skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My personal opinion is less complicated: they're pulling the economic levers they have in a way that they can use to enrich the top 0.1% even more. The richest of the rich got very wealthy during COVID (economic fallout, buying up lots of stocks at a discount then the biggest stock market bull run we've ever seen) and they want to make it happen again.
There's always good news and a silver lining. We've been saying for
years that BigTech is the cybersecurity threat. Working toward
European cloud migration has been like pulling teeth as so many
companies felt locked-in to insecure US products. In just two months
Trump has done more to motivate abandonment of Google, Microsoft,
Amazon and Meta products than any hackers or criminals in the past 25
years.
Luckily the US has quite some momentum so it can be hoped the damage is limited before the next election so it can then be reverted.
For context: the French and the German have been alternatively at war and allies since the times of Clovis and Charlemagne, a millenium before Bismark made modern Germany a thing (in occupied Versailles, in what was perfectly calibrated to be a complete French humiliation). And the Poles were on the wrong side of brutal occupation and a genocide during WWII. So both countries would have good reasons to be very skeptical of a powerful Germany.
I assure you that the fantasy of this being a band-aid rip-off moment will turn sour when the sore becomes infected and you're living through a depression.
A minute ago I was absolutely certain you would literally die if you drank that much.
Congress could stop this tomorrow if they wanted. They ceded all control to the executive. [Republican] Congress is hoping to claim credit for anything good that happens, but scapegoat Trump when things crash.
Aren't you cherry picking to make a point though? Certainly there are impacts on other countries though, and they're likely aligned (in theory) with their stated concern that countries are leveraging trade deficits to take advantage of the US.

> Tariff an island inhabited only by Penguins

This would be a great sound bite, but its also entirely useless. If the only inhabitants are penguins then a tariff on paper means nothing, they just avoided having to write one-off exceptions.
The extra bit of the lid houses the antennas, it's plastic to not interfere with the signals as much as the magnesium would have. I do wish they could have attached it better or made the whole lid plastic over a magnesium frame or something.
Trump is allegedly planning on sanctions against Russia if they do not agree to his peace plan.

Trump just added some additional sanctions on Russia for helping the Houthis.

Sanctions seem worse than tariffs to me, but I'm not an expert.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-sanctions-russia-based-n...
Show HN: OnCallManager – Simple on-call management tool for small/medium teams
After years of dealing with bloated and overpriced on-call scheduling tools, I finally decided to build something lightweight and focused — OnCallManager.app. It’s a clean, no-frills way to create, and manage on-call rotations for small teams.

Features:
- Weekly visual schedule
- Easy switching using override just in case.
- Google calendar integration
- (Upcoming) AI agents for oncall issues. (summary, auto-reply and etc)
That sucks. I remember buying my XPS when the new version released and tried to install Linux (Fedora). Nvidia driver issues, CPU E/P core issues, and many more. It literally took 2 years to get stable. Recently, Nvidia released a new version of the driver. Guess what happened? PC doesn't wake up from sleep anymore. I'm not even mentioning the so-called 8-hour battery life.
All of these can be more elastic. See: zoning reform and prices in blue cities vs red cities, single-payer healthcare in every developed country other than the US. Inequality is not the distinguishing factor.
> Nuclear is a bragging tool, but only useful in real war if things are going bad enough that you decide to end the world.

No, it's a deterrent. This is why it's so important that the systems are in place and functional. So they can actually be used, to make sure they never have to.

A deterrent is not like a bragging tool at all.
A medicalized psychiatric state is not the solution to the current lunacy. Just imagine the abuses it would lead to.
They thought that the union members were criminals.
I don't see anyone mentioning that the United States needs to manage its massive national debt, currently in the trillions, by issuing Treasury securities. These securities mature at varying intervals and require continuous "rolling" or refinancing to pay off old debt with new borrowing.

Significant rollovers are expected from April through September 2025, with additional short-term maturities due by June.

Higher interest rates significantly complicate US' ability to refinance. The cost of servicing this debt — paying interest rather than reducing principal — is already a major budget item, surpassing Medicare, approaching Defense and Social Security levels.

If rates don't come down soon it locks in higher costs for years. The country is at risk of a debt spiral.

How can rates come down? The present uncertainty around tariffs and a potential crisis could create conditions that pressure interest rates downward before those Treasury securities mature, by influencing Federal Reserve policy.

Treasuries are considered safe during such crisis. Increased demand for Treasuries pushes their prices up and yields down, effectively lowering interest rates.

What are the flaws in this thinking?
As I understand it, yeah, there's a way to ask the .ai nameserver for its entire "zone" (the mapping from domain names to... everything else). That's a "zone transfer" a.k.a. "AXFR" request, which you can make by first locating a nameserver that knows about .ai:

$ dig NS ai.

