skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think people were trusted before the 1990s until they were mid to late thirties. Now it's like VC's throw capital at 20 somethings as if they're wunderkind, when they're not fully mature adults mentally yet. Maybe there was some fraud on Wall Street back then, but those people had more access to capital than others.

It's also easy to delude yourself that you deserve all the money -- even if you haven't produced anything of value (Theranos). Or you delude yourself that you're so talented that there's no need for any safeguards (FTX). If there's capital flowing and you're sitting on a pile of cash (which you haven't earned yet only raised), you begin to think you've actually accomplished something when you haven't.

And now with crypto, influencers are basically cashing in their popularity. There's so much cash investors have, and TINA -- there is no alternative potentially high yield investments.

Before maybe in the 2000s investors would actually, like, you know, put insiders in the company and you know "due diligence" and all that, and not trust the word of a 20-something directly.
It would be interesting to see if some of the earthquake advanced warning notifications could be integrated too. at least then it would be an "official" warning. seems like false positives would be possible with the device's motion sensors even with an "i'm okay" type of cancel.
Depends what is your setup? You can always find more support on r/Localllama
When we did that in high school, we took long exposure photos with a strobe light and measured where the ball was at each strobe interval. I think it worked out well.

I'm sure nowadays the experiment would just be one slow-mo video on your phone.
Can’t believe they don’t link to the actual paper: https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pa...
Even setting aside the political stuff, this thing was 3 years late to the market. There are very few reasons you would want one of these over a Rivian outside of aesthetics, and it was a divisive aesthetic from the beginning.
This is awesome. Technology put to good use.

Can voice be transferred? Message be recorded and rebroadcasted?

What about making the device vibrate SOS pulses. The person at stake might not have the strength to tap or bang, may be able put the phone on a metallic surface and send vibrations?
Roguetype: The first ever roguelike written in the OCaml type system
Based on the paper I linked, it seems like a straight up classical sampling and clustering with baysian hyperparameter tuning. This is “everything is now AI” slop that’s infected all grants, academic and private industry fundraising. There’s no neural net or LLM involved.
Totally agree.

I didn’t use notes much, but it was a platform ahead of its time, that thanks to IBM’s… IBM-ness was ignored and allowed to rot.
Cory Booker breaks record for longest speech by US senator in Trump condemnation
>> More information: Shimpei Nishimoto et al, Infrared Bubble Recognition in the Milky Way and Beyond Using Deep Learning, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (2025). DOI: 10.1093/pasj/psaf008

It links to a doi.org URL which directs the browser to what you linked.
I LOVE this. Thank you! Huge +1, even though it's not going to be easy.

Yeah, false positives are the largest problem. The barometer sensor helps reduce them, but it's not available on all phones.

Machine learning can help a lot here, but I haven't looked for publicly available data yet.
I am becoming very nostalgic about word processors before around 2003. Back then, they were very predictable, made sense to me, and had all the features I wanted. The latest Word version makes all kinds of wacky choices for formatting, and I can't figure out how to fix them. Numbering is off, and formatting often is totally unpredictable. Not sure what's going on, but I really want Word 2000 back.
But are they less shit than the shitty software they filter traffic for?
How many people call a plumber, HVAC, or auto repairman because they don't want to fix it themselves vs don't know how to fix it?
Wow. This is huge. This patch doesn’t risk weird runtime errors due to missing polyfills or anything? Does it risk polyfilling irrelevant functions that aren’t referenced and bloating?
It seems more than coincidental that global fascism started to rise as soon as the generation that last defeated it had mostly died off.
Why not get as much as you can? The extra headroom might be handy for some unforseen expense, and in the mean time it makes your utilization ratio better.
Netflix's workflow for creatives isn't more sophisticated than their competitors; Netflix simply prefers to re-create the wheel in-house while their competitors are more likely to use off-the-shelf software solutions to the extent that they use software at all.

As others have pointed out on this thread: Netflix's solutions don't scale up or down for others. This means that the technical solution is sophisticated because their unnecessarily complicated internal business process requires it. Netflix could save billions a year if it streamlined their production side like the studios have. Case in point: almost every film Netflix has made in the past few years has gone way over budget, and it's not because of backend buy-outs. (The Electric State cost $320 million, meaning that the base budget before backend buyouts was around $225 million. It doesn't even look like an $50 million movie.)

