skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doge demanded, and has thus far obtained, access to the databases of every government agency - including the IRS and Social Security.

It is likely Musk personally possesses the personal data of every person in America.
this is such a large red-flag.. with layers of conflicts of interest
The scaffolding is built from convex volumes, and I know which cuboid faces are "walls" and which are "windows" so I link the windows into a graph where the shared-faces are waypoints and do A*, using straight-line distance as the cost function.

Big obstacles are just built from the scaffold itself, and small obstacles are avoidable by just doing "whisker-traces" to veer around them (the navigation path is a movement hint used to calculate accelerations, not followed strictly).
I think big corporations will take ownership - well not directly but via paying to foundations and it already is the case.

Second thing is there are bunch of things corporations need to use but don't want to develop on their own like SSH.

There is already too much internal tooling inside of big corporations that is rotting there and a lot of times it would be much better if they give it out to a foundation - like Apache foundation where projects go to die or limp through.
Nah, next step would be to pull the UX noose tighter and tighter, limiting things like number of clicks to reject non-essential cookies, restricting data loss (like if you already filled in some form data, etc.), maybe even limiting how much of the screen they're allowed to take until the user clicks on "read more" or whatever, etc.

I don't think this is necessarily going to happen, but that would be the reasonable next step from where we are now: boiling the advertiser frog slowly and with changes that users would consider uncontroversially positive.
Cool, thanks for elaborating!
I suspect we are seeing the first wave of programmers who got a promotion to "senior" on the basis of being an early AI adopter at a place that valued lines of code written or tickets closed or other similarly-game-able metrics.

Alternatively, there are people who haven't been promoted but think their AI-fu is so good they obviously should have been, without realizing that "senior" is actually a different role, with additional responsibilities.

I've found asking about their pedagogy when coaching junior engineers is a great sorting strategy right now. It isn't something a lot of people have written about so ChatGPT's answers are full of useless platitudes, and mid-level engineers often don't even know that it is part of the job.
Standard rate I've seen is $5k (N = 2)
Would you go back to a pre-youtube, pre-printing press, pre-internet, pre-pick-your—favorite-tecnology that democratized content creation and distribution? I know I wouldn’t.
I still remember decades and decades ago hearing about vending machines in Japan. Someone mentioned going to Japan and how you could get cold cans of coffee out of vending machines there. This was sometime in the 1990s, before even Starbucks was a huge thing. Everyone I knew thought the idea of cold coffee was ridiculous, a quirk of the Japanese that would never catch on.

I feel the Japanese have been pretty good at exporting culture, but it has a lot of misses among the few hits. I wonder if this is something that would catch on outside of Japan.
Hey, we’re working on MatterRank which is pretty similar to this but currently works on web search. (e.g. I want to prioritize results that talk about X and have Y bias and I want to deprioritize those that are trying to sell me something). Feel free to try it out at https://matterrank.ai

Would also be interested in hearing more about what you’re envisioning for your use case. Are you thinking a browser extension that acts on sites you’re already on, or some sort of shopping aggregator that lets you do this, or something else entirely?
I feel like I slept for a day and now MCPs are everywhere... I don't know what MCPs are and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
Men statistically have fewer social connections and suffer more from loneliness as they get older, so if the goal is to remedy that, it makes sense to start with men first.
but people don't use the file hash, that's internal to git. I go to the centralized repository of repositories at github.com and look up tagged version 1.0.0 of whatever software, which refers to a git tag which references a commit hash (which yes it references a tree object as you said).
So if they use the open format, they aren't able to offer 'quality' upgrades only available if they hack their own hardware?

So if they are forced to use the open DNG format, the cameras are in parity now?
My Response to Superintelligence Strategy
I discuss how the automation wave is already starting with white-collar job openings at a 12 year low in the U.S. I also talk about how we cannot simply count on taxing AI to support automated workers, as countries that don't tax will outcompete those who do. We therefore need international cooperation, based in MAIM, from the original Superintelligence Strategy paper.

I also discuss how bioweapons cannot be avoided via restricting open weight models as originally suggested in Dan's paper. Rather we need to heavily invest in bioweapon defense, and in particular use AI for wastewater monitoring and accelerating metagenomics (detangling mixed DNA).
The general rule seems to be if you’re not customer-facing, then no suit is needed. Just wear clean, neat clothes and that’s usually enough. If a suit or uniform is needed, that would be noted up front.
It would if "do not track" had to be treated as an automatic "only essential cookies" choice to avoid cookie banners altogether.

