skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But AI is like video games, it can’t emulate sacrifice and other deep human dynamics because there’s no stake. If you die you restore from last save point. For AI you have infinite no-memory interactions, which changes the dynamic. In other words, your actions don’t have lasting consequences.

The few games that succeed in building something deeper (for me RDR2 but you take your pick) have to carve out sacrifice and character out of the player’s time, which is finite.
Which is kind of the point

Most OCAs are 2-3 stars and are marginally aware of what they are signing

Rescinding or otherwise ignoring OCAs and caveats as an appointee, NSC officers or especially cabinet level person (don’t get me started on elected officials who have zero respect for classified information ntk) is basically an embedded privilege of rank

RHIP is always applicable
> OK, maybe not the Kubernetes one that ships only 12 binaries, forgot its name

You are likely thinking of Talos Linux, which incidentally also builds itself with stagex.
Trade Will Move on Without the United States - https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/04/tr... | https://archive.is/2025.04.07-160451/https://www.theatlantic... - April 7th, 2025

‘The Tsunami Is Coming’: China’s Global Exports Are Just Getting Started - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/business/china-manufactur... | https://archive.is/A6KFV - April 7th, 2025
You can provide an MCP for Pokemon Red, but Claude will still flounder for weeks, making absurd mistakes on a game literally designed for children.

Believe me. It's not there yet.
> 2. Files do not matter

I wish weekly for explicit renames.

> At that time, I was using SVN and experimenting with Hg and Bazaar. Both were too "magical" for me, with unclear rules for merging, branching, rebasing.

I have no idea what you mean.

> It's such an easy mental model, and you can immediately understand what operations mean.

Many people disagree clearly.
Elon Musk sets stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI at an insane valuation
I'm aware an immigration judge in 2019 withheld his removal and there was an unreliable witnesses claiming they heard him say he had connections, but that was in NY, not Maryland where Abrego Garcia lives. I'm also aware the Trump administration admitted they made a mistake in deporting him.

Why they won't just bring him back is disturbing. He has a wife and 3 children who are all US citizens. Nobody should be defending this.
Then maybe your notion of security is useless in the real world and needs a rethink.

Security, when practiced, is a fundamentally practical discipline that needs to work with the world as is, not with dreams of putting people in basements in chains.
Nothing about that article surprises me regarding G/O but there is one point that Zach makes about his transaction that he is wrong about:

"Thanks to G/O's stubborn insistence that it only wanted Quartz's assets and not the corporate entity"...

this is not stubborn it's quite common and is absolutely the right thing to do for many companies interested in another business. If they buy your entity (stock transaction) it comes with all the legal liability.

Zach probably doesn't understand how much more likely his deal was to close as an asset purchase rather than a stock purchase. A stock purchase comes with lots more diligence and legalese. If they are buying your stock they are buying all your baggage and potential legal matters, it requires a lot more work including a laundry list of representations by the seller. G/O did everyone a favor by sticking to an asset purchase and getting the deal done. that's where the positives end it seems.
more and more right-wing business leaders and politicians are speaking up against Trump's tariff regime: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/trump-tariff...

If a system has self-correcting mechanisms it can, hopefully, demonstrate that it can withstand stresses that may arise within or without, and hence show resilience that can be relied upon. One can but hope.
Paper Conclusion:

> Giving kids as young as 11 years of age their own smartphone is likely fine and may be beneficial

> Try to keep kids from social platforms where they are likely to post or share publicly

> Don’t let kids and smartphones sleep in the same room

.. doesn't really support this article's title.
Publishing it where? It can’t be a github page, it’s too complex; anything else incurs real costs.
> Also notable: Kids prioritized feeling "welcome and safe" online over free speech (sigh).

These are kids. The sigh in this article is because kids would rather feel safe than be the bullied or made to feel lesser-than for an adult's ideological worship of free speech? Perhaps we can acknowledge that while free speech in the context of government censorship is necessary, it is certainly not the end-all-be-all for children socializing.

It seems like there is such a disconnect from basic humanity with so many reason.com writers.
No weirder than measuring things by feet.
If people start turning against Trump, Congress will follow. Look what happened after the 2022 terms. Dems over performed and everyone immediately tried to make Ron Desantis a thing.

Sharks will always be in the water around Trump waiting for him to slip. The question is, will Independents(maybe even some of the base) shift hard away when they start feeling the pain of the tariffs.
How is your recruiting process going to improve to catch that in the future? Seems like a pretty big screwup, hopefully he wasn't given any sort of admin access.
Ask HN: Which apps do you use to play with MCP servers?
As MCP servers have been gaining popularity recently, I believe many of you have been trying them out. I'm curious to know which apps you use to work with MCP. The standard approach is to use the Claude desktop app, but what if you want to use models from other providers? There are many popular open-source chat apps that support BYOK, but only some of them support MCP. More importantly, MCP support involves more than just connecting to MCP servers, it requires the implementation of an agent, which means different apps can yield varying results and performance. Please share your experiences with using MCP in chatbot apps, and how well they have worked for you.
"MUSIC CONSUMERS LIKE TO CONSUME MUSIC . . . NOT PIECES OF VINYL WRAPPED IN PIECES OF CARDBOARD. "

Intentionally turning this into a No True Scotsman argument: True music consumers like to consume music... not pieces of vinyl wrapped in cardboard.

