skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In bankrupcy not all debts are equal. And wages come first :)
The future of AI conversations is not linear. It's a canvas
Introducing TrueCanvas AI — an open, editable, multi-threaded conversation space.

Switch between AI models at will
Fork and merge conversations freely
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Recombine threads like building blocks

From rigid chat UIs to dynamic dialogue canvases — we're redefining how humans think with machines.
Interesting question and I don't know how you'd do that - maybe using some statically linked binaries for fdisk and mkfs. However, why would you ever want to do that? If you want to remove data from the disk, then just running a suitable "dd" command would wipe the disk. I can't think of any other use case that wouldn't subsequently involve booting from a live iso which would let you format the disk anyway.
If you’re going to deliberately straw man someone’s argument with cherry-picked quotes just to justify your pre-existing and ill-informed biases against a topic while simultaneously demonstrating your ignorance of said topic, then you’re going to live your life in the grays.
It looks like the consensus response is other countries embracing more multilateralism. This is a huge opportunity for proponents and governments that promote multilateralism to take charge and make it happen. Ex: China has restricted trade with Aus since 2020 because they, essentially, insulted China/didn't restrict their speech in ways that China wanted. This provides an opportunity for this to be rolled back, which is economically win-win (as most free trade is). Expect to see this sort of thing many times over between many countries in the world. Of course this is rooted in the fact that having ex-US trading partners is no significantly more valuable.

There is the second point to mention too though, which is that China is not exactly an exemplar of open markets and free trade, which is why you are not seeing many countries ally with China and form a united front against the US's trade rampage. Looking beyond the deranged policies, there are some truths in saying that China is a currency manipulator, has imbalanced trade to such a degree it causes problems in other economies, and even the somewhat more "far fetched" points about the unsustainability of a permanent trade deficit do have some truth on some level.

That is why, yes, you are seeing the EU normalize trade relations with China, but there are important caveats, like discussions about China having an expert quota and even internally capping production numbers within their own economy are on the table front and center. This would have never happened before, because China's strategy was to peg a low currency, export, and extinguish industries ex-China. Wish to some level is part of free trade, but it is underpinned in China with state sponsorship to a higher degrees in most trading partners are comfortable with (which is of course countered by the allure of cheap goods).

So another view would be that parties like the EU have new leverage against China that they can use to cut trade deals that strip out some of the abusive practices that made them uncomfortable in the past. If China is then willing to move on a bit from these approaches then the net outcome should be beneficial for the world of course.

I think that many players see the dangers of taking binary sides now more than ever. And indeed, skilled negotiators should see the advantages of playing these forces against each other to get what is best for them. In the face of the recent outrageous events, I would expect a sudden outburst of pragmatism elsewhere.
I wrote a bunch of speech processing demonstrations to pass the time. I've been working on my technical communication skills so I'm open to any criticism of the explanations and suggestions for how to make things clearer!
Yesterday somebody across the hall from me (Cornell) was talking on the phone all morning to startups funded by the Air Force Research Laboratory about how their research funding had just been stopped. I called my congressman right away,
Cute but why? Human-based rankings rarely align and for good reason. In ranking, you are reducing multiple quantitative and qualitative attributes (and their combinations) to a single dimension. You will lose information.

To illustrate further, I picked “electric guitars”. The top two were obvious and boring and the rest was a weird hodgepodge. Significantly, there is no consideration given for whether the person wanting the rank likes to play jazz or metal or country or has small hands or requires active electronics or likes trems or whatever. So it’s a fine exercise in showing llms doing a thing, but adds little/no value over just doing a web search. Or, more appropriately, having a conversation with an experienced guitar player about what I want in a guitar.
That's my experience as well. If you feed your summary + outline + guidance and prompt a one-shot output, it'll rush through it. If you prompt it for longer length, it'll extend it for little benefit. To get good output, you have to work in chunks, like a paragraph or a scene at a time, adjusting your prompt as you work through the outline.

That said, the resulting quality usually isn't so great that I want to put in the effort to do that, so I tend to interact with it in more of a choose-your-own-adventure way.
I suspect schools spend a lot less time on arithmetic than they used to, however.

You used to _actually_ need to do the arithmetic, now you just need to understand when a calculator is not giving you what you expected. (Not that this is being taught either, lol)

You can get to the higher order thinking sooner than if you spent years grinding multiplication tables.
Agree, but many more people listen to music than create it. And people that enjoy creating art will still do it regardless.

