MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joshstrange | 2025-04-03 13:55:35+00:00
Every time I see "Book me a trip to X" I immediately shut down. I have yet to see any LLM handle all the cases that human would/needs to. Those sites are hard to navigate for a human, doing a search and clicking on the first result is not "autopilot". If that's all I was going to do then I'd just do it myself.

Instead I need to read through 10s+ of listings, keeping track of cleaning/other fees, weighing location and price as well amenities if any. [0]

I have yet to see a model do any of that (yes, I'm aware it's possible and maybe someone is doing that).

> We're just beginning. As we increase training resources, Ace will become more intelligent and capable.

Can we not? "As time goes on we will get better because magic" - I truly hate this hopium in the LLM community. LLM problems are not like normal software problems, you cannot code your way out of a hole. You can prompt or re-train, both suck and (training at least) has a long turn-around time and is not cheap.

I really enjoy LLMs and love trying new things that use them. This idea/product/service/whatever is just not compelling. It feels like I'd need to babysit this process to make sure it didn't do something stupid. It's the same reason I have never in my life bought something through my Amazon Echos, the upside is minimal and the downside can be massive.

[0] OpenAI's Deep Research is closer to what I'm talking about but even that is laughably bad sometimes. It looks impressive as hell, it impressed me, and then I went to ask it an "easy" question so I could share the question to a friend to show them how cool it was. The "easy" question was something I was familiar with and the final results were lacking (to be nice). I asked it to research local bakeries and it missed a ton of places that show up in 1-2 google searches. -- This is the problem with LLMs across the board, they are great at producing good sounding output but that doesn't make it right/true/complete.
Show HN: The C3 programming language (C alternative language)
by lerno | 2025-04-03 13:55:38+00:00
Get it from here: https://github.com/c3lang/c3c

In 2019, while contributing to the C2 language, I started up "C3" as a pet project while waiting for pull requests to be approved...

Now it's 6 years later and C3 well on its way to 1.0, having released 0.7.0 last week.

Unlike other C alternatives, C3 tries to evolve C – but without concern to backwards compatibility to the latter.

What it adds to C is among other things:

- Module system

- Semantic macros and compile time introspection

- Lightweight generic modules

- Zero overhead errors

- Build-in slices and SIMD types

- Gradual contracts

- Built-in checks in debug mode

You can find more details on the site: https://c3-lang.org It might be interesting to look at the examples: https://c3-lang.org/language-overview/examples/ so see how the language looks for some simple examples.

Some other links that might be interesting follows:

I've posted about C3 on HN before, notably

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24108980

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32005678

Here are some interviews on C3:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC8VDRJqXfc

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rS8MVZH-vA

Here is a series doing various tasks in C3:

- https://ebn.codeberg.page/programming/c3/c3-file-io/

Some projects:

- Gameboy emulator https://github.com/OdnetninI/Gameboy-Emulator/

- RISCV Bare metal Hello World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iAJxx6Ok4E

- "Depths of Daemonheim" roguelike https://github.com/TechnicalFowl/7DRL-2025
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-03 13:56:02+00:00
when you're reverse engineering a web API used by an app (I've done this for personal integrations and automations) via MITMProxy and/or a device emulator, sometimes API calls show up that make you go "hmmm"

> There are millions of apps across both stores. Perhaps find a way to introspect all of them?

I would be surprised if this method wasn't also being employed, if not by individual hackers, then in the form of growth hacking by companies who sell a means of fixing it.

Still seems like something fun to try.
by RankingMember | 2025-04-03 13:56:20+00:00
This is what forced me vastly curtail my news consumption for the most part. I can only take so much breathless reporting about the "strategy" of the Trump administration, when it's plainly sheer incompetence with the winds of malice in the background. There is no actual plan to "make America great again", it's non-stop incompetent pandering to a base that just wants others to suffer.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-04-03 13:56:37+00:00
I don’t understand what you’re trying to say. What rtkwe described is literally what they are? They didn’t say the tariffs are random (unless the comment changed, which would explain why yours makes no sense to me), they said they aren’t what the White House is claiming they are.

