skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_... they do have a bunch of hardware startups, mostly in socal.

https://a16z.com/american-dynamism-50-2025/ is their splash page, table is from https://www.construction-physics.com/p/reading-list-031525
No, it's not normal. The output is almost always song lyrics annotated with markup like [Bridge], [Chorus] etc. I think they're using something from OpenAI with a system prompt and/or domain-specific training on top.

It's not a pure AI output - I generated a bunch of lyrics in text (which doesn't use credits), selected the best one (obviously), padded them out with some repetition, entered a style, generated the audio a few times, selected my favourite audio, and edited the audio (poorly) by repeating a few bars of the intro to make it longer. You don't see the times it generated lyrics about X.509 certificates (even though the prompt was for them to be a valid X.509 certificate) or the times the vocals were unintelligible.

Here's another good version of the song with a different style: https://suno.com/song/2775f188-7582-4970-ac71-5a3b82e39a04?s...

Here's are two versions that are disqualified because you can't make out the lyrics: https://suno.com/song/9cebb5b3-c336-495e-be3d-195ea338eb52?s... https://suno.com/song/c6f0e666-ce91-4494-a8b5-1232862965c1?s...

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I think generative AI does work as a toy. You can ask for all sorts of insane nonsense and laugh at what the program spits out to fulfil your request. I was a paying customer of AI Dungeon 2 (before the incident where OpenAI and/or the Mormons broke it in a poor attempt to impose safety rules).

I didn't keep any lyrics failures, but at the time, I was playing around with requesting songs that were also valid computer files, so here's one that went well: a "religious folk song that is also a valid Cisco configuration file", with the style changed to trance after the lyrics were generated: https://suno.com/song/32aa6d33-0f9f-4d3b-ad53-46a5fe238916?s... and another: https://suno.com/song/32aa6d33-0f9f-4d3b-ad53-46a5fe238916?s...

Juniper doesn't work as well because of the punctuation - it can generate lyrics with braced blocks, but they don't sound like anything: https://suno.com/song/32a0d70c-c9c9-468e-8905-67669c6b90d4?s...

Here's "a religious folk song that is also a valid COBOL program, without any English words": https://suno.com/song/b75aae68-9c1e-46e5-94d4-8bc63387640e?s...

Here are some that aren't configuration files but just sound cool. Prompt was something like "Write a song about a technological dystopia where everyone can only speak BGP." https://suno.com/song/1866516b-e133-47a5-a0ac-23ccb36f81ab?s... . This one's probably a song about "network protocols and their pros and cons": https://suno.com/song/23584394-7058-4bc1-8187-b3d286d36ec4?s...

And while I'm looking at my Suno outputs list, the reason I ever bothered to use it was to see if it could render these lyrics as a ripoff of "Pure Imagination" from Willy Wonka (it cannot because it only makes actual music): https://suno.com/song/19d1a90d-9ed6-4087-94e5-89e41363726e?s...

(I'm assuming that you can open these pages just by having the links. Some of them are set to public visibility.)
Just to your point on vtubers, I agree that sometimes the software is a bit clunky, but my girlfriend was able to make herself an avatar and get it responding correctly quite easily. I had to help her with a couple of things, but that was mostly because she didn't know what she needed to look for.
Plus, I think the final aim of this is different. VTubers, to me at least, are all about expressing yourself as something you want to be, not just... re-animating your own face? Not entirely sure what the purpose of this is
If you write some script that run for 30 minutes or so then Crystal is a great choice.

before using crystal I mostly used Ruby for scripting, but there were a lot of problems
- the program often crashes after running a while due to typo/nil handling, causing a lot of time wasting
- it was too slow for my case, which involving with dealing with large amount of data
- doing things in parallel (fetching websites, parsing multiple files) is a lot of work, you need to use external gems for the task, and it is not always the way you want it to do

there is a lot of works spent on crystal to make it enjoyable, you almost never need external libraries to do stuffs. the standard library is big and helpful.
A substantial fraction of us might indeed have some degree of ASD or ADHD.
Using Merkle trees and a hash map to track file history is just a good idea that GIT did well. Any other feature you could possibly want can be slapped on top of that. Good idea, good execution, zero barriers to usage, no IP paywall. Same recipe as Linux.
Google lays off employees in Android, Pixel teams, The Information reports
I'd love to see a reproducible example of these tools producing something that is exceptional. Or a clear reproducible example of using them the right way.

