skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this is pretty much what Hetzner must have built with their object storage - and they get to 5 EUR/month, so really close to Backblaze pricing.
Unfortunately few young people actually learn and know this, and many workers are selected to exploit these type of blindspots many young people have for exploitation. This is true in tech especially.

Management often would choose the candidates who were young because they didn't ask questions, they followed directions, they didn't know their rights, and they were desperate for experience to kickstart their careers. They also would require legalese that would steal any potential competing ideas they ended up making outside of work through inventions agreements, and this trend still occurs today.

I've walked away from several MSP jobs in the past because they took approaches like this and was grateful for my past experience and sticking to my principles.

The hard sell pressure, requirements to agree before they'll send you the paperwork (which require conditional agreement pending review), and unwillingness to be reasonable (i.e. your given it on a saturday and it must be agreed to by Monday (few lawyers can review things over the weekend in that timeframe), followed by a withdrawal of any prospective offer for simply asking if parts of the employment contract were negotiable given valid concerns are just a few major red flags I regularly look for in employers today.

If the employer is going to rescind an offer because you ask questions, for me its not just them doing that. Its them triggering a revocation of my conditional acceptance and its mutually rescinded, and I make that clear in my final communication and never apply for those companies again.

Eventually the lack of talent available at these places, through their own actions, will have an impact and drive them towards insolvency.
>So how do I answer my child when he asks "Why should I learn to do X if I can just ask an LLM and it will do it better than me"

Realistically it comes down to the idea that being an educated individual that knows how to think is important for being successful, and learning in school is the only way we know to optimize for that, even if it's likely not the most efficient way to do so.
No, he doesn't have advisors. He has a cabinet of sycophants who parrot his every flip-flop. His "advisors" have made it clear several times now that they have no idea what the plans are until they're announced on Truth social.
I’m going to let my dentist know this next time they claim that the stains on my teeth may have been caused by coffee or tea.
Documenting API Governance
I thought Crossplane v2 was only a design proposal at the moment: https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/pull/6255

But I guess there is an actual preview implementation now? https://docs.crossplane.io/v2.0-preview/

The comparison on Kro would definitely be good to include as there are quite a few similarities. I can write up more on how it compares in a bit.
>Sure. To tie these threads together: I think there are sufficient other different properties that make me reasonably confident that my thought process isn't like an LLM's.

Doesn't have to be like an LLM's to be probabilistic
Expanding on this a little, I will be replacing all occurrences of 2 with two blobs fighting, with shields:

>>> 0^((...==...)--++--(...==...))^0
2
Why Is Dining Alone So Difficult?
Depends what you mean by "elite". Obviously a ton of people disagree with him. I'm just saying, that doesn't matter. There's not a single Republican in government that's willing to publicly contradict Trump on anything.
They're not dodging your question. They engaged your point with a point of their own and you asked a non sequitur question in reply to that.
We certainly do not have to choose between those two extremes.

More importantly, you said:

- One side wants nobody to care about our differences, and that erases identity.

- The other side wants to celebrate everyone's differences, and that reinforces identity.

This seems unrealistic, and the wording is starkly one-sided (in terms of painting one side as "wrong" and the other as "right"). You're splitting on the right metric, but the wrong dimension.

One side wants nobody to care about our differences in negative contexts ("X people are bad in some way", "Y people are better than X people"), and wants to celebrate our differences in positive contexts (cultural exposure, diversity, etc). However, some of the details are often unrealistically idealistic.

The other side wants to neither ignore nor celebrate differences. This side is simpler, and has real benefits, but makes more room for the human tendency to express difference-based negativity, which ranges from understandable to horrifying. However, it doesn't suffer from as much of the complication of idealism.
I have the weirdest calendar problem: if someone sends an invite to my Fastmail account, it gets swallowed up by Gmail. It never shows up in Fastmail, and in the calendar invite it appears as if it was sent to my Gmail address even though it wasn’t. It’s the strangest thing and I don’t know how to stop it or even what’s causing it (Fastmail support also had no idea).
Back in the late '70s my dad bought a retired 1942 pumper fire truck from the city. Back then it was sealed bids submitting to the city. He was the only one who bid on it.

