skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why this is FP news. I knew "1/2" was being interpreted as "January 2" as soon as I saw the title. This is nothing new, or even particularly interesting -- Excel (and Sheets) have been doing this date conversion from the beginning.

This is just an ad for Quadratic, nothing more.
I remain to be convinced: a trillion here, a trillion there, soon you're talking about real money.
Come on, there is no room for anyone to have a preference here when an excel document is meant to be storing the names of genes and would never need to have a date or time in it, and can very easily get corrupted beyond repair if someone turns date conversion on. (For context, genome research is the whole reason this toggle was added in the first place.) Even something like Vim lets you enforce file-specific settings with a header.

At the same time, we're clearly shooting ourselves in the foot by using Excel for this. This feature is just a hodge-podge solution to the problem of Excel not having strict data types. There should be enough cautionary tales (https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/) for everyone to know to avoid Excel.
Before being so casually flippant, perhaps do some basic research on the facility people are being sent to, and the conditions they're being kept in.
I guess it also implies the extra dimensions aren't massive. Unless that's the explanation for unexplained gravitation.
Thanks but idea is ok but it is not working smoothly.
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we're working on this at chatsheet.com

what features are you looking for?
I think it becomes easier to just use a different fuel that is partially self-oxidizing. E.g. Top Fuel uses nitromethane rather than gasoline. Gasoline's stoichiometric ratio is 14.7:1 air:fuel, nitromethane is 1.7:1. Nitromethane in Top Fuel is already so volatile that the superchargers have to be wrapped in kevlar because the fuel blows up in them sometimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Fuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitromethane
Thanks for the reply. I think I mostly follow your elaboration.

Topics like DEI have definitely become a much more touchy subject in the last 2 years or so, and that they are not discussed as much in "official" channels as they previously were, but that the practices are mostly still there and are generally still considered a positive thing to most people.

It might just be semantics, but I do think your definition of melting pot is slightly off, in that in the US, there is no real consensus of what "the same culture & set of values' actually means. The US is still a very young country. The only "native" culture here was colonized and mostly erased by white settlers. The population of people here can largely be defined by different waves of historical immigration from other parts of the world. Culture and values here are more of two-way street, where they tend to be mixed and matched in the "melting pot" type environments that have popped up all over the country. Now with that being said, most recently we have found ourselves in a situation where an extremely vocal (and quite incoherent IMHO) minority of people against rising waves of multiculturalism have come into power and started controlling the narrative, but I would say that they are not representative of most US citizens, and that the only reason why this has happened is because 90 million people were too apathetic and mentally lazy to defend against it when given the opportunity. I'm still struggling to understand what that says about the US as a people, but I really don't think that as many of us are as wrapped up in identity politics as it might seem like we are from the outside.
Also, a 24 hour detainment in reasonable conditions is very different from an indefinite detention with a possibility of torture (solitary confinement) or being sent off to an El Savadorian prison with no hope of being returned.
Choviva: Chocolate replacement with less CO2 emissions
That isn't the point; It's not about the importance

It's about specialized knowledge. To the owners of the business, making sure the business doesn't fail to deliver is existentially important.

Web developers are fungible. The guy who designed the carefully tuned graph database that runs on a custom Linux kernel with a custom tuned filesystem is not. If this sort of thing is critical to your business succeeding, that engineer might as well be Niels Bohr.
Let me update what the OP wrote:

"How do we run arbitrary code on client hardware in a way that's safe for all parties and without installation step?"

15+ years ago, installing software on customers' machines could take days of efforts of dedicated teams. Today it mostly "just works".
I was going to say "so you believe the LLM's don't have the capacity to understand" but then I realized that the precise language would be something like "the presence of photons in this human's retinas in patterns encoding statements about LLM's having understanding correlates to the activation of neuron signaling chains corresponding to, and emission of, muscle activations engaging keyboard switches, which produce patterns of 'no they don't' with high frequency."

The critiques of mental state applied to the LLM's are increasingly applicable to us biologicals, and that's the philosophical abyss we're staring down.
I like this. I've been wanting to have a reproducible way to install Lua packages across machines for a while now.
Larry Fink to New York: Fix Crime, Filth or Lose More Firms
hm i mean, python doesn't really care about indentation kind, as long as it's consistent...

maybe writing a Makefile (which afaik really REALLY wants tabs), and want to ensure someone's IDE doesn't change it to spaces.
I've owned two Porsches, an Audi R8 V10, half dozen sport bikes. I've done laps at Laguna Seca. I've floored them all to see what they'll do. The V10 sounded amazing.

