MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by shinycode | 2025-04-22 12:57:43+00:00
Going this route, what’s the point of of learning anything if everything is instantly accessible from an AI with working solutions ? So no learning = no teaching or teaching that feels useless. That’s a weird and dangerous road. Everyone should own this technology for the situation to be balanced, not private or country based. Because we make ourself kind of useless in the process we loose leverage and value and we are at the mercy of the powerful ones
by eth0up | 2025-04-22 12:58:03+00:00
Article seems mediocre or worse...

Probably best to keep it in moderation for most folks and occasionally benefit from the introspective or entheogenic effects, which I'd argue outweigh most dangers.

The analgesic effects really do work for some people, it seems via detachment rather than direct anesthetics. If it worked for me, I'd struggle with moderation. While it does shift perspective enough to reinterpret some discomfort in an alleviating manner, it's a bit much for me in exchange.

Recreational use mystifies me, but I'd rather be judged than judge, and regarding these supposed associations with dementia, I find the chronic consumers that I know more mentally fit than most others. I've also, for the hordes of stoners I've known, never observed nor heard of a hospitalization. I have however, observed that the plant and its extracts instill a focused awareness on one's self and previously hidden ailments can be both revealed and sometimes appear exaggerated. I think there's a sensitizing effect, but it's often lost with chronic use.

I consider it a medicine, and given the choice between ineffective legal analgesics, would fear marijuana less than, eg acetaminophen [0] or ibuprofen, which annihilates my stomach.

0. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01638...
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-22 12:58:20+00:00
I think you've misunderstood me. I wasn't arguing against risk in any general sense - quite the opposite.

My only position is that "and then the AGI killed everyone" is so oversimplified that it makes children's bedtime stories look sophisticated.

Physical hardware is relevant because unlike computer programs results aren't instant. The supply of materials, manufacturer, and deployment are all slow processes. Opponents generally have time to react, and if AGI is an opponent then I think it's safe to assume that it also has to contend with other AGI.

I am unconvinced that there should be a clearly delineated divide with all AGI on one side and all humans on the other.

I agree with you about the myriad non-combat risks but again I think the prediction is one of hopeless complexity. For every problem that's inadvertently created a solution can probably be arrived at to patch things up. It's not unlike the present, just faster. Break things, fix them, but the fix breaks other things, repeat ad nauseum. Hopefully we survive the process.
Ask HN: How is it possible that HN is free of SPAM?
by drmacak | 2025-04-22 12:58:29+00:00
Lately I was really surprised by the sheer amount of spam on web like for example in YouTube comment section. Where you can find whole groups of spam bots creating fake discussion about crypto investment etc. And Im honestly wondering how is that HN is still that SPAM free and yet that simple page. Is it only possible by having good mederators?
by hwillis | 2025-04-22 13:01:50+00:00
> when I hear someone suggest an alternative theory I don't immediately feel the need to group them with everything I think is wrong with the world

Modified theories of gravity are not new and there is nothing immediate about my feelings on them. I understand homeopathy, and I am very confident that the idea that water has a special memory for particular chemicals is very silly. In the same way I understand MOND theories, and they are mostly silly.

> That's how science works. Scientists are not prophets, they do not have the luxury of starting with all the answers.

You are unfamiliar with the history of these theories if you think that their changes have been in any way scientific. MOND originates when the first observations of dark matter were very simple: galactic rotation curves. It was a reasonable attempt to explain why stars at galactic edges rotate faster than you would expect.

Later, we got much more detailed observations which revealed that there was actual, complex structure to those orbital perturbations. Structure that is totally independent of the visible matter. We found the Bullet cluster, where 2 galaxy clusters are orbiting a third invisible cluster.

Rather than admit some of this structure could not be explained, MOND theories grew wildly more complicated, and starting adding in more and more terms with arbitrary constants attempting to fit each new piece of data. That is not scientific. It's not how we got from Newton to Einstein. It's Aether theory.

There are certainly physicists who do respectable work on MOND. They put that work out as a proposal, and recognize how good the evidence for dark matter is. They are a minority of the proponents, and I really mean that. There are a huge number of people publishing fringe time-cube types of theories about it. I am not lightly comparing it to homeopathy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube
Show HN: Wanted AI functions in Vue, ended with something cool
by AleLuppi | 2025-04-22 13:02:02+00:00
As a Vue dev, I couldn't anything simple yet customizable enough to add AI functions to my frontend, i.e. trigger some JS functions from GenAI.

I built an API that is helping me on my projects, and now sharing with other devs. Works with any JS/TS framework (Vue, React, Svelte, Vanilla JS).

What do you think about it? Free for you to test
by rkangel | 2025-04-22 13:03:34+00:00
I'm a big fan of the Elixir operator, and it should be standard in all functional programming languages. You need it because everything is just a function and you can't do anything like method chaining, because none of the return values have anything like methods. The |> is "just" syntax sugar for a load of nested functions. Whereas the Rust style method chaining doesn't need language support - it's more of a programming style.

