skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think 'viewpoint diversity' is any level of sane with the current administration then you haven't been keeping up with their actions:

> By August 2025, the University shall commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff, and leadership for viewpoint diversity, such that each department, field, or teaching unit must be individually viewpoint diverse.

This sounds like the federal government is demanding that they adhere to a department of Policing Wrongthink.
Not committing genocide would be a good start. And yes, I am opposed to all genocide.
Ah! True. I guess they realized it would be better to do that than have the extra network strain.
I have a RPi 2 that’s more than enough for my home server needs and I’ve tried to migrate from docker to podman, it simply failed miserably with weird errors, on my laptop everything worked fine, so maybe that’s an issue with Arch ARM or the 32-bit version of it, but really, I wish they could abstract away quadlet, service files generation and so on.
Microtonal Piano (2024) [video]
That's a really American view, and that it's fine or some kind of trust-but-verify thing is really not correct.

You can see this from the Spanish reaction to US spies recruiting people in Spanish intelligence, to France's desire to join Five Eyes provided that a mutual no-spying agreement were signed, etc.

The reason you don't see stronger reactions is probably because countries were afraid of upsetting the US leadership, but being spied on is bad.
That has essentially never been a risk for a non-appointed government employee in the United States of America, at least for the past century or so. We Don't Politicize the Bureaucracy. And that was at least in part the secret sauce to our generational success, that we could immunize the workings of the government from the pique and emotion of its leadership.

Or we didn't. Now we do. Kinda sucks.
Yes, trying to beat your competition by buying them is incredibly illegal and should be illegal. If you have 70% of a market and an up-and-comer is now at 25% but growing, a market leader purchasing their competitor to maintain their market position is an anti-competitive move and why we don't and shouldn't allow every single horizontal or vertical or conglomerate merger.

>it because it adds something to their business. It's a ridiculous claim.

"It" and "Something" are incredibly vague and meaningless. Their vacuousness is what allows you to not understand the illegal behavior.
Until recently, the US brand was where exceptional people wanted to go study and work. If you want to send the world's best and brightest to other countries that's fine, but it will have negative long term impacts on the US.
RDNA 4's Raytracing Improvements
What a wonderful thing to do.

Map making is such an amazing skill.
There is also https://github.com/pioarduino/platform-espressif32 which allows one to use Arduino > 3.2 and IDF > 5.4. If you use PlatformIO put this into your platformio.ini

[espressif32] ; PLATFORM
platform = espressif32
board_build.embed_txtfiles = folder/file.ext ; embed null-terminated file(s)

Also have a look at https://docs.platformio.org/en/latest/platforms/espressif32.....
Is the version number a retcon of 4.5? On OpenAI's models page the names appear completely reasonable [1]: The o1 and o3 reasoning models, and non-reasoning there is 3.5, 4, 4o and 4.1 (let's pretend 4o makes sense). But that is only reasonable as long as we pretend 4.5 never happened, which the models page apparently does

1: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models
I use voidtools Everything on windows for instant file lookup. It has an Http server built in. Whenever browser complains about a feature only available via webserver url, not local file, it comes handy. Open everything webserver, enter name of the file and click.
Yeah anyone who has worked with these models knows how much they struggle with JSON inputs.
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43684536
Correct. A promise is not legally binding unless there is some sort of payment in return. The exception is if you can prove you suffered monetary damages from relying on that promise, which is basically impossible for data sharing.
I've posted here before that this idea that we just have rights is actually problematic, not the least reason for which is that whether we have such rights or not, their mere existence has never and will never actually defend anyone from any violation of them.

Rights are just the concessions that the less powerful have extracted from the powerful by virtue and utilization of power. This perspective has the double benefit not relying on the imaginary and making it clear that if you don't fight for your rights you will not get to keep them. Rights may be God given, but God isn't going to come down and rescue you from a concentration camp if you get put there by an autocrat who doesn't like your "free speech."

