skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But everybody needs somewhere to live do if you own one home, you don't really come up on top.

Versus paying someone rent your whole life? You absolutely do.
if you read all the previous Wiz related threads, you'd know that the elders of zion had decided to finance their world domination efforts through selling companies that start with W to Google
Startup valuation is based mostly on sentiment in the current age so if you're not breathlessly hyping up your shitty product you're almost literally leaving money on the table.
> on all extra important occasions, such as writing notes for example &, but I will not specify

I think this has been transcribed wrongly, as "&c" has been used in the past as a shorthand for "etc", as the ampersand evolved from a ligature of "et", the latin for "and"
Indeed, but that is just ideology, not based on any facts.
And if house prices are lower, it’s cheaper for you to get a better house. I always try to think of our house as ‘well, no matter the economy at least we own a house to live in’ rather than think of its monetary value.

House prices being higher are good if you are planning to downgrade when the children leave the nest though. Or I guess if you reverse-mortgage it when you retire.
IMO it’s mostly luck. Right place, right time, right connections. Look at the founders in the US, many of them are from already privileged backgrounds. True rags to riches stories like that of Jack Ma are rare.
> Well, getting escorted out definitely doesn't happen here either at least.

It 100% does. It happened to me in Brno, Czechia, and this February I interviewed someone to whom the same thing happened and who was attempting to sue for unfair dismissal.
Having worked in a (now defunct) US co in West-EU I can say it’s a subtle blend of the two. The layoff was announced, shortly after a few people received a call by HR, were escorted to their desk by security and had to turn in all company belongings on the spot. They were not allowed to touch a computer or telephone and were then escorted out of the premises. Afterwards, we learned that they had received a severance package that met local rules.

Most of my colleagues were shocked by the treatment. Moral took a dive after that.
What's remarkable about Infocom's z-machine is the level of sophistication and polish vs the intended application, maybe unsurprising coming from MIT graduates with access to a PDP-10 as a development platform. Otherwise the use of virtual machines was, maybe not common, but not unusual.

* TinyBasic (1975) was specified (and sometimes implemented) as a VM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC

* Apple Pascal (1979) was a UCSD Pascal system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pascal

* The COSMAC VIP computer/console's (1977) games were programmed in CHIP-8, a VM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

* Scott Adams' text adventures (1978+) used an application-specific VM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_International

* Wozniak's SWEET16 contained in Apple II Integer Basic (1977) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16

* If you count Forth as a VM, it was pretty common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
From my experience that often just prolongs the process, but doesn't change the management culture.

An employee decided to be laid off is equally written off immediately, it's just delegated to the regional/local HR to "manage the rest".

If you're not escorted off-premise, you get to enjoy some additional days/weeks of colleagues and managers telling you how surprised they were...
>> many web forum software that's left and not enshittified yet that came after the PHP age

I am a part of a community that is run on a slightly modded FluxBB. It has more comments per hour than hacker news. Maybe even 10 times more. And new threads are started almost daily. I think this particular forum is almost ten years old?
We did change platforms, but this was more then 7 years ago for sure.

And the code base isn't maintained, since moderators aren't very tech savvy.

That's to say: php forums are pretty robust, don't discount them! You can always migrate, if something better will come up. Older versions are just as good, as the enshittified ones.
LLMs have shit memory and abstraction capabilities and just adding md files and more context is like trying to make a alzheimer patient learn to play the piano. Yes it kinda works to some degree to always repeat everything, but it's not true learning and just a bandaid.
If you have a better idea you could get millions in VC funding to pursue that. Chat is where it's at. It's fine to think that it's not gonna be the be-all and end-all of AI, but it's pretty fundamentally how we interact with each other, so I don't see it going away any time soon. There's also a thing as being too generic. So really they just hit this sweet spot.
It's not just you.

