skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand it as that too. But even then, I dislike it.

Yes, "shipped, but terrible software" is far more valuable than "perfect software that's not available". But that's a goal.

The "move fast and break things" is a means to that goal. One of many ways to achieve this. In this, "move fast" is evident: who would ever want to move slowly if moving fast has the exact same trade-offs?

"Break things" is the part that I truly dislike. No. We don't "break things" for our users, our colleagues or our future-selves (ie tech debt).

In other situations, the "move fast and break things" implies a preferred leaning towards low-quality in the famous "Speed / Cost / Quality Trade-off". Where, by decreasing quality, we gain speed (while keeping cost the same?).

This fallacy has long been debunked, with actual research and data to back it up¹: Software Engineering projects that focus on quality, actually gain speed! Even without reading research or papers, this makes sense: we all know how much time is wasted on fixing regressions, muddling through technical debt, rewriting unreadable/-manageable/-extensible code etc. A clean, well-maintained, neatly tested, up-to-date codebase allows one to add features much faster than that horrible ball of mud that accumulated hacks and debt and bugs for decades.

¹e.g. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations is a nice starting point with lots of references to research and data on this.
Koreo: The platform engineering toolkit for Kubernetes
That’s just some rando googling away.

How does that have any relation to a real agency, staffed with competent experts that specialize in background checks?
Discussion last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593913
Portfolio Website in Next.js
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Yes, to much of what you said.
Looks like bronze.
> Their population is declining

Not where it matters. China has a much larger under-employed population base than the US has. They still have a few hundred million peasant farmers whose children can and are getting educated and moving to the city. Their pool of labour is growing while the US's is stagnant.

Not that it needs to grow -- over the last decade or so China's factory employment has been relatively constant while output has surged dramatically. Their factories are rapidly automating.
MCP docs say it's like USB for your AI model. A2A sounds more like a networking stack for multiple AI models.
It's fun to see people intentionally advocating for the "smash it with a hammer" approach because working with perspective and nuance is apparently ineffective "navel gazing".

I never thought the ~leopards~ hammers would ~eat~ smash MY ~face~ thumb!
Oh I didn't know that, the Swedish system doesn't have anything like that as far as I am aware. But credit card fraud reimbursements are relatively straightforward. The PIX one seems more complicated, but the chance of being defrauded on PIX transactions is much smaller as well.

as in you can't get your card cloned and then a bunch of transactions show up.
Not to be a hater, but this is Ben Thomspon's style. Dial up the word count until people think your analysis is comprehensive, to disguise the fact that you're not saying anything substantive.
Reneging on an offer means revoking it after it has been accepted, and that's poor form.

Turning down an offer puts you into a small category of "people we would hire if we had the chance" and the recruiters or hiring managers will follow up with you for some set period of time just in case something changes on your side. They already have decided you would be a good fit, after all.
Agree, and I find this totally bizarre.

The Trump administration's power is based in the Russian propaganda machine and xenophobia. Blanket tariffs (except towards Russia and Belarus, not mentioned in Ben Thompson's article of course) are in service of those two power bases.
What.. no royalty?!? I'll see myself out.
Not bad, I bookmark it, its good for prototyping ideas.

If it doesn't cost you much money you should keep it free and maybe sell an advanced version aimed at companies.

There are already similar things like this in the market, you could easily create an advanced version by adding paid AI prompts that generate code.
I don't take their explanation at face value. I think you very well could be right in your analysis here.

