skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created a GUI to read the email archives from the legendary Cypherpunk listserve of the 1990s. These archives cover the period from 1992-1998.

The Cypherpunk listserve is a great time capsule of the encryption wars and the early days of the internet, when encryption was still considered a 'weapon' by the US government. The Cypherpunks fought for internet privacy, self sovereignty and security. Notable cypherpunks include Hal Finney, Nick Szabo, Adam Back, Julian Assange, and many many others you'll recognize.

Hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did!
This comment reads like simple.wikipedia.org
It really doesn't take that beefy of a machine to run a good LLM locally instead of paying some SaaS company to do it for you.

I've got a refurb homelab server off PCSP with 512gb ram for <$1k, and I run decently good LLM models (Deepseek-r1:70b, llama3.3:70b). Given your username, you might even try pitching a GPU server to them as dual-purpose; LLM + hashcat. :)
Hey they have Crypto and Anime funds too. The three pillars of a healthy society.
Yes for the sole reason LLMs are very arrogant and I don't want to end up similarly delusional about whatever happens to be that I'm researching.
I mean, if it can be made in India, it can be made in the US. But not in the next couple of years. And then there's the issue of imported components, especially the camera cluster - the most expensive part of the phone.
Quasiquoting is only necessary in Lisp because Lisp evaluates its arguments by default. Tcl does not do that.
CBDCs and privacy don't necessarily need to be at odds!

Cryptography makes it possible to have both! We can have a payment system run by the government and at the same time not need to give up our privacy!
Well, what you do is try examples close to the problem space around it. For example a fiddler crab riding a chameleon

https://sora.com/g/gen_01jrbq91wtefjtpb8ceajdh9mt

and then iterate around other combinations to see if it's generalized or not.
Some of my favorite SCP entries are based on the idea of an ancient advanced civilization before recorded history.

<https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1115>

<https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1050> (not main subject, but what anomaly references)

<https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4001>, then <https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/alexandria-burning>
Okay, so how does the average person search through vector embedding? I would like to try this out.
Yes for holiday planning. At work we are a massive confluence/rovo user so that is my go to with very occasional search engine use.

Our projects heavily use platform tools so I am looking there rather than Googling.
Perhaps. I use it to get cash to family members, no issues.
Running them less though:

>In the first decade of the 2000s, plants were running around 70% of the time. They’re now running around 50% (https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/china-coal-plants)
They can do something that looks a lot like refactoring but they suck extremely hard at it, if it's of any considerable size at all.
I'm the inverse, I still 90% of the time use search engines, mostly Google. LLM-s can't help me with researching Hungarian companies offering screws, furniture, TV-s etc I need for my home renovation. It can't find me the best route to go to a cafe, lookup users, find information on famous people. Google is also faster than me typing a good prompt.

I use LLM-s for what they are good at, generative stuff. I know some task take me a long time and I can shortcut with LLM-s easily.

So here's a ChatGPT example query* which is completely off:

https://chatgpt.com/share/67f5a071-53bc-8013-9c32-25cc2857e5...

* It's intentionally bad be able to compare with Google.

And here's the web result, which is spot on:

https://imgur.com/a/6ELOeS1
assuming that the typo didn't lead to an invalid/unregistered key, you will see the recipient's bank, full name and masked CPF number in the confirmation screen.

I really dislike the lack of a more anonymous way to transfer money but given how prevalent scams are here I feel like there was no better option.

Also, before PIX bank transfers required a person's full name, full CPF number, full account and branch numbers so arguably PIX is helping to improve privacy a little bit.

However the big issue is when people register their phone numbers as PIX keys because it means strangers can easily get full names from phone numbers.
MaaS is definitely a thing and has been for a long time. Contract manufacturers abound in the US.
I have never heard a single person complaining about BankID really. The only downside is the huge risks, especially for older people. We basically took control of an elderly family members bankid to avoid them being scammed.

This is something they really need to work on, just add an optional extra layer or cool-down, to slow everything down. You dont necessarily HAVE to have your transactions be immediate, waiting a few days would have been fine in our cases.
The usual heuristic is if you're repeating a noun in several variables, move those to a separate package with that noun.

Example: WeatherConfig, WeatherService, WeatherPollInterval => weather.*
So on that basis you think the market is happy with shit things made very fast?

