skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can replace 'Europe' with 'Canada' and everything said here will still be true.
Makes you wonder what kind of posts about Jews a local Bangladeshi group is posting... Or why.
C64 User Logs into BBS After 39 Years with His Original SX-64
The fact that it only drove a few inches, at virtually standstill speed is somehow more impressive. From the title I expected some 100mph momentarily upside down barrel roll type scenario.
WebGPU has no support for tensor cores (or their Apple Silicon equivalents). Vulkan has an Nvidia extension for it, is there any way to make MoltenVK use simdgroup_matrix instructions in compute shaders?
There is a tree-dwelling shrimp.

https://www.metafilter.com/201489/A-shrimp-that-dwells-in-tr...
Likely he means expressing any pro-Palestine sentiments. Doxxing is very common and if Ivy League deans were taken down, immigrants are likely to be deported for expressing any empathy towards the Palestinian.
It’s the perfect brewing soup for kickbacks.
I actually think Germany would be really good at digital infrastructure if they stopped being afraid of friend computer. Germany is immensely proud of its history of creating standards - there's literally a place in berlin called DIN Platz. Germany is also very proud, and rightly so, in its history of mathematical innovation.

Everything that isn't dross in the computer world is either a well designed standard, or a well designed algorithm. If the German government adopted a sensible standard for government documents, for example, and mandated that all documents must be saved in it, that would already make a huge difference.
Nice product! I'm also not a big fan of DBeaver, Beekeeper, or Adminer. However, I do use HeidiSQL, and it's been lightweight and robust for me over the last 20 years. One feature I really appreciate is the query history, which is categorized by date. Have you ever given it a try?
Do you want to follow them or not? Up to you. No one is incentivized to do anything other than post what they want and follow who they want.
The key point is that it is REPORTED crime which is down. I think that every year fewer and fewer people are reporting crime--because overwhelmingly it is futile to do so--so only report if it is required to file an insurance claim or it is a major injury.
It’s funny how I’ve literally not once heard someone who wasn’t an across-the-board asshole say this phrase
This matches 100% my experience and thoughts.

I really enjoy HTMX and it's a blessing for my small-scale reactivity web interfaces, but I can immediately tell: "Well, this is hard to organize in a way that will scale with complexity well. It works great now, but I can tell where are the limits". And when I had to add alpine.js to do client-side reactivity, it immediately was obvious that I'd love to have both sides (backend and frontent) unified.

Still need more time opportunities to roll some stuff with datastar in it, but ATM I'm convinced datastar is the way to go.

For reference, my typical "web tech stack": Rust, axum, maud, datastar, redb.
>so, per the article, they'll post a link to a PR in a tweet instead of informing media directly

I cannot see where the article says they'll post a link to a PR, in fact it seems to say they will stop doing PRs altogether.

Did I misread?
> You may also want to test your outdoor soil, because older houses near roads will accumulate lead paint in soil due to years of traffic fumes, plus lead dust from the exterior of the house.

You also want to do this if you're going to be growing anything edible in your front or back yard.
"The lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you."

> So the only correct thing to do is vote for Republicans?

How could this possibly be the conclusion to someone saying the Dems are what led us to Trump?
If the US wants to get manufacturing back, the only areas that matter are electronics and, to a lesser extent, machinery. See this chart.[1] That's an achievable goal.

Here's a useful smartphone that could become big:

- Solid state battery that will last at least 5 years.

- 5 year full warranty.

- No connectors. Inductive charging only.

- Screen as unbreakable as possible.

- Sealed unit. No holes in case. Filled with inert gas at factory.

- Totally unmaintainable.

- US $199.95.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/china/exports/united-states
Reminds me of a quote from "Yes minister" in which it says one commissioner pays a farmer a lot of money to produce and another to remove the surplus, plus a lot of paper pushing in the middle.
AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem
That was days ago! You now have to check which hour of the day an article was published.
Clip Studio Paint will no longer implement an image generator function (2022)
What Is AWS Mainframe Modernization?
Oh definitely a Mezuzah. Right down to the angling (although the Sephardic practice is to position it straight up and down).
I must have missed that memo. Sure it's remarkably flexible and simultaneously accommodates other approaches, but most of the code I see in the wild leans fairly heavily into a functional style. I posted a CL link in an adjacent comment.

