skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any personal computer that shipped with a GUI OS at the time shipped it in a state that wasn't yet fully realized or completely documented

You are forgetting Apple. By the time the Amiga was introduced it was pointing the way GUIs were going for the next decade. The one thing it didn’t have was multitasking, which came in 87 with Multifinder.

The Amiga was more powerful and I wish it had an OS based on Coherent, which was scheduled for the CBM 900, rather than what ended up being AmigaOS.
I’ll echo a couple of other people who have said to network. This was many years ago, but when I was in college and applying for jobs I was getting no interest at all. No interviews… not even an email response acknowledging receiving a resume. Then a person that I knew who had graduated the previous year was at a campus event, I started talking to her, and she told me the company she worked at was hiring. I emailed the hiring manager the next day, attached a resume, mentioned the woman I was talking to. Got a call 2 days later, an interview the following week, then an offer after later.
Turbo Como IGH, Como SL IGH & Vado IGH Chain Guard Recall
curl supports many things javascript doesn't. Like http proxies, tls versions, and half the other flags
I just want to express my condolences in how difficult it must be to correct basic misunderstandings that can be immediately corrected from reading the fourth paragraph under the section "Diamonds are forever"

Thanks for your hard work.
Yes, that is definitely true.
Yes, I got your point, which I agree with and was well said. Mine was tangential, as I said.
The point of making a V0 that you then throw away, is to help you understand the problem better; it's not obvious that "vibe coding" contributes to that...
> My broader point is that if you want to build a business there's a ton of opportunity if you're not overly picky on what that opportunity looks like.

That point was already firmly established before you arrived. What were you hoping to add?

> You might be mixing up opportunities within the tech industry with using tech to build a business within other industries.

Industry doesn't matter. An economy is all connected. What does matter is that at some point your sale needs a "final destination". If you sell to another business, they are going to need to pass the need on to the next hop. If they fail to do that, they will go out of business, and soon you will too.

That means either a consumer, someone with angel money to burn, or government (which is, as it pertains to this discussion, basically the same as angel money). Angel money keeps a lot of these B2B businesses alive. You might not need to accept the angel money directly, but someone needs to in order to support the system we have.
Just look at the Chinese woman that died while the Border Patrol held her. They didn't release that she commited suicide it only came out because media kept requesting information on her otherwise Border Patrol wouldn't have released anything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/chinese-woman-detained...
No one has mentioned considering the military. An MIT grad could be an excellent candidate for an officer. Joining the military has been the way many young men and now women have got out on their own.
Yeah, the idea that you can buy an election outcome should have died with Jeb Bush. Like most conspiracy theories, it’s delightfully simplifying compared to the mental morass of filtering through why a candidate was popular.

(Money plays a role in politics, but most in respect of enabling a challenger to gain name recognition.)
> And that is why it is never going to work in the real world: games have clear objectives with obvious rewards. The real world, not so much.

I encourage you to read deepmind's work with robots.
Agreed with this — don't give up, start asking around. It's fairly well studied at this point so if you'd rather believe a sociologist, read Granovetter https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2023/07/strength-weak-ties
This is why in our codebase we have a rule to not use short options/flags for called commands like curl. And if there is only a short option available, it must be explained in a code comment.
Ah, I use mine exclusively on the right.
Circling the Good
Find a major metropolitan newspaper from 1990. Print would be best, so that you can feel the heft. Now compare it to the same newspaper (if it exists) today. Print advertising did not become illegal, just uneconomical. Now consider what happens to the entities that now run on advertising. Do they survive?
Yes, that's the point. But excel just incorrectly determines what you meant, and corrupts your data.
Well you can say it doesn't understand, but then you don't have a very useful definition of the word.

You can say this is not 'real' understanding but you like many others will be unable to clearly distinguish this 'fake' understanding from 'real' understanding in a verifiable fashion, so you are just playing a game of meaningless semantics.

You really should think about what kind of difference is supposedly so important yet will not manifest itself in any testable way - an invented one.
Tesla already heats the battery in this way- it essentially just puts opposing fields into the motor to generate excess heat even when not moving.

