skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can even get full 'root' on a virtual machine for that price, and plenty of webhosting options.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/2-usd-vps-cheap-vps-under-2-month...

For many years now I've been hosting my IRC bouncer on a $13/yr VPS at netcup and it has been more stable than some of my other VPSes.
same. and when I learned it was Dan G I didn't accept it entirely. now it's a sort of superposition of them - and mostly a nebulous entity that maintains civil discourse - like something from a Miyazaki movie
Does this sentiment extend more broadly than a single administration? Can we broadly expect many potentially problematic behaviors to continue until an effective negative stimulus is given?

It's interesting to me why this perspective is popular when applied a certain administration but not popular when applied to other things such as

* Poverty \
* Drug Addiction \
* Homelessness \
* Obesity \
* Undocumented Border Crossings
lol I literally said PG noticed this, not me

but this is a great example of what my essay was highlighting
Hofstadter was defiantly a fan of Borges' work.
https://themindi.blogspot.com/2007/02/chapter-1-borges-and-i...
I checked my list, and the fact that employees of Automattic are called "Automatticians" did not make my list of things to be outraged about. Maybe next week.
Devin Roasts Manus AI. I Ran Some Tests to See If It's True
I was one of the first beta testers of Devin, I know everyone loved him :D, so I thought, why not compare it with the new shiny Manus? Sounded like a good show to watch. So, I ran a little side quest this weekend where I put two of the most hyped AI agents head-to-head: Devin AI vs. Manus AI.

I compared them on four different tasks: building an educational webpage, summarizing research projects, analyzing public sentiment, and making an interactive political simulation (got these examples from the Manus's website)

But the best part is after the comparisons, I asked Devin to analyze and rate how overhyped Manus is... and let's just say Devin didn’t hold back. I put the "evaluation" chart it generated :D

Here is also the link of Devin's analysis: https://manus-ai-evaluation-website-v5gb3spi.devinapps.com/

My quick takeaways:

- Manus: Honestly, much better at creative, general-purpose stuff. Definitely the show-off in the room. (mostly because of some Claude magic)

- Devin: More structured and solid when it comes to technical, detailed tasks, but struggles when things get a bit... general.

Both have their strengths, both feel a little overhyped in different ways.

If anyone wants the full breakdown of what I tested and how they did, here is the link of the post i just wanted to share.

Actually, as a researcher, my usual work has been on LLM SWE agents and their evaluation. I’ve worked on analyzing SWE Bench and similar benchmarks to explore how we can further analyze and improve their performance in real-world tasks. So if you're working in a similar field, happy to chat!

I recently got full access to Manus itself, so I’m now planning to do a v2 of this comparison. If you have any good ideas, let me know! :D Maybe there is way to compete them head-to-head, in real time.
I specifically said China eliminated poverty, not factory jobs. Not sure where you got that from.

The neoliberal trajectory is a gradual growth from agrarian economy to a services/IP economy. Factories are a step along that way.
It's not that they need to be popular, it's that voting them down leads them to be dropped off from view (and makes it less likely dissenting views will be shared). Reddit is the extreme case of this where anything outside the majority group consensus is heresy to be voted down/hidden/banned.

Better sites don't do this and have in-good-faith discussion despite disagreement.
Yeah, but that's just a tertiary strategy. Think of it this way: The Dems are so pathetic, their best option is to try to use the enemy's communication mechanism.

They simply need to solve their problem. That they have it is absurd and makes them look pathetic, cowed, and ineffectual victims - not something people vote for. What is more important to a political party than a means of public communication?
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Never forget Mozilla’s stance on deplatforming & censorship (since scrubbed from Mozilla’s blog): https://web.archive.org/web/20210108215449/https://blog.mozi...
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What you just did is called a straw man.

Besides, many countries are not poor by accident.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_interventions_by_the_U...
Welcome! can we call you tang?
Love the idea.

There are a couple oddities I found in the UI.

1. When you sign up the prompt says “signup”. I didn’t know what it wanted. I finally just guessed username and that was right.

2. I couldn’t get tokens to create (which they say are highly recommended). I hit c for create, entered a name, press enter. Nothing.
The loss of chatter around the soft skills around tech (so business but also UI/UX design, design patterns, organizational approaches (like holocracy), planning processes, etc) has made HN a lot less interesting IMO. If I just wanted the usual tinfoil hat FOSS BOFH content, then I can go literally anywhere else. Reddit, Matrix, IRC, Telegram, Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, they're all full of it.

Then there's the widening of scope to big social issues that's a different matter altogether.
Are people bad at their jobs or are the jobs just bad?
Thank you for taking up the mantle!
I don’t buy the blanket statement that the consumer always pays the tariff. It depends on what alternative companies have. If a company can purchase the same clothing from Chinese, Vietnamese, or Mexican vendors, a tax on China only could make the Chinese vendors lower the price or risk losing the business.

