skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I frequently see this characterization and can't agree with it. If I say "well I suppose you'd at least need to do A to qualify" and then later say "huh I guess A wasn't sufficient, looks like you'll also need B" that is not shifting the goalposts.

At worst it's an incomplete and ad hoc specification.

More realistically it was never more than an educated guess to begin with, about something that didn't exist at the time, still doesn't appear to exist, is highly subjective, lacks a single broadly accepted rigorous definition to this very day, and ultimately boils down to "I'll know it when I see it".

I'll know it when I see it, and I still haven't seen it. QED
It's a decent way to handle permission but it's never "like an app" with iOS. Web push is missing basic features on iOS, such as notification sound/vibration. Many will say that's a good thing but there is no restriction for actual apps. I would love to rewrite a React Native app I work on as a PWA but silent notifications are totally useless for it.
Great idea, I’m sure that would have helped. Maybe they also could have had Anthony Fauci personally reply to antivax conspiracy theories on Twitter. That would have won hearts and minds.

You think Trump is “friendly” and of course he is. He is the primary beneficiary and spreader of lies about the 2020 election, so why wouldn’t he also be the best arbiter of truth on the subject?
“Should be” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there - I have heard reasonable arguments either way - but it misses the point: whether the personal tax rate was all-time high or an all-time low, personal tax revenue stays roughly the same historically. In other words it’s a trap - raising the rate might make you feel better, but if history is any indicator it won’t change anything for everyday citizens.
> Because that would be a simple solution to all societies ills

No it wouldn't and I don't lament its absence as such.

> and it's obvious the world does not work this way.

Agreed which is my lamentation.

> And unless you're suggest banning all anonymous communication under an alias you quickly see ideas like this don't work.

I'm very clearly not, but even given the case that all communication around this moves to anonymous is itself fine. The impact of people understanding that they would be pariahs for developing such tools is itself a good deterrent. That social deterrents do not work with perfect 100% efficacy is not an argument against their usage.
Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 universities
No leetcode. One interview during the onsite is vaguely algorithmic, but the process is designed to feel relatively close to the work you'd do on the job. For example, our web take-home assessment includes tasks like reviewing a colleague's pull request and tracking down a bug in response to a customer support ticket.
mcp is best for stateful connections to thirtparty providers of data and actions.

shameless plug but im working on something where i give LLMs direct access to APIs without going through mcp.

initial demo is at uncomplexities.com.
The particular problem with class 1 ( want independence from a distant government ) is to gain enough political power to effect change is they necessarily incorporate class 2 ( want to reintroduce slavery ), this necessitates the use of POSIWID

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

Unfortunately I don't think the group of 'just want to secede' is "much larger" than those willing to commit civil rights violations after years of practical experience living in the south. The people saying it in the context of the blue states doing it mostly realize it won't work, and the amount of civil rights violations either way skyrocket in the process.
I'm guessing you've never created something of value before. People are entitled to the fruits of their labour and control of their intellectual property.
It's not the first time they've hijacked the term. It's a smokescreen because they're aware of how unpalatable their beliefs actually are.
You’re leaning hard on a No True Scotsman argument here. “With serious vendors, you’re not” is doing a lot of hand-waving to ignore how inconsistent support actually is across the industry. Just because you had a good on-site experience doesn’t mean it’s universally better.

In my case, I had a ThinkPad X1 Carbon with a new, whiz-bang 4k screen that needed warranty service due to a faulty panel. Lenovo sent out a Unisys contractor who botched the repair—cracked the screen bezel, and somehow left the machine unable to boot. Lenovo sent the same guy back, and each visit made things worse. This happened multiple times, and the machine had to be fully replaced more than once because the repairs kept introducing new problems. This same tech also dropped a Lenovo server during a fan swap at a different site. So yeah, I’ve experienced “real” onsite business service, and it was an absolute mess more often than not.