https://electrek.co/2017/08/24/tesla-model-3-exclusive-batte...
I think that the usage of all perfectly agrees with you, actually.
Save search results to a text file
I open https://news.ycombinator.com/ in my android phone. On this page, at the bottom there is a text box for input search. How do I capy and paste the search result to a text file with URLs, because on the search result page, I can't select all as we can do on the PC or is there any way to save the result.
If pro-life people really cared about babies they'd put more effort into making sure they were fed and cared for after they were born instead of decrying any programs meant to help. Or about the mothers suffering medical complications because they can't have their non-viable fetus aborted. Pro-life is generally code for pro-birth.
Not. My. King.
It's an opportunistic pathogen that mainly spreads in hospitals among people who are immunocompromised or otherwise ill. Symptoms vary wildly, because it can infect different organs and tissues, and can include pneumonia and meningitis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acinetobacter_baumannii
Yeah, the world is a illusion, it tells you "study here or there and you'll have an amazing job and will win a lot of money!" but a lot of times, that never happen. You ended up felting like "was all for nothing?". I see my dad now working with his 60+ years old and I can't say to him "You can rest now, I'll pay your bills", at least was something that I was dreaming for a long time and now I know that will never be possible. I can't give you advice since you and I are on the same boat (I'm not an MIT senior but you get it, right?) but try not to lose hope and don't be harsh with yourself
I've had a couple of LLCs in the US (now and in the past) and they've been pretty hands-off as far as paperwork/tax stuff go. More or less, just keep good books and file/pay quarterly taxes and that's about it. I'm curious about what you've run into?
I find this seriously unlikely. Most MIT grads are getting into Jane Street or at minimum Google - they literally think working at Amazon is beneath them. Course 6 grads are not going unemployed.

It is funny to hear that this person might have an unstable environment though - that isn't the profile of someone that gets into MIT.

If OP is actually serious I'm more than willing to give resume advice - including in person living in the area. But again, I seriously doubt this is real, or if people like OP are willing to take advice from failures like me.
Is there a simple utility / script that takes gemini/grok/gpt output (usually markdown with changes, and apply it to the folder back.

I dont want to deal with "smartness" of aider. I WANT to use the chatgpt/ai-studio/grok UI for conversation but I also want to apply any changes it suggests back to my code easily.
Too bad, they can try again. No need to drag the rest of is into that mess.
Romans usually burnt their corpses, so it is quite unusual to find skeletons.
How do people feel about array languages (like J, APL, K, BQN, Uiua) versus spreadsheets?
> the reason it was fooled is the sensor suite is deficient, which is the same whether it's FSD or Autopilot.

But other people have tried to reproduce the experiment with FSD, and it wasn't fooled.
I’m a MIT grad from ‘12. PM me (email is on my profile)
I suspect what really happens is you're set back a few years compared to someone with more fortunate timing. In a away, this is never catching up, but framing it as a setback gives a better picture of what happens.
https://archive.is/strhI
> Realizing that I am owed nothing, and focusing on ways to get what I want.

I don't think the system _ever_ fails people with "merit" like MIT grads. It fails people like me that can't get into top schools that went to 50% accept rate public schools.

I graduated in 2018 too - I guarantee people like you consider me and my career accomplishments in the intervening years to be failure worthy. I genuinely think a typical MIT Course 6 grad from 2018 would be clinically depressed if they were in my shoes.
The Precise Language of Good Management
My software engineer job is to destroy my own position by solving all the problems and automating the job away. I have done it multiple times over my career.
This seems far fetched at this point. This administration has made it clear that a positive trade balance is the only thing it's interested in.
LocalScore dev here

Thank you! I think this is quite possible! If you don't mind starting a discussion on this I would love to think aloud there

https://github.com/cjpais/LocalScore/discussions
MIT students expect (not unfairly) to work at Jane Street/HRT/Jump/Citadel Securities/OpenAI/Anthropic and then "settle" for Google or Facebook. They're not going to work for Fidelity or Raytheon.
A different use case.

The idea would be to generate the text for each individual case. Though a simple template might work as well.
So a little silly, a little serious.

On a practical note, we don’t tend to prefix zeroes to numbers because they are superfluous. If programmers are using strings to store a year and those strings are limited to four digits, your project likely has a host of other issues that will become problems long before Y10K.

We already have a precedent, in programming, for prefixed zeroes having meaning: “an octal number follows.” Much like 0x indicates a hexadecimal number.
Mine is almost certainly almost the minimal case, except for someone running in Delaware. Federally, I file quarterly 941s (employee tax withholding), annual 940 (unemployment) and 1020 (tax return). In Delaware I final annually (stamp tax). I then file locally for Washington (excise tax) and Seattle (licensing tax).

I believe a freelancers wouldn't file employee tax forms. They frequently roll their filings into their personal taxes.

[edit: this is for a C corp]
> Think deeper about why do you need to "sell" your work inside (some) companies

Mainly to prove you can sell, not that they can buy. Selling involves understanding the customer's needs, their tradeoff preferences, your value prop and being able to reflect that back to them. The minimum bar for successful selling requires you to demonstrate a certain degree of competence and due diligence that provides assurance that you're able to operate autonomously with trust.
I once got a mail back from dang, about why my account got restricted. (Limited posts per day)

"I made plenty of good comments, but this one thread counts as flame war and he has to go by the worst, not by the best comments"

I thought about replying with some Don Hopkins comments, that were way worse than what was here and he is clearly not restricted. But I didn't, as I don't do Kindergarten, I just took a time off from HN.