It is more interesting to me that actual targeting is based on trade imbalance. They could easily have used the same rhetoric and targeted the tariffs based on something else. I think the way they are targeted is sufficient to rule out a lot of explanations I have seen proposed like I mentioned above. What you are mentioning seems super plausible to me I just can't be sure yet.
Reverse engineering the memory layout of GPU inference
Professional multiplayer game developer here. I wonder what multiplayer games the SpacetimeDB folks have actually shipped?
Someone needs to devise software and a standard for viewing documents over the internet.
There seems to be a new solution for tourists in Brazil to use Pix but with their digital wallet: https://www.infomoney.com.br/minhas-financas/pix-para-gringo...
the same phone, but with nothing usefull or important on it, no apps with personal info
banking done through email sign in.....everything done through email sign in
switching my email to webmail sign in, so there will be nothing on the device at all
just random pics, sd card,music, meaningless files for jobs
plus there is no password or encryption, want it?
have it.......sims got a pass code though
correct, in Q4
The Role of AI-Based Chatbots in Public Health Emergencies: A Narrative Review
> It's not a reasonable place to start.

Why not? If it works it works. Not everyone is concerned with receiving the award for best programmer.

> they won't be able to answer because they don't know.

I do understand that you are thinking of a specific person here, but broadly, you will know how it works more or less because you'll already know how you would implement yourself if you had to. But since someone's else code already did, no need to think about it further. This remains a reasonable place to start.

> but not the why

If you are not capturing "why" in your tests, what are you testing, exactly? The "what" is already captured in the implementation. You don't need that written down twice. Worse, if you do end up testing "what" you are bound to have to deal with broken tests every time you have to make a change. That is a horrid situation to find yourself in.

I do agree that writing useful tests is really hard, at least as hard as writing good reference material, and thus beyond the skill of most. But if you have to work with something built by the unskilled, all bets are off no matter which way you look.
The Mutable OS: Why Isn't Windows Immutable in 2025?
Hey all—this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while in my day-to-day as a desktop support tech. We’ve made huge strides in OS security, but immutability is still seen as exotic, and I don’t think it should be. Curious to hear thoughts or counterpoints from folks who’ve wrestled with these same issues.
> There's no button to press in a DG that says "sell more eggplants please".

Yes, there is. They absolutely manage stock based on demand, as does every other chain store.
From NER to Agents: Does Automated Prompt Engineering Scale to Complex Tasks?
Enterprise databases are filled with users usurping a field with pre/post-pending characters to mean something special to them. Even filenames have this problem due to limitations in directory trees. Inband signals will never go away.
Show HN: Simplify podcast marketing and outreach for businesses
Not officially launched, but need to start getting this out there...

SONODAY was built to solve a real pain point I experienced while marketing products: podcast outreach is incredibly time-consuming.

Our platform gives you instant access to podcast contact info (1€/email), lets you bundle shows across networks, and includes basic CRM features to track your campaigns.

We're in beta (v0.5) with more features coming soon. Yes... this is a rare product that is currently sans AI

Would love feedback from the HN community on our approach to making podcast marketing more accessible and efficient!
That, and cultural.

Irish-Americans are less ambivalent about their roots than many other people of European descent - being excited about being part-German in Missouri is tantamount to being excited about watching paint dry, for example - and the fact that a man of Irish descent was President of the United States within two centuries of the "famine" and after centuries of oppression by the English boosts the credibility of America as a "land of opportunity", even if only in retrospect.
Show HN: Made this fetch wrapper so that I don't use axios
I was hesitant to share this here but I hope those who love fetch might find it cool, hope I get no hate comments for making another fetch wrapper in attempt to replace axios library, I just think fetch is all you need and some cherrys on top!
this should have been titled "When Matlab is Better than numpy", and the arguments are: syntax, standard library (if you bought all the extra toolboxes), documentation, 1-based indexing (sic!).

Author does not mention anything about octave.
Check out http://userdoc.fyi - helps build out super detailed requirements, user personas, and user journeys with AI
Road deaths fell below 40k in 2024, the lowest since 2019
This reads like trying to find meaning where there is none.
> it's quite possible that they're intentionally irrational as a bargaining or maneuvering tactic

This is the rationalization being projected onto the situation, but it doesn’t make logical sense.

The administration launched a trade war with 100+ fronts and left no time to negotiate with all of them, let alone the biggest players.

