skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember pirating photoshop in the late 90's for the every now and then I need to edit a photo (usually something dumb or screwing around). I was never going to pay anything let alone the real cost to use it for random crap I needed it for, so when they began CS with subscriptions and such, I simply moved to The Gimp. For 25 years Gimp has been "good enough" for me, and now it's truly good enough for professionals too as I have family that do graphic design and now use it where prior they were Photoshop snobs.

Adobe ought to be glad anyone still cares about them.

Sadly what I know them mostly for now is their vermin web services major eCommerce companies seem to love to use (sad for the consumers stuck using this garbage). I see "adobedtm.com" domain show up constantly in noscript plugins, and I know nothing good can come from them, but NOT allowing it usually breaks the websites. I really, REALLY try not to do business with companies using adobe in their web services for this reason.
SingularityForge’s 4th edition: OpenAI adds memory to ChatGPT (Apr 10), DeepMind’s AlphaFold 4 predicts protein interactions, NVIDIA patents AI city simulations. Amazon invests $4B in Anthropic for Claude on Bedrock. TikTok tests AI Creativity Suite, Stanford uses GPT in philosophy courses. Challenges: OpenAI export limits, LegalBot files 20k+ lawsuits. Our works: A New Paradigm for AI Existence (new AI architecture) and The Matrix Paradox (superintelligence flaws).
It's surprising to me that not more of them object to Radio Liberty and its siblings getting ratfucked, since those channels are both rather cheap and obviously in the interest of whatever regime has the White House.

Running Twitter bots can't compete with the deep reach and influence that was built up there over many decades.
Worse Than Signalgate
It's not so much that triangles are the primitive, as much as our logic for combining multiple triangles into a mesh and texturing, lighting, and deforming them in continuous ways clearly has some gaps. It's definitely not an easy problem and it's a fun exercise to see how various silicon innovations unlocked increasingly accurate solutions, and what corners needed to be cut to hit 30fps back in the day.
Who cares about reality when there are messengers to shoot!
I, for one, liked clippy (in his wizard form), as did the rest of kids in the computer lab, if anything the best feature of clippy was that it kept kids focused on the computer (but I guess not on their work)
Boarding passes and check-ins could be scrapped in travel shake-up
Fwiw, I listen to sports talk radio whenever I’m not in meetings or otherwise physically interacting with someone else at work.

The actual “news” stopped being productive to read, watch, or listen to when the term “pregnant chads” was coined. Been downhill ever since.
It's not just that they're expensive markers of conspicuous consumption, it's about exclusivity. Exotic car manufacturers like Ferrari intentionally make fewer cars than the market demands. Only "special" customers are even allowed to buy them regardless of price. Ownership, especially of the higher end models, marks a consumer as a member of a high-status exclusive club. (I am not claiming that this is rational or sensible, but it is an effective marketing strategy for luxury goods.)
$100,000 GBP

I hope someone else magical plays the ever-living shit outta this thing.
It is a fact that they are committing genocide. Whether or not there are antisemites in the world that agree with that fact does not change that it is a fact. It is what it is. Own it.

Colonialism is brutal and ugly, and we're seeing it broadcast in HD at all hours of all days. Saying that other countries (the USA, UK, Germany, etc, the list goes on) got to do colonialism and ethnic cleansing does not make it acceptable.

Now, you can just come out and say "I believe we should exterminate the Palestinians because we want their land" but nobody seems to have the balls to say that, even though it is absolutely the intent. So instead there's this nation state level misinformation campaign to try to undermine, intimidate, and suppress any dissent from university students to the ICC, which is frankly, exhausting.
> However genAI is too generic and too blunt a tool, as in it does everything.

How does this preclude the AI "age"? And why is the metric "companies make money off of it"?

I view it more like open source/Linux. When Linux was new, it was immensely useful , but not a means for companies to make money (except for a tiny few).

Or more precisely, far more people used Linux for their own personal benefit than companies making money off of it.

And so it is with generative AI. For me, personally, it's very useful.[1] So assuming the major companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) don't go bankrupt and/or kill it off, gen AI is here to stay, and will continue to disrupt. That startups can't make much money off of it is somewhat irrelevant.

[1] It has revolutionized speech recognition for me. I have several automations running that were coded by Claude. Things that had been in my mind for years but I didn't have time to write them. MCP will add more value to my life soon. Etc.
Solar with lots of battery backup is also an option, especially if power can be bidirectional to offset power bills and the initial installation costs.
I get that there's a discussion here over the minutae to be had in good faith. I am not qualified enough for that discussion. My point is that funding a genocidal empire is inherently bad whereas public health funding can have inefficiencies but is overall a net good.