If you think trying to balance out the trade deficit with every single country without any other nuanced consideration whatsoever is a good approach, that’s one thing (a lot of people would disagree), but there’s no getting around that the information around this is either misinformed or deliberately misleading.
by diggan | 2025-04-03 13:56:38+00:00
As this seems US focused, I'll share an alternative that works really well with European products (and a lot of US ones too, apparently): https://yuka.io/en/

Really easy to use (just scan the barcode and you get easily digested data about the product) has every product imaginable, also analyzes cosmetics and best of all, all the basic functionality is free.

Not affiliated, been using it for years at this point and now it's an essential partner when going shopping. That they let people decide their own premium pricing per year is just icing on the cake.
by carbocation | 2025-04-03 13:56:52+00:00
Wesleyan does not have a medical center and according to the NIH’s public reporting, they have under $2 million in NIH grants, compared to $600 million for Columbia. (Edited from $400 million, which is the value cut.)

Wesleyan has a $250 million operating budget, so the (from what REPORTER indicates) $1.6 million in NIH funding represents 0.6% of their budget. In contrast, the $600 million in NIH funding to Columbia represents about 10% of its $6 billion operating budget.

So both in terms of absolute numbers and relative numbers, the NIH contributions to Wesleyan are de minimis.
by stego-tech | 2025-04-03 13:57:14+00:00
It’s been our turn for a hot minute. Republicans have been blowing up the status quo since Reagan, and the Democrats enforcing austerity since Clinton. American corporate leadership is excellent at hitting quarter-after-quarter KPIs for bonuses and share price growth, but there’s ample data it has all come at the expense of workers - increased precarity, decreased wages, increased costs of everything, as the country is plundered down to its core and sold off piecemeal.

Post-Carter United States (and South Korea, and Japan, and the UK, and much of the developed world in general) is a prime example of the follies of prioritizing numbers-on-a-spreadsheet growth in the short term, over a balanced and robust domestic economic engine that ensures a healthy, happy, stable populace that wants to have kids (since they have the money and time to be good parents).
by jesusthatsgreat | 2025-04-03 13:57:23+00:00
> If they fold and remove tariffs on the US

Part of the problem is that Trumps's definition of tariffs doesn't make any sense. VAT isn't a tariff but according to Trump it is.

Does he seriously expect other nations to just get rid of VAT? Or somehow replace it overnight with some other system all just to appease the US? Because that's the only way you can lower 'tariffs' to zero.

It just won't happen and we'll be in a continual standoff until Trump concedes that trade barriers are not in fact a good thing for anyone. He'll never admit it, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the illusion of a 'deal' is struck in order to save face and reverse this mess once it becomes clear it's not sustainable unless you want to shrink your economy and destroy others at the same time.
by robertlagrant | 2025-04-03 13:57:51+00:00
It looks good. Do you have a way to differentiate food in different locations? E.g. 500ml Coke in the UK vs US might be different.

(Also I type in Can of coke and it has no results, which is probably an annoying thing to have to map to 330ml Coke, but might be useful on the todo list!)
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-03 13:57:56+00:00
Thundermail isn’t going to use your messages to train AI, it’s not going to invade your inbox with ads, and it’s not going to harvest and sell your data.

It's simply not possible to know what they will do. Remember what happened to this?

*Does Firefox sell your personal data? Nope. Never have, never will.*
by pjc50 | 2025-04-03 13:58:04+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings was arguably a worse time for universities.