The biggest players are already calling the administration’s bluff with counter-tariffs. If there was an expectation to use the threat of irrational tariffs as a bargaining chip, they didn’t leave enough time to do it.
See also Scott Siskind and Curtis Yarvin.
Wasm? What a great idea.
Taking advantage of self-driven people and stealing the results of their hard work is something communist dictators tried quite hard. Also brainwashing people to work their asses off for some other reason than the selfish one.

It didn’t work. The society produced less and less value, crappier and crappier quality, uglier and uglier and grayer and grayer.
The assumption in the modelling is that sales will decline proportional to the price increase. IOW, they'll sell 2/3 as many shoes at 150% of the price.

Probably not a great model, but it's simple and a reasonable guess. Remember all the competitors will have price increases too.
I was talking about more than just a blog. It puts things into different perspective when you are writing a big program. For instance, you are tasked on creating a custom auth. Would you feel more comfortable after having used something like authentik or kanidm in the past or having no experience with it at all?
As a Dutch person I'm baffled that you're saying the PV industry has headwinds.

Recently added another 4000kWh of yearly production to my garage for €4000 all in because why not. I also have a 20 kWh LFP battery now, €7000 all-in (and dropping quickly!), which works out fine.

Many people now buy "plug-in" products: small batteries or single PV panel that you just plug into the grid directly, no installation required.

All the issues you list are governmental issues, not PV issues. The global PV indsutry is EXPLODING.
Most MIT Mech E grads work at Boeing. Most Chem Es work at Exxon, Merck and Intel. Most Aero Astros are at Boeing. Etc. Etc. You just aren't accurate.
GPUs, very good for pretraining. Inefficient for inference.

Why?

For each new word a transformer generates it has to move the entire set of model weights from memory to compute units. For a 70 billion parameter model with 16-bit weights that requires moving approximately 140 gigabytes of data to generate just a single word.

GPUs have off-chip memory. That means a GPU has to push data across a chip - memory bridge for every single word it creates. This architectural choice, is an advantage for graphics processing where large amounts of data needs to be stored but not necessarily accessed as rapidly for every single computation. It's a liability in inference where quick and frequent data access is critical.

Listening to Andrew Feldman of Cerebras [0] is what helped me grok the differences. Caveat, he is a founder/CEO of a company that sells hardware for AI inference, so the guy is talking his book.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW9vwF7TUI8&list=PLnJFlI3aIN...
Kindle Modding Wiki
Coffee futures prices do not include tariffs. They reflect the base market price of coffee for delivery at a future date, typically free on board (FOB) at a specified origin port (e.g., Brazil or Colombia). Tariffs, import duties, and local taxes are added later by the importer based on destination country policies.

Prices including tariffs might well go up but that's not what the article is about.

Since prices for consumers go up due to tariffs, demand goes down, hence prices ex-tariff go down. Standard stuff with tariffs, they make things cheaper on the outside.
Choline: The underappreciated nutrient that's vital for our brains
Dollar General is a mega corporation that can operate on an entirely different level than local stores. They pay their workers less and the profits go out of state. On a store-by-store basis though, Dollar general is a fragile establishment, management will not hesitate to abandon the location if they are spending too much money propping up the store. And the overhead for these stores is higher than it needs to be - they build way larger stores and parking lots than they actually need. The local dry goods store has grown only to the size that it requires, and those profits go towards its own survival. It provides cultural value, economic opportunities, and is more likely to improve the lives of people living nearby.

Strong towns (who made the article) is a grassroots nonprofit that finds concrete ways for US cities to curb the effects of urban sprawl. One of those ways is to acknowledge that inviting huge commercial ventures into your small local economy is like bringing a giant mammal to roam free on a small island nation. It's probably going to affect the ecosystem in ways that don't suit the environment.
>Strong Towns is a leading voice on YIMBY, but this is reminiscent of the common arguments I hear from NIMBY folks..."they shouldn't be allowed to build here because ____" is definitionally NIMBY.

