skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And how does that prove that NVidia has not designed that together with Microsoft first in DirectX prototype?

Additionally, naturally Intel and AMD will come up with their extensions, if ever, followed by a Khronos common one. Not counting mobile units into this extension frenzy.

So then we will have the pleasure to chose between four extensions for a feature, depending on the card's vendor, with possible incompatible semantics, as it has happened so many times.
My favorites are ones which list the most relevant pages it can find (catching scenarios where URLs have changed but no redirect has been added) but only if the site has a functional search feature.

The problem is too many search libraries on sites are anywhere from useless to completely broken, even for some household name brand sites. My go-to test is while on an existing product page to search for either some part of the product title or a snippet of bullet point feature verbatim, to see if the page I'm currently on gets returned at all. It's stunning how many sites fail this test.
That "napkin math" guide is like "enterprise pricing"—a starting point—for negotiation defined by the official White House Executive Order, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu...

(c) Should any trading partner take significant steps to remedy non-reciprocal trade arrangements and align sufficiently with the United States on economic and national security matters, I may further modify the HTSUS to decrease or limit in scope the duties imposed under this order.

Lobbyists and trade negotiators can read 700 words of strawman "napkin math", or 40 pages by CEA chair, or interviews with administration officials, to inform their negotiating position.
I’ve been looking for something just like this. And thinking of writing my own just like you ;) I’m new to the whole web app area, coming from desktop: how would you best explain or pitch this to a newbie who understands the need but that’s about it?

Can it be used for once-off testing (per deployment we can handle n thousand connections / hour) or can it track performance and response speed so you can see how your servers are doing over time?
There's plenty of non-MS alternatives to the official MS extensions even on VSCode, and those can also be distributed outside the 'marketplace'.

Specifically the MS C/C++ extension isn't all that great either, it isn't developed in the open, full of bugs, and those take forever to be fixed.

(e.g. for a Microsoft product, using VSCode is as low-risk as it gets when it comes to vendor-lockin, "just" don't be dependent on the closed-source VSCode extensions created by Microsoft)
Little PSA:

a) This is a clone of Whitney, an incredibly beautiful and unique typeface from 2004

b) Whitney was designed by Tobias Frere-Jones

c) He was an equal co-founder of the H&fJ foundry

d) He designed the vast majority of their most famous fonts, including Gotham, Archer and Armada

e) Somehow, for years, Hoefler never did the paperwork to confirm FJ's co-ownership

f) When pressed, he instead kicked FJ out, kept all the fonts and renamed the shop "Hoefler"

Hoefler is an asshole. A free clone of Whitney is the least of what he deserves.
I am not a random user, but the creator. The dependencies are managed via standard requirements.txt file, which is stored in the Excel workbook itself. When you open xlwings Lite with the workbook, the dependencies are installed from either PyPI or Pyodide's own repository (after the first download from the browser's cache).

Direct db queries are indeed a restriction of Wasm/Pyodide, but there are more and more databases offering a HTTP layer. For example, Supabase has this built-in via PostgREST. For Oracle, there is Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS). Ultimately, you can also build your own little proxy server, although that's a little bit more work, but might still be worth it for company-internal use.
Odin isn’t as well known as Zig, true. But what you seemed to argue was that this was a deliberate choice by the Odin community: to look for hype on Hacker News rather than doing the leg work of getting a Wikipedia article about the language.

This idea is what I criticize.

Not to mention that Wikipedia’s notability criteria is increasingly harder to live up to as tech news gets more and more decentralized.

It is not enough for notability that the Odin author is interviewed in various podcasts. It’s not enough for the language to be used in a leading visual effects tool and so on. These are not valid references for Wikipedia.

So how did Vlang achieve it? By commissioning books on the language(!). Once there was a book on V (nevermind no one bought it) it fulfilled the Wikipedia criteria. There are discussions about this on various V forums.

So let go of the idea that Wikipedia is proving anything.
Those are not counterexamples, you are agreeing with me. There is no such thing as free speech in Germany, only some weaker right. There are laws limiting speech, and actually (as that article seems to complain about) they are applied to citizens and non-citizens equally, meaning that even a Jewish citizen of Israel can be deported from Germany for uttering anti-semitic statemens. Everyone arrested should have known about those laws, they have been there since the founding of the modern german state after WW2.

What I don't know about is the turn of things in the US, US laws didn't include those kinds of crimes and used to protect freedom of speech in a far more comprehensive manner. Things seem to have changed there, I don't know.

Btw. my personal opinion is that Germany should have US-like free speech and that the only limits to free speech should be where someone is directly and immediately put in danger of physical harm by it. (e.g. shouting "Jump!" to a suicidal person on a railing, or shouting "Fire!" in a dense crowd)
The patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US6429854) was filed in 2000, and the movie seems to be from 2006, so possibly it was actually the other way around?
What can I say except: I don’t buy that at all. I lived in Los Angeles for 8 years and Boston for 5. There are some cultural differences but the people there are still just human.