I've used them some (sorry I didn't make detailed notes about my usage, probably used them wrong) but pretty much there are always subtle bugs that if I didn't know better I would have overlooked.

I don't doubt people find them useful, personally I'd rather spend my time learning about things that interest me instead of spending money learning how to prompt a machine to do something I can do myself that I also enjoy doing.

I think a lot of the disagreements on hn about this tech is that both sides are mostly on the extremes of either "it doesn't work and at and is pointless" or "it's amazing and makes me 100x more productive" and not much discussion about the mid-ground of it works for some stuff and knowing what stuff it works well on makes it useful but it won't solve all your problems.
Gleam has potential to fill the niche and has an active and growing community.
We don't know if they're actually cutting waste here. DOGE has already had to do a massive climb-down from saving $1000B to saving $105B, but most of that $105B has not been shown to be true. Actual cuts may only amount to a few billion.
https://archive.ph/p7p5b
You don't get to play cute, fun, friend to creators and have the most odious licensing terms in the history of software.
Let me know when you find the matching hardware! I'll make it my official "canonical Dusk machine" :)

Most modern hardware is way too complex. Dusk uses a fraction of it, but still has to deal with spurious complexity.

Personally, my favorite 32-bit SBC so far is PC Engine's Alix board[1]. Sure, it has the ugly BIOS legacy, but is otherwise a very nice no-frills SBC. I just wish I bought one with a VGA adapter before it closed shop.

[1]: https://pcengines.ch/alix.htm
I haven’t seen what this is about since it’s a video. But Torvalds hasn’t had much involvement in the Git project itself since (random cutoff) 2010 or earlier.

One example of a recent feature was `--date=human`. That patch was in fact taken across the finish line by another person, Stephen P. Smith. It doesn’t look like it links to where Torvalds posted it originally.

https://lore.kernel.org/git/20181231003150.8031-1-ischis2@co...
I have completely soured on Dockerfiles. I view them as anathema.

The supposed "caching" of layers really doesn't work in practice unless you add a bunch of other infrastructure and third-party tooling to your build process. Getting truly incremental and reproducible layers into your build process is non-trivial, and the Dockerfile approach fails to take advantage of that work once you've done it.
It's about two things:

1. Cutting costs on the other side.

Studios don't want to license content to Netflix now that they are direct competitors, so Netflix has fewer and fewer movies and shows that they didn't produce themselves. And they want to spend as little as possible on producing their own content.

That way they make as much profit from the subscriptions as they can.

2. Reducing the value of competitors.

They are competing for user time. They want you to spend as many minutes as possible on Netflix because any minute not spent their is a minute you might be spending on Hulu or Apple TV. At the end of the month when you decide that you can't afford that many streaming services and decide to cut one, you'll pick based on which one you use the most. They don't want that to be the other guy.
That’s fully consistent with the idea that there has to be some threshold for lead in food because it’s literally naturally occurring in the soil.

In fact, to fully avoid lead, you’d basically have to carefully grow food hydroponically. Certified Organic mineral fertilizers like basalt rock dust (which provide calcium, phosphorus, and potassium, etc) would obviously not be okay if you wanted to eliminate all lead, as basalt contains 7.5ppm lead, comparable to the average in the Earth’s crust.
Have you been on the internet lately? The manosphere is everywhere; right-wing discourse is the norm.

