skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could even see Gemini 2.5 googling the right things and "thinking" about Gerald Ratner before it abruptly censored itself at the last moment.
.so .sh TLD for startups – pros and cons?
Almost every tld is unavailable and I increasingly see more and more .so and .sh - but wondering if they are market as spam or neglected by prospects more.
Many other places just... upgraded the trams.

You know, the less radical solution.
That stance alone will keep me far away from it.
SQL Plan Baseline, SQL Patch, SQL Profile: Differences and Use Cases
Ever wondered What happens when a SQL statement has conflicting hint directives from SQL Profile, SQL Plan Baseline, and SQL Patch?

In my test case, All three whispers different things to optimizer. What will optimizer do?

I answer this and walk you through how to effectively use all three methods.
This is not hard. In what contexts do Jews come up in your circle of friends?
Crash test ratings.
public escalators and moving walkways are a concept for cities from a century ago that we largely missed out on.
this is a good idea, as it allows those who aren't the "great orators of their time" some space to breath and think. Not everyone is a fast on their feet debater. Lots of quieter people have great ideas, but don't speak up because they don't have the best debate skills, but are great with making a bullet list of facts and data to back up their side, but are nervous in confrontations during a meeting.
Shocker, both disabled people and families are easily identifiable and can be exempt from such measures.
Similar journey in book form: Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come. Introvert Jessica Pan spends a year being an extrovert.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/sorry-i-m-late-i-didn-t-want-to...
They have other problems that are higher priority apparently:
"A 22-year-old Palestinian man was tortured and killed by Hamas militants after he criticized the group publicly and participated in rare anti-Hamas protests in Gaza, his family said.

Uday Rabie was taken last week by dozens of armed fighters with Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, his brother Hassan Rabie told CNN on Tuesday." - https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/middleeast/uday-rabie-palesti...

And by the way, while they do have uniform, they don't wear them when they fight. Only for celebrations like their marching of civilian hostages. Gaza also has a higher proportion of structures used for military purposes (like all of them?) then Germany in WW2. There have been cities in Germany during WW-II that have been completely destroyed - we can pick that as a comparison. Picking entire Germany vs a tiny area is not reasonable.
can you guys offer an introduction to what the library does to someone who isn't in academia?
E-mail the author spatel@powermag.com [1].

[1] https://www.powermag.com/contact-us/
In Paris, 90% of the metro transportation system isn't accessible to wheelchairs and strollers. Buses are overcrowded and slow. Who doesn't enjoy to see someone cough on their newborn while fighting for a space for their stoller ?
With so many post-apocaliptic sci-fis set in US (including B movies), I can't recall a single one that starts with pump and dump. It's usually pandemics.

Yet here we are. Print prepper and gardening ebooks while you can, stay safe!
> it's the people who can't afford to live in the city who need them to get there.

What are you talking about. Paris's public transport reaches out 60km away from the city, and that's not including mainline trains (including high speed). The people who can't afford to live in the city have taken public transport to get there for 50 years.
I think you all do wrong; you should focus on focused LLMs like JetBrains does. I'm pretty sure you haven't checked the Junie yet, but it is soo promising.
Yes but sales of diesel passenger cars are falling fast, so this will change in a few years.

https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/
Maybe most of them are good, rational developers and were chosen for that reason.
Security Lessons from the Rust Crates.io Incident
I don’t know too much about about the TS ecosystem but do these new systems you talk about do it via a “Smart Constructor”? That is the pattern I typically use to solve this problem in Haskell and Rust code.
Can you expand on how you reason it would be easier?
The first "urban city" predates the car by about 5000 years.
>> Some 60% of the claims weren’t reimbursed at all.

>The article gives examples of very normal billing errors that were used as the pretext for this.

Are you talking about this blurb?

"Blue Cross did not accuse the center of any intentional miscoding — but the sloppy billing led to additional scrutiny, the company’s witnesses said. "

I'm not sure what the alternative is. Are they supposed to pay even though the are errors? Are they saying, "you only have one chance to file a claim, and there's a typo in it so we won't reimburse you a dime?". It's not clear from the article why exactly they're denying the claim, aside from maybe the place being overpriced.
Dutch people seem to do just fine with baby seats on their bikes, or bakfiets if you have lots of kids.

Anecdotally, kids are also much happier when they can just bike to school/sports/activities with their friends instead of having their parents drive then everywhere on the back of the family SUV.
In the USA, the working poor generally don't work downtown, and it's really the industrial areas where there is awful transit service. So cheapo used cars are a must for these folks.

There is some awful HN bias here where young healthy well-paid tech workers live in some boogie part of SF/NYC/Boston/etc and enjoy the "car-free lifestyle" (and I've been there), without any idea how the other half lives.
> do you think GCC’s m68k backend (to pick an arbitrary one) has been as battle-tested as their AArch64 one

m68k might be a bad example to pick. I was using gcc to target m68k on netbsd in the mid 1990s. It's very battle tested.

