skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly don't need planes, war stuff nor ships and machinery. The food I eat mostly come from my country, my car is made in countries close to mine and so are the materials used to repair my house... And my gaz is Poutine's.

So I fail to see why I need America at all...

Ah, yeah, one big exception: my computer. Argh!
I'm sure people are studying them. But as GP said, antibiotic are lazy. A doctor would much rather prescribe an antibiotic than do the work to match the specific bacterial infection with the particular phage to deal with it.

And since antibiotics still work (for now), there's not all that much money in phage research. If we do get to the point where we "run out" of antibiotics due to bacterial resistance, I imagine phage research will become a lot more attractive as a destination for research funding.
Interesting context, thanks for sharing. It sounds like college admissions are broken in the same way SWE interviews are broken.
Show HN: I open-sourced a tool to compare Google Play apps side-by-side
I recently open-sourced Clash of Apps, a tool I built to compare Google Play apps side-by-side — features, ASO, reviews, ratings, update frequency, etc.

It started as a way for me to research competitors more efficiently and evolved into something others might find useful too. Great for indie hackers, devs, or anyone working on mobile apps.

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The well paying jobs are the ones at startups funded by US VCs. It's much easier to pay well when you think of EU talent as a 25-50% discount on bay area salaries.
> As an individual you would own consumer goods.

Not American ones I don't.

Is Trump suggesting tariffs on incredibly over-priced and under-performing military and civil aircraft, when we can buy from Europe, or make our own?

To me it seems that the only things the USA sells us are horrible foods, and crap cars for fat people.
Pre chatgpt 3 it was beautiful, fresh. Not it's another race to the bottom
Doing what? Telling their artists to create what they want regardless of copyright and then filtering the output?

For humans it doesn't make sense because we have generation and filtering in a single package.
I have given detailed descriptions of my own novel ideas to these image generators and they have faithfully implemented my ideas. I don't need the bot to be creative, I can do that myself. The bot is a paint brush. Give it to somebody who isn't creative and you won't get anything creative out of it. That isn't the tool's fault, it's merely an inadequacy of the user.
Ah yes, those work /s
Part of the problem here is that you're abstracting the actions of a handful of relatively powerless people to a principle: "People whose opinion I don't like can be banned from society." The 'I' here is, from your framing, the 'left' or something.

Strawman. The fired people you're talking about weren't banned from society by the people pointing them out on the internet. If someone's on an international flight yelling racial slurs and causing a commotion, and someone else publishes video of that person yelling racial slurs on an international flight, it's not the people commenting on the video who fired that person from their job. It's their employers. What would be the alternative? No one takes video of the person yelling racial slurs? Or, if the video is posted, no one comments on it? Or, maybe, the person yelling racial slurs could simply avoid losing their employment by not yelling racial slurs on a flight full of people with their phones out? Or maybe the employer could choose to ignore the negative publicity and keep the person on staff despite the risk to their revenue? Who exactly is the responsible party here?

I generally find it pointless to point out that 'right' perspectives suffer from a lack of practical logic--pointing out the fundamental irrationality of a position rarely changes the mind of the person holding that position. But, your position ignores power differential between people--your argument is a matter of 'principle,' but this isn't fundamentally about principles.

Is your argument then that a person yelling racial slurs on a full airplane shouldn't have their employment threatened by their behavior? That their employer shouldn't fire them?
Self driving car is far more plausible, we drive cars with visual input alone. But a camera can't chemically analyse the insides of your dish.
Yes, probably US consumers will bear the strongest impact in terms of inflation etc. So far, stock market impact is global.

OTOH the policy is intended to isolate the US economy, and looks like it will achieve that goal. Will be interesting to see how this plays out in the long run, maybe it will be better for the average Joe. It certainly is a break with decades of US economic policy and business as usual.
> Stanley, at 15, bragged about "fucking up servers," a now-deleted Internet Archive screenshot reportedly showed. Another, reneg4d3.com, was launched when he was 16. There, Stanley branded a competing messaging board "stupid noobs" after supposedly gaining admin access through an "easy exploit,"

I'd expect a large percentage of high talent adult developers to have done exactly this at 15 years old if not more.

Pathetic of journalists to be reporting on essentially totally normal 15 year old nerd and neurodivergent things from 20 years ago.
A lot of people like to tell themselves that breaking into other people's computers is about curiosity or activism or some other such virtue.

I don't see it. What I see is post-hoc rationalisation to justify lust for a feeling of power and control over others.