I assume today you could buy an airport one from a government auction site.
You don’t put avocados in a refrigerator in many countries of the world. IF you do, they will just go brown without ever becoming ripe.
Rotten Tomatoes scores Big Trouble in Little China favorably, as it obviously should.
Eva's first 6 weeks as marketing lead at a B2B SaaS Startup
I’m currently in a product role, but I used to lead marketing—and when our new (and very fresh) marketing lead asked for some structure, I realized I’d never actually written down the process I relied on back then.

So I did. This is the full 6-week focus plan I would’ve wanted in my first B2B SaaS marketing job. It's heavy on frameworks, light on fluff, and painfully honest about where we lost time by doing too much too soon.

Figured it might help others in similar spots.
Why Your Digital Transformation Is Doomed
Drowning in tools, still stuck in chaos?
Your digital transformation is doomed because you never transformed the work itself.
Funny I was just thinking about this yesterday! Now it's on the top of HN.
Author here. Me too! In fact, I wrote an entire other blog alongside this one on the business case of building for B2B app marketplaces like Snowflake. Will likely release it tomorrow.

You should write something on the Shopify dev process! Might alleviate some pain for someone - ie: me - down the road :)
It's only surprising when you phrase it like that. Real bugs are interactions. I mean, sure, if you're asked to review a pull request like "patient_info: Use google to track MRI data", it's a no brainer.

But no doubt the analytics blurb was stuffed into a generic "top_level_page" generator or whatever. And it happens that the PHI wasn't firewalled by design, and pulled it in by default. Or it was firewalled, but then someone forgot and migrated the "patient_info_page" templates to a generic framework, etc...

Security is really, really hard. And one of the worst responses to a mistake like this is to tut-tut about how obvious a mistake and how easy to avoid it was. Believing that secure software is a matter of "not making mistakes" makes you more likely to write such bugs and not less, because you won't take the time to establish clear boundaries from the start.
Don't Assume Users Will Come–They're Here
Author here—sharing my thoughts on why products shouldn't assume hypothetical user needs. Key points:

- Start from real user behavior, not imagined scenarios.
- Validate by observing actual user activities.
- Prioritize solving existing, painful problems rather than speculative features.

Happy to discuss more!
Come on folks, be nice, we are all here to learn.
There should be legal penalties for companies whose negligence leads to data breaches. Consumers really have no recourse here and even CCPA and HIPAA fines are exceedingly rare.
No idea about Apple Watch, but wife, definitely. My wife noticed it. (She's also a doctor, but anyone can identify the sound of choking and gasping, which is what it sounds like.)

I can't give medical advice, but: Record yourself on your phone overnight and listen back. If you hear loud snoring with gaps or pauses in between, and especially any sort of choking, gasping, or coughing sound, and you don't remember doing it... definitely look into it further.
What we used to think of as "AI" at one point in time becomes a mere "algorithm" or "automation" by another point in time. A lot of what Asimov predicted has come to pass, very much in the way he saw it. We just no longer think of it as "AI".

LLM's are just the latest form of "AI" that, for a change, doesn't quite fit Asimov's mold. Perhaps it's because they're being designed to replace humans in creative tasks rather than liberate humans to pursue them.
Exploring TypeScript: TS 5.8 edition
These days it's hard to tell.
EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data from Most Polluters
The full title is:

> Trump's EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters
Just to understand the context ... would an SDL2 driver for Mac OS 9 enable first-class support for Mac OS 9 as a guest OS in modern VM hypervisors?
Star Citizen has now raised over $800M, with still no release in sight
ChatGPT can reference all your past chats
I'm not a doctor, can't give medical advice. This is my understanding:

> Would sleep apnea always be visible as a lower blood oxygen level when sleeping, or can there be negative effects even without that?