Left-leaning culture in schools? Such as what left-leaning cultures? That you think there is bias in education kind of shows your own biases/POV
They use auditors with clearance. I'd imagine certain programs require very specific auditors to supervise them, like how the FISA court works with specific vetted lawyers at times.

The more mundane problem is things like "drive that truck over there… drive another one back" often result in the exact location of an asset being unclear fairly frequently.
> "I too long for different ways of interacting with a computer."

Like what?

People built chording/pen/handwriting/gesture/Kinect/Wiimotes/multitouch/mouse gesture/swipe gesture/joysticks/Griffin Powermate/3Dconnextion Spacemouse/motion tracking/eye tracking/voice recognition/etc. on current operating systems, what do you want in the way of interaction that couldn't be built with a current OS?
Would that actually matter if the result code ends up running a similar, working game?
Yes - using Criu[0] or docker checkpoint/restore api (which uses criu)

[0] -https://criu.org/Main_Page
The only context for my weakness being a strength is running operations or my own business, or high-level architecture. My preference is for not being detail-oriented, but I rally to do that when I have to, which is often when troubleshooting code. I have to break down the problem and simplify it, not just to be effective but to keep motivated.
Using Gatherers with Groovy
Musk intervened at FAA to get a Verizon communications contract cancelled while quietly trying to get FAA to sign to a Starlink contract:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/03/13/elon-mu...
They can use a different platform

not if they already committed to this one. you can't make such a change in a few minutes.
limitations are so unusual that nobody would expect them and be prepared. and even if they were known ahead of time, you are also not expecting the kind of situation where you have to upload pictures in the middle of the night.
I've been a pro web dev since 1995.

I can't articulate it and I could very well be on the wrong vibe, but this feels like the bad practice of relying on the failure mode within a try/catch for normal functioning.
Yes-ish. Seemingly less car break-ins, for sure.
Charlie Brooker has said that the new season of Black Mirror is different. In a recent interview (amusingly, also in The Guardian) he said, "If you want dystopia, look out your window."

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/04/if-you-...
Previous submission - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43650796
nginx supports four backend protocols out of the box: HTTP, FastCGI, SCGI, and static files.

Of these, if you get to pick one and the request isn't for a static file, SCGI is the obvious best choice.

You can also load extra plugin modules into nginx itself, of course, including one that puts a Lua interpreter inside nginx (mod_php-style).
It was like the search engine era. Everyone threw money at everything and Google won. Looks like Cursor might be the next Google at this rate. But there's still other things to win at in the AI arena, so there's probably some FOMO.

I do believe there's room for segmentation on agents as well. Manus and ChatGPT Deep Research are fairly different and they likely access different sources. Grok seems to play mostly on social media and so on. I think companies need the kind of depth that Cursor has. GitHub tried to do a bit of everything and failed despite their resources.
Interesting thought, but highly dependant on the actual program. Let's assume it doesn't touch any files on disk (no opening sockets either). You would need to at least

1. Halt the process (SIGSTOP comes to mind)

2. Create a copy of the running program and /proc/$pid - which will also include memory and mmap details

3. Transfer everything to the other machine

4. Load memory, somehow spawn a spawn a new process with the info from /proc/$pid we saved, mmap the loaded memory into it

5. Continue the process on the new machine (SIGCONT)

Let me admit that I do not have the slightest clue how to achieve step 4. I wonder if a systemd namespace could make things easier.
I wonder if we'll see a Cuba-like effect, with a proliferation of repair shops, DIY culture, and 10-year-old phones.

I feel myself wanting to hold on to my wife's old iPhone 8 a bit longer, even though it went out of support last week.
that's what happens when the people leave

https://wolfstreet.com/2023/03/30/population-drops-even-more...
That's for determining whether someone can be naturalized, not whatever Trump's doing.