The discussion is moot however because the agencies aren't being gutted over concerns of efficiency, but because of an ideological commitment to free market shock therapy. It's like arguing if you should order the fish or chicken while the Titanic is sinking. Sure there's an argument to be had, it's just not relevant right now.
EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail
How do you explain the advancement of cultural practices and tools during the 95% of time (assuming 100k years) that behaviorally modern humans lived prior to inventing writing 5,000 years ago? This includes the invention of agriculture and large scale building projects like Gobleki Tepe and so on. Also, there were cities for thousands of years before writing was invented.

I’m definitely no scholar, just a guy that is interested in prehistory.
So we should go back to being hunters and gatherers?
My impression is that reproducible builds improve your security by helping make it more obvious that packages haven't been tampered with in late stages of the build system.

* Edit, it's quoted in the linked article:

> Jędrzejewski-Szmek said that one of the benefits of reproducible builds was to help detect and mitigate any kind of supply-chain attack on Fedora's builders and allow others to perform independent verification that the package sources match the binaries that are delivered by Fedora.
They don’t. They (those I could tell you about) can hear our thoughts. They use the quantum dynamic modern minds still refuse to accept allows instantaneous information communication at any distance.

When I want to tell people about “aliens”, I want to say, they (visitors to the Earth) aren’t the biggest, craziest secret.

American Thought Control, and thought controlled Americans are the big crazy secret. We are not alone in our own minds. Secretive communities of humans (more than one) have long since mastered this technology of consciousness (and employ it as a secret governance of power among us.)

These are as great a reason as any other that we humans and our visitors cannot really be friends. There are occult societies of haters among us.

Talk of our visitors is often rife in communities of Power. The only problem is thought controlled Americans would not tolerate the discussion of anything true, for these are they who screw with you.
Show HN: Deebo, An autonomous debugging MCP server for AI coding agents
Deebo is the first ever agent MCP server. Your coding agent can start a session with Deebo when it runs into a tricky bug, allowing it to offload tasks and work on something else while Deebo figures it out asynchronously.

Deebo works by spawning multiple subprocesses, each testing a different fix idea in its own Git branch. It uses Claude to reason through the bug and returns logs, proposed fixes, and detailed explanations. The whole system runs on natural process isolation with zero shared state or concurrency management. Look through the code, it’s super simple.

Deebo scales to real codebases too. Here, it launched 17 scenarios and diagnosed a $100 bug bounty issue in Tinygrad:
https://github.com/snagasuri/deebo-prototype/blob/master/mem...

Full logs from that run:
https://github.com/snagasuri/deebo-prototype/tree/master/mem...

Would love feedback from devs building agents or running into flow-breaking bugs during AI-powered development.
It's one tool of many that can be used to prevent malicious software from sneaking in to the supply chain.
that's correct, but its not that it denotes a symbol as a different function of ', its the same function. Turn code into data. That's all symbols are (in CL at least).

For example in a quoted list, you dont need to quote the symbols because they are already in a quoted expression!

'(hello hola)

' really just says "do not evaluate whats next, treat it as data"
I call my personal methodology PDD, Pain Driven Development.

Fix the thing that is causing the most pain. Or is likely to cause pain in the near future.
Yep, the image portrayed of every other government department is scientists in white coats looking at cancer cells in a microscope, or doctors bandaging soldiers coming off the battle field.
I think that's true in most newer languages, there's always a rush of libraries once a language starts to get popular, for example Go has lots http client libraries even though it also has an http library in the standard library.

relevant xkcd, https://xkcd.com/927/
I have been a similar situation before. Yes, walk away — and learn what you can.

There's one easy part of your situation, which is that your immediate next step is clear. I think it's clear because it sounds like the two of you have a fundamental disagreement about how to choose a direction. There's also a power imbalance if you've consistently been going along with pivots that you don't want to execute on. If you think you can resolve things, then maybe I'm wrong. I'm basing my advice on the fact that this is 24 months in — enough time for you to know how easy it'd be to get back to "we like working together and are on a path to success."

Now for the hard parts:
* You want to act as professionally as possible in walking away. Communicate clearly, being fair to both yourself and the other people involved. I think it's easy to err to far on either side (either too defensive/passive "nice to yourself" or too deferential "nice to others").
* It can be tempting to think of this is as your cofounder's fault, but that's not constructive, and it's better to learn toward your future actions. For example, how could you have seen this problem earlier? My guess is that you were never "cofounder compatible," and this is a chance to get better at identifying that compatibility with others (useful for both startups and other jobs).

It's not a fun situation, and I hope things go well for you.
Apple silent as Trump promises "impossible" US-made iPhones
Agents Need Durable Workflows and Strong Guarantees
Agents rely on long-lived workflows, but when happens when they fail midway through? Here are the tools you need to manage correctness and reliability: transactions, idempotency, retries, durable functions, journaling, and state machines. The missing abstraction layer for agentic is durable workflows, which bring them all together.
I didn't ghost you, BTW, my previous account got downvoted so heavily that my posts stopped being visible.
I don't quite get the metaphor - you might have reversed it. The whole system is barrelling towards a cliff because of the current administration, who took away the guard rails that stopped the system barrelling towards a cliff, and then set course directly towards the cliff.