Note also that it works well in Elixir because it was created at the same time as most of the standard library. That means that the standard library takes the relevant argument in the first position all the time. Very rarely do you need to pipe into the second argument (and you need a lambda or convenience function to make that work).
by bigfudge | 2025-04-22 13:03:34+00:00
But this is not comparing apples to apples. Smoking weed in moderation is probably fine too. The trouble is criminalising it means you can essentially only buy the weed equivalent of cask strength moonshine, and nobody knows how to mix a nice cocktail.

Decriminalising would make it (more) possible to grow and sell lower THC weed, and weed with different cannabinoid profiles. We still know very little about the differential effects of THC/CBD etc in weed as-smoked.

In short, I think your advice is probably premature. Let's try legalising and developing a stoner culture which isn't the equivalent of hardcore alcoholism, then try comparing. Plus, drunk people (> 2 pints) are also seriously boring if you are sober.
by WorldMaker | 2025-04-22 13:03:46+00:00
I didn't say anything comparing them to the "originals" nor did I say it had anything to do with generation demographics. I said the factor I believe to be most at play is relatively the exact opposite of nostalgia, the prequels play to novelty and seeing them for the first time with the eyes of a child. They are cartoons of whimsy and wonder.

For the most part the senatorial debates and child murder both happen off screen, the screen pays a lot more attention to the muppets and droids and lightsaber duels. (The toys and the action figures.) Ep. I and II both have a PG rating and III is PG-13. Most of the Star Wars movies have PG ratings and the PG-13s are rare. They've all been "family friendly" since the beginning. It's a part of why kids love them. It's a part of why Disney paid a lot of money for them. It's a part of why they are closely tied to the (US) family friendly Disney+ brand. Are you upset that these are considered "kid-friendly" movies?
by arewethereyeta | 2025-04-22 13:03:53+00:00
You should block abusers not an entire country based on a few actors. You can spin this as much as you like it is still a country block and that country is an incredible IT pool of talent and legitimate users. If we're still there you can block the United States also for your ipinfo business since all stats indicate that US is the number one source of fraud on the internet if we're talking IP addresses which your business does. Let us know how that goes.

I hope nobody does cybersecurity in 2025 by analysing and enriching IP addresses. Not on a market where a single residential proxy provider (which you fail to identify) offers 150M+ exit nodes. Even a JA3 fingerprinting could be more useful than looking at IP addresses. I bet you, romanian ips were not operated by romanians. yet you're banning all romanians?
by roenxi | 2025-04-22 13:04:04+00:00
> Stick to the alcohol and drink within the culture of it and you will be fine.

The median marijuana user is probably also fine in similar circumstances. This study is talking about "someone who has an emergency room visit or hospitalization due to cannabis" - which I assume isn't the normal experience. And heavy users probably do have a raft of problems but unless we have statistics to break out its probably comparable to the horrors of the serious alcoholics (I had a neighbour once who was vegetabalised after a drunken pub fight - nobody will talk me out of blaming the grog for that one).

Although I would echo the general theme of your post which is that if someone is worried about their health and wellbeing, maybe avoid the drugs. Although I'd go further and say avoid the alcohol too.

Humans have been dealing in drugs and alcohol for millennia at this point. They're not good for you in large doses and the benefits in small doses are questionable (which, given the millennia thing, suggests they may not be there). There is a tactical "benefit" in convincing people to do silly things and they make individuals feel good for a while.
by agentultra | 2025-04-22 13:04:14+00:00
I just like to know things and learn them.

If I’m encountering a new framework I want to spend time learning it.

Every problem I overcome on my own improves my skills. And I like that.

GenAI takes that away. Makes me a passive observer. Tempts me to accept convenience with a mask of improved productivity. When, in the long term, it doesn’t do anything for me except rob me of my skills.

The real productivity gains for me would come from better programming languages.
by jjulius | 2025-04-22 13:04:44+00:00
I move past, and don't click on, articles I don't care about all the time. That approach takes a lot less time/effort than it does to click on them and post something about it. Doing that also means that they leave my mind almost instantaneously, rather than sticking around in my head after having thought about what to say.

Downvote and move on.
by bobbyraduloff | 2025-04-22 13:05:33+00:00
Very good article. I try to (respectfully) push my coworkers in this direction but it’s a bit of a lost cause.

I work mostly on small codebases and you can smell unchecked AI codegen from a mile away. Even small changes become giant refactors.

People who push this have never had to work in such codebases. God forbid your requirements change mid project. Rarely does the sum of separate prompts without full context result in something maintainable and modifiable. You’re cooked.
by Xmd5a | 2025-04-22 13:05:35+00:00
ByteBuddy is atrocious.

