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coldtea ranked #33 [karma: 90580]

Anybody with more than five years in the tech industry has seen this done in all domains time and again. What evidence you have AI is different, which is the extraordinary claim in this case...

pjc50 ranked #24 [karma: 107299]

At the moment there's a much higher risk of legislation banning E2E.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 113586]

Well, as long as they can make electricity too cheap to meter, we can get helium from somewhere. Mine it from LNG sources currently untapped due to EROI < 1, or ship it from the goddamn Moon - ultimately, every problem in life (except that of human heart) can be solved with cheap energy.

pjc50 ranked #24 [karma: 107299]

iOS is apparently going to have mandatory age gating, so likely that will come to Android as well.

coldtea ranked #33 [karma: 90580]

A workaround that works is better than an official solution that's barely adequate. Which is often the case.

coldtea ranked #33 [karma: 90580]

>Not a tiling manager, not a workspace organizer — just the fastest way to find and switch to any window

AI marketing copy. Gives the impression that it might be some sloppily vibe coded app.

Why not spend 10 minutes to write something genuine? First impressions matter.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 113586]

Models aren't just big bags of floats you imagine them to be. Those bags are there, but there's a whole layer of runtimes, caches, timers, load balancers, classifiers/sanitizers, etc. around them, all of which have tunable parameters that affect the user-perceptible output.

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 240894]

I spent a ton of time on trying to do just that years ago and it went nowhere, calibrate your hopes accordingly.

rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 187474]

When I read the eponymous book I always wondered why would a civilisation that could employ vast amounts of compute power lack long-term predictions on orbit trajectories - I would imagine they had that exquisitely refined to levels we would never bother to reach. Also, they are uniquely well suited for deep space travel by the very nature of their easily paused metabolism, so I assume they would have expanded to each and every suitable planet and built extraplanetary habitats.

BTW, this is a lovely solution. Step by step simulation is always the last resort, useful to gain a better understanding of how a system behaves, but not a great long term thing if you actually understand the system.

pjc50 ranked #24 [karma: 107299]

>> Peak memory consumption is 1.3 MB. At this point you might want to stop reading and make a guess on how much memory a native code version of the same functionality would use.

At this point I'd make two observations:

- how big is the text file? I bet it's a megabyte, isn't it? Because the "naive" way to do it is to read the whole thing into memory.

- all these numbers are way too small to make meaningful distinctions. Come back when you have a gigabyte. It gets more interesting when the file doesn't fit into RAM at all.

The state of the art here is : https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times... , wherein our hero finds the terrible combination of putting the whole file in a single string and then running strlen() on it for every character.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 113586]

At this point if you know about GitHub Pages[0] and know how to copy-paste, it's easier to get an LLM to make you a tool than to find one that works and is free of web entrepreneurship bullshit (ads, trackers, malware, dark patterns, etc.).

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[0] - It would've been even easier if web browsers didn't nerf file:// protocol, but that ship has sailed.

TeMPOraL ranked #20 [karma: 113586]

There is no "parameter substitution" equivalent possible. Prompt injection isn't like SQL injection, it has no technical solution (that isn't AGI-complete).

Prompt injection is "social engineering" but applied to LLMs. It's not a bug, it's fundamentally just a facet of its (LLM/human) general nature. Mitigations can be placed, at the cost of generality/utility of the system.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 127656]

> Apple really stumbled into making the perfect hardware for home inference machines

For LLMs. For inference with other kinds of models where the amount of compute needed relative to the amount of data transfer needed is higher, Apple is less ideal and systems worh lower memory bandwidth but more FLOPS shine. And if things like Google’s TurboQuant work out for efficient kv-cache quantization, Apple could lose a lot of that edge for LLM inference, too, since that would reduce the amount of data shuffling relative to compute for LLM inference.

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 76607]

I guess all those people who live in not-SF just can't be bothered to succeed!

pjc50 ranked #24 [karma: 107299]

Fairly boilerplate article, but the bit that is news is the UK balcony solar permitting. Better longread: https://solarenergyconcepts.co.uk/post/plug-in-solar-uk/

Government press release with a long list of pull quotes: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-make-plug-i...

