skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no need for CalDAV, you can actually use the subscription feature of ics calendars!

At Qbix, we build software for communities to collaboratively manage various things, and that includes events. For example, here are three sites we built, all different:

1) https://yang2020.app for Andrew Yang's 2020 campaign and Yang Gangs - to help people collectively organize and knock on doors, etc.

2) https://new.freetalklive.com for a libertarian show that pulls their episodes into the site, and let people watch and discuss them

3) https://gba.community for their annucal conferences in Washington DC - all the speakers, events, etc.

We've long ago implemented integrations with people's devices (phones, computers). You can add contacts to your address book using .vcf files, and they can even contain thumbnails. They don't need to include people's phone numbers, they can include their IDs on your site, and URLs to contact them.

Similarly, we have a button to subscribe to calendars, and it even works on MacOS. Imagine each user having a calendar appear on their phone. The subscription will pull new events into the calendar, update and remove old ones. About the only downside is that the OS usually suppresses any VALERT info that we place there, so you can't place alerts on these events. But you can have location, directions, etc. You can have a URL for group rides. We've built it all!

For both contacts and events, what you really want is access control - some people can see some things, others can see other things. If you paid for an event, you can see the location and time, for instance. You can maybe see the speakers, etc.
None of my Indian friends who have applied for and received Japanese visas had anything negative to say about the process, so I don't know what you're alluding to.
few old iphones or android smarthphones would do the trick even better - they have much better cameras than webcam, old iphones can even record at 240fps. NPU, GPU, LTE, GPS, battery, IMU, stereo microphones also already included in one package.
Calling the Fed bankrupt isn't a close to accurate description of what was described in the column. The post describes a unhealthy balance sheet, but the Fed can't go "bankrupt" in the common sense, as it banks itself, with the assets held on it's ledgers purchased and backed by the hypothetically infinite monetary supply. All that was described in the column wasn't bankruptcy as they put it, but how the Fed organizes assets by their quality.
I regularly pay in excess of $100 for my shoes and would be a bit suspect of the longevity shoes that didn't cost significantly more than that. I wonder how these costs break out when thinking more about "being shod" than "buying shoes." I have ~$200 shoes that last me over 2500 miles (about a year of walking for me). I doubt a pair of Nikes could manage that but I haven't tried. On long trails, sneakers are usually worn out and trashed after 500 miles. Yes, different terrain but it's not just the soles that give out. Eventually, all soles wear out but the uppers are still good. I've had a cobbler repair some shoes and it's felt very worth the cost.
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I think this is pretty common! More sleep makes everything better -- attention, immune system (getting colds less often), mood, etc.
“If Signal completely changed its philosophy and design goals, a group of highly level government officials, who shouldn’t have been using the app to plan a military mission in the first place (and were warned as such literally the day before) may not have accidentally added a member of the press to their group chat”
"high in-demand skills might have something to do with that?"

Isn't this always the case? If a skill is not in-demand, why would you get paid a good salary for it?
iirc, biphasic sleep is the “usual way” people sleep without the advent of electricity, yes? “the waking hour”, and all that.

I wonder if there was an increase in dementia-related disorders once lightbulbs kept people up longer.
I really like how this integrates with the schema feature I added to the underlying LLM Python library a few weeks ago: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/28/llm-schemas/#using-sch...
Since then we have changed the name and added many features.
For a while I used dired-sidebar-show-sidebar and dired-omit-mode to give me a list of files in a narrow window on the left. I kept messing it up with C-x 1, though.
Suno is pretty good at going from a 3 or 4 word concept to make a complete song with lyrics, melody, vocals, structure and internal consistency. I've been thoroughly impressed. The songs still suck but they are arguably no worse than 99% of what the commercial music business has been pumping out for years. I'm not sure AI is ready to invent those concepts from nothing yet but it may not be far off.
The article? It did not contain the quoted strings. Your comment? An anonymous HN comment is not a suitable source.
I hope there will be sirens... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan
Yup, that's certainly one. I see this technique as simply one more tool in the toolbox. Air defense (and really, all of warfare) is not a single "this thing is better than the rest" but a system of things that work in conjunction with one another. This system has advantages (passive, cheap, portable) and disadvantages (short range, clear weather only). It's good and useful work, and could conceivably be part of a larger system.
If you were a cracker, you'd add every one of these passwords to a database (maybe of up to 10B passwords) to try first before moving to cracking hashes.
> What we are labeling as AI today is different than was thought to be in the 90s, or when Asimov wrote most of his stories about robots and other ways of AI.

