skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but many on this very site would need to give up a little bit of their privilege to reduce the pain felt by many of their fellow citizens.

Agreed. However, by imposing tariffs it is not the privileged who are going to be affected the most. The pain is felt most by the low-skill workers you mentioned earlier.

If the solution was instead along the lines of changing tax-brackets to tax the 'privileged' more, that might have better addressed the problem you mention in the beginning.
Steam Deck owner since launch here -- I wouldn't say the Verified status is a lie, but there have been instances where games have received Verified badge status at launch, but performed poorly on Deck.

Some popular examples of this;

1. Baldur's Gate 3: It has Verified status, but the community unanimously agrees that the performance is very poor around Act 3, and makes the game nearly impossible to finish on Deck.

2. Spider-Man 2: It had Verified status at launch, but performed poorly in terms of graphics and visuals. It was recently downgraded to Playable status, meaning you have to change the graphics settings to comfortably play the game.

Personally, I think Valve's definition of Verified [1] is too vague. The 4 criteria don't actually mention anything about graphics or performance - it only says it should have "good default settings". What does that actually look like when you play it? Additionally, how much of the game is tested when evaluating those settings?

Valve doesn't actually advertise the process of how the badge is assigned, that I'm aware. Is the game 100% completed in evaluation? What percentage of input is there between Valve and the developer? Are certain publishers or developers given any bias or leeway? That part is still opaque to the end-user.

I think the Verification process is a good first cut at standardizing PC specs, where before there weren't any. But it can definitely be improved.

1: https://www.steamdeck.com/verified
> The u.S. didn't negotiate protectionist policies against their own exports. Can you cite a single example of this?

Oh yes the hell we did. I was running an ecommerce store when this happened, it's been a disaster for US entrepreneurs who have any model other than dropship from China - https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_037....

> A more charitable explanation is that the U.S. has been all in on globalization and free trade since the 1970s and the rest of the world took a protectionist stance in response. I'm sure the rest of the world had their reasons. But the U.S. does now, too. Globalization and free trade that only substantially flows in one direction simply is not sustainable.

We negotiated those free trade agreements. Stop acting like we were being taken advantage of. Now, if you want to argue that American labor has been hosed, then I agree with that too, but China didn't do that - Nike did. None of these idiotic tariffs are going to help the American worker either - what remains of accessible opportunity for the masses has already become more like sharecropping with huge corporations owning the plantation, and it's only going to get worse under these policies.
A couple of things. In practice, most goods are actually priced as cost-plus, with very thin margins, and any response in prices is highly asymmetric.

If the purchase costs for a good suddenly increase, retailers will increase prices very quickly because they would otherwise start losing money very quickly.

If demand for goods decreases, that doesn't affect the retailer's cost of goods at all, and if they were to reduce their prices, they'd eliminate their thin margins. From their perspective, it's better to sit on inventory for a while.

So any downward pressure on prices would happen much more slowly.

BTW, this kind of asymmetry is why a bit of inflation is good, actually. Inflation acts as a universal and permanent downward pressure on (real) prices, in the sense that if retailers and others are unable to justify an increase in nominal prices to their customers, their real prices will drop.
I’m interested in learning more about this. Are these APIs documented anywhere and are there server side implementation examples that you know of?

EDIT: this is the closest I could find. https://developers.google.com/chrome/verified-access/overvie... ...but it's not generic enough to lead me to the declaration you made.
Capitalism "Choice is good!"

Politics "Not like that, not like that!"

I don't believe that political views used to be narrow, I believe the political views you were allowed to actually express were much more narrow and everything else was repressed.
I have plenty of cables, I probably just need to upgrade my existence ;)
While the game itself runs over LAN, my understanding is LAN play requires internet for 2 reasons:

1. the game connecting to multiplayer services

2. coordination server for the LAN setup itself.

I think this covers #2. #1 appears to be more complicated unfortunately, and involves tricking Steam into thinking you're connected.
> You can always return games you played under 2 hours no questions asked.

Within 14 days.
I think this is great and I was thinking about doing the same thing, you could use a few different LLMs to do a kind of adversarial check of calories for a thing and use a load of other techniques to improve the dataset over time. It's hardly as if the dataset in something like MyFitnessPal is completely perfect. You could probably figure out boundaries too so if we know 100g of a food does the protein/fat/carbs/sugar/fibre/water etc. content wildly exceed the boundaries/totals you could get it to review it's findings, ignore that LLM, fill in from a different food db etc. etc.