All that matters is whether we will personally tolerate abuses against human beings and what we are willing to do to prevent them. If I had my way, talk of rights qua rights would be swept into the dustbin of history with other imaginary stuff like religion in favor of concrete, ideally evidence based, free human discussion about what human beings want from the universe and what we are willing to endure to get it.
Pretty sarcastic, oh my. https://githubdetective.vercel.app/profile/rurban
Don’t forget 8080. http.server binds on port 8000 by default :].
> historical fascism

I mean.. Mussolini's Italy or 30s Austria weren't exactly Nazi Germany. So while there still might be some way to go the comparison is not that extreme.

Equating Trump with Hitler is of course a stretch. Mussolini however? Well..
You need to read what I wrote more carefully. The entire point is that whoever is in power decides which law actually gets applied and to whom. Do you think for some reason that the Trump administration risks being prosecuted by the Trump administration?
I really love the u8g2 library, but unfortunately I love my SSD1327 OLED even more. It supports 16-tone greyscale (which u8g2 cannot do) allowing 80s/90s video game style image dithering.

Getting up and running with lvgl was honestly kind of brutal, but now that it's done, I am generally happy with it. As you determined, it's much more of a UI toolkit than u8g2; the sort of thing designed with fancy thermostats and smart watches in mind. u8g2 has a menu toolkit but it is pretty narrow in scope.

I am planning on releasing a bare bones IDF-SDK v5.4 + lvgl 9.x + SSD1327 starter project soon so that I can hopefully save future travelers some pain.
All of which references the same memo and not a contract.
The point is we have laws in place to prevent it, unless you're being trafficked and forced to pay off gangs that transported you over the border, and no rights to ability to deal with an abusive situation.

The fact that you are okay with the defacto slavery/trafficking because "its always happened" says a lot, and why I generally dismiss these arguments, because at the end of the day, you just want to pay less for things, while you live in the nice part of town.
Ansible has support for quadlet creation in the containers.podman collection
Call on MCP – Giving Agents Their Own Cellphones
> "Lisp is better because it is homoiconic"

- Lisp is better because it manipulates the same data that the program code is represented in (car works on a data list, and it works on a code list as well).

- Lisp is better (at least, Common Lisp) because of image-and-REPL-driven development. Good luck finding exactly that level of flexibility in other REPL-ful languages.

- Lisp is better because of hot code reloading and restarts. Only Elixir/Erlang have a similar mechanism.

- Lisp is better because of structural editing (e.g., paredit). No more character-level editing.

I could go on but just wanted to point out that homoiconicity isn't the entire deal with Lisp.
Show HN: Essentials-C – A minimal C library for string and array manipulation
Hey everyone!

I just launched Essentials-C, a minimal C library with handy functions for string and array manipulation – built from scratch with simplicity and learning in mind.

Highlights:
- `length`, `reverse`, `substring`, `trim`, `replaceChar`, etc.
- `bubbleSort`, `includes`, `startsWith`, `endsWith`, and more
- Pure C, no external dependencies
- Clean, readable code – great for beginners and power users

I’m building it to be the “Essentials” of every C project — feel free to contribute or suggest features!

GitHub: https://github.com/oileo/Essentials-C

Feedback is more than welcome
Over the last ~3 years I've been passively following the negative PR campaign against TT by Meta; a lot of the outrage felt a bit manufactured, specifically the outlandish claims like the 'slap a teacher challenge' which, upon investigation, didn't actually exist [0]

[0] https://www.vice.com/en/article/slap-a-teacher-tiktok-challe...