Netflix can get away with inefficient business processes because it's making enough money right now to paper over those costs, but eventually they'll have to streamline their processes. (For an indirect example, look up the story of Carolco Pictures, the company behind T2, Rambo, and other major hits.)
One of the features Zig provides is ability to target any glibc version. See https://github.com/ziglang/glibc-abi-tool/ for more details on how this is solved.
This was done so well. Congrats!!!
I appreciate it :D

Those two questions are spot on.

Voice cannot be transferred yet.
Re-broadcasting might require a bluetooth meshnet.

Vibrations are a great idea. They are not that battery intensive. They also can be detected by 3rd party tech.

Both were added to the list of ideas. Thank you!!

I haven't done any effort there, because I want to get this into hands.
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I also have knowledge in UX and Product Management. I have experience with Python and want to learn more about AWS and any other programming languages like Go and Rust.
Thanks for your work on falco, it’s a really great library.
It’s disgusting how much the justice system rewards terrible people. Another conman gets his pay day, and I’m sure the judge got one too.
To run it on a diamond or something use tillnullnotreprecabnoiceh displayed and then it's the actual code run and compiled with rust later for use on a diamond chip.
Interview with Vibe Coder in 2025 [video]
You're assuming pursuit. For intercept you don't need a 180mph drone, you just need a somewhat predictable trajectory. You're also assuming constant motion away from shore or other ships, at top speed. Drones with speeds of up to 225kph (140mph) are already in use in Ukraine, although their payload is designed to take down heavy drones and helicopters (only a couple of pounds), and their range is only 12 miles. Nothing a month or two of rather straightforward scale-up couldn't fix. That's before we consider the practical scenario where a larger drone just drops these over the target. And if we assume the adversary is China, there could be hundreds of these larger drones in the air, with dozens of smaller drones each.
The original Apple I computer was released in 1976 and sold for $666.66, which is $3,725.38 in Feb 2025 adjusting for inflation.

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=666.66&year1=1...
The fact that you don't find the ensuing chaos amusing has me wondering - do you find Bedlam DL3 entertaining?

Note that finding something amusing isn't necessarily related to whether or not you feel the perpetrator conducted himself appropriately.
ReactOS could be a long-term alternative OS for legacy controllers of various industry machines based on Windows XP or older with custom drivers.
It's not safe to crouch during a lightning storm
Which works if you use binutils ld. Does it work with mold or gold? And then how do you use this with languages other than c++/c like Go or Rust?
I don’t like April Fools jokes but loved this one. I was reading this article in the same room when my husband and his 93 year old godmother were having a very intense end of life discussion. When I realized it was a joke, I was snorting not trying to laugh.
We shouldnt blame science fiction for its bad readers
Great interview with author China Mieville who's also working on a new book.
The tracking dots aren't for anti-counterfeiting. The secret service has a separate chunk of code in every color printer that detects if you are printing money and prints out a page that says essentially, "you can't do that." (at least that was the case 20 years ago when I worked for HP).

The tracking dots are used by the FBI if someone prints out classified information and passes it around, or other copyrighted/illegal documents.
The main lesson I was taught by undergrad chemistry and statistics is that the point of science is to lie and massage your terrible incorrect results until they look realistic, claim any remaining error was due to the shitty inprecice equipment you're saddeled with, and turn it in, because you don't have enough time or money to try again.
I always thought it meant "I'll go check if it's raining (and never come back)", but it turns out that a rain check is an IOU given out when an outdoor activity is disrupted by weather, so you can use it for a later event.
The actual paper is paywalled, of course.
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That's machine learning.

Clustering alone is machine learning and has been taught as such to innumerable people.

I have deep feelings about this, someone in management taking exactly one Kaggle course managed to wield this knowledge to great damage.

But it is machine learning.

Additionally, it goes far beyond clustering: the article you linked describes training an image recognition model, which also seems to be heavily stressed in the article linked on HN.
Advancing Secure and Convenient Government Communications: The Case for Element
My takeaway is that the universe is soda.
Sidekiq 8.0: Improvements to the Web UI
Sounds like you're assuming all software is SaaS that requires the provider to keep it available?

