skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linking to this without the fennel-lang.org main page which states the following

"Fennel is a programming language that brings together the simplicity, speed, and reach of Lua with the flexibility of a lisp syntax and macro system." is a bad idea. Not having this sentence on your justification is ill advised.

Not to detract from the language or anything I have found many programming languages justification to just not have an elevator pitch and I have a hard time understanding why this is the case. Unfortunately people's attention spans are extremely short.
Fennel is pretty nice.

I wish it had gradual typing support though or at least allowed for type annotation for static tooling. Not that dynamic typing isn't a valid choice but with more and more languages getting gradual typing support it is hard to go back.

I guess we could build something like Coalton but for Lua.
sounds similar to what Jewish dense communities have
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatzalah
I hope that amazon's been consulting with them to get some tips
Chrome and Edge contain just one single source of malicious website reports.

This addon uses multiple data sources.

As for logging: this submits URLs to various services. This is unlike Google Safe Browsing, which has a "periodically sync an offline database" setting (but will also send URLs to Google by default).
The costs of, say, xterm (or even konsole) + tty layer are still far less than the costs of the UI layer for a halfway decent IDE. It's a bit penny-wise and pound-foolish to worry about the added cost of the tty layer when the "talking directly to the display server" approach incurs so much more cost, unless you were willing to accept an unusably minimal user interface (worse than any terminal program would be).

Remember, Unix systems implemented tty support in perhaps tens of kilobytes of memory, on CPUs running at single-digit megahertz speeds. Graphical IDEs these days are often frickin' Electron apps.
To your point... My dad once told me a story he'd heard about a casino that booked the hottest TV stars of 1979 to be the headlining show at their casino. Donnie & Marie Osmond. But despite the sold-out shows, they regretted the decision because it was such a family-friendly audience that almost nobody stuck around to bet big sums of money in the casino.

The point of the story was that casinos like to make their money from big spenders losing big chunks of money. So much so that it affects decisions they make about which acts to book.
Get awka.
For the very early history of the Med—geological to 500 BC—I found the book The Making of the Middle Sea by Cyprian Broodbank to be an interesting read; ToC:

> One: A Barbarian History • Two: Provocative Places • Three: The Speciating Sea (1.8 million – 50,000 years ago) • Four: A Cold Coming We Had of It (50,000 years ago – 10,000 BC) • Five: Brave New Worlds (10,000 –5500 BC) • Six: How It Might Have Been (5500 – 3500 BC) • Seven: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (3500 – 2200 BC) • Eight: Pomp and Circumstance (2200 – 1300 BC) • Nine: From Sea to Shining Sea (1300 – 800 BC) • Ten: The End of the Beginning (800 – 500 BC) • Eleven: De Profundis

* https://thamesandhudson.com/the-making-of-the-middle-sea-978...

* https://archive.org/details/makingofmiddlese0000broo

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian_Broodbank
Show HN: Acegi.io – Get Paid for Messages Through Your Public Profile
Hi HN,

I built ACEGI.io to solve a problem I kept running into: strangers messaging me asking for my time, advice, or insight—with no context, no compensation, and no way to separate serious outreach from spam.

ACEGI.io is a public profile platform where people can contact you—but only after paying. You set your rate. You control who gets through. It works great for:
• Speakers, creators, and founders who get a lot of unsolicited messages
• Freelancers or consultants who want a filter between cold DMs and paid work
• Busy professionals who are tired of “quick questions” that turn into unpaid consulting

Key Features
• Paid first-contact messaging: You decide the price people pay to reach you.
• Profile page with links: Like Linktree, but with paid chat built in.
• Open or private chat options: Set your inbox to “open” or require payment upfront.
• Portfolio support: Show off your work and credentials on your profile.
• Referral program: Earn money by inviting others to join the platform.

You can think of it as a mix between Linktree, Calendly, and a gated inbox.

I built this solo using Spring Boot + AWS on the backend and React on the frontend. It’s still early, and I’m actively improving it. Would love your feedback on the concept, UX, and features you’d want as a potential user.