>In October 2015, Byte Buddy was distinguished with a Duke's Choice award by Oracle. The award appreciates Byte Buddy for its "tremendous amount of innovation in Java Technology". We feel very honored for having received this award and want to thank all users and everybody else who helped making Byte Buddy the success it has become. We really appreciate it!

Don't misread me. It's solid software. And an instance of a well structure objet-oriented code base.

But it's impossible to do anything without having a deep and wide understanding of the class hierarchy (which is just as deep and wide). Out of 1475 issues on the project's Github page, 1058 are labelled as questions. You can't just start with a few simple bricks and gradually learn the framework. The learning curve is super steep from the get go, all of the complexity is thrown into your face as soon as you enter the room.

This is the kind of space where LLM would shine
by rufugee | 2025-04-22 13:05:51+00:00
As someone who switched about a year ago from FreeNAS to Synology, this is extremely disappointing. Synology has been a great experience up to this point. I have pools, one on supported WD Reds, and the other on a hodge podge of drives I had collecting dust.

Both pools have been very reliable so far. But if they continue down this path, I'll seek a different solution.
by sunaookami | 2025-04-22 13:06:07+00:00
Trusted flagger can flag anything they want and it will be removed in any EU country even though it's not illegal there. The list includes organizations like "REspect" which is infamous in Germany for removing criticism of politicans leading to police raids and fines for people (so called "hate speech"). This "private organization" is literally funded by the government.

>EU is a North Korea and North Korea is a shining example of democracy

I've never said that.
by hollerith | 2025-04-22 13:06:54+00:00
That's not true.

(1) We can launch a rocket that has a payload that hits the sun: it's just costly to do because the rocket starts out orbiting the sun, so we would have to expend delta-v to neutralize the tangential component of the initial velocity.

(2) If you are in a space ship heading towards the sun, it is easy to hit the sun as long as you can steer, and even if you can't steer, if you are heading squarely at it and no planet gets near you to change your velocity, you will hit it.
by jjkaczor | 2025-04-22 13:07:25+00:00
Yes, it is the overall ease of configuration, operation - but also for me the app ecosystem.

Well, my Synology NAS is from... 2013 (have upgraded the drives 3-times), so... it is/was time to replace it, and I can tell you that it won't be with another Synology device...

I won't go back to QNAP, which is what I had before Synology, because during an OS update it wiped all my data (yes, there was a warning, but the whole purpose of having a RAID NAS is safe reliable data storage)

May check-out a custom hardware build, combined with Xpenology.
Show HN: A2A agent to verify information counter party's credentials
by madhavanmalolan | 2025-04-22 13:07:28+00:00
This agent asynchronously sends out a verification link to the user, and updates the context via a push notification when the user completes verification.

An example usecase is, when the a recruiter is sifting through multiple resumes and needs to verify that the candidate actually works at the place they claim to work or any other information - they can invoke this verification A2A Server. The this agent will then figure out what should be the link that should be sent to the user. Once the user completes the verification using that link, the recruiter's context is updated with a status saying the candidate has verified so and so information.

Would love to hear your comments and understand how we can improve and make it more useful for customers :)
by neogodless | 2025-04-22 13:07:39+00:00
Socially, I agree with this comment. I got very bored at parties where everyone was getting high.

Scientifically, apparently alcohol is worse for your brain. From the study[0]:

> Individuals with acute care due to cannabis use were at lower risk than those with acute care due to alcohol use (aHR, 0.69; 95% CI, 0.62-0.76).

Personally, someone very close to me had an acute emergency room visit about 5 years ago due to what we can only assume was a poorly dosed edible, and/or a newly developed severe allergy. Fingers crossed they do not develop dementia. (Per the study, looks like odds are 1 in 20 for those that hit the ER.)

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40227745/
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-04-22 13:07:48+00:00
At this point I wonder if it's fear. They were able to cover the Clinton story because they knew no harm would come to them - the government wouldn't prosecute the press. But these stories, under this government, is the sort of thing where it could end up on the wrong side of an unchecked tyrant who is increasingly vocal about their desire to ignore due process.

The media companies ate so well and grew so fat covering the rise of fascism they didn't think what would happen when it finally gained power.
by testing22321 | 2025-04-22 13:07:53+00:00
>Lower annualised electrical prices will be good for the economy and the individual, and encouraging this should be a priority for any rational government which thinks more than a few years ahead.

But it will be bad for profits for the private companies who generate power with gas who have been lobbying the government to the tune of billions of dollars to protect those very profits.