I can assure you it's not. And people are starting to realise that there is a lot of shit. And know that LLMs generate it.
So just like that every single user will just switch to some other app and in a weeks time, and everything will just resume from where it was left off? Maybe you just overestimate a little average user's capacity to do just that. Well I hope I live to see it.
Dan and Lisa's answers agree on all but problems 6 and 9, and Dan got two more correct than Lisa. So Dan is correct on both 6 and 9. Therefore, Mary is incorrect on 6 and 9. So she got seven of the other eight correct, and Dan got three of the other eight correct. But on those eight problems, Mary and Dan disagree on only problems 2, 3, 5, and 10, therefore Mary got all four of those correct. Then Mary got three of problems 1, 4, 7, 8 correct, but everyone answered the same way on those, so Colin got three right on those problems as well. Then read off the deduced answer key for the other six problems to get Colin's final score.
Hamas filmed the rapes using GoPro cameras. Families of the murdered women don't approve their publication. I recommend reading the UK October 7 Parliamentary Commision Report [1]. A relevant passage on page 131 states:

> The United Nations Report on Sexual Violence found that there were reasonable grounds to believe that “sexual violence occurred in Kibbutz Re’im, including rape.” The rape of women happened on Route 232, “outside of a bomb shelter at the entrance of Kibbutz Re’im, which was corroborated by witness testimonies and digital material.

[1] https://www.7octparliamentarycommission.co.uk/?s=09
I’ve been doing “vibe coding” since Borland C++. We used to align the mood of the program with ambient ANSI art in the comments. if the compiler crashed, that meant the tone was off.
I guess I'm too simple to understand why this is useful? Just because it's been implemented in so few lines or?
> Other than the EU and UK, which other major CB is considering CBDCs alone?

The ones I mentioned, eg, Canada [0], China [1]. But it's really most of them [2], the US is rather the exception.

[0] https://www.bankofcanada.ca/digitaldollar/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_renminbi

[2] https://cbdctracker.org/
Research Finds Fluorescence in Feathers of Long-Eared Owls
Watching that made me feel weird.
Show HN: Ultrahot.tv a video platform like YouTube I created
I tend to use Google to to research and go through multiple website but do exclusively use AI to solve tech issues. So it really depends on the activity for me.
DWD offers the app for 2,49€ one time payment.

https://www.warnwetterapp.de/katversion.html
DWD is allowed to provide a weather app, but not for free. So they offer it for a nominal one-time fee instead.
I use Kagi to search, but I usually use it with the a "?" at the end which triggers an LLM response in addition to search results. It gives me the answer I want like 95% of the time, and I don't feel the need to dig into the search results. For me this tends to be way better than just searching or just using ChatGPT.
China has backed UnionPay since the mid-2000s - the backbone is similar to that for UPI and Pix.

And most of the countries on that list are either implementing their own payment infra or leveraging India, Brazil, Russia, or China's.

It doesn't hurt to have a CBDC - it gives you a seat at the table when norms and global regulations are made.
GRRM also helped fund the project
In spite of all of this, Cycorp is still in business, and have pivoted to healthcare automation, including apparently insurance denials. I wonder if the full Cyc knowledg base will ever end up being released to the public domain, or whether it will simply fade away into nonexistence as proprietary data?
*100X allowable in a liter of drinking water in a liter of the power
In C casting a pointer to an int and back again used to be fine. Except later people want to track the pointer to do optimizations and things went... poorly.

I feel that this is a mess better addressed once there are actual implementations that you have to use, rather than the current state where people are still working out the details.
Weirdly enough I was able to work around this outage by using their new API endpoint URL api-m.paypal.com / api-m.sandbox.paypal.com instead of api.paypal.com / api.sandbox.paypal.com. No more 403s in the auth endpoint using the new URL that they use in their updated documentation: https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/authentication

This URL change doesn't seem well communicated at all, but some people have gotten an email but there's no such details available officially anywhere publicly as far as I can tell.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/REST-APIs/Migrating-api-...
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/NVP-SOAP-APIs/will-new-c...
> Even this one CSS directive has already been supported by Chrome for two years

The article says what chrome does is only support the “no super short lines” bit.

So while you won’t end up with one word on its own line at the end of a paragraph, it’s not trying to prevent rivers of text or keep a relatively clean ragged right or anything else.

That’s allowed by spec, but it’s not quite the same thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if the training was weighted to favor text it learned from more "reliable" or "professional" resources, which in the case of products, would be official sales listings that talk about how great their product is.
Granted my response was a bit more hostile than the general tone of responses on this site. The person I was replying to had made a very large claim about passwords and general security that ran counter to what I think we can agree are generally well-understood principles of security and claimed he had philosophical reasons for doing so. The amount of confidence in his response rubbed me the wrong way and probably raised my own arrogance, sure.

> I don't think that closed networks substantially improve security and I don't like the push to require them.

You know what, you're right this is a philosophical stance, as dumb as a stance I might think it to be. My actual issue with his "philosophy" is that he makes a broad generalization when the statement really just applies to his unique use case. I didn't consider it to be a philosophical stance because I didn't think he seriously meant it as a systematic approach for the entire world but honestly re-reading what he wrote I think he does actually.

