skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are some actual examples of founders lying to their investors and getting away with it? I consistently see tech companies openly admit to losing insane amounts of money. OpenAI lost $5 billion last year on $3.7 billion in revenue and they're a $300 billion company????
And what happens when they can't do that because you need the latest major version with specific features?
Hetzner is not a hyperscaler.
> solved the same two puzzles for resources

I'm eager to play more, but this is something that was a worry already an hour in. The logic puzzle I did was good enough and seems like it can be generated procedurally well enough, the "math" puzzle I did wasn't. There's more than that, right?

> and some clues that I can only experiment with if the RNG deems me worthy.

And on top of that, it's hard to know if those clues actually will matter in other runs. I found a safe code in one run. If it takes three runs before the RNG decides the room with the safe will be there, will the code be randomized? I've been trying to avoid spoilers so it's hard to know what matters.
There's a good episode of 99% Invisible that discusses Prop 65, including an interview with the original author of Prop 65, David Roe: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/warning-this-podcast-...

Yes, there are a lot of problems with Prop 65, but the podcast also highlights the benefits. Slapping a Prop 65 warning on foodstuffs in particular significantly decreases sales, so it's not something you just do merely to avoid extortionate lawsuits. It incentives testing beforehand, and if you find contaminants to then reformulate. Notwithstanding the seeming ubiquity of Prop 65 warning labels in California, the salient effects are significant and largely hidden--you don't notice all the products that don't have the label, and don't because they were reformulated to avoid the label. Prop 65 was one of the most significant drivers in the US of the removal of lead and other contaminants in products. The author of the bill admits the unintended consequences have been significant, especially harassment lawsuits, but he also argues there aren't really good alternatives that could have achieved what Prop 65 has with a better cost/benefit ratio.

Having an army of private lawyers vigorously prowling for contaminants in products is a pillar of Prop 65's success. You couldn't achieve what Prop 65 has with centralized regulation, not without creating tremendous (i.e. costly in time if not money) bureaucratic hurdles to creating and selling products in the market. Prop 65 is a kind of "ask for forgiveness" model, rather than "ask for permission". The former is generally more preferable if you want to preserve market dynamism and profitability, while also minimizing the risk of regulatory capture, and lax, haphazard enforcement. Moreover, you get the escape hatch of just adding a warning label, without having to take your product off the market.

There is a centralized regulatory aspect to Prop 65--the State of California's list of contaminants--subject to typical bureaucratic and lobbying externalities. But on balance Prop 65 seems defensible, however imperfect. After listening to the podcast, which if anything leaned into Prop 65 criticism, I softened my views on Prop 65.
I hope whatever post-Trump Democratic Party that forms in the next few years will take the idea of abolishing ICE seriously. The institution has been rotten since it was founded.
That's just how it is for a lay off, in megacorp and elsewhere.

Not sure how this is HN-worthy.
Crates.io security incident: improperly stored session cookies
WordPress is so dead. Vibecoding a page using next.js and using something like sanity so they can make their own changes gets clients so much more for less than WordPress ever did.
And cases like Rumeysa Ozturk's are different. I also believe DHS should have to abide by the courts as well. Her case is also getting national and international attention and legal help.
Their actions are actively hostile to the US government and its citizens. You'll never convince me otherwise. Republicans act as if US citizens are the enemy and they want to destroy the country.

It's the only way of looking at it that makes sense. The enemies are in the gates and no one is fighting.
“A legal reality where you can only train AI on content you've licensed would be the worst for everybody bar massive companies, legacy artists included.”

Care to elaborate?

Also, saying artists only concern themselves with the legality of art used in AI because of distaste when there are legal cases where their art has been appropriated seems like a bold position to take.

It’s a practice founded on scooping everything up without care for origin or attribution and it’s not like it’s a transparent process. There are people that literally go out of their way to let artists know they’re training on their art and taunt them about it online. Is it unusual they would assume bad faith from those purporting to train their AI legally when participation up till now has either been involuntary or opt out? Rolling out AI features when your customers are artists is tone deaf at best and trolling at worst.
That's the worst part - it's not even original slop. There's so much more of it than one can ever block.

It got so bad I started reading paper books in my off time again.
It was such a better end user experience, I can't believe you're arguing otherwise. I appreciate what Mozilla does, but their history includes multiple periods of being a worse browsing experience than their competitors. 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.

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 could see someone making that mistake if they misread off of a notecard or teleprompter.