However, I would say that I've grown to accept that most people prefer these more constrained models of thinking. Constraints can help free the mind up in other ways. If you do not perceive MCP as constraining, then you should definitely use it. Wait until you can feel the pain of its complexity and become familiar with it. This will be an excellent learning experience.

Also consider the downstream opportunities that this will generate. Why not plan a few steps ahead and start thinking about a consultancy for resolving AI microservices clusterfucks.
Correct, the real bottleneck is almost always the database.
> Relatively, yes. In aggregate, the rich pay the lion’s share of taxes in the West.

Depends on your definition of rich, your definition of "lion's share" and where in the west.

In the UK 18% of government revenue comes from national insurance - which is an income tax only on earned income, and charged at a higher rate on people in lower tax bands.

Another 17% is from VAT. Yes, rich people will buy more stuff subject to VAT, but a much lower proportion of their incomes, and it falls a lot as incomes go up. I would guess it pretty much plateaus for the super-rich.

About 4% comes from council tax, which is per household with an adjustment for the value of the property you live in, and a that adjustment if far from proportionate and there is a maximum level that is far below the typical value of the residences of the rich. There is a penalty for owning multiple houses for personal use. Again, would plateau at some point.

About another 5% comes from fuel and tobacco alcohol duties. Rich people might have bigger cars, but they are also more likely to have EVs, and they do not drink more alcohol AFAIK and are less likely to smoke.

Only 23% comes from income tax which is the only clearly progressive tax - and that becomes less clear when you leave for exemptions and the greater ability of the rich to avoid it.

It would take a detailed analysis to figure this out.

Sources:

https://ifs.org.uk/taxlab/taxlab-key-questions/where-does-go...

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
Oh god, LUE
never thought I'd see it referenced again
does anybody expect jinjo still?
As gray dog around the prairie, had Microsoft actually been serious with POSIX subsystem on Windows NT/2000, instead of some marketing material and low level effort, GNU/Linux adoption would never taken off, at least not at a level that would have mattered.

With OS X on one side, and POSIX subsystem on Windows NT/2000 side, everyone would be doing their UNIX like workflows without thinking once to try out GNU/Linux.

At my university we only cared about Linux on its early days, Slackware 2.0 days, because naturally we couldn't have DG/UX at home, and that POSIX support was really unusable beyond toy examples.
An immigrant to America thinking he's an American?...naaw naaw thx
I had two close calls: One time my down tube developed a large crack, starting from a faulty weld to to the head tube. Luckily, the lost stiffness made the bike start wobbling so much that I got off to inspect it. On the replacement bike, they didn't tighten the Hollowtech crank arm enough, so it slowly slid off over a few months and finally fell off. I'm glad that I was away from traffic and in my saddle at the moment it happened, so I could just walk the rest of the way home and put the arm back onto the crankshaft.
> Capital is also relatively accessible, it's not an 'unfair' thing.

Hilariously out of touch, even for a hackernews comment.
> Without Google Translate I'd have had a much harder time in a recent trip to Japan.

I haven't used Google Translate in years. You do know there are alternatives, don't you?
I mean that's certainly one opinion, but I mean, as you say, it does work.
Also note that GCC adoption only took off when Sun introduced the concept of UNIX developer SDK, where developer tooling was an additional license.
Show HN: Copyto.me – I made a better way of copying things to yourself
I built an app to copy things to yourself and retrieve them using a simple mnemonic.

*How it works:*

- Paste anything → Get a mnemonic (e.g., "cake").

- Use the mnemonic later to retrieve your content on another device.

- No logins, no setup.

*Why not use [Pastebin](https://pastebin.com/)?*

> Pastebin is a great service but it doesn't offer really short mnemonics to easily retrieve your content. Also, copyto.me can preserve your formatting.

*Is this a rip-off of [magic-wormhole](https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole) / [webwormhole.io](https://copyto.me/webwormhole.io) / [wormhole.app](https://copyto.me/wormhole.app) / [instant.io](https://copyto.me/instant.io)?*

> This tool is optimized for convenience, so certain tradeoffs are made at the cost of privacy.