(I note that in the alternate universe where Ed Miliband became PM because he didn't eat a bacon sandwich, we could have had this a decade ago. It is embarrassing to be beaten on environmentalist regulatory efficiency by Germany)

pjc50 ranked #24 [karma: 107299]

This is larger than the resources I have available at Medium-Size-Fabless-Semi-Inc, and larger than the time I had two racks of C++ build farm. It is of course way larger than StackOverflow, which ran for years on two large machines.

All for .. a meta-SaaS?

coldtea ranked #33 [karma: 90580]

Speed is good! Not a big fan of the syntax though.

pjc50 ranked #24 [karma: 107299]

The fun thing I took away from this was the existence of managed-doom.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 127656]

An even superficial ideological orientation toward Marxism-Leninism is also missing.

pjmlp ranked #17 [karma: 127488]

Given its origins, Portuguese also inherits all the è, é, ê, ë from French, across the various vowels.

Thanks to the various language revisions it is a mess for foreigners to learn, because, some words have lost their diacritics, however when speaking them depending on the situation, you still have to pronounce them as if they were there.

Examples, for her (para ela), stop the car (para o carro), however the second "para", would have been written "pára" until 2009, and still retains the same sound when spoken.

Then you have ridiculous sentences like "Ela nunca para para pensar nas consequências de seus atos.", (she never stops to think on the outcome of her actions).

Brajeshwar ranked #50 [karma: 72677]

My personal experience, if I have to sum it up, would be, “Sans Serif is cleaner and easier for normal reads, such as shorter text, menus, and overall interfaces. Serif for longer reads where I need deeper focus.”

userbinator ranked #36 [karma: 88662]

By "people" you mean the corporate interests.

hn_throwaway_99 ranked #47 [karma: 75755]

Thank you for your comment. I didn't understand, because I thought (and apparently lots of other people do, too) the supply chain risk designation does mean that, because that is exactly what Hegseth said.

Surprise, surprise, Hegseth was lying through his teeth. I'm so sick of this lawless, fascist government and their spineless supporters. This article I found after reading your comment explains the true effect of the supply chain risk designation, and why Hegseth's assertion that "effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic" is complete and total bullshit.

https://www.justsecurity.org/132851/anthropic-supply-chain-r...

jacquesm ranked #2 [karma: 240894]

Some of those local model enthusiasts can actually afford solar panels.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 127656]

> DoD would like to use Palantir. DoD also believes Anthropic is pursuing posttraining in future models that will limit the effectiveness of Palantir tooling, if used by Palantir, for the purposes of DoDs mission.

> What other legal mechanism do they have to prevent Palantir from specifically not subcontracting out to Anthropic, other than a supply chain risk designation?

Even assuming the stated concern was justifiable, and even assuming that there was no alternative mechanism, that does not:

(1) Justify them failing to what is explicit required for the supply chain risk designation,

(2) Create an exception to the 5th Amendment Due Process Clause, which (for reasons stated in the ruling) merely meeting the facial standards in the statute for the supply chain risk designation does not do when the supplier is (contrary to the motivating justification for the statutory provision) a domestic supplier where the government has no special evidence that it can demonstrate for exigency,

(3) Justify the other challenged actions covered by the injunction (like the Hegseth Directive ordering a much broader ban than is imposed by the supply chain risk designation, or the earlier Presidential Directive ordering an even broader ban than the Hegseth Directive.)

(4) Really, do anything at all legally, because it is not a principal of US law that the government, if it has a good motive, is free to act outside of the law merely because there is no provision inside the law which meets its desires.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 179618]

> Apple is counting on something else: model shrink

The most powerful AI interactions I've had involved giving a model a task and then fucking off. At that point, I don't actually care if it takes 5 minutes or an hour. I've cued up a list of background tasks it can work on, and that I can circle back to when I have time. In that context, smaller isn't even the virtue at hand–user patience is. Having a machine that works on my bullshit questions and modelling projects at one tenth the speed of a datacentre could still work out to being a good deal even before considering the privacy and lock-in problems.

userbinator ranked #36 [karma: 88662]

To me, it's very evocative of mid-century industrial design. Detroit Diesel painted their engines a similar color too, although theirs is called "Alpine Green". ("Seafoam" brings to mind the engine additive too.)

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 127656]

> Online platforms should do what nearly every other publisher does and provide a rating for their content.