In 2025 it seems most consumers seem to prefer pieces of vinyl wrapped in cardboard. Having the thing, rather than listening to or appreciating the contents of the thing.
A Graveyard of Hard Drives
Huh, interesting. I never re-read it, but noped out of Termination Shock for the same reason.
I'm not sure I'd characterize those two things as "it doesn't take much," that's quite a lot to give to an untrusted entity.
Related;
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43617352
North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500
~53-67 Metres?
Wow that is a fantastic analysis (from AI itself hahaha) and it makes a lot of sense. Helps surface the demarcations between AI's online world and our own physical one. Fascinating! :)

What is manning btw?
But you had to read past 2/3 to find out how the book got its title. The bit in the beginning about the moon breaking into 7 pieces was just a bit of subterfuge.
I disagree, but you know having different preferences is fine. I think the trackpad of the macbook is the worst trackpad I've ever used, typing from an m1 mbp right now and wish it had distinct right & left mouse buttons.
But the nice thing is you can buy a variety of form factors that suit your needs. Unless its Apple, in which you get basically one thing take it or leave it.
Make sure you are logged in. It was blocking me after just a couple searches if not logged in.
The Pitt, a recent ER show, features ECMO :)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31938062/
No, because the odds used to be 97%, therefore the odds of it hitting are raising.
The implication of the Government’s position is that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes, and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but
this Nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.

The Government’s conduct in this litigation poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law. That a majority of this Court now rewards the Government for its behavior with discretionary equitable relief is indefensible. We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this. I respectfully dissent.
No you didn’t. I hadn’t assumed that you did.

But remote work, as a standard part of the landscape, these days, means that Things Have Changed. In the 1990s, arrangements like the one I made, were extremely rare (in fact, I got chewed out for it, many years into the relationship, when Legal started flexing their muscles).

Leetcode testing has also become part of the landscape, and has become so ubiquitous, that it’s almost worthless, as a useful coefficient. Gaming employment testing is a pretty good-sized industry.

I merely mentioned them, because they are now so endemic to the hiring process.
I have a footnote at the end of my resume about my interests -- it's short, authentic, and more of a way to showcase my personality than my actual interests. It's always been a point of contact during the interview process. If an organization thinks that's stupid or a human isn't reading it in the first place it's not somewhere I want to work anyway.
Similar a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43094241
Fantastic idea. Curious if this works in my town as well
For me, the real problem at the time is that "rebase" was a second class feature.

I think too many folks at the time thought that full immutability was what folks wanted and got hung up on that. Turns out that almost everyone wanted to hide their mistakes, badly structured commits, and typos out of the box.

It didn't help that mercurial was slower as well.
I study MCP from x.com, you study MCP from paper. say hello to you, my friend.
Testing against people like that would be the way to do it. Otherwise it’s like testing a chess engine against casual players or worse.
The "things" you mention may correspond to internal concept representations encoded in the model's weights. See e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.13289
Yep, Guix and stagex are the only two distros that full source bootstrap to my knowleldge.

We use an abbreviated and explicit stage0 chain here for easy auditing: https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex/src/branch/main/packages/...
Wait a second. You're saying now hg didn't influence git, but how does that fit with your previous comment?

> One particular aspect that often gets left out of this creation myth, especially by the author of Github is that Mercurial had a prominent role

I'm not sure where you're getting your facts from.
I’m sorry for your loss :(
When I see a headline like this I like to play a game. I try to guess an absurd correlation ("it's the fancy new shoes") and try to guess some sort of possible mode of action. ("Change in forces on legs causes a change in blood flow through the body")
> Pressure to move back to China where their tariff drops from 49% to 34%?

... and one day later, where are we? Trump is threatening China with an additional 50% unless they back down. China's response is that they will fight to the bitter end. https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2025/apr/08/stock-...

Who will win this battle? Or will it be a war? Which philosophical worldview do you prefer?
Of course you gotta also consider how many under train for the marathon and essentially over commit themselves to the event when it does come along. But it definitely isn't healthy if they require more than a day or two of physical recovery after a physical event.
UE still has BSP for blocking out levels: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/...
A package manager for Lua that depends on Rust.
> Why they won't just bring him back is disturbing. He has a wife and 3 children who are all US citizens. Nobody should be defending this.

