skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reviewing code is harder than writing it.

When _writing code_, you achieve a certain level of understanding because you fundamentally need to make all the decisions yourself (and some of them are informed by factual statements).

When _reading code_, a lot of those decision points are easy to miss or take for granted which means you don't even notice there are alternatives. Furthermore, you don't look up the factual statements, therefore you have a lower level of understanding. Also you have no opportunity to review if those statements are actually true so decisions made on false assumptions get into the codebase.

Finally, reviewing code (to the same level of depth) is significantly more mentally taxing.
People using drug Mounjaro sustain weight loss over three years, trial finds
I say it as a person who had to get over it myself at some point. You will never win with colleagues who are all into politics and desperate to hold and advance their position. Let them have it, hopefully they'll tear off each other heads.
Oops, the one time I don't check, I end up getting it wrong, sorry.
That's a bit more work, sorry. Still no win64 GC
My experience with their software has been horrible. A friend was messing around with Gemini on my phone and said my name is John, and it automatically saved that to my saved info list and always called me John from then on. But when I ask it to forget this, it says it can't do that automatically and links me to the Saved Info page, which is a menu they didn't implement in the app so it opens a URL in my browser and asks me to sign into my Google account again. Then a little toast says "Something went wrong" and the saved info list is empty and broken. I tried reporting this issue half a year ago and it's still unresolved. Actually the only way I was ever able to get it to stop calling me John is to say "remember to forget my name is John" in some way that it adds that to the list instead of linking me to that broken page
>Node.js is unreliable by design

Well, it's just a hack and some C libraries on top of a browser Javascript engine.

No big thought went into it, either before or after it got big.
Yes, for sure humans are fundamentally more intelligent than other primates, but still it does seem that writing and written communication is a big capability unlock.

It's impressive, and perhaps a bit surprising, what a culture like the Incas were able to achieve using only (we assume) oral tradition and passing down of skills, but there must be a limit to the complexity of what can be passed down this way - more along the lines of the skillset of an individual man being passed to an apprentice, but presumably also "managers/planners" passing down skills as well as tradesmen.
AI can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
I've always thought this should be first-class syntax in any language with lambdas
My sense in London is that they’re pretty comparable. I’ll use whichever is more convenient.
That’s definitely not true. I’ve worked for companies on the consulting side for five years.

We have two types of Statements of Work (SOWs) we get signed by the client. The first type and the only type I would ever get involved with are project based. The client has a business need but not the technical expertise. I come in right after sales and work with the business to tease out their requirements, get their sign off. We do the work and leave the project once the requirements are met.

With this type of SOW, we (I) lead the project technically, the project management etc and once the work is handed off, we move on. It’s outcome based.

The second type of contract is where the client has the technically expertise. But not the manpower. They then sign a contract with us to get $X number of people for $y hours with the expertise they need. The client controls what gets done and when. They handle the project management. This is your typical staff augmentation.
Fast furniture has the advantage of convenience when moving. The average household in the US moves every 5 to 7 years. Instead of paying to move these items, they can be discarded and new ones purchased at the new location.

If you want old sturdy furniture there's a lot of it available used, particularly from estate sales. I get the impression it doesn't have much value.
Sometimes it blossoms into a shitstorm which can be used to justify excessive hiring where you get diluted even further. Never underestimate the dysfunction of Fortune500
Time Measurement (6 Total):

1. Day and night indication for reference city
2. Second time zone hours and minutes (on 24-hour display)
3. World time indication for 24 cities
4. Second time zone day and night indication
5. 3Hz tourbillon with silicon balance wheel (with high Q factor)
6. Civil time display module coupled to the base movement

Gregorian Perpetual Calendar (8 Total):

7. Perpetual calendar
8. Days of the week
9. Date
10. Months
11. Year indication
12. Leap-year indication
13. Indication for the number of the week within the year (ISO 8601 calendar)
14. Number of the day of the week (ISO 8601 calendar).

Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers ‘Solaria Ultra Grand Complication’
Lunar Indication (3 Total):

15. Astronomical Moon phase and age of the Moon
16. Tide level indicator
17. Spring and neap tides indication.

Astronomical Indications (14 Total):

18. Indications of seasons, equinoxes, solstices & astronomical zodiac signs
19. Position of the Sun
20. Sunrise time (according to the city of reference)
21. Sunset time (according to the city of reference)
22. Duration of the day (according to the city of reference)
23. Equation of time on tropical gear
24. Culmination time of the Sun (according to the city of reference)
25. Height of the Sun above the horizon (according to the city of reference)
26. Declination of the Sun, 3-dimensional Earth showing the latitude of the Sun in the North/South hemisphere
27. Sidereal hours
28. Sidereal minutes
29. Astronomical zodiac signs
30. Sky chart (according to the city of reference)
31. Temporal tracking of celestial objects.

