skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, it wasn't an OS from the beginning. It was a DOS application that provided ... windows. Someone just forgot to rename it to "Processes" or "Files".

Myself I found it amusing that servers had Windows (NT).
I came here to say exactly this. I can't tell if it's because I'm not a traditional "tech" person, but 90% of the best minds I've seen are nowhere near tech in general.

Having a brilliant mind, going to an "elite" school (because someone told you it's elite), joining a FAANG company, building software that you deep down know is killing society, but doing it because the "problems are fun and money is great" is antithetical to what a "best mind of a generation" would truly be.

It's wasted talent with few redeeming qualities for society and a lack of innovation/creativity around using your talents to improve the world.

A "best mind of the generation" would find a way to be successful without riding such a lazy conveyor belt of life.
I'm a retired neurosurgical anesthesiologist; you are correct about this illusion that physicians often labor under. But it's worth noting that when medical topics are posted here, the responses from non-physicians are sometimes so nonsensical that I for one laugh out loud reading them. In fact, I look forward to these discussions for this very reason.
I wonder if it may be beneficial even if you're not naturally willing to do it, similar to how introverts feel better after acting extroverted [0] [1]

[0] https://archive.is/Ipdxc

[1] https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/7/1/29931/119109...
That's a ridiculous take. Read some actual AI news, not just titles of pop-sci articles.
> useful to society

On the contrary, the "respect" towards others is a condition to societies. Otherwise, all you'd had would be "accomplices". And also since Edward Bunker told us that actually, "dog eat dog",

> will actively hurt your own life

in a pool of free rogues you'll be at severe disadvantage as opposed to a society.

> One only lives once so you better make sure

you will achieve what you should. That includes¹ being something good, not just having some fleeting goods.

--

¹Edit: I wrote 'includes', but that's rhetoric - I meant "mostly is".
Blog post full of weird details the article links to:

https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-03-30/
1. At sitebot, we focus on AI-driven solutions for businesses, but these bookmarklets remind me how simple automation can make life easier. Has anyone experimented with AI-powered bookmarklets, like quick content summarization or auto-filling forms based on context?

2. As someone who works across frontend and backend development, I still find bookmarklets incredibly useful for quick debugging and automation. While browser restrictions have tightened, tools like Tampermonkey or custom browser extensions can still help power users retain control. What are some creative ways you've found to keep bookmarklets alive?
Just occurred to me that I've no idea what Numbers even looks like, because it's always been hard blocked on my corporate MacBook.
I'm also a Numbers fan. I actually like using Pages too. When I use Microsoft Office, I remember its power but I also find it relatively difficult to use.
No Hyper-economy, like China or the EU is going to stand about and take what seems like economic intimidation from the US. All the unaffiliated nations are going to be collateral damage in this clash of the economic titans.

The best thing everyone can do is maintain low tariffs and try and strike free trade deals with each other. But the consequeces of Trumps Trade war are going to be disasterous for smaller developing nations and their economies. We'll see more poverty, more political instability, civil wars, coups and other unpleaseant activities.

The USA will probably get higher inflation while the rest of the world sees lower inflation if not deflation.

We'll have to find a way of getting through this window of misfortune to the other side, where I suspect we'll all be poorer and less free.
I assume these kinds of articles are rage bait for clicks.

Present a story (if it’s even true) of an outlandish situation as if it representative of something, but not outright saying it, leaving it to the reader to feel outrage, or schadenfreude, and then they send it to their friends to gawk at the idiocy, etc.

A common one is “we earn $300k per year but are only middle class and can’t afford to save for retirement”.
Wonder whether Americans or the Chinese can weather tough times better.

Chinese don’t get to protest or voice dissent and Americans can’t be bothered to
Borgmon readability was my... least favorite readability.

Is 'monarch' still a thing? It was newish around the time that I left.
And them not dying would be an even bigger problem on pretty much every single metric I can think of
The list of "other weirdness" at the end mentions:

> +0 vs. -0

Which feels kind of odd, since that's mostly floating point weirdness, not JS weirdness. Unless they mean the fact that you can force V8 to initialize a zero-value as a double using -0 as a literal (it tends to optimize 0 to integers). But that has no effect on real-world code unless you use Math.sign, or divide by minus zero.
I used to live near a nice downtown with a riverwalk. I liked to take my guitar and go play under the bridge at night. The bridge was concrete and the reverb was crazy good.
(Does that make me a troll? A troll posting on the internet??)