But it definitely is not equal standards.

So I respect Don Hopkins for his knowledge and experience, but not his style of communication sometimes.
The temp allocator is a stack allocator,

How much have you used that? C has that and it will get cleared at the end of a scope too, but it is pretty exotic because it is so fragile. It's a catch-22, if something is so big that you need to allocate the exact size to save stack space, then it could become problematic and blow the stack. This is not a substitute for having allocations be freed at the end of a scope.

For scoping files, sockets and so on, there's actually a simple mechanism in C3 that allows creating code like that very easily using macros with "trailing body". Which is a little like trailing closures in Swift, but here there is no closure, just a macro.

I think stuff like this is interesting, but it's interesting in the context of straight C, not in the context of a new language where it could be done better.

In regular C you could already create a custom allocator and macros that would use the fact that a for loop will run something after the scope finishes to mimic some of these effects.

C's syntax may be a little funky, but it's real pain point is the actual semantics that will bite people over and over until they move on.
Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day exploited since mid-March
That's reasonable along with your comment below too, but when you have the ceo of anthropic saying "AI will write all code for software engineers within a year" last month I would say that is pretty hard to believe given how it performs without user intervention (MCP etc...). It feels like bullshit just like the self driving car stuff did ~10 years ago.
Show HN: I made an AI tutor and teaching assistant for the classroom
Hi Everyone!!

We're a group of experienced entrepreneurs, educators, and AI enthusiasts brought together by a shared mission: to reimagine how people teach and learn in the age of intelligent technology. Our team has spent years building meaningful products in the EdTech space, always with a focus on improving learning outcomes and reducing friction for both teachers and students.
It's kind of just an artifact of the development. Happy to switch the default models and sizes in the future especially based on community feedback
I am seeing this in my community as well, it has become nearly impossible for early career folks to find opportunities and it is due to a number of factors. In addition to economy, the fast ramp up of hiring in covid and of course AI, we now have geo-political headwinds in the mix. If you are in this situation, or if you would like to help make a difference, please reach out to me, email is in profile. @Dang, if this is not appropriate, please let me know.
I do flag it when it's particularly anodyne, but I'm intrigued by its purpose. Why does anyone bother to do it?
The EU didn't mandate that annoying UI. That's malicious compliance from businesses who are trying to undermine the law.
I think "invidious" is a better term. "Corrupt" may be correct but it doesn't capture enough.
I received a campus offer in 2008, but then the recession hit. Since it was with a large company, I graduated in 2009 and was supposed to join afterward. However, just a few weeks before my start date, they postponed it indefinitely. I found myself back at square one and it took more than six months to land a job at a mid-sized company with a lower salary. Eventually, things worked out. So, don’t lose hope—just keep trying. Best of luck!
Fake News Story on Tariffs Pause Causes Mayhem in Stock Market
I think you might be right, definitely interested in this feedback and creating charts and graphs that are the most useful for folks!
> Grit and nihilism. No one is coming to save us.

What I'll say won't help you now, but: this will help you later.

Don't assume you'll always be able to find a job. Work towards financial independence early. Avoid debt. Don't get some fancy car as a "treat" to yourself, counting on your future income to make payments... that income might not come.

Sorry it sucks right now. Don't give up, don't let your skills dull. Keep grinding and take any programming job just to start getting that 2-3 experience that locks out so many of the labour market.
Tell that to the gatekeeping engineers who think otherwise.
This will be as secure as your home router. I.e. not really, with some nice back doors.
Meanwhile every time I import a CSV into LibreOffice I can't work out how to make it interpret my dates as actual dates.
No, I would check out their projects/code.
Show HN: Clone any web element to React and Tailwind with this Chrome extension
Hi HN!

Backstory - I've been writing backend code for years, and about a year ago I told my boss to shove it and went full solopreneur mode.

Problem is - many products need a nice web interface, and I'm a TERRIBLE designer. over the past few months, I kept feeding screenshots of website sections i found beautiful to v0/Claude, asking it to give me something similar for my own apps. This approach sometimes works, but often completely falls apart for more complex UI elements.

So, i built this chrome extension, which grabs the actual source code (heavily pre-processed and sanitized) and feeds that to the LLM as context, instead of just a screenshot - and it works way better!
It lets you pick any element in a webpage (kinda like the chrome devtools element selector), and it then outputs a react + tailwind component of the selected element.

would love your feedback or any thoughts/ideas

Yuval
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16

"Pēdīcābo ego vōs et irrumābō"

I had a college Latin teacher who asked us to translate this one. The professor was very clear that we should translate it in the spirit it was written, which is to say, vulgar.

