skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also using chatgpt with its search enabled or perplexity for searching almost anything. Way more accurate and to the point.

I feel like the google search will become obsolete in a short time and they have to make big changes to their UX and search engine.

Although I guess most of its user base are still relying on the old ways so changing it right now has huge impacts on older users.
I have an LLM synthesised HTML file that links in a remote tailwind.css and contains no script tags or any JS at all. It contains a lot of class="bg-cover bg-center h-screen" and class="text-3xl font-bold text-gray-800 mb-4" that I don't really understand, and this file renders just fine in a web browser.

Where do you expect that compiler to come into this? Or is it me that doesn't understand Tailwind and this is actually not Tailwind, just some random CSS with the same name that a compressed database puked up for me?
I've never used a stock photo site before, so I suppose it's no surprise I have no real use for "generate any image on demand".
> The idea here is that the website still has a sound URL structure, which is managed by the core browser functionality, while interactivity is carefully layered on top, with targeted updates.

It’s a long time since I have to work with websites. JQuery was the hot stuff back then. But we didn’t used it. It was all HTML and a Java backend. This sentence implies that right now basic stuff isn’t managed by the browser (but by React, Vue and so on?) which seems to be simply wrong.
> Do we suppose they will just create a backdoor to allow _some_ bots in?

That, and maybe they will as CF seem quite big on MCP.[0] Or people just bypass the bot detection. It's already not terribly difficult to do; people in the sneaker bot and ticket scalping communities have long had bypasses for all the major companies.

I mean, we can all imagine bad use-cases of bots, but there's also the pros: the internet wastes loads of human time. I still remember needing to browse marketplaces real estate listings with terrible search and notification functionality to find a flat... shudders. Unbelievable amount of hours wasted.

If fewer people are able to build bots that can index a larger number of sites and give better searching capabilities, for instance, where sites are unable to provide this, I'm personally all for it. For many sites, it's that they lack the in-house development expertise and probably they wouldn't even mind.

[0]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/agents/model-context-proto... etc
Brussels police arrest Rubio security detail supervisor
> untouchable

Surveillance of even just one participant in these communication networks will give the police access to everything they see. And technology massively helps police in this surveillance - hidden microphones (or a laser reading vibrations off a window), cameras, and telescopic lenses and drones can reveal the contents of a screen, the password being typed, every word said out loud. The device can even be fitted with a hardware backdoor, or sabotaged, and its replacement intercepted and backdoored, as the NSA did.

But it can't be done en-masse, against every citizen.

That mere encryption makes communication immune from surveillance, or that there is anything remotely approaching the "going dark" problem, is a naked lie by the surveillance state to scare us into giving away even the tiny scraps of privacy we have left. The truth is law enforcement has far greater abilities to surveil even people trying to hide (to say nothing of the data they get from people sharing their thoughts and social networks on Facebook, or carrying phones with them that let the phone company triangulate them at any moment) than at any point in history. In light of that, we should be talking about further limiting their authority, not increasing it.
Yes, the "Law Enforcement Working Party" is having a meeting today.
I never know what to write in those so it doesn’t just repeat highlights from my CV in a paragraph form. I would sure use some chatgippity to help me there.
What does it have to do with in reality?
Signal Threatens to Leave Sweden
Why should I choose to introduce software with potential security flaws, when I can simply use the built-in firewall?
Looking at the example where the coffee table is swapped, I notice every time the image is reprocessed it mutates, based on the previous iteration, and objects become more bizarre each time, like chinese whispers.

* The weird-ass basket decoration on the table originally has some big chain links (maybe anchor chain, to keep the theme with the beach painting). By the third version, they're leathery and are merging with the basket.

* The candelabra light on the wall, with branch decorations, turns into a sort of skinny minimalist gold stag head, and then just a branch.

* The small table in the background gradually loses one of its three legs, and ends up defying gravity.

* The freaky green lamps in the window become at first more regular, then turn into topiary.

* Making the carpet less faded turns up the saturation on everything else, too, including the wood the table is made from.
Either things are encrypted or they are not. Things can't be encrypted for some and unencrypted for others.
It kind of is - although, with a twist.

I think most things done currently with the frontend "frameworks", could be achieved with standard HTML5+JS, without any "build steps" or other bloat involved.

This said, there is a case for building on a commonly used mature platform, such as React, to speed up the development cycle and in order not inventing the wheel again.
> Wasn't CSS invented so we didn't have to write every html element "its blue, centered text and bold font" yet people willingly choose to use class="items-center font-bold text-blue-600" and running it through a compiler.

Tailwind is far from the first framework to require it. Bootstrap has things like .center and its entire basis are layout classes for the grid. its responsive by default, but not semantic.

