skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can one be assured that all of the compile-time safety features of Java are is still in effect in bytecode?
Did exactly this, got hit with the cacellation fee a couple of days later.
llama has order of magnitude mode compute requirement than deepseek.
Anecdata: I can count only a few couples in my circle of friends - who mostly had kids in their late 30s and early 40s - who didn’t end up having long and sometimes heartbreaking IVF, copious miscarriages, kids with trisomy, and in our case, stillbirth.

I think part of the problem was an assumption that modern medicine around childbirth is actually better than it is, and thus delaying having kids is a safe choice.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have two healthy sons and my advice to my eldest is to get on with having kids as soon as you’ve met the right person, ideally in your 20s…
I'd agree. I got stuck after getting SYRUP because I just assumed YACK wasn't a word.
When they say stock market returns 7% on average, it's >7% for the insiders/manipulators and <7% for the regular Joe.
The prosecutors dont need any spy tool to check who did the trade (at least officially). They can simply ask to receive the records / logs.
Apparently it works so consistently and so well that this is the first I'm learning that Prime has ads. I'm surprised they went that route.
Lenin did win.
When I tried to cancel a regular monthly subscription, they tried to force me to pay a fee to be able to cancel the subscription, and they don't let you disconnect your payment methods. Luckily, I used paypal so I could unauthorise them on paypal. If this happened again to me I would be contacting the consumer rights organisation my country has.
Will there be a winner at all? Perhaps it's going to be like cars where there are dozens of world class manufacturers, or like Linux, where there's just one thing, but its free and impossible to monetize directly.
you don't even need insider information to make this trade (although he still might have tipped people off personally)

he literally told everyone to do it

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1143082727259...

and you might have felt especially confident if you recalled him doing the exact same thing in 2018
Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now
I don't trust them at all. The amount of traffic to various domains is incredible coming out of their desktop apps.

But mostly, when they first started the subscription model I wasn't furious about it - until I realised I was stuck on a yearly plan, and I'm usually pretty good at detecting when I'm being tricked into that. A part of me doubts I was ever asked correctly.
I think watchmakers have been pushing this for quite a while.

If you want more recent examples, see Richard Mille.
No idea! Infuriatingly, it looks like Netlify just decided to put up a random password-protection wall for no apparent reason. Sorry about that—I'm trying to fix it now.

edit: apparently it was taken down due to violations of their ToS—although I'm struggling to see how a simple one-page static website discussing my mum's experience being banned from Facebook could possibly violate the ToS.
No, in XP you were essentially logged in as root 24/7 (assuming it was your machine), and any program -- including your browser -- was running as root too. I remember watching a talk about how stupidly easy it was to write rootkits for XP. "Drive-by viruses" were a thing, where a website could literally install a rootkit on your machine just by visiting it (usually taking advantage of some exploit in flash, java, or adobe reader). Vista flipped it, by disabling the admin account, so that in order to do something as admin you needed to "sudo" first. That alone put a stop to tons of viruses.
Didn't GCP manage to lose from this position of strength? I'm not sure even if they're the third biggest
Show HN:Browser-based heart rate measurement using only phone sensors (SCG)
We've built HeartScan.app, a free, browser-based solution that accurately measures your heart rate using only your smartphone's built-in accelerometer—no camera, no wearables, no app installation.

Unlike typical camera-based methods (photoplethysmography/PPG), HeartScan leverages seismocardiography (SCG), capturing mechanical vibrations from your heartbeat through your phone's sensors. With a neural network trained on over 500,000 user-contributed records, we've reached over 95% accuracy for cardiac phase (R-peak) detection, achieving medical-grade BPM estimation directly in your browser.

It's entirely frictionless: no login, ads, or paywalls. We aim to democratize heart monitoring globally, especially valuable in low-resource settings.

Would appreciate any feedback, questions, or ideas!
EC scientific expert here (occasionally judging FP7/8/Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe grants in multiple areas including AI). I also authored some bigger proposals, one rejected (score: 13/15) and one funded.

