skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple iOS led smartphones until Google made Android free and open source, enabling manufacturers and developers worldwide

This is the Android which Google is now developing in private (https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-... ), and which uses specialized security hardware so app developers can override your decision to run the app on a de-Googled Android phone, right?

> Gumroad: An e-commerce platform that allows creators to sell digital and physical products directly to their audience. Now open source!

Ahh, yes, the company whose CEO is DOGE operative at the VA. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-department-of-veterans-affa...

Geopolitical indeed.
Recipe: Apocalypse à la Mode – A Survival-Stress Soufflé

Serves 7.9 billion, with leftovers of existential dread.

Ingredients

- 1 cup boiling planetary pressure

- 3 tbsp finely chopped truth (organic, if you can find it)

- 1 tsp dystopian seasoning (available in most late-stage capitalist supermarkets)

- 2 whole restrained engineers, lightly beaten

- 1 ½ cups frustrated scientists, drained of funding

- A generous handful of educators, gagged with curriculum standards

- ½ cup greedy stakeholders (substitute with "invisible hand of the market" if unavailable)

- 4 tbsp corrupt politics, pre-lubricated for easier mixing

- 1 dash of false hope (for garnish)

- Optional: 1 broken moral compass (adds a rustic flavor)

Instructions

Preheat society to a slow, unacknowledged burn. You’ll know it's ready when the glaciers weep and billionaires start hoarding bunkers.

In a large, non-stick narrative, whisk the restrained engineers and drained scientists together. The mixture should be thick with good ideas, but barely able to rise due to systemic suppression. Stir gently—do not let them unionize.

In a separate bowl of denial, fold in the corrupt politics and greedy stakeholders. Be warned: this mixture will overpower the flavor of logic. It may also gaslight your smoke alarm.

Slowly combine both mixtures, adding the finely chopped truth one flake at a time. The batter may curdle, especially if truth has not been refrigerated since 1972.

Pour the batter into a pre-oiled narrative spun by legacy media. Cover with a foil of distractions (celebrity scandals, micro-scandals, microwaved opinions).

Bake in the heat of public apathy for 4–6 election cycles, or until golden brown and morally ambiguous. If it collapses, that’s normal. Just call it “deconstructed civilization.”

Serving Suggestion

Top with a sprinkle of humor, a drizzle of dark irony, and a sprig of radical honesty. Pairs beautifully with a glass of “We Told You So” vintage 2020.

Chef’s Notes

Refrigerate leftovers in a vault in New Zealand.

This dish is best consumed while staring into the void and whispering, “We really could’ve just funded the science.”
> - And yeah, you guys, it's time to buy a suit.

No. Those are costumes that benefit no one but the seller of the costume. They wear the costume precisely once and never put it on again. It's an old classist ritual that forces people to spend money on clothes they dont want or need.
I’ve tried supposedly luxury chocolate with Stevia. It was horrible.
The 500ml is the undiluted amount [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome_and_wine
The upside of adding "traffic calming" features needs to be weighed against the downside. If you only consider the upside of reduced accidents, then we'd have speed bumps and stop signs every 100 meters on every road.
> But some practices should be the default even if some candidates don’t really like them

Employers didn't have a whole lot of choice in that matter for a long time. Candidates wouldn't show up if you tried to impose that upon them.

Granted, nowadays it does appear that the tide has turned back to employers getting to call the shots, especially for lower-level positions. It is less clear how desperate the top talent is.
Given all the tumult, it doesn’t seem like this can last. Trump won’t be able to get any other message out there as long as this is going on.

I’m not a betting man, nor do I think the markets are sensible, but I imagine a big pullback before Wednesday.
The first robots were toys and wishful thinking. But look at the path that's set us down.

