skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue two dime-a-dozen pump and dumps is dwarfed by the magnitude of issues that letting politicians exploit trading using policy-making.

The profits they earn is hardly the issue. The issue is they are motivated to set policy or spend as much govt money in a way that benefits their portfolio.

A politician spending an extra billion of public funding to make (say) a half a million themselves is a real issue.
e.g. Wireguard
From the start as cofounder. 3.5 years. I have certificates etc and it has all gone through diligence. If anyone knows lawyers versed in these matters that would be helpful!
Most people can't afford to pay for Kagi.

A government funded maps program would be great same with a government funded search engine that had to try and compete with international search engines with more resources.

You can choose not to use Google though and avoid their ads.

You can choose not to use any service that uses ads and only use ones that allow you to pay for ad free experiences.

Banning ads removes that possibility for others when you can solve the problem today for yourself.
Related: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks

> Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro,1 you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.”

> They have a point. Mordor sucks, and it’s certainly more physically taxing to dig a tunnel than poke at a keyboard unless you’re an ant. But, for the sake of the argument, can we agree that stress and insanity are bad things? Awesome. Welcome to programming.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood
Making a Brainf*** JIT Compiler in Rust [video]
But then Teams will only let you book calls that start and end at the hour and half hour, making everything either back-to-back or with gaps too long for breaks and too short for focus work.

Teams goes out of its way to create colossal amounts of waste by design. Cui bono?
That's right from the dictator's basic playbook:

They never say 'I'm jailing / prosecuting these people to suppress my enemies', they accuse them of fraud, corruption, etc. Xi Jinping did it in China, the new dictator in Saudi Arabia did it, ... it's an old one.

Note that dictators are vulnerable - they still need to justify themselves to the public.
This concept is worthwhile, but the author is so focused on malice that he neglects real examples. For example, I think many people agree with vegans about animals’ capability for suffering, and don’t WANT to increase it, but just don’t consider it worthy of moral consideration. The factual beliefs are the same, but the moral choices are diametrically opposed.

Similarly, many (not all!) conservatives and liberals basically agree about the effects, positive and negative, of immigration. But one side doesn’t want those people here, and one does. You don’t need to have different beliefs about the world to be on exact opposite sides of that issue.
We’re stuck with plenty of non-optimal stuff because of path dependency and historical baggage. So what? Propose something better. Show that the benefits of following the happy path of historical baggage don’t outweigh the outrageously “arcane” and byzantine syntax of…double quotes, brackets, dollar signs, and other symbols that pretty much every other language uses too.
Simple views sure, but tools like the driller or debugger are great examples of what I'm trying to highlight about when I say having the views work over actual objects is really important.

Because if it wasn't for the fact the graphical stack was implemented as smalltalk objects, you couldn't build tools like the driller or debugger since they would have to be implemented as a secondary piece of software that loses the original context.

Like for example, I built a custom tool for myself when I was working on this p2p network and had a section of the codebase with some non obvious control flow, since it was handling multiple different p2p networks at the same time. Normally this is where you include a diagram in the docs, but in about an hour I built a custom code editor for the class, that visualized all the control flow and explained the cases in a flow diagram by simply introspecting on the methods defined in the class. And this tool never fell out of sync like a static diagram, since it wasn't hardcoded by me. And from that point on, I worked within this tool whenever hanlding anything related to this.

And fwiw, the python story is pretty seamless from my usage of it a few months ago. I was able to integrate and use python libraries into this project without much hassle.
Every time this happens people say it’s different. See: COVID pandemic. And we know the V shaped recovery that came after that. Of course that shouldn’t be interpreted as a predictor of what’s to come next (because it’s not), my only point is to say that the same rhetoric pops up frequently during downtowns since forever.
This a thread about imagining a world without ads. If we're trying to envision that, it surely is not too hard to imagine how such a useful service for society as a search engine could be funded by other means, right?

There are many many examples of useful services (both private and public) in our own world that manage to exist without the need to get plastered by obnoxious ads.
I don’t really understand where he got the power to impose arbitrary tariffs? Isn’t that reserved for Congress?
As a private pilot, I always carefully watch the safety videos on the off-chance they’ll help me avoid dying.
How Investing Will Change If the Dollar No Longer Rules the World
Sure they do.

But again when supply and demand meet there’s no use for rent control anyways. Rent control is favoring some people at the expense of everybody else on the basis that they happen to get there early. It’s not a rational policy. It’s the same irrational policy that guarantees existing landowners a massive return.

Btw a 2M house in SF these days is a mansion. You can get a 3bed 2bath for like $899K.