It is perhaps not a good idea to apply to that many in such a short time frame, unless you have nothing else to do: the individual efforts need to be really excellent to succeed, so focus should be on quality rather than quantity. Why? There is a funding threshold, and you can have 5 proposals that get 13/15 ("good enough to fund"), but you still don't get any of them funded because there enough competing grants with 15/15 score, and after they receive their funding, the pot of money is already empty (the funding is in order of merit).

In my experience, most applications that fail to get the perfect score required are incomplete: To get excellent scores it is vital to FULLY address ANYTHING mentioned in the call. And to squeeze all that into 40 pages is an art. (There are folks that provide consulting support, which I have not used yet, or you could collaborate with someone who has worked on the other side to learn more about what is important.)

While getting grant money remains hard, I was pleasantly suprised about the judging effort and the EC's personnel energy put into the evaluation process and in making it fair; for each call, their is a special rapporteur going around and documenting that everything that should be done gets done the way it should be, and the EC take great pains to find experts that are diverse across multiple dimensions (gender, country, industry/academia, seniority, field of expertise etc.).

edit: typos
Agreed to both. Works well in both cases. I suspect there is a strong selection effect, though.
Define "real democracy"
Turns out most GMOs were fine but they actually allowed for a huge increase in the use of Roundup.

Roundup is wildly aggressive pesticide and a lot of GMOs were called “Roundup ready” crops, so they could absorb (in theory!) huge amounts of Roundup without being affected.

But the huge increase in the use of Roundup in America might be behind (according to some) the increase in neurocognitive disease.

In the US this was never a thought.
I just would name the kernel modules properly. comexec and calmexec. Or crownexec
> iguanas are a kind of sea lizard

Only the marine iguanas, but yes.

Also salt-water crocodiles (the largest living reptile).
Turns out most GMOs were fine but they actually allowed for a huge increase in the use of Roundup.
Roundup is wildly aggressive pesticide and a lot of GMOs were called “Roundup ready” crops, so they could absorb (in theory!) huge amounts of Roundup without being affected.
But the huge increase in the use of Roundup in America might be behind (according to some) the increase in neurocognitive disease.
In the US this was never a thought.
video in lieu of the article's broken link:

Bullet vs Prince Rupert's Drop at 150,000 fps - Smarter Every Day 165: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24q80ReMyq0
So just run them in different VMs?

Apart from that, any hardening in Fedora can be utilized inside a Fedora VM on Qubes. Qubes doesn't force you to use VMs with no isolation inside.
Yup. I know. Elections have consequences. When we elect an anti-science president because we are single issue voters aka we think he will lower our taxes or be draconian on the border this is what we get.
Ask HN: What's a surprisingly useful tech skill that's underrated today?
We often talk about mastering popular languages, frameworks, and AI tools. But what about the less-hyped skills that quietly make you 10x more effective?

For example:

Knowing how to write a custom shell script that replaces a SaaS tool

Building internal tools with no-code + cron + GitHub Actions

Understanding how to optimize a slow SQL query line-by-line

Crafting a bash one-liner that saves you hours every week

Using the command line like a superpower

I'm curious:
What are the most underrated but highly valuable tech skills you've learned that more people should know about?

Would love to hear stories, examples, or even niche tools you swear by. Bonus points if it’s something you only discovered by accident or necessity, not through a tutorial.
Show HN: Mixtrics - A lightweight metrics lib in Rust for various metrics system
While I was developing [foyer](https://github.com/foyer-rs/foyer), which is a hybrid in-memory and disk cache project in Rust. Some users asked for metrics system support for both the Prometheus ecosystem and OpenTelemetry ecosystem. After investigating and trying out some libs, I decided to develop a new lib that is lightweight, support both Prometheus and OpenTelemety, and even different version of `prometheus`, `prometheus-client` and `opentelemetry` crates for various users.
This option was OTM so they also (presumably) profited from selling. Just a capped profit
I agree that laptop hardware compatibility on Linux is not the best but it can work if you buy the right device. Thinkpads are particularly well supported. You might also want to try a more up to date Linux distribution like Fedora. I never had problems with Fedora on my laptops but for example OpenSUSE Thumbleweed wouldn’t sleep properly for me and had broken Thunderbolt support.
Supply chain crisis! The Beeb already bought all the parts for their long wave transmitter and are running down the stocks.
This is the American position. “If you can’t prove it’s bad now, it should be legal immediately”.