I offered the following translation of the first line:

"I will fuck you up the ass, and jam my cock down your throat."

The professor then said, "Excellent. Tonally perfect. Now let us never speak of it again."
If your ICE car battery was dead after sitting a week in the cold you had a bad battery. I drive my car once every couple weeks and it regularly gets to -20 here in the winter and have never had an issue because the battery in my ICE vehicle is good.
Right now the main priority is just getting the data out, but in the future may have some interest in this. Or perhaps we can open an API for others to build this as well
Why not try Estonia instead? You’ll need to get an e-signature card (“e-Residency”) which might take about a month, then you just submit an online form and get your company number the same day. Mimimum capital is 1 €, and the fees are about 400 € for setup and 100 €/yr for virtual address. https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/eresidency-germans/

The downside, of course, is that you probably won’t get any direct(-ish) subsidies from Germany — although any pan-EU options should be on the table.
Everything you've said is an opinion except for one thing: you're telling the user they're wrong. Classic Apple behavior.
News Flash: Standardized test scores down and not improving after end of education policy that emphasized doing well on standardized tests over learning.
Thank you for sharing this! Pretty much every single gallery on his website is awe-inspiring, he's an incredible artist.
The thermostat analogy, and equivalents, are age-old.
Interesting... I wonder if "Agent UX designer" is a job title that'll exist in the near future
Build websites by dragging and dropping Shadcn components
Somehow, they will still blame Biden, Kamala and Obama.
Actually I think the vibe coding process does make you think about the requirements. When the LLM writes some code, and you run it, you see what's missing. Maybe this only works well for simple systems, not complex ones.
and parents who do little to nothing to educate their child
I recall my dad would flash card me (it seemed unending) on a myriad of subjects/concepts
That's the idea. We didn't have banners all over the place in 2011.
> Technology exists to make life more convenient. So why reject technology?

Some technology exists to drive sales.
Can you tell me more about the "anonymous federated score sharing"? Maybe something we can think about more

I totally agree with Ollama integration and if there is interest we will try to upstream into llama.cpp
It's lowest cost from their perspective. IOW, it's cheaper for them to make their own batteries, then buy from BYD, LG or Panasonic. That competitor price includes profit margin, the internal cost doesn't, so it's not apples to apples. Amazing achievement regardless.
Ask HN: How would you build a turn-based multiplayer browser game?
I've recently been tinkering away at a turn-based multiplayer browser game in my downtime. I'm a Typescript guy so my current tech stack is Next.js, Node.js, and ws[0] for WebSockets (though I'm thinking of switching over to socket.io[1] given how much more they provide out of the box).

Right now my main concern is how to handle continuous deployments without interrupting ongoing games (amongst other WebSocket challenges[2]). I was planning to deploy via Coolify, but am considering other options given that their zero downtime deploys still needs some love[3].

How would you approach building a turn-based multiplayer browser game in 2025?

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/ws

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/socket.io

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42816359

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589794
Probably Bunny CDN with Edge Scripting.
Id pay to go to a zoo full of wealthy people in cages
Easy upvotes from people who hit the comments first before looking at the article, mostly.
> He sincerely wants peace for the galaxy.

I understand this is probably prequel or EU lore, but I wonder if this claim can be justified using only the original trilogy.
When I graduated in 2011, the Great Recession was just beginning to unthaw. I nearly joined the Air Force as an officer. I even went to MEPS and did the physical but decided against it at the last second and joined a military contractor instead.

It was a similar situation, but honestly nowhere as dire as yours. Even in that rough situation, the best of my state college were at least getting one offer. I cannot imagine how rough it must be for MIT grads to not be getting job offers.

I'm not proud of either, but I did what I needed to so that I never moved back home.
Show HN: Billdrip – Invoice scheduling with payment links and reminders
I built a web app that helps freelancers and small businesses schedule invoice emails with automatic reminders and optional Stripe payment links.

Background: My partner and I run a small property development company, and we often get invoices (from contractors, cleaners, HOAs) as email attachments. Paying them involves logging into my banking portal, which is my case requires access to a list of codes printed on a card issued by my bank (I know that some EU countries even need card readers to make online payments), and I often don’t have access to that right away, or can't be bothered to do it at that time. As a result, I sometimes forget to pay those invoices until much later.

My hypothesis with Billdrip is that letting businesses create scheduled invoice emails that includes the invoice PDF and, optionally, a "Pay Now" button (Stripe payment link) will increase on-time payments.

Let me know what you think, any feedback is appreciated!
The insanity of modernity, progress and change.
There is a transmissible dog tumor which originated with handwave wolves. Apparently there are possibly others. (TIL!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_...
A figure of speech is not a formula which must be literally interpreted. Sometimes doing so is interesting, but I don’t think this is one of those times.