skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, there was no symmetry between the parties and it was very clear which one will be anti-democrstoc authoritarian one.

That this will happen was clear and a feature Trump voters actively wanted.
To the extent Trump was elected with a mandate, it was to do the things his supporters thought he was going to do from hopeful "4d chess", and not actually to do his best to destroy the country.

My partner was talking to a random person at the supermarket yesterday who, unprompted, started complaining about tariffs/inflation. He voted for Trump and was upset and regretful about what Trump was doing, and saying that he can't believe that Trump "lied".

I suspect this collapse of cognitive dissonance is pretty widespread, especially among the low information voters that thought they were getting neutral information from Fox News etc. This is a mere two months from when the buffoon took power, not the usual sour taste that develops three years into a president's term.
A finance job is a zero-sum game. Most tech jobs are negative sum, in that they make the world worse. You have the wrong takeaway here. Companies like Amazon and Google and OpenAI and the like are not-so-slowly destroying our planet and companies like Citadel just move money around.
I have met plenty of fresh graduates who know more and are much more productive than older people.
They're still ride-or-die on crypto to this day, like that last soldier who never found out the war ended.
Overwhelmingly, products are designed to maximize total recurring user interaction, aka engagement or attention grabbing. This is the proxy for ad revenue, the most popular business model (even if Netflix is different). Look at Quora, LinkedIn and even SO, which essentially degraded into content farms for these reasons, largely downstream of the Google search funnel.

But engagement maximization looks the same everywhere – it’s communicating with the amygdala of the user, not their consciousness. And in a way, everyone’s amygdala is kind of the same and generic (sugar foods, violence, rage bait, boobs, chock value etc). Products that are largely designed for higher consciousness are more varied, such as most books. But those drive less engagement.

The amygdala wants more of the same, and the prefrontal cortex seems to want variation. My view is that you can’t have the chocolate muffins and raw carrots on the same plate, or a bookshelf with both Dostoevsky and Playboy magazines. You have to compartmentalize to protect yourself from your own amygdala. Same goes for media. Even well meaning product managers will be completely fooled if they simply follow the metrics.
> ... because they've never done anything other than software engineering, so they don't know any good problems to solve.

That is indeed a big problem with software engineering/engineers today. No other expertise other than being a framework monkey.
Nothing has ever felt better than my student days with DC++. The whole campus had a server we all used and I could search for stuff I liked and see what other people who had that on their disks also had, and explore that. I found a lot of music that way, as well as other stuff.
Before that we had had a list of ftp servers which was also good once I wrote an indexer, but DC automated all that and made more people able to participate.

I hate the Netflix interface enough that I prefer to watch movies other ways even though I have access to it.
I as an artist will be happy to see all these useless talking head "content creators" get replaced by AI Avatars-

So then only real artists and ai will remain- these "content creator" human avatar golems were always transitory anyway- software can chase algo's/trends better than any human so good riddance-
An interactive queue simulator for call-centers
>This is neither innovative nor showing creativity IMO

Ya'll are gonna be blindsided by AI if you don't turn around and see what is happening.

Programming is getting democratized. People who have never written a CLI command in their life will get the ability to tell a computer what they want it to do. Instead of having to get bent over with a stupid feature-packed $9.99/mo app, they can say "Make me a program that saves my grocery list and suggests healthier alternatives via AI analyses." And get a program that is dead simple and does exactly the simple task they want it to do.

Keep in mind that Excel '98 probably covers 90% of excel uses for 90% of users. Yet here we are in 2025 with society having spent billions over the years to upgrade and now subscribe to msoffice so Amy in HR can add up columns of payroll.

You have completely lost sight of reality if you think seeing a program like this is dumb because "anyone can just go and copy the git from a million different clones, load it into their choice programming enviroment, get the relevant dependencies, compile it and be playing in no time!". Maybe you live in a bubble where those words are English to everyone, but it is not reality.

For SWE's, I have great sympathy and the comradery for engineers solving hard problems all day.

But for the software industry as a whole? I hope it burns hell. The tolls to cross the moat of "telling the computer what to do" have been egregious and predatory for years.
> Uh-oh, the model is underperforming, and the human worker pipeline is now some significant part of the full workflow.

Tesla robots and Taxis enter the room...
This is just a personal preference thing - but I dislike any attempts at injecting artificial personhood - if they make an agentic personal assistant or whatever, I don't want to think of it as a person but a rather sophisticated tool. My phone uses AI to retouch the pictures it takes with its camera, but I don't have to exchange pleasantries with iPhone Clippy for it to do its thing - it just pretty much does.