Protesting attracts reprisals. Universities taught people, both explicitly and by example, to stand up for what they believed in, but have undersold students on how dangerous that is. Universities could have done a better job explaining that certain injustices are load-bearing, and that calling them out will make half the country hate you.
by mind-blight | 2025-04-03 13:58:20+00:00
I know someone who works for a university in event planning. They were putting together an event for a civil rights icon. Because of the new policies, they were forced to go through all of the brochures and pamphlets and censor any use of words such as "racism" and "black" (when referring to the man's skin color).

They literally couldn't say "black man fighting against racism" about a civil rights icon without losing millions in funding. I have no idea how someone can argue that this kind of censorship targeting universities is acceptable
by duxup | 2025-04-03 13:58:22+00:00
One thing about start up culture that always makes me wonder is the hustle and working all the time aspect and what if anything that has to do with success. It seems more like a social cues for other people to see (investors), but not really related to the end result of a start up succeeding or failing.

I really don't think your "uber but for cleaning windows" start up is going to succeed or fail because someone spent Christmas Day pounding out some code...

It seems more like product fit and so on are the reason most startups fail, not hours put into it.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-03 13:58:47+00:00
This is entirely what one of the major lawsuits is about. The official word age is that this is a clause for using steam keys. But internal emails shows there's definitely preferences even for non steam keygames to do this

https://galaxy.ai/youtube-summarizer/the-judges-ruling-a-maj...

>Initially, it was believed that this policy applied only to Steam keys, but the emails indicate a broader application, raising serious concerns about Valve's business practices.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-03 13:59:07+00:00
> Once you go down the rabbit whole of trying to define 'anarchist' , there are actually dozens of definitions

Which is why I avoided providing or using any definition of anarchism, instead describing the actions of people who consider themselves anarchists.

> and they all argue about who is really anarchist.

Yes, but there is only one group who consistently considers themselves anarchists but who exactly zero other anarchist groups recognize as anarchists. All other anarchist movements have at least one mutually-recognized peer movement. I'm not saying this is an absolute or the only definition, but it's very useful in this context. There is something different about ancaps.

> These extreme Republicans want to get rid of government.

They do not! They are not proposing an elimination of the military or police departments or prisons, for example. They are using the DoJ to pursue political enemies, the executive branch to enact and enforce tariffs. In fact exactly the parts of the state that are used to create and enforce hierarchy. I do not know any anarchist movements, other than anarcho-capitalism, that has this goal.

I understand why your view of it is alluring, I find it to be so as well. But I have found that it simply has very little explanatory power for this situation.

The only thing the far left and right truly share I think, is radicalism. By which I mean an intention or acceptance of rapid and comprehensive change to the dynamics of daily life for the whole population. But the actual changes they want have virtually no overlap.
by skydhash | 2025-04-03 13:59:20+00:00
> APL is another example of dense languages that (some) people like to work in.

I recently learn an array programming language called Uiua[0] and it was fun to solve problems in it (I used the advent of code's ones). Some tree operation was a bit of a pain, but you can get very concise code. And after a bit, you can recognize the symbols very easily (and the editor support was good in Emacs).

[0]: https://www.uiua.org/
Show HN: Leaps in Bounds – compilation of progress on mathematical unknowns
by daniel-munro | 2025-04-03 13:59:36+00:00
I am fascinated by the collective process of narrowing bounds on mathematical constants (Ramsey numbers, the Busy Beaver function, etc.). I wanted to create visualizations but couldn't find a convenient source of historical bounds updates across mathematical problems, so I created this repository.

The two main goals for the compiled data are to present them for browsing in a visually informative way, and to provide them for download in various formats (JSON, CSV, etc.).

I'm not a professional mathematician, so I welcome any suggestions on how to make this more useful and intuitive to mathematicians and enthusiasts. Contributions are also welcome via the GitHub Discussions!
by nottorp | 2025-04-03 13:59:48+00:00
> Are common American citizens able to afford and obtain reasonable health care?

"Should common American citizens" ... is a question.

