skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, this is my whole point. The American Rescue Act and subsequent policies that were very much propping up salient jobs (certainly not wfh tech jobs that are, definitionally, resistant to lockdowns) fueled inflation that led to the end of zero interest rate period which led to large layoffs in tech.

Those are of little consequence compared to FRS interest rate policy. Also, those people need a place to work. Sorry.

> Flint falsifies your point, it is a democratic bastion. If you'd expect that to radicalize people, it should be deep deep read.

Democratic or Republican doesn't matter. When you have no more money because of major regional economic changes, you can't do the basic functions of government. There's also demographic differences.

> Out of bounds is a social norm over time. Donald Trump, their far and away champion, gives such egregious conduct I can't read this with a straight face.

That's what rage does.

> But we can go further back. Was 'just say no' not egregious enough for you? AIDS shaming? The vicious anger against gay people? I can take any snapshot of the past - conservatives will always be the cry bully at any of the years in time you want to pick.

You're confusing "conservative" with people in the part of the country that we're talking about.
Then clearly you would be ranked very low by something like this. I think that is the whole point of this: tell the people who have solid commit history from those who don't.
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Brazil was in constant economic chaos in the 80s and 90s, so the banking system invested a lot in automation and communications.

I actually think it took too long for Pix to be invented. The piping was all there. Somebody just had to have the idea.

Even in the 80s you could easily transfer from any bank to any other bank.
Yup, there was one! that I was aware when I worked at an 8000 employee IBM facility 20 years ago. It was novel to be able to get hot burgers out of it.
A friend who is heavily inked has gone on at length to me about understanding skin elasticity--particularly how it changes over a lifetime--as well as the way joints and muscles change and distort visual lines, etc. It sure seems like a skilled trade to me.

And, I don't know, depth of penetration of a needle in flesh and sanitation don't strike me as minor things to get right.
I mean, if they said not to wear something formal, that doesn't really seem like bias as much as just not following instructions. If I showed up to an interview where they said to wear a suit and I was in jeans and a polo, I'd expect to get turned down too.
When I saw the new round, I was instantly worried about change in direction that will most likely come with this, and effectively drive away regular users from a tool that seems universally loved.

Similar sentiment can be seen in the discussion from three years ago [1] when they raised $100M.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31259950
Thanks for your feedback will take a look?
are you looking for zig developer? or you were just testing?
> Over here

Where is that? You don't say.
It's funny but I always had assumed all countries had their own state-owned weather services, until I found out there was no such thing in Germany.
Those betavolt batteries are about as powerful as a potato battery. Seriously, they both have power output measured in microwatts.
The money is, of course, not open source, so there will never be any FLOSS app for it.
... because, according to the engineering firm that reviewed the original design blueprints in this millenium, Wright's specifications for extra steel rebar in the cement were ignored by the contractors. In their opinion/analysis, the house would not have needed such repairs were it built to his spec in the first place.
Do we know that that's not true?
That's exactly why NOAA in the US is under attack. Conservatives see $$$ potential if they privatize it.
I get the joke but man, for once I'd like something to just be wholesome full stop.
The concern here is that people aren’t happy that LLM parasites are wasting their bandwidth and therefore their money on a scheme to get rich off of other people’s work.
This sounds like a personal issue you have with your own mother that you are desperately trying to extrapolate onto the rest of society. Taking one selfish woman and using it to demonise all women and even the concept of feminism is quite silly.

> Much of backlash towards feminism is self-inflicted.

Self-inflicted by non-feminists?

> We don't need hateful men to tell us what to think about female priviledge.

But you're going to do it anyway.
I believe in Germany the national weather service in fact rolled out such an app, but was then stopped by a court because this counted as unfair competition with private entities.
As long as the blockchain provides anonimity, sure.
I wouldn't be surprised if a large chunk of this order is for non-humanoids: https://bostondynamics.com/products/stretch/
Show HN: Google Sheets MCP
After seeing yesterday's browser MCP I published my Google Sheets MCP server, makes a really nice cloud data store for light scraping / crawling tasks

Related – Browser MCP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613194
For me it can't click anywhere on google sheets. I get the following error

--Error: Cannot access a chrome-extension:// URL of different extension
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Tech uniforms: instead of spending $2500 on four Brooks Brothers suits (seasonal sales), spend $2500 on fancy Nordic hiking clothes that you'll mostly wear sitting at a desk, as if an Arctic expedition might suddenly break out at the office and you'll need to at least have your base and mid layers ready.

Hipster/lumberjack can also work. Make sure the jeans are $400 Japanese raw selvedge to really get it right.
Off-topic, but the image captioned "Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure" looks AI generated. The workers on the extreme left and right are standing on solar panels, and the one in the centre is holding some metal bars that merge Escher-like with the panels behind him.