It would not always be visible, no, if your AHI was low enough. It is still damaging even if your blood oxygen is okay, because you are waking up to keep it that way. You're not getting enough sleep as a result.

You might try the recording trick I mentioned below to listen for sounds of it, but if you're unsure at all, I'd consider seeing a sleep doc.
Windows key + dot, then type in warning / if it was among the last ones you used, use the arrow keys, and hit Enter to insert it.

If you use whatever OS other than Windows, I'm sure there are similar flows available if you search for it. And since it's just Unicode, I'm sure there are numpad based keybinds available too.
Show HN: BrandifyIt – AI-Powered Platform for Automated Content (Crowdfunding)
Hello HN,

I’m excited to share our work on BrandifyIt – an AI-powered platform designed to radically streamline the digital content creation process. We built BrandifyIt to tackle the endless challenges of manual content generation by leveraging cutting-edge machine learning algorithms. The idea is simple: use AI to produce creative, on-brand copy fast, efficiently, and at scale.

What it does:

Automated Content Generation: Our system learns your brand’s tone and style to generate high-quality, tailored content that resonates with your target audience.

Efficiency at Scale: By eliminating manual bottlenecks, it’s built to scale with your digital marketing needs, ensuring that every piece maintains premium quality.

Data-Driven Personalization: Real-time analytics help adjust content dynamically based on audience engagement metrics and trending data.

Creative Dashboard: A user-friendly interface lets you easily adjust parameters and fine-tune content outputs to your precise requirements.

We’re currently in a crowdfunding phase via FundRazr (link in comments) to support further development, enhance our infrastructure, and gather early adopter feedback. I’d love to hear your thoughts on our approach, any technical feedback on the AI implementation, and suggestions for improvement. We're especially interested in how similar tools might scale or integrate with existing workflows and any potential pitfalls you foresee.

Thanks for checking it out, and I look forward to your feedback!
wow, my great grandfather fought in WWI, got captured and went through Russia, Japan, Hawaii, Panama and back to Europe. He collected postcards like these, we still have them
That's the rub. It provides scalability for very large organization, of which, there are few. It's similar to running OpenStack. Meta also has some projects like this, such as buck2 which lacks the really good virtual FS acceleration stuff (eden). Megacorp FOSS tend to skew towards offering whizbang features that are incomplete, complicated, poorly documented, and require a lot of extra work.
> I want emojis in my code.

Then you will enjoy swift [1]!

[1] Emoji driven development: https://www.swiftbysundell.com/special/emoji-driven-developm...
A good Sunday afternoon pairs The Hunt for Red October and Down Periscope
I have soured on UBI because it tries to use a market solution to deal with problems that I don’t think markets can fix.

I want everyone to have food, housing, healthcare, education, etc. in a post scarcity world. That should be possible. I don’t think giving people cash is the best way to accomplish that. If you want people to have housing, give them housing. If you want people to have food, give them food.

Cash doesn’t solve the supply problem, as we can see with housing now. You would think a rise in the cost of housing would lead to more supply, but the cost of real estate also increases the cost of building.
Nintendo Switch Game Console Release Is Whipsawed by Tariff Threats
Oh, I've tried them a time or two. In the store they look great. The trouble is that I don't really shoot in camera stores often, and when I'm shooting wild wasps in close macro, I'm not autofocusing or even manually focusing but rather holding my breath and timing the insuppressible tiny movements of my body, and the contrast of the ommatidial boundaries in the wasp's eye as perceived through the carefully trained and practiced sensitivity of my eye, as I've learned to anticipate the moment in which my desired composition exists. This way, as the shutter release closes and the shutter itself opens, what's captured is a perfect portrait shot of the wasp, with the tack-sharp, razor-thin macro focal plane exactly where I want it - which almost always is indeed exactly at her eyes.