However, a blanket tax on every country, regardless of available alternatives, would leave businesses with fewer options and make it more likely that the cost is passed on to consumers.
Your LLM Problem Isn't Tooling. It's Effort
The chart with car colors has been famous for a few years. However I'm seeing an inverse trend in past 1-2 years (at least in France); new cars are getting very colorful. For example:

- Renault Clio is very popular in metallic orange

- Renault 5 e-tech in bright yellow and green

- MG in aqua/azure blue

- Peugeot 208 in dark yellow and blue and dark red
Apologies, on mobile. Fixed.
Signal doesn't have a web interface, but being able to use a desktop app is OK for me.

The big downside for me is not being able to use it on two devices. All the other services, privacy concerns or not can now do this. It's one reason why I stopped donating to / advocating for signal.
Isn't there precedent from federal laws on marijuana not being enforced? Has that gone to the Supreme Court?
But they muddle it by saying all of them are Agentic Systems
Can you cite something to corroborate that claim?
This was a really refreshing read! It's so easy to measure the wrong thing and build optimisations that make zero difference. I spent hours making a perfect hashing module for Python using gperf, all of the micro-benchmarks looked better, but in the end it was basically comparable to (possibly even slower than) CPython's built-in dict, with the downside of not being modifiable after creation

I've recently been listening to 'Signal and Threads' by Jane Street and there was a recent episode on performance optimisation and it hits a few of the same notes [0], worth a listen if you have time.

[0] https://signalsandthreads.com/performance-engineering-on-har...
> Do you have some required reading to share here

Lenin's Imperialism

> but bad for economic growth

Yes, it is bad for economic growth, but this is not the tactic of protectionism. It is in the name that the purpose is to protect domestic production. It is done by forcing competition barriers on external producers

> What is the phase called?

Economic crisis / intense rivalry. US is economically threatened by the rise of China, it has been on the radar for many years. Things have reached a point where US can't just sit there and do nothing as China challenges the global status quo.

> What is this amputation and what spreading is it stopping?

The spreading is the slow but ongoing rise of Chinas economic power. The amputation is thr free-trade bariers
He's known as an advocate for and analyst of (sometimes critically, often less so) one of the biggest, richest technology companies in the world. That's his whole gig.
Stalwart is unique I think. The whole thing was built by essentially one developer in rust, and it's quite amazing how he has done it in just a few years. He's expressed interest in expanding the software beyond email in the past, and contacts/calendar/files shouldn't be too hard of a challenge for him.
I read the book and loved it (about 15 years ago). There’s no royal road to becoming an artist but lots of joy along the way. Whatever the path, enjoy it!
Welcome Tom, all the best with your new role and thanks for being a moderator along with Daniel :-)

It’s good to see MGR (Moderator Geographic Redundancy) being implemented on HN ;-)

Using RAID as an analogy, we now have RAID 1 moderators so let’s hope to have RAID 6 soon :-P

Ok ok, enough with the silly tech jokes and the smiley’s.
I agree, it helps make HN feel like a special place.
Veterans, not veterinarian.
An ill-specified, inconsistent agenda that he and his cabinet lack the IQ to achieve.
Yeah but now there is another 10$ premium for that physical copy. Nintendo is really trying to squeeze every aspect
Git is a DVCS. The D stands for distributed, meaning (in old people language) masterless. Git doesn't have a "global."
Eco-friendly detergent made from wood and corn shows promise
It seems kind of bizarre to me how a few months ago the Economist cover on the US economy was 'Envy of the World' on how they were doing better than everyone else https://archive.ph/xIJmT And now we have:

>“For decades our country has been looted, pillaged and raped,” Trump told an audience that included cabinet members and car workers. “It’s not going to happen any more.”

as a justification for a trade war. I guess people voted for this?
What are you on about? “A broken legal system”?
"We wished to also evaluate Claude 3.7 Sonnet, but were unable to complete the experiments given rate limits with the Anthropic API."
The dems paid an insanely heavy cost to appease the 1% of the population that is chronically on twitter. They lost mountains of votes to trump over that.
I'm glad I don't have to deal with docker's bloat and networking to avoid writing a 8 line php-fpm config file. :)
Jefferson was called a hypocrite and a coward in his time, though.
Making the framework 16 a gaming machine and going on about a modular gpu was a large miss in my opinion. That laptop should have been like the Asus Zephyrus g16 but without a gpu. If they released a refresh now, it should have the strix halo flagship and a different design. I wonder if the sales numbers agree with me.
The stats are pretty public.

https://twitchtracker.com/statistics

This is on top of the fact that they laid off over half the company in the last couple years.
>25% on South Korea, 32% on Taiwan, 36% on Thailand, 46% on Vietnam

Harley Davidson moved some of its production to Thailand in 2018 to avoid a 31% tariff the EU had on US manufactured motorcycles, announced in 2024 it was moving more production there, and prior to today had plans to sell the Thailand produced bikes back into the US, as the US had a 0% tariff on bikes. Not surprisingly Thailand has a 60% tariff on imported motorcycles.

