skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Embedded systems for sure.

Eg. Home Automation with custom LED strips + an ESP32 (via. tasmota, esphome etc...), Wireless sensors using the same, FPV Drones and RC toys/cars in general, 3D printers, Custom keyboards are the usual gateway hobbies in my experience. I haven't seen anyone who is into one of these and hasn't explored the others.
And that was about me being tired of the bogus Smalltalk's so fragile meme.

So how would we explore fundamental changes that break the debugger? Would the dumbest workable thing be create subclasses without changing the originals?

I have come across someone who genuinely seemed to think that making copies of just the image was a viable approach to version control. Their project failed badly; and they were absolutely convinced the problem had been Smalltalk, when the problem was not understanding how they could use Smalltalk.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...

If you look at which is growing faster you see that renewables appear to be growing faster relative to fossil fuels.
Would you rather do that or use toml?
IRS Agrees to Share Migrants' Tax Information with ICE
For a serial computer, an oscilloscope will easily do what a set of blinking lights will do for a parallel computer. By trading time for space it gives you a free serial to parallel conversion.
Neurotypical means something, after all. Extroverted, I wouldn't say.

Basic game theory, really. Business are not charities. Hiring a neurodiverse person is riskier than a neurotypical one.
Pumped storage is cost effective but it's also built out, there's little if any scope for growth. Battery storage is entirely speculative so far. Whilst nuclear is a proven baseload source that can provide enough power for the most critical needs even when renewables aren't producing.
And the fine for that? Probably 0.001% of revenue. If that.
SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models
I was hoping for more information about the nature of the attack. All I saw was that 'funds must be deposited before they can be withdrawn' and 'Tornado Cash' was used for the deposit.

Does anyone have more details about how (or if) Tornado Cash was involved/used in this attack?
Even if you say "better faster" tens times fast, the quality of being produced fast and being broadly good are very different. Speed of development can be measured immediately. Quality is holistic. It's a product of not just formatting clear structures but of relating to the rest of a given system.
C was specifically designed to map 1:1 onto PDP-11 assembly. For example, the '++' operator was created solely to represent auto-increment instructions like TST (R0)+.
Well we'll see if they suffer consequences of this and they cheated too hard, but being perceived as best in class is arguably worth even more than being the best in class, especially if differences in performance are hard to perceive anecdotally.

The goal is long term control over a technology's marketshare, as winner take all dynamics are in play here.
Good. This lets them receive some of the value they’ve created (they should get paid!) and gives certainty they won’t go out of business. Which means more Tailscale now and in future!

If they turn evil (unlikely with the current folks there) they’ve written up / open sourced plenty of what got them to this point.

Don’t capture all the value you create. But you should try to capture some.
There is a small, hopeful flipside to this. While people using AI to produce art (such as concept art) have flooded the market, real skills now command a higher price than before.

To pull this out of the games industry for just a moment, imagine this: you are a business and need a logo produced. Would you hire someone at the market price who uses AI to generate something... sort of on-brand they most definitely cannot provide indemnity cover for (considering how many of these dubiously owned works they produce), or would you pay above the market price to have an artist make a logo for you that is guaranteed to be their own work? The answer is clear - you'd cough up the premium. This is now happening on platforms like UpWork and Fiverr. The prices for real human work have not decreased; they have shot up significantly.

It's also happening slowly in games. The concept artists who are skilled command a higher salary than those who rely on AI. If you depend on image-generating AI to do your work, I don't think many game industry companies would hire you. Only the start-ups that lack experience in game production, perhaps. But that part of the industry has always existed - the one made of dreamy projects with no prospect of being produced. It's not worth paying much attention to, except if you're an investor. In which case, obviously it's a bad investment.

Besides, just as machine-translated game localization isn't accepted by any serious publisher (because it is awful and can cause real reputational damage), I doubt any evident AI art would be allowed into the final game. Every single piece of that will need to be produced by humans for the foreseeable future.

If AI truly can produce games or many of their components, these games will form the baseline quality of cheap game groups on the marketplaces, just like in the logo example above. The buyer will pay a premium for a quality, human product. Well, at least until AI can meaningfully surpass humans in creativity - the models we have now can only mimic and there isn't a clear way to make them surpass.
Not really.

https://blog.mathieuacher.com/LinusTorvaldsLLM/
I know but those diagrams often don’t adequately
capture what I want. Think of diagrams in nice technical talks or papers. I’ve even tried having the LLM (Claude) generate SVGs. They all fall short.
"Ionizing radiation resilience: how metabolically active lichens endure exposure to the simulated Mars atmosphere" (2025)
https://imafungus.pensoft.net/article/145477/
The pagination was chosen because it was prominently featured in the candidate's resume, and was something that interviewer was familiar with - it's not about "cool experience", but rather conversation starter.