Also, don't forget that m68k used to be in all of the macs that Apple sold at one point before they switched to powerpc (before switching to x86 and the current arm chips). You could use gcc (with mpw's libs and headers) on pre-osx (e.g. system 7) m68k macs.
Kmart lied to me, so I hacked their lamp
Isn’t that Baudrillard?
In the 90s at least when people tried to make money by bundling and selling existing free open source software, you got a CD-ROM out of the deal.
People who care about the externalities of unnecessarily large and heavy vehicles do complain about compact utility vehicles, aka “I want to sit higher up”.

A model Y would be the comparison to a CRV (model Y is 400 pounds / 10% heavier).
It's a web service that can be used on any device without installation. Think in terms of usability for old, non-technical folks.
Show HN: Fibonacci Forever
I used Anthropic Claude to write the bulk of this as a fun weekend project. Really meant to be used on mobile, but works on desktop as well.

https://github.com/LowRezSkyline/fibonacciforever
Late response but as of this moment I see all comments with a "7 days ago" stamp. Not sure what you were seeing, but anyhow, thanks for your contributions to the thread.
Only electric vehicules are allowed inside the ZFE.
That is a statement that really needs citation and qualification to back it up. I'd argue that 'cheaper' is used in a vacuum here. By that I mean that the point of mass transit isn't how much it costs, but how much value it provides. By that measure the bus services that replaced streetcars and other mass transit really doesn't stack up. Busses have led to much lower ridership which has led to a massive amount of bad secondary effects. Looking at how congestion pricing in NYC has increased mass transit use AND economic activity it is pretty clear that 'cheaper' has led to secondary effects that far outweigh any narrow operational gains from switching to busses.
Pirated games, cheating/botting in multiplayer rooms, etc.
Microsoft has a history of trying to avoid breaking older software with new Windows releases. To do that, they definitely do need account for how people are actually coding things in their software rather than just what they've documented as the way to do things.

The string check makes a lot of sense when you consider software written in languages like Java or Python rather than something that's coded directly against the OS APIs. In those cases you would get strings back with the OS name which of course is going to lead to many people just doing taking the simplest route of string matching.
> I think this misses the 'fuck it, I'm going out like a grenade' aspect.

I think this is very separate from the disturbingly popular trend to advocate for violence as a solution.
> did Palantir get the deal because of the close connections with

A self-established hallmark of this administration is to draw lines that define allies and enemies, to favor the former and harm the latter.

Rewarding allies with highly privileged and unprecedented access to US Gov assets - that is how this admin delivers what it advertised.
This is really beautifully designed
But the brakes experience less work, and so there is less combined brake and tire dust for distance traveled.
I mostly prefer the Elixir syntax. But I don’t care for all of the “ends”. Wish they had taken more inspiration from Python in that department.
Back on New Years Eve 2016 I wanted to see once in my life one of these leap second which got inserted every few years. Emerald Time was the only clock app I found which displayed the deciseconds: https://imgur.com/a/r1d6OkW

(00:59, because of UTC+1)
More degrees of freedom, easier collision avoidance. The mechanical part is a lot harder, of course, but the "self driving" part is a lot easier. We had autopilot and auto-land in planes well before we had anything of the sort in cars.
Not really. the definition of what the 'next' stream is could easily change depending on what the last button you pressed, with the assumption that you would continue pressing that button:

* up - next stream is one more channel up
* down - next stream is one more channel down
* last/prev - next stream is the previous channel.
Maybe even some sort of pedal-powered contraption. Perhaps we could even build lanes for these bi-cycles instead of 22 lane highways.
I'm saying no hallucination will be happening.

The LLM will happily write code that permits network access, because it read online an example that did that. And, unless you know better, you won't know to manually turn that off.

Sandboxed WebComponents does not solve anything if your LLM thinks it is helping when it lets the drawbridge down for the orcs.
You’re having existential dread over pure science fiction written by people who have something to gain from LLM companies becoming profitable?

You have it right. Just ignore the grifters. These companies are burning billions and are realizing they don’t have an exit strategy so they’re becoming desperate.

Just ignore the grifters.
> A lot of Nix-based package builds will burn Nix store paths directly into the binary

I didn't know that, sounds like a bug. Maybe something can be done to make it easier to know that this is the case for your build.

I'd still think that by refusing to build things with unspecified inputs, nix prunes a whole category of problems away which then don't bite the distro maintainers, but maybe that's wishful thinking.

I'll continue to use it because it's nice to come to a project I haven't worked on in a few years and not have to think about whether it's going to now work on this machine or figure out what the underlying language-specific commands are--but if there were ways to tweak things so that others have this feeling also, I'd like to know them.
I get the following error message with Opera on Android: 406 Not Acceptable. Your browser is not supported. Please upgrade your browser to continue.
> The DNC today is like Kerensky in 1917.