Check it out at https://acegi.io
More info at https://acegi.info

Thanks!

—
builder of ACEGI.io
Married filing jointly, tax benefits. My sibling did it.

Also, health insurance. Another thing Americans have yet to learn from Europe. In the states, sometimes you have to get married just to get health insurance. It’s kind of ridiculous.
Article shows how hard it is for academics to do genuinely neutral research that might yield insights accepted by all. She appears to think of herself as an unbiased researcher but her whole perspective is deeply biased e.g. when discussing the larger amygdala in people on the right, she takes it for granted that the left wing brain is normal and the right wing brain is abnormal, but this stance seems to be based on nothing. A right wing person can just as easily argue that their brain is normal and for people on the left it's atrophied, and they've done exactly that when this difference has been brought up in the past.

She then describes people on the right as "chilling" and "numb to injustice", and those who convert to religion as psychologically "rigid". This is based on observing that people on the right don't get emotional when shown a video that's explicitly designed to trigger people on the left.

Meanwhile the center-left (presumably where she thinks she is) is described as "creative", "flexible", "moderate" and "least likely to latch onto group identities".

All this stuff sails dangerously close to being circular reasoning. Ideological people are more mentally rigid - that can be phrased another way, as moderates are easily pushed around because they don't think hard about what they believe. Flexibility sounds less virtuous when phrased like that, but it's not a more or less valid presentation than what she's doing. All this is far from being scientific.
I tried to use an ancient Asus Chromebox as my main desktop for a while, maybe three years ago. Old dual-core celeron processor, I wanna say 8GB of memory but it might have been 4.

The only usable browsers were very-light WebKit ones, and even then, more than three tabs was no good, and heavier “webapps” weren’t an option, unusably slow. Firefox and Chrome were unusable, period, and “lightweight” options based on their engines are not very lightweight at all. It had to be WebKit.

Wild that with the early ‘00s Web I could browse far more capably on machines 1/10 that powerful.

[edit] I mean, it was a chromebox by brand but I was running Void Linux on it.
Hi guys,

I'm a remote developer who tends to forget about posture when I'm deep in work. After some back pain started creeping in, I decided to build a small fix: Posture Check, a browser-based app that reminds you at custom intervals to sit up straight.

The idea is super simple:

You set the reminder interval

A subtle alert shows up

That’s it — no signup, no downloads

It’s totally free to use. I'm not planning to monetize it (at most, I might add a donation button or minimal ads if traffic picks up).

This is a small iteration of a stand-up reminder I built two years ago as my first side project. I revisited it with a cleaner interface and a more focused use case.

You can try it here: https://posture-check.eu

Would love any feedback — especially on:

Whether it’s helpful as-is or needs more features

Suggestions for keeping it useful without bloating it

Any bugs or UX quirks you spot

Thanks!
> Say I create a logo with one of these fonts, and immediately cancel afterword. Do I get to continue using the logo? Or is my license to the font technically revoked?

From the perspective of US copyright law, a font file is an odd sort of computer program that generates shapes. The program is copyrighted, but the shapes it outputs are not.

Indeed, US copyright law explicitly states that typefaces - i.e. the shapes printed on paper, not the font program which produces them - are ineligible for copyright. This applies even to fantasy scripts; e.g. the script used in the video game Riven was refused registration on these grounds.
Tax benefits. Married, filing jointly. Happens a lot, including to people within my family.

Also, health insurance. Another thing Americans have yet to learn from Europe. In the states, sometimes you have to get married just to get health insurance. It’s kind of ridiculous.
Trump's iPhone olive branch is a significant trade war retreat
I'm not familiar with Reddit, but assume it descended into total
clownery. Hence the rules "don't comment that this place is starting
to get like Reddit" I guess.
This article addresses how the 2015 SCotUS decision affected marriage stats. The factors in play then changed how I thought about marriage.

