skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? You cannot fathom an animal population that has exceeded it's ecosystem's capacity and has no predators so needs to be culled?
Weird. For me, sonnet 3.7 is much more focussed and in particular works much better when finding the places that needs change and using other tooling. I guess the integration in cursor is just much better and more mature.
https://www.boredpanda.com/color-descriptions-blind-people/
The voters are not the party and the party is not the party leadership. The actual policies that end up being supported have little-to-nothing to do with the stuff that gets talked about while campaigning, and this only gets more true the further away from the actual voter the position is.
And a comment we'll file with all the other stuff complaining about "wokeness".
Yep, it’s literally just a slightly higher tech version of (for example) the 1992 Los Angeles riots over Rodney King but with phones and Facebook instead of handheld camcorders and television.
Thank you. This was eye opening.
Most of my favorite services are either foss based or owned privately with minimal VC.

I think maybe everyone should adjust their definition of success to include treating users fairly long term instead of milking them over prolonged enshittification periods.
The business geniuses of intel bought Altera for nearly $17B in 2015. Now sold control at valuation barely half of that. After official inflation of over 30% during that time. Which means it lost over 2/3 of its value, (take into account also the lost interest on that money). Given that they gave up control for half the money, it’s effectively as if it was relinquished for 1/3 of what Intel paid for it.
So far - no one of the responsible Intel execs paid any price for such atrocious loss of stakeholders’ value. They need to be in jail and lose their personal wealth to repay the stockholders.

The SEC should investigate them, see whether there was any inside trading to benefit from this horrible value loss.

This criminal lack of performance needs to be brought up during the upcoming shareholders meeting. Responsible must pay the price.

Would you hire again the Intel CEOs, head of Intel Capital, any members of Intel’s board of directors after such abysmal performance?
> An even more significant improvement would be electrified trains, which can accelerate roughly twice as fast as those with diesel power...

Can someone comment on why this is? My understanding is that the existing diesel trains use diesel generators to power electric motors.

My questions are:
1) Does "electrified" mean pulling power from a third rail?
2) Whatever it means, what makes "electrified" twice as fast as diesel-electric?
Regardless of how much “choice” there is in a market, FB made an anti-competitive play. Now we all have n-1 choices.

The question of whether society should allow companies to perform anti-competitive actions should not be “will we be left with enough choices?”, but should be “is this an anti-competitive action?”
plus an hour on the train, or a hundred bucks in a taxi on the new york side, and likewise on the chicago side, plus security screening. and luggage is free too, I think?

so mostly just faster.
I remember hearing from friends at Facebook that an insider story was FB used VPN and in app IP address tracking to identify that instagram and whatsapp were hitting crazy growth metrics and that's how they knew they needed to buy them at all costs
Two weeks ago I was an excited entrepreneur/engineer and looked forward to building new products that improved peoples lives. But with an inability to estimate my product COGS and consumer confidence diminishing, I'm giving that up (edit: for now).

We went from win-win capitalism to a pump and dump economy. That happened so fast. I can't comment on your site because I find this all so vile.
> That last bit -- addressing the path limitations -- is a big one. You know how you can write #include "mbedtls/aes.h", and the compiler will pull in code from the aes.h file that's in the mbedtls folder? You can't do that on a Mac! Or at least I couldn't figure out how Codewarrior defines paths.

I believe you use colon as a path separator. At least that's what I remember from working with CW back in the 90s.

I thought long long was 64bit on CW 4 on m68k. Was it not?
The concept of freehold tenure is pretty central to the book. Not sure you could get any more on-point for the general reader looking for a book recommendation.

But since you ask: the peasant's rights to land were exquisitely bespoke. No tax collector could figure out how much one family owed versus another in another county. The rules in one prefecture of one county may have been completely unresolvable with the rules of a county a hundred miles north. Everything was negotiated family to family over generations, with rights in one place having no corollary whatsoever with the rights in another area, making the tax man's duty a fool's errand.

So, I don't your first statement "European peasants "renting" the land they farmed had much stronger ownership rights than Americans who "own" land do today." is really meaningful. Because no generalization can be made about the rights of a European peasant. That problem is the whole reason for the systems of freehold tenure that prevail today: making the territory "seeable" by the state.
Israel is violent against Palestine and receive more guns, why don't these students received a few too?, they are doing the same, or the guns only come after a few thousands of killed innocents?
The blogger recommends Warmshowers for accommodation. That's good, but costs money.

