tried the demo, but I still don't get it. What is it? Is it supposed to be like a collection of productivity apps, like google docs/drive ?
The demo worked poorly, I waited very long time for many interactions, some didn't work at all (like changing font on etherpad).
So you're allegedly annoyed with untested recipes and decided to solve this problem with a tool that only generates untested recipes? You're happier to cook or bake something from a wall of text that wasn't authored by anyone with any amount of culinary experience, that nobody has ever read before, attempted to replicate, or publicly critiqued, why?

I don't buy it, that's going to be a strictly worse experience than trying out the first search result that has photos, is rated 4/5 stars or better and that has a few positive comments. You can always ask an LLM for substitution recommendations separately.
> You mention Netware, but as I recall the Netware function you describe was just "SEND" and "NET SEND" was a Microsoft networking thing.

It's entirely possible that it wasn't part of Netware, I don't remember the hard details as it was a very long time ago. However, it worked in DOS text-mode (we rarely ran Windows), and my impression was that Microsoft didn't do much network-aware stuff until well into Windows. So that's why I thought of it as a Novell thing rather than a Microsoft thing.

> the username included in the message is not authenticated at all

Oh.... oh dear.
The whole "they're fishing for cash" is missing the point.

They're fishing for literally anything. They don't care whether it's cash, drugs, paperwork violations. It's all money in state coffers at the end of the day. It just makes the news when they seize some sympathetic person's cash. You don't hear about all the innocent people who get railroaded on DUI charges and come out $10k poorer because of it (I specifically use this example because many states and municipalities have had scandals to this tune). The fact that the cash seizures are blatantly unconstitutional just makes them marketable to the public but the root problem is that the police (as organizations more than individuals) see the public as people who's pockets ought to be lightened and they have no moral qualms about engaging in "scummy but legal" means to do so.
There's also https://www.whosampled.com/
I have not. I uninstalled it two years ago and haven't felt the need to go back to it.
Real concern or not, this is not related to the discussion at hand, which is AI crawlers hammering Wikipedia, which is related to AI crawlers hammering everything these days. Here's the concern at hand.

I would like to read on Wikipedia corruption with quality sources (in a separate HN post, which would probably be successful), but that's not quite on-topic here. Not only it's off-topic and borderline whataboutism, it's also not sourced, so the comment doesn't actually help someone who isn't in the knows. Thus, as is, it's not much interesting and kinda useless.

These reasons are probably why it has been downvoted: off topic, not helping, not well researched.
even if it was, nation states are in competition with each other to attract business and capital. some jurisdictions are able to balance their budget by successfully doing that. its for nation states to remember, not citizens to show fealty towards

and in that subcontinent, patriotism is often seen as a negative trait outside of football matches
Most construction projects are the same.

That is not the case.

It is just that there’s no drama in on-time and on-budget.
Meiji says sayonara to bottled milk, a staple of Japan's bathhouses
Typically I would dismiss this as a bit overwrought but I came back from overseas last week and promptly was forced to drive in Boston, an activity that both takes place in the heart of US puritanism and perfectly encapsulates something that is frustrating in a way that could only happen in a place where "it's shit, it's supposed to be shit, and if you don't like it, there's the door" is a core principle.
> A UNSW-led clinical trial that put 54 people through a 12-week resistance training program found no difference between those who took the supplement at the recommended dose and those who did not,

Small studies like this are usually combined with others in order to get a better picture. Given the huge variety of ways to run a resistance training program, a single protocol study is unlikely to explore the space very well. So lots of small studies trying things different ways is going to be a more effective exploration of the space (in addition to matching the amount of funding that any researcher is able to get).

Unfortunately lots of little studies does not make for good press releases, nor does it fit the news media cycle very well.
>I haven't dug deep enough to find if any have an internal UART or i2c pins to which I could attach one.

There's some info for Kobo devices here: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo_GPIO_Extensions
Right, but how is it related to AI?

Is there just a correlation between crawlers that don't respect indexing norms and crawlers that operate in the service of AI products?

Or is there something about the sort of indexing people do for AI that makes this nasty behaviour more likely?
> Please don’t project.... This kind of language is why these threads get flagged.