Even the caption sounds like part of an AI prompt to generate the image.
Personal AI-Briefer for Founders
If you are like me, you have to stay ahead on (too) many fronts:
- Clients: both companies AND stakeholders
- Competitors
- Tech advancements
- Events
- Regulations
…

Last week, we launched SubstantAI (beta) to solve that problem.

As we hoped and expected, consultants and account managers got excited. But surprisingly many founders jumped on it too. So, I thought I’d share it here.

After a small week, SubstantAI is becoming more than “a cool personal newsletter” for our users.
- Yes, they like that their AI screens everything they wish they did.
- Yes they appreciate the curation/ that we’re solving information overload.
- But what they love is that their AI suggests actions (not just FYIs).

We’re in beta and only offer briefs for now. But we’re of course putting this in an MCP server very soon.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Lithuania fines Revolut 3.5M euros for money-laundering prevention failures
> An example specie over here

"Specie" means "of the same kind" and generally specifically coins, especially gold coins. It is not the singular of "species". Species is both singular and plural, like "sheep" or "deer" or "salmon".

Where is "over here"?
Nuclear battery? Why not have the robots recharge themselves? They could coordinate their shift changes in a staggered fashion (unlike human shift changes) so that the line never stops moving.
US Justice Dept disbands cryptocurrency enforcement unit
Maybe it's like how we (most vertebrates) have blind spots built into our eyes due to a quirk of evolution, but some animal like squid etc don't... because their eyes have better cable management.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Hh_Hy0E4U
Humanoid robots on the market for the price of a small car? That's complete science fiction. There have been demos of such robots but only demos.
Correct. They've become significantly cheaper to run, and their lifetime costs are vastly more affordable.

In the 1960's, getting a car to 100,000 miles was an achievement; now, the car is just getting broken in.
AFAIK the fastest "production" EV is the McMurtry "Spéirling" that does a quarter mile in under 8 seconds. Watching it set the record for goodwood is mind blowing, because it looks like the video is being played in fast forward, but it isn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYp9eGC3Cc

Although you can in theory buy one, it uses down force fans so I don't know if it would even be street legal in most places. Personally, I find car like this to be way more interesting than drag racers.
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My Master's supervisor, at Wits university in Johannesburg, worked on the architecture of the 360 after graduating from the PhD program at Harvard. I remember him telling us how they went about deciding whether or not 32 bits would be a sufficient size for "most" floating point numbers. They were very systematic about it, scouring journals, talking with physicists and mathematicians and so on.
I was thinking about this and realized that if we want an AI boom to lead to UBI, AI needs to start replacing the cushy white collar jobs first.

If you start by replacing menial labor, there will be more unemployment but you’re not going to build the political will to do anything because those jobs were seen as “less than” and the political class will talk about how good and efficient it is that these jobs are gone.

You need to start by automating away “good jobs” that directly affect middle/upper class people. Jobs where people have extensive training and/or a “calling” to the field. Once lawyers, software engineers, doctors, executives, etc get smacked with widespread unemployment, the political class will take UBI much more seriously.
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It's a bit of both really. I don't particularly want everything I put on the internet to be slurped and put into The Algorithm(tm), and I was initially positive about LLMs and Image Generation in general but more recently I've just become annoyed at them, especially when I have a lot of friends in the art community
OK but how exactly do you propose to make that work? With current encryption technology there is no way to give up a bit of privacy: it's all or nothing. Either you have the keys or you don't. If a government has the key then it will inevitably be leaked or misused. The UK government in particular has long been heavily penetrated by Soviet / Russian intelligence.
> The better they get at predicting what the low animals on the surface are doing, the more opportunities that they have to sneak in and sneak out safely to get a meal

The most compelling explanation for bird intelligence I’ve read[1] argues that it all stems from social needs. Birds, you see, form lifelong pairs. But they constantly cheat on each other. Keeping track of this cheating behavior, deceiving each other, hide their actions, predict what other birds know, understanding who will and who won’t rat them out to their partner, that’s why the intelligence developed. Then once you have intelligence, it proves useful for all sorts of things.

Many species of bird also use this advanced ability to keep track of who knows what for food. They’ll hide a stash for winter and find it all later. But it’s easier to remember where your friend hid theirs than to get your own. So a whole arms race of deception developed.

[1] The Genius of Birds https://www.jenniferackermanauthor.com/genius-ofbirds
As a 25 year hoodie-wearing tech person, I'd pick suits over Khakis and polo shirts any day.
There are many, many reasons to be skeptical of AI. There are also excellent tasks it can efficiently help with.

I wrote a project where I'd initially hardcoded a menu hierarchy into its Rust. I wanted to pull that out into a config file so it could be altered, localized, etc without users having it and recompile the source. I opened a “menu.yaml” file, typed the name of the top-level menu, paused for a moment to sip coffee, and Zed popped up a suggested completion of the file which was syntactically correct and perfect for use as-is.