Europe food regulation runs on the precautionary principle. You have to prove it’s safe first.

Turns out most GMOs were fine but they actually allowed for a huge increase in the use of Roundup.

Roundup is wildly aggressive pesticide and a lot of GMOs were called “Roundup ready” crops, so they could absorb (in theory!) huge amounts of Roundup without being affected.

But the huge increase in the use of Roundup in America might be behind (according to some) the increase in neurocognitive disease.

In the US this was never a thought.
That's what they tell them, yes. Do their actions align with their words?
> Having 10,000 production ready features with 97% uptime and no backups is not desirable

You’re the only one making this strawman argument, here.

> the 10+deploys a day talk

Most teams aren’t doing this outside of a rush to wrap up a feature before a major announcement. It’s not a daily occurrence.

> but it’s easier than you think to be paralysed mentally by holding too many opposing views at once

What on Earth are you talking about?
I am beginning to see this increasingly. Apps that make the most basic of mistakes. Some new framework trying to fix something that was already fixed by the previous 3 frameworks. UX designs making no sense or giving errors that used to be solved. From small outfits (that’s fair) to multi billion dollar companies (you should know better) , I feel that rigor is definitely lacking.
Week in Plasma: The beginnings of Wayland session restore
No, options are derivatives and are, in the US, generally regulated by the body regulating the underlying asset; stock/index options are regulated by the SEC, commodities options by the CFTC.
I feel that Germany can do better than reach for criticism of America whenever challenged on its own merits.
Lorelei is pretty great in its atmosphere, though the puzzles can be quite disappointing. 80% of the time the solution is "you're overthinking it, it's a number written down somewhere"

Still, I 100%-ed and enjoyed it. Also a shameless plug: I made a mod that tweaks controls to add a back button, a map button, and to allow code locks to spin in both directions

https://github.com/graynk/LoreleiAndSaneControls
You mean like Ukraine?
Sounds like a django over abstraction problem. SSE is standard HTTP.

If laravel can do it django can.
Congress already ruled that time isn't passing, allowing a temporary state of national emergency to become permanent. There's no reason to think they won't find some asinine excuse to deny elections or defer them indefinitely.

They might not even need an excuse. They could just not hold elections and say "what are you going to do about it?"
The amount of people in the startup world infected by the American Dream-Logic of privatization and Anarcho-capitalism always astounds me.

All I know and have in my life is thanks to public funding. Social Democracy works and is good for business too.
A state with little financial regulation in the end also has less power and control sum total.

Since the southern US basically survives off slave laborers with no paperwork and giving any normal human decency to those people would probably lower the Murican standard of living I have low hopes for change. Here in the EU we screwed ourselves too haha. No one really looks out for the little guy anymore.
believing it to be the empty set is on you, man.
A bit thin on detail, but will this require confidential VMs with encrypted GPUs? (And I wonder how long before someone cracks SEV-SNP and TDX and pirate copies escape into the wild.)
https://pinggy.io is a more affordable option than n grok.
The loaf shouldn't be in the fridge, and 2.1mm is way too much butter, especially if applied before putting the bread in the toaster
My work is primarily about the processing of medical images (which usually are large 3D images). Doing this on the GPU, can be up to 10-20x faster.
They're fleeing to escape high taxes and crime?

Are you sure about that?

https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-population/
Gopher:// the Web Before the Web (Video)
> Google can't as easily burn money

I was actually surprised at Google's willingness to offer Gemini 2.5 Pro via AI Studio for free; having this was a significant contributor to my decision to cancel my OpenAI subscription.
Google rips away people via tos with no explanation everyday should have argued for more toil during your tenure
Anything to Audio
Yeah, I was just thinking that our B2B SaaS has been trying to churn out as many features and integrations as possible, with customers constantly wanting more and more.
For a rolex, yeah.