Practically any virtue you ascribe to "hackers" you can give to those kids that break into people's cars and take them on joyrides.
I'm troubled by the amount of people in this thread partially dismissing this as science fiction. From the current rate of progress and rate of change of progress, this future seems entirely plausible
So he says foreigners buy US assets for the dollars US pays them for their goods, and that's the problem - the US being sold out.

My question: don"t these foreigners become Americans in a sense? E.g. by holding shares of US companies they have common interests with other shareholders.

Upd: I mean, if considering nation as a partnership, those new asset co-owners are new parnters. Does it imply old co-owners are deluted? Only if the total value of assets is not growing proportianally to the new shares.
A wild 'freakosystem' has been born in Hawaii
Sorry, they should now be there
Which also dropped Android support, so I dropped them.
Absolutely. Large scale tarifs are bad for everybody. US could win a trade war against any single country.

But Trump and his cronies thought they can win a trade war against the world war, or at least use it as a threat. China did not blink. Now EU will 100% follow that and slap retaliatory tariffs on US and Trump will have to make a choice: to cave or to send US economy into the abyss. Given the man's ego, I would rather bet on the second option.

As to your question, the rest of the world doesn't need to do anything - in reality tariffs are already mostly low (not even remotely close to what Trump showed). Everybody will be hurt, but US will be hurt MUCH more than any single other country.

For some reason US thinks it's the only game in town, but it's not. This isn't 1945... EU economy is on par with US. China's too.

Trump tries to bully everybody, but results are pretty poor so far. The drama in the White House with Zelensky seems ages ago, but what was the result ? Zelensky stand there with his head held high, and despite the show, in the following weeks US restored the aid to Ukraine, without them agreeing to anything at all. Trump thinks he can project strentgh, but so far it's pretty much the opposite.
https://archive.is/5OyBO
I agree, but also agree with the author's statement "It's very difficult to decide which module to put an individual function in".

Quite often coders optimise for searchability, so like there will be a constants file, a dataclasses file, a "reader"s file, a "writer"s file etc etc. This is great if you are trying to hunt down a single module or line of code quickly. But it can become absolute misery to actually read the 'flow' of the codebase, because every file has a million dependencies, and the logic jumps in and out of each file for a few lines at a time. I'm a big fan of the "proximity principle" [1] for this reason - don't divide code to optimise 'searchability', put things together that actually depend on each other, as they will also need to be read / modified together.

[1] https://kula.blog/posts/proximity_principle/
I think the best way to find these roles is not to go through job boards at all. Job boards tend not to have the best quality talent, so the best quality jobs don't go there at all. I would say the biggest alpha in getting these jobs is keeping an eye out for routine funding announcements and applying directly via the company's page on Lever. I average around 1-2 recruiter inbound per month for this kind of role.
Cloudtasks are excellent and I’ve been wanting something similar for years.

I’ve been occasionally hacking away at a proof of concept built on riverqueue but have eased off for a while due to performance issues obvious with non-partitioned tables and just general laziness.

https://github.com/jarshwah/dispatchr if curious but it doesn’t actually work yet.
""Politics are polarizing because humans tend to label people and put them into buckets," Stanley said. "Once labeled, individuals are often treated according to the bucket they are placed in, rather than considering each topic. This oversimplifies complex issues and contributes to division."

Which is exactly what most politicians do to non-policitians....

"We're sorry" (c) Southpark
UK citizen. My latest laptop is an Asus, made in Taiwan. The Intel CPU is designed in the USA I will admit, but manufactured elsewhere, I think.
Sorry, but I don't buy it. It's not like we're milking a secret golden algorithm. If all my company's code were open sourced tomorrow, I don't think a competitor could do much with it, since they'd just be presented with bog standard CRUD. It's still relationships and sweat that's keeping the lights on for the time being.
> I've seen is folks using older techniques for searching that don't really make sense anymore.

Like typing what you want to search in the search input and hit enter?
It may be nothing: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...
The worst thing you can do for a bad product is good advertising.
I wouldn't assume that sad songs make you more lonely. For someone dealing with grief, it may act as drug-free therapy. Perhaps deepened sorrow at first, but when one deals with grief, mental state and behavior can improve.
The article describes actual hacking related activity, you just have to read more than 2 sentences to get to it.

I still don't think it's particularly damning given how many of us were tinkering with hacks and exploits at 15, but you're not being accurate here.
It's almost as if people are reading the article and critically evaluating the product.
Or a magic robot; it feels like the sort of completely pointless thing that LLMs like to put in.
Gumroad's journey has been interesting:
https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting -> Billion dollar journey with VC backing to Kleiner selling back their stake to Gumroad for $1, which enabled Sahil to steer the company in a different direction.