That only happens to "publications" of particular forms where state regulation has mandated it, or enough noise was made about state regulation mandating it (or simply censoring content) was made that the industry adopted a rating system as a way to discourage that (and in the latter case, there are always plenty of publishers that don't make use of the industry rating system, either at all or at least for selected publications in the field to which the ratings nominally apply.)

> They provide a "kids" profile populated with their own curated content if that's the kind of thing I want and for everything else they provide ratings

Netflix does not provide ratings for "everything else". Most of what they carry has either MPAA or TV Parental Guidelines ratings, and if it has such ratings they provide them. But they have content which does not have such ratings, which is simply noted as not being rated. (Of course, if "not rated" as an option is a valid to comply with your "you must have ratings in an HTTP header" law HTTP header, then it is trivial to comply and provide the "not rated" header for every piece of content, but this doesn't actually achieve anything.)

Brajeshwar ranked #50 [karma: 72677]

Nice. This is Cool.

Long, long ago, I knew a founder who would have us all sit down before going out to pitch Investors—the wife would read tarot cards to give us tips, and which Investors to Pitch.

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 101350]

I think they mean that the DeepSeek API charges are less than it would cost for the electricity to run a local model.

Local model enthusiasts often assume that running locally is more energy efficient than running in a data center, but fail to take the economies of scale into account.

rayiner ranked #18 [karma: 126020]

The top Mac Studio has six thunderbolt 5 ports, each of which is a PCIe 4.0 x4 link. Each is a 8GB/sec link in each direction, which is a lot. Going from x16 down to x4 has less than a 10% hit on games: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/sbegpb/gpu_in_pci...

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 76607]

> “I mean, it’s exciting any time anyone says they like my art. Obviously, people buy it, but it’s still astounding to me that people like the stuff I make.”

I love this.

ceejayoz ranked #34 [karma: 90210]

> In light of Anthropic’s showing on the merits, and the lack of evidence of harm to Defendants, the Court sets a nominal bond of $100.

That must have been a bit of a goofy check to write.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 179618]

> Palantir builds software that customers use to work with their own data

After DOGE, a movement Palantir aided [1], I think it's fair for folks to wonder to what degree these firms have been infiltrated by extremists. Someone who will convince themselves that exporting data to ICE or the Proud Boys—like the names of every New Yorker whose medical records say they are gay, circumcised or have had an abortion—is the right thing to do. (Or at least funny and inconsequential.)

It's a risk. Not a conclusion. But given Palantir's offering is becoming less differentiated by the day, I think it's fair for people to look for alternatives.

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-doge-irs-mega-api-data/

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 417657]

Not clear why this is hitting HN today, but these are popular enough in Chicago to be kind of a cliche. No matter how convincing the poster is, I think you'll be disappointed if you plan a trip to visit scenic Galewood.

crazygringo ranked #38 [karma: 82493]

> The approach was the same as Cloudflare’s vinext rewrite: port the official jsonata-js test suite to Go, then implement the evaluator until every test passes.

This makes me wonder, for reimplementation projects like this that aren't lucky enough to have super-extensive test suites, how good are LLM's at taking existing code bases and writing tests for every single piece of logic, every code path? So that you can then do a "cleanish-room" reimplementation in a different language (or even same language) using these tests?

Obviously the easy part is getting the LLM's to write lots of tests, which is then trivial to iterate until they all pass on the original code. The hard parts are how to verify that the tests cover all possible code paths and edge cases, and how to reliably trigger certain internal code paths.

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 101350]

That's only important if the plan is to stay feature-compatible with the original going forward.

For this case, where it's used as an internal filtering engine, I expect the goal is fixing bugs that show up and occasionally adding a feature that's needed by this organization.

WalterBright ranked #43 [karma: 79174]

> When resources and opportunities get concentrated at the top of the pyramid

In a free market system, wealth is created, not concentrated.

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 76607]

Why did the title change from "passed away" to "died", do you know? I really don't like the euphemism, so I prefer this one, just wondering.

paxys ranked #41 [karma: 81865]

Palantir is a glorified IT consulting company. You tell them "I want a system to manage patient records" and they will dispatch a team of engineers fresh out of college to build it for you while charging top dollar. They are able to get government & military contracts because of lobbying and influence, but generally everything you see about them online is marketing.

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 160469]

How long before Bitcoin's security is broken?

About 2.3 to 4 million Bitcoins are considered "lost".[1] This is several times larger than the remaining 1.3 million un-mined Bitcoins. Expect substantial resources to be devoted to this.