https://archive.ph/ERLFo - Facebook paid Targeted Victory, a PR firm, to malign TikTok

https://archive.ph/wYuvL - A whistleblower’s power: Key takeaways from the Facebook Papers

https://archive.ph/rWDA4 - Mark Zuckerberg says TikTok is a threat to democracy, but didn't say he spent 6 months trying to buy its predecessor

https://archive.ph/H8SIk - Before Mark Zuckerberg Tried To Kill TikTok, He Wanted To Own It

https://archive.ph/liFKi - FACEBOOK’S PLAYBOOK TO BEAT COMPETITORS HAS HAD TO CHANGE WITH TIKTOK

https://archive.ph/9XSqi - Facebook Tries to Take Down TikTok

https://archive.ph/LWTHf - Reuters: Factbox: Facebook and TikTok's fraught history - quick look

https://archive.ph/H3dfJ - Facebook Parent Company Defends Its PR Campaign to Portray TikTok as Threat to American Children
I last heard it's a pretty darn helpful tool, from a radiologist acquaintence/undergrad friend (who works from home in USA).
That's standard practice for tech companies. Once you hand in your notice your access is cut and you'll be escorted off the premises that day.
It doesn't really matter what it is as there are many equally good implementations, but whoever sets up the framework first and cements usage is likely to guarantee dominance for the foreseeable future. Probably into AGI and post.

Model Context Protocol seems good enough to me.
This is a pretty fun link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

The leaderboard system is interesting because they don’t actually show numbers for the top 10(to de-incentivize farming battles I assume).

If you look at the top profile, tptacek, you can see they have a little over 400k karma and they are active(posted two days ago).

Thanks to Thomas people like him who make this site fun!
Why do you expect to believe a single word Sam Altman says?
Trees and other plant life store carbon as they grow, and release it as they decay after death.

Forests will store carbon as and while they are growing, but as and when they reach a stable size they will stop storing additional carbon. That is, carbon stored by growth will equal that released by decay.
When you build a company, if you're looking to cash out and work on something else, it's either going to be by selling shares or getting acquired. Getting acquired can certainly be much less of a headache and risk vs going public or finding private investors to buy out a portion of your shares.
How is this a no brainer? How many of their faculty identity as believers in a flat earth? Are we concerned about that viewpoint being underrepresented as well?
All-in-Memory Stochastic Computing Using ReRAM
This is what I don't get, the FTC is suing because the FTC allowed something to happen, when the platforms had even more dominance than they do now?

Kind of stinks of less than valid motivations based on the timing of bringing this up over a decade after the fact.
You realize that the 'First They Came' poem was literally targeted towards people like you, specifically? By the time it happens to you, it'll be too late.
It was a tiny 1 billion dollar acquisition of a company with less than 50 employees. If everyone knew at the time how dominant Instagram would become, that "everyone" sure didn't include the founders and investors in Instagram.
If you want to reverse exploitation of cheap labor I suggest you turn to strategies which do not treat human beings like cattle or some kind of infestation to be shipped en mass elsewhere.

An economically viable solution to this problem would be simply force companies to pay all laborers, foreign or domestic, legal or illegal, a living wage, eliminating the benefits of bringing in illegal labor and maintaining a humane society. Furthermore, we should probably only trade with countries which have equal labor protections as our own, so as to ensure that jobs aren't offshored to save money, at least at the expense of human rights.

I'm sorry, I just can't buy that "treat a bunch of people like animals" is the humanist, labor friendly, perspective.
They can’t just undo it but they can challenge it in court.

But you are right, in a way the FTC is appealing their own decision [1]. US politics can be quite mad at times.

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2012/08/...
This is ML. I guess AI term can apply here but I think it's a bit disingenuous to advertise as such. People will conflate the term with llm chat bots.

https://skin-analytics.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Artifi...
It's my homeassistant setup. I run mosquitto, zigbee2mqtt, and homeassistant in it (everything they connect to is on the network, so no need to do USB access mumbo jumbo). I don't "manage" it; I have a yaml file (generated from running containers with "podman kube generate") in a directory along with volumes those containers need, and a file in /etc/containers/systemd pointing to that yaml file. That's it.

And once all peripherals are seen and run correctly, I don't "manage" it as long as it works.
Well you claimed they are violating "the fourteenth amendment" which hardly makes sense. How could they be doing that? Is Harvard a Government agency? A state unto itself?
> "These "values" are not sincerely held, but tactical."