Perhaps the shift to making the source available has more to do with work culture: https://sahillavingia.com/work
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The unreasonable effectiveness of Richardson extrapolation
The Supreme Court said it’s illegal so presumably they’ve knocked that off now.
And you are leaning hard into a combo of anecdata and sweeping generalization.

I could recite lots of personal accounts of perfect service from Lenovo/HP/HPE business service (Mainly X/T-Series at Lenovo, Elitebooks/Z Workstations at HP, Proliants and general server/networking infrastructure at HP and later HPE) and terrible "business" service from Apple. Then what?

>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.

And that's an idealized version not consistent with reality. "This is not an issue on our side" (very much related to my examples) is not a solution. Hell, in enough contexts "Bring in your device, we'll look at it, maybe repair it and you can collect it sometime later" isn't either (and for the longest time Apple didn't offer anything else - oh, and BTW: at least here in Austria, Apple Care Enterprise on-site is very much done via subcontractor...).

>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.

Neither is this.
Again: repair programs/recalls and associated infrastructure aren't exclusive to apple, they are expected standard in business service.
And begrudgingly doing those recalls after (or shortly before) a judge orders you to isn't the high standard you seem to make it out to be.

Too bad you had an issue with your on-site technician - but honestly I don't understand why you allowed them to repeatedly send him back after that mess...
Yes? If the American consumer can benefit from more competition and has the ability to subscribe to British Netflix (Brit box?) and French HBO, and the existing monopolies had to work a bit harder for subscribers, that could be an improvement.
https://archive.ph/AOw6M
I wonder if the positive effect is also associated with a sense of autonomy and control of the environment.
Yes, but no. I want a robot to load and unload those.
It's not Python, but this might still fit your bill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30162233
Google Docs is a competitor, but that doesn't necessarily mean it can take significant market share from Microsoft, especially among customers deeply embedded in the Microsoft ecosystem.

The reverse is also true: companies that are heavily invested in Google Workspace, GCP, and related tools are unlikely to switch to Office 365.

That said, there are exceptions. Legal professionals, for instance, often require the standard: Microsoft Word. And for advanced tasks, Google Sheets falls short of what Excel can do.
Americans should study Germany and Japan. Do their economies look healthy? Are those manufacturing jobs attractive? Are the Germans and the Japanese richer? Do Germany and Japan have good economic prospects?
I'll spare you the research. The answer is, "No". Turns out, having an economy based on manufacturing high-end door knobs in 2025 is not great. Economic growth and innovation is not there, because there is so much growth and innovation that you can eke out of high-end door knobs. These enterprises are great for the families that own them, but they employ a relatively low number of workers, those jobs do not pay that much, and they exist is a steady-state. Well, only until China and India figure out how to also manufacture high-end door knobs.
This is no different from any other computing domains, we are very good with three letter abreviations.
So if we want electronics manufacturing, economists agree, targeted tariffs can encourage local electronics manufacturing.

The US does targeted tariffs all the time, including 100% on Chinese electric vehicles because otherwise they could undercut the entire US auto industry.

Blanket tariffs have been tried. We can point to examples. They are bad. Economists agree here too. The US and allies have worked long and hard at reducing barriers to trade and we have avocado toast in January to thank for it. The alternative is to suggest the US can and will be the best at everything (or at least at enough things to offset the obvious loss in purchasing power of people).

A bit of an aside: there is this bizarre "anti-global" thing gaining more traction. Global trade ties economies together disincentivizing war. Isolationism promotes war because you need to own more to grow the economic pie. It drives towards taking over other territories, like, say, Greenland or Canada. Trade expands the economic pie.
Maybe you should try something like EasyOCR instead: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
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I was a menace online until around 2008. I'm so glad most of my history is erased, and nobody knows my old aliases.

Now in my 40s working for big enterprise.
> listen to Radio Albania just in case somebody said something important

... or just to know what they seem to be thinking, which is also important.
I suppose it depends if it's worse than reported currently, but it seems to me that with only 600 accounts losing an average of ~$800 each (and I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the users had poor password security), the fast detection and the immediate action to lock it down, there was a good and effective response by the companies attacked
>he's untouchable

Doesn't he have a pretty bad disagreement with Elon?
Aside from grouping functions together that work together, for example working with data types/structures also defined in or by the module, modules also serve the purpose to hide implementation-detail code (“private” functions) shared between those functions. Modules provide a form of information hiding.

Furthermore, modules are the unit of versioning. While one could version each individual function separately, that would make managing the dependency graph with version compatibility considerably more complex.

