skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The good things (and the promises of more) are what make them compelling for a while. Fascism is appealing because top-down directives from an absolute leader can work… for a bit.

Eventually you run out of the low hanging fruit that can be messed with by executive fiat, and then you have to find enemies to blame.
> Google is just really bad at this, but seems to think it's not bad at this.

That is a very charitable way to look at it, when I worked their I started from that point as well. "Hey, this thing you just did, you did it really badly, can we workshop some ways to not do this so badly in the future?"

And yet, again and again they would do something similar again and still do it badly. As the examples piled up, I was able to have more pointed and more direct conversations with the executives tasked with doing these things. After a year or so, the evidence was pretty conclusive, it was neither that they didn't think they were bad at it, they didn't care.

There have been a lot of conversations on HN about how "managing" at Google was warped by the fact that their search advertising business was a freaking printing press for money. So much that billions of cash was generated every quarter that they just put into the bank because they didn't have anything to spend it on. There have been lots of discussions about how that twists evaluations etc.

What has been less discussed is that tens of thousands of people applied every week to work for Google. It is trivial for a manager to 'add staff' just pull them out of the candidate pipeline of people who have accepted offers. Tell HR^h^h People Operations to keep "n" candidates in the pipeline to support 'attritional effects' of management decisions. And blam! you get new employees with a lower salary than the ones you lose to attrition. It was always better to fill an open slot with a newer, cheaper, employee than to transfer one whose job/project/group had just been deleted. Always. Management explicitly pushed hard on the messaging of putting everything in the wiki because it was helpful that firing someone didn't lose any institutional knowledge because that knowledge was already online in the wiki.

As a result, it was ingrained in the management culture that "you can always replace people so don't feel bad about firing them" and "incremental revenue improvement or incremental cost reductions are not promotable events."

Google leadership spends money to create illusions for their employees to maximize their work effort, much like a dairy spends money to keep their cows milk production up. And like the dairy, they don't get too attached to any one cow, after all there are always more cows.

Argyle, the author, had their belief system completely invalidated. That is traumatic, always will be. Google's leadership doesn't care, Google's belief system is that there is already someone in the 'hired' pipeline who costs less than can do any of the things Argyle might do, or has done, and they are cheaper. So yeah, don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Don't US constitutional rights also apply to non-citizens on US soil?
Reminds me of the venerable Dril:

issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, 'gotta hand it to them.'
The point of no return was January 6th 2021!

Once Americans pardoned an attempt by the sitting president to overthrow US democracy the game's over.

America desperately needs a huge revision to the powers conceded to individuals and should instead mature to a slower, maybe less effective at times, but stronger democracy that nurtures parliamentary debate and discourse.
Popularity isn't a measure of quality. Never has been and certainly not in the case of programming languages.
Why do you consider it alarmist? Trump has repeatedly said he would do it, and that he's "not joking" about it.
Are you sure it really limits the RAM?
You’re still using the same kernel, and if a process is using more memory than another one I would expect the kernel to keep more of its memory page in RAM than the other.

What was your strategy to measure that?
What does the Federal Gov need Harvard for? Harvard gets 16% of its funding from them - what outweighs that on the aide of the Federal government?
Same, having descended from Holocaust survivors, what is happening in the U.S. and Palestine right now is chilling to me in its similarity.
> $9 billion dollars from the federal government to Harvard equates to nearly $30 per American…

Now do what it gets them.
Smells awfully like Putin's trumped up (ayy) play in Ukraine to "de-nazify".
Apologies. Did by no means try to mean it as a compliment to the Nazis - I just intended it as a comparison to help explain the justification at the time.
I have had to listen to people like you for almost 10 years talk about things Trump said that were never going to happen. At what point do you just accept the evidence of your eyes and ears?
Great example of simple engineering: one SQLite table, no fancy stacks or over-engineered solutions. I appreciate the focus on practical, immediate utility over chasing theoretical perfection. This is a refreshing reminder that building for actual use cases yields better results than architectural purity.
None of the rest of the stuff happening was going to happen either, I’m sure.

Legal residents are being kidnapped and disappeared into foreign gulags but let’s turn down the temperature, right?
> ultimately to solve problems for users and/or other stakeholders

Doesn't this describe every job on Earth?
Britain tried voting themselves out from under the influence of a politician in Brussels that nobody in Britain voted for, but found that removing that influence was a lot easier said then done.
Java Jar File Viewer
The number of times I've read people say "That's alarmist and will never happen", just to see that exact thing happen, is a lot.
Google has the best model right now and, crucially, a profitable business to float it. I don't see how OpenAI possibly outlasts them at this.
He still controls the congress, the white house and the supreme court. So he could potentially pull a completely illegal fast one and freeze their accounts. Since rule of law seems on fairly shaky ground right now in any case.
> If Google is firing one of the most successful and active web developer relations people they have, it suggests a strategic downgrade of the Chrome, the web, and engagement in human developers.

