skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently read someone's comment here stating that "trust is efficient."

What we are witnessing is the devolution of the USA from a high-trust to low-trust business environment. "Low-trust business environment" is the euphemism we have used to describe other countries, where corruption is rampant. This is so sad to watch.
the obvious solution is to switch to depleted uranium ammo
There are two common standards for documents: PDF and HTML. The german government mostly uses PDFs and should move to HTML.
Plan to remove all hedgehogs from Hebridean isles
Tesla's HW4 self-driving passes the Wile E. Coyote test
You don't need websockets SSE works fine for realtime collaborative apps.

Websockets sound great on paper. But, operationally they are a nightmare. I have had the misfortune of having to use them at scale (the author of Datastar had a similar experience). To list some of the challenges:

- firewalls and proxies, blocked ports

- unlimited connections non multiplexed (so bugs lead to ddos)

- load balancing nightmare

- no compression.

- no automatic handling of disconnect/reconnect.

- no cross site hijacking protection

- Worse tooling (you can inspect SSE in the browser).

- Nukes mobile battery because it hammers the duplex antenna.

You can fix some of these problems with websockets, but these fixes mostly boil down to sending more data... to send more data... to get you back to your own implementation of HTTP.

SSE on the other hand, by virtue of being regular HTTP, work out of the box with, headers, multiplexing, compression, disconnect/reconnect handling, h2/h3, etc.

If SSE is not performant enough for you then you should probably be rolling your own protocol on UDP rather than using websockets. Or wait until WebTransport is supported in Safari (any day now ).

Here's the article with a real time multiplayer Game of Life that's using SSE and compression for multiplayer.

https://example.andersmurphy.com

It's doing a lot of other dumb stuff explained a bit more here, but the point is you really really don't need websockets (and operationally you really don't want them):

https://andersmurphy.com/2025/04/07/clojure-realtime-collabo...
Inside trading on political information is legal in the US.

Nancy Pelosi (Democrat) made this famous in last decade, hitting news headlines with it:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nancy-pelosi-outperformed-nea...

https://nypost.com/2024/09/27/us-news/trump-calls-for-nancy-...

Inside trading rules concern only leaking corporate-private insider information.
Ah, you b--tard stealing my hard-earned friends! ;))

But seriously, is this how some insecure introverts also bond around those charismatic sociopaths and then help'em ruin the world while quietly working for the XYZ agencies? /s
404 Media reported a story on Monday[1] about a news outlet that claimed there'd be a 90-day break on tariffs for all countries besides China. This was published a few days before the official announcement.

So someone, somewhere, knew something before everyone else.

[1] https://www.404media.co/benzinga-news-service-that-falsely-r...
Gemini 2.5 Pro might be one of the best for coding but for creative tasks like writing and sharing ideas, I vastly prefer GPT 4o and GPT 4.5 to an even larger extent.
The follow-up post shows the whole magnitude of the insider trading:

> My previous post highlighted a striking example: how a single $2.5 million options position turned into $70 million in under an hour. But focusing solely on that trade risks missing the larger picture. What we actually saw was widespread activity. Numerous sophisticated traders carefully placing positions across several strike prices ($504, $505, $507, $509) in SPY as well as similar trades in QQQ.

> The pattern wasn't limited to a single trade or strike price. It was a coordinated wave of positions, all established within a critical half-hour window before the news broke.

> Imagine someone purchasing thousands of lottery tickets with a specific number combination just moments before those exact numbers are drawn.

https://data-and-politics.ghost.io/this-is-what-insider-trad...
Isn't another wild thing here that Apple chooses whether to send it encrypted or not? Sorry, haven't used an iPhone with iMessage, not sure how it works.

Try Signal instead perhaps?
Who would be doing the shielding? The current US government has been operating under the assumption of an incredibly expansive executive power, even over "independent" agencies.

I'm not a legal expert at all but so far the most useful mental model has been to assume absolutely no one is shielded from executive power (including organizations and people entirely outside the federal government) unless the courts have delivered a final ruling on it.
> Modern BERT with the extended context has solved natural language web search. I mean it as no exaggeration that _everything_ google does for search is now obsolete.

The web UI for people using search may be obsolete, but search is hot, all AIs need it, both web and local. It's because models don't have recent information in them and are unable to reliably quote from memory.
But it is frowned upon.
You have refused to acknowledge the validity of my sources, or the others sources (lancet peer reviewed article), which highlight the significant imbalance in human suffering between the two sides, and continued to derail the topic away from the current atrocities. We have covered all of your arguments already. My only conclusion is that you don't believe palestinians have the same right to life as israelis, and that is a very sad conclusion, or you deliberately refuse to acknowledge the reality of it and get off on trying to win arguments from your position while already knowing it's morally flawed and are engaging in bad faith, which is disturbing. I only wish you could value all human life the same. You are missing out on something great. Palestinians are not animals any more than Israelis are.