>One of the general requirements for naturalization is good moral character (GMC). GMC means character which measures up to the standards of average citizens of the community in which the applicant resides.[1] In general, an applicant must show that he or she has been and continues to be a person of GMC during the statutory period prior to filing and up to the time of the Oath of Allegiance.[2]

>The applicable naturalization provision under which the applicant files determines the period during which the applicant must demonstrate GMC.[3] The applicant’s conduct outside the GMC period may also impact whether he or she meets the GMC requirement.[4]
If it didn't fuck about with things and act like it's here for you, why would you pay a recurring fee for it?

"Recurring revenue stream" is an answer in search of problems, and it's ready to destroy all alternatives.
Building the next update locally is slow because erofs has to compress the entirety of /usr on my rather old laptop and that takes a while.

Aside from that, I'm using flatpak for firefox and for some reason it takes absolutely forever (like > 15s) to start firefox on my machine, still need to look into why that happens.

Aside from those it's very usable. But of course it's running systemd from source so I'm not going to actually recommend anyone to run this who is not a systemd maintainer until we iron out the kinks.
> parse and interpret packet headers, apply validation rules, maintain BGP routing tables, add their own headers etc.

That's a few more than zero. I don't do network programming, that was just an example to show how even the quintessential IO-heavy application requires non-trivial calculations internally.
Yeah but if you need features like Cloud Functions or SMS auth you have to give your credit card... with no spending limit... and the standard practice is to expose your firebase creds on the client... and their stated stance is its better to let you get attacked and then maybe waive the charges than to interrupt service to your site for a few hours... lol. Your recourse is to go viral on social media and get them to forgive the debt.

As a small dev firebase is horrifying.
OTOH, no one likes "American Flavored Imitation Pasteurized Process Cheese Food".
How old? I'm old enough that my first Linux experience included a stack of floppy disks and recompiling a 0.9x kernel in late high school, and my first c++ program was done with Borland C++ 3.1. It never occured to me to look for a localized UI for either of them.

Older than that?
When I see this list all I can think of is how all these things are just generic, abstract rules and have nothing to do with programming. This, of course, is my problem. I have a strange mental model of things.

I can't shake off the feeling we should be defining some clean sort of "business algebra" that can be used to describe these kind of notions in a proper closed form and can then be used to derive or generate the actual code in whatever paradigm you need. What we call code feels like a distraction.

I am wrong and strange. But thanks for the list, it's helpful and I see FP's points.
I don't know about other companies or even other teams, but given the chance I'd definitely build my own stuffs. It's a LOT more interesting than using other people's stuffs.

It's just in my blood. I want to build things that others use, and build it really well with a perfect documentation and some hand-on videos.
It's the same kind of people who would design a city with no toilets or waste water treatment. Everything is easy when you ignore half of the requirements.
That quote is more about the blunders of asking people what they want and expecting deep and innovative insights.

Maybe it has been misappropriated in a culture obsessed with new ideas... But nothing in human-centered design circles (where this quote ostensibly originated) declares that new is always better.

I enjoyed your point and it would be nice to have the option for a more archival nerd UI to serve people like you and me. I'm sure if turning it on was buried in a configuration menu we wouldn't mind.
I don't understand the draw of Spotify. There's no network effect that I can see (even if it is built into your car, the other services have good experiences in your car too), everyone complains about it, they pay less per stream to artists than their competitors, and their library isn't any bigger than the competition. (It was smaller the last time I compared.)

On top of that, their recommendation algorithms are (were?) terrible compared to the other services (since then, they added more payola), and they're actively trying to burn down the last open corner of the internet (podcasts).

Also, the pricing is comparable, even if the other options feel more premium.