A layoff is not firing. If Google is doing layoffs, they'll intentionally choose good performers so they can demonstrate it was done for purely economic reasons. Otherwise they get legal issues.

Besides that, Google may not trust its own performance metrics well enough to use them. The VP might assume the director is lying about who's important etc.
After L.A. Fires, Edison Wants to Bury Power Lines in Altadena and Malibu
Shame and Revolution: Vietnam’s potent and storied anticolonialism
People keep saying this about everything the admin does before they do it. Pretending it won't happen won't stop it happening.

The real question is, who is left to stop it? The man is saying he's not joking about it. It's in line with his previous actions. They have actively refused to comply with court orders. They actively tried to reject the results of an election.

Why is it alarmist to say they may do the thing they want to do, and can do?
Those were not conceptual passes, but actual standalone programs executed in that order, to compile a C program. Each program operated within 64KB RAM, shared with the OS and all the drivers.
1% add up if we can do it worldwide on a regular basis. (likely yearly, but you need the proper forester for each forest)
https://archive.ph/q2Vj2
> Once Americans pardoned an attempt by the sitting president to overthrow US democracy it's over already

By this logic it was “over already” at the end of the Civil War. Suspending habeus corpus, ignoring the courts and then meeting with public indifference will be the point of no return. Trump’s third term would just be the canary passing out.
My secret wish is that once they decode the language, they hear the dolphin say to themselves: look, it's again those idiot humans trying to bother us, why can't they just live happily like we do?

And then the world will suddenly understand...
Steve Bannon went on Bill Maher recently saying they are working on finding a way to make it happen. He was not joking. When challenged, Bannon's response was that Trump was already flooding the courts with cases.
I'm wondering what makes you feel confident about the use of linked lists in all of those components.

Mind you, most of those will be written in C on a typical Linux installation, and linked lists happen to be one of the two collection types that are relatively easy to use in C (the other being a flat array), so I will concede that some software is using linked lists out of desperation, rather than it being the correct choice. :-)
An Introduction to Reverse Engineering (2019)
I suspect Dolphins can tell people apart and will recognize you as not the guy that threw the bottle cap akin to all those stories about crows.

Certainly will be interesting to see how much we can bribe Dolphins to do once we have faster communication methods.
Aqua Tofana: The 17th Century Husband Killer
Giving Summary Generation Some Agency
SocketCluster's approach to horizontal scaling with pub/sub channels and rooms is elegant. The support for both HTTP and WebSockets through the same port simplifies deployment, and the circuit breaker pattern is a smart choice for resilience. Impressive that it's maintained for 10+ years.
> he could potentially pull a completely illegal fast one and freeze their accounts

Harvard (and most institutions and powerful individuals) would be smart to maintain liquid assets and a bank account outside America’s control.
MAGA loves to say how universities screw over poor hard-working Asian students, and then they turn around and defund universities and fire researchers. Their pity on Asians is not sincere, because they detest higher education in the first place.

And I'm saying this as an Asian father whose kid is going to a US college this year.
Nowadays, it seems to be a buzzword to confuse people.

We IT folk should find another word for disorder that increases over time, specially when that disorder has human factors (number of contributors, number of users, etc). It clearly cannot be treated in the same way as in chemistry.
> Spain has never been socialist

This seems like a no true scotsman argument, Spain has been mostly governed by a socialist party since it became a democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Socialist_Workers%27_P...
> The way lisp languages are pitched here, I thought I was in for a mind opening experience

Have you used a Lisp with a connected REPL? Not the one that you have to type instructions into - the one that allows you to send any expression at point, with virtually zero ceremony to it, basically letting you evaluate any part of the program on the fly? And that REPL can be even remote - at work we use one running in a kubernetes cluster, we can change our APIs and experiment without not only redeploying things, we don't even have to save our changes. Can you imagine being able to try your code without saving, linting, linking, compiling, deploying - all that on the fly? It is truly mind-opening experience. It's so fucking nice, it's like playing a video game. I do understand why it's appealing to build actual video games that way.