For virtually any other watch, not so much as to the normal person they are just a watch
> and the issue seemed to be the CPU wasn't up to the task.

This is definitely not true, the issue is in the non-optimized software. I tried SXMo [0] on a Pinephone (which is much slower than the Librem), and it was unbelievably fast, including watching videos and looking a maps in a split-screen mode, simultaneously and smoothly. Android had 10 years and a huge team of developers to optimize the UI.

[0] https://sxmo.org/
This is Called "Capital Flight"
tl;dr: by putting them in the home directory

Everyone does this; it's pretty standard. Using XDG directories (~/.local/bin) is most common nowadays, but hey, you do you.

It does annoy me that cargo has its own bin directory in ~/.cargo, but I'm too lazy to set the env vars to move it.
Because last year ...

> Adobe knowingly "trapped" customers into annual subscriptions, the FTC alleged.

> Adobe prioritized profits while spending years ignoring numerous complaints from users struggling to cancel costly subscriptions without incurring hefty hidden fees, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleged in a lawsuit Monday.

> According to the FTC, Adobe knew that canceling subscriptions was hard but determined that it would hurt revenue to make canceling any easier, so Adobe never changed the "convoluted" process. Even when the FTC launched a probe in 2022 specifically indicating that Adobe's practices may be illegal, Adobe did nothing to address the alleged harm to consumers, the FTC complaint noted. Adobe also "provides no refunds or only partial refunds to some subscribers who incur charges after an attempted, unsuccessful cancellation."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/ftc-sues-adobe-o...
That is one of the coolest demonstration sites I have ever seen. What a neat way to learn about watches. Kudos to whomever created that page
What does it mean for a technology to follow Wright's Law?
At which point why bother, PTX is CUDA.
You can have microsecond updated, once the connection is established you can stream. Regardless of your latency.

Say your ping is 100 (units are irrelevant here). It will take you 100 before you see your first byte but if the server is sending updates down that connection you will have data at whatever rate the server can send data. Say the server sends every 10.

Then you will have updates on the client at 100 110 120 130 etc.
Key Principles for Building Effective AI Agents
Has it even been confirmed that all the trades are the same entity? Or is it the usual momentum play?
> Let's say you recently became interested in X. You don't know much about it. You hear that John Doe is an expert in X.

Then you can learn about them. That is better than asking an AI to generate questions for you without you actually learning about them.
> Gemini 2.5 Pro in Deep Research mode is twice as good as OpenAI’s Deep Research

That matches my impression. For the past month or two, I have been running informal side-by-side tests of the Deep Research products from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Google. OpenAI was clearly winning—more complete and incisive, and no hallucinated sources that I noticed.

That changed a few days ago, when Google switched their Deep Research over to Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental. While OpenAI’s and Perplexity’s reports are still pretty good, Google’s usually seem deeper, more complete, and more incisive.

My prompting technique, by the way, is to first explain to a regular model the problem I’m interested in and ask it to write a full prompt that can be given to a reasoning LLM that can search the web. I check the suggested prompt, make a change or two, and then feed it to the Deep Research models.

One thing I’ve been playing with is asking for reports that discuss and connect three disparate topics. Below are the reports that the three Deep Research models gave me just now on surrealism, Freudian dream theory, and AI image prompt engineering. Deciding which is best is left as an exercise to the reader.

OpenAI:

https://chatgpt.com/share/67fa21eb-18a4-8011-9a97-9f8b051ad3...

Google:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10mF_qThVcoJ5ouPMW-xKg7Cy...

Perplexity:

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/subject-analytical-report-i...
Caffeine is a psychoactive substance of the stimulant class. You could definitely categorize it as a "drug".
> Add to the above that Gemini 2.5, compared to models of its category, is fast and cheap—I mean, they're giving away free access!