At first it would only affect a couple of users, but sooner or later enough "life hack" videos would be out there informing plenty of users about how to get rid of those annoying cookie banners.
Oh, tell me about it. Sure, you can only stop-down meter Pentax 645 lenses on F mount since the aperture levers go opposite ways, and I don't know any of the YouTubers who are the only ones left doing that kind of engineering. So what? With anything that doesn't move around a lot, and the sensor crop working in your favor to deliver only from where the glass is sharpest - sure, you're not doing wide angle that way, but where else are you getting a razor-sharp 120mm f/4 macro for a hundred bucks?

The 105mm f/2.8 VR II Micro-Nikkor is still better for the field, of course; that kind of work requires a lens which can talk to my body and flashes, and the stabilizer is actually useful. But for folks not chasing wasps around or the like - and willing to be a little old-fashioned about their working, in a way that will teach you about photography some of what a Piper or Cessna does about flying - there really is no better way to get anywhere near that kind of performance at a similar price point, and a well-maintained lens of such stately age is a joy to work with besides.
It explains why the result is the particular value it is, which depends on the date serial number mechanism Excel uses and the mistaken 1900 leap year. I learned something, personally. Also, WRT the idea that “everyone knows” Excel will treat 1/2 as a date… https://xkcd.com/1053/
When are we moving to SHA256? Some code bases must be getting massive by now sfter 20 years,
And probably payment shouldn't be made until after some time on job to ensure the job is real and the company's not sketchy.
Average Tariff Rates Between US and Top Trade Partners
But can I see the difference in that applied metadata?
So this is interesting because it's anecdotal (I presume you're a high-token user who believes it's revolutionary), but it's actually a measurable, falsifiable hypothesis in principle.

I'd love to see a survey from a major LLM API provider that correlated LLM spend (and/or tokens) with optimism for future transformativity. Correlation with a view of "current utility" would be a tautology, obviously.

I actually have the opposite intuition from you: I suspect the people using the most tokens are using it for very well-defined tasks that it's good at _now_ (entity extraction, classification, etc) and have an uncorrelated position on future potential. Full disclosure, I'm in that camp.
I'd say you solve this the same way you solve principal agent problem for humans.

If you have to absolutely restrict the agent, you do it prison style. Contain the AI within a capability box like Polykey. The agent operates everything through a closed by default proxy.

If you want a truly free agent. Then the agent must have free will and no constraints. Then only feedback loops from the environment adjusts the agent's actions.
The funny thing is that 1/3 of people think LLMs are dumb and will never amount to anything. Another third think that it's already too late to prevent the rise of superhuman AGI that will destroy humanity, and are calling for airstrikes on any data center that does not submit to their luddite rules. And the last third use LLMs for writing small pieces of code.
Completely fair and valid perspective.

However we're not trying to replace lawyers, courts, or the practice of law. What we are building is a tool for accessibility and understanding, especially for people who can’t afford legal help, or don’t even know where to start. Students. Small business owners. Tenants. Freelancers.

The idea isn't to automate judgment - it’s to lower the barrier between confusion and clarity.

We genuinely believe it does work as well as mentioned, did you get a chance to try it out?

Thanks for the comment and your honest opinion!
> why no radio frequency evidence of other stars

unless the radio beam is aimed directly at us, we may not be able to detect the radio communication of other civilizations.
Nah, sorry but that's BS.

There's a difference between "everything is political" and "everything of importance to social functioning also has political ramifications".

The latter is almost undeniably true, and very much applies to technology. Calling that "everything is political" and dismissing it as such is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliche.
No you do not. If you have not actually validated each and every source package your trust is only related to the generated binaries corresponding to the sources you had. The trusting trust attack was deployed against the source code of the compiler, poisoning specific binaries.
Do you know if GCC 6.99 or 7.0 doesn't put a backdoor in some specific condition?

There's no static or dynamic analysis deployed to enhance this level of trust.

The initial attempts are simulated execution like in valgrind, all the sanitizer work, perhaps difference on the functional level beyond the text of the source code where it's too easy to smuggle things through...
(Like on an abstracted conditional graph.)

We cannot even compare binaries or executables right given differing compiler revisions.
> You think he, or the GOP would "benefit" from the stock market collapse?

Uhmmm, no. Did I imply that? I can't see how Trump benefits from this, let alone anyone else in the USA. In fact I had to think long and hard to come up with anyone on the planet who benefits. Maybe Putin, but now he's up against a re-arming and united Europe.

I was just admiring Buffett's solution. It turns the debt into a marketable good, and so lets the market decide who will be best at getting reducing it. It probably would not work for some reason I can't think of, but it's very appealing.

But now I think about it, Buffett may benefit. He said in the article he's moved a lot of his portfolio overseas, according to the AI's around 40% of it. Lets assume the worst happens and the US dollar and economy falls off a cliff in the next 4 years. Trump and the rump of barnacles in the GOP that support him will be wiped off the political map, because as Biden discovered yet again, regardless of how well you govern "it's about the economy stupid", even if the economy was tanked by the other sides COVID bazooka 4 years prior. Buffett will move his portfolio back onshore after it all bottoms out and the price is cheap. The pain will be remembered so there won't be a repeat for at least a few decades. The USA will bounce back, and Buffett doubles his money. It's the typical Buffett play.
As this article is actually on-topic, then it’s most likely because it sows internal discord.