What am I missing?
That feature isn't a v3 exclusive.
Linux folks continue with running away with package security paradigms while NPM, PyPI, cargo, et. al. (like that VSCode extension registry that was on the front page last week) think they can still get away with just shipping what some rando pushes.
You can trivially devise a language that doesn't, though? Let's say I have a language that can return 0 and only 0. It cannot reproduce lisp.
> No types barking

No thanks
> virtualization

Classic Freudian typo (I've been working on virtualization-related stuff way too much this week). I meant "visualization" of course! :)

> obtrusive

s/obtrusive/unobtrusive
Creating the Ultimate Italian Vacation in NYC
I’m not saying R hides things. Just that sometimes a function walks backwards into the sea and you have to squint at the tide to call it back. It’s not deception, it’s how the language dreams.
> Actual cuts may only amount to a few billion.

And that's assuming the cuts don't have any fiscally counterproductive knock-on effects. Which they certainly will.
It competes with CDNs, is the problem- once you use one, they take care of the caching, and you don't need to run your own. People with global customers need a CDN, and they're to cheap to build your own.
> And to what end, aren't many of these people already extremely wealthy?

When's the last time you heard a billionaire say, "I've got enough money I don't need to get any more" before they're very old and looking to burnish their image with charity work?! If they were the kind of person to be ok with more money than they could spend in 10 lifetimes they wouldn't be billionaires in the first place, at least not multibillionaires.
Fed up with centralized streaming platforms and all their associated risks? Introducing FONY—a project built for those who value freedom and decentralization.

FONY is designed for enthusiasts who refuse to rely on intermediaries. The application combines a carefully curated catalog of Internet radio stations with a music player powered by IPFS, sourcing data from smart contracts. Importantly, FONY doesn’t depend on centralized services like vercel or netlify—it can even be deployed on pure IPFS. This ensures that no centralized platform can ever restrict your access to music.

GH https://github.com/wadadawadada/fony
Is this about software or is it about you?

I loved my computer when I was a kid, now I only see flaws. I don't think software was flawless at the time, it's just that I became very keenly aware of its current issues because this is my field.
I found the answer on your gh-contributions-gizmo repo:

> A 100 LOC script to hack the GitHub contributions map thingie to display a message over the course of a year.

> It works by deploying a Cloud Functions scheduled daily, which on the necessary days makes a commit on my behalf, on this very repo.
Relatively, games and consoles have gotten cheaper. This is undeniable. But the wages have shrunk and the debts have grown for the average family compared to where they were in the 80's. $80 can feel worse today than $45 in '88 even though inflation-adjusted it's better.

It's also worth mentioning that the market is WAY bigger today than it was in the 80's. Successful games fly through millions of copies like it's nothing. Even if the margins are lower, the volume is way higher. (And each copy sold has no real additional cost)
Banality of evil is maaaybe for the people who designed and implemented the database. Actual ice agents signed up for and underwent training on how to do this, they knew it would be this and they wanted to do it, and are willingly doing it now. That's just normal evil.
Huh. I work for a small organization under their Project Galileo, which basically means a free Pro account. We've only had simple needs, but any time I email a rep I get a response in 24-48 hours. I believe what you're saying, I just wonder why the experience is so varied.
I don’t think articles like this are useful. Buyers always compare prices to current competitive offerings. In that respect, it is that high and that’s all that matters to the would-be consumer.

The history makes for a fun analysis but has little relevance to the current market.
Because it's adult to accept being spied on and your infos sold to whomever Microsoft seems worthy? Sure I can understand it, but I don't think it has anything to do with being an adult. Just what degree of personal privacy you are willing to part with.
I would like it to be "equal or less than a standard reference food of similar ingredients" which would penalize adding lead or heavy metals via the processing itself instead of naturally occuring.
The latest example for me was trying to generate a thumbnail of a PSD in plain C and figure out the layers in there as I was lazy to read the specs, with the objective to bundle it as a wasm and execute it on a browser, it never got to extract a thumbnail from a given PSD, it's very confident at making stuff but it never got anywhere despite spending a couple hours on it which would have been better spend reading specs and existing code on that topic
Well, if you're not using AI right now, you should remove that text from your website.