Saving money for the consumer is the polar opposite of what these companies , and therefore the government wants.
by mhw | 2025-04-22 13:08:54+00:00
Unlikely. This kind of wireless thermostat has two parts: the thermostat itself, and a separate receiver box that's directly connected to the boiler. There's usually a pairing process that you can go through where the two parts negotiate a shared value used in the protocol; this prevents one thermostat unintentionally controlling other boilers. You can see this described in the Installation Guide for the thermostat linked from the article (it's called 'binding' in the guide).
by PedroBatista | 2025-04-22 13:09:04+00:00
That’s not what OP said, you know it and were just waiting for an excuse to dump the Rolodex of facts about alcoholism on this conversation.

Alcohol is a potent substance and beyond the ocasional use in moderate quantities it’s terrible both physically and psychologically, but it’s a “social lubricant” and has been for thousands of years because it works.

The truth is most weed people use it like they are alcoholics and there’s the inevitable group who use it as an identity and they are just unbearable to be around.
by cyberjerkXX | 2025-04-22 13:09:50+00:00
I'm a cyber security incident responder. Firstly, let me claim my bias - I don't trust Kerbs after his FUD reporting about the CVE totally not losing funding. I started my cyber career in federal government contracting as a SOC Analyst and eventually became an incident responder.

My first doubt - the NLRB has a SOC ran by an MSSP/government contractor. Data destruction events and anomalous connections would 10000% cause security event alerts to trigger. Sentinel has OOB detection for anomalies for events that the whistle blower states in the article.

My Second doubt - CISA and US-CERT are not a bunch for scrubs. If their official statement is that it's not a security incident then I trust them.

Third doubt - If you see something suspicious then you have every right to report it to the SOC, and contain the suspicious activity to the best of your ability. If you don't have permissions then report it to the SOC. All malicious activity gets investigated (unless the MSSP is a joke but then they become liable and will get sued if it turns into an incident that results in damages).

Fourth doubt - Kerbs and the whistleblower are framing this as a sophisticated nation-state attack leveraging DOGE to exploit the NLRB. But that doesn’t add up. Nation-state actors don’t blow their cover because they proxy with clean IPs from within the target country. The IP address in question (83.149.30[.]186) has had a bad reputation in open-source intelligence for over a year, linked to credential stuffing and scanning activity. Using an IP like that in a high-level operation is like flying a spy plane into enemy airspace with inflatable tube men and disco balls strapped to the wings. Attacks of this complexity require significant time and resources—no serious actor would risk burning their investment by using an IP already flagged and based in Russia.

Last doubt - The "Security Engineer" took a screenshot of the user names then gave it to the media....You're expecting me to trust what you say while you commit a data leak - nice one.
by intended | 2025-04-22 13:10:42+00:00
I’ve been noodling this argument ever since November, and I am pretty confident now that America has a fragile, asymmetric information economy.

Most Americans on the right live in a protected information market. I am not talking about media bias — both sides have that. The issue is deeper: on the right, the marketplace of ideas has been captured. There's no free trade between ideas, only ‘subsidized’ narratives and ‘tariffs’ on dissent. That’s how Trump — or anyone like him — thrives. Realists, by contrast, get priced out.

This isn’t culture war stuff, this is structural failure. The traditional metaphor of American free speech — the Holmesian "marketplace of ideas" — breaks down when one side captures the market.

There is no competition of ideas when there is no fair fight.

If you’ve got a couple of million bucks to spend, my guess is start buying up and supporting local news channels in the rust belt, and then let them work on whatever they want to work, as long as they can show actual independence.

Or perhaps gift people subscriptions to things like groundnews or something. I don’t know if theres any science that shows it effectively diversifies information consumption of its users.

I don’t know what the napkin math is for a tipping point, but I suspect its not as expensive as litigating an entire administration.
by cjs_ac | 2025-04-22 13:10:44+00:00
> Somehow I knew you would keep digging. :)

I was the teacher who thought words were fun. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be acceptable any more. :(

> Context tells the reader which is being used.

That's the thing: if you read the CEO's post on its own, with both meanings in mind, it's not clear (at least to me) which is intended.
by mrtksn | 2025-04-22 13:10:45+00:00
I have never seen slightly high fun person, in my experience with smoking weed the aim is to get high as possible quick as possible and maintain it as long as possible. The range of effects is small and there's not much to desire on the lower end of the things. The best you can do is to try to balance THC and CBD as they actually have different effects.

Maybe I will change my mind about weed once I start observing such situations.
by pulkitsh1234 | 2025-04-22 13:10:47+00:00
> Our study finds that the politeness of prompts can significantly affect LLM performance. This phenomenon is thought to reflect human social behavior. The study notes that using impolite prompts can result in the low performance of LLMs, which may lead to increased bias, incorrect answers, or refusal of answers. However, highly respectful prompts do not always lead to better results. In most conditions, moderate politeness is better, but the standard of moderation varies by languages and LLMs. In particular, models trained in a specific language are susceptible to the politeness of that language. This phenomenon suggests that cultural background should be considered during the development and corpus collection of LLMs.