I have some sympathy though. I habitually mix up "SEO" and "CEO" (and I do one of those things as a full time job). I don't have dyslexia - it's only those 2 acronyms I constantly mix up, but only when talking out loud or thinking in my head, never when writing.
I am not sure the poster is «arguing against the idea of» (etc.). Have you read both posts in the branch?
- Eva Cassidy, “What a Wonderful World”
- Leonard Cohen, “You Want It Darker”
- Camille Saint-Saens, “Danse Macabre”
- Paul Simon, “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes”
- DubXanne, “Roxanne, Police in Dub”
I'm very much of the opinion that progressive enhancement leads to lowest common denominator and you should just do a static MPA (nothing wrong with that). Modern browsers are a combination of HTML+CSS+JS and you should just embrace that as what modern hypermedia is. We aren't fighting against the browser. If you want just links and forms, you should just do that and have less code to maintain. But in my experience that's not what most are looking for in their apps.
There has long been a push among Republicans to privatize the National Weather Service. This will merely be a step in that direction.

A few useful idiots like this guy (https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-seattle-times-cla...) are under the impression they'll come out ahead in the end, but I'm skeptical.
Things That Matter
Are you actually trying to defend the execution of prisoners?

And that's putting aside whether what you said is right or wrong (which I'm sure you'll get very different answers from each side)
Quote Investigtator has a nice piece on the "faster horse" quote

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse/
> but what do I know about government efficiency, anyway?

Absolutely more than anyone at DOGE...
Not me. I've got about two dozen emails in my spam folder, and they're all spam.

(I'm pretty sure that Google is just straight-out disposing of a lot of obvious spam. My spam folder used to be in the thousands, and there was zero realistic chance of finding anything mis-classified. I do occasionally discover things that are not technically spam, merely not interesting, and I politely mark them and unsubscribe.)
I fully expect to be disappointed but what should happen if Dems ever get back into power (and that's a definite `if`) is to immediately cut off all dealings this corrupt guy's companies. No more government agencies on twitter, no more massive government subsidies for his companies, no more special regulatory treatment, and so on. Dems being Dems, they will probably just muddle around and do absolutely nothing to address all of this insane corruption, if they even get a chance to.
I was also sad to hear about how much RNG is in the game, that is a detractor to what seems like a well put together experience otherwise. If you wanted to give something else a try, and have a PC, I made a first-person puzzle game that's (hopefully) more akin to Antichamber and the puzzle bits of Outer Wilds, called Chroma Zero. There's a demo on steam if you just want to dip your toe in. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3121470/Chroma_Zero/
Windows 10 LTSC IOT has all the bloat and spyware stripped out and will get security updates for years. It's super lean.

Will third party apps keep installing updates ? Hard to say. The adobe suite already refuses to install the latest version on any LTSC (for no reason other than they don't want to support it - it works great) so who knows.

Suspect my next OS will be Windows 12 LTSC if I can hold out long enough - every other Windows version alway seems to be experimental crap going all the way back to ME (millennium edition)
Bluesky is far whiter than Twitter. So diverse here would mean "less white."
Nothing surprising about Germany excelling at its strongest fields: creating ministries.

Accretive policy is strong there and in their Anglo-Saxon descendants.
Why AI coding agents belong in the IDE
Ask HN: Great staff+ engineer you've worked with?
Looking for input particularly from junior and senior developers (or if you were a junior/senior dev at the time).

What made the staff+ engineer so great to work with?
I find the configuration complexity clock always valuable in framing conversations like this: https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple...
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Remote: Yes (flexible, open to in-person as well or hybrid)
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, JS/TS, HTML/CSS, C++, Java, Git, AWS, C, SQL etc.
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SFAxKHldCrkbVwpkI6tZBIosjQ1OvdIq/view
Email: osman.hajiyev( at )gmail.com

Have dozens of references from coworkers if needed!
The problem with Terminator is that the plot was lifted (per Cameron's admission!) from an Outer Limits script; besides that, the significant visual was casting Arnold...which Dino DiLaurentiis might've done anyway.
"A leaked document seen by the climate website DeSmog reveals that helping to fuel this backlash was a PR firm, Red Flag, which represented the Animal Agriculture Alliance, a meat and dairy industry coalition set up to protect the sector against “emerging threats”, and which has staff from Cargill and Smithfield Foods – two of the world’s five largest meat companies – on its board."
But Did You Ask?
Chris Krebs just yesterday had his security clearance revoked solely for saying the 2020 election was fair and not rigged.

His coworkers at SentinelOne (almost certainly most of who are citizens) also had their clearances revoked, despite never speaking out on the topic, purely as a North Korea style "punish the whole family" approach to strike fear into people of guilt by association, so that those who have spoken out in any shape or form become social pariahs.

Citizens having their career taken away for saying an election wasn't rigged, or for happening to work at the same place as someone who said this.