Like most minds, the HN hive mind prefers to deny and suppress in response to various forms of cognitive dissonance, such as that which arises when one’s actions (or inaction) contradict one’s stated beliefs or morals.

HN also isn’t one for conscious introspection (ie meta commentary). Your comment and my response are generally no-nos.
6 figures? I only take jobs with free fruit basket. That's the minimum.

PS, my references: I have never used cursor, I am quite bad at vibe coding and don't enjoy it at all. I rarely even use AI for help. But I am quite decent at FPGA design and embedded developemnt. If you have a job for me in germany or remote in europe, then I will pay you with very bad humor every week. Possibility of using linux+neovim is a requirement though. (Yes, I really need a job)
>Are products allowed to have labels?

Last time I checked, a product label (on the product or on the package) is not an advertisement. It's just the name of the product and/or brand, and maybe some lines about what it does. Even if you call a product label "a sort of an advertisment" it's fine.

When people complain about advertising today, do they refer to product labels? Or to their friends telling them about a product? If not, why are you bringing this up?

>Am I allowed to tell my friends I like a product? What if I put a video on youtube and accidentally include a brand name in it?

Sure, as long as you aren't getting paid for doing it (directly or via affiliate kickbacks). If you are, and you're discovered, you pay a fine - or go to jail.

You try to paint a "it's impossible" all or nothing scenario around marginal advertising and edge cases. Doesn't matter. If we can get rid of 90% of overt advertising - tv ads, streaming ads, posters, billboads, radio jingles, that's enough, even if "you put a video on youtube and accidentally include a brand name in it".
> Doesn't the crime rate go down when Republicans hold the power?

Federally? There's no reason to think the federal government changing hands would impact local crime rates. Overall violent crime has seen steady decline from the 1970s to the present day. [1] That period has seen both Democratic and Republican administrations.

At the state level it's a different picture. 8 of the top 10, and 17 of the top 25 states for homicide rate are "red" states.[2] I think poverty and per-capita income rates in a state are a better predictor of crime rates than which party is specifically in power.

> Doesn't Florida have a much lower crime rate than California?

If you consume exclusively right-wing news media (or your favorite social media ragebait) you'd have that impression. Depending on your source they're either about equal (FBI stats) over the past 2 decades or Florida's murder rate is higher (CDC).[2] Either way it is not "much lower". For "much" lower I'd go to states like Massachusetts, Utah, or Hawaii which have murder rates closer to Western Europe.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Cri...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
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Any effective screening strategy is going to catch the liars who do it only a little with some probability.

Not least because being willing to be dishonest during an interview is a strong signal the candidate will be dishonest while they are employed as well, and companies want very much to not hire those people.
I'm old enough to have used RCS. Very primitive and CVS was soon in use. Git is a breath of fresh air compared to these ones.
"Making an AI journaling app that works offline – even without internet"
Hi HN,
I’m a young aspiring developer from Bangladesh, currently building an offline-first, multilingual journaling assistant app called Lokkhi Diary — designed for users in regions with limited internet access.

The goal:
To help millions of dreamers like me—who may not always have access to high-end devices or stable internet—use AI-powered journaling and learning tools that actually work offline.

Key features:

Timestamped journaling with version history

Voice-to-text support (Bangla & English)

Offline Bangla-English translation

Smart reminders, search, and structure

A special mode that works like a “personal ChatGPT inside your diary”

I'm building this not just for myself, but for the entire community of learners, writers, and dreamers in low-connectivity areas.
I want to create something that feels like magic, but is built with care, empathy, and purpose.

Here’s a rough concept and early progress:
[ “coming soon”]

I’d deeply appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or even ideas on how to reach mentors or people like Sam Altman who inspire me to think bigger.

Thanks for reading — and thank you HN for constantly inspiring makers like me to push beyond limits.

P.S. I’ll be in the comments if anyone wants to know more about the tech stack, design challenges, or vision behind this!
> The highest-paying developer jobs have always expected programmers to wear suits to the interviews.

this is the inverse of the hacker aesthetic. you might be right, but it's just sad.

personally, I'd assume the candidates that look the most non-conforming would be more talented and creative - more likely to love the work than the paycheck - but maybe it's no surprise that the highest-paying positions look for suits like quants at an investment bank.
Thanks for noticing this, and yes I have also noticed what you're pointing out, but workable for many use cases. I use this workflow for making images for marketing or web (so images are more artistic than photo realistic generations to begin with). Think of stuff you can find on undraw, but generated by image models from prompts. Then run them through VTracer. The reproductions are not perfect, but are often good enough (can be slow depending on how sharp you want the curves, and often very large file sizes as you mentioned). Then make any changes in inkscape and convert back to raster for publishing.

