skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saw a Jimmy Fallon taping there a couple years ago, and echo this sentiment! Highly recommend trying to get into a taping if visiting NYC, one of the cheapest fun (and free!) ways to spend an afternoon.
Show HN: I built an iOS app to practice Trancendental Meditation
I recently got into Transcendental Meditation and wanted a dedicated app to track my meditation progress and streaks. After searching, I couldn't find anything that specifically met my needs for TM practice tracking.
There is an official app from the Maharishi Foundation, but after trying to register, I was placed on a waitlist with no clear timeline for access. Rather than wait indefinitely, I decided to build the app I needed myself.

This is a simple personal project born out of necessity - I built it for myself first, but thought other TM practitioners might find it useful too
A button up shirt without a jacket, at the time, was business casual at most. What they wanted was a t-shirt and jeans. Even Walmart, when I’d worked as a teen, expected a collar and appreciated a sports coat for interviewing. Different times for sure.
Market Ending Moves
The US and Japan did awful things to Koreans. Slavery, weaponized rape, bioweapons, and other numerous war crimes.

So why are you asking which? Isn’t it obvious?
This is probably just me projecting...

u/justonceokay's wrote:

> The solution to bad code is more code.

This has always been true, in all domains.

Gen-AI's contribution is further automating the production of "slop". Bots arguing with other bots, perpetuating the vicious cycle of bullshit jobs (David Graeber) and enshitification (Cory Docotrow).

u/justonceokay's wrote:

> AI will never produce a deletion.

I acknowledge your example of tidying up some code. What Bill Joy may have characterized as "working in the small".

But what of novelty, craft, innovation? Can Gen-AI, moot the need for code? Like the oft-cited example of -2,000 LOC? https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

Can Gen-AI do the (traditional, pre 2000s) role of quality assurance? Identify unnecessary or unneeded work? Tie functionality back to requirements? Verify the goal has been satisfied?

Not yet, for sure. But I guess it's conceivable, provided sufficient training data. Is there sufficient training data?

You wrote:

> only focus on adding new features

Yup.

Further, somewhere in the transition from shipping CDs to publishing services, I went from developing products to just doing IT & data processing.

The code I write today (in anger) has a shorter shelf-life, creates much less value, is barely even worth the bother of creation much less validation.

Gen-AI can absolutely do all this @!#!$hit IT and data processing monkey motion.
When a measure becomes a target it is no longer a good measure.

These ML benchmarks were never going to last very long. There is far too much pressure to game them, even unintentionally.
Yes, Kagi. Don’t use ChatGPT at all. Sometimes use Claude
There are however other causes where there really are trade offs. We do not know when those cases are.
The potential of AI to augment human creativity is immense, but we must thoughtfully consider the implications. While AI-generated content is impressive, it's crucial to establish clear boundaries, maintain human oversight, and ensure AI is used ethically to enhance, rather than replace, human artistry and originality.
Interesting. do all these apps work the same way? Apple does not provide any API's to modify the menubar?
True that, ISO 20022 based.
+1 rerun is great and they also make egui.rs, one of the best immediate mode graphics libs.
Show HN: Chat with any GitHub repository via MCP
Sorry if this is a silly question but how does a project become "Apache"? Like is there a core team starting these projects or is there an application process for a project to be under the Apache banner?
Yes. Why would I use AI to find information?
Yes, LLMs are no match for my decades of search skills.
Oh please don't misunderstand me: We will end up using solar (or wind, which is really just solar with an extra detour), mostly because we have about 4 orders of magnitude more energy available there than we need. I just wanted to put the (admittedly impressive sounding) number of 3,100 GWh annual battery production capacity in perspective.

And to further qualify that: The capacity is increasing rapidly (but we will need it)
This is super interesting to me, thanks for that. Are there any other hidden but well-known things like that?
Yeah fair enough. The numbers suggest otherwise but I only visited back then.
One of the main problems with raising too much is that you stop caring about product-market fit and can go on tangents that do not make you competitive. This is quiet common afaik.
There are tons of dog breeding programs that have no downside, it's just the ones that do have a downside that are notable.

With respect to wild parrots, it's not obvious that improvement is possible, let alone has disadvantage. Assuming it is possible, there are numerous reasons why it might not already exist. No advantage, low negative advantage, negative incremental advantage, and low probability are all possible reasons. Not every viable state has a viable incremental path to it.
a fun thought exercise - what would have to happen to HN for this to come true? basically all the old guard have to age out and not pass on the reference?
The only thing I ever want out of these chart libraries is to be able to theme them. Does anyone know how customizable the theming for ECharts is?
> Germany and Japan haven't focused super heavily on achieving a trade deficit

They have. For Germany maximizing their trade surplus was one of their primary goals for many decades. Amongst other things that’s why they accepted the Euro (easier than devaluing DM).