Vacheron Constantin Les Cabinotiers ‘Solaria Ultra Grand Complication’
Chiming Complications (5 Total):

32. Minute repeater
33. Westminster carillon chime (4 hammers & 4 gongs)
34. Choice of hour-only or full chime
35. Crown locking system during the chiming
36. Double-stop hammer system to limit rebound and optimize transmission of the hammers' kinetic energy

Chronograph (4 Total):

37. Chronograph (1 column wheel)
38. 60-minute counter
39. Split-seconds chronograph (1 column wheel)
40. Isolator system for the split-seconds chronograph

Additional Feature:

41. Power-reserve indication (outer disc at 190°)
Flatpak, which Fedora Workstation uses by default, is already very similar in capabilities to Android's sandboxing system.
The truth on this is even simpler: the absence of a clear decision making hierarchy in big A "Agile" processes dooms every non operational task to at best mediocre outcomes. *

One of the key benefits of hierarchical decision making is that people have the opportunity to privately challenge opinions, which can lead to radical levelling up of everyone involved. Since the introduction of infantile nonsense like "sprint planning poker" everything descends to being an argument, facepalming defeatism, or fake niceness while everyone hopes everyone else does the bare minimum to keep things going while we all smile about it.

* My more managerial friends and colleagues claim this is a feature, not a bug, in that they prefer predictable mediocrity over unpredictable success.
For the battery life is your CPU scaling set to ondemand or performance? One can write an alias or function to switch from ondemand to performance for gaming then switch back to save power. One can also cap the max CPU frequency but that takes some experimentation to see what the lowest frequency usable with Zoom would be. When switching from Zoom to actually getting work done one can use an alias or function to switch back to max frequency options.

sudo cpupower frequency-info
# or
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies

Also take a look at powertop you will probably have to install this. One can set any devices they are not using to optimal settings. I avoid touching USB used by keyboard/mice and network interfaces I am using to minimize lag. Powertop can output to a file and that can be used in a startup script to automate the optimizations one has chosen.

There is also a sysctl setting called "vm.laptop_mode" which defaults to 0. On a laptop it can be set to 5 to combine writes and minimize storage wake-up. The caveat is that if the OS crashes one can lose up to 10 minutes of work. Most developers should avoid this setting unless their code editor autosaves frequently and syncs / flushes storage write caches. If unsure don't use it.

Another small gain is to ensure all daemons, desktop services and widgets not required are disabled or even removed. Some of them are power-hogs, some especially more than others. Powertop can sometimes expose this if left running for a while.

Another small gain can sometimes be installing "tlp" but different laptops and usage will see different amounts of power saving.

Oh and keeping the laptop off the lap can sometimes save power. More heat means more fan usage and thus more power usage. When at a dedicated desk using a laptop cooling stand multiple fans can extend battery life.

If one is feeling very adventurous they can install the latest bleeding edge kernel to net some small power savings but it may not be worth it if the laptop is used for anything critical.
I use a service where users can choose any frontier model, and OpenAI models haven't been the most used model for over half a year - it was sonnet until gemini 2.5 pro came out, recently.

Not sure whether you have your perspective because you're invested os much into OpenAI, however the general consensus is that gemini 2.5 pro is the top model at the moment, including all the AI reviews and OpenAI is barely mentioned when comparing models. O4 will be interesting, but currently? You are not using the best models. Best to read the room.
How sad. That wall map is a nice object and a good conversation piece to boot.

I guess you haven’t actually tried to buy a grandfather clock. Quality ones are in the thousands at least, if not tens of thousands. Even cheap ones are hundreds of dollars.

To my mind an apple watch is a fundamentally different product from a watch. They just both happen to be worn on the wrist.
That's arguably the opposite of insider trading though? I'm now sure how doing insider trading but in secret is somehow better.
Love this channel, perfect ASMR for nerds. Marshall is of course also one of the foremost Magic: the Gathering podcasters and commentators.
A tokenizer that lets LLMs read 4x more (Demo inside)
I'm a solo developer working on semantic compression for LLMs.

I built a tokenizer that reduces up to 75% of token usage by extracting Subject-Verb-Object structures, adding contextual completion, and dropping redundant language.

Runs on CPU, no training required. Just clean, logical compression — results are stable, and it avoids hallucination. Great for boosting model throughput and reducing cost.

Tested on long academic paragraphs, averaging 4x token density gain for English text.

Live demo here:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Sibyl-V/BSE_demo

Looking to license or collaborate — ideally with people who can handle commercial execution, so I can keep focusing on core modules.