Honestly I take bigger issue with what he believes is a stance against opiniated technology but all technology is inherently opiniated his opinions are just different.
Same. I read that and think, oh NOW you all are worried about performance?
BTW decimal fixed point or binary fixed point?
How do they know if you're done, if you haven't "turned it in" yet? They're probably not watching your screen constantly.

My last boss told me essentially (paraphrasing), "I budget time for your tasks. If you finish late, I look like I underestimate time required, or you're not up to it. If you finish early, I look like I overestimate. If I give you a week to do something, I don't care if you finish in 5 minutes, don't give it to me until the week is up unless you want something else to do."
Designing a Tone Control Properly
If a college replaces Java with Python, I wonder what their reasons are. Java's type system is ok (definitely not very good) but still much better than Python's which is almost empty (e.g. in Python we cannot declare an array of students, a dictionary of (ID, Student) pairs).
Cool. My obvious feedback is you need more walkthrough videos. How to create a simple scene and embed it on a website would be what I'd want most landing on your site.
The settlement was 20 miles away, but that doesn't mean he only drove 20 miles, or that he knew which direction the settlement was in!
Google fixes two Android zero-day bugs actively exploited by hackers
Thank you, I thought these looked familiar somehow.
Does anyone think it would be really fun to see an animation that replays the steps in which the puzzle is solved? When the puzzle is complete have the display replay the clues and answers in the order they were guessed. Here's a prototype:

https://codepen.io/ewhymper/pen/gbOJzmZ
So you wrote this new scenario where the parking ticket machine does NOT print a ticket unless you confirm it (after you already pressed the button)? And you get... mildly inconvenienced by some honking. Yeah you shouldn't drive.
I've tried DDG but it doesn't seem much different from the results on Google/Bing (as I understand it they use Bing's search index anyway?)
My question is related to this. The article implies that the separate evolutionary track that resulted in birds is more advanced than the one that led to primates and us. Given that, would a bird with a 3lb brain be smarter than a human?
Live-cell labeling sheds light on how our DNA is packed and behaves in cells
The current dystopia is no slouch.
Oooo thank you for mentioning that. Looks quite feature rich !
I looked into this too after hearing about it many times. I read the full study. It was very interesting.

A lot of U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War tried heroin. Many even used it a lot. But when they came home, most of them just stopped. Only a few used it again. And only a tiny number became addicted again.

Why? Because they were back home. Life was different. Their friends and family didn’t like drugs. They had more to do and more to lose. They were not stuck in war anymore.

This shows something important: People don’t use drugs just because the drug is strong. They use it when life is hard or lonely. When life gets better, many stop on their own.

So i think environment matters more than the drug itself. maybe we should stop thinking people who use drugs are always sick or weak. Many just need help, hope, and better places to live.
why is the black background a 1.5MB JPG[1]? and it even has a responsive counterpart[2] that's half a megabyte for mobile. surely it could have just been `background: #000`? I didn't go looking for issues, I just noticed the image load in jaggedly (not progressively encoded) and couldn't believe my browser would do that for a solid color fill. did you use AI to make the website?

[1] https://gamenode.app/img/desktop-bg.png

[2] https://gamenode.app/img/mobile-bg.jpg
Cheetahs are sports cars.
Unfortunately on HN these days, it's impossible to tell if this is sarcasm or not.
I keep seeing people advocating that the idea that we should build everything, and every piece or everything, here is a good one. Why? Is this just an isolationist dream? The reductive, absurd, extreme of this is why don't individual people go out and build all their own stuff like cars and houses. Let's all go out and learn how to mine and refine metal ore so we can get started on building the family sedan! There is an argument for what the right balance is, and likely a good argument that at lest some minor capability should exist so we can keep re-assessing the value of that industry, but the notion that we should have it all in-house will just limit us to much more primitive tech since we can't gain the benefit of world wide innovation and build off of that.
You know it’s a great book when everyone seems to dislike it in a different way!
> another competitor who use it will be able to produce more games, faster and less expensive

And yet this is no guarantee they will succeed. In fact, the largest franchises and games tend to be the ones that take their time and build for quality. There are a thousand GTA knock-offs on Steam, but it's R* that rakes in the money.
No, not alloca, I mean a stack allocator as you push / pop memory scopes.

The trailing body macro is something I think you should try out before dismissing it. It's similar to how Ruby can do it, with the closures exiting the "outer scope", which is unusual.
I wouldn't do much calling it cherry picking as looking at people who choose something as a career path. For example: a high school student, or even a university student, working in fast food aren't fully supporting themselves with the job (nevermind supporting a family). Farm labourers are also different from farmers. Truck driving is all over the map, but most variants have their own stressors.