When a region and a culture declines, it gets more nostalgic and reactionary. The arrow of cause and effect goes that way. Places like Detroit were innovation centers and much more culturally open before their entire economy was rug pulled.

If California were rug pulled you’d end up with a culture that lives permanently in the shadow of its boom times and rages at the world.
My problem with “it’s the wealthy” is it is just nebulous and not thought through - typical populist rubbish. Whereas the stuff I’m talking about like the planning and energy infrastructure are very direct and would actually make a difference. We could revisit the green belt, upzone areas in London, set much larger minimum house sizes. We’re miles behind on energy infrastructure and infrastructure is just more expensive here because we allow the cost paperwork to get into the hundreds of millions. If you look at France they have cheaper energy, cheaper homes and more housing supply and much much more people owning second homes. So again it’s not the rich it is our crappy policies.
Yes, I clicked details. It told me, again, that this is a chef distribution.
What is chef, I asked after reading the details page, again.

(Only then did I originally post my question to Hackernews. I can read. The info just is not there.)
On the screen, in small print, you may not notice the difference between this and, say, Franklin Gothic. But in print the difference is more noticeable, even if not immediately visible without taking a closer look. If you encounter a booklet purported to be form Bank of America set in this typeface instead of Franklin Gothic, it will look very similar but you'll feel that something is slightly off.
Suspected Russian spy says he only had ASML secrets to maintain own knowledge
This is not a clone. They just matched the *outer dimensions* of Whitney, so that they could swap out their old font and not have to remake all their typography.
A neat feature that is so neat Google paid to get it irradicated from Linux kernel, and became optional after C11.
Have cashless payments reduced upper aerodigestive foreign body insertion
Sure, you can think of it as purchasing security with the cost of reduced economic output. The problem is that the benefits of autonomy, and the costs of the externalities of free trade, are difficult if not impossible to accurately value. Not only are they intangible, their true value can often only be assessed in retrospect.
Not 1:1, but it has an extremely similar look and feel. In how glyphs are cut and the rhytm of the typeface.

Scroll down to "Comparison of Nebula Sans versus Whitney SSm" part of the linked page.

I was literally going to complain here that it was a Whitney clone before seeing them mention it on the page.
but they're not?
That is like recommending a Knuth book for somebody wanting to learn Python.
Haha that's fair. Though I wouldn't say I need to, but I like to. These are the few times I get to work with my hands, and having some accountability of an exchange helps with consistency and discipline. But YMMV of course.
I'm not sure if this is a meaningful distinction: Fundamentally you can describe the world as a "next token predictor". Just treat the world als a simulator with a time step of some quantum of time.

That _probably_ won't capture everything, but for all practical purposes it's non-distinguishable from reality (yes, yes, time is not some constant everywhere)
> This plan has been made clear by multiple people from within the administration

Do you have sources?

(I also subscribe to the "genuine chaos" theory, but your comment makes sense)
Rough? They just closed a $600 million round with a 10 billion valuation. They should expect bigger challenges after getting in the unicorn club.
> This take is too far removed from reality.

I wasn't trying to argue for or against UBI here. Rather, I was trying to make a case that it's rational to have some emotional judgement, if we can try to use it as a proxy for how the life of those that benefit from UBI would change.

Personally, I also think that UBI is too much right now, but I think it should be debated as well since the approach one level under it (massive wealth redistribution) deserves an honest chance, which it only gets when it's no longer the extreme position in public debate.
You could do

faultdef
FOO, // comment
BAR, // comment
QUX; // comment

There are third party tools to generate docs. You can also get some json output from the c3 compiler itself to base docs on
I wish I could be more like you in this regard. Perhaps you're right about the "creative hormone" thing.
They have a comparison at the bottom of the page. Some letters are dead ringers, some, like "g", differ significantly.
There are a hell of a lot of samples used throughout Discovery. If Something About Us was entirely original then it would be an outlier.

Also their latest album (Random Access Memories) came more than a decade later than Discovery and was departure from their older techno roots.

You also have to bear in mind that while Discovery is a great album, it wasn’t created in a vacuum. Electronic artists sampling rock and funk music was in vogue at the time. With artists like Fatboy Slim and The Prodigy having their own seminal albums with heavy use of creative sampling.

If you look at popular electronic music from that era, more tracks have made use of sampling than tracks that haven’t.

> Maybe they didn't. They are musicians, not just DJs

I think that’s rather disparaging to artists who do sample. Producing electronic music might be a different skill to playing the guitar but it’s still a difficult craft to learn. It’s also an entirely different skill to DJing

Source: myself, who was a DJ and producer in the Daft Punk era.
> And supporting a whole family on a single income well was a very narrow window of time, and it required the US to have no real economic competitors.