Incidentally o3-mini-high got the fried breakfast I added to a tracking app this morning within 50 calories!
Thanks, I came here to say the same. Sports fandom is the better metaphor.

It’s lazy participation.
it was a joke, didn't think I'd have to explain but the key difference is I'm open to being convinced this view is wrong
> According to ProtonDB, over 5000 PC games are certified Verified on the Steam Deck, and over 15,000 games are considered playable. This means that there are tens of thousands of games that can be run on Linux in some way.

Note that whether games work well on the Steam Deck or not isn't reflective of whether they can be run on Linux at all. With desktop Linux, virtually every game ever released can be run, on any platform, the biggest obstacle being anticheat.
"The shocking theft at WazirX, India’s largest cryptocurrency exchange..."

Oddly I am not in the least bit shocked. Now if we found out that this was an inside job I would again not be the least bit shocked.
There’s no way this couldn’t be replicated by a special build of curl.
Ok, I'll bite. I predict that everything in this article is horse manure. AGI will not happen. LLMs will be tools, that can automate away stuff, like today and they will get slightly, or quite a bit better at it. That will be all.
See you in two years, I'm excited what will be the truth.
Remember when Piketty advised the government of François Hollande? They enacted the wealth tax and there was simply a ton of capital flight and nothing was fixed? Leading to Macron winning the elections and enacting a ton of conservative policies and leading to pretty decent economic growth...
The loss of trust issue is the one I worry about most. However, it's also true that the key players who we've implemented tariffs against have had them against us for years, and we've simply absorbed that.

I don't like the mechanism he chose to implement them, or the sharpness with which they were imposed, but I do think implementing actual proper reciprocal tariffs phased in over a reasonable period of time was a good idea. And I agree with you re: the service/goods issue. Them excluding services in their trade deficit calculation is by far the dumbest part of this plan.
Imgui_club: Nice things to use along dear imgui
A crown on a fool's head does not make him a king.
We'll also need to raze our cities to make bigger roads for their cars. Unlikely to say the least.

Or the US companies could do a minimum amount of effort to tailor their product line for the target market.
> ability to inherit these digital purchases

They have the (much improved) Family Sharing now, which does combat that somewhat. Still not a proper solution.
Check out Voobly. That seems to be a pretty big hub for people playing the original games, I think mostly patched versions of the originals with some nice features.
It looks like data is stored on US server, which defeats all and any real attempts on true data privacy. But since the company is a US company it doesn't really matter where the data is, the feds will always have enforceable access.
Remember when Mozilla swore up and down that they'd make Pocket a separate extension only, and not have it tightly integrated? Good times.
But people new to thinking about concurrency don’t know this. They write “parallel” code that goes pretty fast, and that initial reward convinces them to continue. Then the bugs are found, and their parallel code gets slower, but that’s just bug fixes. Never mind the performance loss.
You sound like you're having a bad day. Go take a walk, its just someones side project on HN.
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Does the author really believe anyone can transcend tribalism?
I mean, is the poster in question a senior robotics engineer? Because that's whose going to be working in any factories that open. Maybe they'll have some security guards and janitors, I guess
the odd thing, i suppose, is i probably won't use the site as i don't watch broadcast TV at all; but just for research, testing / using / tuning speech to text (translate and transcribe,) and comparing coverage of news stories it is invaluable. It would be awful if it had to shut down because it was linked on a VC forum where people often defend IP.
The thinking may be that the asymmetry in taxes itself cause a trade imbalance. What can the country do with the extra tax money they receive compared to the lower tax country? They can spend it to fund infrastructure, goods, and jobs inside their own borders.
I don't know who these people are that you're talking about, who only propose taxes on billionaires and not the rest of the upper class, or who have compared those two numbers and seen they are different. I would imagine you're talking about two different groups with different figures.

Regardless, "taxing the rich" is not one mediocre policy, but several interdependent policies. It's not just picking the 5 richest people in the world and taking their money. The transformation doesn't come from redistributing $20 billion (wherever that figure is from) but encouraging executives to reinvest into their company instead of trying to suck as much cash out as possible.

Bobby Kotick making $155 million a year while Activison lays off hundreds of employees is insane. What on God's earth could you possibly need more than $20 million a year for? That is not right no matter you slice it. That money needs to be aggressively taxed so it is instead used to keep people employed at a much lower tax rate, not in the hopes that the government can use it for spending.
Interesting. From what I've seen, the lack of empathy is the root of most of the political problems in the US.

If people put the welfare of others first, for example, taxpayer funded universal healthcare wouldn't even be something that was debated, it would be implemented with as much fuss as we have over painting lane markers on streets. But Americans care less for their fellow American than most other countries out there it seems.

