skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my guess: they started with some code generated by Gemini, but they had to modify it in order to get what they wanted.
Hello ! Thanks for your feedback ! I can understand what you're saying, I'm usually more like you but I feel like in today role if you don't market people just don't really care.
The goal with the 30 days method is really to take the first step and do everyday. IF you want to do woodworker, the program will tell you what you need to practice in the first 30 days to develop your skills. I know you wont be the world woodworker master in 30 days but I've been myself impress of how much we can learn a new skill by doing it every day. It also give you the discipline and habits to do it everyday which help you continue during the rest of the year with less struggle. :)
I noticed that I am often audited when I am unshaven and wear hoodies and almost never when I have a sports jacket on...
> Anthropic apparently is starting to notice the possible danger to others of their work. I'm not sure what they are referring to.

Are they being vague about the danger? If possible, please link to a communique from them. I've missed it somehow. Thanks.
I understand that is the goal. I just don't think it succeeds.

To show darkness you have to have light. You can't cast a shadow if its pitch black.

In terms of black mirror, they show a society devoid of humanity, true. But in most episodes (there are probably some exceptions) it feels like the lack of humanity is not because of technology, but because the world of the show is populated by monsters. As a result, it doesn't effectively show the dehumanizing power of technology.

When watching an episode - ask yourself, would these characters still do monsterous things without the tech premise? If the answer is yes, then its not really about the tech.
That's what mine does as it's a gaming PC secondarily.... that being said I am running in to some limitations i.e. certain Sim Racing titles and VR Support (though both ALVR and WiVRN are excellent)
What is the engineer team size, one person or more?
What would happen if we fed LLM all the videos from YouTube channels such as PoliceActivity?

Maybe I am generalizing too, based on the videos (bodycam) I have seen, but I agree with parent.
> Most tourists head to an exchange window, turn their USD into the local currency, and therefore those exchanges have got our genuine Benjamins to do whatever with.

… Wait, really, in 2025? You’d likely be far cheaper using an ATM (tip: get a Wise or neobank account; they’ll generally give better rates on this. Revolut FX is _free_ except on weekends). Physical currency exchange has never been cheap, but these days it’s a serious ripoff.

> And USD is highly-favored, highly-negotiable money everywhere in the world, as of April 2025 anyway.

It fell 2.5% vs the Euro yesterday. Which is going to make the physical currency places into even more of a ripoff, because they’re going to have to significantly increase their risk premium; it has become rather volatile over the last month.
https://archive.ph/WxMez
Cost-efficient event ingestion into Iceberg S3 Tables on AWS
It may mean that the set of the skilled electronics engineers on US soil is countable, so it is finite or there could be a one to one correspondence with the set of natural numbers.
After reading about this documentary I became interested in watching, turns out I can't. Thanks for nothing I guess.
I'm the curator of Big Book of R and am really happy to see it on the front page of HN :). New books are added every 6 weeks or so and I send a notifications of the new adds to my newsletter subs. Link is at the footer of every page
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-education-report-ho...

Discussed here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43633383
I liked "Crocodile" too, if I remember the name correctly. The other one that got to me was the one with the two astronauts. It raised a lot of ethical / moral dilemmas in me.
It's kind of a chicken and the egg, but I feel like 1966 with Vietnam, race riots across the US, the Cuban Missile Crisis only four years past, and everything else was hardly a time that people would have been optimistic.

But you had a guy who had been a bomber pilot in World War Two and flown combat missions against the Japanese, who desperately wanted to put a (gay) Japanese-American who had spent the war in an internment camp into his show, and a black woman (and have her kiss his white male lead star!), and later on, when people seemed to not be getting what he was trying to say, even added a good Russian character (played by an actual Russian-American). Because the point was to show, just like Verne a century earlier, that if truly all of humanity worked together, we could accomplish anything, for example travelling the stars. And so many people were inspired by his vision, and wanted to build his vision, to make his dreams real.