After all, most of the time she's watching me every bit as closely as I her, and I like to be able to show that. From the ways people look at and talk about that work, the effort has not been wholly wasted, but it is a more demanding task than I expect a median EVF, or if I'm honest really any even remotely affordable model, to handle. My eyes barely handle it, such that even in the D850's bright and generous viewfinder, the way I perceive this kind of focus is not as a clear sense of seeing those fine divisions between optical elements, but rather as minimizing a sort of unpleasant perceptual "static" or "interference," and it doesn't work at all even in my dominant eye through the lens of my glasses. (My cameras' eyepieces have diopter inserts adjusted to match my prescription.)

On reflection, maybe that's why the EVFs I've tried (Nikon Z5 and Z7 iirc, so previous generation) felt like they had a kind of weird shimmer I didn't like. I assume the Z8 does better, and sure, all the focus peaking and trick shot stuff in the viewfinder is nice. I'll even grant it feels like looking at the future. It's just that, so far at least, I find I seem to prefer looking through a camera.
This is simply using LLMs directly. Google has demonstrated that this is not the way to go when it comes to solving math problems. AlphaProof, which used AlphaZero code, got a silver medal in last year's IMO. It also didn't use any human proofs(!), only theorem statements in lean, without their corresponding proofs [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzXyPGEtseI
Wow, that' sounds like something I'd love to figure out how to setup with my Fastmail...

I use Fastmail for my email, but due to... life, I still do all calendaring on Google, and so I often miss events that get sent to my Fastmail...
Recipe for a Cell
Is there reason to think language developers understand nullability?
Taking Out the Trash: Garbage Collection of Object Storage at Scale
I think maybe a better approach I saw was to sweep and vacuum up NY City sidewalks for gemstones that have fallen out of people's jewelry.

It's similar to the idea of sweeping up the edges of high travelled roads looking for palladium. But I think the palladium recovered wasn't worth the effort. But the gem stones might be, even if they're tiny.
Alan Alda has mentioned in interviews that he prefers it that way.
> I expect someday clang will become the default [compiler for the Linux kernel].

Why? I don't personally use GCC except to compile other people's projects in a way that's mostly invisible to me, but it seems like it's still widely used and constantly improving, thanks in part to competition with LLVM/Clang. Is the situation really so dire?
The trick is to have your grammar or combinator setup to have error productions for all the common errors you can think of.

That way you get nice, targeted error messages.
I think we're talking past each other. I'm not interested in defending symbolic AI at all; it's clear it's failed. All told, I would not say I'm particularly interested in any kind of AI.

I'm interested in theory of mind, and I think defeasibility with a huge number of dimensions is a stronger explanation of how humans behave and think than something resembling an LLM. This doesn't somehow mean that LLMs haven't "won" (they have); I just don't think they're winning at human-like cognition. This in turn does not mean we could build a better alternative, either.
So did Mancuso if you followed the books.
Using generative AI is a lot closer to hiring a photographer and telling them to take pictures for you than taking the pictures themselves.
It’s not one specific problem, it’s the defining problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield_Minus_Garfield
Jim created Garfield for money[1]. It's not surprising that he likes anything that can make him more money, he isn't personally tied to the character.

[1] Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a 'good, marketable character' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield
They should have removed the human instead. Garfield only Garfield.
RAG Without Vectors – Reasoning-Based RAG using PageIndex
Traditional vector-based RAG often struggles with retrieval accuracy because it optimizes for similarity, not relevance. But what we truly need in retrieval is relevance, which requires reasoning. When working with professional documents that require domain expertise and multi-step reasoning, vector-based RAG and similarity search often fall short.

So we started exploring a more reasoning-driven approach to RAG. Reasoning-based RAG enables LLMs to think and reason their way to the most relevant document sections. Inspired by AlphaGo, we propose to use tree search to perform structured document retrieval.