Now you have the names of .ai's nameservers, and the glue records for some of them:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
v0n3.nic.ai. 107 IN A 199.115.155.1
v0n3.nic.ai. 107 IN AAAA 2001:500:a3::1
v0n0.nic.ai. 7 IN A 199.115.152.1

Now you ask that nameserver for a zone transfer:

$ dig AXFR ai. @199.115.155.1

...And it quickly says "no, not to you; I don't know you and so I'm not going to spend the bandwidth to tell you all that."

; <<>> DiG 9.18.30-0ubuntu0.22.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> AXFR ai. @199.115.155.1
;; global options: +cmd
; Transfer failed.

But hey, that's how you'd ask. Now, if you were on the nameserver's whitelist, you'd see the whole zone, and the answer to the blog's puzzle would be somewhere in there. (But note that the answer is also at the end of TFA; you don't have to solve it yourself if you don't want to.)

I wouldn't use the words "API access" to describe "permission to make AXFR requests," but yeah, it's the same general idea: if you're not on the list, you can't do the thing.

More than I care to know about AXFR: https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/axfr-notes.html
You don't need data from actual professionals, tools can be trained from the finished product that can make more of the finished product. We know this from AI use in writing, images, voice and video.

Ultimately an "AI Ableton" isn't going to look like Ableton, it'll be a simple multitrack editor with a cursor style chat on the side.
This is the equivalent of the "mentally ill lone wolf" rationales given for American mass shootings.

What possible difference would a psychological test make when an pre-existing felony conviction is not enough to keep him from voting, but also to actually sit as head of state?

What is happening in America simply doesn't happen without broad-based, implicit, systemic support at all the important decision-making junctures. In 2017, several of the highest-profile executive orders were slapped down in court within days. In 2025, the government is not even pretending to abide by court rulings on their EOs, and are detaining people without charge and revoking their visas without due process.
You've just repeated the Democratic party line, designed to cover their ass for their inaction and inattention. Democrats will lecture the blue collar working class to not believe their lying eyes and trust the Democrats, then lecture them on how they have to because Republicans are so much worse.

It's a dumb strategy, and it isn't working anymore.
I wonder what this means for the future of Beeper.
At that point, if you are not sure a data point is accurate, should you really display it ? You have no proof appart from "The LLM said it was ok" which is kind of poor.
This opens an interesting possibility for a purely symbol-based legal code. This would probably improve clarity when it came to legal phrases that overlap common English, and you could avoid ambiguity when it came to language constructs, like in this case[1], where some drivers were losing overtime pay because of a comma in the overtime law.

[1] https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/16-190...
is your backend down? Search doesn't seem to work for me. Requests fail with 521
The lack of longevity to these tariffs is part of the problem with them. Why would anyone invest in a factory when everyone knows these tariffs are likely going to be short lived, making any capex wasted. Capital is going to try to wait this out. It's short term pain and long term pain.
Was there another pandemic whose statistics were based on mandatory asymptomatic testing (via PCR tests with deliberately high Ct values)?

Was there another pandemic where 94-95% of all deaths involved at least one comorbidity, and 77% involved three or more underlying conditions?
...and here you go:

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-develop...

Feedback more than welcome!
Ouch, that name (it literally means "vulva" in Polish).

Not to say SRAM is any better (it means "I shit").
o1-pro also solves it

https://chatgpt.com/share/67ee9bc0-2804-8005-85c3-2978e7a8ba...
A thought experiment. Imagine a small poor country far from the US, of 1 million people, where the average income is $3000 annually ($3 billion total household income). Imagine a factory in that country that produces shoes beloved in America.

Those shoes are so popular in America that Americans buy $1 billion of those shoes every year. In order to address the problem as stated, this hypothetical country would have to spend a third of its household income purchasing products produced in some of the highest-cost conditions in the world. To do so, they would have to shut out their local trading partners from whom they currently buy goods at prices they can afford. This would have the effect of making them even poorer.

Does this make any sense?
As per your request:

https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-develop...
I suspect that this $25/50 per item policy is to prevent people from claiming a lower value than the actual price of the item. I've received international packages marked "gift" with a value of $10 that I had paid much more for.

I doubt the US will even manufacture substitutes for most of the things I liked and ordered from AliExpress. People with hobbies primarily supplied by Chinese manufacturing (like mine- electronics, 3D printing, FPV drones) are just going to be paying more for the same thing. There's no way we'll get an American substitute for niche products- all the US chip fabs are going to be filled with orders for higher dollar parts.

Note that the fact sheet says per item, not per shipment. So there doesn't even seem to be a way to make one big purchase of several items to pay a single fee. They will hit you for every item in the shipment.

Quick edit: I also note that the fact sheet makes a distinction between things sent through international post vs. other means. If you send via UPS/FedEx/DHL there will be regular customs fees (34%?), and through post you will have the $25/50 per item fee. So I will definitely have to pay attention to the shipping method for anything bought from AliExpress from now on.