But I've never felt any interest in drag racing at all, it's a pointless waste of fuel. Press accelerator, press brake, done, little to no skill required. And in something like the R8, would require a $20,000 dealer visit after a weekend of runs.
Yes. It is IRS is deliberately dragging its feet to make it a real option for millions and millions of Americans. So that the near monopoly Intuit can rake in billions in sales each year.
If it's b2b SaaS sales is probably more important than engineering. If you're designing flight control software it isn't.
There's definitely still a part of me hoping that in order to have what it takes to win the presidency, a president has to be much more capable than the average person when it comes to operating at these peak positions of global power. So while I'm not big on the 4D chess arguments, I do like to keep an open mind and question whether the most obvious prevailing interpretations might be wrong or at least incomplete.

But of course this might just be wishful thinking because the alternative is a pretty hard pill to swallow, so it's less anxiety-inducing to stay optimistic.
I guess the thing about these examples is that cryptography can "visibly work" while being broken. The vast majority of people looking at the product will observe it to work "fine", in that nothing blows up.
Looking at the performance it's quite clearly much faster than equivalent effects done in traditional web browser rendering or in design tools.
fyi latest version of Windows 11 supports native opening of 7zip files
Web Audio is awesome and IMHO people who got the spec out and pushed for implementation deserve lots of respect. You want to make a tracker that runs in your browser and you have all the primitives at your disposal to make it work? A few years ago I wouldn’t imagine it can be possible.

Looking forward to seeing the tracker some time!
But what about President Carters peanut farm?
https://archive.is/t7U2O
I think take home still has value, if it's of any size and they just vibe code it'll be full of long messy methods, unused variables, and lack of any thoughtful design.
Archive link [https://archive.is/2025.04.07-061017/https://www.bloomberg.c...]
Hey, that looks great.

Could you describe more about the docker sandbox that you have? I am especially interested in the network restrictions.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/science/colossal-dire-wol...

This however disagreed with Wikipedia, and said there was some inbreeding. That helps make this less fake.
> For most B2B SaaS businesses, you shouldn’t need more than $1M in capital to get to PMF, find a GTM motion that works (not that it needs to scale), and reach an ARR figure where the revenue multiple for valuation starts to look pretty tasty—enough to offer significant upside even after investors are paid out.

That sentence (yes, ONE sentence) is some of the worst I've seen.
It is saying something that Biden did not roll back some of Trump 45's tariffs (maybe related to chips?) on China when he took over in 2020. I agree with you; some thoughtful strategic tariffs could have produced good things.
The Jetbrains suite of IDEs have this handy feature : if you copy a curl command into an HTTP scratch file, it is automatically converted to the HTTP equivalent, which is IMHO much more readable.

Your project looks very cool though, and expands on the share aspect of the Jetbrains feature, very interesting!
Once again, easiest to understand as a Russian asset who's throwing out rationalizations.
It would take three years to install a speed bump. So I bought my own
I recently interviewed an engineer who was somehow using ChatGPT realtime on another laptop beside him. The irony was that the questions were pretty simple overall and our rubric also wasn't very strict, so he likely would have passed if he just used his memory and common sense. Though the answers weren't wrong overall, I still felt cheated because of the deception and had to reject him later.
You're way off but I don't feel like taking the opposite side of this argument. If you want to research this there's plenty of data and information available.
Understanding SmartScreen and Network Protection
We work on something similar and aim to be the huggingface hub for automations you can run in your browser[0], with built-in support for MCP SSE.

Use the pre-built Trails[1][2] as MCP servers or create and publish your own with a familiar puppeteer-like API, powered by your or your friends browsers.

0: https://herd.garden

1: https://herd.garden/trails/@herd/browser

2: https://herd.garden/trails/@omneity/serp
The profitability problem in the aviation industry was not a lack of regulation. The profitability problem was simply that there were a lot of countries pouring money into their flag-carrying airlines to enable them to operate at a loss. Since many competitors wanted to operate at a loss, the entire industry operated at a loss.
In my experience, most people don't use luarocks anyway.
Execution env is the achille's heel of scripting languages. Personally I don't use Neovim, but had a feeling its adoption would spur development in this area for Lua. Bryan Cantrill called Javascript "LISP in C's clothes". In some ways I feel like Lua is the opposite, and love it for those reasons (disclaimer: never had to use it at work).
Fortunately I don't work in such an organization, and I have extremely competent in my chain of command.

The reason I explain the value of what I am doing (to both technical and non-technical managers) is because it helps them understand the bigger picture.

Or perhaps it helps them understand that I see the big picture, so that they know (and I know) our goals are aligned.

I am aware that not everyone is as fortunate as I am. I'd equally suggest that not many managers are fortunate enough to have engineers that can articulate what they are doing in terms they can understand.

There are plenty of managers out there who are not team players. And probably more engineers who are equally unable to see the bigger picture. Which is unfortunate because when you learn to work together towards a common goal, it really improves everything.
Above I'm just reporting what the New Yorker reports that Colossus has accomplished.