I honestly expected I’d spend an hour mechanically translating Rust to YAML and debugging the mistakes. It actually took about 10 seconds.

It’s also been freaking brilliant for writing docstrings explaining what the code I just manually wrote does.

I don't want to use AI to write my code, any more than I'd want it to solve my crossword. I sure like having it help with the repetitive gruntwork and boilerplate.
Yes, the 'app' user you connect with has SUPERUSER rights, so you can run CREATE EXTENSION.

You can only install extensions that are already built into the PostgreSQL image we use (supabase/postgres:latest).

Based on that image, the available extensions include:

amcheck, autoinc, bloom, btree_gin, btree_gist, citext, cube, dblink, dict_int, dict_xsyn, earthdistance, file_fdw, fuzzystrmatch, hstore, insert_username, intagg, intarray, isn, lo, ltree, moddatetime, pgcrypto, plpgsql, uuid-ossp, and several others.

If you need an extension not included in this list, we would need to use a custom database image.

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That makes this database — already significantly cheaper than other providers like DigitalOcean, Neon, and Render — almost unbeatable in price.
Thanks!! No birthday feature yet, but might be coming up soon
GP didn't mention university degrees.

You get experienced devs from inexperienced devs that get experience.

[edit: added "degrees" as intended. University was mentioned as the context of their observation]
That's not nearly enough to win his base. That's been the plan for the GOP since... forever. This is "going after the establishment" with a tariff.

Now, does it benefit anyone? Hell no. But the tariffs are the hook that make him different from decades of GOP free trade globalization policy.
Google will just sell your data to anyone who pays more. Who might not have the best intentions regarding you.

On top of that, it will provide the said information to government agencies if asked.
Accuracy issues aside, a draw that I feel towards using e.g. ChatGPT is that the information is displayed in a more consistent way. When using a search engine and opening a bunch of the results in tabs, I have to reorient myself to each site because they all have different visual designs.
That's not true. See https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Wetterdienst
I still prefer tranditional search engines over LLMs but I admit, its results feels worse than it has traditionally.

I don't like LLMs for two reasons:

* I can't really get a feel for the veracity of the information without double checking it. A lot of context I get from just reading results from a traditional search engine is lost when I get an answer from a LLM. I find it somewhat uncomfortable to just accept the answer, and if I have to double check it anyways, the LLM's answer is kind of meaningless and I might as well use a traditional search engine.

* I'm missing out on learning opertunities that I would usually get otherwise by reading or skimming through a larger document trying to find the answer. I appreciate that I skim through a lot of documentation on a regular basis and can recall things that I just happened to read when looking for a solution for another problem. I would hate it if an LLM would drop random tidbits of information when I was looking for concrete answers, but since its a side effect of my information gathering process, I like it.

If I were to use an AI assistant that could help me search and curate the results, instead of trying to answer my question directly. Hopefully in a more sleek way than Perplexity does with its sources feature.
This is super cool.

For backend I wish Cloudflare "bought" Hono and committed to support it officially. I know the author works at Cloudflare but it would make me a lot more confident about building more complex backend projects on Workers.

> whether your preferred frontend framework is React, Vue, Svelte, or one of many others

Amazing how Svelte has become number 3 in public perception. Definitely not in real usage though.
Does this allow installing dependencies with nodejs for example? I know CodeSandbox did this a while back, so I imagine it's not something that browsers can just do.
Is he removing a veil or merely understanding another aspect the implementers of the change do not grasp.

I have serious doubt that anyone currently running the US have much capacity to understand the impact of their actions that much.
My Takeaways from AI 2027 [Scott Alexander]
The identity of the user is secret. Others will just see a public key.
Big thread a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43468972
A Feel for the Data
They were aiming for NON toxic? lol.

Could have fooled me.

Nostr or gtfo.
This is a toolset that I developed independently, and I will update it over time. Comments are welcome.
music theory is a really good test because in my experience the AI is extremely bad at it
Saying this as a rather old person myself...

I have a theory that, wrt knowledge, the relative advantage of age has been at least partially eroded by rapid technological advancement. In traditional/tribal societies, prior to the 20th century, wisdom actually accumulated with age, because the pace of change was slower. Wisdom & knowledge could be passed on from generation to generation.

Now, wisdom and knowledge become obsolete quickly. Many things you knew 20 years ago are outdated. The ICE engine you learned how to fix as a kid is now computer controlled, or has been replaced by batteries. Your optimistic/open/friendly mindset now makes you easy pickings for online scammers. Hell, even your family's secret cherished muffin recipe is spurned by your grandchildren because it has gluten or they're vegan or keto or whatever.