Take $400K off and you’re cooking with gas.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/148-Peralta-Ave-A-San-Fra...

You can get a 5bed 4bath for $1.8

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1959-19th-Ave-San-Francis...
I'm still reading the paper, but Stephen Miran must regret writing this...

A sudden shock to tariff rates of the size proposed can result in financial market volatility. ... A second
Trump Administration is likely therefore take steps to ensure large structural changes to the international tax code
occur in ways that are minimally disruptive to markets and the economy
Therefore we should never talk bad about it or look in to alternatives.
Show HN: Uncurl.dev – Convert curl commands to a shareable, executable UI
Hey HN,

I built uncurl.dev to scratch my own itch: I kept getting curl commands in API docs, bug reports, or Slack messages and wanted a quick way to visualize, run, and debug them without firing up Postman or writing code to dissect them. It was also sometimes painful to create a test page specifically for non-tech users to consume an API. I originally vibe-coded this over a weekend just to make it easier for myself to debug API requests shared as curl commands. It slowly grew into something I found surprisingly useful in my workflow, so I decided to clean it up and share it.

uncurl.dev takes a curl command and:
- Converts it into a visual representation
- Lets you edit and inspect all parts of the request
- Allows sharing via a unique link
- (Optionally) executes it from the server, so business or non-technical users can see results

Execution is currently behind login, with a cap (5/min) to avoid abuse and manage costs. Non-logged-in users can still build and share curl commands—they just can’t execute them. The server runs each request in a Docker sandbox with strict resource/time limits (cpu, memory, timeout, no network access outside the request).

It’s not meant to replace full-featured tools like Postman or Hoppscotch. It’s more of a “CLI-to-UI bridge” for fast sharing and debugging, especially in dev workflows where curl is the starting point. Think of it like Pastebin or JSFiddle, but for curl commands.

If you’ve ever copied a curl from an API doc and wanted a cleaner way to see it or send it to someone else, I’d love your feedback.

Thanks!
(You can try it without signup here: https://uncurl.dev)
> Point still stands. It would be responsible to cut at least $300B.

It never stood - what facts and reasons have you provided to support it?
Kill billboards and you move the Overton window. Billboards are a no-brainer, so if we can't control them then we have no hope for any ads of any sort. If we can eliminate them then we can start on the next thing.
Gary Marcus has a tendency of not telling the truth and cherry picking facts, but in this case, the bill change does seem real.

It is disgusting that he is using someone's suicide as a conspiracy theory though.

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB501/2025
https://archive.ph/8jzt5
While not owed a job for life, the arrangement of government as stable employer was a beneficial arrangement for the public: it let the government hold onto employees they might have otherwise had to pay more for their skillset because "If you're competent we won't fire you; our pockets are infinitely deep and we don't need to save money" was a perk.

Take that perk away, and now they have to compete on other things to find similarly-competent staff. Things like salary. Paid by your taxes.
I have trouble believing that someone at the level of a PI at NIH would just quit with no notice (unless there was some kind of misconduct and they decided to leave rather than get fired). They are running a lab. They direct all the projects that the lab is doing and they are ultimately responsible for all the grant funding. A PI quitting without notice would be incredibly disruptive to everyone else in the lab. I'm not sure how it works with NIH intramural research, but at a university or a hospital you'd have to figure out how to transfer any grants, what to do with equipment paid for by the grants, and what will happen to the grad students, postdocs, and everyone else in the lab. It would be incredibly irresponsible to leave suddenly without addressing those things.
mini LED is a less complicated & more effective technology no? just a bunch of lights in an array.

I think we'll dump LCD when we get good at manufacturing smaller mini LEDs.
"Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible with the aim of protecting users' freedom to change the software." -- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
~~This is kinda ridiculous, especially considering the bill wouldn’t even affect OpenAI itself (that would make it an ex post facto law) but just close the loophole for the future.~~ (edit: I misread)

I say this as a user of AI, I’ve seen the nonprofit structure get abused way too much for my liking. Not that I have any solutions to the problem though.
The global energy market uses the U.S. dollar for pricing and settling transactions since the 70s - the "petrodollar" system.

If they EU push hard for it, they may get someone like Norway to accept Euros.

However, there are energy contracts locked into dollar-based pricing and many exporters need dollars because they hold dollar-based debt, buy goods in dollars or have a currency peg.

For them to accept the relatively unappealing Euros they might ask for a premium to offset conversion costs or risks.
In general, Apple has had such a positive influence on both hardware and software that I welcome their particular approach. It may not be ideal from a pure Linux perspective, but it does open the door to a variety of approaches. And truly, that is the key - there should always be multiple licenses and approaches to the work of open source.