Quick edit 2: I literally have a PicoCalc from ClockworkPi coming in the mail in a few days- I guess we'll see if DHL charges me any extra fees.
Google is free (for now), but if you need a link:

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...
>US tech companies are clearly the market leaders in the area the DMA is concerned with.

There's a good argument that this is targeted. Why didn't this regulation affect SAP? Their market position gives them leverage over a massive number of companies.

>it's just that US companies don't bother to comply with the regulations that apply in the EU, and thus get fined.

It's not that they "don't bother", it's that they understand complying with the regulation to cost them more than the fine. In other words, the regulation itself is a sort of fine, or tax imposed by the EU, with a magnitude of roughly equal proportion to the fines it imposes.
Can you really? Maybe, but I don't think it's cost effective. It requires a flawless art and tech pipeline, alone side masterful game design. You see how Nintendo can spend 2 years alone perfecting Mario's Jump and you realize the budget for that level of polish is enormous.

Not as enoirmouus as paying a studio in California to make a failed GaaS shooter service. But still a large step past a AA budget.

I'd say at the bare minimum you need a very solid staff of 5 to pull it off though. Hollow knight did it with a rough core of 3 devs + composer (and other support, of course). The very ambitious Toweers of towers of aghasba was reportedly 6 devs IIRC, but that's TBD and might have scaled up.
I thought the prices were back down? 04032025
> The two major political parties fundamentally realigned during the civil rights era of the 1960s.

This is an incorrect analysis looking at the wrong causal factor (civil rights rather than economics). Even in 1976, Carter did great in the deep south. The realignment happened in the 1980s, due to economic growth in the south. The south went from being poor and agrarian in the 1930s to being newly industrialized in the 1980s.

> Who were the "social conservatives"?

The 19th century GOP was a coalition of religious conservatives and protectionist industrialists. MAGA is a coalition of religious/cultural conservatives and protectionist industrialists.
Ask HN: What's the Point of MCP?
I’ve been messing around with MCP servers to get a feel for the ecosystem. I’m seeing a real issue, and I’m not sure what solutions are possible with the architecture - am I missing something?

The LLM always sits in the middle of any pipeline. That means you’ll always have potentially messy and lossy translation in between every tool call (not to mention incredibly slow/wasteful compared to piping data between processes).

The example I was using: I wanted Claude to orchestrate some analysis on Stripe data for me. I asked it to get all transactions from last month and write them to disk (as a step one, before actually doing anything). Because the data coming out of Stripe goes back through the LLM before going to disk, it completely borked it and wrote only a small fraction of the data.

I'm trying to piece together the puzzle that lets a chatbot do useful things for me in my life. Is there a future-state where this issue isn’t an inherent problem? Some workarounds I've thought of:

- have a python interpreter and have the LLM write code. But then what’s the point of an MCP server when you’d just use the Stripe python library or APIs?
- have some kind of inter-MCP-server communication protocol At this point we're writing an OS for the LLM to live inside.
It's stupid because trade imbalances aren't necessarily a problem, and are sometimes a good thing that you need.
What will the Switch 2 cost after the Trump tariffs?
> If any major country/region reacts by negotiating lower tariffs in exchange for a full opening of its market to US products

Would any country trust the US in a negotiation?
There's a specific explanation saying that that's not what it's saying
I can when he did so not through raising revenue, but by gutting social safety net programs.

If you have a debt problem, you need to both raise income and cut unnecessary spending. Clinton - and every Democrat since Carter, really - only ever did the latter, and always targeting the working class for spending cuts as opposed to the corporate or wealthy classes. God forbid we curtail subsidies to fossil fuel companies or sugar producers or big box stores with a disproportionate amount of workers on government assistance programs, god forbid we stop bailing out failed banks or bankrupt private enterprise, let’s instead make sure poor people can’t have housing and children can’t have three meals a day.

Throwing large numbers around without examining how those numbers were achieved is what politicians and despots bank on the populace trusting, because once you know how those figures are reached, you’re confronted with how the system really works and suddenly have a distaste for it.
OK, we've put that in the title above. Thanks!
yeah that's awesome, but I think staleness could be a concern? i'm sure there will be updates to nutritional values, additions of new foods, etc. API gives me the latest without having to redownload/rehydrate every time. plus its a way for OP to monetize further for all of the apps that utilize nutritional data.
I was questioning the idealism actually. There’s not much to be achieved by wishing the world was a certain way, it’s generally more useful to deal with the world as it is.
This is expected and normal? Demand for locally sourced goods will skyrocket which means prices should as well. What you are leaving out is that the US is well capitalized and those sky high prices will be a strong incentive for more competitors to join the market. With competition in place prices will eventually fall. Prices will likely never go back as low but at least our fellow countrymen will be employed, housed and hopeful instead of on the streets doing fentanyl.
A framework for productive political discussion
It always falls down because the end-goal of ones "rationalism" always has to be determined by a set of values.