Every vendor has issues. That’s not the point. The difference is that Apple actually rolls out repair programs and has the infrastructure to fix things in a relatively consistent way. You can take a broken machine to a store, talk to someone who can usually solve your problem, and almost always walk out with a solution. Pretending other vendors are more accountable just doesn’t match reality. They’re not immune to problems. They’re just a lot better at quietly ignoring them.
I consider UC's statement of diversity (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/ucla-dei-statement.htm... and then 6 months later https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/diversity-statements-u...) to be a form of ideology over truth seeking:
"""Candidates who did not “look outstanding” on diversity, the vice provost at U.C. Davis instructed search committees, could not advance, no matter the quality of their academic research. Credentials and experience would be examined in a later round."""
Some quite good hardware, I must admit - their servers were good. Workstations less so, and ludicrously expensive for what they were.
Instead of throwing around historically illiterate analogies, let's talk about the real issues:

What are the actual inflationary risks right now given the state of the economy? What are the costs of not spending (i.e., austerity)?

Because history also shows – very clearly – that austerity imposed due to debt panic in countries that could have afforded to spend is often way more damaging than the debt itself.
It happens for random, unjustified reasons. Wouldn't you want to protect your data from a country that behaves like that? I sure would.
I think this is a good point regardless of how much you have been down voted.
I hope your not using this context to sub-communicate this issue isn't important. If not, It might have been better to put your last line at the top
The Untold Mystery Upending Egon Schiele's Legacy
You "AI" enthusiasts always try to find a positive spin :)

What if I had trusted the code? It was working after all.

I'm guessing that if i asked for string manipulation code it would have done something worth posting on accidentally quadratic.
Why presuppose that it's possible to test intelligence via text? Most humans have been illiterate for most of human history.

I don't mean to claim that it isn't possible, just that I'm not clear why we should assume that it is or that there would be an obvious way of going about it.
Many people don't even read pop ups and just click the button that stands out to them. It's pretty wild to see.
Since there are some Great Lakes people commenting here, I will mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Manry. Going on 60 years ago, I read Manry's account of his solo trans-Atlantic trip.
Also, have tools to record and replay games, and knowlegable moderators who can identify signs of cheating and ban offenders. This will count for a lot, even if someone can cheat well enough to appear highly skilled naturally (which almost always requires at least moderate skill at a game), it won't be quite so rage-inducing. This doesn't scale very well, though.
Just yesterday I personally witnessed pallets of Sun/Oracle equipment being unloaded. I’ll admit, it made me nostalgic!

They’re still out there. Maybe not visible to normal folks, but I know for a fact until very recently the Chicago Mercantile Exchange used their hardware in great quantities— maybe even as the underlying hardware for their matching engines, though I admit this is conjecture on my part. They don’t exactly let exchange customers in those rooms!

I miss their 10k & 15k chassis. Solid kit for their day.
Corporations would love for everybody to believe they own and control every single instance of any audio or visual output they create but that's just not true. This idea that they own the very idea of 'boy wizard who goes to school' is insane and plays right into this flawed and pernicious idea. Copyright is important but does/should not extend to every time I want to print out a picture of a boy wizard for my kid. We live in a culture, not an IP regime.
The problem with "smart" is that they fail at things that dumb people succeed at. They have ludicrous levels of knowledge and a jaw dropping ability to connect pieces while missing what's right in front of them.

The gap makes me uncomfortable with the implications of the word "smart". It is orthogonal to that.
What you are describing is exactly the principal-agent problem, and it is a real problem at startups when a founder is truly motivated by something that the investors don't care about. You can run a company with different motivations than your investors, but only so long as you return the goods they want. If they see you not returning the goods and not caring about that fact, they will try to replace you. They will try to do that a lot faster if you demonstrate that you don't care about giving them a return than if you show that you do care.

Conversely, investors can be mission-driven or otherwise aligned with you on something other than "maximize my return," but those investors rarely give you the best price.
Spot on. “The market” is presented like it’s some state of nature, some law of the universe like physics. It’s been said Slavoj Žižek, Mark Fisher, and Fredric Jameson, but it appears Jameson was likely the first:

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
I have a dream that one day bloggers will learn the difference between copyrighting and copywriting.
The thing is, they never choose it either. Nobody considered long-term social effects. I was literally in the room. It never came up.
I wonder how much time it would take with some samples from GitHub, and various documentation about python laying around (languages, cheatsheet, libraries)...
Matano: Open-source security data lake for cybersecurity analytics
> those small, quick-to-make dynamic codebases ended up becoming unmaintainable monstrosities

In my experience, type checking / type hinting already starts to pay off when more than one person is working on an even small-ish code base. Just because it helps you keep in mind what comes/goes to the other guy's code.
Yes for the most part.