Multivac in "the last question"?
the egg situation isn't because of bird flu, although that's a factor

it's a monopoly problem
Ok I have this pet idea for solving the tricky balance between "express" lines and having enough stops: With electric trains it's pretty trivial to give each car it's own motor, so what if every time you approach a stop the front car detaches from the train and shifts to the stop and a car at the station accelerates and attaches to the front of the train (or vice versa), all without the train ever stopping? Maybe it would have to slow a bit to make the attachment/detachment smoother, but you'd still skip the boarding wait and if it was going from like 600-300kph that would still be vastly better than starting and stopping.

You would board the train and get on the car that detaches at your intended destination. In the case that they want to run fewer cars than there are stops, either they could alternate which car detaches so that a core car makes it from start to end, or people wanting to make the whole trip would have to change cars sometimes.

Is this impossible? Would it be implausibly expensive? Is it "just an engineering challenge" like hydrogen fuel-cell cars (I.E. we'll figure it out just as soon as we have a better alternative)? I have no idea, but it sure sounds cool to me, and it doesn't feel like it's in the realm of fantasy.
"registering a non-existent package name hallucinated by an LLM, in hopes that someone, guided by an AI assistant, will copy-paste and install it without realizing it’s fake."

Remember kids, AI is not your friend, it's a tool. Trust but verify. Always.
With respect, this was not a good reply.

> 24 states have legalized weed and 39 have made it available for medical use, YET it is still illegal under federal ruling.

Congress at least has to pretend it has enumerated powers and is using them, most of the time, "promote the general welfare" notwithstanding. So do you know the basis for that federal "ruling"? Smoking weed, including weed grown in your backyard, substantially affects interstate commerce.

EDIT for source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/801

> And remember, law doesn't work like code. It needs to be interpreted with intent.

Is this not my point rather than yours? Open the door for ill intent and the imprecise nature of the law means that the first people with ill intent will exploit it.

"Congress shall make no law" is not a rule we can use for absolutely everything, of course, but where it does not exist, Congress historically shall pretty much inevitably make a law. So the answer to "is my unpopular speech advertising if adverting can be regulated?" is "yes." Of course it will be regulated. Others have pointed out that this applies to lots of laws, not just speech, to which I say... yeah?
I thought it was some level of detail thing that let you bail out after a deadline lol
Show HN: Open-Source Bot API: Real-Time Google Meet,Teams,Zoom Transcription
That's just crazy to me. I'm not saying anyone is lying, just that I am in disbelief.

I taught some cybersec classes maybe 4-5 years ago and while students definitely struggled with some (what I would consider) "basic" stuff like CLI, variables, loops, etc... no one had an issue with directions like "copy this file to here", "extract the files to there", "set up this directory and point this tool to it", stuff like that.
Sometimes they even play football with two footballs!
He got less than 5,000 visits, it seems like far less than the number he logically would be getting.
Same, except we also have digestive issues. I'm really hoping a paleo diet and good probiotics will save me. It's already helped me a lot. I'll let you know in 40 years if it prevents me from getting Alzheimer's.
It's a fairly well studied phenomenon known as short sleeper syndrome.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id...