But then how were other countries able to have this while having economic competitors?
I know it’s hard.
Certainly a nice touch. I'm definitely encountering more broken links lately, and it feels a bit off to always blame the client.

A bit off-topic, but thinking about the costs to update a vector search engine VS retraining an LLM makes me a bit worried about hyperlinks all together.
Yeah, I was product manager for a number of subsequent 32-bit MV minicomputers and, later, a number of Unix-based systems including the big NUMA servers. It's been a while since I read the book but I certainly don't recall anything that caused me to go "That can't be right."

No first-hand knowledge of all the internal politics that shook out in the creation of the MV/8000 (Eagle) but, again, never heard anyone say it was BS and I knew many folks both in Westboro and RTP quite well.
This is about closed-source extensions created by Microsoft, and those always had strings attached which Cursor apparently ignored.

I would rather ask Cursor why they decided to fork VSCode when they could simply have written yet another VSCode extension to provide the same functionality. Seems shady AF tbh.
It also can be Go issue. Garbage collector did not have time to free memory.
Code reuse used to be thought of as the ultimate destiny for computer code. Eventually you would never have to write new code, it would all exist in some form and you would just reuse it. We may actually be getting something like that through the use of AI for coding now. The problems with code reuse are many though. A function written in C for a microcontroller often won't work in a python program, especially not without all the include files, libraries, and a wrapper. How do you find the function that matches your needs? Coding language and function parameters offer some clues but are not sufficient. For example one function may do rounding on return values while another does not. Do you need a function optimized for speed, for object size, for time latency? Will the function work in your computing space? For example one function might use a loop, another might use recursion so running on an MCU one might work and the other might crash your stack. This might be a set of problems a LLM could sort out, but it would need some most excellant training data, not random stuff off the web. Even existing, working, industrial code bases would not be sufficient since there are huge sections of code in them that are legacy and mostly no longer used or relevant. It would probably have to be a constantly curated training database. And there is an inherent ambiguity in code, who is to say one implentation is better than another if they both work? This could make debugging challenging if the coding style is different in all the code snippets.
We have finite time, self-actualization through creation is very human. Too much passive consumption is sleepwalking through life.

However, creators often forget that mental exercise is like physical, you don't sprint 24/7 you have to pace intensity whether it's running or writing Clojure.
I work in the AV industry. RS-232 is still the king for control signals between devices, even on brand new hardware that costs >10K USD. TV screens for signage/conference rooms often have RS-232 for more versatile control than HDMI-CEC.
Higher bitrate than 9600 BPS is often not needed. The most common connector consists of three-pin screw terminals (Tx, Rx, GND), although these days most installations have at least one RS232-to-USB adaptor somewhere. And for larger rooms, RS232 is bridged over Ethernet.

This was a bit of a surprise when I started, but then I realised that many installations are decades old, with components having been replaced individually.
> and Heard and McDonald Islands in the middle of nowhere whose only inhabitants are penguins.

This one is because of imports that were labeled as having come from there: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/04/revea...
There will always be cynicism, quietism, fear, injustice.

Yet it is possible for people to come together and change the world for the better. This has happened many times before, on a global scale: the spread of democracy, abolition of slavery, decolonization.

Lately I’ve been thinking of this as an existential question. We are thrust into this life, into an unjust world. Each of us chooses how to face it.

I remember an account of a mass execution of some villagers by Nazis in Eastern Europe. I imagine being one of these people facing that time in history, with what feels like too little power.

I believe the best way to face such a thing, if a person can muster it, is courage.
> EXACTLY the thinking that won Trump the election

That doesn’t make it wrong though
This is a great point, I think I might have been wrong actually. It doesn't really make sense that one row of the embedding matrix is treated differently than another...
Looks useful. I don't have a use-case for it at the moment, but I hope you will find your target market!
Companies basically don't have fiduciary duties to shareholders. Also, Zuck has all the votes and can do whatever he wants.
I thought that when businesses started using WhatsApp. I still think it
No, there is an incomplete proposal for it here though: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c/issues/1451

What would you like to use it for?
lmao, glad you got a chuckle out of that.

Just for context to other HNers, that quote is from a satire piece[1] and in no way was I building the next Disneyworld

[1] https://sidverma.io/posts/diary-of-a-new-employee/
Oh, are you getting a captcha when accessing the site this links to? If so, I didn't know this.
Show HN: Postel – Turn your knowledge base into Reddit, X, and LinkedIn posts
Hey HN,

we built Postel to help makers, indie hackers, and marketers consistently publish great content across Reddit, X, and LinkedIn - without starting from scratch every time.

The core idea: your product docs, notes, stories, landing page and personal insights already hold all the content you need. You just need a layer to translate them into platform-native posts.