How would removing what little empathy that there is improve matters?
So you would support criminal proceedings against American farmers/constructions companies/meat packers for using undocumented immigrant labor and punishing Americans for their high standards of living? If we are going to cause all this pain, funny ZERO policy has been about going after these groups of law violators.
I use GamePass on a portable all the time. There are many portables that support GamePass today. I mostly play GamePass games on a Lenovo Legion Go. Sometimes even cloud streaming.
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this is actually in the footnotes and addressed by the "thinking in bets" section

"[9] Fully understanding I can be the one in the wrong -- however, when this is the case, the person explaining is usually able to:

understand my argument
convey their disagreement in good faith without circular reasoning or rhetorical tricks"

"There's a 40% chance this succeeds because of A, 25% chance of B, 10% of X, and 5% something we haven't thought of"
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There is still a functioning system of laws in this county. Devolving into a monarchy is not a necessary condition for stable trade policy (and the particular guy trying to install himself has not proven a force for stability in trade policies, even his own viz. USMCA).
and it does, and has for many decades. This dual mandate makes little sense in practice
Far more likely they'll fully support GamePass/Xbox on SteamOS
Farm and construction equipment the colors are dominated by brand. Team Green Equipment versus Team Red Equipment versus Team Yellow Equipment versus Team Orange Equipment, pick your side. Each side is effectively monochromatic within whatever their brand tolerance is for their brand's color. John Deere's green is a very specific single Pantone shade and has stuck to it consistently as long as color standards have allowed them to be that consistent.

From a buyer's perspective there's still a choice of color if you have no allegiance to brand, but the monochromatic tribalism of each brand (and their loyalists) is strangely fascinating.
Show HN: MCP Server to let agents control the browser
Hey HN, we were playing around with MCPs over the weekend and thought it would be cool to build an MCP that lets Claude / Cursor / Windsurf control your browser: https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/tree/main/integrations...

Just for context, we’re building Skyvern, an open source AI Agent that can control and interact with browsers using prompts, similar to OpenAI’s Operator.

The MCP Server can:

- This allows Claude to navigate to docs websites / stack overflow and look up information like the top posts on hackernews
- https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/tree/main/integrations...

- This allows Cursor to apply for jobs / fill out contact forms / login + download files / etc
- https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/tree/main/integrations...

- Connect Windsruf to take over your chrome while running Skyvern in “local” mode
- https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern/tree/main/integrations...

We built this mostly for fun, but can see this being integrated into AI agents to give them custom access to browsers and execute complex tasks like booking appointments, downloading your electricity statements, looking up freight shipment information, etc
I've put together a directory of olive oil producers from California:)
https://www.californiaoliveoil.info/
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Combining this with the Postgres Language Server that was released this week, you can now execute statements directly within your IDE:

https://x.com/psteinroe/status/1907803477939527728
Nominal GDP growth was 5% in December. As long as share of GDP is constant things are sustainable.
Ah, CHIP-8, arguably the world's first fantasy console.
Only if Apple provides a stream of clean microfibre cloths and someone to lay it out for me and close the laptop with care.

Otherwise they'd better lay off the drugs that generated that thinness fetish and make sturdy devices again.

(Note that i don't see any button traces on my m3 mbpro yet. it's close to a year old. And I'm not the kind that keeps the tv remote in the plastic bag that it was delivered in, probably the opposite.)
Economic havoc .... on people who have more than enough money? Who will start to capitalize their cash to better compete?
XZ utils CVE-2025-31115
I thought about almost this exact thing recently. I hope we're able to keep the best games running forever.

For games that are fun I think you can leave in balance issues and even features-not-bugs. It's trickier for things like netcode bugs that are purely a negative.

Really grateful Id release their source eventually. Really hoping the same will happen for AoE2 someday.
Very cool, I love seeing pubsubs in the wild. We built an ssh based pubsub that we have been using in production for awhile now: https://pipe.pico.sh/
any idea how the webapp is written ? eg, what libraries or framework is used
The Next Big Thing in Carbon Capture? Trash
https://archive.ph/hUxsb
It’s worth fixing for sure, but between that and PCB flexing, to me the latter is by far the worse of the two. A lot of users will never encounter the first, but in a laptop with a flexy chassis practically everyone will end up flexing their mainboard unless the laptop is permanently desk-bound.
Mario cart is 90 for physical cartridge
They profit off getting kids addicted to gambling. Is that not evil?
https://youtu.be/VPQ2q7yVjZs?si=n_qRN3fGbzYTOtqX
I think the parent poster is incorrect; it is about precision, not about being compact. There is exactly one interpretation for how to parse and execute a computer program. The opposite is true of natural language.
There's only one nation's security interest that are advanced by an emboldened Russia.
Set a UA and any headers and/or cookies with regular cURL compiled with HTTP/3. This can be done with wrapper scripts very easily. 99.999% of problems solved with no special magic buried in an unclean fork.
Seeing as much of the discussion here is about LLMs, not just the shortcomings of natural language as a programming language, another LLM-specific aspect is how the LLM is interpreting the natural language instructions it is being given...