Using a Lisp without structural editing tools and without a REPL is like having a Ferrari without a working engine - you'd have to pedal it to move around, it's ridiculous.
I strongly support this approach. By voicing my thoughts, including any weaknesses and unknowns, I invite others to contribute their insights. This not only helps to address gaps in my knowledge but also encourages a collaborative environment where other engineers can engage in discussion and decision-making. I believe this dynamic is a sign of a healthy workspace, where open communication and teamwork are valued.
As an aside, one of the worst aspects of the rise of LLMs, for me, has been the wholesale replacement of engineering with trial-and-error hand-waving. Try this, or maybe that, and maybe you'll see a +5% improvement. Why? Who knows.

It's just not how I like to work.
I think Whatsapp is the clearest possible case that can be made of any company? They violated the condition of not sharing user data with Facebook

Willing to listen to other opinions on other companies, but surely Whatsapp
There is no evidence Trump has dementia. That is something his detracted unfairly say as if it is true, but there is no reason to think it is.

I don't like him either, but that doesn't mean I will say unfair things about him.
given my comment got railroaded instantly, this is clearly what everyone thinks, but let's at least have that conversation rather than blindly pumping money into academia while local schools can't even afford books
Ooh, I am jealous. A close family member has been branded egregious by various acting members of the current administration. I guess I am going to need to up my game if I want to be able to hold my head high at family gatherings.
Discussed at the time:

Bootstrapping Understanding: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21724488 - Dec 2019 (10 comments)
Habeas corpus - still in effect unless you're already in El Salvador.
"virtue signalling" really is one of those words/turns of phrase that needs to be put on a high shelf.

Plenty of people genuinely dislike the concentration of economic and computing power that big tech represents. Them expressing this is not "virtue signaling", it is an authentic moral position they hold.

Plenty of people genuinely dislike the disregard for labor and intellectual property rights that anything Gen AI represents. Again, an authentic moral position.

"Virtue signaling" is for example, when a corporate entity doesn't authentically support diversity through any kind of consequential action but does make sure to sponsor the local pride event (in exchange for their logo being everywhere) and swaps their social media logos to rainbow versions.
Exactly what I don't want to happen. I don't mind sharing my github repos (they're MIT for a reason), but training AI on device content like this is exactly the kind of creepy that puts me off all the "we value your privacy, here's 1604 people we want to share your browsing habbits with" popups.

I'm glad I live in the EU, but I wonder if that's sufficient…
It didn't even do that. The Nazi economy was a debt fuelled spending spree that needed war in an attempt to sustain itself.
why couldn't it be possible to just embed Meilisearch/Tantivy/Quickwit inside Postgres as a plugin to simplify the setup?
> "The FTC's lawsuit against Meta defies reality. The evidence at trial will show what every 17-year-old in the world knows: Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp compete with Chinese-owned TikTok, YouTube, X, iMessage and many others," Meta spokesperson Chris Sgro said in a statement.

Everyone knew at the time that Facebook bought Instagram because it threatened Facebook's dominance, and hindsight shows that exactly that happened. There's a huge swath of people that dropped off FB and now use Insta, but Meta owns both. It was a great move but it was absolutely anti-competitive at the time.
Being anti-Israel should not be conflated with being antisemitic. After all, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for a reason.

Trump is using “antisemitism” as cover for the imposition of authoritarianism. This comes from Putin's playbook. Putin used denazification as an excuse for invading Ukraine.

Trump himself has espoused antisemitism from time to time, see below.

John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, reiterated his assertion that Trump said, “Hitler did some good things, too,” in a story published Tuesday in The New York Times.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-...

Donald Trump dabbles in Nazi allusions too often for it to be a coincidence.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/trump-nazi-allusions...

Trump's re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53098439

Trump’s latest flirtation with Nazi symbolism draws criticism
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4677700-trumps-latest-...

Trump campaign accused of T-shirt design with similarity to Nazi eagle
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/11/fac...

Donald Trump's 'Star of David' Tweet About Hillary Clinton Posted Weeks Earlier on Racist Feed
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-...

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” are still on the shelves but “Memorializing the Holocaust” was removed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/naval-academy...
Dei.gov now forwards to waste.gov and asks for a password
Ed Zitron is a permanent Open AI bear. Every few months he publishes a bear case.

Brad Gerstner from Altimeter capital makes a bull case, you need to listen to him as well.

Then make up your own thesis about OpenAI, LLMs and AI.
El Salvador does participate though.
Vitamin K Deficiency Affects Cognition, Neurogenesis, and Inflammation in Mice
It does. It also includes a dozen other things beyond what that one liner would do. Keep in mind, if it fits with what you're trying to test/how you're trying to develop, just doing things on http://localhost will be treated as a secure origin in most browsers these days.