The fact that current 'conservatives' kicked out pretty much all the historical conservatives I know as being not actual conservative/rinos tell us that this isn't about 'conservative' speech but something much, much different that is being labeled as 'conservative' speech when it is not.

I was a (hippie) libertarian at one point. Today the party of 'merit' has as their figure head... a nepo baby. They can't even be bothered to pretend to be 'conservative' or 'libertarian' anymore.

I don't shop where Confederate flags are sold. Requiring stores I shop at not to celebrate/promote racist anti-american losers by selling Confederate flags isn't me deplatforming anyone (BTW Amazon? Lots of Confederate flags FYI) it's me having standards for how I use my time/attention/money.
https://archive.is/ES7M3
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I am so glad I don't have to take that class.
It was distributed on paper tape. You needed a teletype with a paper tape reader to run it. Basically you would manually enter a bootloader using the switches on the Altair's front panel, and the bootloader would read BASIC off the tape and into RAM. If the checksum passed, it would then jump into BASIC. Here's a video of the process if you're interested: https://youtu.be/TxU_3dEJ2nM?t=1013
I think that's more adjusting the parameters of the built-in denoising and feature detection circuits of the inherently noisy analog computer that is the brain.
We're about to witness a fundamental shift in the human experience. Some time in the near future there will not be a single act of creation you can do that isn't trivial compared to the result of typing "make cool thing please now" into the computer. And your position is to add to the problem because with your policy anything I create should get chucked into the LLM grinder by any and everybody. How do I get my human body to commit to doing hard things with that prospect at hand? This is the end of happiness.
>> Otherwise your users have to see a happy anime girl every time they solve a challenge. This is a feature.

I love that human, what a gem
Yep. Last night I was asking ChatGPT (4o) to help me generate a simple HTML canvas that users could draw on. Multiple times, it spoke confidently of its not even kind of working solution (copying the text from the chat below):

- "Final FIXED & WORKING drawing.html" (it wasn't working at all)

- "Full, Clean, Working Version (save as drawing.html)" (not working at all)

- "Tested and works perfectly with: Chrome / Safari / Firefox" (not working at all)

- "Working Drawing Canvas (Vanilla HTML/JS — Save this as index.html)" (not working at all)

- "It Just Works™" (not working at all)

The last one was so obnoxious I moved over to Claude (3.5 Sonnet) and it knocked it out in 3-5 prompts.
>> Four minutes for roughing

I've never seen a double minor for roughing. 2 minute minor or 5 minute major.

4 minute double minor is typically when someone is high sticked and they're bleeding because of it.

So yeah, give a co-worker a hand to the face and if the manager catches it you're sitting out of the sprint planning meeting for either 2 or 5 minutes depending.
37-year old Easter Egg in Windows 1.0
This is claimed to be the longest-to-discover easter egg ever.
"he’d forgotten to write the bootstrap loader"
He didn't load the whole program from the switches on the face, just the bootstrap that would let them feed the paper tape through the teletype/paper tape reader that was common at the time. It would take a very very long time to load the whole program by hand. See this video of a demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxU_3dEJ2nM
Molecule's 'fingerprint' may help explain formation of life on Earth
Built by marketers and engineers who were frustrated by how painful CI workflows are today. We're especially curious how small to mid-size GTM teams track competitor updates today — would love to hear your workflows.
The OSINT framework isn’t meant to be an intro to OSINT. This is like getting mad that https://planningpokeronline.com/ doesn’t explain what Kanban is.

If anything you’ve just pointed out how over reliance on AI is weakening your ability to search for relevant information
Personally, I think training someone on the client’s dime is pretty unethical.
Now compare a human to an LSTM with persistent internal state that you can't reset.
> I see many in the US thinking that Trump is an idiot

There's many of us outside the US who think the same.
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
- Brian Eno, 1996
Hot take: I don't see a problem with this and in fact we will see in a few years that senior engineers will be needed less in the future.

I have a business which is turning in millions in ARR at the moment (made in the pandemic) it's a pest control business and we have got a small team with only 1 experienced senior engineer, we used to have 5 but with AI we reduced it to one which we are still paying well.

Even with maintenance, we plan ahead for this with an LLM and make changes accordingly.

I think we will see more organizations opting for smaller teams and reducing engineer count since now the code generated is to the point that it works, it speeds up development and that it is "good enough".
It isn't something completely new, there are many cases of unwarranted trust in machines even before computers existed. AI just adds persuasion.