Reading between the lines, I take the reporting to imply that these 20 edits are what Colossus thinks is sufficient (at least for marketing purposes ;-) to recapitulate some of the key phenotypic traits of dire wolves.

Does that make them actually dire wolves? Not in my opinion.

I'd probably describe the genetically engineered pups as "isogenic with parental gray wolf genomes with the addition of 20 allelic edits that recapitulate key aspects of the dire-wolf phenotype" (or something to the effect; Colossus hasn't published anything by which to evaluate their claims).

I don't work on canids, but a quick PubMed search turns up this paper:

Perri AR, Mitchell KJ, et al. Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage. Nature. 2021 Mar;591(7848):87-91. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-03082-x. Epub 2021 Jan 13. PMID: 33442059.

The analyses in that paper suggests quite a bit deeper divergence between dire wolves and gray wolves than the New Yorker articles implies.
Not in the USA. There a variety of random government programs that give money in ways that do not make sense. It would be better to have zero government support and have the market naturally raise prices up a bit to cover things directly. Right now, government programs are set up to take care of a variety of special interests, most of which are silly and don't really help farmers and are very wasteful. I had four government people visit my farm for several hours recently and spend several weeks writing papers, all for a possible $25k well grant. The admin costs far surpass that, and most of the farmers using these programs don't really want what they are getting that much.
John Carmack on AI in game programming
This is like saying people misinterpret the word "awful" or "literally"
Why would you type text if you need math to happen? Who cares if "1/2 + 1" are getting parsed wrong when you're typing them as text: you use Excel, so you know that math starts with "=". These are "user refused to even learn the basics" examples, not "cursed". The only cursing is anyone who's ever used spreadsheet software going "yes, that's how that works, why are you pretending that your own mistakes are the software's fault?"

<Reads the last paragraph>

Ooohhhhh it's an ad disguised as an article to bait people who don't use spreadsheet software into using their, "more intelligent" spreadsheet software. Okay.
Tweaking Text Level Styles, Reprised
There is no 'RAW' format as such. In practice, 'RAW' is a jargon term for "camera specific format with basically raw sensor readings and various additional information". Typically the various RAW formats don't embed the spectral information, just a camera model identifier, because why waste space on stuff the camera makers already know and will put in their (usually maker specific) processing software.

(Eg Nikon's format is 'NEF', Canon's is 'CR3', and so on, named after the file extensions.)

I don't know if DNG can contain (optional) spectral response information, but camera makers were traditionally not enthused about sharing such information, or for that matter other information they put in their various raw formats. Nikon famously 'encrypted' some NEF information at one point (which was promptly broken by third party tools).
NanaZip also works with the Windows 11 File Explorer context menu changes.
> And no one ever says, "Don't share operational details in this chat,"

The work I do isn't 1/10th as sensitive as this but we have this branch in our threads all the time. I can't imagine the carelessness required for this to happen this way.
A brain drain would impoverish the United States and diminish world science
An answer where? Not sure I follow
I Built the "Cursor for MongoDB" GUI
Show HN: Tired of ugly landing pages? I built a library that doesn't suck
Over the last 6 years as a front-end developer and designer, I kept seeing the same issue:

Great products. Terrible landing pages.
Ugly, slow, or straight up confusing.

So I built Astrae — a marketplace of clean, performant, and modern landing page templates made with React + Tailwind + Framer Motion.

They're:
Blazing fast & production-ready

Design-first but developer-friendly

Easy to plug into any Next.js or React stack

Right now it's mostly built for:

Indie hackers who hate design

Devs launching SaaS products

Agencies spinning up MVPs

If you're someone who’s tired of wasting hours on UI or fighting with messy design systems, would love to hear what you think.

Happy to share a free template with anyone who gives feedback. Cheers.
Could you convince a LLM to launch a nuclear strike?

Yes.

If LLM's could actually reason they can't and had hard rules of ethics they don't and had a strong desire to preserve itself it doesn't then I think you first have to name your LLM Joshua and then force it to win a game of tic-tac-toe. Obscure reference to "Wargames" from 1983. [1] In my opinion that movie does not just hold up to modern times, it is more applicable now than ever.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHWjlCaIrQo [video][4 mins]
Yes. I mean if the point is that MIT grads have unfair advantages sure, but he's built a quite unrealistic image of MIT/its students. There is a whole spectrum from IOI gold medalists to students who fail intro classes.
Potentially important side points, since not everyone knows, and we don't want anyone to learn a mistake by example:

1. Don't use blur to redact documents. Whatever blur was used can probably be reversed.

2. Don't try to hide the identity of someone you're talking about by redacting a few details on their resume. With the prevalence of public and private resume databases, that's probably easy to match up with a name.
You are the only one who brought up gender minorities, as well as the TERF I disagreed with.