> As you said, Germany has huge problems with her welfare state

I never said that.

And Germany specifically has quite low government debt and a very high trade surplus. Yet.. it’s not doing better economically than the US. Welfare hardly has much to do with that.. e.g. US government excluding all private spending spends about the same as Germany as % of GDP on healthcare. Total social spending is not that massively higher either (~23% vs ~28%).

> ordering packages of chinesium temu crap

Sure, but that’s by and large insignificant. If we look up US imports by category consumer goods don’t really make up that much.

Also, I don’t really see how can tariffs do much besides lowering productivity and increasing prices.

Like that complete nutjob Lutnick said they want “millions and millions of people in America screwing in little screws to make iPhones”. That just makes no sense, you want to minimize the amount of easily outsourcable low productivity jobs in your country.
That is the definition of capitalism people use when they want to apply the term capitalism to something that sucks.

Allowing people to own physical items as business inventory or production equipment and compete with each other for the customer's dollar is entirely possible without the existence of copyright or patents. You would then be relying on some combination of open source, charitable contributions and patronage, industry joint ventures, personal itch scratching, etc. to create writings and inventions, but books and the wheel were created before patents and copyrights were.
This is mostly so that the founders can take some money off the table. The founders probably have $10 million cash after this and don't have to worry about rent ever again.
also: emissions will continue to drop
Red Sky Health's New AI 'Daniel' Fixes Denied Insurance Claims Automatically
It’s not just TC though. TC is an imperfect proxy for ability and class. If I’m just permanently in the underclass - unable to be compared to you people - it’s obvious that y’all wouldn’t even see me as human.

I have no accomplishments, nothing to be proud of. Freshmen at MIT have more potential and prior accomplishments than I do.
Hello HN!

I'm building Probe https://probeai.dev/ for a while now, and this this docs-mcp project is showcase of its capable. Giving you a local semantic search over any codebase or docs without indexing.

Feel free to ask any questions!
You're comparing Pix to bank transfers. I'm comparing Pix to cash.
If it's hype, it's not hype the way you're thinking. I've shown Tailscale to a lot of people (this is less salient now, when pretty much everybody uses Tailscale) and the most common reaction I've gotten is "holy shit". It is spooky simple to get working, and it's spooky simple to go from a working installation to a VPN configuration that would take many many hours to replicate with pre-existing tools.

There may be VPN nerds out there who think there's nothing special happening with Tailscale, but I submit those nerds haven't spent a lot of time dealing with the median, replacement-level VPN configuration prior to Tailscale. I'm a pentester, and so I have had that pleasure. Tailscale is revolutionary compared to what it replaced.
If the game never has more than three nested levels, you could use [square], then {curly}, then <angle> brakest. You could even do a fourth level with (parenthetical) brackets, but that would mean you couldn't use parenthesis in clues.
I love the idea of putting things in the menu bar, but it seems like the apps still have to be taking up space in the dock. I can't have WhatsApp, Signal, FB Messenger, Slack, Discord, etc. tucked away running in the background and popping up in my menu bar when there's something to respond to. I have to have them crowding my dock with half a dozen icons.

Is there a way to hide the items from the dock and just have them in the menu bar?
Search has gotten so bad I have replaced like 80% of it with LLMs, typically Claude or Gemini. I've also switched my searches over to duckduckgo whenever I do end up searching for something but even that is on the bad side.
Really cool! I also made some blackout poetry tools back in like 2019, maybe of interest… https://mkremins.github.io/blackout/interactive
> If they say they don't remember, that's a red flag.

If I just have to give a code example of mine on the spot during an interview with no prep, I'm sure as hell not going to remember why I took a certain approach unless there are comments.
Hey, as a maker, I get it. You spent time building something, and you want to understand how it gets used. If you're not collecting personal info, there is nothing wrong with this.

Knee-jerk reactions aren't helpful. Yes, too much tracking is not good, but some tracking is definitely important to improving a product over time and focusing your efforts.
Fascinating look at the challenges and risks IBM took on with the System/360. Betting the company on a compatible mainframe family was visionary but nearly disastrous. It's a testament to the importance of strong technical leadership, teamwork and perseverance to bring revolutionary products to market.
Stremio VR Released for Meta Quest Devices
huh, i wa thinking myself based on how it looked that it was doing layers too.
The blurred backgrounds with sharp cartoon characters in front are what made me think this is how they do it.
The founders of Tailscale probably weren't too worried about rent before Tailscale.
If superposition were a mathematical trick and not real, then quantum computers wouldn't work.
Nounly – A Daily Word Puzzle
I love word puzzles, so I made one myself. It's called Nounly. Every day, players are given five adjectives as hints to guess the day's noun.

I'm looking for feedback about the puzzle. Does the premise make sense? Is it too easy? Too hard? Is it compelling enough that you'd play every day?