Here's an example that mixes in a decent amount of procedural code that I'd consider idiomatic. https://github.com/ghollisjr/cl-ana/blob/master/hdf-table/hd...
I was there during the onavo scandal. It was straight up spyware. They would regularly show graphs of snapchat usage vs messenger vs whatsapp and the snapchat data was explicitly attributed to onovo logs.
Elon is just stacking reasons for nationalization of X on top of his growing list of reasons to nationalize SpaceX.

(Nothing to do with his political views, but moves like this or meddling in foreign affairs with Starlink after customers had purchased the devices free and clear)
> if the outline is broken, the website you're viewing uses default styles and relies on behaviour that was removed in 2022

By "outline" in this context I'm referring to the computed hierarchy of heading elements in the content. Not the styles.

What I meant is that removing the default styles is an admission of defeat, that we are giving up on the whole idea of automatically leveled headings - it's now definitely not going to be implemented by any software.
Here's a really great video detailing just how much Adobe (and Autodesk etc) hate their users.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4mdMMu-3fc
Fuck off, you condescending prick.
I'm being much more patient and polite than he deserves, listening to him, reading everything he writes, responding to it, trying to engage him and get him to speak, to hear what he has to say, and what evidence he has -- certainly not in any way trying to silence him, as he fears.

I took what he said at face value, gave him the best possible interpretation and benefit of the doubt, that he was sincerely endorsing a well respected credible research paper. What more do you ask? It's not on me that he was lying and manipulating and insincere. Maybe you should be criticizing him for not upholding the spirit of HN.

I've even upvoted him, have you?

So why don't you try to get some evidence out of him with some of your famously extreme politeness? Have a go at it. But it looks like he's ghosted us, as I predicted.

Or maybe you can try rationally explaining his position, and giving me some evidence on his behalf, if you believe him, since he doesn't seem to be able to produce any himself.

Or are you one of those irrational madmen he keeps raving about who wants to silence him? Come to think of it, I haven't heard from him in a while, and his mysterious disappearance coincides with your arrival, the two of you never having been seen in the same room together at once... Hmmm. POOF!!! What did you do??? Did you eliminate him yourself somehow??! 'Twasn't me!
If MS stripped *ALL* ads and bloatware (telemetry for calc??) out of Win 11 and restored the traditional UI of start menu + desktop, it would be fairly good overall. Certainly within their top 5. They really are close to peak yet again but cannot realize they are striving to make it worse.
They just defied a unanimous supreme court ruling

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-doj-refuses-to-comply-wi...
> how do you know that the code it just created actually does what you want it to

I believe that problem can be solved, and will be with the correct new tools.

I think a new type of "low-code" programming language will evolve tailored for domain experts that don't know coding, but understand how to guide an LLM.

The development environment should be a crossover between a project-management tool (Jira or Azure devops style) with literate programming: something that allows organising all the separate parts that compose the program in a way understandable by the human and the AI bot.

Online notebooks are a good first step in that direction, in special the "reactive" kind where the runtime logic does not depend on the order you change things in the page.
Both can be true, and what you described is, in my opinion, one of the primary causes of insane bureaucracy in Germany. This inflexible mindset is what causes the relentless enforcement of bureaucracy and procedures in Germany, there is very little leeway here in terms of bending the rules, making exceptions, turning a blind eye. This cultural inflexibility, traditionalism and risk-aversion all ties together into a paperwork and red-tape nigthmare.
The collection of the training data is the “scooping up” I mentioned. I assume you acknowledge the training data doesn’t spontaneously burst out of the aether?

As for the model, it’s still creating deterministic, derivative works based off its inputs and the only thing that makes it random is the seed so it being a database of vectors is irrelevant.
> Citizens pay attention to the number of employees, and they get mad about it. You really don't want to be the one to cause citizens to angrily call elected officials if you're in an appointed government position.

This week, after witnessing the largest insider trading infraction in US history, many citizens barely noticed. I no longer believe citizens pay attention to news. They’re conditioned to feel outrage at whatever social media tells them to.
If anyone's interested in the prompts they're using here, they're viewable via devtools.

Full dump of what was showing on my end here:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/furnivall/aa95e8d9dc330f3...
You Can't Outsource Test-Driven Development to AI
“According to internal communications reviewed by Drop Site, as recently as March, Cutler actively instructed employees of the company to search for and review content mentioning Ghassan Kanafani, an Arab novelist considered to be a pioneer of Palestinian literature.”

So this person is actively thinking about a Palestinian revolutionary that was assassinated by Mossad over half a century ago, and is using their position to push for internal censorship of him accordingly.