There does seem to be a weird limitation that you can't enable both HTTP and HTTPS on the same port for some reason. That should be easy enough to code a fix for though.
I was somewhat disappointed to learn that there's a lot less Monty Python on Youtube than there used to be. You can still find the Cheese Shop, Dead Parrot, or Silly Walks, but about 15 years back it seemed like nearly every sketch from Flying Circus was there. Most of which were uploaded by the official Monty Python youtube channel.

Now, about 90% of them have been taken down. Which is a shame, as this is how I discovered them. Another loss for kids these days.
Show HN: I made an AI form Building Copilot like Cursor
I'm a solo indiehacker and just made Makeform AI — an AI form-building copilot that lets you build complex forms by chatting, kind of like how Cursor helps you code.

Instead of dragging and dropping fields or wrestling with logic conditions, you just tell Makeform what you need, and it generates everything:
Questions
Conditional logic
Design
Integrations (email, Slack, webhooks, etc.)

For example, say “I need a lead-gen form for B2B SaaS founders” — it’ll generate a beautiful, branded form, ready to publish or embed.

Why I built it:
I’ve always found traditional form builders slow and clunky, especially when you want to iterate fast or embed logic. I wanted a tool that feels more like talking to an assistant than fiddling with a UI.

Cool bits:

AI-assisted form creation via natural language

Works with branching logic and conditional flows

Slack + Email notifications out of the box

JSON config editor for devs who want full control

Beautiful default styles (Tally/Typeform vibes)

Would love feedback — especially on what types of forms you'd want it to generate or integrations you'd expect.

Try it out: https://www.makeform.ai

Happy to answer anything!
From the feds documents they describe the federal government as thought police:

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

Even ICE had a deleted tweet that makes it clear the thought police are active:

https://i0.wp.com/www.techdirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/0...
> any future Democratic Presidential candidate needs to make it clear that we will absolutely invade any country that holds U.S. citizens against our laws

Just vow to arrest the individuals involved in the kidnappings and maybe offer a pardon to those who non-violently oppose them.
I'm not expecting the average German to rise up against Hitler. Unfortunately.

But the average German Jew? Maybe they have more incentive to be prepared? If guns are readily available?

This isn't in the category of "to save their life, they started carrying weapons". This is in the category of collective defense - "To provide a deterrent, they started carrying weapons, just to make their abduction/murder costly". It doesn't make sense (for most) to sacrifice their lives just for their residency - getting deported is not the end of the world. But if the result is "You get thrown into a torture/slave/deathcamp and forgotten for the rest of your short life", that changes the calculus a great deal.
Wicked Features
What my stroke taught me (2017)
The government letter demands giving control back to tenured academics (from students, activists, and administrators).
I have been trying to use podman with docker containers to avoid the docker license fee, yet to no avail. Wish there was a tutorial. The docker desktop is a nice interface to interact with containers and podman did not have that last time I checked.

edit: Looks like it changed quite a lot. this looks so much nicer

edit2: I still need a tutorial. had so many errors come up. :(
It could have been water under the bridge if we simply did not re-elect him. But now we have a second term emboldened by de facto total immunity.
Wow, I grew up in Yorktown and I remember seeing a lot of tour bikers. Never thought twice about it until now, seems like it's largely a result of the TransAmerica trail. Hope you enjoyed Colonial Williamsburg + Yorktown Beach!
To solve for that you can serve WebSockets on the same port as HTTP. Most web server application's don't know how to configure that, but I know it can be done because I doing it right now in my own applications.
The tax revenues from the $1.3T company that arose from their online yearbook?

Lawyers? Doctors? Medical research? Thousands of highly educated graduates annually? 161 Nobel prize winners?
p-value of 7.9% — so very close to statistical significance.

the p-value for GPT-4.1 having a win rate of at least 49% is 4.92%, so we can say conclusively that GPT-4.1 is at least (essentially) evenly matched with Claude Sonnet 3.7, if not better.

Given that Claude Sonnet 3.7 has been generally considered to be the best (non-reasoning) model for coding, and given that GPT-4.1 is substantially cheaper ($2/million input, $8/million output vs. $3/million input, $15/million output), I think it's safe to say that this is significant news, although not a game changer
> that we can have a conversation about how much money is leaking out of our tax dollars

Of course. It's clear you didn't read the letter because Harvard addresses this specifically. The Trump admin is literally refusing to have a conversation. This is 100% politically motivated and it's obvious to anyone who is not in the Trump cult. This is particularly disgusting because their doing it under the guise of 'antisemitism', while Trump keeps friends with known white supremacists.
SocketCluster's approach to real-time communication with pub/sub, horizontal scaling and automatic recovery seems solid. Their focus on simplicity while handling complex distributed systems is impressive. I wonder how their performance compares to Socket.IO or Centrifugo in high-load production environments.