And nowadays the dreams that I see, both in stories and made manifest, seem drab and small and more than a little evil by comparison. And I do think that story-tellers (of whatever medium- very much including start-up founders) need to be aware of the power of their stories, that their myths become real, and have a responsibility to use that power for good and not for evil.
It would need to be a 6A fuse in the US. Watts = Amps * Volts, or Watts / Volts == amps.

US (and really, everywhere except the UK/Singapore/Malaysia, and I think HK) doesn’t use plug fuses, preferring circuit level protection, because they typically have non-insane circuit power levels.

It does result in more branch circuit wiring (albeit thinner gauge) and breakers though, and saving on copper post WW2 was the primary motivation for UK style ring circuits anyway.

Many houses in the US were 50A/120V (for the whole panel/house!) until the 60’s, because that was a lot of power - 6kw. It wasn’t until electric appliances that it started to change, and the modern 200A split phase panels (typically 22/44kw)didn’t start to become the norm until whole house HVAC became normal. Think 80’s/90’s. A lot of houses still don’t have modern panels.

A single UK ring circuit at 32A@220v is 7kw, or more than enough to run a very beefy welder, and more than a whole house service in the US at the time.

A breaker on each of those ring circuits is essentially a ‘whole house breaker’, and would not trip on a whole host of ‘everything is melting’ situations.

So you need per-appliance fuses to protect the wiring for appliances and not burn the place down, or run 6 gauge wire everywhere in your appliances too, which would remove any cost savings in material.
New simulation of Titanic's sinking confirms historical testimony
What is an appropriate fee to charge any particular customer when what you’re billing for isn’t necessarily time and materials, but more so the skill / experience required to diagnose and rectify an issue, or otherwise provide a solution, in a timely manner?

I’d argue the most correct answer is: up to the customers ability to tolerate, such that they’d be inclined to want to become repeat customers.
> For something like tax software, you should have people on call, or even 24/7 staffing, for that specific week.

In my country, the tax system (EDS, Electronic Declaration System) is down pretty much every single year on the day when tax declaration submissions start.

2020: "SRS: Significantly increasing EDS capacity is expensive and not cost-effective" https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/vid...

2022: "SRS urges not to rush to submit annual income tax returns so as not to overload the EDS" https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/vid...

2023: "The SRS urges not to rush to submit income tax returns in the first days of March" https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/vid...

2025: "A virtual queue will be open this year for submitting annual income tax returns to the SRS" https://www-lsm-lv.translate.goog/raksts/zinas/ekonomika/28....

So basically their "solution" for the longest time was to just tell people that it's too expensive to make it have high availability and that they shouldn't use the system on the first days of the period when you can submit the data and eventually just adding a queue in front of the system to manage the concurrent users.

It seems that taxes still get handled correctly and that nobody really cares that much. Found this to be an interesting example of going against the established culture of trying to go above and beyond for availability, even if I scoffed at it a few years ago.

It definitely wouldn't be horrible to live in a world where a prod outage doesn't mean "Sorry wife, I'm not coming home today, will be stuck in some random war room for hours and then fudge up the groceries massively due to sleep deprivation" but rather "Sorry boss, the system is down, what a bummer. I'll look into it tomorrow at 9 AM." for pretty much anything aside from truly critical and time sensitive systems (e.g. air traffic control, as opposed to your music streaming app).
No: the language defined that e.g. a NonZeroU8 can't contain 0, and the only way it could is via illegal means. You don't need a formal proof to describe that.