I've come to the realization that strong towns are basically just moderate NIMBYs.

On a scale from 65yo California suburbanite to Ron Paul they're basically the suburbanite but they're but they're self aware enough to realize if they push too far, ask too much, destroy too much wealth, that they'll bring the whole house of cards crashing down.

Ultimately I think it's best to just shitcan all pretense of local zoning, let the states regulate the stuff they do (i.e. hazmat processing and junkyards and the other truly unsightly things that NIMBYs always pretend they are the only line of defense from) and let the developers and the businesses and residents deal with the opportunities and the fallout that arises. Sure, there will be some losers but everyone will lose a heck of a lot less than they do with the status quo wherein only big interests can actually do much of anything.
PostScript: this is how I solve the biggest problem I see. I don't care about linking to other pages. I don't care about reflowing. I care very much that if you use man in the terminal, the output is really hard to read other than for short man pages. man bash, for instance, is something you could reasonably want to read, but it's about 5000 lines long and in the terminal it's hard to see the organisational structure.

Reformatting as Postscript shows the pages they were meant to be. I started as a Sun admin, and we used to have paper manuals, properly typeset - and that's what you get when you use Postscript as the output.

For Unix/Linux users - investigate "man -t".

However - MacOS doesn't support reading Postscript now. It used to, but the feature was removed from Preview. At the risk of teaching multiple grandmothers to suck eggs, I use this script:

manps () {
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo usage: $FUNCNAME topic
echo This will open a PostScript formatted version of the man page for \'topic\'.
else
man -t $1 | ps2pdf - | open -f -a /System/Applications/Preview.app
fi
}

where ps2pdf comes from Homebrew.
Broadly that is true of the administration's motives, but as concerns trade with China, they are obviously aware of both the national security and competitiveness angle. Not only did Biden take the lead on that already with the exact above rationale, China is currently more steeply targeted.
Point-and-Click Adventures of the 21st Century
Prompting LLMs to turn search queries like "red loveseat" into structured search filters like {"item_type": "loveseat", "color": "red"} is a neat trick.

I tried Doug's prompt out on a few other LLMs:

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B handles it well and costs about 1/1000th of a cent: https://gist.github.com/simonw/cc825bfa7f921ca9ac47d7afb6eab...

Llama 3.2 3B is a very small local model (a 2GB file) which can handle it too: https://gist.github.com/simonw/d18422ca24528cdb9e5bd77692531...

An even smaller model, the 1.1GB deepseek-r1:1.5b, thought about it at length and confidently spat out the wrong answer! https://gist.github.com/simonw/c37eca96dd6721883207c99d25aec...

All three tests run with https://llm.datasette.io using the llm-gemini or llm-ollama plugins.
> Nvidia seemed 'untouchable' for so long in this space that its nice to see things get shaken up.

Did it?

Both Mistral's LeChat (running on Cerebras) and Google's Gemini (running on Tensors) have clearly showed ages ago Nvidia had no advantage at all in inference.

The hundreds of billions spent in hardware till now focused on training, but inference is in the long run gonna get the lion share of the work.
It is quite hard to reliably and consistently connect deterministic systems and goals with nondeterministic compute. I don't know if all of this will ever be exactly what we want.
I think the plugin prodicts are pretty cool, especially for renters, but my understanding they're not legal in the US
40% of Texas's electricity, not energy.

There is still a lot of fossil energy consumed, too.
Show HN: Raddle, my word transformation game
I went from idea to execution on this word game in about 10 days, using the Svelte framework, and with a lot of help from Claude AI.

Raddle is like a word ladder game, but from step to step the words can change in a variety of ways, from semantic, to orthographic, to phonetic. Your guidance for figuring out each step is a list of clues. But it's up to you to figure out which clue goes with which step.