As the person who you responded to noted, you don't know why other people flagged a thread. None of us do. That you believe it's due to tribal battles is your own projection.

What's not a projection is that many people chose to have a discussion on a topic despite the flag, and that's interesting, so maybe worth discussing.
Most definitely different types of particles cause different levels of harm. (Extreme example: asbestos.) However, we don't really have good data to quantify this. It intuitive from evolutionary perspective that "natural" sources would be less harmful since we've been breathing sea spray and dust for millions of years. Yet, smoke from wood fires is clearly still extremely harmful. So... my instinct is that the harm is probably less, but I find it very hard to be confident that any particular source is totally safe.
Why You Should Work Like It’s the ’90s
Let's just call it what it really is: a meme stock.
They're still profitable, and likely will be again this quarter. They also have ~$30B in the bank. Their stock price is in serious trouble, but the company itself has several years of runway.
As I learned from William Gibson's fiction, it is, more accurately IMO, a kleptocracy.
There's the assumption, at least by me in the past, that every image ever taken by any telescope has been poured over that nothing new could be found by someone like me looking at it. It wasn't until I realized that most images are looked at by the people capturing the image while they look at the image for the one thing they were trying to study. In a Hubble/JWST type image, that point of interest might be < 10% of the captured data. (Think of all of those images of new discoveries that have been so zoomed in that it's nothing but a bunch of pixels) Once they finish with it, it just becomes part of the archive. There have been lots of discoveries of people combing over the archives to find things in existing data without ever needing any 'scope time of their own.
Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 Mobile Platform
> I do not understand why would anyone believe that creatine can influence muscle gains.

This is the entire fitness/supplement industry.
Blue-collar workers are less satisfied at work, less attached to their jobs
The full title is:

> Blue-collar workers are less satisfied at work, less attached to their jobs than other U.S. workers
> I'm not convinced "software development is R&D, not a construction" is really true.

Software development being development (the D in R&D) must be true, surely? It literally asserts it.

It may be that some non-development work in software is inappropriately labeled software development, granted.
Sound Economic Policy Can Help Prevent Conflict
The only feature I want from PowerToys is an application switcher like Spotlight / Alfred on macOS (not an application launcher).

Bug report has been open for years: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/5962
Sorry, yes - typo! I take ~5g.
Advantech OSB will outlast conventional plywood by a mile in the rain. I exposed it, flat (the worst way possible) as subfloor, to rains for 1+ year while building my house with only maybe 1mm of fiber degrading on the surface a few places. Many modern OSBs use hydrophobic glues impermeable to water.
That's one slightly gross drink less for the gym then
Was a typo on my part. Too early to be on HN haha.
That's a quite elegant solution I hadn't considered before.
Sure would be nice.
In a country that respected the rule of law, evidence of destroying evidence would be punished. However, it seems that the laws only apply to certain people.
Similar experience here. Started taking it around a month ago. The strength gains I've had in that short amount of time have been nothing short of shocking to me.
U.S. tourist arrested after bringing a handgun into Japan
Ironically this news dropped yesterday while we were having this discussion

https://www.protoolreviews.com/doge-mandates-power-tool-manu...

Probably the only thing I can agree with doge on.
Show HN: Largest Open Source MCP Repo (280)
Ash here, founder of Activepieces (open source automation). 2 years ago, we launched Activepieces as the open source Zapier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34723989). Ever since, we grew total integrations (pieces) to 280 of which 60% were built by our community!

Now with the growing popularity of MCP, we built tools around these to turn them into MCP servers. So now every open source integration on Activepieces is an MCP, and we like to think it’s the largest open source MCP repo so far (MIT licensed).

With these tools, you can:

- Self host the MCP server or use our cloud for free.

- Connect any of the 280 tools in your MCP server.

- Provide the server to an MCP client (like Claude Desktop, Cursor or Windsurf).

- Ask the LLM to take actions!

For example, you can ask the LLM to:

- Add meetings to your calendar.

- Check your tasks on Jira.

- Post a tweet for you.

