skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got so disappointed with Google search results that I started looking into alternatives. I tried duck duck go, phind and chatgpt and while those have their strengths, they weren't best fit for me.

I often search for solutions for some specific (often exotic) problems and LLMs are not best to handle them.

DDG does not have best results I'm not sure if those are better than those from Google. Definitely have different set of issues.

Finally seeing another positive comment at HN about Kagi I decided to pull the wallet and try it. And it's great. It feels like Google from 2000s

I decided to replace my subscription to anthropic and chatgpt with Kagi where I have access to both providers and also Gemini, meta and others. So in bottom line I it actually saving me money.

Their Ki assistant (LLM that iterate with multiple search queries when looking for answers) is actually neat. In general it best of both worlds. depending what do you need you can use LLM interface or classic search and they have both working great
Dall-E is already 4-8 cents per image. Afaik this is not in the API yet but I wouldn't be surprised if it's $1 or more.
Democracy or not, people tend to rally around the flag when they feel like their country is under attack by a hostile actor. Both the Chinese and the Canadians are willing to tolerate pain in order to push back against Trump and his cronies.
I suspect at some point the pendulum will again swing back the other way and symbolic approaches will have some kind of breakthrough and become trendy again. And, I bet it will likely have something to do with accelerating these systems with hardware, much like GPUs have done for neural networks, in order to crunch really large quantities of facts
> I never used much IBM hardware, and always assumed that their terminals used EBCDIC and not ASCII.

Generally this is true. But around this era I used a ton of 3151 terminals on AIX, IBM's version of Unix. They were connected to the RS/6000 line of AIX machines. Good times! These machines, as Unix machines, talked in ASCII to their terminals. There was a whole line of port concentrators which would like you connect something like 32 ASCII terminals to a little block about the size of a modern ethernet router, and you could connect 4 of so of these blocks to a device in the main machine.
I find many “elders” I know think climate change is a hoax, solar power is dumb , transsexuals are evil, immigration is silly etc, basically they hold extreme views and it effects my ability to trust their word or opinion.

I’m not sure if technology is to blame, I think social media is probably part of their corruption, Fox News too, but yeah, the lack of interest in their opinions is mostly self inflicted and I feel they choose to believe in nonsense because it’s fun to hate things.

What technology has done is give me access to lots of knowledge and wisdom and now I don’t have to put up with all the cruft to get what I need.

Some elders in my life are more balanced and I enjoy seeking their opinion and wisdom and leaning on their experience for all sorts of things.

One exception for me is that in Japan, even opinions are considered to be potentially offensive so elderly people are careful with their words. I’ve very really interacted with an older Japanese person who just spits rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Japanese even are careful to make a statement like “this is the best chocolate I’ve tasted”,
It’s much more common to say “I think this is wonderful”.
That looks really cool, and i believe we could do something by trying to match the game title's with our database. Thanks for the heads up!
We don’t operate in the US. Our applicants can’t present any standardized test scores
Coal is dead and Trump's executive order won't revive it – Electrek
From personal experience, the quality of your insurance has little to do with wait times. I had best-in-biz FAANG insurance and I still had to wait months for dermatology and ENT appointments, for example.
> Or you mean quarter by quarter the engineers had to show that they were making impact in their perf review

This is what I think they were referencing.
Launching things looks nice in review packets and few to none are going to look into the quality of the output. Submitting your own self review means that you can cherry pick statistics and how you present them.
That's why that culture incentivizes launching half baked products and moving on to something else because it's smart and profitable (launch yet another half baked project) to distance yourself from the half baked project you started.
No.

Part of why I prefer to use a search engine is that I can see who is saying it, in what context. It might be Wikipedia, but also CIA world fact book. Or some blog but also python.org.

Or (lately) it might be AI SEO slop, reworded across 10 sites but nothing definitive. Which means I need to change my search strategy.