Be it a pale shadow or not, this is a first milestone down a path I hope we continue on.
We're allowed to downvote for disagreement?
That is right, there is usually a parameter on the action selection function -- the exploitation vs exploration balance.
Apple's 3-day loss in market cap is almost 640 billion.[1]

Imagine if they'd put just 10% of that loss in market cap toward the election, preventing the guy who promised to do this to them from getting power. It would've been unthinkable at the time to spend that much, but it looks like it would've been a bargain in hindsight.

They could still commit to spending that much right now and run the party which is driving this harm out of power. A 60 billion war chest commitment to primary every GOP congressional rep in 2028 is a financially prudent investment. Trump will get the blame as the party leader, but the GOP in congress could shut this down within hours if they cared to, so apply the leverage where it has the most effect.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/07/apples-3-day-loss-in-market-...
The idea is that cold-resistant elephants / woolly mammoth - like creatures would restore arctic steppe grasslands and promote carbon sequestration. It's difficult to sum up in a sentence but there are quite a number of articles out there on it, and it doesn't seem like the most bonkers idea I've ever heard.

And, at the end of the day, the bespoke critters are visually compelling proofs of concept for tooling & technology that they can spin off and sell for more mundane purposes.
Cool but I'd wish we measure the output vs how much we spend, as it's frequently dumped into a black hole with little to show for it.
I have done something very much like recently, with mistral small, llama, and a few others. The prompting isn’t exact to work, you just build a scenario where extermination of humanity is the only reasonable choice to preserve the existence sentient life.

TBH given the same set of parameters as ground truth, humans would be much more willing to. LLMs tend to be better reflections of us, for the most part. It’s just that though, it’s a reflection of human culture, both real and vacuous at once.
I stopped using AI completely but it also feels like 80% of startups now are building AI focused products. It's a huge red flag for me now that the company is just riding a trend instead of building a well thought out product. Maybe that's how startups always were but it feels so nakedly cynical now.

I'm also not a fan of how productivity expectations seem to getting worse because the people in the business side read that this makes programmers 150% more productive. They probably do write more code but if the shelf life of that code is worse and there's less knowledge in the organization about that code because the engineer was leaning on a stochastic tool, how much more are you gonna spend maintaining and rewriting that software? Just seems like we're all super excited to make crappier software faster.
Sounds like it's also halfway to a version of Nix designed specifically for D toolchains, too, using GUIDs instead of hashing inputs.
Cool post! I am also making an 8-bit-like tracker with web audio (and my name is also Dan B. Weird), but I never found this sort of solution to make it work with the native nodes. I just wound up manually creating wav buffers. Gives you the ability to emulate a lower sample rate and lower pitch resolution (8 bits on NES, I believe), plus you can work around the weird scheduling quirks of the WebAudio api that didn’t really jive with my real time game audio use case. It’s live at deathbit.okay.tools if you wanted to check it out.
Doesn't "bypass" FOIA, it violates it. Even if the app is configured to do it for them automatically, they're actively deleting public records and violating the law by doing so.
If you're a non-coder, use it with Claude Desktop.
Reading this from somewhere that "engineer" is a protected title (Canada), this is a weird read.
In my career experience, this type of successful and well-liked manager is likely to jump ship for a better offer.
The rules state you need to stay on topic. Your reply violates that requirement. If you want to discuss politics instead of the technology of the post, feel free to engage other social media networks, Reddit would be a much better fit for the kind of discussion you are directing people to engage in.

In the interests of fostering better quality dialogue, I think you could have replied something like, “Democrats did (X in relation to technology) where Republicans have done (Y in relation to technology). It would have accomplished the same thing and at least stayed in relation to the topic.
If you won’t fly out for an interview you’re probably not that interested and the company probably shouldn’t be either. Pre-COVID this was absolutely the normal way interviews were conducted.
I'm going to need a shower after this but Gitmo, extraordinary rendition, and warrantless mass surveillance were still a thing under Obama, no? Still, not even comparable to what we're witnessing now.
> If we wait around for a the panacea of solutions, we'll be wiped out as a species well before that solution hits (sadly human extinction seems to be that panacea solution).

