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Article URL: https://www.thedailybeast.com/doges-social-security-cuts-create-chaotic-day-of-the-dead-living/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787476

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Article URL: https://www.servethehome.com/the-new-ibm-z17-telum-ii-processor-module-cut-open-down-to-silicon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787475

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Article URL: https://www.space.com/19257-hubble-space-telescope-frontier-deep-fields.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787467

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Article URL: https://herbertlui.net/the-case-of-the-stolen-smell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787447

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Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=4974

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787432

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I’ve been invited to attend the YC's AI Startup School in the U.S. this June, and I’m very eager to attend.

I’m a UK resident currently attending university in London, and I hold an Egyptian passport, meaning I’m not eligible for ESTA and need to apply for a B-1 visa.

The official U.S. visa site shows a 58-day wait time for an interview in London. Also, many people online have reported that the entire process can take over 6 months, which is well beyond the event date.

I’m quite new to this process, and it seems there’s not much I can do. I looked into expedited visa appointments, but they appear to be reserved for medical, humanitarian, or important business situations (I didn’t think the event would qualify, as it’s more of a conference). I haven’t submitted the DS-160 yet because, given the wait times and uncertainty, it feels unrealistic. Also, the visa fee is a bit expensive, and I’ve been hesitant to commit without knowing if there’s a way forward.

I’ve received an invitation letter from YC and am considering requesting an expedited appointment regardless. However, I’m unsure how often these requests are granted or how best to approach them. I’ve never travelled on my own before, let alone dealt with such a complex process.

Has anyone here:

- Successfully expedited a B-1 visa from the UK?

- Navigated a similar situation on a tight timeline?

- Got tips or advice?

Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated. I’ve also contacted YC directly, but they haven’t responded yet, and I’m running short on time.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787427

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Article URL: https://academy.semgrep.dev/courses/security-headers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787087

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Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-creativity-hack-no-one-told-you-about-read-the-obits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787086

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Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-24/apple-to-strip-secret-robotics-unit-from-ai-chief-weeks-after-moving-siri

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787047

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Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-brings-native-pytorch-arm-support-to-windows-devices/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787028

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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/south-korea-agency-says-deepseek-transferred-user-info-prompts-without-consent-2025-04-24/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787018

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Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/an-employee-surveillance-company-leaked-over-21-million-screenshots-online-2000593880

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787017

Points: 2

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Article URL: https://theconversation.com/brains-of-people-with-schizophrenia-may-age-faster-how-our-research-adds-to-the-evidence-239979

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787015

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Article URL: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787012

Points: 5

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Article URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/19/201430727/what-actually-happens-at-the-end-of-trading-places

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786987

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Article URL: https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/24/humans-better-than-ai-at-reading-the-room/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786982

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Hello!

Being a student interested in PL design, I have had this idea floating around for a while: the gist is finding out what programming languages LLMs might be the most proficient in, to study their design choices and syntactic features with the goal of designing the perfect language for LLMs. This is, of course, gimmicky, but I entertained the idea for a while as a fun afterschool project.

The challenge is: what would be the best way to evaluate programming performance _in specific languages_? There are two main hypotheses here:

1. There are intrinsic syntactic/structural features that the transformer architecture is uniquely able to parse/reproduce/understand best, leading to higher quality code generated. For example: Lisp dialects make parsing code structure and blocks very easy, so one could assume an LLM can "understand their code better" 2. There is so much Python/JS out there that the question isn't even worth asking, and the performance in those will beat whatever other language you throw at it. This is probably not as much of a point thanks to newer transformer architectures but the question is still up.

I suspect the answer can be made somewhat interesting by considering performance relative to language popularity, but the ground question is: is there a general dataset containing different programming challenges, of varying difficulty, in multiple languages, with standard solutions? I couldn't find anything when I looked around, but I might have missed something obvious. It wouldn't be impossible to build a simple website to crowdsource, but I'm thinking that if I missed something obvious I'd rather find out early than late. Also, if you have any input on the project itself, I'd love to hear your ideas!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786961

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Got this idea when a landlord suggested I check the police logs after I asked about neighborhood safety when house hunting.

I built this for myself to easily look up an address and see nearby police events. The data covers incidents from February to April 2025.

Data Source: https://sourya.co/blog/2025-04-22-palo-alto-police-log-visua...

Source Code: https://github.com/ma08/palo_alto_police_log_analysis (lot of slop as it was vibecoded)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786957

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Article URL: https://abc.xyz/assets/34/fa/ee06f3de4338b99acffc5c229d9f/2025q1-alphabet-earnings-release.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786956

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Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419689122

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43786954

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