Example advantages vs wormholes:

1. The mnemonics are shorter.

2. Both devices do not be connected to the tool at the same time.

3. Rich text is preserved.

Disadvantages:

1. The mnemonics are guessable.

2. File transfers aren't supported (yet?)

Try it for free here: https://copyto.me

More info on mnemonics and tech stack is in the FAQ: http://copyto.me/faq.

Would love to hear your thoughts.
I’m not making a value judgement. In particular the Polish animations are very beautiful.

But the article describes some specific themes in Tove Janssons books which are just not present in the animations.
Change could go to negative though, so even though 0% is included in the chart, the true possible bottom value of the chart is -100%.
Super interesting article and results shared by the Author, as always!

Quite surprised by the overall processing results especially on general detection of features.
The oranges he used were very ripe. Lately small oranges like tangerines have been very ripe for me. Sometimes when they are out of season they are borderline green, or actually have visible green on them, or are basically yellow. When they are so unripe, the red/orange bag makes a HUGE difference in how they look, it's night and day.
A guide for non-US employees at US companies that offer equity would be super helpful. It's an absolute minefield, especially in Britain. I'd love to contribute that information to your guide if contributions would be considered?
What’s there to "dEcOdE"? They received a mega shit ton of seed investment, super aggressive acquisition/acquihire strategy, monopolized the market (so to speak), then gets gobbled up by big G for a $32B (G cut so many jobs to get the leverage necessary to fund this acquisition).

Could G have _competed_ in the same space without Wiz? Yes.

Could other cloud providers have done the same from a first party perspective rather than rely on a shitty third party product suite? Yes.

"Journalism" like this make me lose faith in this industry. There’s no "secret sauce". There’s nothing special. It’s the same old tired formula that billionaire class have been using:

1) extract as much value from labor

2) prep company for unicorn by getting investor buddies in an investment frenzy

3) buy up other smaller companies to appear bigger

4) then wait for some fossil at big tech to take the bite and reap massive returns for the bois

This is more of a finance bro piece to be honest.
Yes, and UNIX vendors and MS were happilly taking pieces of it without upstreaming.

I think without GNU/Linux, most likely all UNIX vendors would have a better market share today.
It does. But scaling to billions of users (or billions of requests per day) is still not easy and you really need high performance for that. Laravel scales to a certain point, where their design decisions (eloquent, the queuing system etc.) are still working.

That said, with today's PHP it is possible to optimize the hot path pretty well with stuff like FFI.
The answer is that it was 2021 and they were in an incredibly favorable fundraising environment. It's not "what are we going to use this funding for?" It's "investors are flush with stimulus cash and leveraged to the tits from low interest rates and they're banging down our door to invest, let's take the funding"
And some point your bonds are considered trash
Georges Perec did the same with his novel "La Disparition".

What is almost as impressive is that these novels (at least Perec's) have been translated to other languages.
> so what if every time you approach a stop the front car detaches from the train and shifts to the stop and a car at the station accelerates and attaches to the front of the train (or vice versa), all without the train ever stopping?

Has been done historically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip_coach
Some oranges, especially the ones you find in Asia or at Asian fruit stands, can be completely ripe and still completely green. The ones sold in US stores are almost all sour and unripe if they are green (almost always but not always). Different regions in the world 'know about' different citrus fruit (there seem to be a lot of overlap and a lot of non-overlap with fruit), so your mileage may vary. Reddit claims this is because of the temperatures: https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/16ca895/why_are_th... It's fun to go to fruit stands when traveling and try the fruits you don't recognize! Lots of fruits are very different if you travel to countries where they can grow them natively, and there are a lot of tropical fruits that aren't exported. Lots of the English words for fruits are re-used so you can be eating something totally unrecognized and it's a "tree cherry" or something.

