skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see AI like the reading glasses I’ll soon need — not because I can’t think clearly, but because it helps cut through things faster when my brain’s juggling too much.

A few years ago, I’d have quietly filed this kind of article under “too hard” or passed a log analysis request from the CIO down the line. Now? I get AI to draft the query, check it, run it, and move on. It’s not about thinking less — it’s about clearing the clutter so I can focus where it counts.
Um, yes they do. The left sidebar on the desktop app is titled "Your Library". On the mobile app, it is the third nav icon at the bottom right of the screen.

You can save albums to the library by opening the album page and clicking the circled-plus "Save to Your Library" button. It then appears in your library under "Albums". You can search the library, sort by recently played, recently added, alphabetical, creator. You can also save singles, playlists, podcasts and artists to your library. If you go into settings, you can connect your library to locally stored files.

I could go on. This took me literally 1 minute of opening up Spotify and looking at the UI.
Cofounder splits are extremely common. Cofounder "couples" counselors are a thing you could look into to help resolve your differences. Your VC might have recommendations for one. If you ultimately decide to split, I'd recommend at least one of you (or "the company"?) getting a lawyer to draw up a formal separation agreement you both sign in order to split in the cleanest possible way.
"You guys" ? I'm a libertarian. Pelosi is certainly a problem as well, but she doesn't have much bearing on the current destruction. This reflexive othering and whataboutism is at the core of your problem. I sympathize with your anger, but maybe try listening to your fellow countrymen instead of immediately writing us off.
Run.

Pivot, means turning on an existing axis. If you were building "product M" and on the way built "L" and it turns out that it's more useful/profitable thats a pivot.

You're flailing around trying to make your VC some money. You clearly aren't happy with this.

Let's be candid, you could go found a micro startup every month for the next 12 months and one of them is likely to make enough to pay your own bills. You dont need to build a unicorn you need to build a small business... one that supports at least you.
What "grade" would a senior dev be at?

Pay scale for the DC area: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
TinyKVM is certainly technology that in itself is rather groundbreaking, but it is obviously even more powerful in the context of request handling at lightning speed. But you are right it could be used for other things.

Would you have read this if neither Deno, Varnish or TinyKVM would have been in the title? ;)

But we hear you. Will put a page on our website and should probably consider seeing up a community site as well as it is indeed, grabbing some attention.
honestly hope that LLMs end up creating mountains of unsustainable tech debt across these companies so devs have some job security
In the near term it makes more sense to position nix as a common interface between app developers and distro maintainers and not as a direct-to-user way to cut their distro maintainers out of the loop entirely (although it is quite useful for that).

Ideally, a distro maintainer would come across a project packaged with nix and think:

> Oh good, the app dev has taken extra steps to make life easy for me.

As-is, I don't think that's the case. You can add a flake output to your project which builds an .rpm or a .deb file, but it's not commonly done.

I'm guessing that most of the time, distro maintainers would instead hook directly into a language specific build-tool like cmake or cargo and ignore the nix stuff. They benefit from nix only indirectly in cases where it has prevented the app dev from doing crazy things in their build (or at least has made that crazyness explicit, versus some kind of works-on-my-machine accident or some kind of nothing-to-see here skulduggery).

If we want to nixify the world I think we should focus less on talking people out of using package managers which they like and more on making the underlying packages more uniform.
i think people's view of netflix's business model is heavliy biased by what they want netflix to be.

i get it, i hate what they've become too. i'd like to believe there's a world where paying for content is a better model than selling ads. but the reality is that every time netflix makes a decision that the internet gets angry about, their balance sheet looks better.
> @downvoters, do you have any arguments to add?

Not a downvoter, but the idea of proportionality is core to liberal democracies. It’s why only illiberal states would cut off the hands of a petty thief, or execute drug offenders, and so forth. Wrecking a person’s life over frog embryos, irrespective of her imprudence or her boss’s carelessness is a disproportionate response. That’s my argument. It smacks of the sort of arbitrary cruelty and pettiness that runs through the very core of this administration.
> Is it just hard to maintain that level of enthusiasm over time? Is the sum of possible money just too desirable?

I do not recall the book/essay or the original author, but I recall the quote that “everybody has a price they can’t resist, find out that price…”.

If your enthusiasm product is successful and has potential to be milked, someone somewhere will figure out your price and eventually buy you out.
I haven’t used it enough to be able to say yet, but I believe the BEAM avoids part of the problem Ian Cooper (Where Did It All Go Wrong?) rediscovered, which is that microservices don’t min-max the inter- versus intra-modular friction in systems.