BeWelcome.org is free accommodation, like Airbnb or CouchSurfing but without money! And open-source, in many countries, and very hospitable to refugees.
For one, that was 20 years ago. Ridership has increased significantly since through a combination of deliberate EU policy and efforts to remove the barriers that made long distance rail journeys so terrible decades ago. Old experiences riding long distance international trains (likely at non-peak hours), outside peak tourist season aren't necessarily representative of the modern experience.
Silver Lake took Dell private.
> I'm very sorry, but such timelines are extremely disheartening and sound like a joke. The problem is, factually, other countries can build out HSRs within 5-10 year horizons, from planning to finishing a route. If it takes 2+ generations to even get a single line... I'm not sure what I can say.

While there are places where the build out itself looks fast, in reality I think most any train line ever build spends decades in "would be a good idea" phase of planning. The Hokkaido Shinkansen idea was on the books since the 70s, and we're still just up to Hakodate!

The Utusnomiya rail line (a local tram line) was in the proposal phase since 2001, and launched in 2023. It's been super successful (profitable!), but was still 20+ years for a single line.

Having said all of that, plenty of ideas gestate for a while, so hooking into an existing idea and getting that actually happening feels like a very good use of energy compared to trying to come up with your own special new idea.
Abrego Garcia will now die in El Salvador’s Cecot mega-prison.

https://bsky.app/profile/judgeluttig.bsky.social/post/3lmsxj...

What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/concentrat...
Ok. I rolled a die and the result was 5. What should the true objective probability have been for the outcome of that roll?
I can do neither.

McDonald’s is a system for delivering food fast and cheap at scale. It breaks down when making one burger.

If you’re not a trained chef, you will not pump out Michelin star meals, even using the same recipe.
Communicating to elected officials that you will not vote for them if they continue their current behaviour is not anti-democracy, it's the main feature of democracy. You are actively participating in the democratic process by doing so.
The layoff mass hysteria that ran through the tech industry established doing less or nothing as a corporate virtue.

If the market gave your company a PE ratio of 20+ and you're flush with cash, it is borderline fiduciary negligence to be slashing projects and doing layoffs. Your shareholders didn't invest in you for the capital preservation portfolio-management skills of your finance department.
Samsung has launched a glassless 3D screen – Odyssey 3D
I saw a launch demo of this in Mumbai comic con last weekend. Note that they only had a pre-rendered game video running that could be paused with spacebar. There were two cameras checking the observers eyes and creates a double image for depth. The 3D didn't feel very as deep as movies with Polaroid glasses, but it was clear and evident, especially on a still image. I inquired about the tech behind it and the sales guys didn't really know much, except the keywords (eye tracking, AI tech, 2 camera). I was curious on how the AI would be able to differentiate the depth especially at that refresh rate they promise (1-2ms). They mentioned having an app which can convert ANY game or movie into 3D. After a rabbit hole of a research into this, I got some answers in the 3D tech but not how the cameras are used, and the speed of the AI remains very questionable.
Maybe atleast link to the project https://imgproxy.net/ next time? Your comment is basically an ad for your product. I am sure many clicked the link expecting there to be some image resizing proxy solution…
LLM subscriptions vs. APIs value for money
Thanks for all your insights, I have updated the post to outline this as a "theoretical" use-case rather than a practical one. I also revised it to include random number approach.
They recently closed their Middle Eastern studies department. Absolutely insane tbh. Imagine closing a center of Asian or African studies because the president wants to make his Jewish daughter and some rich donors of his happy. How can we be okay with any of this. They caved there. The only reasoning for this response is it infringes on their sovereignty. But make no mistake, every institution rolled back DEI and other initiatives for this admin. Hoping Alan will do what is right. Reinstate that department. Double down on fighting the admin in court. America will not be held hostage by a wanna-be autocrat, a foreign power or those who swear allegiance to Isra-el over American ideals and education in these United States. Silencing dissent in institutions of learning is tyrannical.
I only forget that time exists when I'm in flow state, not code.
Colombian coffee farmers make switch to cacao as climate warms and prices soar
Helm Chart Development with Dagger
I did the same. It took a couple days to get used to it though. It would throw you off balance on turns.
Not sure why i need this on Mac. Apache is already installed — just drop your files in ~/Sites/ or /Library/WebServer/Documents/ .
Financial policy is very specifically against people saving their money though - that's why a certain level of inflation is considered desirable to mainstream economists. Spending and borrowing is heavily encouraged at all levels, while investment opportunities are gated based on wealth and income to prevent the poor from being able to "work smarter".
With the way it was written it wasn't clear to me whether the other role was offered as a replacement for the layoff or more of a good luck I'm sure you'll land on your feet. Agreed it's a mixed message if it was the former.
No, American exceptionalism is not a post-WWII idea. It was core to the expansion of the country in the 19th century.
AI-Designed Enzymes: Powering Catalysis with Machine Learning
I am going to miss getting free seeds from China.
Not from North America. But I disagree that the exceptionalism started post WWII.