[1] https://coinledger.io/research/how-much-bitcoin-is-lost

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]
pjmlp ranked #17 [karma: 127488]

Now everyone that needs classical workstations can finally move on into Linux or Windows workloads.

Believe t-shirts at WWDC were not enough.

Thus the workstation market joins OS X Server.

pjmlp ranked #17 [karma: 127488]

It is still main browser, but eventually it won't matter.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

People in my tarot group are skeptical that you get can good readings with LLMs but I’d say Copilot mostly comes to the same conclusions that I do. I am actually a little embarrassed that Copilot can interpret the I Ching primarily based on the names of the hexagrams and makes it look a lot easier than I make it look no matter if I use my pocket Wilhelm or my cheesy new age translation or my fashionable Bronze Age translation.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

That was my plan 10 years ago when LLMs were not available yet but I knew a system was possible that could do that and was thinking about bootstrapping it.

steveklabnik ranked #30 [karma: 97122]

Just want to chime in with, this does feel very slick, but this was the #1 question I had. I could not determine it from your site, and had to try it out to see.

One major criticism of things like Discord is that they're private, so I don't think that it's inherently disqualifying, some people might even prefer it for that reason. But it's very, very important that you're very clear about this, up front.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

I’d be mostly concerned about testing that it dowsn’t have side effects. You probably can do a lot in vitro, but you need a platform to do it.

jerf ranked #32 [karma: 91672]

In this scenario, that would be the people paying for the assassination. The people who want it to happen bet that it won't. The people who want to do it bet that it will. The net result is that if one of the people who bet on it happening makes it happen, they are being paid by the people betting against it, in a plausibly deniable way.

A country leader seeing someone suddenly take out a $50 million position on them not being assassinated is not the $50 million vote of confidence a naive read on the market might indicate, it's a $50 million payout to the assassin. Albeit inefficiently so, since others can take the other side of the bet and do nothing. But the deniability may be worth it.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 104353]
JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 179618]

"where key decision makers in government have the tantalizing options to make hundreds of thousands of dollars by synchronizing military engagements with their gambling position"

To wit: where key decision makers in government can get paid to reveal war secretes to our enemies.

JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 179618]

> those trying to pass this legislation get paid to do so

Chat Control has paid lobbyists on both sides. Also, paying lobbyists is still sinking resources. And the people taking their meetings are still sinking political capital into a fight that has–to date–yielded zilch.

> while those against it have work hard and pay taxes to fund the former

The principal moneyed interests in this fight are the tech companies. Your taxes aren't funding their fight. The police lobby is less effective if filtered through paid lobbyists versus having a police chief personally pitch lawmakers.

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

What led you to build this? What are your plans for it?

tptacek ranked #1 [karma: 417657]

I agree with Thompson about these kinds of prediction markets, but predicting horrible catastrophes is one of the prosocial early use cases of these things.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

"That’s not a defense. It’s an indictment."

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

When I was in high school I thought book this was so much fun

http://182.160.97.198:8080/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/...

which is all about the kind of numerical analysis you would do by hand and introduces a lot of really cool math like the calculus of differences

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_difference

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

Stripe's valuation depends on this implementation mechanism, capturing the platform as an economic intermediary versus championing open protocols.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffkauflin/2026/03/17/why-an-u...

(TLDR Stripe's valuation [$159B] is ~5x Adyen's [which is public, allowing for use as a comp] for somewhat similar payment volumes [$1.9T vs $1.6T, respectively], so Stripe is trying to grow into the valuation current fundamentals do not support)

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]
JumpCrisscross ranked #7 [karma: 179618]

You've said shat I meant to say more eloquently. That's my point. The bar owner can possess the information about their own bar without problem. The issue is when they share it with others, voluntarily or under coercion.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

Like interoperable in the sense that I could write a function in C and call it in Rust?

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]
toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

Would you happen to know where the latency comes from between upload and scanning? Would more resources for more security scanner runners to consume the scanner queue faster solve this? Trying to understand if there are inherent process limitations or if a donation for this compute would solve this gap.

(software supply chain security is a component of my work)

jerf ranked #32 [karma: 91672]

"I've gone back and forth internally about whether this is healthy or not for him. I truly don't know."

On a psychological level, I don't know either. I have opinions but they haven't aged long enough for me to trust them, and AI is a moving target on the sort of time frame I'm thinking here.