This already implies a country's citizens having access to health care without financial barriers is a good idea already :)

[Note that I'm in the EU, I have access to affordable health care by default and I like it that way. But I don't think everyone in the US thinks like that. Or even understands what it means.]
by mrighele | 2025-04-03 13:59:51+00:00
> They’re not saints, especially with the games distribution platform monopoly they’re sitting on top of

They are a monopoly, but it doesn't look to me that they are taking particular advantage of the position. I buy mostly indie games, so I may be out of the loop, but what are they doing that makes them "not saints" ? (Expecially in relation to their market share)
by bluGill | 2025-04-03 14:00:07+00:00
A lot of that experience isn't needed though - automation replaced a large part of the expertise needs. I used to work at a factory, it produces as much as it ever did (though with a lot of modern innovations), but today only about 200 people work in it, compared to over 2000 in 1950. The CNC laser cutters replaced 70 people running saws with just 3.
by trgn | 2025-04-03 14:00:20+00:00
I see the drug problem in my midwest city too, it's literally on my doorstep on occasion.

The country is also not struggling with high unemployment or stagnant wage growth.

Multiple things can be true at once. Tariffs are a solution to an imagined problem.

And fwiw - reshoring has been happening already, through congressional action (CHIPS, IRA), rather than presidential decree, and was doning so without wrecking the economy.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-03 14:00:32+00:00
Are we living in the same world? I had a child born about that time which was one of the few ways to actually get into a hospital. When I went in the fucking place was barren. A bunch of medical professionals shaking in their shoes waiting for something that never came. I knew then and there I knew i was being sold a lie and the news was carefully orchestrating snippets of misrepresented footage. And then went about my business as normal.
by threetonesun | 2025-04-03 14:01:02+00:00
It seems thoughtful if you or your children or your friends are heavily invested in crypto and think removing the USD as the primary currency of trade is a good idea.

I know it's a Republican joke to blame evil meddling globalists for the US's problems but it sure seems like a bunch of people looking to ruin the US for their own global ambitions are running the show right now.
by ouroumov | 2025-04-03 14:01:12+00:00
Thanks! I've got an error after scrolling the result page for "kidney beans" on Chrome, it blanks the display with the message: Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).

Could you possibly add an option to see the nutrient content per 100g serving? This is way more usefull to Europeans than something like a cup as a unit.
by drooby | 2025-04-03 14:01:15+00:00
I think it's actually extremely simple.. because the herd mentality is extremely simple. Intellectuals think it's complex because intellectuals love complexity.. This is what happened..

The right witnessed riots over the past decade. These riots were in response to police brutality and perceived racism. The ideas behind anti-racism spawned a perceived new ideology - "wokism". This frightened the right. Intellectuals on the right mapped the origins of this new ideology to philosophies from elite institutions. Therefore, these institutions must be punished to be kept in check.

It's really that simple..

What I find interesting about this guy is that in a way he actually is "caving" to the demands of the administration. This uni president advocates for more heterodox thinking - which is in alignment with what the Trump admin wants as well... maybe that's why Wesleyan won't be punished..
by runako | 2025-04-03 14:01:18+00:00
The point of raising a tariff on a $100 imported good to make it cost $125 is because the US provider cannot profitably sell for less than $125. The tariff doesn't magically fix the domestic provider's cost basis.

If the US provider was able to compete close to the $100 level (as they already have incentive to do!), there would be no complaint and no need for the tariff in the first place.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-03 14:01:41+00:00
More "conservative" than Columbia but still fairly liberal - the overwhelming majority of students backed Harris [0] and support abortion rights [1]

The Israel-Palestine protests (which sparked this whole university culture war issue) were fairly active at Dartmouth as well, but messaging around it was better handled by their admin.

The only conservative-ish and kinda prestigious college (not university) I can think of is Claremont McKenna, but they are drowned out within the larger Claremont community.

[0] - https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2024/11/2024-election-a...