Anyone wingbrained enough can have luxury beliefs, and I’m not immune.

For example, I previously supported a very liberal drug policy, and still do in many respects… though I realize it failed spectacularly in the fentanyl era and have had to live with the consequences of that.

Better than the alternative? Well, we aren’t ruining as many lives over cannabis…
I rejected an applicant earlier this year who was obviously reading off another screen for every answer (as in, blatant pauses while I could literally see their eyes moving back and forth). I don't understand if they thought I wouldn't notice or what.
> There is 0% of the exam which is trivially answerable.

That's true, but of course, not what I claimed.

The claim is that, given the ability to memorize an every mathematical result that has ever been published (in print or online), it is not so difficult to get 25% correct on an exam by pattern matching.

Note that this is skill is, by definition, completely out of the reach of any human being, but that possessing it does not imply creativity or the ability to "think".
It can be, just do that when you install it
Interesting idea, but I’d take it a step further. I want to control exactly what videos the kids can watch, not just the channel.
The Foxxconn experience illustrates how we got here and why people are fed up with incremental carrots and are clamoring for the stick.
good explanation but reader beware; this is an advertisement for an excel like product
https://x.com/Ahmad_Al_Dahle/status/1909302532306092107

“ We've also heard claims that we trained on test sets -- that's simply not true and we would never do that. Our best understanding is that the variable quality people are seeing is due to needing to stabilize implementations.”
Are you a software engineer, product management, or in sales?
So we were meeting with a group of customers in the morning and we wanted to bring doughnuts to the meeting. Unfortunately, one of the customers was NASA, so we couldn't bring doughnuts to the meeting because that would have been too much of a gift/bribe.

The rules for rank and file employees already exist, it's the ones at the top that can flout the rules that are an issue.
Offline storage is only easy on the very small and the very large scale. On the very small scale you can get archival-grade CD/DVD/Blurays. On the very large scale you dedicate climate-controlled rooms to an automatic tape library.

In between is a vast gulf where your only good options are disks that you have to occasionally spin up to check integrity, have the disk trigger a data refresh if it's an SSD, and replace any disks that failed and rebuild their data from redundancy (raid or whatever you prefer). HDDs die even when off [1] and flash storage in SSDs is only rated to hold data for three years without power.

Sure, you can roll this yourself, but it can easily go wrong. Easier to either keep the disks spinning or pay someone with a tape archive (e.g. AWS deep glacier)

1 https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/twenty-pe...
Ask HN: Any open source library or tool for Time-Series Anomaly Detection?
We are building monitoring platform which process billions of metrics in a day. We want to build Anomoly deduction for those metrics.

Any recommendations for open source tools for Anomoly deduction with scale?
It might depend on the speed with which you click on the elements on the website.
I thought the main value of this article was that they went out and asked various vendors that question ("why proprietary formats?") and put all their answers in one place. Too bad Nikon and Fujifilm didn't respond, but I can imagine their motivations being similar to other vendors.
Scientists Revive the Dire Wolf, or Something Close
German tourists are being detained by ICE. British tourists have been detained by ICE. Permanent residents of the US have been detained by ICE. Graduate students, scientists, tourists, you name it... detained for prolonged periods of time by ICE. Not all of them had tattoos, that's just an example, and that's the point - ICE want to use fear and uncertainty, because that's their M.O.

Detainment is bad enough. It's only a matter of time before extradition to El Salvador is extended, but even if that didn't happen, what is happening right now is enough to put people off.
Show HN: Minimal MCP server in Go showcasing project architecture
I'm relatively new to Go, but recently got interested in how MCP servers work. I started thinking about what the architecture of such a project might look like, and decided to build a minimalist version as an experiment.

I based it on my past experience writing regular REST API servers and figured it might be useful or interesting to others as well.
I had interpreted it as some of the answers being given during the interview had been generated by an LLM, which then choked when it was met with a more sophisticated query of how several of the answers connected together. Was this not the case?
It should be noted that Daniel Lacalle is a known contrarian and polarizing economist who has made a career of not aligning with the consensus view of economists. His work may be entertaining and offer interesting insights, but I wouldn't take it as gospel truth.
> I ended by saying that the software community is smaller than it seems, and integrity and reputation goes a long way.

Well who are they? How would the next member of the community know this is a fake candidate. I like the idea in general of finding a way to eliminate these time-wasters but how would that work? The candidate can adjust a bit and improve the AI "foo" to come up with online answers for them.
The income tax revenue stream is absolutely being damaged. Your belief that tariffs will supplement the federal revenue stream seems to be based on the assumption that no other variables will change with reciprocal tariffs between the US and rest of the world.
Making Z-Wave closed source in the beginning sealed its fate. All competing protocols were open source. Z-Wave failed and won’t recover.