Thanks so much!
Exactly, the most I've gotten from my personal projects has been a "oh cool".
There's a Fat Man's Misery passage in Mammoth Cave. I would imagine there's a lot of places named that.

https://www.nps.gov/places/fat-man-s-misery-beneath-your-fee...
Why would I ever search on a ChatGPT - thats not what they are for. They are for helping summarize things, writing copy, designing excel. Making silly images.

Search is for finding specific websites and products. Totally different things.
I think they might be operating at a scale that breaks those kinds of pages at this point? Not literally, of course, just they're past the point where the page makes sense.
Math journal editors resign to launch open-access title
The headline authors really trying hard to grab those advertising clicks...

- Is it a fact that tape archives are immutable?

- Is it a fact they cannot be intentionally lost?

- Is it a fact they cannot be intercepted?

Whether or not any of the above is true/false, the fact of the matter is every system is hackable to an extent. If the definition of security is using an obscure (notice I did not say outdated): than sure, tapes are "secure reliable" not these pesky hackable digital records every other business on the planet uses.

but come on. The rhetoric is exhausting. Evaluate on real world risk.
All labor is bad.
> I'm assuming due to less biased media

It’s very difficult to disentangle how much the effect is driven by Jewish and Israeli diasporas (and others’ proximities to them) [1] versus outright bias. An Australian paper isn’t going to be held to account the same way the Times will be, arguable from both sides, because the latter serves a larger and more-diverse audience.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country
So then I'm going to interpret that as not being possible.
"scene-referred data", as opposed to... something consciously edited?
It might be able to: https://echarts.apache.org/en/option.html#color
So what would be your advise to a fresh graduate (or even an experienced person) whose resume says experience in ".NET 3.0" where as the job posting says experience needed in ".NET 3.1" ? Remember it's HR or some automated system that does the screening.
Ea-Nasir

Us humans are kinda ok at preserving knowledge (and we're getting even better, but not in a good way).
You can, just the central bank /regulator of that country needs to want it. Example: Sweden, which now transacts on SEPA, jointly with EUR currency.
And 1X has apparently been testing theirs in home environments for months, though it looks like they're not for sale yet: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/norways-1x-is-building-a-h...
but the AI responses from google that dominate the screen real estate are terrible. When you repeat the exact same query and get changing (but all wrong) answers, something is broken. I've resorted to including profanity in all my searches to prevent the AI responses, which is suboptimal at work...
What are you basing that statement on? Was there are actually a UN vote, or are you just BSing?
Trying to draw a squirrel when you have no artistic talents or experience is not the fun part.

I've produced my own music recordings in the past and I've hired musicians to play the instruments that I cannot. Having exasperated recording engineers watch my 5,000th take on a drum fill that I absolutely cannot play is not the fun part. Sitting behind the glass and watching my vision come to life from a really good drummer is absolutely the fun part.
"Never interrupt your opponent while he is in the middle of making a mistake"
You can but that is incredibly slow for me compared to a search term.
That depends on the share classes. Companies with high interest from investors can sometimes get them to accept shares with reduced voting rights.
> 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.

My understanding is that it's pretty much how it started, but proved to be impractical. Meaning, we absolutely can quantify the work any algorithm will take, but for that we need to define the architecture first, i.e., to specify what is the unit of work, what are operations available to us. And, sure, we can do that for any given task (and we always could), but it's usually too messy to include that in general discussions about algorithms, not specifically concerned with the architecture.
You’re making broad, sweeping generalizations based off biased videos. If this is a flat earth discussion, you’re the flat earther.
the problem with the interview process is that it is unfair, not properly capturing the actual qualifications and testing the wrong stuff. the complaints here are that this tool does not properly capture the actual qualifications either, and therefore it suffers from the same problem, just in a different way. it may work for a few people, just like the interview process works for a few people, and it may work for a few use cases (like finding a FOSS developer) but it doesn't provide a solution for the interview problem itself.
Did you look at charts.css ?

https://chartscss.org/
Typically the left lever is the clutch, right lever is the front break, and your right foot has a lever for the rear break. Not sure what the setup was for the record breaking motorcycle though.
The House Republicans will just blame Biden in the run up to election in 2026, and I'm sure their idiot sycophants will eat it out of the palms of their hands.
https://archive.ph/2vAYW
The Irish Pub Became One of the Emerald Isle's Greatest Exports
I should probably just drop this, but I'm genuinely curious. Why do you think the USA isn't a republic?
Why is Trump even attempting to reshore manufacturing?

This drastic of a Tariff so soon, and the inconsistent messaging with pausing tariffs makes it impossible for any business owner to safely setup US manufacturing.

Besides US manufacturing should be more focused on high value, high tech products. We are a rich enough country in where we CAN import more than export. This is why poorer countries rely on exports for income whilst richer countries import more.