Your classic claims of "un bias" "kangaroo court" and "world is biased against israel" have been proven wrong a hundredfold, and are stale and archaic by this point, and people will never stop supporting palestinians, because people who know they are moral and are set on being moral won't be put off, no matter how much you try and twist the knife. you wont silence morality, equality, or humanity, no matter how much you try to to help your narrative.
Hope that changes with RocketLab
You could make insider trading legal by law, but that would destroy a lot of the stock market because all non-insiders would basically set themselves up to be ripped off.
Automatic package updates in Azure Pipelines
Whorf was an idiot. It’s not worth quoting him.
Unless I'm totally misreading this, it wasn't a 2.5m trade, it was 80c per option at 30,000 of them, less than $30k

The option to buy at 2.5m was not an obligation to do so
Reminds me of "covid numbers will go down if we just stop testing".
I just re-read the article, and there’s no evidence of wrong doing. There’s a bunch of circumstantial stuff that people are choosing to feed into their narrative.

Facebook has some rules and community guidelines, the Israeli government recognized some posts that violate those and asked for them to be taken down, and Facebook complied in accordance to their own rules.
Alas, the military answers to the president.

Article II Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, "the President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States."

Not that the constitution matters ...
In my experience Claude 3.7 is far superior for coding than Gemini 2.5. I tried it in Cursor and I wanted it to work, as a recent ex-Googler. I repeatedly found it inferior. I think it’s still behind Claud 3.5 for coding.

It would decide arbitrarily not to finish tasks and suggest that I do them. It made simple errors and failed to catch them.
Well, that's better, right?
> With that mentality, why have lawyers for a prosecution and defence? Just have a judge decide.. right?

...yes? That's known as the contrast between an "adversarial" and an "inquisitorial" system. The inquisitorial system is more intuitive and more widespread.

A quirk of the adversarial system as practiced by the USA is that judges have no responsibility to make correct rulings. If the law is very clear on some point, and neither party makes that observation to the court, the court is not just not required to know the law, they're not supposed to use that knowledge even if they have it.

I don't really find it surprising that most people think the job of the court should be determining "who's right?" as opposed to "who gave a better technical performance in arguing their case?".
Insider trading in the US is more about misappropriating information that belong to a party you have fiduciary duties to, not so much about harm to the public.

For example, imagine you are working for Warren Buffet and you learn that he has quietly bought some stocks and next weeks he's going to announce that. Assume that this announcement will reliably make the stock trade up. If you trade on that information, that's insider trading by US laws.

However, now imagine that you are Warren Buffet. You just quietly bought some stock, and you plan to announce that fact next week. If you trade on that information about your intentions, that's not insider trading by US law: you are allowed to trade on your own private intentions and information.

Notice that from the point of view of the anonymous counter party trading with you on the stock exchange, both situations look exactly the same.

That's an illustration that insider trading law in the US is not supposed to protect the public. (At least not originally.) So making insider trading legal in the US wouldn't make the general public any worse off.

Of course, IANAL applies. The above explanation is mostly paraphrased from Matt Levine's Money Stuff.
Textbook MAGA logic. Just like all the Americans who spent the last few years claiming that they were free speech absolutists who acted mortally offended if you even suggested that wasn’t a genuinely held belief who for “reasons unknown” are completely silent with nothing to say on the topic any more.

It’s a political group of fundamentally dishonest people.
Do we have insights on whether they knew that their business model was at risk? My understanding is that OpenAI’s credibility lies in seeing the potential of scaling up a transformer-based model and that Google was caught off guard.
Is it LLVM IR --> C? Or Rust AST to C?
In the examples you mentioned bureaucracy is less of a problem. They could do it but this is hard work in a sense which the culture does not reward.

The problem with germans in general is that they are unwilling or badly trained in „thinking things to the end“. The will start a „Digitalisierungsministerium“ without a clear goal of what they want to achieve let alone how to get there. In the end they will waste a lot of money on ipads and businesses lock them into their ecosystems so the can‘t get out.
It all goes back to the culture and a rigid educational system where everyone is supposed to stay where they are.
How is this not dangerous? How can one be assured that all of the compile-time safety features of the Rust compiler are still in effect? Handwaving does not help.
> Also staking 2.5M is "small change" for true insiders.

Why? A secretary or janitor or a intern could also be an insider. Or are they No True Scotsmen?
In this case sshd won't be running, because it's just one machine shutting down the Linux environment entirely to dual-boot to Windows.
I challenge this:
How do you measure processing time?
From first customer interaction? Or from all input data are present?
I assume in most situations they are not present upfront.
Therefore it’s a tedious back and forth. Sure, that compounds with the roundtrip time.
Digitisation is a trap because it doesn’t change the paradigm to full-kit upfront necessarily. Digitisation can be a nice entry-point to this, but unfortunately digitising data does not necessarily introduce the full-kit.