Without opining on whether he should be brought back: it seems kind of a slippery slope (legally speaking) to suggest that someone should be brought back because of their family, no? I'm not sure I'd want courts to decide that people should also be subject to deportation or other punishments because of their families.
https://archive.is/qSaBU
No, that still requires some battery on iOS, i.e. it's only possible in the same "power reserve" mode that still sends the occasional "Find my iPhone" Bluetooth beacon.

Field-powered mode is possible in at least some NFC chipsets, but I suspect that Apple either values a consistent NFC range more than usability even with a completely dead battery (the amplifier that grants a significantly higher NFC range to Apple Pay obviously needs power), they see it as a security feature (reserve mode is capped to a few hours, I believe), or their NFC controller simply doesn't support it.
> It's meant to compete with the junky little thing you get with your PC that's wired, with who-knows-what DPI and 3 buttons at best.

Of all the strange things Apple decides to compete in, why would Apple be trying to compete with logitech at twice the price? Honestly don't know why Apple bothers with peripherals though, its not like their keyboards are worth writing home about either.
Read through these websites and LWN articles:

https://reproducible-builds.org/
https://bootstrappable.org/
https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/
https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/
https://lwn.net/Articles/985739/
I worked on a warranty insurance system rewrite.

There was basically a risk matrix that when simplified meant insurance was cheapest for Asian cars, then European, then US due to reliability and quality differences. The model was based on past insurance payment data.

It was over a decade ago, maybe things have changed but I always remember questioning if it was that simple, turned out it was.
If you got time, this is IMO a very good critique of the recent events by senior Americans:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594yN8rxIJo
especially because it's going to be much more than just `pre_tariff_final_price * 0.25`
That's right, tariffs are actually good. We need more tariffs to boost our economy
I created my HN account to comment on the post announcing the release of the Descent 3 source code last year. So of course I immediately recognized the similarity to Descent 1 and 2’s cube-based level design, and was pleased to see the screenshot of DLE. :)
The code review problem is something solvable by something like CREV, where the developer community at large publishes the reviews they have done, and eventually there is good coverage of most things.

https://github.com/crev-dev/
Running Local LLMs? [Tenstorrent] 32GB Card Might Be Better Than Your RTX 5090
I don't consider science fiction to be a good guide for public policy.
20 years! Which recent Git features do you find useful? I think I've never used any feature less than 10 years old. I'm probably missing something
IIRC the FreeDesktop flatpak runtimes are also built from the Bootstrappable Builds folks full source bootstrap.
The LWN article is a good place to start:

https://lwn.net/Articles/985739/
Given a long enough path, does this lead to enemies always flying through the center of “windows”?
If I read that correctly your hope is that the self-correcting mechanism is reliant on right-wing business leaders self-interest?

Is there not one in particular that holds most of the cards? Trump seems set on serving his own interests regardless is my take.
Hey, thank you so much for catching this and calling it out , will take this up and fix it!

Really appreciate you taking the time to look and let me know (even if it had to be in public). I have added a github repo for filing bugs (https://github.com/uncurl/uncurl-support) in the docs page :)
I mean publish it on the npm registry (https://www.npmjs.com/signup). That way, it would be easy to install, just by adding some lines to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
"mcpServers": {
"ragdocs": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@qpd-v/mcp-server-ragdocs"
],
"env": {
"QDRANT_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:6333",
"EMBEDDING_PROVIDER": "ollama",
"OLLAMA_URL": "http://localhost:11434"
}
},
}
}
}
We didn't vote him in. You did.
Not a fan of judge Jackson and Sotomayor, but I can't buy any theory that assumes they are throwing Trump a bone.
Lots of red flags in the paperwork combined with strange behavior and him accidentally connecting one time without a VPN.

We're a startup so I don't think the end goal was to scam us per se but more to get money or more likely build credibility.
Wealth and Corrupt Activities of the Leadership of the Chinese Communist Party [pdf]
Or just use Playwright MCP: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp
Code review systems like CREV are the solution to backdoors being present in public source code.

https://github.com/crev-dev/
> it. In the subject line of his email announcing the deal, he spelled our name "Quarts," and that set the tone for the level of care in what he had bought.

This little detail seems to sum up so much about this kind of acquisition.
> But AI has emboldened the North Korean scheme, allowing the IT workers to develop scripts so they can hold down as many as six or seven jobs at a time

How do you get interviewed, hired and payrolled by seven jobs, at once? Are North Koreans in fact 10x developers?
"What are tech companies?"

The author never answers this question. He suggests that small groups of people run them but he does not elucidate what are tech compaines.