I would not say that Beam eliminates this problem in any way, but I do think it lowers the slope of the line. The self-consistent idioms and functionality, especially with deployment, auto recovery and load balancing, reduce the inter-module friction. It makes a system where 12 engineers can easily manage 30 endpoints, and your surface area can still follow a power law.
> Statistically most of ones coworkers will never have looked at and used to write actual code with a functional language, so it is understandable they don't get it.

I'm not against functional languages. My point was that if you want to encourage others to try it, those two are not what you want to lead with.
That's all true. Process and bureaucracy are guard rails, and guard rails limit change. So when the whole system is barrelling towards a cliff (default, hyperinflation, kinetic war), what should the leaders try and do?

It probably seems like I'm defending their actions, I genuinely don't know if their actions are correct and I'm not defending them. I'm just acknowledging it seems like many US institutions haven't been appropriately evolving, and now the US as a whole is between a rock and a hard place.

If I'm going to spend time thinking about these things (that I have virtually no control over), I would prefer to do it in a curious and mostly emotionally detached way.
https://archive.is/MujoE

> OpenAI is getting ready to unveil a number of new AI models, sources familiar with the company’s plans tell The Verge. Among the new AI models will be a release of what I’m expecting will be branded GPT-4.1, which one source describes as a revamped version of OpenAI’s GPT-4o multimodal model.

> OpenAI is also readying the full version of its o3 reasoning model and an o4 mini version that could debut even sooner. AI engineer Tibor Blaho discovered references to o4 mini, o4 mini high, and o3 in a new ChatGPT web version earlier today, suggesting these additions are imminent. I understand o3 and o4 mini are both set to debut next week, unless OpenAI moves the launch plans around.
Tessier-Lavigne only resigned from Stanford’s presidency and remained on the faculty. His case was far worse in my opinion. His research consumed millions of dollars and resulted in the misdirection of further millions downstream. Everyone knew Gay’s work was useless BS, it just also turned out to contain plagiarism.
Can you give a source for "Germany monitors all of your internet traffic"?
Being a consumer rather than a producer of tech is strictly a business decision. There's significant cost to producing and maintaining a language, and Ericsson no longer wanted to pay the upkeep.

That's not necessarily an indictment on the language itself. The alternative would have been to keep using it while also open sourcing it, but I'm guessing they just wanted to be able to hire cheaper C developers or whatever the flavor of the time was.
That's a very keen observation!

It's probably profitable in a lot of cases to follow those metrics, shovelware content is cheaper to produce, and since the median user pays the same subscription fee as the enthusiast, you get better margins producing slop for the uncaring masses.

You need enthusiast businesses owners to produce quality product.

Damn, I never thought of this before, but it explains so much!
backed me up and provided engineering support. raised my salary regularly, knowing i was a valuable engineer.
Using it extensively in production at https://heiioncall.com/ . It’s a joy to work with. Fast to write AND fast to run. :)
>Chrome ate everyone's lunch because everyone was using google to search for stuff, and they could advertise their browser on their home page or together with their search results.

That and it was such a better browsing experience. Firefox was not good compared to Chrome for years. I'm sure they are feature parity now, but for years the Chrome experience was significantly better.
Another reason why consultants are good in government is because of unions. I am generally pro-union, but a side effect of unions, at least in my experience, is that you will have a proportion of incompetent people who can not complete anything and you can not effectively get rid of them. Consultants who are clearly incompetent or even just not a good fit are much easier to get rid of.

Although the large consulting firms are also not great if they are just shipping software requirements overseas for cheap software dev labor, that also can be very ineffective. So many never ending government projects are a result of this. On the surface everything is competently managed (grant charts forever, with perfect org charts), but at the strategic level of actually getting it to work and on-time is lacking (because there are a ton of cautious "professional managers" who don't know how to actually ship.)
Most rural communities will not be willingly surrendering their firearms under any circumstances. They are heavily armed, yet they have very low rates of gun violence, at least until tyrants come for their guns that is.

Contrast that to urban areas where extensive gun control laws are in place. The issues are social and cultural and are not something that a gun ban will solve.

We are not Western Europe or Australia.

Also, like I said in another comment, guns are everywhere here and that toothpaste is already out of the tube. Most guns are not registered. No one knows for certain how many there are and who owns them. There will at best be no cooperation with forced confiscation, and most likely there will be active resistance against such a tyrannical incursion upon the rights of free people. Even law enforcement and large swaths of the military are unlikely to cooperate with confiscation efforts.
It is wildly disingenuous to just copy paste that line from wikipedia and not the rest of the paragraph.

> In February 1998, Ericsson Radio Systems banned the in-house use of Erlang for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages.[15] The ban caused Armstrong and others to make plans to leave Ericsson.[16] In March 1998 Ericsson announced the AXD301 switch,[8] containing over a million lines of Erlang and reported to achieve a high availability of nine "9"s.[17] In December 1998, the implementation of Erlang was open-sourced and most of the Erlang team resigned to form a new company, Bluetail AB.[8] Ericsson eventually relaxed the ban and re-hired Armstrong in 2004.