Trade deficits should not be a reason for these tariffs and just alienates allies more than anything.
>Indeed, it's becoming very obvious that the US is slowly turning into a resource curse nation. Sad.

Not that, but a "first adopter curse" AKA path dependence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence
Their mainframe terminals do, and that's one of the conversions their script has to make.

The 3151 was designed to integrate with other systems where ASCII was already prevalent.
Yup. I want to see a variety of sources, evaluate them, and understand the answer.
I can't seem to find the replay function. As in replaying the sensor data as if it was "live". Would you happen to have a link to this feature?
Impressive results from Meta's Llama adapting to various benchmarks. However, gaming performance seems lackluster compared to specialized models like Alpaca. It raises questions about the viability of large language models for complex, interactive tasks like gaming without more targeted fine-tuning. Exciting progress nonetheless!
>you'd have all those man pages loaded in context for it to answer

Or I can just go to DDG/Google, and be done with it. No need to pre-load my "search engine" with context to get results.
I use Kagi and I don't think I'd notice if quick answer disappeared. Most of the time I have an answer in the time it would take for GPT to present a prompt.
US forges ahead with 104% tariffs on China
ECharts is in my opinion the best out there. It surprisingly doesn't come up in a lot of lists or search for charting libraries. I've tried them all: chart.js, google charts, amCharts, Highcharts, ApexCharts. We use it in our tool/library https://docs.chartsql.com/
The market is a lot more complicated than that. But to a first approximation, this is an uncharitable statement of the reality: gaming is a luxury product, gaming is winner-take-all (i.e. the really successful games see 100,000x gross revenue over the median indie game, and people can't play two games at once so player attention is a very constrained resource), and the market consistently rewards novelty over polish. Players still bought Cyberpunk 2077, and then kept buying it after the bug announcements came out; it has sold 30 million copies.

All these market forces conspire to heavily incentivize a game studio to release as close to now as possible with as much game as they believe the players will stomach as possible. There are companies that buck this trend (Nintendo has a tradition of maximizing quality out-of-the-box), but that's where incentives point companies. Minecraft was hilariously buggy (and devoid of features) when it came out; its original developer committed it to a price model where the earlier you bought it, the cheaper it would be, and it became one of the most popular mega-games of a generation.

And the incentives come from players. Helldivers 2 doesn't have bugs because Arrowhead is lazy; it has bugs because Arrowhead wants a billion dollars and gamers can be trusted to hand them over for a product that works most of the time, as long as it's more fun than frustrating.
In the desert, you often really don't want to be walking midday, but if the moon is out doing 20 miles in a night isn't too bad, and doing it split over two days is fine. 5 or 6 liters of water plus some food would be plenty, depending on what you have available to carry that ~15 pounds splitting into two days may be more comfortable. Either way, infinitely less risky than building a motorcycle.
I really like searxng. I self host an instance for some friends.
I'm surprised by your claim of it being less customizable than chart.js, it has been very flexible from my experience.

It could rival d3 with a lot of customization and a worse DX from what I've seen: It's essentially a good amount of defaults, but you can override and replace essentially anything.
I do wonder what the outcome would be for a model trained only on truly non copyright work, and derivatives from there. I'm no AI expert, but from what I understand they use some models to generate data with which to train further models. I'd be interested in the output, whether it would eventually just match what we have now anyway, so the copyright question may end up moot. I wonder how the argument would shift at that point?

I think in reality, it is probably too late for that, because the internet is now polluted with AI generated images which would be consumed by any "ethical" model anyway.
When I did Mac programming a decade ago, there was an app metadata flag, inside the bundle, to hide the icon in the Dock.

Now that apps are digitally signed, it might require a few more hoops to manipulate the app. (Your Mac protects you from running tampered apps.)
It's based on ISO20022 messaging standard. Networking and security is typically custom in each country/standardized payment system.
I just tested it. The setting applies on data entry but opening a CSV or similar delimited file counts as “data entry”. So if you work strictly with xlsx files you are fine but it will irreversibly convert the values on open for delimited files unless you change the defaults.
Linked from that article, there's another article arguing that the US/Canada shouldn't adopt the European standard.

They give some examples of differences, but it's not clear (as a non-expert) whether these are necessary in the US/CA, examples of regulatory capture, or irrelevant details.
The animation examples for chartscss are annoying. it doesn't look nearly as functional
> if you want to prepare for a C dev interview

Spend an hour reading a book about C?

I have a young colleague who wanted a job at a FAANG company, and asked for advice. I said spend a couple weeks studying the leetcode books - it will be the best value for time spent you'll ever get.

He did, and got a $300,000 offer.
How many US businesses is this tariff level going to bankrupt?

As an example, this level will completely ruin so many boardgame businesses I don't want to think of it. The future looks pitch black for my beloved boardgaming hobby.