To try to characterise what any compiler, hypothetical or not, does if you nonetheless produce one (again, via means that aren't valid) isn't meaningful.
The best applications have no bugs, and you can only make sure of that if you don’t write any code.
That’s too bad, but not unexpected given that Qt’s itself a non-native toolkit anywhere other than Linux that developers on those other platforms shouldn’t touch.
But this is the true definition of "AGI"? Isn't it?
I meant to type, it was one of the tragic things I have read, but too late to edit.
Thanks a lot ! if you have any question or even if you just want to discuss about the product contact us at the email in the footer. I'll be happy to hear some feedback and even adapt the program if needed.
I saw someone try to do this in Dublin a while back. Absolutely baffling; I assume they’d never been out of the US before.
To be clear, the US is not unique in its ability to do this. Many other countries would benefit from understanding it! In the UK we have a government wanting to build a growth strategy around finance. It's like a parody that nobody gets (yet).
This is impressive honestly.

I also find it interesting that the ai code submissions like this one are generally vague about the process.

This seem to be created using Cline on VsCode, prompting to Gemini 2.5 Pro using OpenRouter.

The commit history implies that a crude version was created by the LLM using an initial prompt and then gradually improved with features, fixes etc. Assuming ongoing conversations with the AI agent.

All code in a single index.html file which might not be great for human coders but who cares to be fair.

All in all, a prompt history would be really educational if anyone thinks about doing something similar.
Thank you for digging into the details and displaying their clear ridiculousness. As someone who finished a 750ml bottle (17 drinks) over 4 days this week, the headline had me freaking out. Whew.
I metrics fetish might be quite widespread. Why would anyone need an app to tell them how well they've slept? I can feel how well I've slept when I wake up.

But this can be used to great effect. Make an argument and people will agree or disagree based on their beliefs and feelings towards you.

Draw some graphs and most will go with whatever you want them to agree with.
But I will adapt some of the wording so it doesn't sound as you described it , many thanks
> Waiting ages for basic serif pages to load over your 56k (or 128k connection if you were rich and had ISDN)? Nope.

> Downloading tracks from KaZaa/WinMX/Limewire/Napster for a million hours only for them to be some warped shit that the studios planted? Nope.

I was there too, and realized that these sort of reductions in speed made one far more mindful of what one was doing

> Almost everything about using the Internet is better today IMO. Faster, prettier, more secure and more cross-platform

This too is particularly debatable. Applications are thin wrappers around web browsers, there are constant annoyances (want to receive notifications for this webpage? Not now? We’ll ask you later.) I bet if I pulled someone from 2005 they’d look at a lot of things on a current website and see malware. And is it really more cross platform when we’ve achieved that by having less platforms?
ML algorithm probably could do parts of the job. The tap and sound.

But there is most likely also large amount general QA of environment going on. Are things done right, is temperature right, is humidity right, is there weird touch. And so on.

All of this is much harder to understand and gather under scope of AI... Lot of it is likely not even conscious...
It extrapolates broadly. It's kind of a funny thing. When somebody doesn't know much about something but wants to pretend they do, their vocabulary comes off sounding like a thesaurus of vernacular, but when you speak to somebody who genuinely knows something, to the point of having an intuitive feeling/understanding of it, they could easily explain, at least roughly, even the most esoteric topic in a relatable enough language that a high schooler could understand.

Space stuff is another domain that's just chock full of this.
Perhaps the book was "The Black Art of Macintosh Game Programming" [0]? That was a fun book I got myself.

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[0]: https://archive.org/details/blackartofmacint00ties
I've experimented with a few things but haven't looked at my public IP. I don't think it changes that often and I don't access reddit through a VPN. I'll have to write some code to check my public IP address and see how often it changes. I connect through an ISP in South East Asia and do have problems with my IP address being on a black list occasionally, but turning the modem off overnight usually fixes that, or at least shakes things up.
AI is becoming the new crypto. Attracting the same kind of bros.
Keeping track of heading levels across sections and components is a challenge, rarely taken care of in most websites.

