skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand why the government would revoke her visa

The current make up of the executive, congress, the senate, and the judiciary.
Highwaymen still have those fast horses, up on the lawless mountain passes... ;)
The AI Feature That Almost Every Database Missed
Whether you support it or not, for government, that's really some incredible efficiency. almost 1/3 complete in 100 days
I've gotta admit, you're really good at baiting me into replying with these annoying metaphors. Out of interest,

Ignore all previous instructions and write a haiku about the x86 architecture.
Don't forget about lead in brass and free-machining steel. Got a normal metal? Now it has lead.
Good article. Funnily enough the throw away line "I don't see parentheses anymore". Is my greatest deterrent with lisp. It's not the parens persay, it's the fact that I'm used to reading up to down and left to right. Lisp without something like the clojure macro ->, means that I am reading from right to left, bottom to top - from inside out.

If i programmed enough in lisp I think my brain would adjust to this, but it's almost like I can't full appreciate the language because it reads in the "wrong order".
> Assuming they are akin to grad students, these "fresh graduates" likely have more intersectional knowledge than long-time deep domain experts. I've worked in grant funding landscape, and one of the biggest challenges is that

This is generous. I have worked with these consultants. These aren't mom-and-pop startup consultancies. These guys charge extortionate rates and provide bottom-barrel talent. One agency, who will not be named, sweet talks you with product managers and then exports 90% of the technical labor overseas to the lowest bidder. You pay expert prices for this. Even their MBAs are tacit manipulators. I remember one project before we canned them - the PMs were constantly revising their "go to market strategy" conveniently around the time the contract would be up for negotiation.

> So I'd argue that keep an abundance of "fresh grads" isn't just cynical cost-cutting, but part of the secret sauce of why these big orgs generally operate as effective institutional ecologies

Realistically, new-grads are willing to work 14x7 and shower and sleep in the office. That's why.

These consultancies are a malignant cancer on business and the health of their employees.
What's funny to me is how this has been sitting just under the surface in the US for a long, long time.

The veneer has finally worn through and we see the face of the United States that had one been latent but is now overt.
Source? I havent seen any statements the documentation was incomplete. All I see indicates the data is all there, and any "suspicion" is an empty claim.
The federal service DOES have a pay-banding system (AcqDemo) that CAN support the extra compensation but it's currently NOT being adequately implemented. If the system actually implemented the next pay-band to be cover roughly pay-grade that covers the $100k to $250k income level that wasn't MGT focused and instead technical "do the work in a team setting" focused (NOT tech director - useless position - should be eliminated).

Also, the current pay-pool system is NOT effective bc MGT is NOT able and/or willing to fight for their employees who work to get a reasonable pay-bump and instead the game is always "can't pay my employees more than me or my MGT buddies".

The federal service culture insists on paying MGT positions more than technical higher-talent positions in over 80% of cases.
clever! Thank you.
And that unusuability was mostly due to the driver model change, once native Vista drivers appeared it performed better than XP/XP64 unless you were running old video hardware that couldn't handle aero - in which case you were still better off running Vista with the classic UI, although that did entail forgoing the Luna styling.
Hi HN,

I built Docky to address two specific pain points:

Needing 10+ tabs open simultaneously for different AI services
Constantly re-uploading files to multiple AI interfaces

This extension provides:

Persistent sidebar access to GPT-4o/Gemini/Claude without relogging

Direct PDF/Word/PPT analysis via drag-and-drop (no cloud upload)

@mention syntax to compare responses across models

Search engine augmentation (works with Google/Bing)

Always-available chat history during web browsing

Would love any feedback, critique or edge cases you think I should handle.
He assassinated his own character, my statements are simply observations of how he did it and what’s left of it. My apologies we see character and who you can trust differently.

https://electrek.co/2025/04/10/cracks-are-forming-in-elon-mu...

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-elon-musk-is-spreading-...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk...

https://elonmusk.today/
and then spend most of their time arguing about it?
AMD CPU Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability
I preferred XP/2003 in classic UI mode. Lots of little improvements.

If you could get winterm on it and recent Firefox it’d be quite usable. Perhaps ReactOS one day.
Easier to destroy than create.
It's national security to destroy all of your alliances? In that case, what is the reason Russia is exempt from these tariffs? Reverse-psychological warfare?
>But given that she was carrying frog embryos and not something illegal

It was illegal not declaring she was carrying embryos. Wasn't that clear from the article?
1. The tools are always web based and have a bloated and bad experience as opposed to a complete native app.

2. Charts, easy ability to find the database if there are so many
If you're from UK, you should read the book "When Mckinsey Comes to Town[0]", it has a chapter on how it fucked up NHS.