I find it easier (and quicker) to get to a believable result via a search engine than going via ChatGPT and then having to check what it claims.
>but a pure Linux mainframe is surprisingly competitive not just in compute and throughput but also in pricing.

It's not competitive when you consider what long-time IBM mainframe customers actually do. E.g. SABRE airline and travel reservation system was one of the first IBM mainframe customers in 1960 with the IBM 7090 and then upgraded to System 360 and then the newer Z mainframes. SABRE's multi-decade experience with IBM mainframes with mission-critical business applications means they are one of the world's foremost experts on its capabilities & costs that's not biased by any IBM marketing or sales pitches.

Even with all that in-house experience, SABRE still chose to gradually migrate off of IBM mainframes to less expensive tech stacks. Some have touted IBM's TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) on the mainframe as compelling technology but that still didn't dissuade SABRE in ~2001 when they migrated the airfare pricing application to Tandem (Compaq/HP) NonStop servers running UNIX. (https://www.computerworld.com/article/1339621/has-mainframe-...)

They then started a 10+ year effort to migrate more mainframe workloads to Google Cloud.
E.g. from https://www.sabre.com/insights/a-journey-to-tackle-legacy-co... :

> We moved 93% of compute capacity from physical data centers to the public cloud, resulting in a 50% decrease in our compute costs.

> We migrated more than 120 million bookings from a mainframe-based system to one using Google Cloud’s Spanner database, without impacting customer operations.

JP Morgan Bank is another example of migrating from IBM mainframes to cloud. If anyone out there truly thinks that running a new greenfield Linux workload will be be cheaper or even cost-competitive on a new IBM Z mainframe, just pause and consider if you truly know something about IBM mainframes' OpEx that multi-decade IBM customers like SABRE and JP Morgan don't already know.

Why would any new customers in 2025 willingly buy into IBM Z mainframes if they see existing customers spending billions trying trying to move off of them?
Generally package is around half of what company spends per extra engineer. And $500k average for a tech heavy product company doesn't sound too far off.
99% Perplexity
ML-KEM Post-Quantum TLS Now Supported in AWS KMS, ACM, and Secrets Manager
I believe Apple could be a Korean or Irish company. If I were Tim Cook, I would be looking to uproot the company to avoid dealing with a micromanaging government. It's not worth it.
Its already stained. And it was never golden so why care?
Naw, that's just big waters psy-op getting you to buy their nectar to fill up the Pacific ocean with plastic.

In all seriousness, I met people that essentially don't drink water. They get water through food. Give them a glass during dinner and it goes untouched. I don't think it's because they're lazy and don't want to get up and fill up their water. It's just that they're not thirsty. It's really quite fascinating
There's an Australian company that converts trucks and says "the Janus fleet electrification solution will provide for up to a 60% reduction in maintenance and operating costs over the vehicle's lifetime." https://www.januselectric.com.au/

They are in operation on a number of large trucks.
> These days, about the only liquid you can consume without controversy is water.

Tapwater, or artesian well water?

Magnitically left-spun water, or ionically charged crystal-dipped water?

Hermetically sealed water, or Gnostically gestated water?

Distilled or deionated?

Choose wisely.
Also, they are steadily reducing the capacity factor of their coal plants. All of their recent coal plants are dispatchable plants, designed to run only when the sun isn't shining. So even though they are increasing capacity quickly, their actual usage of coal is relatively flat in comparison.

And they've started building massive battery storage plants, which will likely substantially replace their coal plants over the next decade.
There's nothing quite like the sound of a flicker hammering on a downspout at 4 am!
I've moved over to Kagi, last month.

Liking it a lot.
Unfortunately I feel like the no ads is just a matter of time.
A puzzle from a game in this series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Layton
How much dod you nmake from this deal
I am very impressed with the current image generators out there, 4o / Leonardo / etc., but I cannot wait until they include some step to actually "check their work". Ask it to produce a watch with the time of 6:37. It fails every time, because almost all watch photos out there are set to a specific time, and seems like something an initial "did I do this right" check could confirm. The time example is trivial but a general "does this output actually make sense considering what the user asked" checked would be tremendously valuable.
Now it makes much more sense.