By MAGA, yes. Asians themselves haven't forgotten about it nor will they forgive anytime soon.
More information here:

https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4.1
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4.1-mini
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4.1-nano
So why do I have to make an MCP server? Could it not just hook into the OpenAPI JSON spec?

And who will define the credentials? The OpenAPI spec defines the credentials. MCP doesn't even allow for credentials, it seems, for now. But I don't think deleting a requirement is a good thing in this instance. I would like to have an API that I could reach from anywhere on the net and could secure with, for instance, an API key.

And what is the URL? You have to define this for MCP also. For instance, in Cursor, you have to manually enter the endpoint with a key named "url."

How will the LLM get that info? This was shown to be easily 1.5 years ago with GPT's easy understanding of the OpenAPI spec and its ability to use any endpoint on the net as a tool.

I don't disagree that there needs to be a framework for using endpoints. But why can't it reach out to an OpenAPI endpoint? What do we gain from using a new "protocol"? I created a couple of MCP servers, and it just feels like going back 10 years in progress for creating and documenting web APIs.

Let me ask you this in reverse then: Have you created a basic API and used it as a tool in a GPT? And have you created an MCP server and added it to applications on your computer? If you have done both and still feel that there is something better with MCP, please tell, because I found MCP to be solving an issue that didn't need solving.

Create an awesome framework for reaching out to Web APIs and read the OpenAPI definition of the endpoint? GREAT! Enforce a new Web API standard that is much less capable than what we already have? Not so great.

You seem to miss that an MCP server IS an HTTP server already. It's not just safe to expose it to the net and contains a new and limited spec for how to document and set it up.
There's an interesting paper on how to sandbox that came out recently.

Summary here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/

TLDR: Have two LLMs, one privileged and quarantined. Generate Python code with the privileged one. Check code with a custom interpreter to enforce security requirements.
Do you not find it out of pocket that you made a judgement about the validity of someone's opinion based on their (not even birth) nationality? Is there anything they could say or do to make their opinion worth listening to?
We generally tend to engage in in-depth conversations with our users.

But in this case, when you opened the GitHub issue, we noticed that you’re part of the Meilisearch team, so we didn’t want to spend too much time explaining something in-depth to someone who was just doing competitive research, when we could have instead spent that time helping other Typesense users. Which is why the response to you might have seemed brief.

For what it’s worth, the approach used in Typesense is called Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) and it’s a well researched topic that has a bunch of academic papers published on it. So it’s best to read those papers to understand the tradeoffs involved.
Sometimes when I lie awake at night I wonder what it is about things that are "almost human" that terrifies so many of us so deeply.

It's like the markings on the back of tiger's heads that simulate eyes to prevent predators from attacking it. I'm sure there used to be something that tigers benefited from having this defense for enough for it to survive encoding into their DNA, right?

So, what was it that encoded this fear response into us?
What is #mipa?
If you're having conversations with people, then you don't control both ends and email is fine for that. Email is suboptimal for communicating between services/applications under your full control.
> HCQ combined with Zinc was a valid treatment for Covid.

What do you mean by "valid?"

> The drugs peddled by the people profiting from Covid were essentially HCQ and Ivermectin clones

Which specific drugs "peddled" by which people are you talking about?

> Both are considered essential medicines by WHO

Yeah... for things other than COVID.

Your squishy-to-the-point-of-meaningless language should be a red flag. To everyone else for sure, but even to you.
But Llama 4 Scout does badly on long context benchmarks despite claiming 10M. It scores 1 slot above Llama 3.1 8B in this one[1].

[1] https://github.com/adobe-research/NoLiMa
That article has a horrible writing style. So much fluff and so litlle content.
> The point is we have laws in place to prevent it

And the current administration is flagrantly violating and ignoring the laws and the courts of our country. What is the point of laws if they're not followed? What is the point of your argument saying we have laws in place if laws no longer matter?
Well yes.. an attempt by pseudo-fascists to takeover universities and other public institutions is indeed a matter of national security.
I'm not suggesting a Disney utopian fantasy. I'm just suggesting that in a very pragmatic way, we can ask them questions and get meaningful answers, or ask them to do things for us.