When performing interview, asking about things mentioned on the resume is a pretty good conversation starter. No one wants random trivia, resume entries, especially from the most recent jobs, are absolutely fair game. And if they turn out too simple, we can always dig further based later.
My 2020 Walmart-brand Motile M141 is still my main personal laptop. I have another Thinkpad T460s (2016) that still works fine. My wife still uses her 2019 Surface Pro. I have an ASRock Vision 3D (2010) in my closet running some SDRs. I've got a Supermicro X11SBA-LN4F (2016) in an old Shuttle SFF chassis (2009). And that's just the old stuff that still gets regular use.

Aside from the Surface tablet they're all very repairable.

I disagree that Mac things tend to last longer. There might be trash out there, but there's tons of stuff that's just fine and lasts a long time. You don't even need to always spend a lot on it; that Motile was like $300 for a 14" 1080p laptop.
I would have thought that title would belong to Yann.
Why would you interview with a company far away if you aren't willing to travel and eventually relocate there?

Job hunting has become a game of shotgunning your resume while employers cast the widest net, and this has been hugely detrimental. Internships, junior positions, and onsite training are disappearing across the board. Everyone instead wastes time shopping around without any real evidence that this way improves outcomes.
It doesn't have to be LIDAR. Other modern cars that have adaptive cruise control avoid hitting motorcycles using simple radar, and have been doing so for many years.
Cryptocurrency != OSS.
>BUT. I worked at a place that used IBM 360s...Then one day an engineer brought in an Apple II from home and ran the programs on that.

The 360 was introduced in 1964. The 370 was introduced in 1970. The 3033 was introduced in 1977. The Apple 2 was introduced in 1977. So, yeah, if you were still using 360s contemporary with an Apple 2, no wonder the engineers were frustrated.
i think it would be interesting to allow each Ojisan to be in charge of distribution. some would freely hand out their cards to any who ask, while some might be more "stingy", awarding cards only to youth who impressed them. the game designer could periodically restock the Ojisan's supply and each generation of cards could be mechanically rebalanced to reflect the observed rarity.
Global grid BESS has caught up on Hydro capacity (which is an ambiguous word in this domain i.e. the amount that can be delivered at any one instant).

It's absorbing a third of California's generation at solar peak and then delivering a third of demand in the evening.

The future is here, just not everywhere yet.
There were wooden stairs at the old flagship G. Fox & Co department store in Hartford CT. I don't recall them being slanted, though.
We're gonna go "No true Scotsman", on irn-bru? That takes some doing!

I get what you're saying, and I kinda believe the best Irn-Bru was the stuff in a glass bottle, delivered to the door, when I was a kid.

But the stuff that's out there, to my mind, is still just fine. It cures hangovers. It tastes of sugar and love, whether there's real sugar, real iron, or real love in it is almost immaterial.
Tailscale is a software company founded in 2019 that raised their series A in 2020, not a grassroots community project
> Its also not clear for example that Studio Ghibli lost by having their art style plastered all over the internet. I went home and watched a Ghibli film that week, as I'm sure many others did as well. Their revenue is probably up quite a bit right now?

This sounds like a rewording of "You won't get paid, but this is a great opportunity for you because you'll get exposure".
Most likely they decided to go for a binary so that people with other runtimes could use Tailwind without subscribing to the whole Node+npm ordeal. And it's actually neat when it works - for us RoR folks it makes things like tailwindcss-rails possible - where there isn't any Node stuff installed at all.
Do you think that was Biden's motivation when he put a 50% tariff on solar panels?

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ustr-biden-tariff-increase-...
the article is pitching this as a concern/bad thing, but since they called out Meta specifically, I’d counter it. Meta wouldn’t be Meta without Zuckerberg having full control. It’d still be called Facebook and their entire existence would be showing more ads and less relevant content to a dwindling audience. Definitely no metaverse and maybe not even a player in the AI race.
>Pumped storage is cost effective but it's also built out, there's little if any scope for growth

You're confusing pumped storage with river dams. The geography for pumped storage is abundant, river dams not so much.

>Battery storage is entirely speculative so far.

In 2012 maybe. These days grid level battery plants are deployed routinely.

>Whilst nuclear is a proven baseload source

At 5x the cost per kwh, according to lazard.

Baseload also means "requires peakers". That means gas or...batteries.