I don't want artificial buddies, or servants or whatever except maybe in video games.
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Yes, that is one of the mechanisms that has hamstrung us from being able to appropriately respond to the economic effects of offshoring. It can obviously be changed.

Or the mechanisms themselves might not actually have to be changed if we could cast off this myopic political red herring about "the deficit". What we perceive as the balance sheet of "the government" needs to include The Fed, Fannie/Freddie, etc. Treasuries owned by other countries are the equivalent of a big savings account. Treasuries owned by the Fed are the same as all the other other debt owned by the Fed - monetary creation / monetary inflation.
I think you just made me realize that I don't like interacting with salespeople because their behavior falls into some kind of uncanny valley.
I was initially surprised to see several customers from .gov or medical corporations using my self-hosted analytics platform (I never considered those customer types before), but it makes a lot of sense. I think many of them actually run the platforms locally, and I think all companies that deal with private data (e.g. medical, banks, insurance) should be legally forced to not send any data to third parties, unless the customers explicitly agree to that (or the law forces them to do so).
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You are absolutely right. As someone who has worked in government, the replies to you seem hopelessly optimistic about the average government worker.. it seems like many really cannot comprehend? the gulf in capability.
They are probably also afraid of the dark and think they'll see their dead pet in heaven.
Something about the design causes cliques to form, both within and between instances, expressed with mutual blocking and bans based on association.

It's actually extremely antisocial! It's why I left, all the instances were tribes with beefs against the other instances, and that told me something about the design encourages the behavior

calling it antisocial is pretty apt imho
Paul Graham's On Lisp is also a powerful argument to try the language, even if some of the stuff it presents is totally bonkers. :-D

https://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
> might have pre-calculated the random nonce

Isn't this still a concern even if you're not pre-calculating way ahead of time? If you generate it when needed, it could still catch you at the wrong time (e.g. right before encryption, but right after nonce generation)
How did you do it?

Reminds me of https://www.strav.art/
Like anything in marketing it is 100x more work than you think.

It was years ago when I worked at it seriously, back then I didn't think nofollow mattered. I think the objective measure of the value of a link is how much traffic you get over it as you can't directly measure Google's PageRank [1]

I think you want every kind of link you can possibly get in large numbers. That includes mentions in blogs, social media, directories, Wikipedia (if you can't add your links to Wikipedia you can always take out your competitor's links and leave a comment that says they are spam... deletionists will love you!) both high quality and low quality, human curated, automatically generated, etc. White hat and black hat SEO go together like peanut butter and jelly.

Don't forget that you want keywords that you want to rank for in the anchor text because one of Google's innovations was indexing the anchor text.

Site architecture matters more than you might think. Most of all it is easier to rank for longer and more obscure query terms than it is to rank for shorter and more popular ones. A corollary to this is that you want to have many pages on your site about many topics because each one is like buying a lottery ticket. For that matter, it is a lot easier to build links to a site with 20,000 pages than a business card site with 5 because a given source might link the business card once but might drop 2,000 links to the big site.

[1] In the original PageRank paper, PageRank transmitted over a link is proportional to the traffic estimated to go over the link assuming web browsing is a certain Markov process
For the same reason hyperscalers build and maintain their own distro’s and base images – to have complete control over supply chain.
Max requests are only an additional 5 cents each. The real cost is in tool calls that cost another 5 cents each, which adds up fast in agent mode.

From one day of coding with MAX models:

174 gemini-2.5-pro-exp-max requests × 5¢ = $8.70

1269 premium tool calls × 5¢ = $63.45

143 claude-3.7-sonnet-thinking-max requests × 5¢ = $7.15
> You win the internets, sir.

Yes, I did. By repeating someone else's apropos joke, I get to reap the sweet, sweet internet points.
Great read!

I think what we must keep in mind with many modern products and services, especially popular ones, is that they are not becoming TikTok, they are becoming things competing for our attention in the most perverse ways possible. The potential to make these systems even more manipulative and exploitative is there, I see great potential for UX design that is even "worse" than what we already know.
We use it too, but anything that requires actual funds, we would migrate to AWS or refactor.

Like we'd use to allow PMs to change banners/copy on the fly, but Supabase is better. It does RAG but Supabase does that better too. Firebase functions are really good for prototyping, but once it starts to cost money, we move it to AWS. It's good for feature flagging, and we moved that to Growthbook. Analytics started on Firebase and were moved to open source so we'd own the data. The only thing they do well is Crashlytics and that's free.

If everyone was as bad a customer as us, I would assume they're in trouble.