- edit, poster was quoting a quote in the article, not wikipedia, the article is the one omitting the context
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. It's kind of amazing to me how much USGov business Accenture continued to soak up after the misfired start of healthcare.gov. Their core competency is pretty clearly acquiring contracts, not fulfilling them.
> First of all there is zero trade between the US and Russia currently

Not true. The US imported 3.5 billion dollars of goods from Russia in 2024, and exported 500 million dollars of goods.

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia...
First they would have to convince the Supreme Court that birthright citizenship isn't in the Constitution, which seems like a long shot even for this court.
OPs specific complaints about Netflix and Spotify are mostly a result of their success. Back in 2012 Netflix had a lot of movies because Hollywood didn't value streaming and were willing to sell the streaming right for most of their content for tiny amounts of money. And there were no other streamer.

Spotify is in a similar boat. The music companies didn't value streaming and were willing to sell their entire catalog to the one player in the ecosystem (or in the case of music, to everyone for the same low price)

But also, personalization actually drives a ton of revenue. When I worked at Netflix, when the recommendation system went down and we defaulted to curated lists, streaming would drop 20%. And that was in 2013. I can only imagine what the drop is today when that system goes down.

Personalization drives a ton of revenue, and TikTok is the best at it, so it's no surprise that OP sees everything "going to TikTok"
Orban? rather poor naming for the company.
Thanks for posting this.
What a fantastic post on the history or Erlang. Very illuminating (all of this is new to me).
Interesting article - I wonder if the version of entrepreneurialism entering social norms is tied to the economic environment. When interest rates were low in the 2010's and there was ample VC money, we had lots of examples that reinforced the entrepreneurial idea of the tech startup. The ideal was starting a tech company that could be acquired.

Maybe higher interest rates are partially driving the shift towards entrepreneurship through acquisition/sweaty startup ideas? You certainly hear more about it today in an environment where you have lots of retiring owners and an emphasis on cash flow.
Famous Authors on Roller Coasters (2022)
> Why not just put the conversation / prompt at the end of the commit/PR message?

This might be something I would do. My only concern is, the conversations can be quite long and mean very long. My "Chat Flow" right now is to discuss what needs to be done. Produce the code, which can span multiple chats and then have the LLM summarize things.

What I think might make sense in the future is to include detailed chat summaries in commit messages and PRs. Given that we get a lot of text diarrhea from LLMs, I think putting them in a LLM as is, may do more harm than good.
Yeah, I was referring to the job security aspect, given all the layoffs.

But yes, the federal package is good, but not fantastic. It's on par with what a typical company provides. Salary is decent, too. Not FAANG, but not below industry average. More or less, just like a typical industry job.

State/city jobs tend to have much better benefit packages, but lower pay (often a lot lower). They also tend to be relatively chill workwise.
It is a shame the article did not explain that.
I don't think this applies. According to the stories here, folks were choosing out of Fed jobs even when gold-plated pensions were the norm.
Society existed before social security.
Trump's draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research
The amazing thing about Erlang and the BEAM is it's depth of features. To the OP the Behaviour/Interface of Erlang is their biggest take away. For me I believe it is how you require far far less development resources to build complex systems than you would require in any other language (provided comparable experience in both stacks). And for many the lightweight processes and programming model.

OTP itself has so much in it. We've been working on compiling Elixir to run on iOS devices. Not only can we do that through the release process but through using the ei library provided in Erlang we can compile a Node in C that will interface with any other Erlang node over a typical distributed network as you would for Erlang, Elixir, Gleam, etc... furthermore there is a rpc library in Erlang where from C we can make function calls and interface with our Elixir application. Yes, the encoding/decoding has an overhead and FFI would be faster but we're still way within our latency budget and we got this stood up in a few days without even have heard of it before.

The larger point here is that Erlang has been solving many of the problems that modern tech stacks are struggling with and it has solved for scale and implementation cost and it solved these problems decades ago. I know HN has a bit of a click-bait love relationship with Erlang/Elixir but it hasn't translated over to adoption and there are companies that are just burning money trying to do what you get out of the box for free with the Erlang stack.
Browser extensions put 4M users at risk of cookie theft
The extensions, which so far number at least 35, use the same code patterns, connect to some of the same servers, and require the same list of sensitive systems permissions, including the ability to interact with web traffic on all URLs visited, access cookies, manage browser tabs, and execute scripts.
No, the company the creators worked for. And six years later they hired Armstrong again and silently lifted the ban.
>I have a very horrible case of this. One day at night, I slept listening to lofi playlist. The next week all my recommendations were screwed. Horrible assumption on the part of algorithm.