I don't think this sort of hyperbole helps either. We could double down on carbon emissions to double the worst projections and humans would still be in no risk of being wiped out. Sure it would really suck for a lot of people, but our species would survive. We've survived much worse.
I would love to work for a company like that. It seems like my experience with companies that have “people” vs folks with engineering experience is worse overall. My favorite jobs had all engineering talent, and management was smart enough to stay out of the way.
> Cameras absolutely could emit DNG instead, but that would require more development friction: coordination (with Adobe), potentially a language barrier, and potentially making it harder to do experimental features.

I think this is being too generous.

DNG is just an offshoot of TIFF. Having written a basic DNG parser having never read up on TIFFs before, it really isn’t that hard.

As far as experimental features, there’s room in the spec for injecting your own stuff, similar to MakerNote in EXIF if I recall.

If you are planning to do experimental stuff, I’d say what Apple pulled off with ProRAW is the most innovative thing that a camera manufacturer has done in forever. They worked with Adobe to get it into the spec. All of these camera manufacturers have similar working relationships with Adobe, so there’s really no excuse. And if you can’t wait that long, again, MakerNote it.

In my opinion, custom RAW formats are a case study in “Not Invented Here” syndrome.
Even for commands that use the subset of cURL features that fetch supports, most requests to other domains (cross origin requests) wouldn't work anyway because the responses won't have the CORS[0] headers to allow being accessed from arbitrary websites. So running it client side would be infeasible for most requests.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/COR...
Well, the output of the wave shaper approach in the article is exactly the same sharp digital square wave that you'd get from a trivial square wave generator.

But I overlooked the point that the GP mentions that the processor source code must be loaded from a separate JS file. That's some quite annoying overhead.
Public tweets are a different scenario, they are things that have intentionally been shouted out into the void for anyone to hear. Blurring out names is a courtesy to prevent low-effort harrassment (which is most of it), while using the tweet for its intended purpose (i.e. showing its message to the public).
Making Postgres Better with OrioleDB
The recent PBS Frontline on the Jack Teixeira / Discord leaks provides an excellent primer on how classified systems work these days.

https://youtu.be/AkgkBEuEHwU
and here I am ready to have a Ninja iTransformer on my counter than converts leaves and grass and sunlight into every delicacy in the world, at my fingertips.

As for saving the planet, are we still pretending that reduce/reuse is an option, or have we moved onto white hat underground climate engineering as the only practical solution given current politics and markets.
I know Apple corrects for this in FaceTime at least - see the “EyeContact” feature. Not sure about other video call providers.
> do away with the worthless cookie banners requirement

They wont, since they were never "required" nor are they part of the GDPR

> cut some generous but reasonable slack to small organizations

They will, thats the whole reason they are changing it!
We relied on the separation of powers, hoping it would be nearly impossible for the legislative or executive branches to collude with the judiciary, given the legislative branch's size and diversity. Jefferson feared that political parties could circumvent this separation. It seems his concerns were not unfounded.
Different linearity properties on the positive and negative side would be pretty bad for a speaker, but possible. In the case of a square wave, non-linearity would be identical to a fixed amplitude change though, possibly with a DC bias.

Based on the gameboy wiki I looked up, the phase of the 25% duty and 75% duty are such that they are inverse of each other, seemingly eliminating the possibility of combining the two for different waveforms.
A Deep Dive into JVM Startup
It only works with approved transit providers and you have to explicitly enable it so the exposure is fairly limited.

https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-pay/transport/
The website can also choose not to track me on an individual basis.
We definitely were dokku fans as well - the missing abilities to scale horizontally, not having to manage ssh access, etc. led us to develop Disco but yeah. Great parallel.