If you think the status quo hasn't yet changed to "In countries like China, Russia and the US, speaking out against the government puts both your livelihood and that of those in your vicinity at serious risk", you're dead wrong.
>I think Pike is acknowledging the practical realities of engineering at scale, and intentionally designed Go with simplicity in mind, which leads to more maintainable code and faster onboarding for new devs.

Doubt it. Read what he wrote. He's literally referring to people without much experience in programming. The stuff you said is literally NOT what he said.

>I'll also add that outside of the popularity metric, Go is not all bad. Fast compile times, readability, excellent standard library and toolchain, backward compatibility, to name a few things.

I agree with readability and fast compile times.
> The agreement stipulates that the CSU will be in charge of the “super–high-tech ministry,” as party leader Markus Söder called it in a press conference this week. The CSU has not proposed a minister yet, but it’s widely expected that Dorothee Bär, who was in charge of “digital infrastructure” in previous governments under former Chancellor Angela Merkel, will get the nod.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothee_B%C3%A4r

Sounds like her only non-political experience is working as a journalist.

It's arguable that the "corrupt" part was scrubbed off Wikipedia. But her credentials to lead a research / technology / aerospace ministry certainly sound underwhelming.
Yes. This was clearly the reason for the ban in the first place.
> what about [...] if a process has taken an item off a queue and then crashes before having fully processed it

> you might not even know from the outside if it has been fully, partially, or not at all processed yet

Erlang does not propose a unique solution to distributed problems, just good primitives.

So the answer would be the same; you'd keep track in the queue if the element was partially popped, but not completed, and you report back to the queue that the processing failed and that the element should be fully put back.

So in Erlang you might monitor a worker process and requeue items handled by processes that failed.
Yeah, I don't know why this falsehood continues to persist. WhatsApp and Ericsson engineers continue to work together to evolve Erlang, alongside a bunch of other people across the industry.

Source: I work at WhatsApp
That’s part of it, but it helps a lot that Procreate’s both extremely affordable and a single purchase. That’s a great combo when your target audience are artists, a crowd that is generally pretty cash-strapped. Creative Cloud’s cost is actually pretty steep over time.

It also helps that when Procreate adds features, it’s always stuff that’s desired by a large chunk of their users and is broadly useful. Contrast this to e.g. Photoshop, where for many of us eliminating 98% of the new features added since CS2 would make no material difference in day to day usage.

Adobe would be well served by building “heirloom” versions of their tools that are single-purchase, affordable, and have a fixed CS1/CS2-ish feature set with all development thereafter being put into optimization, stability, etc. That’d be plenty for even many commercial artists, let alone “prosumers” and more casual users.
Totally! I love the Alan Kay and Armstrong one too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhOHn9TClXY
https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-investors-elon-musks-x-re... Just supply your SSN to Saudi Arabia and all will be well.
Why can devices only have one ip address? How should i model routers with it. (Routers connecting networks, not only 1 fixed ip to internet with dynamic ip?)
Paul Fussell (I think) said that one should read Waugh's letters rather than his diaries: he wrote the letters in the morning, sober, and wrote the diaries at night, drunk.
Programming with AI: Forget "We Have Always Done It This Way" (Case Study)
Programming With AI: Forget "We Have Always Done It This Way", Enter "The Corpus Was Biased Towards This Way" (Case Study)

The term "prompt engineering" sounded like bullshit at first, but this study confirmed my suspicion that I was wrong. Programmers' jobs will not be taken away by retrained insurance agents.

"I was curious whether popular large language models can implement a simple audio effect in Python, and if yes, then how do they balance computational cost and audio quality, and how do their solutions compare to my handcrafted, non-AI-aided version."
They were(are?) paid to take the people, lock them up, and make an example of them . That doesn't mean US courts, government, or officials, have any legal power in el Salvador.

It is unclear if there is even a legal contract in place.

It is really all quite unpresidented.
I don't think grandparent's characterization matches. Typical career oriented "conservative" politician.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothee_B%C3%A4r
> How to handle network and IP duplicates on cloned VMs

That is indeed what I would love to read the most! Because no matter what you do, it gets complex - if you tear down the network stack of the "old" VM, applications (like Minecraft) might be heading down into unstable territory when the listener socket disappears and the "new" VM has to go through the entire DHCP flow that may easily take a second or more, and if you just do the equivalent of S3 sleep (suspend to RAM), the first "new" VM will have everything working as expected but any further VM being spawned from the template will run into duplicate IP/MAC address usage.
... and you're absolutely right, innocent people had basically no recourse when Meta took down their content, or shadow-banned them etc on the claim that they were inciting violence, pro-terrorist, engaging in hate-speech etc. The accused cannot publicly point to their post which merely used a palestinian flag emoji, or mentioned an assassinated writer. The burden should have been much higher for Meta when casting such accusations about.
with the current pattern by DOGE, I would say that it's likely they monitor grift and do audits of various departments. DOGE and Trump has been gutting many government oversight groups that are set up to prevent grift and fraud. I suspect 10 years down the road we'll find tons of grift under this administration after it's no longer in control
Last Gasp of the Landfill Economy
Sharun: Run dynamically linked ELF binaries everywhere
> Lisp's dreaded Cambridge Polish notation is uniform and universal. I don't have to remember whether a form takes curly braces or square brackets or what the operator precedency is or some weird punctuated syntax that was invented for no good reason. It is (operator operands ...) for everything. Nothing to remember. I basically stopped noticing the parenthesis 40 years ago. I can indent how I please.