A better example of the problem imo is the robot advertised to watch your kids so you can work.
Maybe I should start curating one of these too. I still have hope for the human-driven internet!
Parent is saying two party systems produce this and next will be even worse.
In Defense of Spiders
It operates on frames, moving the windows inside them, similar to how transposing a matrix moves around the values it contains.
The author clarifies that he wrote the section about Buck2 to demonstrate the need to be Bazel compatible (as opposed to Buck2), because the friction to try it out in a real code base is essentially insurmountable.
It’s because it’s a matter of public safety, which is often over-translated compared to other government announcements.
Thats the 4am grindset right there.
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Marie Antoinette was not killed because she was particularly detached but for treason after plotting against the Constitutional monarchy of 1791 along with Louis XVI and many aristocrats at the time.
I'm curious to know what made you raise such a query.
Human pain, literally served on a plate
EGPU: Extending eBPF Programmability and Observability to GPUs
>On the other hand, we need a tiny build system that does all of the work locally and that can be used by the myriad of open-source projects that the industry relies on. This system has to be written in Rust (oops, I said it) with minimal dependencies and be kept lean and fast so that IDEs can communicate with it quickly. This is a niche that is not fulfilled by anyone right now and that my mind keeps coming to;

Yes please!
> All of these examples are done by specialist because I don't see many cars being build by dentists.

I'm not sure how you get from pre-agricultural humans developing fire, to dentists building cars.

I don't doubt that after fire was 'understood', there was specialisation to some degree, probably, around management of fire, what burns well, how best to cook, etc.

But any claim that fire was the result of specialisation seems a bit hard to substantiate. A committee was established to direct Thag Simmons to develop a way to .. something involving wood?

Wheel, the setting of broken bones, language etc - specialisation happened subsequently, but not as a prerequisite for those advances.

> Even in mankind's beginning specialization existed in the form of hunter and gatherer. This specialization in combination with team work brought us to the top of the food chain to a point where we can strive beyond basic survival.

Totally agree that we advanced because of two key capabilities - a) persistence
hunting, b) team / communication.

You seem to be conflating the result of those advancements with "all progress", as was GP.

> The people making space crafts (designing and building, another example of specialization) don't need to know how to repair or build a microwave to heat there for food.

I am not, was not, arguing that highly specialised skills in modern society are not ... highly specialised.

I was arguing against the lofty claim that:

"All progress we've made is due to ever increasing specialization."

Noting the poster of that was responding to a quote from a work of fiction - claiming it was awful - that the author had suggested everyone should be familiar with (among other things) 'changing a diaper, comfort the dying, cooperate, cook a tasty meal, analyse a problem, solve equations' etc.

If you're suggesting that you think some people in society should be exempt from some basic skills like those - that's an interesting position I'd like to see you defend.

> Of course everybody still needs to know basic knowledge (how to turn on microwave) to get by.

FWIW I don't have a microwave oven.
But then it becomes even weirder, because what percent of all people feel like they have "power"? Excepting an utterly negligible percent of people, I'd think somebody was bordering on megalomania (or an abundance of naivete) if he said he did.
They are unknowingly benefiting from a lot of prior work upstreaming support for the rk3399, mostly because of the pine64 pinebook pro which also uses that chipset. Any random newer ARM chipset probably wouldn't fare this well, but it's good to see that that upstreaming work is benefiting the whole community not just pine customers.

edit: Looks like one of the key people in making that happen is in this very thread! Hi Megi!
There was a study a while back, comparing how much each model likes every other model's writing and Sonnet overwhelmingly hated itself for some reason.
No, you said they were loss leaders, which means Nike loses money on them.

Now you're saying they're not, that Nike makes massive, massive profits on them.

Sorry if I'm not seeing your "subtlety" here. But instead of blaming me for misunderstanding you, it's fine to just say whoops, that you were mistaken about the term you used, or meant something else. We all have brain farts sometimes ;)

Also, the article itself gives actual numbers. You don't need to make up your own here, which are not correct.
As AI reshapes global manufacturing, its real potential lies not in automation alone but in empowering people, streamlining operations, and enabling strategic transformation. But how are manufacturers navigating the complexities of adoption, trust, and leadership to embed AI into the fabric of industrial progress?
That was a nice read. Do you recommend any books for one who wants to get into queue theory?
It's why I don't want to be a, sales reps. I don't like small talk.
Live demo https://rectalogic.com/skysearch/
ironically docker never gave you true network isolation because there's no way to make it user friendly. plus the many exploits on the all powerful daemon.

but most professional world use systemd to bootstrap isolated processes nowadays, which is kinda if what you are hinting at. cgroups2 and namespaces are what you want.
One use case is: what if the computer is at a remote location and you'd want to put a new image on the main disk. If Linux is currently using that disk as its root disk, then I suppose you'd have to somehow unmount it, or use a different instance of Linux that runs entirely in ram (so you can kill the original Linux instance and overwrite it).
This has been the way it is for a long time, even before the AI startups got going. Seems everyone and their mother has built some sort of HN-aggregator with builtin link scraping.
Ambient music on iOS 18.4 and the return to the Apple's Music app
Trump's tarifs are indeed absolutely idiotic, but so are all those people claiming that free trade is entirely positive and ignore all the problems that arise from the West being unable to run industries anymore.
Doing a quick calculation from where I live in the third world for a price comparison: A Big Mac in the US/Europe is about $6 according to Google, which is about 13 of them for a $80 game.