In the next few weeks, we’ll make the automation flows available as MCPs too. and we will make MCPs usable by LLMs inside our flows.

- List of MCPs and instructions: https://www.activepieces.com/mcp

- GitHub repo: https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces
My rec sailing team uses an e-ink chart plotter. I like it more than anything else I've used for that purpose, it really is a great fit. Unfortunately they're like $800 and I have no idea if it could be adapted to a general purpose gps. I have long suspected it just runs android but never really looked into it and don't know how much that would help anyway. https://www.maptattoo.com
If normal crawlers are a light rain, AI crawlers are a hurricane. Most sites can handle some rain, but they are not built to handle hurricanes. AI crawlers can look like DDOS attacks. The worst offenders will just crawl a site as fast as possible until it goes offline.
> the rest of their corruptions

the "corruption" accusations are mostly BS and the usual ideological differences

I'll take Wikipedia, with all its warts, over $BigTech and $VC-driven (==Ad-driven) companies/orgs any day, and it's not even close.
This seems like something Ansible or Saltstack should be doing.
1x% to me would mean between 10% and 19% inclusive.
https://archive.ph/N2bA3
Show HN: Signal MCP Server
Thanks, you know what, I'll just use a long industrial grade cord...I guess the lights and fridges can wait a few minutes :D

The only issue is central heating for winter as it's pretty harsh in Canada, but that's a bit too much for a generator I think. Maybe a few smaller heating units instead.
This would have been a great comment if you were that original 'why not use FTP?' guy :)
If a determination by an immigration judge followed by a BIA appeal isn’t sufficient to deport suspected gang members, how can we enforce our immigration laws at all? Do we need a jury trial with proof beyond a reasonable doubt?
If by "logical" you mean "practical" then the reason is that the study which cost a lot of money to do, the constituent studies that generate data, are more likely to get a press release, and that is how non-specialists learn about new studies. Logically, from the perspective of the university, being able to point out the result of spending a lot of money to contribute to human knowledge is important, so they publicize these expensive studies. The metaanalysis is cheap, and takes a few people's time for doing the analysis, no new expensive data involved.
I don’t think that fake deadlines are better than real ones. Fake deadlines can provide value but they indicate the environment is deficient in other ways: some sort of trust is lacking. The fake deadline is a bandaid on top of that.

I think you can get the same benefit as fake deadlines with real deadlines (ones with teeth) and without executing from an initial position of, “someone can’t be trusted so the deadline must be fake.”
I am one of the flaggers. I do have some idea and that’s why I said don’t project ideas. This is the exact reason. I am simply saying these stories usually miss the mark for HN, you are welcome to vouch for it.
https://youtu.be/iGL7LtgC_0I?si=V8vXK4QzF_lAfRjB

James Hoffman did an interesting episode on this bean a few years ago, very cool the work being done.
artificial deadlines really don’t seem to mesh with hacker and startup culture.

also, the FAANGification of HN’s posts is really a bummer. lately this just seems like a mainstream news site for large silicon valley companies and culture instead of the culture that built those companies.
This is important sentiment data because, in a forward looking macro where workers are scarce, employers are desperate to hold on to workers by any means necessary. If workers recognize their job is just a job and emotional investment can't be used to retain and lower churn, labor costs will rise.
Discussed on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547463
I only browse /active now for this reason.
This could replace the start menu for me if it could bind to the Windows key. I can't undo decades of muscle memory.
While not e-Ink, I had the impression that the Beeline has more outdoors-suitable displays. From the Beeline Moto 2 specs:

"Technology: Ultra bright IPS TFT with anti-reflective and hydrophobic coating"

But e-Ink would be superior for outdoors readability. I was looking for a motorcycle navigator when I found the OP article.
Search engine crawlers, aggregators, vertical markets crawlers and so on may give you visibility, are not so much, and are usually well-behaved (i.e. respect robots.txt, announce themselves with a consistent user agent, etc).

Security/vulnerability scans doesn't ask too much pages, at least existing ones, and usually come from few IPs from time to time.

