skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what if they do this though? Big so what? Americans are allowed to read any journal and any news, even those explicitly owned and edited by foreign adversaries that they want. This is a tried and true first amendment right. And I get that forcing China to divest TikTok isn't legally an act against the 1st Amendment, but functionally it is. Why can't Americans see a CCP-biased view of Palestine if they want to? If I want to watch CCP propaganda all day, or Press TV, or Russia Today, that's my right as an American. Part of the reason there's interest to see that at all and 0 interest in watching a CCP revisionist history of the Korean War is because Israel can only bomb so many WCK aid workers, Red Cross aid workers, ambulances with the sirens on, in full video, etc. before people become curious about why this isn't a big deal for our govt.
> US private capitalists have been built on a free market; now that their profits are under attack because they are being outcompeted by China, so they are running away with the ball.

You're acting like the tariffs are a big conspiracy by the "private capitalists", but the "private capitalists" are the most opposed, if you look at the reaction of the market.

Not sure why you mentioned Bernie Sanders, but he has been one of the most pro-tariffs politicians in America for many decades. That's one of the reasons the left has been caught so flatfooted by this and seems to have no response: the policies they have supported forever have been shown to be disasterous.
Agreed. There's a reason a DM rolls behind a screen.

Additionally I always setup encounters with a possible exploit/vulnerability that keenly observant players might notice which will significantly reduce the difficulty of the encounter. If they fail to figure it out, the encounter is far more challenging but still well within the player's capabilities.
There's definitely something wrong with the scroll performance. I'm seeing bad performance as well on a pixel 8 pro. If I weren't on mobile I'd pop open devtools and check for excessive layout recalculations
It's sort of surprising NetBSD doesn't support it. I thought almost the whole point of NetBSD was that it ran on anything.
Are there statistics about funding round (A, B, C, etc) and getting good value for options?
Yes, WaitGroup of cause.
Requests are associated with the cookie meaning you can trace and block or rate limit as necessary. The cost of solving the PoW is the cost of establishing a new session. If you get blocked you have to solve again.
Pay was not mentioned in the article as a reason why they were sick to their stomach. This person was a part of a community and they were doing a lot of work they found meaningful, and then in an instant it was all ripped away. You can't imagine how that would suck? Even if this author was immediately handed a new job that pays more than Google, I still think it would hurt. They had goals, they had friends, they had purpose, they had fun, they had innovation, and now that's all gone. I think you're just angry at the author because they made a lot of money.
When someone’s life gets turned upside down, feeling sick to the stomach is a normal reaction.

Also keep in mind that the person who wrote this blog might be here on hacker news reading comments.

If you met this person in real life would you say those things to him? If the answer is no then why post those things here?
Companies in the US have been blatantly discriminating against some classes for years, and now must turn around and blatantly discriminate against other classes now (based on the current ‘anti-DEI’ stance). Racism and sexism in hiring in Europe and Asia has always been a thing, and quite blatant too.
Aviator Call Signs: The History and Naming Rituals
yeah, unfortunately. i've been on a hunt to design a sort of video terminal system (local machine speaks VT100 or NAPLPS or some other videotext plus a way to run bits of code) and i was looking at the rosco + xosera video card as a way to build it, but discovered it's no longer made.

i saw somewhere that people were able to emulate a 68k mac just barely on an esp32 so maybe that's the way to go. it's cheap and sorta connected, at least.
For what? He’s probably getting fantastic severance so his time is best spent on the next thing. The employer isn’t going to get more work - it’s not wise or safe to let layed off individuals roam around the office.
An understated benefit is that, if you have 4 year vesting, you can choose after year 1 or year 2 whether you want to stay.

Meaning, if the company's stock went up 2x after year 1, your salary has effectively doubled for years 2-4. If the stock went down -50% however, you just leave and get market salary somewhere else.

So, considering this, the expected value of $100 in stock options is actually more than $100.
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Not true at all. Talk to the average American, not an extremist of either side, and they want Israel to defend themselves and stop demanding billions from us then talking down to us and telling themselves we are easy to trick into giving them full support and money whenever they want
Does anyone else miss the functionality of the Android WhatsApp widget [1] on iOS? Being able to read messages without sending read receipts via the widget is a great feature. The iOS notification 'peek' is a clumsy substitute.

Is this a fundamental limitation of iOS widgets/APIs, or just something WhatsApp hasn't implemented? Curious if others have found better ways to handle this on iPhone.

[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-use-the-WhatsApp-wid...
Thank you for the video, that was really interesting. I had no idea that brown was orange, and that makes me wonder how those darker colors are perceived by people with many more categories of colors in their minds. If simply naming brown makes it seem like a unique color, I imagine the abrupt switchover that I experienced watching that video would happen for more color-discerning people as well when they see "Dark Blue" or "Dark Purple" or "Dark Red".