Where I live that ratio turns into 36 for one of their games, its an astronomical price to ask.

I could feed myself (poorly) for a month on Big Macs for the same price.
Show HN: The Ultimate MCP Client
Over the past couple weeks, l've been really immersed in learning about MCP, a new protocol for equipping any LLM with a set of tools that can run on your own machine or a remote server you control and give all kinds of superpowers to Al agents to do things like search, etc.

As part of that research, l've already built one very fleshed-out and useful MCP server that l've shared here (I've added much more to it recently though!), the LLM Gateway MCP Server, which lets you use a big model to delegate to a cheaper model (and many more things in addition to that, like running automated multi-round LLM Tournaments, which I also posted about recently on X).

To actually use these MCP servers though, you need an MCP client. Most people seem to be using the Claude Desktop app. I tried this and got it to work just fine, but it was a bit annoying to set up and there were lots of things I didn't like about it. I wanted something better.

So two days ago I began work on what I call the Ultimate MCP Client. After ~24 hours of work, it's working and ready and I'm really proud of how amazingly well it turned out. This is going to be a workhorse tool for me personally.

It's pure python and all in a single large .py file which can be deployed as a self-contained uv script if you want. It offers all kinds of features and very rich console output for use interactively in a terminal, along with a CLI. But it can also be used in the background.

That kind of background functionality, orchestrating and coordinating several MCP servers nicely, is how I mostly intend on using it. But once I saw how nice the interactive terminal experience was, I realized that I could slap a FastAPl server on top of it and make a web GUl.

Because I hate unneeded complexity so much, I made the WebGUl a single self-contained HTML file you can just open in your browser (similar to my Your-Source-to-Prompt tool), and it looks awesome using Alpine and Daisy and other nice Ul libraries, all loaded via CDN.
Saw the title and immediately guessed it was something playing sounds when a local server is accessed which then exploded in popularity.
Self-hosted email without the AWS headache. One-command deploy
Hey HN!

I’ve always been frustrated by how expensive and bloated email platforms are. Even “self-hosted” solutions usually mean running your own VPS, but at what cost.

So, I built SelfMailKit, an email platform you can deploy to your AWS account with a single command. No infrastructure knowledge is needed.

- Transactional and marketing emails
- Notion-style visual template editor
- Smart queueing, retries, and domain warm-up
- APIs, analytics, unlimited domains, team roles, etc.

It’s already in production for a few customers (sending hundreds of thousands of emails), and it’s built to scale.

Happy email sending!
One suspects "Bloody hell, car drivers are selfish bastards" sprung from his lips a couple of times.
Glenn Explore is now open source 50k unique visitors in just 2 weeks
I vibe-coded a threejs/mapbox game where users can drive around in the real world and explore new places.

Game went viral, 50k unique visitors, 3m impressions on various social media (in just 2 weeks)

Now its open source! Feel free to contribute or clone repo and create something amazing!
The constant reminders are really useful, but I wish there were more cat facts. 5/5
I think this is risk og doing business.

I can, as shown, also go the other way, where tarrifs are removed under shipments.

Regardless, the core is exactly that people don't send things overseas in this environment.
Thank You. So backblaze for $6/TB a month. I could have a TB of Data backed up safely against file corruption? I wonder how have I missed that.

Now you could use it with Synology NAS and it is a lot cheaper than doing RAID 5 for ZFS / BTRFS with Muti redundancy.

I wonder if there are any NAS that does that automatically? Any drawbacks? Also wonder if the price could go down to $5 / TB in a few years time.
He's printing BEL (or \a), which could result in almost any sound depending on how the terminal is configured.
Personally what I find interesting is getting insight into the trajectory of model abilities over time. Over the time I've been running these benchmarks, the writing has gone from pure slop, to broadly competent (at short form at least) and occasionally compelling.

I don't think it's much longer until they will be generating content you will actually want to read.

Meanwhile a lot of people are find use for LLMs for partner-writing or lower stakes prose or roleplay.
I’d love to know both numbers, it’s an interesting story. I’m agree with you here, yet I think consulting is just different. You gain your expertise at job-1 (FAANG), and then you just use those skills at jobs 2 and 3. I think it’s not that simple, but I guess could be simplified that way.
Overview of Secure Boot state in ARM-based SoCs (2023)
Had coffee with some of these people. Great to know they've come such a long way.
I find the dismissal of buck2 pretty shallow. Most of the world is not already heavily invested to bazel, so compatibility is imho overstated; I don't see it being that far-fetched for something like buck2 to leapfrog bazel. That being said, buck2 definitely would need some love from outside meta to really be viable competitor, right now it still feels like half-complete code drop
I don't understand your comment. People don't need money, people need food to eat, houses to live in, and so on. And the thing about all this food and houses is that Jesus doesn't produce them, other people produce them.