Or the Weimar Republic in 1932, say. Apparently its economy was in shambles. But that gives me no sympathy for those that installed its successor.
Good point. And, surely a naughty LLM will get hacked and say "Hey, you've heard about this great thing called linting. Let me configure the newest and bestest one for you, it's called Rm-RF-Star..."
The suffrage movement in the UK also had a militant component:

> The tactics of the [Women’s Social and Political Union] included shouting down speakers, hunger strikes, stone-throwing, window-smashing, and arson of unoccupied churches and country houses. In Belfast, when in 1914 the Ulster Unionist Council appeared to renege on an earlier commitment to women's suffrage,[27] the WSPU's Dorothy Evans (a friend of the Pankhursts) declared an end to "the truce we have held in Ulster." In the months that followed WSPU militants (including Elizabeth Bell, the first woman in Ireland to qualify as a doctor and gynaecologist) were implicated in a series of arson attacks on Unionist-owned buildings and on male recreational and sports facilities.

This influenced the US suffrage movement, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_Unit... , even during WWI: "groups like the National Woman's Party that continued militant protests during wartime were criticized by other suffrage groups and the public, who viewed it as unpatriotic."
Wealth is not zero sum though. LeBron James being great at basketball doesn't make you any worse at basketball. Jeff Bezos starting a company in his garage selling books online that became one of the biggest in the world worth many billions doesn't make me any poorer. Financial transactions are win-win. That is why there is a mutual thank you when making a purchase. The cafe owner would rather have my 2$ instead of coffee in their pot. I would rather have coffee in my cup instead of 2$. If neither of us thought we would not be better off the transaction would not happen
A serious problem with teaching is that the quality of the job is lower the better you are as a teacher. Good teachers spend a tremendous amount of time outside of school hours on grading and preparation. They also have effectively lower pay as they’re buying classroom supplies with their own money. But if you don’t care much about teaching and just do what it takes to keep the job, you can skip most of that.
Poor taxes are not a great solution with respect to equality.
If it's crypto it's not money laundering
sure i would argue that Erlang isn't really actor model, because the error handling was the first priority and that is what drove them to build processes with message passing as the primitive -- so it just happened to look like actor model.
I wish to see the safety test of what happens when a blade breaks off and hits the passenger bay.
You don't even have to go to a different class. A Model 3 weighs about as much as a BMW 3 series and both weigh slightly less than the average new car.
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Buses are perfectly accessible in Paris. They are crowded but acceptably so for a city of 10 millions. It’s not fair to expect the collectivity to accept the externalities of cars so rich people can avoid some slight discomfort.
Well, they aren't exempt. Many French greens will tell you anyway that having children is bad for the planet and that you should abstain. And, as our population grows older, the accessibility problem will be larger and larger.
In my mind the printer counts as a tool so it's a different category. Also you could always do the same by hand with a mask. The feature size might be a bit larger though.

As to doing it all "from sand". You can! At least sort of. It's always a question of how far down the stack you want to take it. After all you probably need to source rare earths from somewhere that isn't your backyard.

Check out pictures of the old processes before automated VLSI. It was all done by hand including crystalizing the silicon. You'll need a clean room and a bunch of weird supplies though.
Aluminum isn’t a component, but you would pay a tariff on importing it to build with it.
What's interesting is that the price of electricity in the EU makes EVs not competitive on that basis.
Seems like the difference between a profitable investment and a profitable company.

They invested tens of billions of dollars in destroying the competition to be able to recently gain a return on that investment. One could either write off that previous spending or calculate it into the totality of "Uber". I don't know how Silicon Valley economics works but, presumably, a lot of that previous spending is now in the form of debt which must be serviced out of the current profits. Not that I'm stating that taking on debt is wrong or anything.
Establishing a new bus service in an area where public transportation had not existed must be indeed much cheaper.

However it is impossible for the operational and maintenance costs for a bus service and for the roads on which the buses go to be cheaper than for an electric streetcar, unless some prices are fake.

It is true that I have seen enough cases where electric streetcars have been replaced by buses, but I cannot see other explanation except bribes, because it was extremely visible that the buses were more expensive, both because of the fuel consumption and because of the much more frequent repairs both for the buses and for the roads.
Elections are, in many if not most states, run electronically.

I don't know about you, but I certainly don't trust all the companies that make the voting machines. For instance, does Musk own stock in some of them? Do their owners vote Trump?
Even tho it's 8y old, Sarah Drasner's famous "SVG Can Do That?" talk is still eye-opening for many. CSS has matured a ton since then (I'm less sure about SVG per se)... in any case it's HIGHLY recommended.