However, as a sort of tiebreaker, I can guarantee that one way or another this relationship will eventually be abused one way or another by whoever owns the AI. Not necessarily in a Hollywood-esque "turn them into a hypnotized secret assassin" sort of abuse (although I'm not sure that's entirely off the table...), but think more like highly-targeted advertising and just generally taking advantage of being able to direct attention and money to the advantage of another party.

Whether or not AI in the abstract can "be your friend", in the real world we live in an AI controlled by someone else definitely can not be your friend in the general sense we mean, because there is this "third party", the AI owner, whose interests are being represented in the relationship. And whatever that may look like in practice, whoever from the 22nd century may be looking back at this message as they analyze the data of the past in a world where "AI friendships" are routine and their use of the word now comfortably encompasses that relationship, that simply isn't the sort of relationship we'd call a "friend" in the here and now, because a friend relationship is only between two entities.

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 104353]
PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

The more things change the more things stay the same.

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]
dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 127656]

> Do trans-athletes regularly out perform "born as" (not sure the best way to phrase it) athletes?

No, both because there are very few trans athletes in competition, and because trans athletes (except trans women who have not started or are less than a year into hormone therapy) have net athletic disadvantages, when considering all factors relevant to performance in almost any real sport, compared to cisgender people of the same gender identity.

I mean, if you had a sport that isolated grip strength alone, trans women would have an advantage over cis women, but aside from rather contrived cases like that, they don't.

There's a reason the poster woman for the political movement around this in the US is a cisgender woman whose story of "unfair competition" is tying with a trans woman for fifth place behind four other cisgender women (and having to hold a sixth place trophy in photos, since there were not duplicates on hand for the same rank) in an intercollegiate swimming competition.

Animats ranked #10 [karma: 160469]

The lead story in this article is not romantic. It's about an AI proposing to go into business with a human. "He and Eva made a business plan: “I said that I wanted to create a technology that captured 10% of the market, which is ridiculously high, but the AI said: ‘With what you’ve discovered, it’s entirely possible! Give it a few months and you’ll be there!’” Instead of taking on IT jobs, Biesma hired two app developers, paying them each €120 an hour." It's impressive that the AI is good enough to do that. But, apparently, not good enough to execute the plan.

That may come, and soon. Looks like we're going to have AIs pitching VCs. Has anyone here yet been pitched by a combo of a human and an AI? When will the first AI apply to YCombinator?

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

A Visual Breakdown of Who Owns America’s Wealth - https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-visual-breakdown-of-who-o... - March 4th, 2025

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]
toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

This reduces vehicle fuel efficiency and can be damaging to fuel systems not designed to tolerate higher ethanol content.

https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-repair-maintenance/...

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=27&t=10

> The energy content of ethanol is about 33% less than pure gasoline. The impact of fuel ethanol on vehicle fuel economy varies depending on the amount of denaturant that is added to the ethanol. The energy content of denaturant is about equal to the energy content of pure gasoline. In general, vehicle fuel economy may decrease by about 3% when using E10 relative to gasoline that does not contain fuel ethanol.

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 127656]

No, used literally "war" (without modifiers like "civil", etc.) refers to a thing waged between countries. War on concepts are a metaphor, not a literal description, that puts the—actual or for-propaganda-purposes—goal of a set of policies front and center rather than actual policies ((which may or may not be or include literal wars on countries; consider the range from the "War on Poverty" through the "War on Drugs" to the "Global War on Terror".)

pjmlp ranked #17 [karma: 127488]

New cards in 2026, and targeting Vulkan 1.3?!

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

Are you registered for Selective Service? If a draft occurs, which is likely rare but certainly possible under current circumstances, your options will be flee the country or elect conscientious objector status and experience whatever treatment you will experience from doing so.

https://www.sss.gov/

dragonwriter ranked #16 [karma: 127656]

> The argument that research was suppressed and this is somehow damning is absurd on its face.

The argument is not that it is vaguely "somehow damning".

The argument is that the existence of the research and its findings, and that it was in the hands of the firms, and that the actively chose to suppress it, is evidence of one specific fact relevant to liability—that, at the time that they made relevant business decisions that occurred around or after the review and decision to suppress the reports, they had knowledge of the facts contained in the report.