I realize I misread "One solution is text-wrap:pretty" as "OUr solution is text-wrap:pretty". Combined with the fact that this was on the webkit blog.

Thanks.
Made a to-do checklist page with exportable local storage, took about 40 minutes
https://github.com/studiozandra/localstorage-to-do/tree/mast...
It's only a miscalculation if it was unintentional. It's increasingly difficult to to give the benefit of the doubt that this isn't deliberate self-sabotage.
In the meantime, you can use Lepiter pages and program Python from there and inspect Python objects with inspector views defined either in Python or in Pharo :).
It's a non fiction study of the issue.
I find it to be wrong so often, I'd be really careful assuming it's actually correct...
After my endeavours with various store APIs and trying to get all of them to fit with our constraints, i understand why GOG Galaxy is always broken

Most of their external APIs suck tbh. Steam and PSN were the best experience i had, and the PSN one is not even officially documented. Epic doesn't even let you use their user library endpoints if you are not a partner unfortunately...
> “If the U.S. doesn’t get its debt under control, if deficits keep ballooning, America risks losing that position to digital assets like Bitcoin.”

Keyword "like". To me, means something other than USD and not necessarily Bitcoin.

> By 2030, mandatory government spending and debt service will consume all federal revenue, creating a permanent deficit.

Well, shit.
meet current building regulations

This is a synonym for “the worst construction allowed by law.”

If it wasn’t designed to meet current building regulations, the construction would be illegal.
I don't think I've ever used an active escalator in SF. They are always turned off.
Shorty: A C++ library for concise lambdas
Glamorous Toolkit is built in Smalltalk, but it is not intended for you to build systems using Smalltalk. It is a technology for building development environments for your systems. That's not quite the same. Oh, and we use it in corporate settings just fine, too :).
It only requires a modern Linux kernel.
Note: The agent does not support Docker-in-Docker environments, such as KinD or Minikube (D-in-D plugin).
> pensioned .gov retirees who want some escape from the pollution/crime/cramp of the city.

What is this stereotype? Government retirees aren't some elite wealthy class. IIRC government pensions haven't been anything to write home about since 1982 (or something), and are roughly equivalent to private sector retirement benefits.
I still primarily use search engines like Brave Search, DuckDuckGo, Bing, and Google (in that order). I've started sometimes bothering to read the search engines' AI overviews instead of skipping them, although I almost always still click through to their sources for any particular statement.

I just tried ChatGPT and saw that you can ask it to search the web and also can see its sources now. I still remembered how it was last time I used it, where it specifically refused to link out to external sources (looks like they changed it around last November). That's a pretty good improvement for using it as search.
It is. The actual text of the law makes it very clear and it has been discussed a lot. That Home Affairs webpage that tries to spin it is yet another disturbing sign.
The answer is yes, I still use, but not Google nor Bing. Relying exclusively on LLMs sounds a bit dangerous and naive.

Until when, I don't know.
None of the LLMs (not even Grok) are "continuously trained" on news. A lot of them can run searches for questions that aren't handled by their training data. Here's Grok's page explaining that: https://help.x.com/en/using-x/about-grok

> In responding to user queries, Grok has a unique feature that allows it to decide whether or not to search X public posts and conduct a real-time web search on the Internet. Grok’s access to real-time public X posts allows Grok to respond to user queries with up-to-date information and insights on a wide range of topics.
If I don't know something, I'm not gonna trust ChatGPT to get me the right answer. It may do so 90% of the time, and make shit up the other 10%. Google sucks compared to what it was (and DDG still sucks worse, which is why I still use Goog as a fallback), but I still know how to sift through the results to find something truly informative (if it's out there; some searches, like whether some product is a scam, have been SEO'd to oblivion by the scammers).