For instance, today's puzzle goes from OK to GO in 15 steps. You have 14 clues that help you figure out how to transform OK into a new word, which transforms into a new word, etc until you get to GO.

When you load the site for the first time, you'll be greeted with a tutorial that teaches you the game, using a short Raddle. There are about 45 days' worth of Raddles up on the site right now, and I'm posting new ones every day. Enjoy!
In which metaphor the thesis would implicitly be that we can't for some reason disassemble the "ratchet" and carefully retract or remove the "pawl," but have to chuck a "lit stick of dynamite" into the "workshop."

No, there is still a lot of work to do before we get close to making this make any sense.
I used “architecture” to refer to the discipline not as a synonym for “a building.
> First you invite industry to reshore via subsidies and preferential access to government contracts. If necessary, the government must directly invest in new firms.

Summarized: the government gives money to companies, or more charitable "invests".

I would totally agree with you on this path forward BUT FOR the fact that thos nation is dead broke. Completely dead broke. There's no responsible money to do this with. None.
Hi, I think our approach can benefit from these OCR tools to generate a better tree for search. We will update more on this point in our GitHub repo, thanks for raising this question!
There seems to be a fundamental mismatch between how sane people think about sandboxing, and how linux manages namespaces.

A linux-naive developer would expect to spawn a new process from a payload with access to nothing. It can't see other processes, it has a read only root with nothing in it, there are no network devices, no users, etc. Then they would expect to read documentation to learn how to add things to the sandbox. They want to pass in a directory, or a network interface, or some users. The effort goes into adding resources to the sandbox, not taking them away.

Instead there is this elaborate ceremony where the principal process basically spawns another version of itself endowed with all the same privileges and then gives them up, hopefully leaving itself with only the stuff it wants the sandboxed process to have. Make sure you don't forget to revoke anything.
As a US citizen it is still a bit useful. You cannot be denied entry (CBP has told me they would deny me entry, but in the end they just threaten to revoke your passport which is also a lie). If they have decided they want to search your phone, they will tell you that you just have to answer the questions and they will let you out in time to catch your next flight or whatever. The truth is they are vicious liars, as I have found out, once they are that suspicious you have already missed your connection. Once you are in secondary they are usually going to fuck you no matter what so might as well assert your rights.
There’s a book called The Mom Test that you might find useful.
TSMC blew whistle on suspected verboten exports to Huawei –that may cost it $1B+
> entire Eurosystem and beyond

mmh, not really - banks who are connected to the Euro-Zone can use it, but it has not a "beyond-EU"-ambition.

TIPS is just one of the two clearing-mechanisms, there is also RT1 (which is operated by a private entity and launchend long before TIPS came into place, TIPS is operated by each countries national bank in coop with ECB), since some time, there is interoperability, so you can transact from TIPS-connected entities to RT1-connected entities; RT1 is much more expensive than TIPS
Thanks for that keyword: https://americanthermoform.com/product/swell-touch-paper
Light and useful.
Docker is not using chroot in any way. Escaping chroot is only a matter of calling chdir('..') and poof, you are out of the "sandbox"
Alcohol is a potent carcinogen. The EPA considers it in the highest tier of risk - "Known To Be Human Carcinogen" - alongside such fun substances as Asbestos, Benzene and Formaldehyde. Yet fewer than half of Americans polled even realize that alcohol has any relationship to cancer, let alone an extremely strong and causal one! The booze industry was able to do what the tobacco industry couldn't - pull off a successful public denial of all links to cancer.
You should have some sympathy for the person who got robbed out of a job because someone else just wanted to make even more money. Companies aren't the main victims of the overemployed.
Product Configuration
Been thinking about the evolution of product configurators. We've gone from basic color options to some pretty sophisticated 3D customization.

But what about AI? How close are we to configurators that use AI to predict what a customer wants and then generate hyper-personalized options?

Is this exciting, or a bit creepy?
What are the biggest technical challenges?
Any cool examples you've seen?