There are no known health problems caused by this syndrome, according to a Cleveland Clinic overview page: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/short-sleeper...
He didn’t go into detail on how the cameras are calibrated by I wonder if he’s using stars to do that or what. Standard SfM would struggle with such featureless images and wide baseline.
My most used is winner-mode. It's just undo / redo, doesn't provide any new logic, but allows to quickly goes back to the layout state before you maximized a buffer. Bound to S-b for winner-undo and S-n for winner-redo IIRC.
Nah. That's such a naive and uniformed take. Signature reduction (stealth) remains broadly useful in that it makes air defense harder and more expensive. Anything based on cameras using ambient light is going to be of very limited use, especially at night or bad weather. And cameras can't be permanently installed on the open ocean.

The days of large aircraft are in no way "numbered". In order to have enough range to operate in the Indo-Pacific Theater that requires a lot of fuel, which implies a large aircraft (regardless of whether it's manned or unmanned). And while AI might eventually be effective at controlling combat aircraft, as of today that remains science fiction. So that means you need a person either directly in the combat aircraft, or actively controlling a large "loyal wingman" type drone from within line of sight (to ensure reliable communications in a hostile EW environment).
The result of that top-down management style is buggy code, blown deadlines, security holes, and the slowest software development I've ever seen.

I've found it possible to migrate to a less top-down Desert style just by finding executives who are frustrated by those problems and saying, "I have an idea I've seen help" and then getting the team together and saying, "hey, it turns out the executives would like us to write software well. What should we try first?"

Product has plenty of work remaining: they should be handling whatever subset of strategy, prioritization, analytics, BI, QA, facilitation, design and contracts that they have the skills for. But it requires engineers to actually collaborate with them as a peer, rather than engage in power struggles, and that requires everyone on the team to understand what we are building, for whom, and why.
You're summing up most of the stuff rural americans get upset about.

Rural americans have insanely high pollution rates per capita because most of their lifestyle is really resource intensive, which just doesn't scale.

Not everyone can drive a ford f850 superduty deisel to go get groceries. Not everyone can eat beef 3x/day. Not everyone can live on a few acres. Not everyone can hunt. Not everyone can have livestock. Not everyone can have 5 kids. Etc, etc.

A lot of rural americans just don't understand this, or don't care. To them it's "out of sight, out of mind". Then, once it comes to their back yard they lose their minds reacting to it because it finally affects them. When it happens to other people, those people can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. When it happens to them, then it's a national emergency.

I grew up in a rural area, hometown of 500 people. I grew up thinking this way. It's a pretty big mind shift.
It can also be done with a bit of cardboard that says “Busy”.
Claude Code removed an npm package (and its tree of deps) from my project and wrote its own more simple component that did the core part of what I needed the package to do.

I think we'll be okay and likely better off.
Would be nice if you use your experience and financial stability of a Google job in order to build a better open-source protocol. Just like when ZX2C4 decided he's fed up with OpenVPN and went to create Wireguard this might be your moment to shine.

IMO the quality of software is only pushed forward by motivated individuals with the right skillset.
>So maybe the people you mention are just being afraid to be judged for their true ideas?

Not at all, the "hunter" types in the US typically are unfiltered and direct and don't hide their thoughts and beliefs.

>Because either way, you can always go in the nature, and so many people go at least here in Switzerland, and just... go in the nature, spend time in that peaceful environment, period.

The fishing/hunting types spend much more time in nature without a gun than with one from what I've been told and seen. There are only a few weeks/months where it is legal to hunt in the US.
I really think that a design system solution has to be framework/implementation agnostic. It’s why I’ve never been too interested in shadcn, impressive though it may be.

Right now I’m trying to build a tool that produces an intermediate representation of your UI components, which can then be transpiled into whatever target format you prefer.