I think CSS has failed because people want far more control on appearance (for branding and aesthetics) than the people devising it anticipated.

The motivation for semantic markup has also reduced because people write much less HTML. You might have some markup in what you edit, but the layout and base styles are usually generated by a system (e.g. a CMS). Even most people serving static files use a site generator.
If all your frontend code lives in component files then it is quite nice that all the styling is also local to those components so you don't end up with horrors in unexpected places because you changed a line in a CSS file.

Since it's already in component files you can use the templating already present in that context to fill in values from colour schemes and so on, without the hazards of cascading.
Well, I disagree that it's useless - my front door still keeps my home secure even though my sister has a copy of the key.

I want my devices to be secure from thieves who might steal them, and I want my communications to be secure from someone intercepting internet traffic at various locations I might visit - that is still achieved in that scenario, even if MS/Apple hold the copy of the key. That doesn't make the encryption useless - just ineffective if your attack vector is defending yourself against state-level actors.
It’s RPC specifically for an LLM. But yes it’s the new soup de jour trend sweeping the globe.
> The results are not as good as a professional designer could create but are an impressive first prototype.

I like to look at how far we've come since the early days of Stable Diffusion. It was fascinating to play with it back then, but it quickly became apparent that it was "generic" and not suited for "real work" because it lacked consistency, text capabilities, fingers! and so on... Looking at these results now, I'm amazed at the quality, consistency and ease of use. Gone are the days of doing alchemy on words and adding a bunch of "in the style of Rutkovsky, golden hour, hd, 4k, pretty please ..." at the end of prompts.
My first cell phone bill was like $600 because my gf at the time used a different carrier. This was also back in the olden days of unlimited texting!! (Only after 9pm)
Would you be able to explain how

> A lot of Jewish and Israeli people are taught [that non-jewish people worldwide are thinly hiding a goal of eradication] from a young age

this works? I'm not Jewish or Israeli, and would like to understand whether it's taught through religion or culture. And what "eradication" means in this context.
The problem is that the cats out of the bag when it comes to encryption.

Let’s just say we can wave a magic wand and make every phone manufacturer include a way that allows only lawful decryption with court orders and the like.

What stops the criminals spinning up their own service that doesn’t? Sure you could make such services illegal, but when has something being illegal stopped criminals from doing it?

All backdoors do is weaken security for everyone else while those who really want secure communications/ storage for their ill gotten gains will still find a way.

Refusing to decrypt is already a crime in the UK (iirc up to 2 years, 5 if the underlying suspicion is terror related).

Fighting encryption in my opinion is like treating the symptoms not the root cause of the problem.
So the same force that makes your hair stand up after rubbing a balloon against your head helps create planets.
I find the discussion here somewhat amusing, because I am on another level of disbelief when looking at the state of things in the npm world.

Most people ask "why ship bun (whatever that is), why not just be an npm module".

I am baffled as to why we have forgotten the lost art of spitting out something from a build and then using that thing. As in, "make" producing a CSS file. Or a JavaScript file. Or multiple files. Why does npmness have to force itself into every nook and cranny of our software and consume it all?

In my webapp I use several small CSS and JavaScript libraries, and for building those I use docker containers. The npm horrors live in the docker containers, I try not to look in there, but whatever happens there, a bunch of css and js files come out. Reproducibly. Reliably. And things don't break if there is a headwind or a tailwind (ahem) today on the internet.
Not all the government is elected.

There are several ministers from the House of Lords, who aren't elected by the people.

I haven't checked for this Parliament, but for the previous one that included people who had LOST their election to be an MP, but got nominated to the Lords anyway.
Sweet, sticky and sold out: why is there such a craze for Dubai chocolate?
We (in the West, at least) live in an age of vendor lock-in. In the East, it's state lock-in but vendor freedom.
While I agree that full page refreshes probably shouldn't use HTMX, I'll also claim that it's pretty rare that you would do a full page refresh. Almost every website I create has context that is present on every single page. Typically the branding at the top and the site map at the bottom does not change and hence there are no full refreshes.
I try to stay away as much as I can from front-end, because modern front-end is a shit show.

Unless I do the front-end for my own app and then, the order of preference is server rendered HTML, HTMX, Web Components, Vanilla JS. Stuff I am sure I can maintain with ease 100 years from now. For CSS I would use something simple such as bootstrap.