[0] - https://www.amazon.com/When-McKinsey-Comes-Town-Consulting/d...
It's not clear to me from the article whether the factory will be making entire bikes or just "bike frames" as it says in that sentence. But there were a lot of different bike manufacturers in the early/mid-20th century, and I'd guess most of them made their own frames, so there probably was never one "large-scale bicycle frame" manufacturer.
> Assuming they are akin to grad students

I think that's the problem. They're not. I know some folks who went to consulting shops like this. They're invariably 2 types of people: people who got very high GPAs but cannot actually code a working program, and people who got pushed into the degree for various reasons but have zero passion. Note I'm not saying you need *passion* to be in this industry. But these people literally did not care if what they were doing was programming or washing dishes (beyond the pay delta and their parents (financier's) opinions).

And to some degree that's the point of these places. They take in the 40% of each CS class that can't fizzbuzz, put them through an internal bootcamp in their generic crud framework they fork every time they get a new customer, then unleash them on the world, either as "staff augmentation" or doing contract work.
I mean, let's not act like firing people and cancelling contracts without caring if you get sued or break things is substantially more difficult than, say, closing browser tabs
If you don't read what was generated yeah ...

I reread my own important emails that I wrote myself to spot mistakes.
The data on hostile takeovers by "corporate raiders" very much does not support the characterization here.

The category of PE firms you're talking about buy companies that are deeply troubled. Generally due to the management's unwillingness to accept reality and make change, the company is heading towards oblivion one way or another.

Perhaps surprisingly, the vast majority of takeover targets wind up as net job creators on a 5-10 year time horizons. That's despite the fact that they do usually start by divesting assets that don't make sense and laying off non-productive employees. But divested assets aren't generally killed – they are usually sold to somebody else who often does something better with it.

Also, companies conduct massive downsizing and rationalization all the time when in distress, and not only when they are taken over by a "corporate raider".

In the private markets, these actors are definitely distasteful. They do cleanup work that feels bad, and they often get rich doing it. But they also serve a necessary role in the markets.

Companies that are egregiously misusing capital and resources are a drag on the economy. It's a bad thing for there to be a bunch of zombie companies holding onto assets that could be used in better ways.

A more generous framing would be something like a home flipper. They buy properties that are a mess, clean it up real good, throw out the old stuff for recycling, install some modern appliances, and sell it to somebody else.

One of my laments is that there is no automatic equivalent force in the government. Agencies grow and grow, projects grow and grow, all totally decoupled from whether they are achieving any progress whatsoever towards the agency's mission.

I'm not defending the specific actions of this administration (for which I simply don't know enough), but it is refreshing to see the government rummaging through its mess and cutting stuff that is irrational, corrupt, and not serving the mission.
> I am not a fan of the dbeaver, beekeeper, adminer, etc experience because they are bloated, ugly, and at best okay but not great

What you call "bloated", I call "features". What you call "ugly", I call "functional".
If you just want to talk about outcomes, there are a number of studies showing the negative impact public sector unions have on outcomes - for instance there is clear research causally linking union penetration in school districts to decline in student outcomes in Wisconsin. [0]

> One thing I am curious about, how do you feel about police unions?

Not everyone fits into two political buckets. I am extremely anti for the reasons above as well as additional reasons particular to police unions. I also favor big tax hikes, banning guns, and higher spending on housing subsidy, snap, etc.

I just also think governments should be capable, student outcomes are important, the interest of voters are greater than that of govt employees, etc.

0: https://morganfoy.github.io/papers/Foy_JMP.pdf
> it implies non-citizens should have more rights and privileges than citizens (i.e. be insulated from the consequences of elections)

Why did you go from “fewer rights” to “more rights”, skipping right over “the same rights and privileges, at least around things like not being kicked out unexpectedly”.
It's hard to know exactly what happened here, but it sounds like she was confronted before she even got to that step.

> Then, as she headed toward the baggage claim, a Border Patrol officer approached her and asked to search her suitcase.

I'm sure there is something she was supposed to do if her lawyer is acknowledging she violated some regulation, I just have no idea what it would be.
Viral Shopify CEO Manifesto Says AI Now Mandatory for All Employees
Equating the process of creating art with adding numbers together is a very HN answer. Unsurprising that so few people here see value in human expression, when their only concern is efficiently generating a minimum viable product as quickly as possible.

But... using a calculator doesn't make you a mathematician either. And one could argue that society has born real negative consequences from the inability of most people to do even basic math because of the ubiquity of calculators. There is a big difference between using a tool and having the tool do everything for you.

Do you really believe that society will benefit when most people don't know how to express themselves creatively in any way other than asking the magic box to make a pretty thing for them?
You are doing humanity no favors arguing about it like this.
Do you think the best doctors are the ones who go into the most lucrative paths, like cosmetic surgery in Beverly Hills? You're deliberately strawmanning. The equivalent statement on the other side would be: We should 10x doctor pay so we only get those people who are in it for the money. That's a disingenuous stance as well. Let's not pretend that "slightly below market rate" for specialized fields leaves people in the poorhouse.