My alignment in early 2010's was staunchly RW Christian. The 2015 changes in marriage law had me reconsider what marriage was historically. I came to some conclusions (that I mostly still agree with).

My 'tribe' attached money and other benefits to marriage. This fundamentally reframed marriage in secular ways; it diminished religions' claims on it.

We Christians had been solidly in charge of marriage and for the previous 80 years divorced had steadily climbed. I felt we should own that; we should stop blaming societal factors - because we were also part of society.

Prior to the 2015 SC decision on marriage, I was a strong proponent of civil unions. I felt CUs were a path to decoupling marriage from secular benefits (tax breaks, spousal privilege). However, hard liners held sway and they were having none of it.

After 2015 I openly hoped that gay marriages gained a better track record than 'traditional marriages'. I felt there was a lot we Christians could do to be better spouses - in ways that both partners would want to stay married. I hoped gay couples would set examples for us. This was a simplistic fantasy on my part, pure immaturity.

ftr: I presently identify as Recovering Conservative. Where I have religious leanings, they run counter to the modern right. I sometimes use more nuanced pronouns.
Since you've got the aider hack session going...

One thing I've had in the back of my brain for a few days is the idea of LLM-as-a-judge over a multi-armed bandit, testing out local models. Locally, if you aren't too fussy about how long things take, you can spend all the tokens you want. Running head-to-head comparisons is slow, but with a MAB you're not doing so for every request. Nine times out of ten it's the normal request cycle. You could imagine having new models get mixed in as and when they become available, able to take over if they're genuinely better, entirely behind the scenes. You don't need to manually evaluate them at that point.

I don't know how well that gels with aider's modes; it feels like you want to be able to specify a judge model but then have it control the other models itself. I don't know if that's better within aider itself (so it's got access to the added files to judge a candidate solution against, and can directly see the evaluation) or as an API layer between aider and the vllm/ollama/llama-server/whatever service, with the complication of needing to feed scores out of aider to stoke the MAB.

You could extend the idea to generating and comparing system prompts. That might be worthwhile but it feels more like tinkering at the edges.

Does any of that sound feasible?
BEGIN and END are still bulky, Even C got it wrong by making () mandatory instead of {}, which is something go fixed.
Only if stuck in standard Pascal, as Pascal evolution, Modula-2 had already fixed that by 1978.

Whereas by the time Turbo Pascal for Windows came to be, that was also sorted out in Object Pascal according to Borland linage.

As evolution to Modula-2, following up on Pascal evolution, Oberon had it sorted out as well in 1990.
There is no fundamental blocker to agents doing all those things. Mostly a matter of constructing the right tools and grounding, which can be fair amount of up-front work. Arming LLMs with the right tools and documentation got us this far. There’s no reason to believe that path is exhausted.
Sounds dope I made something similar recently https://x.com/petesena/status/1910556481100853515?s=46&t=LIg...
There are places in the tax code where Single != Married Filing Separately.

One pertinent example is that Washington State's capital gains tax applies after $270k per single person, per married couple filing jointly OR split in half for married filing separately. Which could be a theoretical $18.9k/year difference in taxes.
Absolutely!

Seems like the conceptual design helped with that too, reducing the activation energy needed for clear, interactive documentation. The code and the UI are both designed against the same set of consistent concepts, which naturally brings them together and, in turn, makes it so much easier to tie them from one to another. Simplest example: every interaction in the UI is a "command" and commands are reflected in elisp, so having a way to jump from an interaction to the corresponding code and documentation just makes sense. The documentation can be organized along the same conceptual lines as the code and the UI.

Emacs really is an amazing design study.
Well, can't read the article cos' there's a soccer match right now, and the head of the Spanish league, along with Telefonica, have decided that anyone behind Cloudflare and some other CDNs and hosts are guilty of pirating the TV signal. No reading this afternoon.

https://imgur.com/a/DCiE4J0
It seems like trolls really enjoy misquoting me. I never said that, perhaps one of your colleagues here said that. You claimed that a human rights agency taking donations from Qatar makes them untrustworthy, but Israeli politicians on their knees literally begging Qatar[0] to finance their biggest domestic enemy somehow makes Israelis noble.