When french nuclear plants go down for maintenance the country chews through ungodly amounts of gas. Some of their plants have capacity factors of like ~80% - not much better than high performing wind farms.
Okay, you don't like leetcode, that's fine. It doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare for an interview. In fact I'd say preparing for an interview might include researching their interview process and avoiding them if they use leetcode type questions which you don't like. It might also include learning about their tech stack, brushing up on relevant past experience, or learning a bit about the industry they operate in (for example).
I think latency has to be taken into account too. Human reaction times are already on the order of 200ms, so any network latency would be additive. Anywhere close to 1000ms is too much, so you'd probably need to be less than 100ms or so from the bot you're operating.
two more parts:

- a call to action

- dump and pump stock market scheme

how many HN users, say top 5000 commenters and people with craziest CVs and or income will profit of that? it would be stupid not to, right?
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Not accidental, but government restrictions are the main reason people built their own drones here. Government banned import of drones here back then. Only way to fly and have fun was build your own. build them part by part.

I have built them for dozens of non technical friends too. And then they themselves got into fixing them once they broke. Solder the wires. Get parts 3d printed etc..
"... for some reason the models still think markup languages are regular and can be handled with regular expressions"

Presumably you mean this code here? https://github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news/blob/e945c84e825f4...

I reviewed it. For this particular application (turning JSON from https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/43615912 into a more concise format suitable for feeding into an LLM like https://github.com/simonw/llm-hacker-news/blob/e945c84e825f4...) it's perfectly adequate (or "good enough" to quote your comment). You're welcome to convince me otherwise!
The AI companies probably use Python because all the computation happens on the GPU and changing Python control plane code is faster than changing C/C++ control plane code
It's really hard to model unknown unknowns, most models for photovoltaic 20 years ago never predicted the current state but here we are.

Current grid storage technology is a few breakthroughs away, we just don't know when it will happen but given the amount poured into R&D for it, the willingness of governments, and technological hurdles that are orders of magnitude lower than fusion I don't see why we can't expect it to become reality in the next 10 years.

As I said, it's lagging the curve of solar adoption, China has invested a lot in solar for their own power needs as an oil-poor country, their options are renewables and uranium, with the EV industry booming in China, solar being widely adopted, I don't see why they couldn't be at the forefront of grid storage as well in a few years (5-10).
Spending a few hours to write some open source code seems like a reasonable tradeoff to get a high paying job.

It is surprising to me that folks looking for a new job would not do this proactively.
> You're a much more patient person than I am.

That is very kind of you to say, thank you!
oooooh, thanks for sharing.

It's exactly what I was looking for
Boston Dynamics makes other robots as well. I think the key innovation behind their robots is broad applications and easy programming. While making a custom factory robot could take a half year, configuring and installing a Boston Dynamics robot takes days.
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I agree with the feedback on matching brackets. Additionally the fake keyboard is driving me nuts… I get a lot of errors from phat fingering it when my hands are conditioned to use the native ios keyboard. NYT web games had/have similar issues…
I’ve seen a few YouTube thumbnail generation examples on Reddit (I’m on vacation so not gonna search for a link) that show multimodal with inline text giving specific instructions. It’s impressed me in a way that I haven’t been with LLMs for 2 years, IE it’s not just getting better at what it already does, but a totally new and intuitive way of working with generative AI.

My understanding is it’s a meta-LLM approach, using multiple models and having them interact. I feel like it’s also evidence that OpenAI is not seriously pursuing AGI (just my opinion, I know there’s some on here who would aggressively disagree), but rather market use cases. It feels like an acceptance that any given model, at least now, has its own limitations but can get more useful in combination.
That's true. On the other hand I have tried ChatGPT to review programming concepts or language features and I have found it very convenient and more useful than Googling.

For instance if you want to prepare for a C dev interview and would like to review what 'static' means and does (one of the super usual interview questions) you can just ask and immediately get a pretty much perfect explanation without noise. It's not cheating, it's just a better tool.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-lithium-ion-batteri...
Why do you believe so?

Looking at some virtual tours, it seems to be a fairly solid design. I would probably disagree with a bunch of the furniture, but the architecture itself is fairly close to what I would expect in my ideal home.
So, I cannot tell you more either. As I am not related to Lidl, also not Aldi, despite my nickname. :-)

But I think, also the EU customers and businesses reaching for such a cloud product are also responsible to make it work. So if you are working for a bigger company, why not find a solution together with the service providers based in the EU. Otherwise we get a hen and egg problem here.
> Part of this extreme reckless tariff push is definitely protectionism for the fossil fuel industry.

Indeed, it's becoming very obvious that the US is slowly turning into a resource curse nation. Sad.