Software used to all be lifetime purchases by providing you with the actual program. If you bought a copy of WordPerfect in the 90s it will still work fine today even though no one is offering it anymore.
Is it still trespassing if the door was unlocked? Yes. Not sure why so many people have trouble applying the same principles of unauthorized access to computers.
Until you colour it in with a crayon.
Here's hoping the business world learns from this experience: trolls make terrible CEOs. It's one thing to be a narcissist or a sociopath. It's another to set out to sell a product while bending all your effort to taunting and dominating the customers who trusted you. People remember being betrayed.

It turns out no one is an NPC.
The point being made by Nursie above is simply that what you are calling "Progressive left" in the USofA is a position largely seen as centralist in other parts of the world.

By stating tht there is "effectively no political left wing in America" they are asserting that the furtherest political left position held in the USofA is a centralist one called "Progressive left" there in the US.
I'm very happy with Kubernetes at home. Everything just works at this point, though it did take a fair bit of fiddling at first.

I think it's a great way to learn Kubernetes if you're interested in that.
The use of debt vs capital is interesting, but one isn't clearly better than the other. You can look at OpenAI's revenue as allowing them to raise investment capital.

To invest in OpenAI is to bet that they won't need to keep investing more in hardware than they bring in. To me that doesn't seem a sure thing, but it isn't obviously wrong either. They are growing revenue very quickly and already have significant cashflow, and it isn't clear to me that they'll need to sustain the CapEx forever.
Lol depending on what you’re delivering and whether you want the aircraft back to fly a second mission or not.

For civilian drone delivery there are some use cases where you can squeeze out a small profit doing drone-based delivery as opposed to conventional truck-based delivery, but it’s not a sure thing yet in general. A Transit van can cover a huge number of miles for a relatively small capital investment. Covering the same number of miles with a drone (even factoring in that you aren’t constrained by the road network and can do straight line flights) for lower cost is… hard.
this means the example wasn't made to be lightweight.
You'll need an apples to apples example to convince any detractor. Implement the same app using two different toolsets, document the process with each and then benchmark it
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548647
Ask HN: Given the choice, would you write documentation if you didn't have to?
I personally find writing internal documentation very monotonous even though I know it's important.

I'm curious if you were told you could have decent internal documentation automatically generated for you that were good enough, but not competitive w/ human maintained docs.

Would you still take the effort to write your own documentation?
Please, engineers, invent actual linking books that work
OS and hardware designers seem to agree function keys were a good idea. And have extended them as one click short cuts for brightness, airplane mode, opening your calculator, and all other kinds of things.
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Have 5 years working in big tech, looking to work on a new tech stack with a dedicated focus.
I have a lot of experience with Oncall/IR for major services. My main focus professionally has been in Devops and developer tooling which I'd be more than interested in having a conversation about, but I'm also interested in expanding and moving towards to new roles.

I'd be interested in any tech roles regarding backend technologies, Observability and platform logging, Data infrastructure architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, Security, Modernization and Automation.

I have strong familiarity with frontend/fullstack but would prefer to limit my frontend search to frontend roles that at least partially cover hardware accelerated technologies such as WebGPU/ThreeJS, Platform specifics (OpenGL/Vulkan/Metal/D3D), Compute or high efficiency parallelization.

I'd be open to opportunities where I get to further explore AI, however I'd have a preference for Healthcare, Notetaking, transcription and productivity, prototyping, and less emphasis on GenAI for content creation.

Additionally, I'd love the opportunity to take my skills and experience from outside of my professional experience into a new direction, so I've decided to put special emphasis on hardware/robotics. I consider any role that is at least somewhat adjacent to hardware technology a major plus.

I want to be more picky with my current job search. I'm open to spending more time in the interview process to determine whether or not I'm a good fit, as I want to ensure I'm where I want to be. Let's start a conversation!
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Looking for application security engineer roles. For the past 5 years I have been building security tooling that internal teams can make use of. I work closely with other teams to help improve the security posture of their apps. I help write documentation and host department wide presentations to educate others about web app security and steps they can take to make apps more secure. I took on the responsibility of managing our H1 Bug Bounty Program which previously was failing SLA targets by 10+ months and managed to bring it down to days. I have helped mentor interns and junior developer and also been active in conducting pair programming interviews for future candidates. What you get from me is a go-getter, self-motivated individual. I am always looking to improve not only myself but also my work.
A deeply considered take: this is theoretically interesting but in practice matters very little.