Unfortunately a lot of people have trust issues with Google. We don't want them controlling data and certainly nothing as core as functions, DB, and feature flagging. Then when people don't use these things, Google kills it real fast.
True - would've been relevant to include that.
just before going to sleep is the only time i do hobby stuff. in the morning i have to work. putting something off to the next day always means putting it off to the next evening. i don't care how long things take. i care that i can do them right now and then forget about them. if i can't do that then i have to keep the tasks in my mind. i can write them down, but that only helps if i have a habit of doing that.

sometimes i remember some important message i need to send colleagues or clients... for that i like the telegram feature where i can send a message with a delay. i can write it now and it will be sent the next morning or whenever i think is a good time. i wish my email client had that feature too.
Unrelated, but somewhat similar in higher level, you can transfer state with durable execution, e.g temporal.io.

Instead of RAM, program's state saved in DB and execution environment resume in the previous state when restarted
In case anyone from Varnish is around, possibly even the author himself: Last time we discussed TinyKVM here, I wanted to know[0] whether it could possibly be used as an OCI container runtime and what capabilities it would need? Background: I would like to use it as a runtime in order to allow for nesting containers in my CI pipelines, which is difficult with standard OCI runtimes like runc/crun without granting them privileges or at least additional capabilities that AppArmor is not happy about. Anyway, I'd still be very much interested in an answer! :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364218
Agreed. I used json-e back in the day, and have been using pulumi more recently, though my pulumi configs are simpler and I'm not sure how well it scales to really complex workloads/job graphs.

https://igor.moomers.org/posts/building-etl-kubernetes
Hey, just want to chime in as a colleague working on Flowcore — I’ve been super excited about what we’re building, especially how the platform flips the usual data modeling process on its head.

In most setups, you're stuck making big up-front decisions about schema, pipelines, and integrations, which usually gets brittle fast. Flowcore is about pushing those decisions downstream, so you can iterate safely — the event history is the source of truth, not the current state in your DB.

What that unlocks is wild: you can reshape your data or change your business logic after the fact, and just replay events into new read models or AI workflows. And honestly, it’s refreshing to stop treating data pipelines like fragile glass sculptures and start treating them more like software — testable, modular, composable.

We’re still early, so feedback is gold — if anything seems confusing, missing, or off, we’d really love to hear it. And if you're working with messy or evolving data, we’d love to know what your biggest pain points are.

Happy to answer any technical questions too!
Fair point. But only a small minority of back end as a service users are comfortable with self hosting something like Parse.

Enterprises really like having someone to sue when things go wrong. And indie devs who pick BaaS offerings do so in large part to avoid the hassle of self hosting.
Maybe they’re actually AI avatars! Or just bad salespeople
Are you running Linux or something? I installed Win 11 in a VM, and no one that's seen its first boot screen would claim the experience has improved since the day of shovelware-bloated XP desktops. It only gets worse and worse from there.
Heavily subsidized on heavily price discriminated hardware (nvidia datacenter licensed hardware) kind of cancels out.
For those in SF, does it feel like crime is down?
Have you considered XML?
>> "When you say "Account migration does not work" I am forced to ask "compared to what"? There are literally no alternatives. If you have a twitter account with 20k tweets, and you want to leave twitter, "GFY". Ditto if you get banned. A public, instance-independent list of banned and redirected accounts (which survives the death of an instance) could perhaps be a really useful service."

Quite a few people downloaded their entire Twitter archive and uploaded it to Bluesky. For example: https://bsky.app/profile/shortformernie.bsky.social

I can download my entire repo in one click and move it to another PDS, perhaps one I run, or save it for later when there are more options. Or come up with my own way to transform it.
Eh, that might work out.

https://www.theverge.com/news/617799/elon-musk-grok-ai-donal...

> Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment.
Trying to put a human-face on AI annoys me to no end. Stop trying to make me empathize with a computer program. Stop trying to endear me to a company's choice to not hire humans.

I made a phone call to a cable company because I couldn't use their app or website to do what I needed. The bot that answered my call then proceeded to use fake keyboard typing sounds as they "look up my info". Let the bot be a bot. Don't try to trick me.
But surely you have seen that places which practice design reviews and code reviews and double down on building tests, tend to be slower shippers and deadline missers?

Not saying that you in your ideal company suffer this problem, just the vast majority of the people who have taken your advice...

I come to you with a major refactor, +400 lines -600 lines, so like if you printed it out it's a 25-page diff, if someone is now reviewing my design or coding, they potentially have half an hour to an hour's work trying to fully understand this and make sure that I didn't break anything in that refactor. Post-hoc ain't the way here. I sometimes feel like I'm the only person who will read through such a long diff and understand it and come up with useful feedback. Everybody else is going to lean on testing, which to be fair to you is one of your bullet points, but consider that it's one of the major points.