The system needs to be designed in a different way:
“We guarantee processing within x hours (weekdays) from the point you’ve provided us a full-kit.”

This, in turn, requires thinking backwards from the result through all steps, resulting in a definition of what a full-kit entails. Of course this requires a different (system) thinking which is contradicted by the rigid hierarchy (and no, doing away with the hierarchy isn’t a solution either).

Work force would not be busy 80% of their time = capacity to go back and forth to figure what’s missing and switch around cases. When starting with full-kit, 80% of their wasted time becomes processing time. In turn, their throughput was 20%, it goes up to 100%, or x5.
I think we should get over the fact that any pretense of obeying the law and morality have now evaporated and everyone trying to stay in those bounds will inevitably lose because not doing so gives such an enormous advantage. People will not just do inside trades, but will actually cause geopolitical scale events simply to do a good trade.
Cursor is likely very tuned for Claude (prompts-wise and all) due to its dominance with 3.5 and now 3.7. Still, Gemini 2.5's tool calling has been pretty poor in my experience which Cursor heavily relies on.
Show HN: Portable Giant File Viewer
I’ve been dealing with huge log files lately, several GBs in size, and got frustrated with common tools such as Notepad++ freezing and crashing a server with limited RAM. I wanted something fast, relatively lightweight, and install-free for Windows. I have been searched around the web for a while but couldn't find an equivalent, so I built Giant Log Viewer.

Features:

- It is an equivalent of the Linux' `less` pager tool for Windows, but works on Linux and macOS too

- Opens multi-GB UTF-8 unstructured log/text files instantly (without loading everything into memory)

- Navigates through the file using keyboard shortcuts -- jump to the end of the file, go to previous line, etc.

- Limited text/regular expression searching

- Portable -- just unzip and run

- Open-source -- welcome to contribute or fork

Would love your feedback, and if it’s useful, feel free to star it, suggest improvements or even contribute! Depends on the needs of myself and other users, more features might be added.
No, it wouldn't destroy the stock market. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43661926 for an explanation.

Summary: people are already allowed to trade on inside information (in the US), if the person who officially owns the information is ok with that. The prohibition on insider trading in the US is about fiduciary duty to the owner of the information, not about protecting the general public.
> So I would like some data about whether similar options were bought on other days in similar volumes.

The volumes are there for all to see and the answer is no.
Back when all the articles talked about how OpenAI swiped Google's crown while Google sat on transformers and never productized them, I saw this future coming. Google had back then, and still has, the best research on this topic, and ultimately that was going to win the day.

Sure, hindsight is 20/20, and who knows if any of these products will be big money makers vs commodities, and they may still fail at the productization of these things. Sure.

But insofar as productization follows great technology, Google was always going to have the upper hand here. It took many years but they did finally start coming out ahead
Found the answer in the project readme.

> My representation of .NETs IR maps nicely to C, which means that I was able to add support for compiling Rust to C in 2-3K LOC. Almost all of the codebase is reused, with the C and .NET specific code only present in the very last stage of compilation
I agree, at this point. There is of course voter agency in 2 years.

Of course lots of voters (specifically the ones that voted for this) are pretty happy with the way things are going. So any kind of blowback is uncertain at best.

If the population were genuinely interested in removing Trump, they could elect 60 democrats to the senate and a house majority, then impeach. But again, a healthy chunk are happy, and a lot if the rest can't vote Democrat for social / tribal reasons.

But make no mistake, he operates above the law because the people think it's OK. They alone have the power to remove him.
What do you consider a non-top-class country? Is your statement just tautologically true, because any country with better public transit then germany would be considered top-class?
It has been estimated 25% of stock market trading is some sort of insider trading. However 1) it depends where you draw the line what's insider information and what not 2) not all of these trades all profitable.

Due to insider trading rules being problematic, sometimes more headache than benefit, the UK FCA is now allowing new stock market to launch where insider trading is legal.
Yeah I find myself actually talking to the Gemini assistant like I never have to any other
Because against all reason sans serif fonts are allowed to exist.
Show HN: Agent2Agent Protocol Explorer
Understanding the future of AI agent communication with A2A and MCP protocols. Explore how AI agents collaborate and share resources in a unified ecosystem.
It‘s not a word of play as it literally means complicated things added to the normal watch function. The word with that watch making meaning is coming directly from French (most famous watch makers are coming from the speaking part of Switzerland).
Assuming the President doesn't pardon you for all crimes committed from 2008 until 2030...
How many supernova explode every year?
It's as safe as LLVM IR is safe, assuming you trust the LLVM IR -> C translation step.
Gemini 2.5 pro is not the same that powers web search (or any of the dozen other Gemini related things).
They probably just throw a MechEng PhD Professor in for a year as part of the deal.
>How many physicians have been able to get rich from learning a CEO will be out of commission?