That way we can build design systems that aren’t coupled to a specific downstream tech stack.
Show HN: Vexa v0.2 - Open Source API to send a bot into Google Meet for real-time transcription

Hi HN,

I'm excited to share Vexa v0.2 https://github.com/Vexa-ai/vexa, the next step for our Apache 2.0 licensed open-source project aimed at providing enterprise-grade, API-first transcription infrastructure.

This release focuses on programmatic access to Google Meet transcription:

1. API-driven Bot: Send a bot to join a Google Meet call with a simple `POST /bots` request.
2. Real-time Transcription API: Get live, multilingual transcripts (Whisper-powered) via GET /transcripts/....

We built this on a new *open-source microservice architecture* designed for scalability, aiming to eventually support thousands of concurrent sessions and multiple platforms (Zoom, Teams are next).

The idea is to provide a reliable open core backend for developers building apps needing meeting intelligence, AI agents, or custom workflow integrations. This focus on open source is key for environments where security, transparency, and the option for eventual *self-hosting* are crucial (though this initial API access is via our cloud beta).

It's an open-source alternative to Recall.ai, focused on the API infrastructure layer.

Closed Beta (Cloud API):
The API endpoint is currently in closed beta via our cloud infrastructure. We're looking for developers to try it out and give feedback, which will benefit both the API and the underlying open-source project.

Apply for a free API key here: https://api.dev.vexa.ai/pricing

Happy to answer any questions!
This looks very much like Replit. I like Replit, built a bunch of hobby projects mostly for myself, even though some of them are deployed and publicly accessible.

You will inevitably run into some doom loops, but we're still at the beginning. These things will probably be super powerful in 2 years time.
Orbstack does all that pretty automatically. It also understands project structure / compose.

https://service.project.orb/
Oh, sure, the complaint wasn't about SQL per se, but that making complicated things easy to write isn't necessarily a win. Even if a big query perfectly represents the problem, and even if you can use compiled SQL to match hand-written efficiency, it still might not be the optimal way to approach the problem in the first place. If you have experience and plan for that it needn't be bad at all, but I think it's easier to write performance footguns in SQL (the "right" data model is more prescriptive, even with some number of years of experience, and is less likely to be tuned to your actual problems) than with traditional code, so I'd be quite surprised if the majority of game developers (even those with some degree of success currently average <3 YOE) wouldn't run into major performance issues with a SQL-based engine, even a good one.
I am also skeptical of SpacetimeDB for the same reason. There is no game engine helping you do any simulation and that makes development harder. Your (server-side) assets would somehow need to be synced to SpacetimeDB which possibly means you can't use your editor tools to design them anymore.

As a service backend+database the concept is cool and probably useful. But I don't see it being good at being a game server.
>I believe the 4 years is when the license changes to a more open license.

Why not use something with a vastly friendlier license. Most companies don't want to play the GPL dance when alternatives exist.
the EVF on nikon Z8 is pretty great. I seriously doubt you'd be disappointed, quite the opposite
It's not the loss of ownership I'm lamenting, it's the loss of production by humans in the first place.
Didn't they fork Apache 1.x?
> other concepts that may not be so critical: `query` vs `aquery` vs `cquery`, action-graph vs configured-action-graph vs target-graph, providers vs outputs, macro vs rule-impl, etc

Almost all of the distinctions you mentioned are related to the way that Bazel has the concept of a "target", which lets the build graph work at a higher level than individual files.

Suppose you write the following in a BUILD file:

cc_library(
name = "foo",
srcs = ["foo.c"],
hdrs = ["foo.h"],
)

cc_library(
name = "bar",
srcs = ["bar.c"],
hdrs = ["bar.h"],
deps = [":foo"],
)

This lets us define, at a high level, that ":foo" and ":bar" are C/C++ libraries, and that bar depends on foo. This is the build graph of targets, and it's independent of any particular files that these rules may produce (.o, .a, .so, etc).

It's nice to be able to query the build graph at this high level. It lets you see the relationship between components in the abstract, rather than a file-by-file level. That is what "bazel query" does.