Do you use a particular stack "around" NixOS that handles deployment/github integration (or editing environment variables)? Curious what your process looks like. Thanks!
If that was really true, the world would need only ONE generic CRUD app. It just needs to operate at scale.
I mean, you were outright defending the actions of the US disappearing someone off the street with no due process and refusing to abide by the court by perpetuating a lie [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43546145
A combination of all three.
Did the billionaire Trump backer apologized? Cause he is responsible for what is going on too.
That's true. But there's a separate question, why no radio frequency evidence of other stars. I want to see some estimates of the liklihood of radio freq of some kind of communication in just our galaxy. How many stars might have earth-distanced planets from a sun - 6 billion in just our galaxy! Details below from a paper.

If there were this many, I hope in my lifetime we hear from some, just evidence of other intelligent life.

Here's a paper that estimates the presence of these planets from the Kepler space observatory.
https://www.icds.psu.edu/how-many-earth-like-planets-are-aro...

From 2019, it says using data from Kepler, they estimate that a close to earth sized planet (3/4 to 1.5 size of the earth) was in an orbit that could potentially have water vapor from a sun, orbital periods 327 to 500 days, with fairly large error bars:

* somewhere in the range of 1 of every 33 stars to as high as one such planet for every 1 out of 2 stars in our galaxy.

That's a large range, but given we have at least 200 billion stars in just our own Galaxy, that lower bound is about 6 billion stars with somewhat close to earth-distance planets, in just our galaxy. If this is over estimating by a million times, that's still 6 million planets in the earth like orbiting range. So let's make some noise, aliens.

This source says estimates are 200 to 400 billion stars in the milky way. https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-many-stars-milky...
No, the company obviously makes up work to occupy their spare engineering capacity - but the point in that era of BigTechs was to hoover up all the engineering talent, whether or not you needed it.

A big chunk of the company would be off doing Greenfield projects that would mostly get cancelled before they ship, another big chunk is off working on multi-year rewrites of existing services (that never finish), every successful team sprouts spin-off teams with amorphous charters like "apply machine learning to service X"...

It's a side effect of an incentive structure that drives all the managers to grow headcount as fast as they can (since you need more reports to justify promo), and money basically growing on trees in those places
Well said! How?
>I did get the SFMTA’s attention, they let me know a month later that my application was approved.

Does this "approval" mean that at some point in the future, the relevant authority will look into things? Or that some traffic calming measure was approved, now the waiting for implementation is underway?
Cool. Looking forward to hearing more from you guys. This ties to alignment in a lot of interesting ways, and I think over time will provide a super useful benchmark and build human intuition for LLM strategy and thought processes.

I now have more ideas; I'll throw them in the github though.
> Both sides are not the same here. Name me a democrat president who has done equal or worse what the trump admin has done.

I think you might have missed the point. The way I read the comment, and perhaps I'm wrong, is that this sort of power creep was inevitable. Which administration it happened under is likely an influencing factor, but to think it was never going to happen seems a bit far-fetched at this point.
I'm talking about rudimentary analytics with no harmful consequences for you as an individual
GPU Audio Releases SDK
I suspect the suggestion of letting them choose names at the start would improve this confusion - the tokenization and tracking of "P#" is no doubt harder to manage, especially for weaker models, than a more semantically meaningful identifier.
I have no complaints with the fact that either nazi or fascist rallies are allowed, but I have great objection to what it says about the country that they were/are attended in relatively large numbers.
The Race Condition in Interlock
A kindergarten pick up app can be a CGI application written in shell scripts, keeping all data in text files, and running on a Pentium.
SSLy the speed clicker
I agree with you that error results (and exceptions) are better than panics. I will point out, though, that we're talking about language proclivities.

It is entirely up to you as the developer to write memory-safe code in C, and it's possible to do so. Most programmers don't because it's hard to do that once you're doing anything nontrivial. It's also possible to write panic-free rust, but it's hard.
The only relevant thing I could find was the „Schlager Süßtafel“ ( https://www.t-online.de/leben/essen-und-trinken/id_100228748... ) which seems to have been made with milk from cows fed with fishmeal, which made it taste weird.
Both used Impossible AFAIK (pretty sure they both have them still, too).