So, thank you, Apple.

But please open source System 7.
There's no methodology at work, it's just indiscriminate firings to cull as many people as possible.

This is clear from other other departments where they fired everyone they could.

"Coding error" is just a modern version of "the dog ate my homework". Lame but people will swallow it. They knew what they were doing, they just regret getting caught.

Sadly, once the firings, rehirings, refirings, court cases, and compensations are done, there won't be any money saved at all, probably more wasted.

That public servants do important work under less than ideal circumstances and funding is entirely ignored.
I think you are confusing the right to say things with a right to not be subjected to consequences for what you say.

I think in US as in EU if you say something that is breaking a law you have to pay the consequence. The difference may be in EU having more laws and US less that are concerned with consequences.
Why wouldn't it apply? From what I can tell, openai is still (ostensibly) a non-profit
A conforming implementation could make string literals modifiable, and (obviously non-portable) code could rely on that. I don't know whether any current compilers do so. I suspect not.

Apart from that, it's not about actually modifying string literals. It's about currently valid (but admittedly sloppy) code that uses a non-const pointer to point to a string literal. It's easy to write such code in a way that a modern conforming C compiler will not warn about.

That kind of code is the reason that this proposed change is not just an obvious no-brainer, and the author is doing research to find out how much of an issue it really is.

As it happens, I think that the next C standard should make string literals const. Any code that depends on the current behavior can still be compiled with C23 or earlier compilers, or with a non-conforming option, or by ignoring non-fatal warnings. And of course any such code can be fixed, but that's not necessarily trivial; making the source code changes can be a very small part of the process.

Any change that can break existing valid code should be approached with caution to determine whether it's worth the cost. And if the answer is yes, that's great.
Any historical analysis pointing at following politicians in general or any specific politicians is a good investment?

Does anyone supply US-POL Dem / Rep as an index tracked ETFs?
I’ve had to shut my mouth hard the past week. I went heavily short right before the “liberation day” announcement and doubled my port. My buddies in finance, or my buddies who work elsewhere but whose accounts look rough, don’t want to here me enthuse about the nutty multiple expansion finally reversing so I can take my cash and buy at sale prices.
The way I understand it is that some people put off filing as long as possible because they get a better return on other investments. They’re willing to pay interest and other fees on their taxes in order to pay as late as possible. I haven’t looked into this personally because I tend to be risk averse enough to pay off relatively low interest rate loans, but I’ve heard at least one personal anecdote once removed to this effect.
Tell us how did EU interfered with Romania?

Cite specifics if possible.
This is something that's always bugged me because, yes, this is a real problem that produces real bugs. But at the same time if you really care about this issue then every arithmetic operation is unsafe and there is never a time you should use them without overflow checks. Sometimes you can know something won't overflow but outside of some niche type systems you can't really prove it to the compiler to elide the check in a way that is safe against code modifications— i.e. if someone edits code that breaks the assumption we needed to know it won't overflow it will err.

But at the same time in real code in the real world you just do the maths, throw caution to the wind, and if it overflows and produces a bug you just fix it there. It's not worth the performance hit and your fellow developers will call you mad if you try to have a whole codebase with only checked maths.
Refreshing to see the negative number/percentage displayed in green though.
> The market is still pricing in the optimistic scenario of tariffs being repealed

"The market" has no idea what the impact of the proposed changes are. Setting aside the obvious questions about whether or not this stuff will even happen, it's just not possible for something this complex to be evaluated so quickly.

This is panic. People are wildly guessing about the "worst case scenario", without any detailed understanding (or even data) on what might happen [1,2]. It's all speculation, but lots and lots of people love to write horror stories for clicks and points.

[1] Just for example: what does it even mean for an "X% tarrif on all products from country Y" to be imposed? The Harmonized Tariff Schedule is hundreds of thousands of line items, each with a different rate. Are they all being replaced with a single number? Is that line item number being multiplied by a factor? Something else? I guarantee that almost nobody knows the answer to that question right now. I'm not even sure an answer exists.

[2] This is the only thing I've found that comes close to answering the question: https://hts.usitc.gov/reststop/file?release=currentRelease&f...

Starting just from the first line item leads to a branching set of changes, many of which have exceptions and dependencies on other changes:

https://hts.usitc.gov/search?query=9903.01.25

Working through that changeset is a non-trivial operation, and then, working through the impact on something as detailed as a supply chain for any non-trivial product is immensely complicated. Now do it for every product.
Gemini 2.5 Pro got the farmer problem variation right: https://aistudio.google.com/app/prompts?state=%7B%22ids%22:%...
You should look at more suitable metrics than reddit or gaming forums.