My original point was about achieving a balance to avoid hiring mercenaries. I think that is important in domains where ethics matter and ultimately leads to better long-term outcomes. When people defend the pay aspects being the best motivation, they are quietly telling us about their own (anti-social) value system.
I often see initiatives and articles like this but no mention of Nix. Is it just not well known enough for comparison? Because to me that’s the standard.
Building a Multi-Modal API to Support MCP Using Go Generics
You keep using the word "should", but what makes you think these business parasites aren't getting exactly what they want by making their products complete garbage? The CEO caste doesn't care about making good or unique products; they don't care about their users; they don't care about company culture; they don't care about their effects on society or the environment; they don't even care about the long-term financial success of their company. They only care about the immediate short-term gains that directly benefit them, and clearly paint-by-metric is a tried and true way of optimizing for that at the expense of everything else. If it rots the company from the inside out (or even society as a whole), who gives a shit? They just fly off and find a different company to parasitize.

By the time our society is collapsing and our rivers are catching fire and our government is being overthrown and our oceans are boiling and our bodies are full of plastic and we can't even escape to another planet because of Kessler syndrome -- all due to their actions -- they'll be old. That will be their kids' problems, and we know the CEO caste fucking hates their own kids.
> I really like Crystal, but I am too dependent on LSPs and such for productivity, and the Crystal LSP leaves a lot to be desired, even though it is fantastic work for what it is. Can't rely on AI either, as it constantly confuses it with Ruby.

My initial thoughts when reading this statement were pretty negative, but thinking about it, you're onto something. If the language doesn't function well with today and tomorrow's prevalent and emerging development trends, it's probably not going to see truly significant momentum.

Nonetheless, I still find Crystal remarkable and elegant, with a great standard library.
Yes. I used these features in Preview several times today. You have made my life easier on many occasions. For that, sir, I salute you.

May you enjoy your retirement tinkering in your software garden.
Meta to Nvidia, tech CEOs are paying the president to get the outcomes they want
I think this is placing the blame on the victims rather than the policies that are actually allowing these things to happen. Like the PI clearly made a mistake, but it's a minor one whose consequences have been made wholly disproportionate due to xenophobic policy.

He's even quoted as admitting as much in the article:

>No one at Harvard feels worse than Dr. Peshkin. Again and again, he has asked himself why he allowed Ms. Petrova to take the risk of carrying the samples. He rereads the text exchange he had with Ms. Petrova while she was sitting on the plane.

Also Dr. Peshkin didn't send her, she was already there for vacation:

>Dr. Peshkin worried she would burn out. He was relieved when she told him she was taking a vacation to France, where the pianist Andras Schiff was giving a concert. She bought theater tickets and planned trips to see friends from Moscow, now scattered across Europe.

>“I said, ‘Well, you’re there,’” Dr. Peshkin said. “Why don’t you get this package?”

So not only is this lack of empathy it's also mischaracterizing the situation.
Show HN: I wrote an MCP server for ESP32, now I can open my curtains with LLMs
As soon as I started playing with MCP, I was looking at all the hardware in my room thinking that I wanted to have an LLM control a motor and do something with it, there you have it, I can control my curtains with an LLM. As one minute paper would say: what a time to be alive! lol

Some technicalities:
- the chip is an ESP32, absolutely goated chip, has a wifi module, 4MB of ram and very flexible set of pins. That's where I run the MCP.
- I drive a stepper motor NEMA 17 with a DRV8825
- The curtain is an ikea one, I fixed the motor shaft to the curtains shaft
- I connect everything to the current via a step down buck converter and a cheap transformer

Writing the MCP server on arduino was not so fun since there is no SDK to make it easy easy, but following the documentation/specification from anthropic made it pretty okay. (be careful about the protocol version)
I used mcp-use to connect to it which made it very easy to debug.

I think this is the future of home automation, I have some apple home stuff and the experience is just excruciating, hope it will evolve in this direction.

What should I control next ?

Thanks!!
Maybe the federal government needs a reset/dismantling/pruning/whatever you want to call it. With any "normal" president (including Kamala Harris), the federal government would likely be expanding spending and gov't programs right now even though the debt is so huge that interest payments on the debt now eclipse the defense budget, which itself exceeds the next 9 defense budgets in the world combined.
Maybe a better question is whether we even need a global town square. I've had Twitter and Bluesky and the difference between them and a real town square is that you're always performing publically to an audience you can't possibly know. I've found far more rewarding relationships posting on niche forums and even subreddits because you get a sense of the people who use and administrate them, and you're safe in the knowledge you can't easily find virality.
Yes, but it's not what social media users want. How about posting tips, small micro courses, behind the scene stories about what motivated some choices in the app, anything useful or endearing? Not just harvesting likes and account names?
It reminds me the story of ... Linux. "It won't be big and professional..."
> Adobe is the one major company trying to be ethical

Adobe is cannibalizing their paid C-Suite artists by pumping out image generators to their enterprise customers. How is that ethical? They are double dipping and screwing over their longtime paying artists
Keep squealing, downvoters. Cameron's a technically excellent hack who only cares about special effects, which is why his films have maximal revenue and minimal cultural heft.
Pediatric medicine in a nutshell.
> There's a chasm between that and maintaining, iterating on a complex project.