Slides: https://slides.com/sdrasner/svg-can-do-that

Video:
https://youtu.be/ADXX4fmWHbo?si=6YPZkopyEDc8PSte
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Seems like it hits limits really fast — management/legibility gets difficult without groups and layers and performance doesn’t seem to scale well.
As an ex-Googler I say: blessing in disguise. When working at a $MEGACORP it's easy to think there's barren wasteland out there beyond the walls, so it's scary. But that is very much not so. I get that opportunities to work on browsers are relatively few and far between, but if you can do something else, try working for a smaller company which treats you more like a human being, and less like a replaceable cog.

Not much of a consolation, I'm sure. I've never been laid off, so I can only hypothesize what that'd feel like, but know this: this too shall pass.
I understand a large amount of car pollution these days is due to the tires.
Doesn't that balance out in the end though?
People in Detroit go from working at an automobile factory to working as a service worker at a local restaurant or retail store and their incomes go down massively, meaning all they can afford to buy is cheap crap from China sold at their local dollar store or discount retailer. They would rather have the old purchasing power and old retail options, especially since inflation has eroded a lot of those low prices.
I’m sure sock puppets and voting rings play a role, but “this link was interesting to a bunch of people on sites with some overlap in interests and demographics” seems a simpler and better explanation.
Yup, sounds like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
Surprising, considering the NYC subway has been ignoring the ADA as much as possible.
I looked at their plans a few years back and it was very clear that they had 3 payment options: Monthly, Annual, and Annual billed Monthly. Of course if you get the third option, getting out of the contract is going to cost you. Otherwise what would ever be the point of choosing the Monthly plan when both Annual options have a discount for going with a longer subscription period?
I think we need to also consider that "conventional economic thinking" got us into this mess (de-industrialized, vulnerable economy, hollowed out working/middle class, enormous debt/deficit).
There never seems to be any accountability for this though. I suspect it's because a particular section of society has done very well from the status quo.
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While bicycles are quite convenient for commuting, I am not sure if there is a way for transporting groceries for an entire week for multiple people. Is there such a way? The only solution I see is doing groceries every day.
Sure. But at the cost of the time that I currently use to do other things.

Are you moving the argument from conflating budget and trade deficits to saying the United States’ multi-century economic focus on consumer spending is a mistake, and we need to shift to a savings-focused economy like China used to be? I also think that’s wrong, but it has nothing at all to do with the federal government’s budget deficit.

Or are you under the mistaken impression that trade income is the only income the country has?

This is all very confused and nonsensical.
> But it only selects for corrupt politicians if the main motivation is to make money.

Everyone has some motivation for money. So this introduces bias towards the corrupt at any level. That’s especially true for a pay level that really is not enough for the expenses the job requires.

You seem to be assuming that being in it for the money implies corruption. I don’t think that’s even remotely true. There are plenty of honest people who value high pay. As it currently stands, Congress attracts dishonest people who are in it for the money because there are plentiful opportunities to make money dishonestly in that job. It doesn’t attract honest people who are in it for the money, because the honest pay sucks. If you pay them really well then that second category will compete for positions. It won’t be corrupt people versus true believers, it’ll be corrupt people versus true believers and honest people who want a well paid job. This would be far better than what we have now.
Why is there a “small house” in IBM's Code page 437?
> Auto as it is now has been in C++ since C++11, thats more than a decade ago...

> anyone teaching or using C++ in 2025 should have an understanding of how to to program well in a 14 year old version of said language...

If the current year is 2025 then 14 years ago is 2011 which is not that long ago.

> If your argument was C then sure thats a C23 feature (well the type inference type of auto ) and is reasonably new.

Grandparent comment is arguing that Linux was written in C89 until a few days ago so decades old books on C aren't actually outdated.
Trains are expensive upfront, which might favor buses when expanding into new areas. But if the infrastructure is already there, a train line will always be more economical in the long run than the equivalent bus line.

So ripping out existing serviceable train tracks is stupid (or alternatively: evil) if you think in the long term.
It's not "jealousy"... I've lived in a city where having a car was virtually mandatory, and I've lived in a city where you could safely bike everywhere. There's NO QUESTION which one I prefer.

Even my most reactionary and car-loving extended family members had this opinion when they visited :)
A lot of economic activity requires cars. Delivery, workers coming with equipment, waste management, and so on. Every construction worker in Paris will tell you that it's very difficult to work there, and that they have doubled their prices as a result.
This worldview kind of unfairly discredits the beauracrats who aren't awful, which seem to outnumber the grifters? From the perspective of say DOGE, there is plenty of reason not to fire the former out of zeal for chasing the latter.
> Logging is one of those things where you wonder if the juice is worth the squeeze

Yeah, because it's often not just for debugging purposes. Often you want to trace the call and its transformations through the system and systems. Including externally provided parameters like correlation ids.

Carrying the entire world with you is bulky and heavy :)