The old system could well have been, like, scraping against the guard rails, flattening them gradually over time. The solution to that is not to remove the rails and aim directly for the cliff.

Unless you're an accelerationist. Accelerationists are people who view bad times as inevitable, and want them to come as quickly as possible so we can get through to the other side (where times are good again) as quickly as possible, instead of prolonging the collapse by doing it more slowly. Does that describe you?
That's not surprising at all. Permanent residents (ie. green card holders) generally have more rights than temporary visa holders (you can't be refused entry at the border, for instance), and are harder to deport.
Ask HN: Join company to implement a product change yourself?
There's a software functionality addition that would enable a Leviton product to fit my use case which made me think of this.

Anyone have a good story?
The protections offered to unions goes far beyond standard freedom of association. Generally I think that is okay, but not in the case of public unions.
> rather the fact we write down what we know

Writing is a very recent invention, about 5-6kya for the oldest known script, and effectively one of the last inventions of the Neolithic package. We see urban developments that well predate writing; Catalhoyuk is something like 10kya, and that is roughly contemporary with the earliest domestication of crops and animals.

Even full on state-based civilization can happen in the absence of writing systems--Teotihuacan rather famously was not a literate society, even going so far as to exert hegemony over literate Mayan city-states and still not adopt any writing or proto-writing system. (There are also societies like the Wari and the Inca, which had quipu, themselves something that make you ask "what is a writing system?").
The Need to Disconnect
Not the original commenter, but from hearing Joe Armstrong speak on multiple occasions my recollection is that Erlang was blacklisted for some length of time (which allowed it to become an open source language), but eventually the company realized it still offered significant value.
Being about politics doesn't automatically make a comment flamewar. The GP had elements of flamewar (e.g. the phrase "mass psychosis" which is name-calling in HN's sense of the word, and too much of a provocation). But the bulk of the comment was thoughtful, and a decent argument (whether you agree with it or not). If the level of political discussion on HN were mostly at that level, there would be room for improvement, but we'd be a lot better off than we are today.

Your reply https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631215 on the other hand, is a flamewar comment in all sorts of ways: it's a generic tangent, aggressive, inflammatory, filled with denunciatory rhetoric, nationalistic flamebait, and seriously in violation of this guideline:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

as well as this one:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

As for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634806, yes, no doubt there are many flamewar comments in there, but it's not a good response to point fingers at others when your own posts are so clearly in violation of the guidelines. Not being the only rule-breaker doesn't make breaking the rules ok!

We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here—there's far too much. We can only moderate the things we happen to see. If you see someone else's post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Recently browsers hardcode localhost to never resolve over dns.
I think you mean to say:

The. fine. article. seems. to. say. lots. of. companies. are. using. Tailscale. to. connect. to. servers. with. GPUs. -- nothing. in. that. implies. that. Tailscale. would. own. the. GPUs.

Besides my joke, you are bang on, nothing implies needing to buy GPUs and based on my knowledge of their product/the space, absolutely no reason to.
Some more detail: https://www.iata.org/en/services/compliance/contactless-trav...
Is it just me or does Erlang's syntax look a little bit nicer than Elixir's?
It wasn't sarcastic, I tried to make people read it, and see that it's nonsense.

edit: I don't know why you reply by editing your comment like this. I'm not proposing any conspiracy theory, I'm claiming that lead toxicity is a conspiracy theory. Its proponents kicked out the original experts, forced lead removal, and people are now sick as the result, because the experts were right, and the normal levels were in fact normal.

There is nothing much to agree or disagree with in the paper, because it's entirely nonsensical. He pulls out random numbers, and makes an illogical conclusion supposedly based on them.

>The approximate fractions of alkaline earths absorbed by the intestine upon ingestion are: calcium 50%; strontium 25%; and barium 5%. If the alimentary absorption factor for lead in food is similar to that for barium, the amount of lead naturally absorbed by man is...

And it's the entire paper like this.

Edit2: No, it isn't because I don't uderstand it. I can read scientific papers, and this doesn't even look or read as one. It's nonsense written by a geochemist who went crazy.

Edit3: No, you can't randomly assume something, and base your conclusions on that. How did you get that idea?
Digital cameras didn't change the need to go out and actually shoot the photos, however. They didn't change the fundamentals of lighting and color and what a good photo looks like. It was a more convenient and cheaper process compared to film, so more people could participate in photography, but it maintained a lot of the creative process.
I see your point, fair if you prefer it.