Of course US tariffs are only going to make those Chinese panels cheaper for the EU and the rest of the world, which will then be less reliant on US-sourced fossil fuels. In the long run, putting up a wall in front of the your beachfront property is not going to protect your house when the tide comes in.
they're all cheating, see grok
If you use this technology, you're actively harming creative labor.
Right? If the replacement is $500, and the repair guy is going to charge $100/hr in labor to diagnose the issue and repair it plus an unknown cost of replacement components, the risk of spending more on the repair is quite high.
it is a nice that they're a bit embarrassed about it and spend much of the post explaining why they took more money.

overall, they still seem to have their heads screwed on straight and have an actual business model, that is also pretty fair - charge enterprises per seat to solve their network identity problems.

anyway, keep up the good work, Avery and co.
I had the same thought, but agree with others that it's the core part of the game.

I've played about a dozen of these now, and very often I can see what one of the big outer clues is way before I've worked out the inner clues.

If I just solve the big outer clue, the game is done in 20 seconds or so, and I'm not sure I'd keep coming back.

Rather, the challenge is to use what I've understood to work out the inner clues. This is tricky because I've got to keep more in my head at the same time, Towers of Hanoi-style. Or I sometimes write it out.

I have my notes in an open notepad from yesterday, so I can reproduce my thinking without spoiling today's:

[scold, with "at"]: hmmm, no idea.

[something golfers' apparently [scold, with "at"]]: not sure...

["there[something golfers' apparently [scold, with "at"]]]: Ah, ok, got it: [there[X]] has to be "therefore." So I see [something golfers' apparently [X]] is going to be "fore."

So if "fore" = "Something golfers apparently [X]" and X is [scold, with "at"], I can see that innermost one must be "yell."
Phone Should Be Distributed, Not Centralized
> Nobody should be planning on steady stock market gains for their retirement income.

At least in the Nordic countries, utterly uncontroversial conventional wisdom says something like:

* In your youth save almost-only in stocks; via some index fund, if you don't feel like being an active investor, following the market every day;

* Start with (funds that specialise in) high-growth (= high-risk) stocks; then, as you near middle age, slowly move over to lower-risk (= lower-growth) stocks (or funds specialised therein);

* In middle age, move over to having some part in state bonds;

* As you near retirement age, eliminate high-growth/risk stocks/funds altogether, and draw down the proportion of stocks/funds as a whole, going to an increasing proportion state bonds.

* As you retire, possibly move all-out of stocks / stock index funds and all-in on bonds... Except put some in an ordinary old bank account.
In the past week there have been:

7 submissions with "Trump" in the title, and over 100 comments in the thread:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

9 submissions with "Tariff" in the title, and over 100 comments in the thread:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=tru...

Apart from perhaps LLMs, no other topic has had anywhere near as much discussion, and the stories and comment threads are full of criticism.

You may not be seeing them because because they often get pushed down the rankings due to the flamewar detector, user flags and software penalties that are applied to submissions about politics and mainstream news.

If those mechanisms weren't in place, the front page would be dominated by flame wars about U.S. politics every day, which is not what the majority of the HN audience wants.

The intention of HN is to be a place to discover and discuss different topics that engage intellectual curiosity.

But the stories, discussions and criticisms are definitely there, and are getting plenty of exposure on the front page.
I hear AI news from time to time from the M5M in the US - and the only place I've ever seen "LMArena" is on HN and in the LM studio discord. At a ratio of 5:1 at least.
I've conducted interviews where the candidate asked if he could use google to try to get an answer. I often say "sure". If a guy can read an explanation out of context, understand it in a way he can explain it using his own words, and reason about corner cases in a couple of minutes, he's hired. The same goes with AI; canned responses work when you ask canned questions, not so much on open-ended ones.
Does this constitute a "real economy"? Where are the goods and services being traded? It's all just speculation and worthless "web3" stuff like NFTs. It's not any more a real economy than the counter-strike skins economy or the baseball cards economy.

There was a "real crypto economy" back in the days of the silk road. So I would say that the real cryptocurrency economy has been tried, and it was doing alright until they got busted by the feds. But the reason we don't have a crypto economy today is that drug dealers got drowned out by the more popular get-rich-quick schemers.
For your partner's sake I hope you're right but is z/OS as a platform actually continuing to grow, or are they just having a hard time filling seats because it's hard to see a long and profitable future working on (what some might call) "legacy" systems?

When I was growing up (decades ago, mind), my dad kept trying to convince me to get into machining. Lathes, mills, tool and die making, etc. In his line of work, he saw lots of machining companies basically paying all education and training expenses for new hires because their experienced old timers were retiring faster than they could be replaced. (He also thought computers were a fad...) I'm sure it was a good opportunity at the time. But nearly all of those companies eventually closed up because offshore manual labor was and still is way cheaper. If I'd had taken his advice, I'm pretty sure I would have had to reboot into another career at least once by this point.