Imagine if a Palestinian employee at Meta suggested censoring mentions of past members of Haganah.
Since there are already submersibles and cameras that work at that depth, that cuts down the size of the problem space quite a bit.
Germany has no national idea, they have no reason why an average burger should work his/her ass off competing with Chinese/American/Indian scientists and working 80 hr/week on cutting edge research.

Germans are smart and capable, but the German lifestyle is not for "super high tech" industry
My impression is people really like frameworks because they all ultimately end up with a plugin system. Then the use of the "the framework" really just becomes "gluing a bunch of plugins together."

I've never liked where those code bases ultimately end up, which seems to be just a twisted maze of hacky solutions to make a bunch of poorly aligned code to work together.
Anyone here see the CS50 peanut butter and jelly problem in person?
I'm arguing because I have used /both/ Chrome and Firefox in parallel since the initial release of both pieces of software, including regularly benchmarking them. In the sum totality of the data I have seen, there have been many moments of back and forth where one was "better" than the other, but in the end they are roughly equivalent. When Chrome /first/ released, it had a huge performance advantage explicitly due to V8 and how heavy JS usage was on the web (which has only gotten heavier over time). After that advantage was mostly nullified by the rewrite of the JS engine in Firefox, the performance differential was around a maximum of 5-10% at any given time in one direction or another as both teams worked on improving performance.

> You don't need marketing to tell you that it's a better experience when you could run them side by side and notice that one would crash far more often than the other, and one would struggle with lots of tabs and the other wouldn't, one would render pages faster and more accurately than the other.

As mentioned, I have run them side by side daily for a decade+, including for many long stretches of times both the stable and nightly builds of both. I /still/ to this day, use both browsers every single day. I have not seen anything which would make me believe that one is more stable than the other, or that absent the performance gains on heavy JS sites (early SPAs), that one had a particular advantage in tab-count/memory footprint compared to the other.

Almost all the performance differences were deeply tied to the JS engine, and actually still are (but now wasm too).

> Again, you obviously aren't able to objectively talk about end user experience for some reason and need to be honest with yourself about that. You should load up a VM with XP or Vista and Firefox 3.0 and refamiliarize yourself with the time period you claim to have lived through.

I might do that over the weekend for kicks and grins. I assure you, I am being honest and fairly objective.

It's funny how everyone is so certain I'm wrong, but provided no evidence, other than to point out things that are based /exactly/ on the one major technical win I acknowledged in my original comment and have completely ignored the very public benchmarking efforts that have gone on the entire lifecycle of Chrome.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2025/04/11/cdc-denies-mi...

Yeah, about that.
Honestly if they taste like shrimp, I'm down. Shrimps are delicious.
And with even a little bit of imagination, it's easy to think of other possible measures of degrees of reproducibility, e.g.:

• % of deployed systems which consist only of reproducibly built packages
• % of commonly downloaded disk images (install media, live media, VM images, etc.) consist only of reproducibly built packages
• total # of reproducibly built packages available
• comparative measures of what NixOS is doing right like: of packages that are reproducibly built in some distros but not others, how many are built reproducibly in NixOS
• binary bootstrap size (smaller is better, obviously)

It's really not difficult to think of meaningful ways that reproducibility of different distros might be compared, even quantitatively.
There seems to be some laws of (human) nature about these sorts of things at work here like how all programs eventually evolve into either Microsoft Excel or an operating system (or both) or how all basic cable channels eventually end up programming Law & Order reruns.
> Democrats, well-meaning as they are, are too consumed with doing right and not with actually being in a position to do right.

I'd argue the opposite, actually. The Democratic party is obsessed with staying in power, but unwilling to have any halfway-interesting policies because they fear missing out on lobbyist bribes or losing any chance of getting the independent/undecided/centrist vote. Every time the Republicans move to the right, the Democratic party does a small step to the right as well to "compromise".

The Democratic party isn't interested in doing the right thing, and as a result the left-wing voter base turns to complete apathy or wastes their vote on independent candidates. If the US had a functioning democracy, there would've been a new left-wing party ages ago.
The main problem that I see in leadership is lack of understanding and respect for software - "I don't understand it so how hard can it be?". Seems to be especially prevalent at German car companies where, apparently, mechanical engineering is still boss. (I'd be fine with a car with very little software, but that is not what they are trying to build...)
I think there's an erroneous implicit assumption in your reasoning, namely that to be Zionist is equivalent to be Jewish, and to be anti-zionist is to be Muslim (otherwise, why would you be talking about Jew:Muslim ratios). The fact of the matter is that not every Zionist* is Jewish (in fact, the vast majority of Zionists are christian), and vice versa not every Jewish person is a Zionist (Jewish voice for peace, the ultra orthodox, etc).