And since producing all this is not such an easy task, the people who produce the food and build the houses want something in return. That's what we call jobs.

So when you say that jobs is not needed - you mean that there is no need to live in houses or that there is no need to give the people who build the houses anything in return?
The best comments are the type of:

Whatever bad thing you think of this part is probably true, but I can’t do better.

And

Beware, weird optimization ahead.

And

Editing this code requires arcane knowledge.
>It's kind of ironic that even today, the default .NET version baked into fresh Windows installs is 4.6 (or nearby), not the shiny new .NET 8/9.

This is because the distribution model changed ? You would probably publish self-contained .NET app these days ? Not sure - have not built a desktop app in .NET in a decade :)
Don’t say you are nontechnical
It doesn't really matter.

If the US wants tarrifs, that is their business. EU merely balances it.
> Why should I be bothered to read what nobody could be bothered to write?

I tend to agree but, for the sake of argument: what if you don't know?

It seems most people who say they can tell, actually can't.
I built exactly this in less than a day using Windsurf.

Come up with your data model, explain it to the AI, and tell it to give you a CRUD for it.

I'm pretty sure it's perfectly doable to ask it to give you a dynamic crud based on the "shape" of the data in Firestore.

Sadly it's an internal tool for work, so I can't share.
The answer is that it's sometimes legal in the UK: https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/unpaid-internships-advice...

However, previous governments set up ""welfare-to-work"" schemes, effectively a government subsidy to employers, where people were required to work for free: https://www.recruiter.co.uk/news/2012/03/no-end-controversy-...

(absurdly huge controversy, the government tried to legislate the outcome of this specific lawsuit through retroactive legislation, in violation of ECHR https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2014/07/08/retrospective-legis... )
that is a false dichotomy, just because a bad government that didn't give you any freedom implemented these benefits doesn't mean that any government implementing such benefits will automatically take everyone's freedom away. the freedom was taken away first. it did not understand that benefits are not enough and that freedom is also needed. we are discussing UBI as a means to give people more freedom, and not as a way to turn them into slaves.
my partner teaches high school math and regularly gets answers with calculus symbols (none of the students have taken any calculus). these students aren't putting a single iota of thought into the answers they're getting back from these tools.
I agree diversity makes us richer, and historically there was always cultural diffusion, what I lament though is that this is now partially done by multinational corporations, wiping out local traditions.
Understatement of the century. It legitimately makes stepping on legos seem like a spa day.
It's not that my comments are infallible, but if I write something wrong/silly it'll be caught during code review. similarly if there's a comment missing before some arcane nonsense nobody will remember in 3 years, then i'd expect a PR reviewer to tell the dev to add one.

Copilot just likes to puke very useless comments whenever I type "//", especially in autocomplete mode (I don't really use the chat mode).
That were written by people. Non-human characters in stories still exist to illustrate something about people.
Java 8 to Java 9 is a huge change. Internal parts/utils where dropped. Modules where introduces that makes building your software slightly more complex. If your team is using an external product build on top of this JDK a migration to a newer is often delayed because of the external dependency (IBM WebShere took ages to migrate) plus it might require a new license and extra costs.
> as of 10 April 2025 W3Techs.com rankings Nginx - 33.8% Apache - 26.4% Cloudflare Server - 23.4% LiteSpeed - 14.7% Node.js - 4.3% Microsoft-IIS - 4.0% Envoy - 1.3% Google Servers - 0.8% Caddy - 0.3% IdeaWebServer - 0.1% Percentages of websites using various web servers Note: a website may use more than one web server

How is any of that relevant to parent? People using something doesn't mean it's maintained. (I'm not saying it's not maintained, I just don't see how those numbers are relevant)
> You bootstrap the compiler with itself

To be able to do this, you must already have both the source for the compiler and what someone has told you is a binary compiled from it. But what if that someone was lying?
Maybe I should write "an American" instead. As in, I assume the person I am responding to is an American and is calling it reciprocal tariffs to propagate the idea that it was reciprocation.
Your output is prodigious! Absolutely blown away by how much you've been able to write over the years
The US is 15/20 at 120v.

UK is 32A @ 220v. A massive difference in wattage.
There is no reason outside of foolish brand loyalty to get a switch 2 over a cheaper (hardware and software) and more powerful steam deck that is also an actual PC instead of a locked down walled garden. As a bonus you don't fund there next legal bulling of fan projects.

Even switch 1/2 emulation will most likely have better performance on the deck.
This has certainly happened with me; the documents I write at my workplace often ends up the following the style of <heading> <paragraph> <4-6 bullet points>, which is also the pattern AI slop follows.