Don't see reasons not to trust this source: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/most-visited-websites#top-1...

ChatGPT.com is #9, above whatsapp.com, amazon.com, and netflix.com
People get upset at the idea of using government money to feed the starving. Why do you assume they would be ok with spending billions to create a search engine?

The reality is you can choose to have your dream reality right now. Pay for Kagi, pay for ad free streaming or buy bluerays, stay of social media or subscribe direct to your content providers in patron.

We don't need to remove free access just so a few people can go ad free. Those people can already do it they just choose not to
The type of comment kind of shuts down discourse is my point. If you want any change you have to approach it with more tact.
Yeah I sympathize with the author, but it’s not hard to talk about these things with a little bit of tact. Intellectual humility also helps. I’ve come to realize I and most others know approximately 0 about most political issues, so it’s an opportunity to not truth seek but to get to know the other persons and their values better.
..and why Smalltalk
You can also file off season, get all deductions prepared, and put tax money in stocks and get a good return, usually. Last few years it was better to wait and then get pay lower.

This year, maybe because the IRS is gutted the extensions wouldn’t be manually reviewed and a reduction in audits?
The undotted small "i" character comes from the modern Turkish alphabet. It's perhaps only slightly disorienting for an English reader to slightly shorten some letters that are just lines in a sans-serif font. In Turkish though, a millimeter of line can make an entirely different letter.

Being able to render a variety of line lengths with different meanings is a cool and useful thing.
Reading about this some more..

Domino runs on Lotuscript.. which is is ecmascript..

And ecmascript is better known as JavaScript.
Or just half height the left and right keys? It’s what Apple used to do before they tried this crap design on the touchbar MacBooks, then went to after they realized their mistake.
Cool, what are your trades going to be tomorrow?
Apparently we’re at war with Lesotho?
The revolution will not be planned on Hacker News.
Rightly said. The Trump administration’s focus seems to be more on saving/making money and less about the overall effects on the people who are getting affected by it.
Funny that the article mentions the minimum wage debate but forgets that its like the original example.
Did anybody actually “trust” other countries to start with? I’m reminded of the cynical yet accurate quote that nations don’t have friends, they have interests. I expect the American feds to pursue the best interests of Americans (though these policies aren’t in those best interests, it seems admin doesn’t know?) and foreign nations to do the same.

This point is especially hollow because it is true that many countries have maintained asymmetric tariffs on us. Trade deficit aside, we shouldn’t let others collect a larger % of their imports from America than we collect of our imports from them. I’d take their cries of “lost trust” more seriously if they hadn’t shown with their actions they will pursue their own advantage too.
Not completely buying this. He's claiming that it's better to do vector based feathering, but it's not at all clear that his approach isn't just as computationally expensive, or more. Filters do require a lot of calculations, but they are embarrassingly parallel and also you get help from the Convolution Theorem.
In many ways the spasms we have seen globally the last few years are all downstream of the lockdowns and their damage.
If I recall, the suicide had some highly suspicious circumstances and calls to question whether it was actually a suicide had worthwhile merit.
> If you can figure out how to use D1 as a frontend dev, you can use a hosted Postgres solution and get much more power and performance.

After a cursory glance at Cloudflare D1's description and service limits, I was left with the impression that the usecases are not that of a generic RDBMS. I mean, the limit for each database is 10GB, and apparently a D1 database resides in a single location. Of course this means >200ms to even hit the server when requests don't come from the same data center.

Perhaps this is one of those things where a underperforming implementation is released to minimize time-to-market, and then they work on performance. However, for a distributed service this suggests to me that this solution only works as an ad-hoc storage of complex relational data for high-read, low-write scenarios, where you have Cloudflare Workers query D1 but either aggressively cache the response or store queries in Cloudflare KV to avoid the roundtrip cost.
I recently travelled on Ethiopian Airlines, whose safety video is a good mix between the 90s and someone's nephew who know how to edit videos.

It very literally showed everything talked about happening inside an actual airplane. Masks actually deploying and dropping from the ceiling and people putting them on, etc.

What was interesting for me was, it was the first time I saw _where_ under the seat the life jacket is and it made me realize that despite having watched 100s of these videos I actually never knew how to get the life jacket.
In this article: https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/musks-xai-buys-social-...

"Musk did not ask investors for approval but told them that the two companies had been collaborating closely and the deal would drive deeper integration with Grok, the investor said."

Now, he may have only been talking about xAI investors here, but it seems pretty clear from his actions that Musk pretty much demands full control of his companies, and if he does involve the other investor's they're likely rubber-stamping without much opportunity to push back.