Or... maybe you have be both discerning and naive in regards to it for the illusion to work.
Interesting. Even with Biden seemingly confused on stage so often and slurring his words?

I'll have to look closer at Trump's public appearances.
FYI
ex-Googler/Nerdy.dev !== OP

was surprised to see this here tbh as its something that was posted to the author's (again, author, not OP) bluesky which made it maybe not _personal_ personal-news but ... I don't know ... way more personal than all up in HN
I dunno ... shrugs ...
Is anyone successfully using Claude Code along with MCP?

I feel like I hear very many stories of some company integrating with MCP, many fewer stories from users about how it helps them.
RADIO ON INTERNET
The most concerning part of the attack here seems to be the ability to hide arbitrary text in a simple text file using Unicode tricks such that GitHub doesn't actually show this text at all, per the authors. Couple this with the ability of LLMs to "execute" any instruction in the input set, regardless of such a weird encoding, and you've got a recipe for attacks.

However, I wouldn't put any fault here on the AIs themselves. It's the fact that you can hide data in a plain text file that is the root of the issue - the whole attack goes away once you fix that part.
I stopped using the official Tesla app entirely. It's so freaking sluggish and useless. They spent all their effort on drawing a toy car with shiny animations, and neglected everything else.

E.g. if I want to turn on the seat and wheel heaters, I click on it, and then I need to wait 3 seconds to see if it actually turned them on. Or maybe they were already on, and my click turned them off instead.

The service chat section is entirely useless, and was probably written by somebody drinking bong water. And you _have_ to use it. Tesla even sends you freaking text messages with just a link to the app instead of actual text of the updates.

And I once spent 20 minutes trying to find how I can remove a guest driver from my account. Turns out that there's a small gray button "Manage Drivers" at the very bottom of the screen, past the odometer data.

Sorry. But Tesla is as shitty as other automakers. Or even shittier, because other automakers don't force me to talk with their service centers solely through their crapps.
I added "Be really specific" to the prompt and on the second go got:

11. *The Art of Decay*: The Portrait's soul is tied to the painting, but what if the players could use the painting's power to accelerate the decay of The Portrait's physical form? This could involve using a powerful magical effect or finding a way to imbue the painting with a magical property that would accelerate the decay process.

in the brainstorm. I don't think it'd take a million years; it's got the concepts and it is trying to put them together with only 5 attempts so far; and that is only 2Gb of weights on a relatively cheap GPU.

As for coming up with an entire campaign that copys an idea from Wilde, well it depends and I'd agree that is a task that would want a human in the loop. It does seem difficult to do in one prompt - but I think a million years is wildly overestimating the novelty of the campaign you're describing. It is actually damn hard to come up with good, novel ideas and the odds are the LLMs have literally seen variants of the Dorian Grey idea 100 times.
What part of the study design makes you think that? It doesn't seem to be based on reports.
I think you need to look at some of the recent Dutch firing sprees and figure out if that'd actualy respected ;)
Ask anyone who works at Meta if they are valid, and they themselves will tell you, they don't really know. That should let you know how easy it would be for Israel to wield this tool in their favor. If they actually are doing it unfairly or not, we can never know since these posts are automatically taken down without human review.
Turn Your Blogs into Infographs
Managers don't have the kind of information necessary to plan layoffs that don't seem random. Anything they know is already being used for the usual hiring/promotion/compensation adjustment process.
> These the same residential providers that people complain cut them off for torrenting?

Assume that you are in the shoes of Anubis users. Do you have a reasonable legal budget? No? From experience, most ISPs would not really respond unless either their network has become unstable as a consequence, or if legal advised them to cooperate. Realistically, at the time that they read your plea the activity has already died off (on their network), and the best that they can do is to give you the netflows to do your investigation.

> You think they wouldn't cut off customers who DDoS?

This is not your typical DDoS where the stability of the network links are affected (this is at the ISP level, not specifically your server), this is a very asymmetrical one where it seemingly blends out as normal browsing. Unless you have a reasonable legal budget, they would suggest to use RTBH (https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/about/security/intelligenc...) or a commercial filtering solution if need be. This even assumes that they're symphatetic to your pleas, at worst case you're dealing with state-backed ISPs that are known not to respond at all.
Try finding PhD Students and see if you can help with their programming or experiments. You'll learn more about how to do research from a PhD student in months, rather than struggling on your own. Once you have the "learning to learn" chops, you're free to study anything you want at incredible depth.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of fun
Huge shout-out to the PHP Foundation for this.

Last year, it received close to 680K USD, and managed this security audit, sponsored 10 developers, and paid for various expenses. For a language that runs close to 75% of the web, it certainly deserves more funding.

Some of the recent initiatives from the Foundation (https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/03/31/transparency-and-i...) :

- All PHP versions now receive a total of 4 years of security updates; 2 bug fixes + 2 security, up from 3.