> Also, cult, really?

Considering your arguments will boil down to: UN is wrong, all human rights groups are wrong, all health agencies are wrong, the people living in Gaza et. al. are wrong, all of the media is wrong, all of Israel's neighbours are wrong, and that the only one who is right is the hyper-corrupt genocidal Israeli cabinet, then yes it's either a lack of knowledge or being part of a cult.

[0] Look, an actual Israeli source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-chief-top-general-visit...
Software could be much, much cheaper if libraries were easier to use, and data formats and protocols were more open.

So much code I have written and worked with is either CRUD or compatibility layers for un/under-documented formats.

It's as of most of the industry are plumbers, but we are mining and fabricating the materials for the pipes, and digging trenches to and from every residence using completely different pipes and designs for every. single. connection.
Google Confirms Gmail Update Choice–3B Users Must Now Decide
Yeah, I could also see some improvements like that. But, compared to other codebases I've worked with that had the same problem (cough nixpkgs cough), it's amazing how much better the Emacs programming experience has been.
Kind of safer C++, with less foot guns
Absolutely. I agree with you.
Yeah, I saw an article about that yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43666033
When will they do the same for the water companies, and tell the shareholders who have been happy for the management to rob consumers to boost their dividends and share values to go F themselves?
It's not intelligence, it's "summarization and research"
I was looking at my prompt histories.

I think a lot of hand-wringing about AI (/ LLMs) could be mitigated if one were to call it what it really is (so far): a really good summarization and research tool. Not artificial intelligence per se.

Or at least that's what I'm calling it from now on. In my mind. To reduce the guilt induced by the hand-wringers.

Discuss.
I just did a search of all the different legal benefits, and financial benefits, you get in the United States if you’re married. It’s quite a vast list.
I really can't understand why people pay around 100k for something so ugly. Maybe just to show off that you can have one. But really looks stupid.
Just google all of the legal and financial benefits that you get in the United States when you get married.
You are correct, it's my home-grown solution.
> Broadcast TV after the digital rollout was so bad many people just stopped watching TV.

That is the first time I've heard that. Everything I've heard has been positive - people amazed that others aren't doing it. Are there any numbers on user satisfaction?

I used it myself once or twice and it worked simply with antennas that were relatively cheap (<$50 iirc). Maybe there was a problem in Minneapolis?

> The people who live close enough to the broadcasts to pick it up have easy access to cable TV.

Cable is expensive for many people and broadcast is free, of course. (Also, Broadcast is more private, for now.)
Reminds me of Avara which used MacDraw as a level editor. Very cool!
When NVidia released GPUs a generation or two ago (RTX 3000 or 4000), I remember someone on here had got the highest end model, and asking how they could rent it out for AI workloads. I'm favoriting this just so I can pull it out quickly, should I ever come across such nonsense again.
Moomins at Torrelorca: https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumit.html

Relevant pages:

https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/18.jpg

https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/19.jpg

https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/20.jpg

https://www.oocities.org/ghb17/muumi/21.jpg

"Waiter, four marijuanas" - they end up scoring LBJ pills instead as marijuana was so last season.

Note that the comic is by Lars Jansson, Tove's brother.
I prefer Janet, but Fennel is great in places Lua is already supported, like in Löve2D.

https://git.sr.ht/~benthor/absolutely-minimal-love2d-fennel
> On the plus side I live in today and dont dwell on the past. It is like a superpower for happiness.

This is true on many levels.

4:10 @ The Woman Who Could Not Forget - Jill Price

https://youtu.be/SoxsMMV538U

Perfect Memory = Perfect Inability to Forgive | House M.D.

https://youtu.be/dohQfI3u2lc
Does this have MCP support? Probably fairly easy to add an adapter as a "tool" if I tried, but had to ask anyway.
It did not appear to me like most people in this thread were talking about a modest reduction in vehicle traffic, or that they'd done any due diligence to estimate the actual effect of the restrictions. Seems like people are mostly shooting from the hip.
Amazon seems quite interested in expanding into healthcare.