This tariff jumping is real. I guess we will see how it works out for the US.
Looking at your comments, I don’t think you actually believe this.
Stressed bees lack a buzz in life (2024)
I prefer Aider, but that's a matter of taste.
I bought a Surface Pro for that reason and liked it, until the usbc ports started overvolting and frying everything they touched. currently on a 13" ASUS ProArt flip-over 2-in-1 with pen support like this. overall I love it. I probably would have waited for the framework if I had known it was coming. if your primary use case for the tablet is reading and media, it'll probably be a good fit.

that said, I'll probably never buy a 2-in-1 like this again. my primary use case for the surface was diagramming, note taking, and brainstorming. I used the pen and kick stand all the time. if I needed the keyboard I could pull it out and clip it on, tho after a while I rarely felt the need to bring it with me. by contrast the asus's flip-over mechanism feels too unwieldy and cumbersome. it can't be used at a kickstand type angle since the hinge isn't stuff enough to hold it up while writing on it. it's well-built, just the wrong use case.
I am certain they didn't use any liberal math or science or history to arrive at these numbers. It's all just made up by incompetent yes men.
I can't think of any positives.

Trump is saying the positives are the it will force companies to build stuff in the US, thus increasing our domestic manufacturing and increasing jobs. I don't see that happening in a significant way, but who knows?

But if that does happen, then the huge amount of revenue that Trump thinks is going to come to the government's coffers won't happen, and that revenue is meant to offset some of the tax breaks for the wealthy, so we're kinda screwed either way.
Proof-of-work to protect lore.kernel.org and git.kernel.org against AI crawlers
That would be very positive IMO. It would expose bad actors.

However, the bar for creating new accounts is low, so bad actors could create lots of accounts cheaply and use them for flagging. That's why I think flagging needs to be a privilege that requires a high user "trust level" - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559629
> Outlook with multi-gigabye .pst files

What has been your experience? Mine in trying to use and support it is that Outlook is an Exchange client; PSTs are hacks to meet demand, though they work well enough in limited circumstances. Especially PSTs over a LAN connection are a disaster.
It’s all a grift for the wealthy anyway. He doesn’t care about the hurting 50k a year worker. Low income MAGA voters are just fodder for Trump to enrich himself and the wealthy around him.
> throw Waltz to the wolves.

Except they forgot to actually throw him to the wolves? Or will that come later somehow?
I think we need to distinguish using and abusing. IMO a private corporation taking the source to make a commercial project and refusing to give anything back (whether patches, money, or otherwise) is abusing.

When corporations utilize the code and make a good faith effort to contribute back something, no matter how trivial, they are using the source.

Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right and I feel confident given the current state of the world saying that we should start expecting more from corporations. The idea “they only exist to make money” is how you break the social contract.
The exemptions...

>Some goods will not be subject to the Reciprocal Tariff. These include: (1) articles subject to 50 USC 1702(b); (2) steel/aluminum articles and autos/auto parts already subject to Section 232 tariffs; (3) copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and lumber articles; (4) all articles that may become subject to future Section 232 tariffs; (5) bullion; and (6) energy and other certain minerals that are not available in the United States.
Thank you for sharing this, I was completely unaware that this was Mozilla's stance. This is shocking and disappointing to me.
If people you respect are swayed, ask yourself (or better: them) what they see that you don't. I doubt it's a matter of intelligence, so much as perspective.

If no one you respect has been swayed, you should know: the other side is making the same baffled judgements about you.
is there a way to "save" a volume for instagram/youtube? i swear their volume is boosted to 200% volume
Modern SCADA systems are designed like this too. They used to be a riot of programmer art in primary colours, with most things blinking at any one time. Now they’re grey-on-grey for anything “nominal” with alarms in orange or red. Far less migraine inducing and far easier to see the important things.
These are ex-VAT.
His boat is famous for being balanced in its sailing characteristics -- holds course without him at the helm.
I love this. Bravo.
I would say it mimics real life interactions of some communities. I do not think that is universal. I tend to think that the communities, in real life and online, that permit civil discussion of dissenting opinions are the healthier ones.