There is the adage “version together what changes together”. That carries over to modules: “group together in a module what changes together”. And typically things change together that are designed together.

Namespaces are an orthogonal issue. You can have modules without namespaces, and namespaces without modules.
He is wrong in one major respect, but I see economists do this frequently with GDP - American companies aren't. They aren't solely American companies - they (or at least the large ones worth mentioning) have overseas components to them. Sometimes majorly so.

So those foreigners who own parts of "American companies" are really owning parts of international companies.
I don't think that dang (or the new guy) is going to over-moderate this stuff.
Surprise them telling that UNIX and C are double their age on average.
Americans own too many cars as it is.
Could we please change the title to say : "Gumroad is source available"?

This license is clearly fails OSD and is not open source by the industry standard; perpetuating a false statement is unhelpful.

https://opensource.org/osd
I don’t think they actually call it open source themselves – rather, the HN poster made a (probably benign) mistake.
Time to train an "LLM" on it and have it reproduce the source code 1-to-1, so I can use it without a license!
You are quoting only a few words out of the article to create a false impression. Here's another short excerpt, an alleged quote:

> I no longer hack into Paypals, gain root access into other peoples computer (sic), or exploit online websites
It's nothing but out of touch at this point, and adds nothing to the discourse

Exactly. Its a communications problem.

Its hard to have a decent critical conversation when one side has a biased view about $symbol. Both communicating parties need to reach the same interpretation of a message, otherwise the conversation is broken. Thats why you shouldnt say the N-word or throw out a heil heart on stage (unless you want to hide behind this ambiguity). Or why its so difficult to have critical conversations with strong believers, for you its just evolution or vaccines but for the other side it may affect the core of their identity and the ape goes defense mode.

The result is that the discourse does not deal with differentiated cases but _only_ with simplistic labels like "chill speech", "woke", etc. because the more biased side drags it down into the mud.

For instance, the "chill speech" label is actually dependent on the "racist" label that initiated it. If a case shows clear racist behavior, then dismissing the lefts reaction as censorship is unjustified or biased. The other way works too, if there is no racist behavior, the censorship blame would be justified.

And since you cant look into peoples heads to clearly identify racist intentions, it falls back to interpreting messages. The problem with biased people is, they are not aware even of their unawareness. If you would ask Musk whether he is a neo-nazi, his response would be something like "hell no". Fast forward the dystopian timeline and his response might be "always have been".

The left has IMO more unbiased awareness about systemic issues -- but is not free of bias either. The right is in its core biased indentity politics about $culture -- but is not totally host to tribalism either.

My advise, avoid popular symbols at all cost and if you come close to using one, augment it with case specific background, even a vague "_unjustified_ chill of speech" would suffice. If someone opens with "the woke left" and shows no signs of differentiation -- or even better, acknowledgement of core leftist topics -- i mentally turn away. The comment you replied to was about personal anekdotes and projections and the one symbol that rubs me the wrong way too, even before trumps abuse.
I read “game devs” here as referring to studios/publishers/etc.

I would hope that we all know that the person who wrote the A* pathfinder code probably isn’t making choices at the product level.
Drama creation for marketing?
The USD is currently sharply devaluing, and Trump appears to be quite keen on this idea. China attempting to keep up would cause all sorts of issues.
I do agree that it is a bad choice, though the reason for this is historical; after quite some testing and comparisons, the best JS-based index I could find at the time was elasticlunr [0]. It may very well be the case that there are better wasm alternatives available currently.

Over time I then added a non-JS, external index. Since I already had an ES cluster running elsewhere anyway and the querying of elasticlunr and ElasticSearch is forwards compatible, I decided to just opt for re-using my ES cluster.

In short, the decisionmaking was a mix of historical and compatibility/ease-of-maintenance reasons.

[0]: http://elasticlunr.com/
Why do so many journos keep making these politically motivated articles.

They're going full mask off, even.

>report says...

>experts see...

I am disappointed arstechnica is among them, too.
If the $30M ARR number is true, it's not hard to understand why he wants to talk about it as much as possible. Maybe if you come from family money, you can hear that kind of figure and yawn -- but as someone who came from poverty, I can tell you that this is like if the kid built a rocket out of spare parts in his garage and visited the moon. There's no words for how stunning this is, and everything else in his life must seem trivial by comparison.

I can't understand why the admissions officers would rather read an essay about a kid who volunteered at an animal shelter or something. Anyone can do that.
If you're paying for tokens used to generate that...
How could they really use the money anyways even if they transfer it to another account? I don't know how one could get away with it. Follow the money!