- PIE: A replacement for PECL, to easily install PHP extensions (C, C++ compiled, not PHP packages).

- The security audit.

(I'm one of the PHP Core team and a volunteer at the foundation, happy to answer any questions, but almost all of the work is public)
A Passion for Fruit
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I recently open-sourced a tool that I've been working on for about a year.

Existing GUI tools for MQTT were either old and unmaintained or frustrating to use.

I started it as a way to play with Go, Wails (a Go app-building framework) and Svelte as an alternative to Electron. I'm happy to answer any questions about my experiences with these.

If you're an MQTT user I'd appreciate feedback!
I'm not taking Google's side here AT ALL but it's likely this person was given much more than 2 weeks of pay as severance.
You underestimate the importance of imports as a lubricant to the service economy. Sure you don't need the next new gadget, but many service jobs depend on your wanting it.
Thanks! The IFTTT widget can supposedly update within a few seconds of receiving the triggering email since this is a “real-time applet” (https://help.ifttt.com/hc/en-us/articles/4412435510171-What-...), but in practice it seems to update more on the order of several minutes after the scraping workflow runs.

I have been running the scraping workflow once per hour during waking hours the past week, but I reduced that recently because I was starting to feel nervous (but without any real evidence) that pinging the car too often could drain the 12V battery.

The scraping workflow takes between 2-3 minutes to run. You can view the history and duration of runs here if you’re curious: https://github.com/kevincon/nissan-leaf-widget-updater/actio...
But dogs are trained to sniff truffles and definitely stick to it for long, and the process (sniff around, signal to handler, get reward, repeat) seems the same.
> Everything that is physical is nothing but remixes and recombinations of a very small set of tokens.

We're not talking about "physical" with LLMs, we're talking about knowledge and creativity and reasoning, which are metaphysical.

The sum total of human knowledge cannot possibly be purely composed of remixes and recombinations, there has to be some baseline that humans invented for there to even be something to remix!
Wake up, buddy. This is the neoliberal/neoclassical economy we are living in. They are pumping the books to make their quarterlies look good.

Pump the stock, deliver "shareholder value", and make billionaire class richer is the game. Oh, and also make room for stock buybacks of course!
> and then I need to wait 3 seconds to see if it actually turned them on

If you want to unlock a Kia with the app, first you need to pay $15/month, and then you need to press and hold for one second the unlock button, after which you have a 30-50% chance of the unlock request going through. To let you know that it went through, you will receive an email. It's the most user-hostile app I still have on my phone.

So no, Tesla is not as shitty as other automakers. The bar is so much lower than you can imagine.
A lot of those stories try to teach children that going alone into the woods is a very bad idea. You have to read them in the historic context; don’t think they’re particularly suitable for modern children.
I noticed this movie is heavily gendered, I’ve watched it with female relatives / friends / girlfriends / etc. and they never seem to find it funny, whereas male friends all find it hilarious. Could be a coincidence, could not be. It’s interesting to me though because if it isn’t a coincidence, I can’t think of a good reason why. I’ve seen some comedies that were obviously catered to a specific demographic but Holy Grail isn’t that, so why the discrepancy?
I feel MCP emerged too quickly. It will take some time and further protocol versions/enhancements for it to mature, and address stuff like security. Also it was not vetted by a conventional standards body, but just made public by a company. Lots of hype around it, everyone seems to be talking MCP these days.
Yup 30+ year dev here. Tried Cursor for a bit and honestly most of the tokens burned were fighting with stupid code generation, and having it confidently push on. Just cancelled my sub today. Been working with Windsurf the last few weeks and it feels a little more controllable. However, what I tend to do is work on conceptual design, brainstorming etc with ChatGPT (o1/o3-mini-high) or Claude, then when I converge I bring the task to Windsurf for its slightly better view of the code and ability to execute across many files.
I would actually yes say it to their face and I appreciate when someone says things like these to my face as well. Loss of perspective is a real thing and cause personal infernos with seeming no way out.
Not sure how will that work when OpenAI aren't the monopolist in that space. Other models that are good enough for scammers will be available.

May be this is to have more time from release of a new model to dwarf the distillation by competitors.
> then why does spacex have superior outputs?

* The dictate of fail fast and iterate quickly, along with simplification of mechanisms and ample compute power.
* Not being mired in the bureaucracy of committees and government bodies to answer to

Yes, being enabled by a billionaire with a dream made a huge difference. But that's not a guarantee, as there's been 3 such billionaires and only one SpaceX.
Layoffs are a difficult thing for employees and their managers. I have seen people (one was a VP of Engineering) escorted out of the building, sent in a cab to home along with a security guard (this was in India), not allowed access to computer or talk with other employees.
But, recently have had a very different experience. The current company I work for announced 30% layoffs. The list was made public within one hour of announcement. The CEO detailed the process of selecting people. The severance was very generous (3-6 months pay) along with health and other benefits. The impacted employees were allowed to keep the laptop and any other assets they took from the company. They even paid the same severance to contractors.