One might naively think that the "AI" (LLM) is going to apply it's intelligence to give you the "best" code in response to your request, and in a way it is, but this is "LLM best" not "human best" - the LLM is trying "guess what's expected" (i.e. minimize prediction error), not give you the best quality code/design per your request. This is similar to having an LLM play chess - it is not trying to play what it thinks is the strongest move, but rather trying to predict a continuation of the game, given the context, which will be a poor move if it thinks the context indicates a poor player.

With an RL-trained reasoning model, the LLM's behavior is slightly longer horizon - not just minimizing next token prediction errors, but also steering the output in a direction intended to match the type of reasoning seen during RL training. Again, this isn't the same as a human, applying their experience to achieve (predict!) a goal, but arguably more like cargo-cult reasoning - following observed patterns of reasoning in the training set, without the depth of understanding and intelligence to know if this is really applicable in the current context, nor with the ability to learn from it's mistakes when it is not.

So, while natural language itself is of course too vague to program in, which is part of the reason that we use programming languages instead, it's totally adequate as a way to communicate requirements/etc to an expert human developer/analyst, but when communicating to an LLM instead of a person, one should expect the LLM to behave as an LLM, not as a human. It's a paperclip maximizer, not a human-level intelligence.
it's true.. the S&P 500 declined ~57% from Oct 2007 to Mar 2009
The Vikings are an incredible civilization. Berserks are one of my most favorite units. Not sure where they are today, but they totally matched Paladins in terms of attack strength back in the day.
Show HN: Gradient.wtf
There's an interesting comparison to ChromeOS here. Thinking about managed Linux desktops for consumers. SteamOS would possibly be a good, more private alternative in the near future if Steam ever released the OS for wide use outside of handhelds. Could imagine people buying SteamOS laptops for grandparents or kids as an alternative to ChromeOS or even iPads.
"It is 2025, multithread scalability is a well understood, if not easy, problem."

In the 1990s it became "well known" that threading is virtually impossible for mere mortals. But this is a classic case of misdiagnosis. The problem wasn't threading. The problem was a lock-based threading model, where threading is achieved by identifying "critical sections" and trying to craft a system of locks that lets many threads run around the entire program's memory space and operate simultaneously.

This becomes exponentially complex and essentially infeasible fairly quickly. Even the programs of the time that "work" contain numerous bombs in their state space, they've just been ground out by effort.

But that's not the only way to write threaded code. You can go full immutable like Haskell. You can go full actor like Erlang, where absolutely every variable is tied to an actor. You can write lock-based code in a way that you never have to take multiple simultaneous locks (which is where the real murder begins) by using other techniques like actors to avoid that. There's a variety of other safe techniques.

I like to say that these take writing multithreaded code from exponential to polynomial, and a rather small polynomial at that. No, it isn't free, but it doesn't have to be insane, doesn't take a wizard, and is something that can be taught and learned with only reasonable level of difficulty.

Indeed, when done correctly, it can be easier to understand that Node-style concurrency, which in the limit can start getting crazy with the requisite scheduling you may need to do. Sending a message to another actor is not that difficult to wrap your head around.

So the author is arguably correct, if you approach concurrency like it's 1999, but concurrency has moved on since then. Done properly, with time-tested techniques and safe practices, I find threaded concurrency much easier to deal with than async code, and generally higher performance too.
If we were in delicate peace negotiations then we should put more pressure on them. Tell them extra tarrifs will be removed if they agree. The main reason there is still war is Putins stubbornness in admitting he started an unwinnable war. More pressure is helpful
Note that the Viking Pikemen have a lot of extra HP though.
I reject this idea, someone voting for the "least worst candidate" does not wholly endorse everything they stand for

As someone said in this thread, in the US two-party system, coalitions are formed before the vote vs after in other countries

The whole purpose of this piece is to precisely encourage pointed discussion about values directly and skip the proxying