skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the days of Apple being a prestige business are over. What did they forge their halo out of anyways? A San Bernadino standoff, some whitepapers and a few snarky ads. Tim Cook pushed hard on hardware margins by outsourcing and then doubled down on profit extraction from developers and publishing partners. Now users are expected to foot the service bill for unprofitable ventures like TV+ and failed products like Vision Pro. The goodwill is gone.

In 2010, Apple felt like a hardware company obligated to design software. In 2025, they feel like a software company obligated to make hardware. With the DMA/DSA barrelling down the tracks it doesn't really matter where Apple is headquartered - governments will regulate you out of certain behavior. They have to reform their business pretty radically if they want to remain profitable, the old economics can't keep limping along like they used to.
At Coroot, we solve the same problem, but in a slightly different way. The traffic source is always a container (Kubernetes pod, systemd slice, etc.). The destination is initially identified as an IP:PORT pair, which, in the case of Kubernetes services, is often not the final destination. To address this, our agent also determines the actual destination by accessing the conntrack table at the eBPF level. Then, at the UI level, we match the actual destination with metadata about TCP listening sockets, effectively converting raw connections into container-to-container communications.

The agent repo: https://github.com/coroot/coroot-node-agent
It uses: SF Display, SF Mono, and SF Text, designed by Apple.

In case you come across other website fonts you like, you can use https://fontofweb.com to get their names.

Disclaimer: I'm the creator
Yes. I even pay for Kagi. I very rarely feel the need to ask a chatbot for anything and every time I have I've been disappointed in the results. I'm surprised so many people find them useful.

These are the things I usually search for:

* lazy spell check
* links to resources/services
* human-made content (e.g. reviews, suggestions, communities)

Genuinely curious - those who use chatbots regularly in lieu of search, what kinds of things are you prompting it for?
Why? Did they have a previous exit?
Perplexity solves this problem perfectly for me. It does the web search, reads the pages, and summarizes the content it found related to my question. Or if it didn't find it, it says that.

I recently configured Chrome to only use google if I prefix my search with a "g ".
The problem is that the US is already behind in innovation on that field, and better machines produce better machines. So it’s “backwards in time” because you have to start manufacturing the shovel to start digging when your competitor has a backhoe. And even if you could somehow steal the design and build it you don’t have anyone who could operate it.
HA - I wrote the same comment, including the bit about "why is it in Reminders and not Notes?" - it really is just inexplicable
Agreed. I think of these as two different types of searches - “page searches” where you know a page exists and want to get to it, and “content searches” where you have a more open-ended question.

Really, for many “page searches”, a good search engine should just be able to take you immediately to the page. When I search “Tom Hanks IMDB”, there’s no need to see a list of links - there’s obviously one specific page I want to visit.

https://notes.npilk.com/custom-search
If anything stock image websites are even worse at this then AI. With AI you come up with an image idea, then try to make the AI produce something close to it. With stock images you come up with an image idea, then hope some photographer had a similar idea and uploaded it to a stock website.
Author has two main problems with smartphones:

(1) they don't like that smartphones do convenient things (take pictures, play games, read email, show spreadsheets, replace credit cards). Their proposed solution is to don't use that functionality: use phone only for calls (they are unclear if text messages are OK), carry separate gaming console, carry separate eBook (or paper book), lug laptop for email/spreadsheets, get real camera, carry pen & paper for notes. Basically replace that phone in your pocket with a backpack full of stuff.

(2) they don't like that smartphones are _required_ sometimes. Examples given are train tickets, "identity card replacement app", and app required for "professional bank account".

I very much sympathize with problem 2, and I don't think smartphones should ever be required for service. Even if someone likes smartphones, they still run out of battery or break - you don't want to be stuck at the train station because you forgot to change your phone.