After the announcement, the laid off employees were given a few days in the company to allow them to say good byes. I love the CEOs comment on this ' I trusted them yesterday, I trust them today'. This was by far the kindest way of laying off employees imo. People were treated with dignity and respect.
Seems like we're rediscovering/reinventing the same thing over and over, this is very close to Memory Bank from Cline https://docs.cline.bot/improving-your-prompting-skills/cline...

I have seen a number of articles and Youtube videos posting more or less the same thing.
Lol. Of course I've been fired.
It seems to be the season for scraping SEC filing archives and running them through AI bots to extract information. I made this:

https://boards.industrial-linguistics.com/

It only looks at information about directors on company boards, and unlike your much better project, I don't have any clear idea how to commercialise it.
My dad prefers 1990s style simple terminals with a user manual compared to modern web UI's where he always gets lost and inevitably gets scammed.
I have been curating and sanitizing my feed, I get cat pics, occasional Marvel stuff, ML stuff and ones from friends, but yeah still if I browse the main feed, vitriol does pop up, though I mute accounts and keywords.
Let's say you have a photo of a starry night sky, and a photo of a slightly brighter sky with no visible stars. If you do "fully accurate on average" dithering, the dithered output would be identical. But in that context, the difference between "sky with dots" and "sky without dots" is more important than the difference between "dark sky" and "very slightly less dark sky". In that context, I would say a dithering algorithm that discards the very slight error in shade in favor of better accuracy in texture is objectively better.

On that wikipedia page, compare Floyd–Steinberg vs Gradient-based. In my opinion, gradient-based better preserves detail in high-contrast areas (e.g. the eyelid), whereas FS better preserves detail in low-contrast areas (e.g. the jawline between the neck and the cheek).
The sad part to me is that there's not many online communities left that focus on helping sharing their knowledge with newcomers. I'm excluding discord doxxing generation communities here, because they are really unhelpful for newbies and the opposite of a safe learning environment for kids.

When I built my first website, xhtmlforum and selfhtml forum was amazing as it was a wiki combined with a community around it. The same for pentesting and learning how to solve CTFs. The same for electronics and how to build, etch, and debug motherboards for 6502/i386/etc. I could go on and on forever, but I loved the web for what it was: It always had an answer for anything that I could ever imagine, with other people wanting to build the same cool things, together, as a community.

And that spirit is kind of gone now. Now the statistical majority(?) wants to get famous and rich and be instagram and tiktok idols, without building something to get there. The quick buck has the priority now, and there's maybe some dozens of youtubers left that want to make knowledge on a beginner level accessible, which I have huge respect for. But video content is temporary, especially on platforms with shitty discovery methods like Youtube.

But the wikis and communities? Haha, good luck finding posts from pre 2010 with google. They've all been wiped out.

Just last week I wanted to explain to some junior dev what XHTML1.1 strict and the idea of separation of concerns was about when we still cared about accessibility. Google gave me 2 useful blog posts post-2017, 2 youtube videos of someone raging about it and favoring web components. And that was it. I was flabbergasted how much knowledge is lost.

There is no point in learning new ideas and concepts if you forgot how we got there, because we'll end up in an endless loop of repeating ourself. And I think the worst nightmare of 1984 has come true already. Google already controls the present, and the web archive might be nice but is absolutely useless as a search engine.

I wanted to start a pentest/CTF community because that's what I care most about nowadays. But turns out there's not many web forum software that's left and not enshittified yet that came after the PHP age. Now I'm writing my own markdown based forum software, with a webasm frontend for it and the idea to make all posts storable/shareable as markdown threads.

I don't want knowledge to get lost again in databases.
It's a neat idea. It's not too dissimilar in spirit from gradient boosting. The point about credit assignment is crucial, and that's the same reason most architectures and initialization methods are so convoluted nowadays.

I don't really like one of their premises and conclusions:

> that does not learn hierarchical representations

There's an implicit bias here that (a) traditional networks do learn hierarchial representations, (b) that's bad, and (c) this training method does not learn those. However, [a] is situational, and it's easy to construct datasets where a standard gradient-descent neural net will learn a different way, even with a reverse hierarchy. [b] is unproven and also doesn't make a lot of intuitive sense to me. [c], even in this paper where they make that claim, has no evidence and also doesn't seem likely to be true.
And jumping on that stupid bandwagon... Its not a necessary evil, it something that should be carefully thought out and getting consent from the people that are being effected by it.
Examining the business case for multi-million token LLMs
Interesting to know, thanks. My intention with that comment was in pondering about vms distributed commercially in the home market, which I don't think I made clear enough in the post. :/