If you want to form a political ideology based on rationality, your very first step will stick you right in the middle of the sticky-icky world of the humanities. 'Hello deontology, my old friend.'
Not really sure how the author thinks anybody who tracks their calories/macros seriously is going to trust a website that literally just makes up values for the vitamins, minerals, etc:

> TL;DR: They are estimates from giving an LLM (generally o3 mini high due to cost, some o1 preview) a large corpus of grounding data to reason over and asking it to use its general world knowledge to return estimates it was confident in, which, when escalating to better LLMs like o1-pro and manual verification, proved to be good enough that I thought they warranted release.
I like the concept, but I think a more reliable/less compute intensive way to implement it would be too use AI to call up non -AI data. I could just type in "some red beans and rice" and the LLM parses what I mean, and retrieves stored verified data.
Sure you do. And if you don't consume all of the grease, then you have some overestimation error in your tracking which is evened out by (but usually dominated by) all of your underestimation errors, like every time you forget to log the squirts of oil in the pan or that handful of mixed nuts or every time you eat out.

Having to cook your food first, take it out, measure it, and put it back in the dish you're making before you can estimate content doesn't seem like a recipe (pun) for habit forming here. Nor is it viable for anything but the most basic dishes like individually pan frying large ingredients.
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When visiting US I feel very weird about baggers. Bagging stuff is something I can easily do myself while the cashier scans the products. Now instead of doing something useful, I just stand there idle and awkward watching the staff working.

In general having service workers spend a good part of their lives doing things that I can trivially with minimal effort and no loss of time do myself feels actively degrading these people. Perhaps some do get sense of being useful out of it, but I'd guess a lot of them would rather be doing something else if given choice.
"If the fed won't lower the interest rate I'll tank the economy until they do!"
It will be interesting to see what happens if Musk leaves his position at DOGE.
Most of the time, the difference between crimes and ventures depends on the hand holding the stick.
Oh yes, it’s over for them. If they make it out of this administration, they will never be that liberal again.
I would imagine exchanges these days routinely monitor incoming and outgoing transactions, and if they suspect the funds are stolen, they are freezed. I would imagine North Korea doesn't have really an easy job laundering that BTC they have stolen.
Thank you for the feedback and we agree so we have changed the header nav link from "pico+" to "pricing".

In terms of the costs to run a saas, we are actively monitoring hardware utilization and resource allocation. Antonio and I have a lot of experience building and running saas (and paas) products so we feel confident we can manage whatever usage comes our way. We have also been strategic in terms of the services we provide in an effort to keep service support manageable.
Just at a quick glance...

How can a large egg (50 g) contain 147 g choline?

https://www.opennutrition.app/search/eggs-eeG7JQCQipwf

Additionally, on https://www.opennutrition.app/search/brown-lentils-VwKWF7CQq... it says:

> Unlike larger legumes, they require no pre-soaking and cook in 20-30 minutes, making them ideal for soups, stews, and salads

That is not necessarily true. Based on my experience, it does require pre-soaking, otherwise you will have to cook it for a long time, as opposed to red lentils (which is done under 15 minutes, no pre-soaking needed), although red lentils taste more like yellow peas.

In any case, I think this could be really useful, once accurate enough. One could even implement other features on top, such as a calorie tracker and so forth, but that is a huge project on its own.

I wish you luck!
As soon as they have the narrative to blame the incoming recession on Democrats, they definitely will
It's useful when done in good faith. During COVID there were numerous decisions that even if not intended to inflate mortality figures, then they did so inadvertently. In particular the CDC gave extremely broad guidance on what to classify as a death "of" COVID, and the government was giving hospitals additional funding per COVID death. So for the most ridiculous example of what this led to, in Florida some guy died in a motorbike crash and ended up getting counted as a COVID death because he also had COVID at the time. [1] He was eventually removed from their death count, but only because that case went viral.

Even in more arguable cases, preexisting conditions and extreme senescence are ubiquitous in deaths "of" COVID, and at this point there's probably no real chance of ever untangling the mess we created and figuring out what happened. For instance Colin Powell died at 84 with terminal cancer, Parkinson's, and a whole host of other health issues. His eventual death was flagged as 'caused by complications of COVID.' I mean maybe it really was, but I think the asterisk you'd put there is quite important when looking at these stats.

[1] - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/florida-motorcyclist-covid...
Microsoft used its influence over OEMs to stifle their competition in the browser market. This blog post is about how Valve are very much not doing that.
"The dystopic open-air homeless cities of the west coast"? Hyperbolic much?