If a so-called "tech" company is not profitable, and this may comprise the vast majority of them, then the "engineer salary" comes from VC money. Essentially, a loan. The author omits this simple truth as well.
The next DOOM port
Xkcd: Tariffs
The actual topography here, rather than any hypothetical buttered slope, is a man was deported in defiance of pre existing court orders that he not be deported.

Is it correct that you are in favour of courts being involved in deportation decisions and those decisions being respected and paid heed to?
There never was any need for advertising, except for someone desiring to get paid for it.

you know it's a scam the moment they promise you more than 2% returns.
Totally with you on that—your use case is exactly what I had in mind when I built uncurl.dev.

I kept finding myself sending curl requests in Slack or email, and it felt clunky—especially when non-devs or support teams needed to test something quickly. uncurl.dev started as a way to make that share-and-execute process more visual and frictionless.

For the auth part—embedding API keys in payload is a no-go in most cases. For now, sending out auth headers separately for them to fill in themselves is what I did within my workplace.

I'm exploring a couple of ideas to help with this:

Team-scoped secrets: For logged-in users or teams, saving common auth headers that aren’t part of the shared link.

One-time, encrypted secrets: The link works once and destroys the sensitive payload after execution.
Up north here (CQ -NQ) it seems the flashy trend setters are gravitating towards Chrysler's Ram Trucks. I'll echo the same sentiment in regard to parking areas - but also note parking bays used to be (early 90s IIRC it started to change here) more accommodating.
The amount of software depended on is always going to be massive, its not like every developer is going to write a BIOS, kernel, drivers, networking stack, compilers, interpreters, and so on for every project. So there will always be a massive iceberg of other people's code underneath what each developer writes.
Indeed you do not have to believe me.

> git clone https://codeberg.org/stagex/stagex

> cd stagex

> make

Several hours later your "out" directory will contain locally built OCI images for every package in the tree, and the index.json for each should contain the exact same digests we commit in the "digests" folder, and the same ones multiple maintainers sign in the OCI standard "signatures" folder.

We build with only a light make wrapper around docker today, though it assumes you have it configured to use the containerd image store backend, which allows for getting deterministic local digests without uploading to a registry.

No reason you cannot build with podman or kaniko etc with some tweaks (which we hope to support officially)

> Do you all document how you got around system level sources of non-determinism? Filesystems, metadata, timestamps, tempfiles, etc? This would be a great thing to document for people aiming for the same thing.

We try to keep our package definitions to "FROM scratch" in "linux from scratch" style with no magic to be self documenting to be easy to audit or reference. By all means crib any of our tactics. We use no global env, so each package has only the determinism tweaks needed (if any). We heavily referenced Alpine, Arch, Mirage, Guix, Nix, and Debian to arrive at our current patterns.

> What are you all using to verify commits? Are you guys verifying signatures against a public PKI?

We all sign commits, reviews, and releases with well published PGP keys maintained in smartcards, with expected public keys in the MAINTAINERS file. Most of us have keyoxide profiles as well making it easy to prove all our online presences agree with the expected fingerprints for us.

> Super interested as I manage the reproducibility program for a large software company.

By all means drop in our matrix room, #stagex:matrix.org . Not many people working on these problems. The more we can all collaborate to unblock each other the better!
curl 'https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids=bitcoin&vs...' nice!

curl -H 'x-access-token: goldapi-do7ibsm96twxqo-io' 'https://www.goldapi.io/api/XAU/USD'
We don't talk about sit club
The FOSSjobs wiki has a bunch of resources on this topic:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
Ha. My first digital camera was a Pentax kx from 2010. I didn’t know about RAW standards and I started using DNG by pure luck. BTW I loved that camera: it had the image stabilizer built into the sensor, which meant I could use amazing k-mount lenses from the 80s and still use image stabilization (unlike my roommate who had a Canon).
Is there any reason why you can't build a full agent in SQL? SQLite with a little sauce should be competitive with Langchain if you think a little bit.
Rebuilding a PowerBook G4 Battery (2010)
Exactly — this was one of the core constraints I ran into early on.

CORS was a blocker for client side requests, I have a separate branch where this is integrated, maybe will add it alongside server side execution to let the person creating the curl decide whether they can execute on browser or server side.
I’ve been enjoying the local Fuck Run Club. Great way to meet people.
Everything I hear something like “to get money and more credibility”, I can’t help myself thinking of the Key and Peele sketch about robbing a bank:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceijkZQI1HM&pp=ygUZUm9iIGEgY...
They invaded two countries simultaneously (one landlocked). Then used secret stealth helicopters to fly a hit squad into an allied nations territory for one particular individual.

I don't think this is a fruitful debate but I doubt risk & cost are as much a determining factor as you'd like.
The upside is that we now know what people with basically unrestricted access to the inner workings of the US surveillance state machine consider the most secure way to evade it.
uv --script
Is targeting families with ai “the right way to do it”? Office decorum doesn’t even register in importance.