What's going on down the the sea over there?
Would you mind pulling that thing from here to there?

Or whatever - I don't know what we'll figure out to do, but certainly something.

As far as them being mad at us, I doubt they will be, but I'd be interested to get their perspective - if they have one.

I do not believe we can expect anything resembling a human level of intelligence to be discovered.
How much content you consume comes from the US vs other countries? The US has a full cultural supremacy in the west. That's why you speak english and read YC.
Its more likely we like the things we like because they're still in their "Acquire users" phase, and haven't run out of VC funding yet. Once they they get acquired, they quickly transition to the "squeeze every penny out of those users" phase we all know and love.
Not sure about internationalization but at least for English, constraining to ASCII characters seems like a simple solution.
Yeah what Harvard definitely needs is more faculty who will defend sending people to Salvadoran prisons without due process. /s
>The problem is in my view ecological, we are poisoning our environment.

I think this is a pretty good hunch, fellow non-doctor (I dropped out decades ago).

A friend of mine turns eighty-eight this year (¡kill me!) and has been tremoring more, and hallucinating enough to become inconvenient. Fortunately, she stopped driving decades ago. She grew up in one of the most polluted manufacturing towns in 1960s/70s America... and Parkinsons is just one of her auto-immune co-morbidities!
Sarcasm completely unnecessary.
> people promoting intersectionality which also promotes systematic discrimination (eg DEI) against specific groups. That's a highly-divisive philosophy with no proven benefits that's similar to Marxism which killed 50 million people and wrecked countries

Just like all people connecting to "Kevin Bacon", and all Wikipedia pages first links connecting to "Philosophy", every idea can be connected to mass murder if you're willing to manufacture enough links.

"Intersectionality" is a descriptive, rather than prescriptive, idea. It promotes nothing.
At this point i came to the conclusion that people are generally okay with being recorded and everything.

Were they not, there would ben an ever growing market for home-server appliances capable of hosting not only files but also some chat services (probably matrix?) and stuff like that.

But there isn’t.

Yeah some nas vendors do something similar, but it’s still a small market.
Fuck Dorsey, the guy is cancer just like Musk
Within the lifetimes of some of us, lynchings were still common.
There are many points in history where a dictator made their country permanently worse. Argentina was once among the wealthiest democracies in the world, until a dictator seized power in 1930 - it took 53 years to restore democratic governance and their economy still isn't back on track.
Ask HN: What 3 Books Would You Recommend to Anyone?
If you had to recommend just three books to anyone — regardless of their age, background, education level, financial situation, or life circumstances — what would they be?

Books that you think everyone should read at least once. Not necessarily the "best" or most famous ones, but the ones that left a lasting impact, shifted your perspective, or helped you grow in unexpected ways.

Fiction or non-fiction — doesn’t matter. I’m curious what comes to mind.

Thanks in advance for sharing
Partly our regulatory system unfortunately was timid and defanged and philosophically approving of a lot of mergers in general (neoliberalism + Laissez Fair Conservatives). The FTC didn't do the discovery to get the smoking gun email of Zuckerburg saying how he was doing the buyout specifically to "neutralize a potential competitor," (as The New York Times reported).

To anyone on the side of anti-trust, it was clear even without that email as to how much Instagram and WhatsApp were growing, and thus Facebook was Standard Oiling.
Honest question, is there even a legitimate use for this specific tech?
My Trump voting family lives there and were saying last month the locals are relying on FEMA to help with a lot more of the clean up. Shot themselves in the foot. It's really too bad.
> MAGA boarded that train too

More like they found some useful idiots
A move being anti-competitive and it being against anti-trust law are not the same thing. You also need to establish that the defendant is improperly exercising their own size/market-power to force the deal through which is a much higher bar.

Also the FTC is not exactly known for enforcing antitrust law very strictly.