But even beyond that, I think engaging in censorship to hide an ethnic cleansing is an affront to humanity.

* Here, I'm taking Zionism to mean to be in support of the way Israel has formed and continued to form in the past 77 or so years. I am aware that there are many different interpretations of Zionism (to illustrate the breadth; Noam Chomsky considered himself a Zionist), but this particular interpretation is the one that is relevant to this conversation.
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I was referring to the quote by the press secretary. "Illegally breaking the law" just has the same vibe. Meanwhile it's an intentional dodge of the question - were they convicted criminals aside from the part where they weren't legally allowed to be here?
> Fuck off, you condescending prick.

Ah, here we go. I understand why you're using a fresh throwaway for this sort of thing, of course. Can't risk being seen for no better than you have to be, eh? But this at least - and, I strongly suspect, at last - is honest.

You can't abuse me in any way you're wise or sensible enough to imagine finding, so now you'll go mistreat someone inside the span of your arm's reach, blaming me all the while for your own infantile urge to do so. I wish you every bit as much joy of it as you deserve. And I hope they know your current Hacker News handle.
Regulatory Capture?
Please point us at the land-bugs with a taste profile like shrimp / lobster / crab / other edible crustaceans enjoyed by humans.
This is 'article' is just an advertisement
This is exactly why I want to see the posts, because I don't really trust 3rd parties to accurately classify "peaceful content in support of Palestine". It's possible Facebook is wrong. It's also possible that it's filled with content that is peaceful in only the most shallow, ignorant reading possible. e.g. (paraphrasing from my facebook feed last year, on a post which was not taken down): "I'm planning a celebration on October 7th in support of my Palestinian friends, who wants to join me :)"
Both of these things can be true.
Developers are not deterministic either ;-)

What matters is if the current output after each request complies with the given specifications, and if it's possible to solve the bugs until the code converges into stability.
Will AI R&D Automation Cause a Software Intelligence Explosion?
AI companies are increasingly using AI systems to accelerate AI R&D. Today’s AI systems help researchers write code, analyze research papers, and generate training data. Future systems could be significantly more capable – potentially automating the entire AI development cycle from formulating research questions and designing experiments to implementing, testing, and refining new AI systems. We argue that such systems could trigger a runaway feedback loop in which they quickly develop more advanced AI, which itself speeds up the development of even more advanced AI, resulting in extremely fast AI progress, even without the need for additional computer chips. Empirical evidence on the rate at which AI research efforts improve AI algorithms suggests that this positive feedback loop could overcome diminishing returns to continued AI research efforts. We evaluate two additional bottlenecks to rapid progress: training AI systems from scratch takes months, and improving AI algorithms often requires computationally expensive experiments. However, we find that there are possible workarounds that could enable a runaway feedback loop nonetheless.
I recently signed up for a simple prepaid phone plan in Germany (I have lived here for 2 years already, fully registered etc). I had to go through the full KYC process, after waiting over a week for a physical SIM card to be sent by post to me. After this, I wanted an eSIM (this was my original goal but this was not possible on initial signup).

I had to contact customer support to send me one... by post. They only activate and send eSIMs by mail. This will take another week.
Exactly the same reaction as you!
Maybe it's time to rethink the visibility and permanence of HN discussions.
Plus ongoing construction of seawalls by Halliburton.
We actually have a rather recent government agency called "DigitalHub" for that, too, which has been quite successful at pushing open standards and open source. Then there's https://zendis.de/#produkte whose sole purpose is to replace non-EU closed-source software, for example by replacing Windows + Office with Linux and the custom desktop software suite https://opendesk.eu/
People watch films for the experience, for the stimulation, and to be able to relive that exact experience at any time if they need to. So all this generative nonsense is just bullshit wrapped up in shiny packaging.
A different but more powerful method of ensuring reproducibility is more rigorous compilation using formally verifiable proofs.

That’s what https://pi2.network/ does. It uses K-Framework, which is imo very underrated/deserves more attention as a long term way of solving this kind of problem.
I really dislike the Germany against America sentiment of this post. This is not how you bring arguments to the table.
Saying this a German.