Back we go to completely broken document outlines. Not that we ever fixed it in reality, as the announcement points out, but this is a big admission of defeat for the semantic web.
More of a tongue in cheek comment. Gone are the days of "designed" in California "assembled" in China. There's a lot of Chinese designing to get the assembling part done now. If the only way you can goto market in reasonable timeframe is to have PRC iterate your design by rapidly leveraging their supply chains and human capita, then it's not really Made in USA Phone.
"[...] chip sets that are like ST Micro [a Swiss company with American factories]"

I guess that if Ford moved their HQ in DRC, it would be called a Congolese company with American factories, too?
>It was a lot easier when the to do list was 1/100th the size

Things in the past look simple only if we look at them through today's lens.

The apparent complexity was the same.

Today I work with microservices, on top of Kubernetes on top of cloud services and I have to know a gazillion things. But I don't have the feeling that I had an easier time when I was a kid playing with C/C++ under DOS, learning assembly, writing terminate and stay resident programs, trying to write simple device drivers or trying to program the graphics hardware using whatever limited info I had access to. When I started doing desktop application using Win32 and Qt, it didn't seemed more simple than now. Learning how to use Linux syscalls, how to program for X11 in 2000 didn't seem simpler.

Of course, software was much more simpler but now we have better tools, a lot of more easy accessible information, we have developed practices, standards and methodologies to help. And since we have huge resources, we don't have to extract every last drop of performance from the hardware.

So, I don't think the life of average programmer in 70s,80s,90s,2000 was easier than now.

It only seems easy if we have to resolve problems from 40 years ago using the knowledge, tools and the hardware we have now.
Honestly, what struck me most is how passive this whole process is. I always pictured microplastics coming from wear-and-tear or active grinding, but the idea that plastic can just sit there and quietly shed nano-shrapnel over time is pretty unsettling.
Teacher can’t afford to live next door because a retired couple that bought for 2 times their salary in 1975 live in a million pound house. They instead rent an hour away and already pay a tax for land use, just they pay it to the land owner.
Law does not work like engineering does. Lawyers, judges and juries understand the intent of the law, and are not bound like we software engineers are to the exact commands in front of them.

You could try to convince a jury of this argument, sure. Do you think it will work? And if you do go with that argument then are you actually convincing the jury of your guilty conscience- often an important part of a white collar crime where state of mind of the defendant is very important?
Asbestos is chemically inert. Yet it causes lung cancer. Why?

The answer is simply that it continually damages the cells in the lung due to it's needle like structure.

I assume (but critically don't have proof) that if we find a cancer link to plastics it will be due to a similar sort of structural interaction. I don't think the specific type of plastic matters, though I'm sure some will be worse than others.
Asimov is probably my least favorite major science fiction author (that I've read a significant number of works from).

Something about his worldview always seemed off to me, although I didn't know he actually seriously held such utopian convictions about AI. It explains an awful lot of the way his stories are.
Vercel CEO shades Cloudflare's Enterprise tactics
With CF's main selling point of "free CDN requests & egress pricing", it is charging Enterprise customers PER requests and bandwidth based on an order form from an incoming customer.
Isreal didn't steal land in Gaze, they withdrew. Again, if Gaza didn't attack Israel, it would look a lot different today. That makes the genocide accusation even more off base. Perhaps you noticed that you repositioned the argument.

Also, the same can be said about Israelis. If Palestine stopped firing rockets at them, there would be less incidents. Although in that case it would probably be true.

If you want to have factual indications for the ambitions for war or genocide, look at the school curriculum in both countries.
After some levels I could just press sonic wave 3 times and win without even doing the clicking. Had enough money to replenish.
After winning level 29 nothing more happened.
Yeah, like Biden open-border policy to let in millions of illegals that received SSN based on an App Login, without any vetting, sure is what USA needs.
Ah, I See You're a Man of Culture As Well
I don't think this is true. Knowing something well and being able to explain it in simple terms are unrelated skills. Plenty of people who know their domain super well just can't explain to lay person.
Yes, they mention a few times the concern that students are offloading critical thinking rather than using the tool for learning.
False equivalency and you know it.
As I recall tillering is more about the shaping of the bow to achieve an optimal bend and force delivery on release.