A large player with massive existing streams giving away a product in a new market to undercut new entrants? Looks an awful lot like abuse of monopoly position...
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This appears to be the main difference between the EU and the US.

In the EU you need to prove your thing won't be harmful before you launch it. In the US you launch it, but then if it's proven to be harmful it might get banned.

I refer to that form of regulation as "closing the door after the horse has already bolted regulation".
Are the assassinations because of something we already know about? some new advance that is still under wraps? or is it time travelers with knowledge about what he will do if left unchecked?
Latency doesn't affect server update rate it affects time to first data.
I wouldn't even say Gemini Pro 2.5 is the best model. Certainly not when you do multimodal or function calling, which is what actually matters in industry applications. Plain chatbots are nice, but I don't think they will decide who wins the race. Google is also no longer in the mindset to really innovate. You'll hear surprisingly similar POVs from ex-Googlers and ex-OpenAI guys. I'd actually say OpenAI still has an edge in terms of culture, even through it fell deep.
Note that you don’t need to own the underlying equity to write an option contract. You only own the stock as a hedge.

Owning the stock is a specific lower risk strategy called a covered call.
This reads as FUD. I'm an American who's lived in Germany recently. On every measure, my experience was been better than the US.

I can walk to the grocery. Or ride a bike. Or take the bus. Or take the train into the city. There are options in transport and in the stores. Never, ever had those options in the States.

Yes, I've had some doctors I didn't care for. So I found another one and they've been great. Same thing happens in the States. You must advocate for yourself. Nothing different.

The big difference is the complete lack of fear going in because you know you won't have to pay an arm and a leg. And yes, it's not "free". It comes out of your paycheck. 110% better. Never had to wait an excessive time, even for specialists. No more than in the States; you schedule it out. Yet, I can go to the emergency room when there's a concern and be greeted with compassion and receive care. So much better, it's hard to convey and hard for Americans to believe. I didn't until I lived there.

As for "digitalization", yeah, it'd be nice to submit some forms online rather than through paper. But it's not a big deal. Howwver, it's super nice to talk to human beings on the phone! Haven't run into too many "your call is very important to us. Please listen as our menu may have changed" and then have to deal with a 1kbsp mega compressed audio line. Also, while I've had bad experiences with clerks, many more have been very patient and gracious. Again, contrast that to the DMV. Not much difference.

Doctors in the US also deal with tons of paper work...has your friend also worked in the States?
He's certainly a damp boy.
Note the AI part of the tooling.
> and the week ends on Saturday.

Except it doesn't, in literally every other country other then Japan, USA and Canada it ends on Sunday.

Edit: https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/days/first-day-of-the-w...

I'm wrong on the countries, it's more split then I thought. Regardless it's wrong for my geo which google knows I'm in.
I just don't get how Adobe didn't get dethroned after being so unpopular for so long. There are so many Photoshop competitors, many of which are quite good, they seem to be ripe for disruption. The last version I used was CS6, which came out more than a decade ago, and even that had more than a good enough feature set.

Blender is slowly taking over 3D, why can't 2D be disrupted similarly?
"Academia is all rotten! Here are my 2 cherry-picked examples!"

Of course, burning these institutions down and running them like businesses will work well. After all, we all know fraud doesn't happen in business, and if it did, the market would soon sort that out, right?
Sounds like you are describing XFCE.

I made the switch to a *nix OS with XFCE 20 years ago. Couldn’t be happier.
Yes, and zendis in its very German ways only hires folks who commute to Bochum at least three times a week. Home office? Da könnte ja jeder kommen...
> Hamas has broken ever cease fire since they took power.

Israel has broken every ceasefire, though US media tends to treat Israeli attacks as hiccups and challenges to ceasefires involving Israel and those on the other side as more serious. This is similar to the way that the same linguistic cause/effect separation (sometimes termed the “exonerative tense” or “exonerative mood”) frequently used to deflect responsibility for domestic police violence to Israeli military actions, but not to their opponents on any side.