Well, that might be true for Scheme, but not for CL. There are endless forms for loops. I will never remember all of them. Or even a fraction of it. Going through Guy Steel’s CL book, I tend to think that I have a hard time remembering most of the forms, functions, and their signatures.
This is one of the "costs" of reproducible builds, just like the requirement to use pre-configured seeds for pseudo random number generators etc.

It does hit real projects and may be part of the reason that "99%" is called out but Fedora also mentions that they can't match the official reproducible-builds.org meaning in the above just due to how RPMs work, so we will see what other constraints they have to loosen.

Here is one example of where suse had to re-enable it for gzip.

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/499887

Here is a thread on PGO from the reproducible-builds mail list.

https://lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb-general/2...

There are other costs like needing to get rid of parallel builds for some projects that make many people loosen the official constraints. The value of PGO+LTO being one.

gcda profiles are unreproducible, but the code they produce is typically the same. If you look into the pipeline of some projects, they just delete the gcda output and then often try a rebuild if the code is different or other methods.

While there are no ideal solutions, one that seems to work fairly well, assuming the upstream is doing reproducible builds, is to vendor the code, build a reproducible build to validate that vendored code, then enable optimizations.

But I get that not everyone agrees that the value of reproducibility is primarily avoiding attacks on build infrastructure.

However reproducible builds as nothing to do with MSO model checking etc... like some have claimed. Much of it is just deleting non-deterministic data as you can see here with debian, which fedora copied.

https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/strip-nondeterm...

As increasing the granularity of address-space randomization at compile and link time is easier than at the start of program execution, obviously there will be a cost (that is more than paid for by reducing supply chain risks IMHO) of reduced entropy for address randomization and thus does increase the risk of ROP style attacks.

Regaining that entropy at compile and link time, if it is practical to recompile packages or vendor, may be worth the effort in some situations, probably best to do real PGO at that time too IMHO.
People who have spoken out against the genocidal apartheid regime are being black-bagged in the street by plainclothes officers all across the United States. The gap between the supposedly enlightened West and Russia grows smaller by the day.
LTSC is likely what you want then (needs to be purchased through a VAR but it's not hard to find a smaller one that will sell single copies)
It was fairly popular in Germany in the late 80s / early 90s.
Thanks for the thoughtful comment! We’re not trying to convince anyone to switch—Home Assistant’s app is powerful, no doubt, and we’ve got a ton of respect for what the team has built. Our focus is a bit different: we’re building a clean, elegant dashboard that’s easy for anyone in the household to use, not just the HA admin. We also offer a few things that aren’t available out of the box with HA, or that take more effort to set up. Think of it more as a complement than a replacement.
I have some bad news for you... most people in tech don't know what they're talking about regarding "AI", never mind politicians.
Heck PS3 had even trouble with some PS2 remasters because it couldnt do the same graphical effects as PS2 with its insane fillrate. MGS having frame drops during rain and the rain looking worse etc..
It's not illegal when the president does it. So the Supreme Court has said.
If you gonna mix in politicians and opposition the USA has a extensive list themselves.
I thought you asked for evidence?

Airstrikes on hospitals is convincing to me. Next you will tell me that these reports can't be trusted.

Quit the mental gymnastics and just say you're cool with slaughter of people that were unlucky enough to be born into Gaza and the West Bank. Just say it. Cut the bullshit.
> Not the case with Twitter.

I view content on X without an account every day.

> would not put information EXCLUSIVELY on a private

That's where they're being released. Literally anyone can copy that to whatever platform they want. This is how "press releases" work in the first place. Is there some assumption that the general public is refreshing the press release page every day to be informed?

> Which, btw, is not costly to do.

Have you worked in government before?
>Why not?

TO prevent a runtime error. You say it Doesn't make any difference in practice meaning you never had a runtime error while running go? Impossible.

>A complete type system is insanely complex to implement and even harder to write against.

Who says you need a complex type system? You just need exhaustive evaluation of sum types. That's one feature that's it.

Removing run times errors doesn't mean building the most complex type system in the world.