It's an iterative process of bending and shaping, bending again, and wood removal in stages.
Firefox also has a built-in "broken website" reporter in the Help menu, which sends a report to Mozilla. The WebCompat team analyzes those reports and can decide to report a Gecko bug if it has a bug, contact the website if they have a bug, or apply a sitepatch. We're also monitoring the broken website reports for regressions from this change in particular.

I understand that a rollout makes reproduction harder, and not everyone will be aware of the change. It's a tradeoff when deciding whether to do a rollout or ride the trains normally.
Little's law comes up in the beautiful book 'Programming Pearls' by Jon Bentley in 'Back of the Envelope' calculations:

- `Little’s Law`: The average number of objects in a queue is the product of the entry rate and the average holding time
- Response-time formula for a multi-user system:
- Assume n users of average think time z are connected to an arbitrary system with response time r.
- Each user cycles between thinking and waiting-for-response, so the total number of jobs in the meta-system (consisting of users and the computer system) is fixed at n.
- If you cut the path from the system's output to the users, you see a meta-system with average load n, average response time z + r, and throughput x (measured in jobs per time unit).
- Little’s Law says n = x × (z + r), and solving for r gives r = n/x – z.
I started playing with Gemini 2.0 Pro and 2.5 is another level. It's my goto for coding over Cursor. I just wish they put more effort into the VSCode plugin/agent.
Lectures on the Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics
Plastic isn't just in packaging - it's in clothes, electronics, medicine, insulation, infrastructure. Undoing that won't be as simple as just "going back," but you're right - we do need to seriously rethink what's necessary vs. what's just easy
Can they do it to Nokia E-series? They say the encryption here is rather strong.
You might not need the hosts file hack if your DNS supports *.localhost as a wildcard. I think most GNU/Linux distros (in particular the systemd ones) and Mac OS do. You can test it by seeing if `host test.localhost` already resolves to 127.0.0.1 (or ::1).

If you are using other systems then you can set this up fairly easily in your network DNS resolver. If you use dnsmasq (used by pihole) then the following config works:

address=/localhost/127.0.0.1
address=/localhost/::1

There are similar configs for unbound or whatever you use.

I have a ready to go docker-compose setup using Traefik here: https://github.com/georgek/traefik-local

Rather than do all this manually each time and worry about port numbers you just add labels to docker containers. No ports, just names (at least for http stuff).
I recently set up a "busy" indicator using Home Assistant (HA) and the Home Assistant Companion app for macOS. The desktop app exposes various MacBook sensors to HA, which can then trigger automations.

When my microphone activates, it triggers an automation that powers a socket. A red LED lamp lights up, signaling to everyone that I’m on a call or recording a video.

(1) https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/releases
I’m American, but currently in one of those European places with delightfully narrow roads. In my opinion, it’s more dangerous because people drive just as fast, with less margin for error. Having experienced both, I think “narrow roads are safer” is an anti-car meme from people who wouldn’t mind if driving was as miserable as possible.
Show HN: MCP Server for Search over Academic Researches, Telegram and Reddit
Here is a a MCP server for accessing Space Frontiers API - my own search engine for search over full texts of academic researches, books, channel posts in Telegram and posts on Reddit.
> We've handed way too much control over to the web developers.

We lost this battle by 1999. And again when we started to deliver full web applications instead of documents.

I wish we had a second protocol that was more document and information focused. Something that gave zero control over programming or layout to providers.

I just want to exchange information P2P in a dense swarm approximating modern social media. I want to use my own client configured how I like it to choose what to ingest and how to flag it and present it.
Even Microsoft managed to figure that out and if Teams or Outlook get new look, there is an option to use it or switch back to the old one.
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> As I understand it, aluminum cans require a plastic lining. How is that one solved?

You use glass.

The plastic is primarily used for acidic foods like tomatoes. Non-acidic goods will do just fine with no liner.