And why did the refactor get that big in the first place? Because of the merge latencies, because of the review process. The more resistance you place here, the more gets buffered into a feature branch, and the more you have to review later.

Some shops do well with that, I worked at one once, we actually worked ourselves out of a job by finishing everything ahead of deadlines. (We were making a game that wasn't very fun at a company that was not principally interested in making games, so we were forcing the issue to a head of whether they wanted to keep taking this risk with a dream team of programmers or cut their losses and double down on their core.) But the major thing that we were doing different, has nothing to do with your bullet points. In the abstract, it was that, we didn't have performance review hanging over our heads. And therefore we didn't have every single developer working on their own separate thing in the system, so that they could call it their own and claim it on paper at PerfTime. Which meant that we could pair program organically, “hey you mind if I look over your shoulder?”. We all merged into dev, everyday, multiple times a day, and that's how we saw that someone else was working on the same part of the code that we were working on, and then we talked about like how are we going to not step on each other's feet? We had also decided early on that we were going to have a centralized place to push out feature toggles, it was kind of janky but it was available for QA department, yes we had a separate QA department, so that they could tweak which things were going to go out versus which needed to be baked more.
well we need to find a way to make these programs sustainable then. frankly, medicare is extremely friggin expensive because it encourages overutilization - which raises costs a ton for everyone.

we simply cannot afford to be yeeting historically unheard of levels of money at the elderly without raising taxes significantly on the middle-class, that is the rub of our current fiscal situation.
What distro was this on?

Installing Steam breaking GNOME sounds wild.
Isn't the Navy going back to teaching sextants and astral navigation, just in case in a conflict the enemy interferes with GPS?

On land, I always carry a paper map while hiking and have a bit of a, shall we say, opinion of people who neither take a map nor could competently use it if they needed to. Especially on multi-day mountain walks with a night in a hut along the way.
I think Firefox Desktop (but not Mobile) has this for all extensions but I'm not able to check right now
I am astonished by how much less delightful software has become. Computers used to feel like a magical tool, that would respond instantly and allow me to perform complicated transformations at the press of a button.

Now, I feel like I am fighting against software most of the time, having to compete with someones vision for how I should be using their program, which is likely aimed at the least technically sophisticated user. Nothing wrong with allowing such users to use the software, but please retain the functionality and speed for the power users!
I think Neal Stephenson had it backwards. The utopian science fiction comes second and is more of a reaction against the pessimistic dystopian science fiction.

Frankenstein is considered by many to be among the first science fiction books and is essentially a Black Mirror story from the 1800's. You had HG Wells and War of the Worlds for example. The Time Machine by HG Wells also portrays a possible negative vision for humanity based on an extrapolation of the social trends of the time.

Look at Asimov's robot stories. The orignal "robot" story was not from Asimov but a pessimistic story written in the 1920's about killer robots attacking people and being violent and all that. Asimov's optimistic peaceful robot stories were actually a reaction to the pessmistic violent robot stories that had been popular previously.

I think humans generally over the past few centuries have had uneasy feelings about technological changes and then that is reflected in dystopian, negative fiction. People react to that negativity by intentionally writing bright optimistic positive science fiction stories.

Look at Star Trek the Original Series for my final example. That tv show came out during the turmoil of the late 1960's and it responded to that turmoil and feelings of nuclear holocaust with a vision of the future that was filled with optimism and idealism.
Yes, I do, because I’m never going to change his mind, maybe I will, but probably not, but other people reading this can take sides and think about it in a non-direct way.

Jesus turned over tables when they were trying to profit inside the church. His movement seemed to turn out pretty good.
I wouldn’t call it contamination if it’s literally just from natural soil and minerals sourced from fairly typical rocks.

I wasn’t claiming heightened lead exposure is good, just responding to those who seem shocked that we tolerate some low level of lead in foods.
Obviously leaded paint is dumb and we STILL, for some reason (well, I know the reason, but it’s not a good one imo), allow leaded aviation fuel. In fact, fully unleaded fuel was not allowed in a very large fraction of general aviation aircraft until recently because the FAA dragged their feet in approving lead free fuel mixtures for heritage general aviation aircraft (which is a large fraction of the general aviation fleet since lawsuits and the FAA have made newer aircraft just obscenely expensive), which is still very rare in small airports.

It is, ironically, the downstream effect of improper and over-regulation of general aviation.
You imagine that this is a mistake, but it wouldn't be the first time that liberals went hand-in-hand with fascism to protect their capital.
Tau Zero is the title of an SF book by Poul Anderson in which humans make an STL interstellar voyage. They probably got inspired from that book.