I'm not going to pretend that software development is devoid of stress. That said, virtually every job has stress, deadlines, politics, and other such nonsense.
For local searches and product searches yes. For mostly everything else, no.
I wouldn't try and consider spaces individually, I don't think? Rather, I'd consider the amount of space being considered. We aren't talking about fixed width typesetting, after all. To that end, you will have more space after punctuation and such. Rather than try to enumerate the different options, though, you almost certainly have some model of how much "space" is in a section. Try different model weights for how much to penalize different amounts of connected space and see how well different models optimize.

Or, maybe not? I'll note that the vast majority of "rivers" I've seen in texts coincide with punctuation quite heavily. Even the example in this article has 5/8 lines using a comma to show the river. With the other lines having what seems to be obvious stretched space between words to use more of the line? Maybe enumerating the different reasons for space would be enough?

Granted, this also calls out how dependent you almost certainly are on the font being used, as well?
Working on it! Thanks for the nudge.
Privacy conscious people: we can still use your preferred private super secretive way to pay for important stuff, and use PIX for a Coca Cola. One thing doesn’t stop the other.
We have a few reactors and used to make bombs, the first tested in 1952. It's been a bit outsourced to the US these days though which might end up changing.
In Python isn’t that either this, for the first part of your sentence:

students: list[tuple[int, Student]]

Or the second half and a more idiomatic structure:

students: dict[int, Student]
> even striving for explainable/understandable systems

It's been almost 6-8000 years since the advent of writing and we still cannot explain or understand human intelligence and yet we expect to be able to understand a machine that is close to or surpasses human intelligence? Isn't the premise fundamentally flawed?
And potential access to unlimited free calories.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html

I don't think its first class support but its something. It might even be better for teaching since its not strictly enforced depending on your runtime.
US Justice Dept disbands crypto enforcement team, citing Trump order
It definitely can be made in the US, the question is how long it would take for that to be feasible, and how much the resulting phone would cost. I suspect the process of adapting to these tariffs would greatly outlive the tariffs themselves, and everyone knows it. At most they can last until after the mid-terms, but even that's probably overstating things.

So no, Apple is going to move manufacturing to the US with all the costs and downsides, for a policy that can't last.
Mario Kart $80 price isn't that high, historically
Where is the youtube channel for the "craftsmen who machine parts out of ebony wood or other tropical hardwoods - and use these to keep engines running"?
What ambiguity? We know it's a human, the human has a name. We do not know their gender or sex, both are not relevant. They works perfectly.

This seems like a you problem...
Trump, Doge Are Trying to Get Around Privacy Laws to Gather Your Personal Info
Update:

We are continuing to monitor the impact on multiple
components in our production environment. We observe
mitigation as of Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:42 GMT

Our technical teams have identified the External root cause
and are actively working with the vendor to mitigate the
impact as quickly as possible. We will continue to provide
updates as the situation progresses.

Affected Regions: Global
Apr 8, 21:51 UTC
Sounds like Pied Piper to me.
I don't know why you'd expect an ereader to do a full text optimization of a book, though? Pick the starting line and layout to the next screen's breaking point. If needed, consider if you left an orphan for the next page and try to adjust that into the current screen.

Are there ereaders that have to typeset the entire text of what you are reading? What is the advantage of making the task harder?
Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness also posited a Cretaceous civilization, although not a dinosaur one.
Posted with comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589309
(that second try got more traction)
Yeah ngl I have some fake designer stuff I got as a gift and I love it, and I especially love that it's fake. It feel like I'm pulling one over on the tryhards that care about that stuff being real, but I still get to enjoy the wild LV coat I have and ain't nobody checking the stitching on the lining to make sure it's the real thing. I could see myself buying more fakes in the future, but I'd never ever buy the real thing.
I gave LLMs a bit of a go but a couple of occasions wasted a bunch of time by giving incorrect answers, so my trust levels are pretty low.
Yes. As soon as June, Brazilian pix will support "Automatic Pix". Which means, basically, Pix will support subscriptions. So let's say, you authorize Netflix with pix, and then every month they will charge you with Pix automatically.

I find very likely Netflix or Amazon will be one of the first companies to support this in June now.

This was made initially to replace old school automatic debit for phone/electricity/etc bills, but it will support all services.

In Brazil, installments with credit cards are also super common... Basically when you put a credit card on any website or buy on a store, you can just choose to pay in 12x.

Well, they will add in September Pix Installments as well.
"Support" is usually a different org, may be outsourced, may be centered in a different country.

The userbase is different, in a small saas company you will probably get fairly "high signal" complaints, this is not true for mass market products.

Fixing bugs is different, sometimes you need to cross 3 teams in different timezones and have a bunch of meetings to fix a bug. Often the real problem is that a business process or a legacy system is messed up and an individual dev is not going to have the political "swing" to be able to do anything about it.

Big companies are typically structured to limit the agency of ICs.