I kind of agree with the author of using tools you know are reliable as opposed to chasing fads. Of course you must and should learn and use new things, but proceed with care and carefully consider both upside and downsides.
Seems pretty cool! The only caveat is that it works pretty well with purer functions that have outputs which can be formatted. Writing these docs for more complex tests returning abstract types not in the built-in library can be overwhelming.
Singled out by Trump, China has the 'leverage to retaliate' and nothing to lose
I would point out that using laws you are subject to too is not hypocrisy. Even if you do not want the same laws in your own country or if you lobby against those laws simultaneously.
Saying an argument is false because some of the people putting it forward have bad motives is absolutely an ad-hominem.
Esports Insider, once a legitimate esports news site, was quietly acquired by Finixio, a company behind large-scale gambling and parasite SEO schemes. They added gambling content under subfolders like /gambling, /igaming, and /betting, using the site's strong backlink profile to rank for high-value keywords like "online casinos." After getting hit with manual penalties, they kept dodging enforcement by simply shifting content around. This is a clear example of how parasite SEO is slipping through the cracks in Google’s system. Let’s dive in.
Interesting, thanks. I need to lose some fat, then.
I'd be willing to bet if the government had to pick between publishing the list of all spies names Vs having backdoor access to all Comms, they'd pick having the backdoor access.
> Performance problems like the GTA loading bug are hard to quantify.

Loading times over 6 minutes for 1/3 of the playerbase (according to a poll linked in the original post about that bug) are not hard to quantify, that's disastrous. Many people would simply quit and play something else at that point.
There are two sides to the argument which I think should be treated separately: a) Is it a good idea overall? and b) is htmx implementation good enough?

a) I think so, yes. I've seen much more spa that have a completely broken page navigation. This approach does not fit all use cases, but if you remember that the whole idea of htmx is that you rely on webserver giving you page updates as opposed to having a thick js app rendering it all the way it makes sense. And yes, js libraries should be wrapped to function properly in many cases, but you would do the same with no react-native components in any react app for example

b) I don't think so. htmx boost functionality is an afterthought and it will always be like this. Compare it with turbo [1] where this is a core feature and the approach is to use turbo together with stimulus.js which gives you automagical component life cycle management. Turbo still has it's pains (my favorite gh issue [2]), but otherwise it works fine

[1]: https://turbo.hotwired.dev/
[2]: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/issues/37
Brit universities told to keep up the world-class research with less cash
Yeah, your sister. Now go ahead and give it to a stranger.

Once your key is in the hand of a third party, you lost control of that data, and you have to trust them that they will not give it out to someone else (they will), and you have to trust them to keep it safe, and you have to trust them to [...].

My private key is mine, and mine only, or supposed to be.
I think Colossal is betting on the fact that the general public will fall for sensationalism of this sort because of the low level of biology knowledge. This story makes me think Colossal is rather better at marketing than they are at genetics.

What they've created here are not actually dire wolves but a couple of timber wolves with about a dozen edits to 12 million gene pairs and the result is creatures that have phenotypic similarities to dire wolves but not their complete genetic signature.
Know your tools. If you're writing a script you run once in a while, 60-70ms is meaningless. If you're running it 10x a minute or more, sure reach for that fast startup language.

As comments here suggest, lua isn't much of a bash replacement. Happy to hear your alternatives and suggestions for bash.
Are there any good online resources for this beyond iFixit?
I'd like my communications to be secure from the British Government, in case they decide they don't like the protest I decided to join.

We can see in the USA how quickly things can change. Laws must account for a possible Reform government, for example.
This is such a wonderful thought. A great way to recognize the efforts put up by people in the community that often goes unnoticed and unappreciated.
Foster and Partners designs 50-metre-tall "solar energy tower" for moon infra
So tech got rid of the suits, but kept the desire to judge people at interviews based on their clothes?

Great. Fantastic job everyone /S
I'm having a great time with Babashka in my ~/.local/bin
nstate programming is an antipattern use railway orientated programming instead.
I wonder how the changing tides of remote work are affecting the real state market in big cities these days.

I was recently in Rio de Janeiro, and Brasil's biggest company Petrobras was returning to office after pressure from the city's government to "repopulate" its downtown after the pandemic's wave of remote work.

I heard similar things about NYC but I'd be curious to know how it's affecting other places.
The laws are usually highly regional for things like this.

In some places it belongs to the government, in others the nearest historical authority, in others to you and/or with conditions. In others like Ireland its illegal, so not too long ago someone found two bronze age axe heads and mailed them in anonymously, creating the problem that their National Museum needed to know where the items were found.
> O'ahu, at least, is teaching us important lessons that can help protect other environments not yet so degraded

The entire article presumes that novelty is a degradation -- yet offers no evidence for it. So it's just an article of faith that whatever series of major evolutionary catastrophes led to to an ecology are morally or aesthetically preferable to those of human design and intention?

This disneyification of nature is a great stupidity. Nature is just a series of major crises, punctuated by periods with some novelty -- that this process should be preferable to any other, reads quite implausibly to me.
How to Memorize Pi as a Fraction
The Great Gatsby Turns 100
how bizzarre
>> We have one refrigerator that's still going strong after 50 years

In that particular case, it might not meet energy efficiency standards anymore.