We open-sourced one of the key components: PageIndex. PageIndex is a hierarchical Document Indexing system that builds search trees from long documents (like financial reports, regulatory documents, or textbooks), making them ready for reasoning-based RAG.

Some highlights:

- Hierarchical Structure: Organizes lengthy PDFs into LLM-friendly trees — like a smart table of contents.

- Precise Referencing: Each node includes a summary and exact physical page numbers.

- Natural Segmentation: Nodes align with document sections, preserving context — no arbitrary chunking.

We've used PageIndex for financial document analysis with reasoning-based RAG and saw significant improvements in retrieval accuracy compared to vector-based systems.

Would love any feedback — especially thoughts on reasoning-based RAG, or ideas for where PageIndex could be applied!
If there was a product that let me convey "Come back later" to a barging inquirer with a sharp and uncanny hand motion, I might consider paying $249 for it:

https://cdn.flipperzero.one/lekyb_desktop_004.mp4
Recently I started to work on a very simple tool to do this with a single command: it'll start all your projects in a given directory and expose them via HTTPS on https://[project].localhost

No daemons, and the only piece of configuration is adding a file to /etc/resolvers: https://github.com/djanowski/hostel

I've been using it for myself so it's lacking documentation and features. For example, it expects to run each project using `npm run dev`, but I want to add Procfile support.

Hopefully other people find it useful. Contributions very much welcome!
Uh, did an editor change the title? I's MacOS 9, not macOS 9 ;) This is classic Macintosh. Please change it back to the original.
I've often experienced that I had what I thought an obscure and very intellectually challenging coding problem, and after prompting the LLM, it basically one-shotted it.

I've been profoundly humbled by the the experience, but then it occurred to me that what I thought to be an unique problem has been solved by quite a few people before and the model had plenty of references to pull from.
He's not just a CEO. He's someone who nearly managed to invite himself to a top-secret briefing about military strategy against China.
Another note about fire trucks. There has been a large private equity roll up of fire truck manufacturers resulting in longer lead times and much higher prices. [1]

I was surprised when I specifically checked on Pierce that they are owned by Oshkosh and publicly traded. [2][3]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/fire-engines-shortage-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_Manufacturing

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_Corporation
The idea of a government agency denying services based on social media comments is strikingly evocative of China's use of social reputation scores in denying government services. In China the intent is to force conformity to government standards of behavior. I do not doubt that things will move that way in the U.S.
Entropy increases in the universe by default, so sleeping allows that to happen more than in the waking state
Framework server rendering is framework specific... Seems like a framework problem.

At least custom elements can just be including in framework-specific templates and be included in the rendered output, even if not deeply server-rendered.

It's actually very difficult to do this correctly and at scale with a framework like React, because in React you need an ID and JS call to initialize each embedded component, when custom elements initialize themselves.

Anyway, you have an axe to grind, so have fun with that. I'll see you next time I make a positive comment about web components I guess.
Advanced voice mode does not do text to speech, one of 4o’s modes is speech, it’s multi-modal. This is how it can understand the emotional content of your speech.
Just to point, and as the video say, it's not the trucks that create the need. Just because your city have some large trucks to send where hydrants are rare, it doesn't mean you need to design the entire city so they can fit.
Cool industrial design, but might one of the dumbest product ideas I've ever seen at that price point.
I miss Meta's arc + buck2 + eden + "hg" + "phabricator" + testing infrastructure that does a lot of acceleration of builds, testing, and landing commits without rebasing.
>I'm always charmed by museums that feel like this sort of "weird collection".

The more interested I am in a subject, the less I like them, because usually they aren't rigorous about data accuracy regarding what the item is and where it was found and how it was used. If it's something I don't particularly care about, I can still feel a little wonderment, but once I'm interested at all, the nagging feeling that it's impossible to actually know anything about the item starts creeping in.