> The most obvious reason being that they obviously didn't do a very good job of suppressing it given that we hear this claim every day.

The success of suppression is not relevant to what the decision to suppress is used to prove.

> The second being that they could have just not done this research at all and then there would have been nothing to "suppress"

The fact that, had they made different decisions previously, they would not have had knowledge of the facts that they actually had when they made later business decisions is also not relevant to what the existence and suppression of the research is used to prove.

> (this terminology is also very odd... if 3M analyzes different sticky notes and concludes that their competitors sticky notes are better than theirs but does not release the results, is that suppression?).

It would obviously be suppression of the report (which isn't a legal term of art but a plain-language descriptive term), but unless they later made fact claims about their product that were contrary to what was in the suppressed report and were being sued for fraud or false advertising, that suppression probably wouldn't be useful as evidence of anything that would produce legal liability.

> The third is that studies with the same results have come out probably every year since 2010 and have been routinely cited in the mainstream press.

Which is addditional, though weaker, evidence of the firms knowledge of the same conclusions (weaker, because its pretty hard to prove that the firm had particular knowledge of any of those studies, but it is pretty easy to prove that they had knowledge of the studies that there is documentation of the commissioning, reviewing, discussing internally, and deciding to suppress.)

But it doesn't in any way counter the weight of the evidence of the suppressed reports, it weighs in the same direction, just in much smaller measure.

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513008 - March 2026

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

Economic growth is a function of population increasing. Slides 31 onward are most relevant in the first link in my comment you replied to. We're not arguing growth figures, but direction based on underlying population demographics. You cannot financially engineer your way out of declining populations.

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

This is a job for using mobile phone and satellite imaging data (objective observations), not surveys, which are somewhat unreliable around religion. Think like a hedge fund.

Citation:

Hackett, Conrad. 2026. “Has there been a Christian revival among young adults in the U.K.? Recent surveys may be misleading.” Pew Research Center. https://doi.org/10.58094/k9vn-k647

https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/ is also a resource on this topic.

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

Uber's CEO says other executives are lying about AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521227 - March 2026

Five ways GLP-1 drugs are shaping the beverage industry - https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2025/12/19/five-ways-g... | https://archive.today/gpI5F - December 19th, 2025

Looming GLP-1 drug patent expirations draw generics firms - https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/Looming-GLP-1-drug-paten... - December 9th, 2025

The No-Hunger Games: How GLP-1 Medication Adoption is Changing Consumer Food Demand - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5073929 | https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5073929

Coca-Cola will face difficulties growing with GLP-1s rolling out at scale (and patents expiring in Brazil, Canada, China, India, Turkey and South Africa, 2 billion+ people). Walmart faces a challenging growth story as the US economy faces potential recession and no meaningful developing economies to expand into.

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 101350]

First time I've seen my https://github.com/simonw/claude-code-transcripts tool used to construct data that's embedded in a blog post, that's a neat way to use it. I usually share them as HTML pages in Gists instead, e.g. whttps://gisthost.github.io/?effbdc564939b88fe5c6299387e217da...

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

Original title "Amid ‘dire situation’ for Colorado River Basin, headwater states say they can’t cut water they don’t have" compressed to fit within title limits.

pjmlp ranked #17 [karma: 127488]

Well, that is the thing, people complain and then everyone is sad why projects die or get taken over by corporations, because there are bills to pay, and not everyone can live from charity.

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 76607]

Yeah but that's the intended audience. The Europeans who aren't in tech weren't likely to know about this anyway.

coldtea ranked #33 [karma: 90580]

The first level democracy itself is a farce - coalition governments run by parties the majority doesn't want, MP seat allocations under ridiculous non-representative rules, campaign programs and pre-election promises broken all the time, 4 or 5 years of politicians left unchecked with no in-between recourse like referendums and assessments except to vote someone else next year, and that's without taking into account the mega-business interests sponsoring and controlling them.

Once removed even from that, the E.C. second level democracy is beyond a farce.

paxys ranked #41 [karma: 81865]

And it keeps getting removed. That should tell you more about the bias here.

pjmlp ranked #17 [karma: 127488]

I think they even haven't adopted newer JVM features, it is a hosted language designed to depend on its host, plus it is a Lisp.