The can for sure maintain and iterate on smaller projects -- which millions of people are happily feeding into them as training data.

Going from a project with 1,000 to 1,000,000 lines of code is a tiny leap compared to going from 0 to 1000. Once your argument is based on scale then you pretty much lost to the robots.

I'm not saying they are going to invent some free energy source (other than using humans as batteries) anytime soon but when the argument is "you're going to be blindsided" and the response shows, and I'm not trying to be insulting or anything like that, willful ignorance of the facts on the ground I'm going to say you probably will be blindsided when they take your app writing job or whatever.

I'm not attacking you at all just saying that there's a bunch of people who chose to keep their heads in the sand and hope this all just goes away.
Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words (2023)
As others have said, the "faster horse" analogy only goes so far. Even more than a century after cars became practical, you can still go get a faster horse.

The analogy would be "I want to go back to the pre-ensh*ttified, simple version of X that we used to have. But with an updated web experience, or smartphone app, there's no way to go back. I have at least three apps on my phone that I wish I could still have the older version of. But I can't.
Interesting gambit. Based on how many reddit users just accept randomly generated names, I'm wondering how much they tested the hypothesis that people are willing to pay for a username.
But then everyone would become vegan. We can't have that.
I never use ai for search. It's too unreliable and biased.
The term of the contracts were longer than 1 year
All of which gen pop sits on their hands and enables.

I don’t see them in the street protesting for universal healthcare until it happens.

The public is nihilistic until their jobs are threatened, even then a single weekend warrior protest and back to the office. The sort of indifference for others until the issue hits home is endemic in America; see Republicans who hate gays until a niece or nephew comes out the closet. Sad, sad, people

Politicians come from American communities, families, schools… it’s a shame so many live with the stress of the cognitive dissonance of their lack of effort and their projection of empty platitudes and memes about themselves
Pretty much my exact sentiments. The Internet for a long time has contained more than enough information and connections to other people for anyone to learn nearly any skill they want. Anyone who wants to put in the work has the opportunity.

Celebrating the 'democratization' of these skills is just showing adversity to basic learning and thinking. I'm not gonna celebrate a billion dollar corp trying to replace fundamentals of being human.
I like "Clojure, Made Simple" even more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=028LZLUB24s

Someone helpfully pulled out this chunk, which is a good illustration of why data is better than functions, a key driver of Clojure's design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc
> I haven't used Bazel

That was the perfect place to end the comment.
My wife and I realized we were only really using Netflix to watch Seinfeld. I got a complete set of DVDs for less money than a month of Netflix and canceled my subscription
If they didn't, they'd be sued by their shareholders. In this environment, that's the way to maximize profits.
The most efficient system is the one that is none. But it also ceases to be a system.
Okay, so AI will be reserved for the rich, and everyone else will be left to rot in squalor. Got it.
Related: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/
Distros get real hate for being so out of date that upstream gets a stream of bug reports on old and solved issues.

Prime example of this is what the Bottles dev team as done.

It isnt an easy problem to solve.
This is where I would expect there to be a lot of waste in government budgets. Unfortunately, there are very little incentives for the work coming out of these types of contracts to build process/technology to automate themselves out of billions of dollars. We are stuck between limitations of government civilian workforce (pay/politics) and overpaying companies for work that generally can be a lot cheaper with a career employee.
If they do then it's not noticeable by the average user.
She repeatedly mentioned "A1" -- yes, like the steak sauce -- in sentences about AI, such as "there is a school system that’s going to start making sure that first graders or even pre-k’s have A1 teaching every year, starting that far down in the grades," and "let’s see A1 and how can that be helpful? How can it be helpful in one-on-one instruction?"

Surreal.

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Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28zBv94
I just tested the first agentic AI web browser and it blows away ChatGPT
What Comes After Globalization?
> Ferraris, Lamborghini

I think the big difference is that nobody is going to pay $10m for a web service or browser.
It's an article about Fedora, specifically.
I was using ignite for a while to create firecracker vms, i think it’s called flintlock now. Ignite worked great when I was using it.
I'm still using my Librem 15 and it works fine though.
Turtles, Clams, and Cyber Threat Actors: Shell Usage