Any feedback welcome. Open to talk.
'Spidernet' – a tool to tackle digital crime
People with shellfish allergies are generally advised to avoid eating crickets for this reason.
A few years back the US labeled China a “state manipulator” of currency.

Surely it will only take a few more rounds of pump and dumping the entire US economy for basically every country to label the US the same, and move away from US bonds and the US dollar as reserve currency. It just won’t be stable enough with all these antics.

When it happens I just hope trump won’t use it as justification for war.
Can someone explain why it isn't disingenuous to look at Euros?

Firstly, euros cost now as much as they did three years ago. So that is clearly a price that can be reached with any number of causes. Then, UK pounds cost only what they did last September. And other world currencies? Values vs the dollar are all over the map, up, down, and nearly unchanged. No clear trend at all.

I had heard a good way to check the absolute value of dollars is to google USDX. Guess what? It's not particularly low, well within the normal range of ups and downs.
I don't even see why "hackers" and "founders" should be related in any way. The hacker attitude (or approach to life) is that of curiosity and the need to build and create. The founder attitude AFAICT is how to get competent builders together and make money (on the positive end of the spectrum) or how to extract value from people instead of creating it (on the negative end of the spectrum).

I googled it and got "Hackers/Founders is a community of tech founders." I think that is sufficiently telling of what it's really about. It's another scam to "get those socially inept nerds to work for us and make us money without even realizing they are getting less than they deserve".
Tariffs or economic protectionism is not bad in and of itself. Such a plan including tariffs would also require giving incentives/financing for domestic economic development and a focus on long term stability. Trump is slashing expenses and busting through the door with exorbiant tariffs. Calling this dumb is a ridiculous understatement.
Yep. I have 40 watches, from tudors, omegas, iwc, zenith, dunhill, nomos, oris, grand seiko, panerai.

I still love the shit out of my g shock. The only reason it doesn't get worn much is it was replaced by my garmin.
Compiling Rust to C doesn’t simplify interoperability. Either way you’ll be calling C functions. I assume compiling Rust to C is useful if you’re targeting some esoteric platform that Rust compiler doesn’t support.
I’m still really surprised everyone loves Gemini 2.5 so much.

Even for coding I find GPT4o to be more concise and write more sensible things.

I get the one-shot ‘build me a flight simulator’ type thing is special to Gemini 2.5 - but who actually ever uses it that way?

I feel a bit old school for aging it, but I still prefer ChatGPT at this moment. Am I the only one?
What are you talking about?

No, it's not a charity or a monopoly-in-waiting.

99.9% of the time, it's an investment hoping to make a profit in the future. And we still call those businesses, even if they're losing money like most businesses do at first.
Eve of Naharon
>you can copy trade the two parties under $kruz and $nanc.

...with a massive delay, which probably wipes out any alpha you can get.
To play devil's advocate, I have a sense that a state LLM would be untrustworthy when the query is ideological but if it is ad-focused, a capitalist LLM may well corrupt every chat.
For me the biggest indicator of how much bullshit A"I" is, is how the A"I" tools themselves are bad. Visual Studio still doesn't have an "accept one suggested word" shortcut.

If your LLM is so great, why don't you make it add that feature, Microsoft?
When do you think the supposed genocide started?
Why did you hire someone who produced bad code and docs? Did he manage to pass interview without an AI?
This is true in any relationship. The goal is not “winning”, but making sure everyone’s needs are met.
Google aren’t interested in <1bn USD businesses, so it’s hard for them to build anything new as it’s pretty guaranteed to be smaller than that at first. The business equivalent of the danger of a comfortable salaried job.
didn’t you get the memo, Trump is the President of Peace. people voted for him because of this :)))
I wonder if engineering close connections through structured vulnerability truly leads to meaningful relationships. The best friendships emerge organically through shared struggles and mutual support, rather than scripted conversations.

The idea of forcing deep conversations might neglect the natural dynamics that make friendships work.

Strong friendships aren’t just about emotional sharing—they also require shared responsibility, common interests, and personal development.

Friendship isn’t just a checklist of deep questions—it’s cultivated through shared experiences.

True friendships form through shared hardships, common pursuits, and a natural alignment of values. There’s something profoundly meaningful about forging relationships through mutual struggle, rather than intellectual exercises in vulnerability. If someone wants deeper friendships, they might be better served by pursuing meaningful challenges alongside others, rather than structuring conversations.
I like watches where I don’t have to change the battery. I have a kit to change them, but I appreciate the elegance of the purely mechanical solution, and my mechanical watches are generally my favorites for that reason. None of them are luxury goods or particularly expensive.