- One Medical, for primary care

- Amazon Pharmacy, for prescription medication

- This first responder experiment could potentially be commercialized somehow

I think I’m fine with it so long as they don’t verify that you’re a Prime subscriber before treatment a la Cyberpunk.
Delphi and Lazarus have heritages that date back to, or are inspired by, Turbo Pascal and Object Pascal, both of which extended the language in useful ways to make it suitable for real-world use.

When we say "Pascal" today we speak of a much more ergonomic language than the Pascal of 1981.
I'm not a carhead and most of us use brands to tell if it's good or not. If unknown brand car I see once looks cute that means literally nothing without extra information.

But if I see the same unknown brand car 10x in a day and then I see it in a videogame etc. and it's expensive so many carheads spend a bunch of money on it = endorsement, it's no longer unknown brand.

Same for everything, phones, cameras, whatever. You gotta be discerning to appreciate beyond the brand and most people are not.

If I see a cute car I check what's the brand, how much it costs etc and THEN I can think "yeah I want this cool looking car". I don't think anyone would use just cute shape of a car seen once as a justification for buying it.

Fast body? That means you must be a carhead. How do I know it's a fast body? Why would I even need a fast body?
Manufacturing employment plummeted in the US after the 90s.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/manemp

Lots of people remember the 80s and 90s being better times with quality manufacturing employment without romanticizing the past. To this day multiples of the “information” sector are employed in US manufacturing.
Their point is that without concerted effort the elected officials will follow Trump as long as elections in red states align with Trump's political funding

> Congress has a duty to uphold the constitution, not to play political money games

Those political money games will filter out opposition in congress as long as Trump is able to have yes men elected into congress
I could see them putting volunteer responder lighting kits and avoiding parking tickets by doing this. I’m sure they’d never do such a thing.
Dammit, Janet! Ok, looks good. I'll need to look into it.
I do not really understand that. Why would people have to start again from zero? What sort of "forced loss of agency" happens? Are there laws allowing people to stop their spouse from running an existing business?
Thanks for the reminder that I still have more PKD to read.
No desire to fire up MLX and type in raw hex from printed source, nope. I got some nostalgia feels when I browsed CG's back catalog on archive.org, but nothing that would make me want ever to do that kind of thing again.
> I do think that its simplicity is the rejection of the idea that there are experts out there, and/or their relevance. It's not decisions based on knowledge and rejection, but of ignorance and "scoping out" of hard problems.

Ok, I'll ask the obvious question. Who are these experts and what languages have they designed?

> Another long article could be written about the clearly not thought through use of nil pointers, especially typed vs untyped nil pointers (if that's even the term) once nil pointers (poorly) interact with interfaces.

You're getting worked up about something that's hardly ever an issue in practice. I suspect that most of your criticisms are similar.
AI wasn't used to generate the clip, but to add some (hallucinated) detail and extend the background. FWIW, in pre-genAI stabilized examples from the 2000s it's also clearly a guy in a gorilla suit.
I'm assuming that by 'pipe operator' you mean the semantics, not specifically '|'. Of the programming languages I've used F# ('|>', https://camilotk.github.io/fsharp-by-example/chapters/pipe/), Elixir ('|>', https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/basics/pipe_operator), and Clojure ('->' and '->>', https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros), have pipe operators. The last two implement them as macros.
Selling compute that is on my home network using storage that resides at my house and networking that leads back to where I live to random internet people sounds like a nightmare that cannot possibly be worth the few hundred bucks a month it may earn you.

To wit, no serious business would use your services, so your market is pretty much limited to:

1.) Amateur hobbyists (very little money there)

2.) People with Bad Intentions (horrendous from a legal and security perspective, and ethics if that’s your thing)

3.) People in your social circle