I don't really care about problem 1 - if it's a good tool, I'll use it. If you like pen & paper - use it, if you keep loosing your notebooks, switch to cellphone notes app instead.
>Odds are pretty good that a programming language's homepage is not lying to me about the language

Odds are pretty good that, at least for not very popular projects, the homepage's themselves would soon be produced by some LLM, and left at that, warts and all...
Moving Apple to Korea or Ireland won't let it escape US tariffs. Tariffs are based on where the item is manufactured not where the company is headquartered.
And also https://www.reddit.com/r/SpeedOfLobsters/
It's a picture of the motorcycle in a display that includes the guy who built it? What does AI have to do with that?
Valve's Computer that I'm Not Supposed to Have [video]
“ The Energy Department's Loan Program Office’s Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment (EIR) Program will also make $200 billion in financing available for coal energy investments, such as upgrading energy infrastructure and building new facilities that utilize legacy energy infrastructure.”

From another source. We can downplay it but some significant money is being put to work
Then the response will also contain ads for things that are not the answer to the query. This is how search engines currently behave.

Example from my work. Many of our customers will search for our company name in order to find the login page. I've watched them do this over screen share.

When they do that, the top search result is an ad slot. The second search result is our login page.

We buy ads against out own company name so that we can be the ad slot as well as the first result. Otherwise a competitor who buys ads against our company name could be the top slot.
Stupid question but I assume this licensing actually invoked being paid real money for it? I’m assuming this wasn’t 7 figures.

Clearly you made it as a labour of love, but if you were honest with yourself would you have made more as an uber driver, or maybe a tech employee, for the time you invested.
Tao agrees with you: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/decomposing-a-fact...
And what happens when another candidate has the same skills and a bunch of other skills on top of those? Well maybe they don’t.. but of if they manage to take your interview spot it hardly matters.
And what happens when another candidate has the same skills and a bunch of other skills on top of those? Well maybe they don’t.. but if they manage to take your interview spot it hardly matters.
I use perplexity more than anything else these days.
Right now, its pretty restricted to relatively static geometry. You can do simple transforms like scaling, rotating, etc to groups of voxels, so maybe down the line you'd be able to animated them!
> I can take cash from any country in the world to my local bank, and deposit it into my account.

If you are at a institution bank, probably but that's a non-existent use case - I never had Argentinian Pesos, Turkish Lira or Bulgarian Lev I suddenly needed to deposit into my bank account !..

> Try to use cryptocurrency for anything other than a few very specific transactions at a number of places in the world so small that it's a rounding error.

I'm not sure whether you travel much, but I always travel as a digital nomad. I pay small transactions with local cash or mostly bank cards as everybody does. But big amounts? That's where crypto comes into play. I've paid in crypto transactions worth a few thousands dollars because that's the only way to do it without incurring huge transaction fees and / or long processing time.
Slashing my C02 Emissions: Notes on Electrification and Solar in Ontario, Canada
If you aren't paying attention to how AI is impacting software development, you are missing the biggest paradigm shift and a direct competitor to GT. It's much more than GenAI and chat

AI can use tools, including everything GT can use. MCP is an emerging "standard" for how to make tools available to AI
Wikipedia does not have an opinion, and is not a source according to Wikipedia. Always use the sources the Wikipedia users to cite anything. If Wikipedia does not have a reference, don’t cite it.
Ironically the letter height for the monospace text on this website is all over the place for me. I'm using Chrome on Windows so you'd think it would work fine... Seems to be an issue with SF Mono.
The State of Garnet in 2025
Nasdaq Suffer Major Reversal
This is just wrong. What exactly do think companies are spending 500k on per engineer beyond the TC package?
You'd hope so, but it's still an uphill battle to get people to only work with financial advisors who have a fiduciary duty to their client, rather than working with advisors who get kickbacks.
Yes I use a mix of Kagi and Ecosia
AquaFox is a continuation of the TenFourFox (and then InterWebPPC) project, which integrates the occasional updates Dr Kaiser still releases, and has builds for each PPC revision (G3, G4, G4e, G5) which is really nice.