I found it terribly soothing. Sometimes I'd bring a friend with and we'd play together.
You can take the position of "achievement isn't a feeling of power" if you'd really like to, in which case I simply say find and replace all prior uses of "feelings of power" with "feelings of achievement" and the argument still stands. I'm happy to use whatever definitions you want. Taking joy from your success in doing things (whether you refer to it as achievement or power) is simply not an valid ethical justification when it is at the expense of violating other peoples right to control of their possessions.
I initially picked up programming because I wanted to create things (well, initially break things, but moved on from that), and the programming was one way of doing that. I only learned how to structure my programs, because they became hard to change. I only learned testing and refactoring, because I noticed I was faster when the code was better and more tested, even if the upfront cost was slightly higher.

If I was 14-15 around this time, when I first picked up programming, but had an LLM on my side, I'm not sure what the outcome would be, to be honest. I'd use them, that's for sure, but once I got a working application out of them, would I be curious enough to understand as much as I understand now, if it wasn't required? Or would I have been able to learn even more and faster, since I wouldn't have been all alone banging my head against some trivial problem for weeks?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform

Google Cloud Platform is a part of Google Cloud, which includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well as Google Workspace (G Suite), enterprise versions of Android and ChromeOS, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and enterprise mapping services. Since at least 2022,[9] Google's official materials have stated that "Google Cloud" is the new name for "Google Cloud Platform," which may cause naming confusion.

(Yes it’s a Wikipedia link. But if you go to the article it includes citations)

Microsoft does not include Office sales with its Azure revenue.
Says it is open source but not FOSS is just silly. You know what the OSS part of FOSS stands for right?
Not seeing this with 137.
Networking. For an embarrassing amount of time, I knew very little about it other than some IP addresses looked different from others. In 100 hours, you can learn enough to be useful as a dev without going down rabbit holes.
I was briefly terrified this was Lambda in the AWS sense
> my whole shop was taken offline

I think the problem there was being dependent on someone who is a complete pushover, doesn't bother to check for false positives and can kill your business with a single thought.
The Nix people don't want Anduril advertising on their forum.

If you operated a forum, is there no company on earth, such that you wouldn't want them advertising on your forum?
Another good reason to read via an rss feed.
How is the moral dilemma of employer-controlled brain implants or eugenics equal to AI? The reason the quote can be applied is because it is a genuinely useful technology to lots of people. That's not the case for eugenics robots.

Did you grow up watching Data (Star Trek), C3PO (Star Wars), KITT (Knight Rider) thinking "Who comes up with these violent sadistic ideas"?
They didn't have Borgmon readability.
> added hundreds of billions in costs and killed millions of people

Could you provide a source for this? Or is this just an r/politics moment?
Yep, we're onsite only.
That wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing if it meant a flattening of inequality however I don't think that is on the cards.
> They still can’t decide, but I bet we’ve racked up 1000 coder-hours debating it.

That sounds... Good?

Lots of people run into using whatever is vogue without even thinking twice about it. See the massive move to using cloud for absolutely everything, money be damned, and you'll see what I mean. Cargo culting is a huge issue in the industry.

At least they're actually considering if it's making them more or less productive, compared to the vast majority of the ecosystem.
Thanks for the tip, I'm mostly bound to a laptop but for touch type training it could help. Any advice for a brand/model?
Some might not be aware: It wasn't always smooth sailing for Sahil (could have had a much comfortable life if he stayed put at Pinterest). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37059594
the headline is perhaps unclear, so from the article:

> The US labour watchdog froze two cases against Apple days after Donald Trump nominated an attorney who represents the tech group to be the agency’s top legal official.

> Trump last week nominated Crystal Carey, a partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, to be the NLRB’s general counsel. She is listed in the agency’s records as an attorney acting in Apple’s defence in both cases against the Silicon Valley tech group.

the level of just complete capture of the regulatory state by random rich companies is amazing, even beyond trump's first time bullshit like "Appoint the CEO of Exxon to be Secretary of State"
Spoken like a true Belter
No there cannot be an OSD license that violates the FSD
Society already is full of rogues and guess who is winning in this game?
The super rich already buying themselves out of society, punishment usually only hurts the ones who already barely own anything. Whats the benefit of a "society"?
Heh... Interesting that you bring in Rijkswaterstaat as a counterexample, because I remember it from the story about the Botlek bridge and how they could not fix it for a couple years and when the root cause was identified, it turned out to be rust in an ethernet port [1].

[1] https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/cyber-security-pre-war-rea...
Geopolitics are still in play. Why would a country that has been hammered with "Western" sanctions, and is effectively engaged in a proxy war against the "West" cooperate with the "West" when it comes to law enforcement?