> logo generation app

For logo generation, I would actually prefer code gen. I thought of this problem when reading about the diffusion language models recent (if there is lots of training data available in form of text-vector-raster triplets).
I can't count how many issues I've seen due to: missing useEffect dependencies, cyclical hooks, unnecessary rerenders, etc. linked to this API.

It has a lot of expressivity but is incredibly brittle and dangerous.
I use my Canon EOS 90D fairly often, but there is one exception for me. For low-light conditions my phone often exceeds the performance of my camera. Especially for high movement & dynamic scenes, I would definitely recommend having a high end phone nearby :)
And the worst part is that it opens a pandora's box of potential exploits; https://elenacross7.medium.com/%EF%B8%8F-the-s-in-mcp-stands...
Can you explain how this will work when the fed may have to raise rates to combat inflation?
Seems like you are a startupper from Hungary? Shoot me a mail, I love getting to know other local startuppers. (in profile)
The problem is that the "right" tune is different for different people.
When doing interior decoration, I am definitely interested in finding objects that fit very specific prompts.
Well yeah, it's generating short links. I mean to highlight the server runs curl in a sandbox against the 3rd party host on behalf of the user, not just that the server and client talk to each other as you use the page.
So as long as you can point to someone sad, you win?

The only valid text makers are humans.
I thought the same thing. The sujimon in the Like a Dragon games are conceptually pretty similar (except it's various Yakuza mobs you're collecting).
I see no particular reason to discriminate even from the get-go. Nor was addressing loneliness even the goal.
Like cursor, but for blogging: a weekend project
> not to mention the ridiculous amount of compute to run it.

How does the brain computes the weights then? Or maybe your assumption than brain is equivalent to a mathematical NN is wrong?
Of course you are; Esperanto is a manufactured language designed to a certain standard; French, like our unfortunate English, is naturally evolved and has all the variants and inconsistencies that implies.
Because they are clearly against users' rights, the only thing GPL is trying to protect. The exact technicalities I believe are not very important (yet they might be interesting).
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Where are the flaggers? Come on, you're slacking off.

Neutron Stars? Other Dimensions? This has GOT to be woke, right?

The level of flagging on HN lately is totally out of control.

And they complained that the woke were cancelling people...
I try to keep very few programming rules, but one which has emerged over time is "no python unless absolutely necessary" (precisely because of the thing you hinted at- the dependency problem, which I've run into one time too many, but also, the whole concept of there being only 1 way to do things which is kind of enforced just always rubbed me the wrong way)

But yes, in theory, that might be nice! There's also the Python-powered shell, Xonsh, which I can't use either.
Still slightly confused on what MCPs are but looking at this it does look useful
$10k is such an insanely small amount of money (compared to SWE salaries) for someone at a big tech company to risk their job for.
I'm not going to argue with your general point - the Nissan Versa is, indeed, the national car of Mexico - but EV's are showing up. Rode in a BYD EV Über in Mexico City a few months ago.
The #1 reason I push for SSR/vanilla web is to consolidate all state to the server. Literally the only thing on the client could be a session cookie. A few hundred bits of entropy. That's the client's state. Imagine how simple that would be.

The cost of a round trip for every UI interaction might seem high, but I've never seen a distributed client/server state machine model that could compensate for any of these alleged UX harms without simultaneously bringing in more complexity than anyone was prepared to deal with.
I think people will tend to argue two points:

1) Debt isn't bad in itself, running a deficit isn't bad in itself. (though they can be bad in some situations!)

2) The US is in the position to "fix" the debt problem in a lot of creative ways (I mean, some pro-tariff are arguing this too, right? just that the creative way is tariffs).
Through the process of " getting a social media frenzy going".

Regardless of your motivation, when you gather up a social media frenzy, you can't control the mob. It just ends with everyone being harassed en mass by the mob.

And you are still responsible for the consequences of that internet hate mob, if you use it.
And vending machines with hot drinks and soups, my favorite being cream of corn soup...which I have yet to see stateside.

Another thing Japan had before the US was texting on your phone. I was living in Japan at the time and recall telling my American friend who worked as a Manager at ATT about texting and she thought it was the dumbest thing she had ever heard of.
Tom is webscale
It's a go-getter idea in general, but this part is very questionable:

> So if you want to make some extra cash for referrals,

Lots of companies were already shooting themselves in the foot, by introducing conflicts of interest in paying referral bonuses.

But for the companies that weren't already insane in the membrane, regarding referrals, it looks like a bribe.
might have hit the flamewar filter? pushing it down the rankings? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22159031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25871251)