But sometimes you might want to dig deeper into the specific commands (actions) that will be executed when you build a target. That is what "bazel aquery" is for.

Macros vs. rules is basically a question of whether the build logic runs before or after the target graph is built. A macro lets you declare a bit of logic where something that looks like a target will actually expand into multiple targets (or have the attributes munged a bit). It is expanded before the target graph is built, so you won't see it in the output of "bazel query."

If you took away the target graph, I think you'd take away a lot of what makes Bazel powerful. A key idea behind Bazel is to encapsulate build logic, so that you can use a rule like cc_library() without having to know how it's implemented or exactly what actions will run.

I don't say this to minimize any of the pain people experience when adopting Bazel. I'm actually curious to learn more about what the biggest pain points are that make it difficult to adopt.
A CPAP had a severe negative effect on my sleep even after two years of getting used to it. I had severe apnea measured in a sleep study, but even so I've done better without it.
I'd love to use more than one window, but they're completely unpredictable and really hard to configure the way you want. Magit buffers will open in one way, Cider Error buffers open in some other way. And the behavior will also change based on your frame size... You can sometimes configure them, but only from the limited behaviors provided by the package itself. The behaviors are different in different packages and there is no configuration/coordination in the "runtime"
The template error messages look great. I wonder if it’s worth writing a translator from clang/gcc messages to these ones, for users of clang and older gcc (to pipe one’s error messages to)
Bonobos create phrases in similar ways to humans – new study suggests
Christmas 1992 I paid $49.99 for Super Mario Kart. That is $112.43 in 2025 money.

In my state minimum wage is $15 so that is 7.5 hours of sitting in a lifeguard chair.

In 1992 I had to sit in a lifeguard chair for 11.8 hours to afford Super Mario Kart.
Stating that LLMs are not more reliable or useful than ELIZA or SmarterChild is so incredibly off-base I have to wonder if you've ever actually used a LLM. Please run the same query past ELIZA and Gemini 2.5 (https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat) and report back.
This is going to transform our society more than anything else. A giant foundation model can be cast for very, very cheap inference. Imagine the improvement from room sized computers to your iPhone, applied to this branch of technology.
I hate it. Total revulsion of that hand. Makes me want to vomit. Single handedly turns me off from the product.
Performance is not a single number. Mainframes are terrible choices for HPC, AI training, data analytics, etc. Where they excel is that narrow niche of high-volume, real-time transaction processing. In order to get there, the whole design of the machine is carefully balanced - the right number of cores per socket, the cache sizes (and the dynamic allocation of L3 and L4 according to pressures, trying to minimize eviction) all the way to CICS, z/OS and the way they allocate memory and processing power.
There will always be migration between tribes and we welcome you.
Sure because at end of day, radar is all about detecting bouncing radio waves.

However, it's accuracy of detection that changes the battlefield and my guess is detecting disturbed cellular signals gives very low detection chance/range.

Also, if enemy thought it was problematic, hit cellular tower with missile is extremely easy.
Latest Firefox, Mac .. Seems to be working now, so IDK ?
In C, that is really because Unary minus (negation) has precedence over binary operations.

+a - b; // equivalent to (+a) - b, NOT +(a - b)
-c + d; // equivalent to (-c) + d, NOT -(c + d)

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_arithmet...

+-e; // equivalent to +(-e), the unary + is a no-op if “e” is a built-in type
// because any possible promotion is performed during negation already

The same doesn't apply to, !! Which is applied as iterated binary operations (IIRC)

I am pretty sure the decriment operator came around well after that quirk was established.
You’re deliberately dodging my question. Your point is also true of most gun control laws. Short of full confiscation you will not stop people from obtaining guns illegally via straw purchases or theft. Gun control will also not prevent law abiding citizens that suddenly become homicidal with no priors.

So again, what specific gun control laws would actually make a difference that aren’t already on the books?