* Australia is part of the "West" here - ironic from a strictly geographic perspective
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-adm...

Though I'm counting that as future potential costs and deaths.

Ignoring the obvious opinion of the author, anybody who has ever worked on any sort of medium to large scale migration, refactoring or rewriting of a computer system knows that's a comically ridiculous timescale and when it inevitably fails there will be consequences, counted in both money and lives.

But that's a (very near) future fuck-up that he will almost certainly spin or move the goalposts for.

That you can draw a direct line to right now, not much other than all the cuts to critical infrastructure.

To be clear, I'm not arguing against cuts and efficiency initiatives, i'm saying he's an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing, so his implementation will be shoddy and dangerous.

See: The Cybertruck, The Boring Company, The Decline of X.

As you are implying though, nothing major so far, aside from USAID i suppose (or the VA), does removing systems actively (and provably) preventing deaths count?

These are systematic problems that will take a while to shake out into their inevitable consequences.

He'll probably still fail upwards though, unless he gets luigi'd or just drops dead of a ket induced heart attack or something.
I use macOS and the rest of the pseudo-office suite. It's okay. But Numbers is just bad. It takes forever to open files and perform even trivial operations. I do a lot of data engineering and people's "creative" usage of Excel is the bane of my existence, but there's a reason why it's used everywhere: it's that good. None of the clones even hold a candle to the real thing.
Stripe took $829,678.97 after 120 days
Hello HN

I am contacting here because Stripe is refusing to communicate with me as humans, their chat keep converting the chat to email and email keep sending this: "If a balance still remains in your account after eligible payments have been refunded, it will not be made available to you. This is in accordance with Section 5.6 of "Stripe Payments" under "Stripe Service Terms" in the Stripe Services Agreement (if you are in a region outside of the US or EMEA, this policy should be referenced alternatively under "Section C: Payment Processing Services" of your region's corresponding Stripe Services Agreement): https://stripe.com/legal/ssa#services-terms"
120 days passed since our account got deemed too high risk despite having 0 chargebacks

Our website is https://bayuserpro.com/ we are a marketplace that uses AI to help businesses to advertise and get % of their sales. Every seller have their own Stripe accounts, they connect their account to ours, and when we bring them paying user we charge %.

So now, how is this legal that Stripe can refuse to pay us our funds and hold $829,678.97.

And concerning part is, there are no refunds, no disputes $829,678.97 has been sitting there for last 4 months without ever being touched.

Is this why Stripe does not go IPO so they do not have to disclose their shady practices of stealing people's funds?

acct_1PH9EbFcbviG0Uct this is my account id and I am writing this here because it is TOO big of an amount to hold without any communication and I have no other choice. I do not want to be one of cringe people who complain online about providers online in HN but this is too big to ignore, I have to put my ego aside and actually write this out

Please if someone knows how to fix this let us know, we waited our funds to be released and now Stripe simply stealing them
The Washington Post is about as credible as a tabloid at this point
We all know the difference and the difference here is enormous.
There are very very few people who can be classed as "British subjects", the vast majority are British citizens since at least 1983.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_subject :

"Currently, it refers to people possessing a class of British nationality largely granted under limited circumstances to those connected with Ireland or British India born before 1949. Individuals with this nationality are British nationals and Commonwealth citizens, but not British citizens."
Because we are inherently social creatures. It’s arguably what allowed us to move to the top of the animal hierarchy.

Consider this: if you were to ask a parent “would you rather your child grow up to be wildly intelligent but have sociopathy to the point of being utterly alone, or frankly average (or even dull) intellectually but have a rich social life with meaningful relationships, which would you choose?” I think you’d be hard pressed to find someone willing to take the former.
Now someone has to go there and drive around it at 33 1/3 rpm at night with a strobe light set to 50 Hz.
Studies show that the primary predictor for happiness is personal relationships. Make of that what you will.
> AI is very open source

ML ecosystem tends to be very open source, true, LLMs a bit less so.

So far there are only a few useful open source models (mostly courtesy of Chinese companies), otherwise a lot of the models are either hidden behind paid APIs or falsely marketed as open source but come attached with terms and conditions, use policies, forbidden uses, requires signing agreements upfront and so on.
I think you're seriously underestimating the cost of redoing insulation. If you have an unfinished attic and your walls are fine, then yeah, laying down some new fiberglass is easy, but otherwise, it basically requires gutting all the walls and top floor ceilings. The cost (here anyway) is significantly more than $4k, and the disruption to daily life will make it feel double.
X just has to comply with European laws like everybody else.
Where? I don't see anything near the main clump
Absolutely correct. Given that they're in California and the house wasn't new construction, we can pretty safely assume that it was under-insulated compared to what's possible. Doing a proper audit and fixing air leaks and insulation is usually the most cost-effective improvement you can make to a house (getting it right to begin with is even more cost-effective, but lots of builders still don't know what they're doing).