For example, what they call a lime in a lot of countries (for example Calamansi) would be called a tiny orange in North America (we don't have that fruit here). What we call a lime they wouldn't recognize, but if they saw/tasted it they might think it's a green lemon or something.
I see plenty of cars which say "Welcome to your new Ford/Tesla/whatever. Please choose a language to start" on the touchscreen.

Ie. The owner has owned the car for multiple years and has never touched the touchscreen even once.
That’s how you prevent future bonds because they become trash.
Nope. They bought up many similar companies in the space to monopolize the niche market. Got big enough to act as bait for some fossilized big tech company.
Unix files have (at least) two sizes
In 2025, OpenAI's GPT-4o has revolutionized the creative landscape by enabling users to generate images reminiscent of Studio Ghibli's iconic animation style. This development has sparked a global trend, with social media platforms flooded with AI-generated Ghibli-style portraits and scenes. However, this surge in AI artistry also raises questions about authenticity, ethics, and the future of human creativity.
“ There is no expectation, for example, that a billionaire should provide welfare or build a stadium out of his own pocket and provide free entertainment to the masses”

It’s the other way now. The taxpayers are paying for stadiums so the billionaires can charge a ton of money for entertainment
I love the idea, but at least on my iPad it’s hard to discover what I could do on this site. That some menu options are written with Cyrillic letters doesn’t help either. It would be great if you could make the onboarding smoother.
aah loved this
> Therefore saying it's "suspicious" is as stupid as saying there is "solid evidence".

Hardly, I find quantum mechanics suspect without having a better option. I’m not saying there’s any kind of conspiracy or anything and sure it fits the experiments we have done. Yet, I suspect most people who actually learn the details have similar reactions it doesn’t fit our experience. Sadly the universe doesn’t care it it seems consistent to us.

There’s a deep cultural divide in the US to the point where people have trouble remembering how close support is for each party. Because politics is so regional it’s easy for each side to overestimate how popular that side is. Imagine living in a county where 80% are voting for one side and almost all roadside posters are supporting one candidate. Suddenly the other side winning just doesn’t fit everyday experience.

When either side wins a huge number of people will find it suspicious, that’s just how our heuristics and pattern matching work. A historian looking back on 2020 and 2024 isn’t going to find the election results odd because wider forces definitely favored the winning side in those elections, but people today don’t have that separation. Thinking there’s widespread and obvious fraud is different.
You can just hold down <apple>+<option>+<P>+<R> at boot and let it play the boot sound a few times before releasing. This will reset the PRAM battery, and allow it to boot to desktop with a working monitor if the PRAM battery is flat.
I read a theory that life in the universe might be favorable because we increase entropy so much.
I would say that symfony is the base of modern PHP. Laravel and others can only be as beautiful as symfony is.
What an uneducated take.
Interesting concept for sci-fi but not realistic.
You could do that. But then you need to explain to the LLM how to do the work every time you want to use that tool.

And you also run into the risk that the LLM will randomly fail to use the tool "correctly" every time you want to invoke it. (Either because you forgot to add some information or because the API is a bit non-standard.)

All of this extra explaining and duplication is also going to waste tokens in the context and cost you extra money and time since you need to start over every time.

MCP just wraps all of this into a bundle to make it more efficient for the LLM to use. (It also makes it easier to share these tools with other people.)

Or if you prefer it. Consider that the first time you use a new API you can give these instructions to the LLM and have it use your API. Then you tell it "make me an MCP implementation of this" and then you can reuse it easily in the future.
He forgot to mention that founders are all veterans of Unit 8200, the signals intelligence division of the Israeli military.
Show HN: I made the first booking platform for digital nomads
I love the nomad life but it comes with its downsides. For me the constant research has become a bit tiring. Finding the next city / country to stay in is fun and there's a lot of good tools for that but the rest just feels like a chore at this point:

- Finding the best neighborhood that's fun, safe and affordable
- Finding the right accommodation that fits my preferences
- Potentially adding a co-working space or a gym
- Making sure these aren't too far from each other
- Fitting everything in my budget

So I built a booking platform that does it for you. It's a passion project of mine but I thought it might be useful for others too.