How do you explain the country's ability to perform civil engineering feats prior to WWII. The Erie Canal, Trans-continental Railway, Panama Canal, Brooklyn Bridge, Empire State Building and Golden Gate Bridge spring to mind as feats of engineering that few other country's (if any) could rival. There are obvious examples post WWII (Manhattan project, Apollo program, Interstate highway system), but for all of the USA's pitfalls, they do have an incredible history of civil engineering projects prior to WWII.
It's a bookmarking service so people rarely search - they just throw stuff into a bucket that they'll probably never go back to for the rest of their lives :)

I picked MS primarily because I was impressed with the quality of search results across multiple languages - even if this were a more search-heavy service, I would probably still pick MS because high quality multilingual search results will always have the highest importance for me as a multilingual person.
its also makes linux shell pipe coding graph node programable.

firefox("find cats") -> gimp ("carton filter cats")-> gimp("compose into partypic") -> google drive ("upload to cat folder")
> I'm surprised the websites don't even acknowledge this yet.

Well, why would you waste the opportunity to enrage Americans against their government, for free? "Your $5 package has arrived on time, now you only have to pay the $75 extra that the candidate you voted for has decided to take from you". It's the best ads campaign ever, and it's entirely free.
What has actually changed in the last 13 years regarding Whatsapp? Video. And I believe that's the reason why anyone hasn't actually challenged them regarding messaging: you can build a similar application with similar features with a rather small group of people (not saying it's easy, but it's feasible). But handling those pentabytes of bandwith shared every day? Actually _promoting_ the use of DIY video as the preferred communication media? That's something you can't do as an small shop. And that's, I think, why you cannot compete.
I decided to quit Whatsapp, which in Latinamerica is quite an outrageous move: that application is the communication channel for EVERYTHING: all families, all schools, all neighborhoods. I did it because I think Meta's main metric is actually hostile to their users: they want as much of your time as they can get from you, and they'll use are sorts of psychological weaponry to keep you inside. They were actually vocal about it in the past. There's zero reason to trust them. But why is it that no one has come up with a true alternative (although props to Signal)? Well, there's the network effect, for sure. They also employ very good engineers. But I believe the true reason is scale: it didn't use to be that way, but infrastructure costs are now inmense.
Clearly beneficial for skilled people imho, I wrote about that here [0] recently.

[0] https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-develop...
It is always been my understanding that the less competent one is, the more they find LLMs useful.
I'm surprised the Chinese sellers are able to compete for fast fashion. Clothes are the one thing I don't really buy online because getting sizing right is already hard even when you're not dealing with Temu-style "well actually we said there's a +- 25 tolerance in the fine print and this is within tolerance" bullshit.

AliExpress is indispensable for small technical items. If they're available locally at all, shipping included they'd often cost 10-20x as much.
Diffusion Model image generator in about 700 lines of pure SQL
Functional MRI can do more than you think
Good clarification. I know this separation is difficult especially when the career funds the other parts of life and the employer or title you hold is seen as prestigious.
IBM just launched a new mainframe with AI accelerators https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-code-assistant-z in part to help rewrite production COBOL into Java https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-code-assistant-z
Could different scholars from different universities rank people differently?
GP hypothesized the situation "from downtown one city to another", which is distinct from airport-to-airport.
Amtrak's ridership has been growing and hit an all time high. The Northeast Corridor is a profitable route which is held back by century old infrastructure. If it actually had real high speed spanning the whole route it's ridership absolutely go up. Moreover your comments on not wanting to go from city center to city center are very off. Going from Union Station DC to Penn Station Philly, or NYC is really nice. Have you ever rode Amtrak, specifically that route?
Copy paste is so last year, just turn on agent mode in VS code or Cursor. It took me only a single prompt to convert a set of messy razor pages into a nicely structured React application.
Yes, that manages to be both super annoying and condescending at the same time.
This is how a 1st world country is supposed to work when confronted with a fascist.
> we'll be either supporting local workers or friendly nations

Are there any friendly nations left?
Probably not, they'll just pump up international student numbers to recoup and basically gut the domestic student experience. There's near infinite demand for American universities overseas even now.
> To me, programs are “works on my machine” code.

My main takeaway from vibe-coding is that nobody cared enough to fill that niche and expectation. And it was really frustrating, yet we're getting there through convolutated, inefficient and borderline barbaric means.

People are still lamenting after HyperCard. Automation on windows or macos didn't go anywhere. Shortcuts were a better step into that direction but I feel it got stuck in the middle as Apple wasn't going to push it further. Android had more freedom yet you won't see a "normal" user do automation either.

If we're going to point the middle finger at vibe-coding, I wish we had something to point to as a better tool for the general population to quickly make stuff they want/need.