But AI crawlers could be really a lot, try to get all your pages, and not always are respectful about robots.txt or your performance, u. And don't give you anything back. There may be exceptions, but the few you notice ends having a negative impact.
This has been known for quite a while? Even /fit/ makes fun of people who claim that creatine makes you bigger faster.
Can you share your thoughts without being so hyperbolic?
I sell and run union electrical work for a living in the United States.

Residential power in the US is 120/240V single-phase (split phase). Utility distribution is three-phase and virtually every commercial and industrial electrical service is three-phase, with the rest being 120/240V single-phase.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power
> In some cases they even try to compensate by doing it themselves (especially first-time managers).

It’s ok to ask people to work a bit harder. It’s your job to find the right balance.

It’s an error to work as hard as you ask your subordinates to, in service of an arbitrary deadline you cooked up just to put pressure on them?

> I always feel responsible for delivering on time, so I used to work my ass off (weekends and nights included) just to meet a random date. […]

Once I became a manager, I finally saw why they were needed, but felt guilty about using them.

Perhaps it’s worth listening to that twinge of guilt. There’s nothing virtuous about tricking or cajoling people into that kind of a cadence—especially just as routine way of running your shop. Emergencies, maybe—real deadlines, maybe—but run a respectful shop and I bet people will step up when times call for it.
Beijing: “I could take the train but the public transit is so useful and frequent that it’s crowded so I took a taxi :’(“

My medium sized American city: “what train? What bus? What taxi?
EV sales growth has been slowing.

EV sales have continued to increase.
I'm still a fan of HJSON, and JSON5 looks quite nice, but this does as well. That's all I can really say. There are so many choices, but looks like you did really well on this one.
macOS’s Solaris-inspired dtrace is actually nicer, especially the UI.
Deadlines aren't for tech teams. Their for anal upper management more concerned with quarterly financials than deliverables and stake holders who fundamentally do not understand how tech works.

When someone asks for a deadline, the answer should be "it gets done when it gets done."

But if you are a technical who is being asked, the correct answer is the real estimated timeline + at least 2 weeks, depending on complexity.

Wasn't agile created to solve this BS? Why is this still even a discussion? I have got better things to do than waste time answering stupid questions form stupid managers.
The main point of this article is that you need fake deadlines so that people don't take too much time working on things—and that's simply not true. The best teams I worked on did not have fake deadlines but still moved fast (noticeably faster than peer teams in the same org) because we felt real ownership over what we were doing; intrinsic motivation is far stronger than extrinsic motivation.

If you actually trust the people doing the work—and if you fervently believe in Parkinson's Law, you don't—you wouldn't reach for fake deadlines, you would just ask people for what you need, and give them enough context to persuade them.

You can just go and ask: "how can we get something useful out faster so that downstream team X can start experimenting with our system?". As long as you trust the team and you've managed to get the team to trust you, why wouldn't they try to do that?

I mean, there might be some real reasons not to hurry in any specific situation, but if there are you would talk about it. And maybe those reasons are strong enough that you shouldn't be trying to get something out faster just then! Or maybe there's a mismatch in your understanding of the situation that needs to be sorted out. Or maybe the team really does need to change their approach to get something out faster, even if there are real costs to doing that. Getting to that conclusion bottom-up with the team is going to be way more productive, less stressful and less trust-destroying than imposing and then missing fake deadlines.
Yes, I understand. And sorry to hear that. But I'm trying to understand how it is related to AI. How come this is happening with AI crawlers but not with traditional web index crawlers. If the pattern is so common (which is confirmed by multiple credible sources) there must be some interesting and potentially useful explanation.
> It’s completely ok to not have anything external happen when the deadline arrives! That doesn’t mean the effort to meet it was wasted. You built trust with the rest of the organization and you freed yourself to work on other things.

Does it usually motivate people to work hard, when they know the outcome of the crunch is "more trust with the rest of the organization" and "now I can work on other things"? Sounds pretty dystopian to me, and not all what motives me to do good work.

I think if someone pushed me to deliver something urgently to hit a deadline, I'd expect that deadline to have some sort of meaning, not just "now others trust you more". If no one actually needed that thing at that date, why was I being rushed to finish that specific thing for that specific date?