Here's how it works:

- Helps you find the best area for you
- Creates a package of accommodation + gym + co-working space
- In budget
- In walking / driving distance
- You can swap out each individual part as you like

I got some positive initial feedback from other nomads and spent the past 6 weeks expanding to 130+ cities in over 70 countries. It now has over 70k hotels, 50k gyms and 10k co-working spaces.

I hope this can be a useful resource for other nomads and help save you some time that you can spend traveling instead.
Everyone recounting their incidents in the comments has made me realize this should be brought up when discussing bike lane width, separation, and close pass distance; cyclists need to have enough space that a mechanical failure doesn't result in instantly going under a vehicle.
Hacktical C: practical hacker's guide to the C programming language
It's kinda both sometimes haha
Printing money to pay debts is inflationary.

Every dollar printed is a dollar stolen from the collective citizenry of the USA. Of course it makes sense to add money supply commensurate with increased productivity, so that money doesn't deflate, but go beyond that and that is what your are doing.

Either way, someone has to pay the debt, even if you repudiate it.
Most people living on rents make above average income. They'd pay more in increased taxes than they'd get from UBI.

The $1500 was after taxes. If it wasn't, the average person would end up paying more in taxes than they receive in UBI. The goal was to net the average person to $0.
I wrote the OG paper about making LLMs do this task (before chatGPT came out too!!!)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15926
I can guess, but I'm just echoing what's on the box, or what Biostar says. :)
Google laid off the Flutter team. They still seem to be releasing Flutter announcements but it's slow.

One big part of Flutter was that it was a hedge against Java lawsuits back in the day. The other was that it was experimenting with some mobile code, like designing it around lifecycles and all the async UI. But now the same paradigms have been adopted by iOS and Android.

Unlike BE, mobile moves quite quickly too; the last few years have been deprecating a lot of things like push notification security and file access. Mostly to deal with dark patterns. So a platform that isn't in active maintenance tends to fall apart quickly like we've seen with many mobile libraries, Cordova, etc.
I think most people I know in the cycling community actually is quite aware. But we're enthusiasts. Daily someone post a picture of some crack in the frame and people discuss if it's into the carbon or only superficial.

A common problem I've seen, where it's invisible damage, is rust on the handlebars below the bar tape. Especially bikes used on indoor rides during the winter where you sweat much more than on an outdoor ride, corroding the material below.

But honestly, I don't think this is where cyclists should be the most concerned. Separate infrastructure, lower speeds of passing cars etc will do a hundred times more in reducing risks and injuries.
Maybe there should be some system of required inspection for bikes, as many countries have for cars.

The case is not as strong as bike failures do not affect other people, on the other hand cars are, in many/most countries, also required to have seatbelts and other safety features for occupants.
Thank you for proving how hard it is to get across to people. I don't want to discourage home ownership. On the contrary, I want home ownership to be easier. However, that requires homes to be abundant and cheaper.

We can't have both:

1. Cheap, affordable housing for everyone

2. Housing as a stable investment that keeps going up in value forever

One of these two has to give.
Can barely read this post because scrolling feels so sluggish and weird on a Chrome-based browser on a Pixel 9 Pro. Hope the playful effects are worth it for the author.
Funding doesn't cause growth. If anything, funding causes Juiceros and Magic Leaps. Growth, however, can definitely cause funding and that's what happened with Wiz I think.
MCP for Claude.ai
Could you turn a bikeframe into a capacitive sensor and detect forming cracks that way?
If you consider the constraints on how it can evolve and the alternatives that has been attempted, I think web languages turned out pretty well.
+1 for XFCE4-Terminal
To summarize: multiplication hashes are inferior but when used with the golden ratio derived integer, they are actually superior