The "Pray Mr. Babbage..." anecdote comes to mind: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/14183
I have created an AI bot that plays by itself on Xbox cloud gaming using a custom browser and a virtual joystick emulating an Xbox controller. Cloud gaming isn’t safe either :)
better headline: creating "viral" apps with AI and making a lot of money isn't qualification for college admissions.
I like it. It disambiguates when you're referring to a member of an object -- myobj.member vs referring to a global object by its full name -- module::function. I guess you could say the IDE can colour the two differently, but after spending a lot of time working with various code review tools of varying quality, I have come to really appreciate having the program text be as explicit as possible. If you find it so disagreeable, can't you configure your IDE to visually replace that syntax with a single dot and also automatically convert a single dot to two colons when typing a namespace?
Also some people don't vote for someone, they vote against someone else.
That's not an argument against my point in any way, and that little factoid doesn't solve the larger issue I note.
What I want is irrelevant. She's now able to rest on her laurels thanks to copyright. She's earned it. I very much enjoyed the books! Under our current culture and level of technology, that's the dream.

But why shouldn't everyone get to live like that? we have the technology to feed all the people, it's just a distribution and organization problem. "just". Money, and capitalism is how we've organized things and it's worked great for a lot of people but it's also left a lot of people behind.

We keep making adjustments to the system but we don't have to be trapped in the system. we can take a step back and look at things and say, hang on a minute, if the goal in life is to feed and clothe everybody, we've either succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, or utterly failed.
It does make traceroute, where each packet is fired with one more available step than the last, feasible, whereas 'up' wouldn't. Of course, then we'd just start with max-hops and walk the number down I suppose. I still expect it would be inconvenient during debugging for various devices to have various ceilings.
> the reason being the EU actively regulating against businesses trying to innovate

Oh come on, can we stop with that? Not having regulations results in quasi-monopolies and oligarchs. Preaching against regulation is only worth it if you are Google, Amazon & Co. Regulations don't prevent fairly big companies from existing.

Maybe the lack of regulations in the US pushes EU companies to move there. But right now maybe non-Americans will start looking for non-US alternatives, and that's good.
Not nearly enough to write the works of shakespeare
FWIW, i created a PDF of the "race" ending and fed it to Gemini 2.5 Pro, prompting about the plausibility of the described outcome. here's the full output including the thinking section: https://rentry.org/v8qtqvuu -- tl;dr, Gemini thinks the proposed timeline is unlikely. but maybe we're already being deceived ;)
https://web.archive.org/web/20250322125346/https://www.nyu.e...
> While I have a laptop running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed that failed to start after the third update

Very possible, Tumbleweed has had some embarrassing failures.

But when it comes to rolling release on servers I'd still prefer OpenSUSE.

OpenSUSE has whole distributions (MicroOS & Aeon) dedicated to performing automatic updates. ArchLinux is not really made with automatic updates in mind.

Big part of that is possible because OpenSUSE releases Tumbleweed in "snapshots". This means that updated packages are basically staged and tested together before release. This happens a few times a week. If you then experience a failure you can always use an older tumbleweed snapshot. In theory that should provide more stability, but there has recently been a lot of instability especially with SELinux being enabled by default.
Is it really 5x? I'm more surprised about 25+ years of experience, and being hard pressed to learn enough python to code the project. It's not like he's learning programming again, or being recently exposed to OOP. Especially when you can find working code samples about the subproblems in the project.
It's a hobby project I decided to share. I won’t deny it’s problematic. I understand both sides of the argument, but if I was going to make it for fun anyway, why not publish it?

Posting it publicly on GitHub is the main reason I got invited to job interviews this spring. I'm a third-year student with no prior IT experience, and now I have a great summer job lined up.

And for the record—I enjoy playing legit. I don’t cheat.
The closing statement was a more cogent strategy for building manufacturing in the USA (from a tabletop gaming person!) than anything we’ve heard from those in charge in 2025.
So let's be clear: it's implicitly incest, right? One denial in this article aside, he appears to have encouraged if not caused his younger sisters eroticism as a pre teen, took her away to share a room in the hotel his parents honeymooned in, changed his art after entering a relationship. Nobody knows who the child's father is, fair enough. His pre marriage art was unquestionably "edgy"

Amazing paintings. Also, amazingly disturbing. I cannot conceive of having one on the wall.