But I agree appliances breaking the day after the warranty expires is evil. Depending on the country, warranty may be meaningless, or close to that
100% agree.

Their actual AI is trash, it just there to pad their resume for investors.

I tried few days ago their AI assistant in help center and admin and it hallucinated answer to my question (pointed me to non-existing setting), when I told it it doesn't exist it just returned a bit reworded answer (still pointing me to non-existing settings section).
> Updates that users would not expect to see on a refresh (or a new page load)

I always hated this idea. As a user, a refresh indicates that something is happening and it's abundantly clear when something is wrong. People don't always handle errors and in all fairness they shouldn't - a developer has no way of knowing what custom stuff I have on my browser, whether I'm using any blockers or pi-holes or whatever and they should not know. Simple navigation, refreshes and server side rendering is something which worked great, the web was fast and could run on anything with a graphical output. These days a single page eats up 150+ mb while it loads. All that so the page doesn't "refresh".
So instead of managing your versions in one package.json and installing your dependencies with one npm i command you manage several different docker container that produce builds you then consume?

What kind of horrors did you encounter that led to this abstraction?
Where have all the good bloggers gone?
Imagine you cut the image into 32x32 pixel blocks. And then for each block, you can chose 1 out of 128,000 variations. And then a post-processing step smoothes out the borders between blocks and adjusts small details. That's basically how a transformer image generation model works.

As such, the process is remarkably similar to old fixed-font ASCII art. It's just that modern AIs have a larger alphabet and, thus, more character shapes to choose from.
LLM-hacker-news: LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News
Giving your parents a house key _is_ an exploit on your home security.

There's now an additional two people with access, with the risk of the key being stolen from them, them losing it etc.
Anyone replace some HTMX usage with the View Transition API that's now in Chrome and Safari? https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transiti...

This looks appealing where it makes sense (page transitions, table sorting/pagination) and if Firefox gets around to adding it.
If you want this boys soul you’ve got to play the troll hole
Yeah Japanese culture is very, very different from the West. But it also comes with its own set of problems and challenges.

As a gay guy I've always thought about the topic in your last sentence; I agree that male problems (suicide rates, expectations, hypermasculinism etc) get largely ignored, in part due to a tightly integrated hierarchy of social rules and expectations - men (ignoring feelings, emotions, trying to be tough all the time) women (reliance on men, encouraging/supporting hypermasculine behaviours).

I find it both interesting & sad the way that heterosexual (& bisexual, etc) male behaviour completely changes (often for the worse) when a woman walks into the room. I don't see this as much at all in the opposite scenario, though I won't say that gay men don't sometimes exhibit the same aggressive behaviours that straight men often do.

It's just sad to watch men not care about certain aspects of themselves that are deemed weak, and that society has no value for men not attached to a family unit (hence the suicide rate). Also look at rates of homelessness - women are more likely to be taken in/given much more leeway by family etc than men are as a man down on his luck is a "problem" aka useless. It's the same with calling for women to be forced into drafts the same way men are - heterosexual response to that is staggering - the same frequency as the response I get as a man if I say I _don't_ want to fight in a war (aggression, being called a coward, the vitriol received for being a "draft dodger").

I know why it is the way it is, though and unlike many others I never forget that we're all still just animals at our very core.
I've worked under communist regime. A real one, a few decades ago, and let me tell you, they also demanded proof of disability. Did you have different experience?
Now you're just arguing semantics. "I hate Ethiopians" is just as problematic as "I hate black people".

"Don't trust him, he's from Israel"
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There are plenty of places where both are locked in
I usually do both at the same time. Ironically because Google.com is the shortest path to Gemini.

The other day I was also searching for something dumb: how to hammer a nail into concrete.

Google will find me instructions for a hammer-drill... no I just have a regular hammer. There's a link from wikiHow, which is okay, but I feel like it hallucinates as much as AI. Actually I just opened the link and the first instruction involves a hammer drill too. The second one is what I wanted, more wordy than ChatGPT.

Google then shows YouTube which has a 6 minute video. Then reddit which has bad advice half the time. I'm an idiot searching for how to hammer nails into a wall. I do not have the skill level to know when it's BS. Reddit makes me think I need a hammer drill and a fastener. Quora is next and it's even worse. It says concrete nails bend when hit, which even I know is false. It also convinces me that I need safety equipment to hit a nail with a hammer.

I just want a checklist to know that I'm not forgetting anything. ChatGPT gives me an accurate 5-step plan and it went perfectly.
All i see is an nginx welcome page
Go library for generating Anki decks
I mean, commercial is fucked, but people who want to live in cities are still choosing to live in cities. There's nothing like living that close to everything, even if there are some drawbacks.