All this is just a take, but when I look at voting patterns in particular, I find myself pessimistic that the elderly are wiser than average.
> How can we keep control of our own data when U.S. laws reach far beyond American borders?

One can start by not taking drugs. Then, after some days, one can type "snowden" in a search engine and press Enter. /s
Ubuntu Adds Support for New Low-Cost RISC-V Board: The OrangePi RV2 8GB For –$64
Yes, I still use search engines. So do all but one of my friends, both technical and not. I have not found LLMs to be anything close to a good replacement for them.
Since other people are sharing their fav menu bar manager, shoutout to bartender app: https://www.macbartender.com
Not really, no.

The point of this article is not the human-caused (and ongoing) extinction event of unique island species.

The point here is that a new, healthy, diverse ecosystem has formed in the niche left by the human-induced extermination of a native one, and that this new ecosystem is healthy and diverse and interesting, even thought it is "unnatural" in the sense that it's composed of animals and plants from all over the world which do not normally occur together.

The extinction even goes back a millennium or so.

The new introductions do not.

They follow on motor-powered boat and air travel and the arrival of non-islander humans from all around the world, with pets, garden plants, and accidental introductions.

So this is not about what the original Hawai'ian islanders did: it's about what's happened since that event.
Show HN: YourChecklist – A lightweight daily checklist app that resets every day
I recently launched YourChecklist, a super minimal daily checklist app built with SwiftUI. While the to-do list space is saturated, I noticed most apps don’t support one key behavior: auto-resetting tasks each day — something critical for habit-building.

I also took a data-driven approach using App Store Optimization (ASO) — researching low-competition, high-search keywords and targeting specific regions to gain early traction.

Would love to hear feedback from the HN community — UX, technical, or growth-wise.
Youtube Studio is has build in AI thumbnail functionality. Google actively encourages use of AI to clickbait and to generate automatic AI replies to comments ala onlyfaps giving your viewers that feeling of interaction without reading their comments.
> But you can almost certainly build a magnitudes faster device in just about every dimension using more traditional hardware stacks and for a fraction of the price.

Using the sentence "more traditional hardware stacks" when comparing to mainframes is sorta funny.
Not the person you responded to, but this is a topic that fascinates me; do you have any resource to learn more about that? One that explains in average human terms would be appreciated!
My understanding is that string theory has basically been tossed aside by most of the field.

It's one of those things that got public support as it fell out of favor in academia. Now it won't go away because the public likes it.
I think "justice" is one of those words where people all think they're in agreement about it being good, but when you ask them what it means then suddenly they're all wildly divergent.

And that's the problem.

"Swinging one's fist" is more of a quote than an example here; for an example, consider that everyone agrees "murder is wrong", but we don't agree about abortion, euthanasia, deaths by police action, the death penalty, accidental civilian casualties during war, war crimes, or population liabilities if a large number of each people produce a small quantity of toxin that causes a statistically significant change in the life expectancy of the area. People protest these things, and some attempt crimes to force change on these topics.

Some say it's acceptable to use lethal force to prevent a homicide. Is it acceptable for anti-pollution protestors to vandalise gasoline supplies to reduce NOx emissions? Was it acceptable 20 years ago when we didn't have any obvious rapid path to electrification of road traffic, given that our economies are dependent on road transport?

A while before the 9/11 attacks, I saw a chain-email demanding action against the Taliban for their mis-treatment of women. When Afghanistan was invaded, I saw people upset about that, too (though in different ways, e.g. because the invading forces accidentally killed people by dropping food on their heads or bombing weddings because of the celebratory machine gun fire). Nobody was a fan of Saddam Hussein, but the second Iraq war was even more heavily criticised, despite UK/US leadership insisting Iraq had WMDs.

The boundaries here seem clean, crime vs. justice, peace vs. war, protest vs. terrorism, self defence vs. attack, but the closer I look the more I see these things as continuums.
The caption for it is "ChatGPT generated panoramic Photo of a Pakistani factory rooftop covered in solar panels Including workers in traditional dress handling solar infrastructure"
The file name is "ChatGPT-Image-Apr-4-2025-03_25_23-PM-800x445.png", so yeah, sure seems like it.
> People like that will always be more effective at their job once employed

This is honestly not my experience with self taught programmers. They can produce excellent code in a vacuum but they often lack a ton of foundational stuff

In a past job, I had to untangle a massive nested loop structure written by a self taught dev, which did work but ran extremely slowly

He was very confused and asked me to explain why my code ran fast, his ran slow, because "it was the same number of loops"

I tried to explain Big O, linear versus exponential complexity, etc, but he really didn't get it

But the company was very impressed by him and considered him our "rockstar" because he produced high volumes of code very quickly
How would something like Facebook, Instagram, Netflix work and look if they weren't Spas?