None of the music services seem to understand that just because you like multiple genres, that doesn't mean that you want it to randomly jump around between them without any consideration for how they flow together.
If you wanted to go skiing at Heavenly in Lake Tahoe in 1997 or 1998 you would pay about $98 in March 2025 dollars, according to the US BLS CPI calculator. This season a lift ticket is $232. Incline/DiamondMountain was $58 in 82-83, now $165.

Likewise when I looked at concert ticket stubs for the 1970's - 2000 the prices were consistently about $40-50 in todays dollars for top acts in big venues.
If you want to make a bow, the Tradition Bowyer's Bible is a fantastic resource.
Thank you. I would not accept a corporate brand sending me text messages. I don't want to "engage" with brands. The less of this garbage on the Internet, the better.
I am ~98th percentile car guy. I own two classic Mustangs, one stock, one restomodded by me, and have had a variety of interesting daily drivers over the decades, including dailying an 80s Alfa Spider year-round including 4 winters in Boston.

It’s comfortable, safe, and dead-nuts reliable, but no one gives a shit about or even notices my hybrid RX450h.
I am definitely not an expert in 3D graphics... but this looks such an astonishingly simple and effective method, it makes me to question why this wasn't already thought of and picked up?

I get that with fixed-pipeline GPUs you do what the hardware and driver make you do, but with the advent of programmable pipelines, you'd though improving stuff like this would be the first things people do?

Anyway, gotta run and implement this in my toy Metal renderer.
Yeah but distro package repositories mostly consist of applications and non-system libraries.
Finally a budget cut I can actually celebrate.
Impact of Triangular-Toothed Gears on the Functionality of Antikythera Mechanism
> Fedora's sandbox capabilities for apps

Do you mean Flatpaks or something else?
"All I see is 1% of complete failure" --Bad Dads everywhere
The problem with the ultra-rich is not that it's hard to get there, but rather that it is possible. Nobody is personally worth billions, period. The fact that some individuals get there shows a flaw in the system.

The second thing that I wanted to say is that even though there are examples of originally not ultra-rich people becoming ultra-rich in the US (e.g. Zuckerberg and Besos), the likelihood of this happening is almost zero. Why is it that people keep hoping that it may happen to them? We should not build a system for a handful to become ultra-rich, but for most to live as well as possible.
That's a pretty misleading statement, given that the article only says an upcoming Green Party politician is calling for it, and their party is supporting them. The only problem is that the Greens in Norway have almost no seats, so expecting this to go anywhere is unrealistic.
Win2k also had the smoothest mouse movements that I had ever seen. If you had a PS/2 Mouse, you could turn up the sample rate up to the max. Dragging windows looked incredible. Even my Mac to this day with a fancy brand new 4k display can't match it. My mouse still looks blurry as it moves across the screen.
Same purpose as the upcoming vaccine autism studies.
There is no such thing as "get as good as a human artist" unless it becomes an actual human that lived the human experience. Even bad art starts with something to express and a want to express it.

Without that, it's only as good as a human artist in the way a picture of a work of art is.

Actual AI art would first require an ai that wants to express something, and then it would have be trying to express something about the the life of an ai, which could really only be understood by another ai.

The most we could get out of it is maybe by chance it might be appealing like a flower or a rock. That is, an actual flower not an artists depiction of a flower or even an actual flower that someone pointed out to you.

An actual flower, that wasn't presented but you just found growing, might be pretty but it isn't a message and has no meaning or intent and isn't art. We like them as irrelevant bystanders observing something going on between plants and pollenators. Any meaning we percieve is actually only our own meanings we apply to something that was not created for that purpose.

And I don't think you get to say the hate is misdirected. What an amazing statement. These are the paying users saying what they don't like directly. They are the final authority on that.
Regarding the invasion of Afghanistan, it is my opinion that the Europeans were fully behind the US. The Iraq invasion, not at all.
I do owe you an email reply on that. I haven't forgotten that, just so you know.

But yes, Varnish Cache is not exactly what you would call Cloud Native.

Varnish Software have launched Pro currently on AWS only at a much lower price point, but it is still somewhat limited. I think that a Free-tier providing some of the goodies you mention would also cover much of what's needed for today's workloads including better memory management, in-core TLS and a better developer experience by having much better K8s support. Much of this could and should go into Varnish Cache, but that is a longer road as the project as such has a different focus than we do.

Expect more on that front this year @pbower :)
Watches, are just jewelry for most people any more. There are few people that can't check their phone for whatever reason that need functional watches, the rest of society mostly uses them for fashion.
Bluesky says 'sports is a top priority' amidst growth spurt
Welk tbh there’s no need to quote Steve Jobs to get that insight