Sadly these machines simply don't have the horsepower to browse the web well these days, but for those times you want to look something up or download a file without moving to another computer it's a really convenient resource.
I agree that xbar's seemingly not getting as much love as it once was. I was also having some weird CPU resource issues with it, which all but went away with SwiftBar, so I'd definitely recommend swapping it out. The script backend is compatible with xbar/BitBar scripts, so migration should be pretty pain-free. I'm currently running SwiftBar on 15.4 with no issues (minus some interesting nuance with how it handles to menu bar items which I think is more of a macOS menu bar thing than a SwiftBar thing, as I had the same issues with xbar).
LLMs are unreliable transformators for information which is already quite unreliable. So yes, I use Kagi. Averagely, using a search engine takes less time to achieve the same reliability (of course, perfect reliability is impossible). At least for me for sure.
I am quite curious to know who the targets were for the 200 some bomb threats. While I have a suspicion I would love to know if there is any tally.
> Really, for many “page searches”, a good search engine should just be able to take you immediately to the page.

Are you feeling lucky?
I find myself laughing at "Many developers are understandably concerned about the performance of text-wrap: pretty." I just can't bring myself to believe there is a meaningfully sized group of developers that have considered the performance of text-wrapping.
https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/stanford-scholar-files-mo...

> A colleague of professor XiaoFeng Wang, the world-renowned cybersecurity expert who IU fired last Friday after federal law enforcement searched his homes, is filing a legal motion to unseal the warrants.

> “We have the right to know what our government is up to, in short,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a legal scholar and policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered Artificial Intelligence.

> Wang and his wife Nianli Ma have not been heard from publicly since the searches last Friday at homes in Bloomington and Carmel. But Wang’s lawyer says the couple is safe and hasn’t been charged with a crime.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25878395/wang-stateme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_energy_storage

Solar: only when sun shines.
Peak power needed: in the morning.
Best storage: water dams

In Pakistan there is no big grid to allow feeding solar back to pump water up. But the small e-rollers don't need much. This works fine enough, locally.
Tail->Dash: A fun word game
I wanted to share this word game I wrote for fun. I enjoy playing it and I hope others do too. No login required. (Once you pull it up, no internet connection required either!)
> I optimistically imagine a world where we replace the relatively non-specific asymptotic bounds of an algorithm with a very specific quantification of the work an algorithm will take.

I think you're getting this backwards. The (good) point you and Mitzenmacher are making is that our analysis standards are _too strict_, and hence we avoid good algorithms that are just too hard to analyze.

If we instead require exact combinatorics, e.g., using Flajolet/Sedgewick, that will be _even harder_ than if we _just_ try to do asymptotic analysis. Remember that asymptotics are a way to _approximate_ the exact number of steps. It's supposed to make it _easier_ for you.
Hi there! I'm Kanjun, Josh's cofounder — thanks for this lovely take on Imbue :) I feel quite seen, and wanted to share some replies to your thoughts.

On Sculptor: You’ve nailed it on the key things to get right. Today, I’d say the product is still very early, and it can indeed get expensive if you kick off tons and tons of agents. Today’s research preview release (currently free for testers) aims to slowly grow our community of testers, so we can get the product to identify and fix issues well, and enable actual software engineering with AI agents. We’d genuinely love to work with you as we build this out if you’re game to deal with early-stage bumps and crashes: DM me on X (I’m @kanjun) and we’ll get you set up with Sculptor.

On policy and mission: Thank you for the treatment on SB-1047. We care a lot about distributing power, and that showed us firsthand the complexities of regulating entrenched interests. We are not currently a PBC because the legal entity doesn’t seem to greatly affect the behavior of companies that are PBCs. It seems like the bigger effect is how leadership thinks about ethics and decision-making, and so for now, we take our own ethical grounding and behaviors seriously rather than relying on the legal structure.