[1] - https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2023/11/2023-election-s...
by throw10920 | 2025-04-03 14:01:48+00:00
They objectively do not have all the money, or even a particularly significant share of the money, so you're starting off with a falsehood.

In a communist economy, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk still exist. The difference is that instead of getting their money/power from providing value to people by selling things, they got it from political connections and corruption. They would also have a larger share of the pie, and living conditions would be significantly worse for everyone in the classes below them. This is easy to see if you have any knowledge of present and prior communist regimes.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-03 14:02:09+00:00
"Committed to winning"?

Here's the thing. I'm not going to sacrifice my life on the altar of someone else's company. If I'm going to be as devoted to a company as this guy apparently thinks I should be, it's going to be for my own. For everyone else, I'll do the best work I can, in a professional manner, in exchange for a regular paycheck as we agreed to in the employment contract. It's called "doing business".
by pilif | 2025-04-03 14:02:15+00:00
> Specifically mobile clients and battery usage.

yes. Battery usage is super bad, mainly because of their DNS features which forces every DNS resolution to go through their network extension. At least recent updates have stopped the background power usage when you disconnect from the network in the app.

>But tunneling traffic through them is extremely worrysome.

it only does that in case of super bad NATs that make the usual NAT traversal techniques impossible. And presumably, the traffic is end-to-end-encrypted, so it doesn't matter if they have to be in the loop.

If you don't trust them to properly end-to-end encrypt, then it really doesn't matter whether they are in the loop for forwarding a packet or not because if you don't trust them to encrypt properly, all bets are off to begin with.

If you trust them however, it doesn't matter where the traffic is flowing through because only the intended machine is able to decrypt it.
by octotep | 2025-04-03 14:02:22+00:00
Overall, very cool and seriously much needed! How does the micronutrient estimation work? Or is that part of the secret sauce?

I was looking at this page: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/original-shells-cheese-... and saw the amino acid, vitamin, and mineral sections; there are many things listed which aren't covered by the official nutritional data. These entries also have very precise numbers but I'm not sure where and how they're derived and if I could put any serious weight in them. I'd love to hear more if you're willing to share!
by travisgriggs | 2025-04-03 14:02:31+00:00
This actually is kind of cool imo. There are things I like about systemd, and things I don’t. And this seems to fit much more closely around the things liked. Wish I had the time to play more with it on Linux. Would love to see Debian switch to something like this. Always felt like Debian was stuck between “all in” or “go without”. This would have been a nice middle ground choice to have had back in those days.
by myvoiceismypass | 2025-04-03 14:02:39+00:00
> Elon and Trump are sitting in the whitehouse asking Grok what to

Not perhaps Elon or Trump themselves (doubt Trump can actually use a computer), but it could very well be one of the teens like the so-called "Big Balls" that apparently have their hands in everything.

> This level of hyperbole is why reading about anything to do with the two of them is really exhausting

Almost as exhausting as their daily actions / tweets / rants.
by foota | 2025-04-03 14:02:53+00:00
Op is implying that there's excess labor lying around that with moderate prices (say, what you make in fields like construction, electrical work, etc.,) would be picked up. This isn't the case, or they'd already be taking the jobs in those fields that are relatively in demand.

I agree that if you paid people as much as software engineers to work in a factory you would certainly see disruptions in the labor market. I don't know what the market clearing price would be for factory labor sufficient to meet the US demand, but I don't think it'll be pretty.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-03 14:03:12+00:00
Humble bundle uses steam keys, so they are working in tandem regardless.

That said: enforcement on such things is not going to be 100%. Larger companies will either be purposefully ignores or make their own internal deals and contracts to follow. Some smaller games will slip through like everything else in life (Valve can still let Malware slip in once in a blue moon. I'm not surprised you can find some niche Japanese game sold for cheaper on DLsite or wherever).

But the point is that they can push thst in devs because of the monopoly. And that's how you get stuff like the Wolfire lawsuit when a few people do push back.