Oh, and a major reason why Google sucks now? AI enshittification. They basically jettisoned their finely tuned algorithm in favor of "just run it through the LLM sausage grinder".
Why is it 16 and not 18?

You’re still legally a minor until you’re 18 years old.
Tumors Have a Taste for Fructose, If It's Transformed by the Liver
A mathy construction like in the article is probably important for the full conjecture, but isn't this concrete case just an instance of the bin-covering problem? Your discrete items are the log of each prime factor (included according to its multiplicity), set the lower threshold to log(100k), and if you get any solution with 300k or more factors, you can redistribute the extra factors arbitrarily.
There seems to be a misunderstanding about industry terminology here.

"Product documentation" is a broad umbrella term encompassing various types of documentation across the entire product lifecycle [1]. This includes both internal-facing documentation (like feature requirements) and external-facing documentation.

Feature requirements are indeed a subset of product documentation. Industry resources clearly categorize "product features documentation" as part of the broader product documentation ecosystem [2]. Technical documentation frameworks consistently include requirements documents as core components of product documentation [3].

Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) are recognized as integral parts of the documentation ecosystem [4], serving as blueprints for implementation. The article uses "product documentation" correctly in this comprehensive sense, and the MECE framework example demonstrates precisely how feature requirements fit within established documentation practices.

The original author's usage aligns with standard industry terminology and understanding.

[1] https://indoc.pro/documentation-types/product-features-docum...

[2] https://indoc.pro/documentation-types/product-features-docum...

[3] https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/technical-documentation-in-so...

[4] https://www.productplan.com/glossary/product-requirements-do...
Hyperdrive speeds up access to databases
America is so fucking backwards it makes me cry
More like dubious chocolate if you like contaminants and mold.
Oh my.

I'm starting to think there's a Rule 34 of Isekai.
Please ask your local representatives to vote for the right to repair!
Often I remember having read an article or seen a website in ~2014 or something, and now I want to find a link to it so I can cite it. I use a search engine for this, typing in the gist of what I can remember, set a date range (more clicks than it should take), and that's how I get to it.

This can be very difficult, if there's a lot of semantic overlap with a more commonly-searched mainstream topic, or if the date-range-filtering is unreliable.

Sometimes I'll look for a recipe for banana bread or something, and searching "banana bread recipe" will get me to something acceptable. Then I just have to scroll down through 10 paragraphs of SEO exposition about how much everyone loves homemade banana bread.

Searching for suppliers for products that I want to buy is, ironically, extremely difficult.

I don't trust LLMs for any kind of factual information retrieval yet.
These are cells only, pack adds 30%.
I still use Google a lot. I don't bother chatting when a few keywords will bring me to the resource I want (90%+ of my searches).

Besides, Google has some convenient features that I frequently use, e.g., currency/unit/timezone conversion, stock chart.
Yes, for finding local information or to search for specific things. For example, to find events or shops near me, or finding reviews.

I use ChatGPT for learning about topics I don't know much about. For example, I could spend 15 minutes reading wikipedia, or I could ask it to use Wikipedia and summarize for me.
This article gets things wrong and overcomplicates other things.

he confuses the characteristic equation for the generating function. This : T(z) = z + zT + zT^2 + zT^3 is the characteristic equation.

There is no simple generating function ,as it's not possible to easily invert a cubic closed in form.

Successive derivatives of the generating function are taken to find the coefficients of the infinite series that encodes the sought values. It's hard enough explaining this with a quadratic; a cubic so much more involved.

This so far beyond the scope of a blog post. You need to spend at least a few weeks working on this or take some college courses.
No you don't. If you were doing that you wouldn't have time to eat, let alone sleep.