(Doing it as a professional dev is to me another debate, still with nuance in it IMHO. I'd also love better prototyping tools to be honest.)
Back then Google was trying to be social. Remember Google+?

https://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1523.html
Asking the LLM for something is like doing an "Ask the Audience" in Who Wants to be a Millionaire. You're basically polling the consensus answer to the question you're asking.
I assume it's a large number because the fentanyl superlative the Canadian police raided had literal tons of precursors.
Next generation computer chips could process data at the speed of light
I feel like this comment and the article itself together in context have kind of a sour taste for me.

Just the fact that it takes such a great effort to experience first-hand how poorer people just help each other out because nobody has money, so they help. But for a tech bro to do that they have to engage in a self-indulgent hobby and cosplay as poor like they're on Undercover Boss.

Ironically this effort to relate to other real live humans with normal incomes is only possible by indulging in the ultimate luxury, which is taking major time off of work rather than being stuck working a shit job.

This is all done with a straight face while jamming a sentence full of words like "paraglider" and "packrafting."

This whole subject is all so stereotypical tech bro in such an unappealing way.

Maybe this sounds unnecessarily bitter, but I think a valid alternate take on this is that privileged people are taking advantage of the kindness of others to get a bunch of help they don't need to help them achieve a goal that is a frivolous luxury. It's great we all get to feel warm fuzzy gratitude but it seems like the NPCs in this main character syndrome story are the people inconvenienced by the OP.

Example: asking the fire department for a place to sleep, they probably feel bad so they let OP sleep in the fire department. But as a tech startup founder and software engineer, OP could have almost certainly afforded a basic motel each night with minimal to zero planning and effort and not resorted to inconveniencing other people.

It feels a little bit like your CEO going to the food bank doesn't it? The median firefighter earns under $60k and dude who has probably outearns that salary in passive investment income is asking for a place to crash. I bet if the firefighter knew that they'd surely still be nice on the outside but they'd probably have a negative story to tell their spouse when they got home.

I completely understand that not booking a motel facilitated human connection and all that loveliness but I sense that the benefit is very one-sided. In Zuckerberg-esque style, the tech bro gets to cosplay as a human with real emotions, while on the "normie NPC" side they get to deal with a tech bro on a bicycle asking for weird shit while they're just trying to get through a shift.
It's not really imperative, it's just commit-message-present. The implicit subject is "I", referring to the patch, like Smalltalk documentation style. This canard goes as high as Junio himself, though. :)
That's better than how I was going to say it:

In one case you're looking at the system as "alphanumeric string of length N." In another, the system is that plus something like "my friend's opinion on the string".

Also, as the article says, using "entropy" to mean "order" is not a good practice. "Order" is a subjective concept, and some systems (like oil and water separating) look more "ordered" but still have higher entropy, because there is more going on energetically than we can observe.
Six-digit verification codes for something like a "forgot password" flow are OTPs -- they're only good for one login -- but they are not HOTP/TOTPs. HOTP/TOTP has a registration step, where you copy a server-generated secret to your phone through a QR-code-encoded otpauth:// URI (https://github.com/google/google-authenticator/wiki/Key-Uri-...). That doesn't happen in a "forgot password" flow.

Incidentally, if you think of TOTP as being HMAC(unix mod 30, secret), one idea would be to do public key crypto instead of symmetric HMAC stuff. That's basically what a security key is.

If you additionally made it so that you couldn't phish the security key -- by having the OS + web browser know which apps can ask for which security keys -- you'd have reinvented WebAuthn.

P.S.: Make you sure you have stuffing protection in place against these kinds of six-digit-code auth schemes. A million possibilities is often acceptable for a secondary factor, but it's useless if attackers can just try all million codes.

Since they're in the thread, nice article 'dogacel! I've never seen an article on this that also took the time to dig into HMAC internals and that gnarly DT function.
Yes. We had $50k of taxable W2 income ($63k including pre-tax insurance premiums and HSA contributions), $13k of taxable family leave benefits, $4k of interest/dividends (mostly qualified dividends, taxed at 0%), and $9k of long-term capital gains (taxed at 0%), making our pre-tax gross income about $89k. Only $66k of that is subject to taxes; the standard deduction brings that down to $37k, on which the tax is $4k. With a $2,000 child tax credit, $400 saver's credit, and $200 foreign tax credit, our tax liability is reduced to $1400, which is 1.6% of $89k.
The real problem with "vibe coding" (or any coding, or with any product what so ever) is that the end user probably is not a programmer, and therefore cannot have professional judgement on the quality of the implementation. The only thing typical end user care is the perceived behavior, not the implementation details.

As it is easier and cheaper to do anything, the result is low-quality products. This of course serves well for the real professionals, who can now sell premium quality products at premium pricing for those who know and want the quality.
Random tangent: It appears that most of Electron's funding is actually the German government.

The Sovereign Tech Agency, under the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, fund OpenJS, specifically for improving the state of open source in JavaScript.

Electron is now part of OpenJS.