Postel uses a RAG and thousands of scraped viral posts from LinkedIn, X, and Reddit. This ensures the generated content follows the structure of high-performing posts for each platform while being relevant to your context.

This is a tool we wanted for ourselves. Between the three of us (Robin, Bruno, and Joschua), we’ve built and shipped several projects, but writing consistent, “on-brand” content was always a bottleneck. Especially for Reddit, where self-promo is hated. Postel helps you with ideas and to get the first draft right.

It’s still very early access. We launched the MVP just two weeks ago and have the first 17 paying users creating content. (The roadmap is stacked tho...)

We'd greatly appreciate any feedback you have and hope you get the chance to try out Postel.

Cheers, Joschua
Taxes in my country get automatically paid before I even see the money, so I dont rlly have a choice
I tried to answer that here: https://c3.handmade.network/blog/p/8886-why_does_c3_use_%252...
I think soon we might see whether that is the case or not.
This example does not illustrate what do you think it does.

The first is technically illegal. The second is not only within the law, it's required by the law. The speed limit isn't a limit and in most jurisdictions, the law requires you to reduce to a safe speed when the conditions require it. The speed limit is not the only law that dictates a legal speed.
For what its worth, my reading of the text you're criticizing was not at all characterized by the level of distraction you describe; and this coming from somebody who is otherwise so distracted by typos that I will skip a comment (or blog post) that has more than a couple.

Perhaps a level of familiarity with the convention plays a role, as I have chanced upon the Long Now Foundation and some of its writings. Despite, that was a long time ago. There are competing conventions such as writing the year 2000 as 102000 so as to reflect a common estimate of the origin of our species, which I encountered via kurzgesagt.

I support the author’s rebuttal that if the slightly unusual year number prevents you from taking in the content and its points, you might just not be a member of the intended audience.
People are getting downvoted for criticizing booking.com. They're a shit company and everyone who works in tech in The Netherlands knows it.
> I live in a developing country where there’s no shortage of software developers who build systems for both personal and governmental use. However, many of these systems have serious gaps when it comes to security.

i.e. is there actually demand for Cybersecurity? A gap is not the same as demand. Maybe it shows they just don't care.
Yeah, I do agree with that. Tho in my defence, I put thatbin to balance out the self-pityness of the rest of it :)
super fun read thanks. cool result too :)! also love all the different options for hw discussed in lot of details. thx!
If you have a modern iPhone and don’t want the crazy hacks, a very very simple but effective tip is to power off your iPhone when exiting the aircraft. When the device powers up it is in “before first unlock” mode and is severely restricted in what it can do. The attack surface area is significantly reduced. They’re not going to burn one of their $100,000 per install exploits on your BFU phone the same way they do with a full physical access unlocked paid exploit.

Also lockdown mode to reduce attack surface area.
> Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Larry Ellison each have a net worth that is on par with the total gross economic output of a small American metropolitan area.

You're comparing apples to oranges.

Net worth is in dollars, while economic output is dollars per unit of time. The comparison does not make sense.

You didn't even say which unit of time! Hell, I have a higher net worth than the total economic output of the US, given a short enough time frame.
Whats wrong with facts, science, and human rights?
Thanks for confirming that.

I'd quite like to do a follow-up post on DG. Any really good sources that I could tap into?
CTFs are a fun way to get started. Here are some that I like: Pwn.college, PicoCTF, and PortSwigger WebAcademy.
I'm sorry to disagree but I want to play games that engage my flow state: Fast, skill-based, noisy, full of acceleration and explosions. Realism has nothing to do with it.
If you are in the US and want to use European alternatives to avoid surveillance by US tech companies, then the NSA has free rein to intercept/decode/record everything you do that crosses US country borders. Also everything outside of US borders is considered fair game. Maybe the same is true of Europe and European borders? Even if your data is in a safe place, do the API's take the data across borders when used? Do you need to continually check the network route your data travels across to make sure it stays within borders?
I find it useful in lower powered systems without floating point hardware. It may be a feature whose time has passed but it still seems like there's both a case for it and probably an elegant design waiting.

Imagine using it on a 6809 system for example. :)
this is “due for a big one” gambling logic
Show HN: OopsDB – failure scenarios for testing observability tools
You're completely right, my argument is fundamentally wrong because it relies on the commutativity, but the embedding matrix obviously does not treat some columns differently than others. Back to the drawing board I suppose. Thanks!
Public domain technical books published before 1964
This is cool! ...and probably very annoying after a while :P
Thanks yes. Though I did not mean the bare possibility, but intended use case, which may lead to different design choices.
Good point. This applies to Android as well.
You/we pick AI as a threat because we understand it, but a good sales person is just as much of a threat to your idea.

this is a great insight. never thought of it that way. thanks so much