As sibling notes, it can be invasive and disruptive vs. just replacing some appliances in a few days, but it's still more cost effective (and will allow your eventual replacement HVAC system to be sized smaller, netting additional savings when you do that).
this is a new variation of what i call the "hockey stick growth" ideology
That puts you way deep in the wishful thinking territory, again there is 0 rational connection between LLMs and immortality, especially if you're already on the way out
Can't tell if it is crypto or AI hmm
>The iphone has lacked innovation under Cook. Last 3 iterations (since 13) have been virtually identical.

Why do things need "innovated" constantly? Why keep making the phone slimmer rather than replace the battery with something more efficient, maybe add back the headphone port?

The original iPhone was a great leap forward, UX wise, but much like with a pickup truck at a certain point you'd expect minor tweaks with the yearly models.
As if any court would accept this. Nice try
I thought it would go

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Monarch is very much still the recommended monitoring backend.
I recall reading the 'ghost rockets' craze in Sweden at the time was part of an operation to probe Soviet radar capabilities.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...

Which part exactly is "far from reality, lacks substance and objectivity"?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/forei...
You think that's what you've witnessed, but perhaps you're confirming a distorted prejudice and not a reality - because that's exactly what someone who lacks empathy would see.

People who can't see green are evidence of a genetic defect, not evidence that green doesn't exist.
I believe it would be a far greater problem if those people didn't die. Aging populations are a huge problem around the globe and unless we'd improve the quality of life to such a margin that octo- and nonagenarians are able to care for each other, I think we're all better off with people dying of old age.
Your analysis misses the incredibly important caveat that revenue rises with inflation – or sometimes even faster.

50 years ago, a movie ticket was 0.50 cents in revenue. Today, it’s $25. That’s a 50x increase… a dollar in 50 years might be worth $0.02 today, but a movie ticket in 50 years is worth about a movie ticket today.
Can you give an idea of what "fair rates for production" means?
No need to back up your general conclusion, I’ll take it at face value. Thanks for your contribution :)
As a counterpoint: to me it makes NixOS look good to publicly take an anti-militarist stance, in fact it makes me interested to look more into it than before.

Military companies have enough funding to market on their own and not rely on volunteer communities and coopting them in the process.
>It is open-source!

No, it's not. Please read number 5, it might enlighten you to what people colloquially consider open source, which didn't have a dictionary definition until technical people started using this definition: https://opensource.org/osd

>And the fact, people on here don't know that shows people on here don't know the difference.

..What? Do you know what OSS vs FOSS is?
Women and people of color also used to be treated like property, doesn't mean it has to be like that forever.

What's cool with humans is that we're able to reflect on our own being and our societies, and when we group together, we can enforce large-scale changes that improve the lives of millions.

We might be mortal meat bags right now, but maybe it isn't the only way, for better or worse.
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"

I'm not sure what Ginsberg meant when he used the term but I imagine it wasn't the same type of mind.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl
Minecraft is the Lego game that the Lego company wasn't competent enough to make.

The old Legos. Where you got a bunch of bricks with no plans and the only limit was your imagination (and the quantity of bricks).

Of course children like it, just like they liked the original Legos.

And by the way, why children only? I'm playing on a semi-private (need to apply and be accepted by admins) 18+ builder's server on and off.

There are such things.
... because it's fun
let me tell you about currency exchange rates...
Just because it doesn't surprise you doesn't mean it's okay. You have to acknowledge that as an admissions consultant you're part of a small gatekeeping community bubble. Even though I attended one of these schools, I can recognize that universities have been rapidly losing their credibility, and this is only going to accelerate that trend. And by the way, this person is probably more accomplished than I am, even though I am now quite a bit older and my essay was apparently good enough to tick off the checkboxes.

The question you need to be asking is how the university system made an enemy out of someone who is clearly one of the most talented members of his age cohort in the nation. That's a failure no matter how hard you try to explain or justify the status quo. It's time for some real accountability and soul searching from the system, not excuses. Trying to nit pick the essay and pointing out how he should have done X or Y instead is completely missing the point.