We’re neither e/acc nor EA — I don’t fully resonate with either's treatment of the dynamics created by increasing AI capabilities, and I’m generally wary of this kind of tribalism as it can hinder critical thinking. My current primary lens is that of power distribution — we want to ensure that power is as much as possible in the hands of humans, and in particular, prosocial humans.

On Minsky: Wow, I’d totally forgotten about his Sculpting paper! But upon rereading, we are referencing a similar feeling to how software engineering could feel in the future — less need for intense precision, more like sculpting. Our view of how that gets implemented necessarily differs from Minsky’s (he was ahead of his time).

Indeed, we started our journey as Generally Intelligent (and posted jobs on HN all the time, heh), with the intent of figuring out how to address what we saw as core sociotechnical problems of AI. This product is, we believe, a step in that direction. In the next month or so, I will put out a more detailed treatment of the ideas around power, tailored for an audience keen on diving deeper.

Thanks again for the encouragement!
This is the right answer. The fact that you might know an outer clue helps you when the inner clue is a stumper!
Yes. Kagi. Or sometimes DuckDuckGo if I'm on a computer that isn't my own so I don't want to log into Kagi. Never Google though, that's gone to shit.
> The economic picture of what will happen is instead of being an American engineer designing widgets made in China, some fraction of you are now decimated to be an American widget maker of items engineered in China. Tarriff is essentially just a handicap to comparitive advantage in trade, trading out jobs where you had the advantage.

That's just a myopic regurgitation of free trade dogma that misses much. For instance: 1) the previous sock of American widget makers didn't become engineers, they got laid off with poor prospects; 2) it assumes a friendly free trade regime, which is unrealistic oversimplification; and perhaps 3) that "comparative advantage" is something real and not just lower living standards and laxer environmental and labor regulations.

> It is one of the most baffling thing I have seen our government do in our lifetime.

The part you're baffled about is only baffling if you're ignorant of everything except free trade dogma.

The real baffling thing is why little to no distinction was made between allies and adversaries, low wage countries and high wage countries.
Exciting news! I recently launched a daily puzzle game I created based on an idea I had in the shower: (https://everything.io) I’ve been seeing lots of people here sharing their projects, and it’s been inspiring—some seriously cool ideas out there!

My game is a bit different—it’s all about combining emojis to find the hidden emoji. Sometimes it’s wordplay, sometimes conceptual, and sometimes just plain silly.

Congrats to everyone building and sharing—loving the creativity here!
Is this where folks will get it for ereaders? Naively, I hadn't realized ereaders were glorified webkit displays.
Regarding "Insist on camera ON phone screens.", DON'T do that.

Remember you try to hire a ${coder, admin, } not the next tv-news-presenter, beeing on screen is not a mandatory needed skill in most jobs.

By asking for something, that makes people uncomfortable, you will exclude a lot of likely brilliant candidates.

People who refuse to do video interviews may be for example:
- people who value privacy, not only their own, but most likely yours too
- people who feel very uncomfortable beeing watched by strangers and who think or even know that they will perform significant worse than in an audio-only interviewsituation
- people who simply don't own a camera
- people who use textonly computers offjob
- poeple who have experienced that your 'standard'-videochat-app may not work, maybe because they use linux, bsd, os/2 or nonstandard operatingsystems
- people who don't have broadband internet, yes there are still people like that
- people who pay for every bit send, and yes having a not so cheap phone/internet contract is still common in some areas
- people who feel uncomfortable to let strangers in their bedroom, even virtualy
- people who have disabilities or cosmetic issues that they fear may distract you
- people who have disabilities where moving and out-of-sync pictures distract them
- people who tend to refuse unreasonable requests and who therefor regard you as unqualified to be their next employeer
- ...

All of them have good reasons not wanting video interviews.

You, as an employer, may miss your best fit.
The quality of your insurance definitely impacts wait times. HMOs are often faster and if you have medicaid you're going to look at much longer wait times for the specialists that accept it.