It’s like worrying about compiler bugs instead of semantic programming errors. If you are getting to the point where you have machine checked proofs, you are already doing great. It’s way more likely that you have a specification bug or modeling error than an error in the solver.

If you are worried about it, many people have solutions that are very compelling. There are LCF style theorem provers like HOL Light with tiny kernels. But for any real world systems, none of this matters, use any automated solvers you like, it will be fine.
Imo they are still extremely limited compared to a senior coder. Take python, still most top ranking models struggle with our codebase, every now and then I try to test few, and handling complex part of the codebase to produce coherent features still fails. They require heavy handholding from our senior devs, which I am sure they use AI as assistants.
This looks amazing! Both Eaglercraft and Browsercraft (though Eaglercraft seems to be further along) — the closest realization to the dream I've had for years of running a fully-featured Minecraft in the browser. Quite promising, I can only wonder where these projects will end up as they develop further, wishing for the best...!

Why is this so exciting to me? I started playing Minecraft back in the Java modding days, which really picked up steam around 1.2.5 and, by my estimations, peaked around 1.7.10. There was a veritable cornucopia of mods widely available, to enhance the game in a plethora of ways. I modded my game so hard I undoubtedly ran more third-party code than first-party/Mojang. Minecraft was a platform for creative expression, freeform and unconstrained. The golden age of Minecraft modding!

But it wasn't all unicorns and rainbows. There was a dark side of modding: the ease of use, or lack thereof in getting mods setup. Modpacks helped, but you still had to run untrusted code, and you still had to have a compatible PC. This is what (nearly) killed Minecraft for me. I wanted to play with my friend, but his PC had Windows upgraded and lost Java or OpenGL compatibility, and he eventually dropped his desktop and switched to tablets, phones, and consoles. My highly curated developed modded technical world became inaccessible.

Contrast this unfortunate situation with the browser: with "load and go" functionality as Douglas Crockford calls it, you can just visit a website and play, provided sufficient specs. What if we could play modded Minecraft (preferably 1.7.10), with all the mods to our hearts content, right in the browser, accessible to anyone?! And anyone could develop and distribute their own mods without concern, being safely executed within the browser sandbox.

I don't know how close Eaglercraft is to this utopia, but I find the possibility very enticing.
> a lot of user-space in Linux-land does not make the same effort

I believe that, what the article misses is that glibc is maintained and extended with an entirely different community and development model. Windows remains compatible over decades because Microsoft (a) is the sole distributor, and (b) puts an immense effort towards backwards compat. In Linux userspace, it's simply a non-goal across distributions. If you want to ship a binary for a particular distro, you need to build the binary on / for that distro; even within a distro, a major release bump (or especially a major release downgrade) may break a binary.

Ultimately, it's a consequence of Conway’s Law. Microsoft is the sole distributor of Windows, so they can enforce compatibilty with an iron fist, and there are people working for Microsoft whose pay depends on said compatibility. With "Linux" in general, there is no common authority to appeal to, and (again) most vendors don't even promise a seamless userspace upgrade path from one major release to another.

This is unfixable; it will never change -- as long as independent parties are permitted to distribute different operating systems yet call them all "Linux".

Ship multiple binaries, or distribute the source code (and let users build it).

EDIT: you'll notice that "ship multiple binaries" is what distros (especially commercial distros) do. They maintain separate branches, backport fixes to old branches, and employ software maintenance engineers to focus on this kind of work. If you want to target multiple major releases, this is what you have to do, too.

If you (as a commercial ISV) target a commercial distro with long-term support, and can convince your users to use / license the same distro, you'll have a good, stable development experience. You only need to port like once every decade, when you jump major releases.

The Linux user base / the Linux market is fragmented; that's the whole goal. The technical proliferation / inconsistency is just a consequence. Unless you take away the freedom of users to run their own flavors of "Linux", there won't be a uniform Linux target.

In a way, it's funny to even expect otherwise. Why do you expect to ship the same binaries when the foundations are diverse, with no standardization authority that all Linux distributors recognize as such? And even POSIX is an API spec, not an ABI spec.

And, any authority that controls binary aspects will immediately accrue political capital. This is exactly what shouldn't happen in Linux. The fact that anyone can fork (or start) a distro, and contribute to the chaos, is good for freedom.