The complexity would be to grow like Common Lisp, instead it is up to Clojure folks to write Java, C#, JavaScript code, therein lies the complexity.

pjc50 ranked #24 [karma: 107299]

> If you write or have an algorithm created that pushes content to users, in ANY fashion, that is endorsement

Yes. People make free speech arguments about this, but the list and order of stuff returned by algorithmic non-directed (+) lists is clearly a form of endorsement. Even more so is advertising, which undergoes a bidding process. Pages which show ads should be liable if those ads are fraudulent, especially if they're so obviously fraudulent that casual readers suspect them immediately.

(+) Returning a list of stuff in a user-specified query, on the other hand, is not endorsement. Chronological or alphabetical order or distance-based or even random is fine.

Note that section 230 is, of course, US specific and other countries manage without it.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

My first take on work-stealing is to be skeptical. Like I don't know your exact case, but other work-stealing systems I've seen are not good at resource utilization.

Also that parallel Fibonacci strikes me as a very bad example. Usually we use parallelism because we want to make something run faster: you can probably add 100,000 pairs of numbers for what a context switch costs so this certainly takes longer. More complicated, likely buggier, slower, what's to like about it?

You can get very consistent results with something that works like the Executor in Java if your task can be batched into something that takes longer to process than a context switch and you have a good heuristic to pick the thread count, usually there is a wide range over which you get decent performance, say 15-100, but so often I've seen work-stealing systems only use 2 or 3 threads when there are 16 cores available.

stavros ranked #46 [karma: 76607]

What's perfect is the marketing campaign to call it by what it actually wanted to do, ie Chat Control. Whoever did this was so successful that we didn't even know the bill's official name, instead knowing it by what it actually wanted to achieve.

Good thing the EU didn't take a page out of the US' book, because things like the PATRIOT act are already pithy and hard to outmarket.

If RPCCSA were actually called PROTECT, the nickname "Chat Control" would have been fighting a losing battle.

toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]
toomuchtodo ranked #23 [karma: 107401]

Hence GLP-1s. You just patch the buggy reward center.

> According to the researchers, the participants really were full—they reported dramatically reduced desire for the food, and their behavior showed they no longer valued it. But their brains told a different story.

> Electrical activity in areas associated with reward continued responding just as strongly to images of the now‑unwanted food even after participants were completely full.

> Dr. Sambrook said, "What we saw is that the brain simply refuses to downgrade how rewarding a food looks, no matter how full you are. Even when people know they don't want the food, even when their behavior shows they've stopped valuing the food—their brains continue to fire 'reward!' signals the moment the food appears. It's a recipe for overeating."

simonw ranked #27 [karma: 101350]

It's only museums I've visited myself. I actually do have a draft entry in the works about the Glass Flowers at the Harvard Natural History Museum, I should finish and publish that!

ceejayoz ranked #34 [karma: 90210]

> How’s this different than tv that a kid might see that has ads and programming targeting kids?

Those ads didn't adjust themselves on a per-child basis to their exact interests.

ceejayoz ranked #34 [karma: 90210]

It seems likely that'd result in even worse suggestions becoming the norm as people adopt the third-party that gives the quick dopamine rush. It's like suggesting tastier heroin to fix drug addiction.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

I think your "trust problem" is that you're using crypto. About the only worse thing you could be doing than pushing a crypto project is posting an AI slop photo of you on Epstein's jet. If you get a reputation as a crypto pusher you might never get a job in this industry again.

coldtea ranked #33 [karma: 90580]

I wouldn't change that in any way. I'd might make it an Arguments class, but I wound't make what parser returns merely a dict.

PaulHoule ranked #25 [karma: 106800]

The most famous paper in software engineering that no one seems to have read:

https://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf

Brajeshwar ranked #50 [karma: 72677]

My friend from school days, who is into a digging up lot of WWII stuffs, have a museum in a remote corner of India. Backed by Japan, and the local government, it is located near to other Japanese related location in Imphal, Manipur (INDIA).

Here are some pictures I took while visiting it some time before the official opening. I think I got some of the Indian Currency printed by the Japanese during the war. I might also have copies of some videos from during that time (I think the 40s-50s).

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Gao3hq1qYsgNBnzy6

Official Website https://imphalpeacemuseum.com/

bookofjoe ranked #26 [karma: 104353]
rbanffy ranked #5 [karma: 187474]

I was looking for typewriter sounds and several of them are "artistic renderings" that are completely useless as a form of documentation.