Months for specialists sounds bad (during covid the waits in the Bay Area got pretty bad), but for context on the NHS, they are currently targeting having more than 65% of patients served within ~5 months and they don't even make that target. Even the extremely capacity constrained Bay Area isn't close to that level of dysfunction.
Ticketmaster.com Down and Redirecting to Ticketmaster.sg
You mean my Hakyll site? It's mot meant to be :)
Bird neurons are typically around 40% of the length, or 1/9 the volume of mammalian neurons. This means they have around 9x the number of neurons per unit volume.

A large parrot has around the same number of neurons as a beagle dog.

Combined with weight savings, this may allow their brains to work faster, which is useful for a flight computer.

Birds have other features which are superior to mammals. For example, their flow-through lungs allow for more efficient gas exchange.

However, having to fly means weight reduction has been a big driver of evolutionary compromises. A bird that can fly cannot carry large fat reserves around. They are not resilient when sick and often die quickly after the onset of visible symptoms.
Port Authority is full of them — every single platform, I think.
You can control the notifications – just go into the Managed Shared List section, and there's an area to control notifications when adding (on by default) and when completing (off by default) items.
I have done that on occasion, but it's easier to just scroll a bit.
apical_dendrite is saying what the government's claims are, not what the ruling says.
Monkfruit doesn't come in a nice, familiar crystal form, and monkfruit extract is much sweeter per gram than sugar. For this reason, manufacturers bulk it up with some kind of sugar alcohol to make it easier to use. GP is saying they use erythritol for this purpose because the other options (e.g. xylitol) are toxic to pets.
Some bird species are capable of communicating in proto-language that is only a few steps removed from full language capability in the human sense, so I think the most likely answer is "accident of evolution". If the primates didn't take over the Earth, maybe evolved parrots would have, given a few more million years.
With Sweet’n’Low?! Isn’t that considered blasphemy in sweet tea country?
> The problem is that the US is already behind in innovation on that field, and better machines produce better machines.

That's not a permanent situation, proven by the fact that the countries that are now ahead in machine tools used to be behind the US in machine tools.

> So it’s “backwards in time” because you have to start manufacturing the shovel to start digging when your competitor has a backhoe. And even if you could somehow steal the design and build it you don’t have anyone who could operate it.

As aptly demonstrated by China: it's a lot easier to catch up than to develop at the cutting edge. All you need is a little bit of investment and will.

And personally, I think the government should conscript some crypto and adtech startups (and their employees) to build up an operator pool, because they're obnoxious and those people should be doing something useful instead.
I was curious about this too, and I found https://echarts.apache.org/en/theme-builder.html
I wish more of these government-baked payment systems would just use GNU Taler [1] instead of implementing their own walled gardens.

GNU Taler ensures that the paying customer is anonymous while the merchant is identified and taxable. This is great for privacy, but not very attractive for commercial companies as your revenue has to be fully based on fees instead of making extra money by selling your customers data. The Swiss National Bank showed interest in adopting it some years ago, but I haven't heard much anymore since…

[1] https://www.taler.net
So more of an expert system?
I was going to comment on this. I wonder if there are any cards for women (dumb!) or if they’re just not mentioned in the article (dumb!).
If you try to raise the number of Americans that make $50k by shrinking the total domestic output, it's going to be laid-off mechanical engineers in those new jobs, not former sales associates, themselves now unemployed due to reduced retail traffic.
Even if it feels oddly out of place there and more appropriate for Notes, kudos to whomever on the Reminders app team advocated for and shoehorned in that featureset.
Use verbatim mode (tbs=li:1). Use a content blocker that removes the AI responses and ads.
There's an interesting extension to Analytic Combinatorics by Flajolet/Sedgewick called "Analytic Combinatorics in Several Variables" by Pemantle and Wilson: https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~pemantle/papers/ACSV.pdf and https://acsvproject.com/

It extends the original framework with a lot of useful new primitives, like Hadamard products. Super useful!