You check the information you decide should be verified.
Coroot builds a model of each system, allowing it to traverse the dependency graph and identify correlations between metrics. On top of that, we're experimenting with LLMs for summarization — here are a few examples: https://oopsdb.coroot.com/failures/cpu-noisy-neighbor/
Not listed is the red-bellied woodpecker. I've got one of them that drums on my gutters just outside my home office window every day. Multiple times a day. Fast, evenly spaced drumming with no variation or fall-off. Lasts 1-3 seconds. Maybe not quite as fast as the flicker, but close.

I thought he was putting holes in my house for a while until I figured out what he was doing. I have a lot of flickers around too, but don't hear them drumming very often.
They taste weird to me too but I'm not convinced it's an absolute quality rather than just unfamiliarity
Well, I have seen reasonably important systems being written in Smalltalk, but these were not advertised too publicly because... well, they were considered a competitive advantage :).
TFA doesn't provide any measurements, so how did you compare them?
Really, really cool honestly.

Tiny question though, where the hell are his clothes?
It ends when Trump gets a bribe from China.
Like seneca, I also don’t know anyone who uses it. That’s interesting. I haven’t used it for around 2 years.

I wonder who uses it when I see their reports, because I don’t know them. I probably have a weird group of friends. I’m sure if I asked, some of my coworkers use it.

My kids would love if we used it. Perhaps it’s big among younger people.
We did not evaluate libraries that have a paid plan
Ask HN: How will we integrate MCP servers in the future for all of our devtools?
Just curious what everybody thinks about how we will use MCP servers in the future. The thing I am stuck on is the future of the integration pattern.

Right now we go into our MCP client of choice like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf and we manually add the servers ourselves after we done a bit of research to make sure it isn't too sketchy.

I think this is fine but what if we are working with multiple devtools at once, are we are going have 20-30 MCP servers integrated or added to Cursor. Not the end of the world and I guess it mimics sort of the like the VS Code Extension pattern, but I am wondering if a platform is just going to own all the integrations and we just connected one integration that manages the others?

Additionally is the new status quo going to be every devtool or developer service going to have a MCP service for their docs, SDKs, and REST APIs, and there will be a new vendor(although this probably exists already) as a service that just generates MCP servers for companies from their existing stack? And will it be as simple as them having a doc page that says copy this server link or run this npm command with prompts?

Anyways curious what folks think, I definitely have some ideas around MCP but I am still learning!
Are you referring to Smalltalk here or Glamorous Toolkit? :)
When Google's results are garbage I will sometimes ChatGPT or others. This is increasing, but that has more to do with Google producing ever worsening results than any desire to use LLMs to "search".

Google wants to show me products to buy, which I'm almost never searching for, or they're "being super helpful" by removing/modifying my search terms, or they demonstrate that the decision makers simply don't care (or understand) what search is intended to accomplish for the user (ex: ever-present notices that there "aren't many results" for my search).

Recently tried to find a singer and song title based on lyrics. Google wouldn't present either of those, despite giving it the exact lyrics. ChatGPT gave me nonsense until I complained that it was giving me worse results than Google, at which point it gave me the correct singer but the wrong song, and then the correct song after pointing out that it was wrong about that.

Still can't get Google to do it unless my search is for the singer's name and song title, which is a bit late to the party.
i mean, the bank can be a fraud protection, inter for example ask for a monthly payment for security, not sure how good tho
AI in News Reporting
> the world's most famous con artist is fully on board.

Correlation does not imply causation. That con artist is also big on semiconductors. His being on board BTC means it has the ability to enrich the ultra rich more which also does not imply that BTC is necessarily bad. But it does mean the sharks are coming for it, and they don't have the average person's best interest in mind and often the exact opposite.

> tying crypto to fiat

Biggest reason I have lost a lot of interest in bitcoin but I'm still very long on it.
What if the advertiser's product or service is objectively (according to either a prompt defined by the user or by the UI operator, transparently provided) the answer to the query?
Yes, all the time. I use ChatGPT to help me get a general sense of direction when I'm learning something new. Once I have a few potential paths to explore, I combine regular Google searches with ChatGPT prompts to make sure my understanding aligns with reality.