Do you actually have an answer to that? Or are you just throwing out an unanswerable question as some form of “gotcha”?

Now I’m actually curious. There aren’t _that_ many publicly traded companies; only about 4,000 according to Google. A little over 9,000 IPOs since 1980 [0].
The number of companies where the CEO being “out of commission” on such a short timescale would generate “rich” (to me, in this scenario, >$5 million) levels of ROI has to be pretty low up. Probably not even most of the Fortune 100. Then the number of doctors who have that info and are going to act on it is a smaller fraction. Then the three have to match (command that fits + ill CEO + trading physician).
Do you think it’s over 10? 25?

0. https://site.warrington.ufl.edu/ritter/files/IPO-Statistics....
this assumes the rusty guarantees are transitive. There's no reason to believe it isn't, but it'd be nice to see some sort of proof, or at least an argument for it.
Nothing illeagal. Just dirty.
Ableist comments like that don’t belong here. Let’s keep it respectful.
> Israelis are not abruptly incompetent and culturally allergic to progress, with a predictable habit of grovelling to whichever tyrant comes next

I can't tell what you mean by this? Is it sarcasm? Is there another group who is like this?
I am not in any way “pro go” but it’s also very clear that JS is not the future. I know it’s where a LOT of people are right now but it’s been artificially pumped up to such a massive degree by being literally the only viable choice for the web for the entirety of its existence… and that’s starting to change and from both a technical, performance and development experience it is going to lose when that advantage goes away.
Thanks! I have thought about similar approaches of iteratively building the content-graph of your document base, as you described. I worry about scaling, though. IIUC both previous_structure and current content must fit into context while previous_structure is getting bigger with each iteration, correct?

EDIT: follow up question, how long does the structure-building take for 100 pages and how big are the chunks you are feeding in?
As an Ex-OpenAI employee I agree with this. Most of the top ML talent at OpenAI already have left to either do their own thing or join other startups. A few are still there but I doubt if they'll be around in a year. The main successful product from OpenAI is the ChatGPT app, but there's a limit on how much you can charge people for subscription fees. I think soon people expect this service to be provided for free and ads would become the main option to make money out of chatbots. The whole time that I was at OpenAI until now GOOG has been the only individual stock that I've been holding. Despite the threat to their search business I think they'll bounce back because they have a lot of cards to play. OpenAI is an annoyance for Google, because they are willing to burn money to get users. Google can't as easily burn money, since they already have billions of users, but also they are a public company and have to answer to investors. But I doubt if OpenAI investors would sign up to give more money to be burned in a year. Google just needs to ease off on the red tape and make their innovations available to users as fast as they can. (And don't let me get started with Sam Altman.)
One that I use frequently is FaceApp. They seem to on device face touchups. For subject removal Google photos is very good at it, though it needs to upload your photo.
When I asked dang about GDPR this is how he explained HN’s stance on not allowing broad comment and account deletion

> Re GDPR: our understanding based on the analysis done by YC's legal team is that HN does not fall under the GDPR, so for the time being we're sticking with the approach of not deleting account histories wholesale but helping with privacy concerns in more precise ways.

> Re "aren’t these comments owned by the person who wrote them"? That's a complicated legal question, no doubt, and also philosophically. From my perspective, two other factors are that (1) the threads are co-creations (see pg on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6813226) and (2) posting to an internet forum is publishing something, not dissimilar to sending a letter to the editor of a newspaper.

> Obviously there are many reasonable takes on this. Ours is that we're trying to balance the community interests of a public forum (mainly the interest of commenters not to have their comments deprived of context, and the interest of the community in preserving its archive) with the need to protect individuals. That's a lot of work—we end up taking care of requests manually for people every day—but we're committed to both sides of it because it seems like the only way to do justice to both sides.
Winning as in least bad in arbitrary ranking.
Military answers to whomever it thinks it's best to get paid. If relationship between government and the people fails so hard that collection of taxes to fund the military is threatened then the military sides either with the people and deposes the government or with the government and suppresses the unrest.
That looks like a water hose test.
This isn’t quite true. The last language from the Supreme Court, in Brandeburg vs. Ohio ( 1969) was “imminent lawless action”. There’s also standards for the public airwaves, which are regulated by the FCC. maybe not as important as they used to be, but still there and the major networks which are also broadcasters abide Also there’s specific exceptions like threatening the President, and “obscene” material, such as porn.

The there’s the question of private ownership of the platform. You certainly can’t say whatever yiu want on YouTube, for instance.