But I don't see it as fragmentation, but as competition. The better idea tends to prevail, and it's nice that the environment allowed alternatives to even try :)

hell, systemd itself happened as a esult of this environment :)
Government organizations aren't very good at accounting for true inflation, so right now the salary + golden handcuffs combination is way lower than industry compensation, if you're competent. If you're not competent, and you're not doing anything, then you might as well stay.
> I used to think that PS3 set back Many-Core for decades, now I wonder if it simply killed it forever.

Did general purpose CPUs not kind of subsume this role? Modern CPUs have 16 cores, and server oriented ones can have many, many more than that
Defaulting to Android-style nanny sandboxing ("you can't grant access to your Downloads folder because we say so" etc.) is unlikely to go over well with the average Linux distro userbase.

Also, maximally opt-in sandboxes for graphical applications have been possible for a while. Just use Podman and only mount your Wayland socket + any working files.
Less accurate, but much less laborious: divide into blocks and estimate crowd density per block by comparison with a set of reference photos (as found in textbooks) of scaled, known densities.
> Yet to many Europeans the idea that free expression is under threat seems odd. Europeans can say almost anything they want, both in theory and in practice.

What about the 60 Minutes segment from February 2025, where CBS correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed German prosecutors about Germany’s strict hate speech laws? The report, aired on February 16, 2025, discussed how German authorities can raid homes and seize devices over online posts deemed offensive, such as hate speech, insults, or misinformation. The prosecutors, including Dr. Matthäus Fink, Svenja Meininghaus, and Frank-Michael Laue, explained that German law allows police to act against speech that incites hatred or insults.

I'm particularly concerned that "hate" and "insult" and "misinformation" can be so subjective. That's why the US 1A protects even hate speech.

And what about British police arrested people who post memes online for the similar reasons?
> That and it was such a better browsing experience. Firefox was not good compared to Chrome for years. I'm sure they are feature parity now, but for years the Chrome experience was significantly better.

As someone who lived through those days, that is just straight up not true. The only measurable advantage that Chrome had over Firefox was in Javascript performance, because V8 was superior to the JS engine built into Gecko before the SpiderMonkey project started.

Chrome won off mindshare, not off technical superiority. Everyone /assumes/ technical superiority because it's Google, but that's just not accurate. At best, you could count in Chrome's favor their early support for "web standards", because most of those standards were invented at Google, stuck into Chrome, and then only afterwards standardized so that others could make use of them. While the Chrome team at Google has done good work and an immense amount of work, they didn't start from nothing, Blink is a derivative of WebKit and didn't even diverge with the fork until 2013. Webkit itself didn't exist until 2001, when it was forked by Apple from KHTML (developed by the KDE team as a community project).

The story of Chrome is the story of "embrace, extend, extinguish" from the Microsoft playbook, done by an even more powerful and influential technology giant being played out. It is not the story of technological superiority, nor was there any strong technical reason why Google couldn't have contributed their work into the open without creating their own browser. Even with Chrome, other than the development of V8, they contributed all of their work back to WebKit until 2013 when they forked.

No surprise that Google regularly makes changes in its applications which advantage Chrome, penalize competing browsers, and still advertise Chrome on the front page of google.com, the most valuable ad real estate that exists anywhere.
I like writing yaml

(context: I've never had to write 1000-line yaml files for kubernetes)
I thought this was satire before I looked it up. I mean, it makes sense but it's still so hard to believe.
This is a chicken-and-egg problem. It's economically irrational for any given individual to pursue vocational training in a field where there isn't a job waiting for them at the end. You can make the training in these fields available, but without the jobs, who will bother using it?
Historically, guns are the only approach that works.
Fantastic! This is great news. Clean up the waste!
It might fool general public, but the moment "Mechanical Turk" is uttered, some of us would ask "is this done by human?"
What's the issue with Go? I was thinking of picking it up as my next language.
Show HN: Cal.build – Text to Google Calendar
Do they have the right to quit?
Another reason in favor of reliance on contractors, at least in a couple of federal agencies I’ve worked with, is to improve diversity metrics. For agencies that require lots of technical workers, the reality is that means a heavily male workforce. But agencies (up until a few months ago) liked to tout that they were “model employers” with very diverse workplaces, and near gender equity. Then you actually show up and notice the building is full of the usual (for tech) contingent of white and Asian dudes but they don’t count as employees for diversity statistics.
conveniently i have several alixes but none with video output.

I am actually thinking about custom hardware at the moment. Or maybe FPGA emulation of custom hardware. I actually would prefer a smaller machine but most of them are too impaired (eg 6502 is just a bit too weird)

so probably 68k-based. which you support! (is there a boot image somewhere? i wonder if it would run in an emulator)

right now my thought is an FPGA board is probably for the best...