Even though I am not the kind of person who would spend an insane amount of money on a watch, I still think the elegance of the manufacturing of a piece like the one under discussion is really impressive and interesting.
What is the risk that some hacker could exfliltrate the weights?
That's a new level of bad user experience
Peering into the Linux Kernel with Trace
Wouldn't fewer searches indicate better answers? A search engine is productivity software. Productivity software is worse when it requires more user interaction.

Also you don't need ads to answer what to do, just knowledge of the events. Even a poor ranking algorithm is better than "how much someone paid for me to say this" as the ranking. That is possibly the very worst possible ranking.
Microsoft CoPilot (which I equate with OpenAI ChatGPT, because MS basically owns OpenAI) already shows ads in it's chat mode. It's just a matter of time. Netflix, music streamers, individual podcasters, YouTubers, TV manufacturers – they all converge on an ad-based business model.
The market briefly went up 7% that day.

To make 2.5 billion just from holdings they must have had stock holdings of 35 billion. Then the next day they lost a lot more than that. I doubt it very, very much.
Jewellery, masterpiece of craftsmanship, wealth signaling ... and least importantly a time keeping device!

It is a nice looking watch!
It is. Actually, it's a methamphetamine (MA)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA
> And don't let me get started with Sam Altman.

Why not? That's one of the reasons I visit HN instead of some random forum after all.
I think it makes more sense to have someone specializing in OPs and someone specializing in feature delivery. They are totally different skillsets. If you have both great but just demanding regular feature devs to also figure out all the network plumbing and deployments is just regular old business folks squeezing blood out of rocks.
It's unusual for it to happen in major indices.

I said it happens in individual stock cases, but very few people / places that control major market moving news leak - and when they do they investigate the hell out of it.

Imagine if this happened 20 minutes before Jerome Powell unexpectedly dropped interest rates?
> this Vacheron-Constantin will likely be around 200 years from now

And why should I care? I won't be alive 50 years from now.

Besides, right now, what I care about is functionality. And, right now, my old Pebble offers far more of it than this jewelry for millionaires.

This thing is just a stupid Veblen Good[1], like a diamond ring, a Hugo Boss suit or a Porche Carrerra.

Remember, 150 years ago, millionaires used beaver fur top hats to show off. Have you seen any billionaire wearing them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Biden quitting was a big change. Not enough to win the 2024 election for Harris, but still a change. I think failure is the biggest motivation for change, and the Dems have failed bigly. I think there's a decent sized chance they run a more populist candidate in 2028 and maybe the mid-terms too.
it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it were being manipulated, but we know for absolute certain facebooks sites and twitter are manipulated.

we should be looking to stop all manipulation, whether from a state or billionaires. this kind of manipulation is awful no matter what the source is.

i have a hard time understanding why so many are terrified of tiktok yet turn around and seem eager to suck from twitter or facebook’s firehose.
I have yet to understand this obsession with agents.

Is making decisions the hardest thing in life for so many people? Or is this instead a desire to do away with human capital — to "automate" a workforce?

Regardless, here is this wild new technology (LLMs) that seems to have just fallen out of the sky; we're continuously finding out all the seemingly-formerly-unimaginable things you can do with it; but somehow the collective have already foreseen its ultimate role.

As though the people pushing the ARPANET into the public realm were so certain that it would become the Encyclopedia Galactica!
Plot twist : the antikitera mechanism was worn round the neck as a piece of bling (jk).
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Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/technology/nintendo-switc...
Hopefully the combined power of HN can figure out how to not enable this opt-in feature.

Feature toggles like this can be enabled on a single OS update, a single dial-home to the mother-ship. If the code is there I assume it is running. The only winning move is not to play.

So ... a bit off topic, but I want the opposite from OS vendors. The OS installation should take at most 3 minutes. Any features or geese that lay golden eggs that I desire should be a checkbox in a list of optional services. If I do not select anything the OS should not be bigger than 3GB for a desktop or 1GB for a server and even that is quite a bit bloated. If code is discovered on a machine that the administrator or owner did not intentionally install that needs to be treated as a security incident meaning "all hands on deck" and "all lawyers on a conference call with the OS vendor".

As a bit of a tangent, done right I should be able to click a button in Ansible and completely re-install the OS to a fleet of 100K bare metal servers in less than 10 minutes across 4 data-centers per region not counting POST time. Once the database OS is up their tamper-proof backups automatically restore, app servers grab their code and in 30 minutes every data-center is up and running. The first people in should be the customers and they might ask if we had a network blip.

That comment was for CISA. Make the above step 1 in chaos monkey tests for all corporations and governments and make live testing required by law to be publicly traded. This testing must be performed annually in a staging environment in every data-center to remain listed on the stock market or remain funded in government budgets. If code exists on a machine that need not be there it's a security incident. Let's not have another Sony/Tri-Star.
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