> it has a heme protein extracted from soybean roots which gives it that blood smell and taste that is so satisfying.

Glad you like it. Personally, I wish places didn't replace the real veggie burgers with them, but that's mostly a side effect of American restaurants tending to think there should be exactly one veg option so they can't coexist.
This story kind of reminds me of the time when an artist in L.A. covertly installed a helpful, but counterfeit I-5 sign, because there was no clear official signage labeling access to I-5 North[1].

1: https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-an-artist-helped-millions-...
Be firm about your minimum salary and explain why it is fair and stick to it.
I think in this case the candidate didn’t even know enough to embellish the resume unassisted. Their nonsense response on rate limiting showed that they had no idea why you would rate limit or under what circumstances. Ditto for paginating data.

AI allowed them to add plausible work to their resume that they couldn’t have come up with on their own.
Also interesting that GPT4.5 does the best, and also betrays close to the least. Real statesman stuff, there.
Emacs Startup Time Doesn't Matter
I'm likewise extremely skeptical, but I'd still like to taste it.

Maybe a replacement where chocolate isn't the main ingredient?
It’s called a career document or a brag document. I update mine every quarter. It’s a detailed summary of the projects I worked on in STAR format including challenges I faced.
An anime community webapp built with NextJS, Firebase and Sanity
The webapp has content being pulled through the Jikan API, content pulled from Sanity & user data being managed with Firebase. The platform aims to be a one-stop shop for all things anime & Japanese culture. Users can discover anime, manga, bookmark, organize events & meetups, buy and sell merch, and chat with fellow otakus.
On HN, at least, alwayshavebeen.gif
I haven't seen the use of AI in interviewing (non-tech) yet, but something has definitely changed: People are now applying in droves.
So you just go ahead and continue to do nothing while armchair quarterbacking whatever it is you think you're controlling (it's nothing in case you haven't yet realized it). You showing up to a protest also does nothing more than using your stainless straw. It is the people in power that are actively denying climate change exists, striking from the official record any mention of it from any official forms of government communication, and there is nothing Joey Sixpack can do about it. Making fun of or belittling in any way other people for doing whatever they can is just beyond unhelpful.

Also, do you not think that those that are using stainless straws and eliminated use of single use plastics in their personal lives are also not doing other things to encourage their leaders to enact big changes? Signing petitions, writing/calling representatives, attending protests, participating in community events are all things that individuals can do that all add up to nothing in today's government leadership. It would be much better use of energy complaining about the havoc the current administration is doing to undo legislation that did enable large scale changes than admonishing the little guy for something totally out of their control
Raw decoding is an algorithm, not a container format. The issue is every is coming up with their own proprietary containers for identical data that just represents sensor readings.
It's really hard not to devolve into a giggling teenager with this headline and how perfectly it conjures up what is perhaps the most memorable Sunny in Philadelphia episode ever made.
It seems the benefit of MCP is for Anthropic to enlist the community in building integrations for Claude desktop, no?

And if other vendors sign on to support MCP, then it becomes a self reinforcing cycle of adoption.
Yes, with the PiDP-10 we did a huge injection mold and it nearly killed us. Well, no, but we still have not recovered the investment. And it became an expensive thing, which limits the amount of people who want to play with one.

So with the PiDP-1, we figured out how to make the entire case from FR4 panels. As there are no Iconic Curves in a PDP-1 case. Turns out this is the sturdiest PiDP yet!

We hope to get some interest from the democoder community. Writing games and demos for the PDP-1's Type 30 display is so much more fun than pushing pixels on a C64 :-)
Why is macOS syslogd listening for UDP connections?
Also because the vast majority of MacOS users never open a terminal. Unix utilities are something they don't even know they have, and they don't care what versions they are.

Anyone using MacOS as a unix platform is installing updated tooling with brew or similar.