I think there is a far greater real life social cost in violating standards of behaviour, such as aggressive engagement, or acting without empathy. I would argue that it is those influences that can be lacking in online discussions that cause them to deteriorate. There is also a lower barrier of entry for joining an online community than joining a real life community. A few dedicated but detrimental people can always evade safeguards and pollute a community to some degree, online communities being larger provide the possibility to each individual to do more damage, while also increasing the chances of there being individuals that would do so.
Let me give you some probably bad advice. Skip the Johnny Truant parts and skim past all the creative layout stuff. It's just decoration, and decoration is often suspicious. Focus on the core story. It’s fantastic. There’s a shot at building a full-on American mythology, Lovecraft-style, from that alone.

Sadly, almost no one talks about it. Ditch the form and embrace the substance. ← It also nods to the mystery behind The Navidson Record.

I wish I had known this when I first read it.
No such thing as a free lunch - whatever balance sheet it lands on, every byte of every request costs someone something.
I think HN has been gradually losing what makes it unique. The net is filled with BOFH-style pro-FOSS tinfoil hat tech content and has been since the early '90s. The joke among my college cohort about Slashdot was that IT Helpdesk 1 will have strong opinions on how MSFT execs were engaged in crazy conspiracies. You can find that kind of content anywhere that tech people talk. HN's value proposition for me has always been informed commentary; industry insiders, academics, and practitioners weighing in based on their domain expertise. Today's HN feels a lot more like a rumor mill for random people interested in tech. Along with this shift has been a widening of scope where we don't just talk about tech but also general politics. In general, HN has been gradually trending to be just another big tech subreddit.

These days HN reminds me a lot of Reddit r/programming in the early 2010s. To me this isn't a good thing because I used to come to HN to specifically get informed commentary. But there's no way for a site as big as HN to be dominated by informed content anymore because there just aren't that many people working on interesting tech in the world. So I do what most others do I suspect which is talk with friends from my alma mater and old jobs in group chats and share HN links and laugh at the unhinged, uninformed comments.

I do think at this point HN has changed its appeal. I feel that people today are attracted to HN because of its raucous, rumor-mill feel rather than informed commentary.
I just don’t think it is that hard of a problem. The legislative hurdle is much higher than the technological difficulty.

You can always fail safe. Eg (extreme case) unless your car can prove to itself it is on a highway or a high-speed street it can only go 25 mph.
DARVO is so incredibly effective. I wonder what comes next for the world.
I don’t. The plugin syncs to the PocketBook system software and KOReader is simply used as the reader application which opens the article. There is no need to sync to KOReader since it accesses the books present on my device and those are managed by the PocketBook software.
Huh.

>> There are no layoffs plans at Automattic, in fact we're hiring fairly aggressively and have done a number of acquisitions since this whole thing started, and have several more in the pipeline.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1hxnh73/automatt...
I agree partially. But there is a large part of the MAGA movement who hate anyone that is not a Christian White Straight male getting ahead. The Democrats will never get those people.

The Democratic Party is not blameless. They are seen as being soft on immigration now. Obama deported more people than Trump.

They forgot the lesson that allowed Bill Clinton to win - “It’s the Economy Stupid”.

And no matter how you feel about it. There is a large part of the United States, even among the LGB crowd who don’t want biological men in women’s sports.

DEI the way it is framed is toxic to millions and I as a Black guy rolled my eyes at much of the indoctrination and “ally” nonsense I had to endure during my stint at BigTech.

No matter how you feel about this either, it takes a remarkable amount of lack of self awareness by the DNC not to know how toxic this attitude is to a large swath of American voters.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/dnc-mee...

> The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced
To the rejected
Underrated works:

- The Lotus Community Workshop by Harmony Korine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31WEBwFpULg

- Oneohtrix Point Never - Animals by Rick Alverson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UztCDH2xuQ

- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans by Werner Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OblPKObX6Q

- Twixt by Francis Ford Coppola
Americans have been hurt for 50 years … yes manufacturing going overseas was a huge change and many administrations didn’t do enough to help affected workers. Buuuuuut - placing tariffs on our allies that will likely lead to a recession makes no sense.

Devaluing the dollar and subsidizing production in the US makes far more sense.

But I’m not an economist or anything.
Can you please help us to understand why you believe the military has had *no* issues using existing comms? At face value this is an extraordinary claim and it flies in the face of examples of friendly fire such as https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj30zk1jnmno. I think the strongest possible statement would be "military comms are equal to or better than civilian alternatives with the exception that they do not bypass government record keeping laws" but I'm mostly unaware of what the military uses to communicate so it's difficult for me to accept this at face value with an explanation of the existing systems and their capabilities.

Some government software and processes are not pleasant to deal with such as the process of obtaining a green card so I don't really fault people for being skeptical of the existing systems without evidence of their robustness.
But think of the economy!
Thats not what the subtitle of the review is though. It's "The last thing society needs is more stuff" which is completely different from "we have enough stuff but can distribute it better." The difference matters. Embracing growth can happen at the same time as equitable distribution.