MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by atoav | 2025-05-19 07:31:29+00:00
> pretty sure a neural network trained on IQs and photographs could find reliable signals of intelligence therein

Yeah maybe, however as a life-long photographer and former freelance DoP I would heavily caution on then using those images to infer a persons intelligence from that picture. Because in my experience the number of false-positives and false-negatives is high.

There are extremely intelligent people who always look like shit on camera, because they constantly move, so you always capture them with their mouth half open, mid blink. And then you have complete hollow-brains who look deep and dashing whenever a camera is around, but god forbid they open their mouth.

So if anybody decided to make machines decide who is intelligent based on pictures (sounds like modern eugenics), the amount of false classifications would be exhorbitant and have real consequences for real people.

And let's not forget that appearances can be altered, so once you use such a system those deemed to be most intelligent will be those who game it best. So judging intelligence directly is probably the more reliable way.
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-19 07:31:32+00:00
> Neither.

> When I said that sentence, I was replying to mixologist. I thought mixologist was saying that it's inconsistent for the GOP to promote states rights for women's regulation health but not for AI regulation.

But if the GOP just wants to win and doesn’t care about hypocrisy or ideological consistency then this doesn’t matter, as I alluded to. Your point might have responded to mixologist but not to me.

Thanks for clarifying your point, though.
by song | 2025-05-19 07:31:56+00:00
My apartment has Miele appliances. It came with the apartment and I'm honestly not impressed at all besides the fact that they still work after 18 years (when they were installed).

The oven is mediocre at best, my Annova Precision Oven is much much better, much better control of temperature, heats up much faster, has more features, infinitely cheaper.

The range hood needs to be repaired because it makes a lot of noise. Repair of Miele appliances are super expensive.

The only appliance I'm impressed with is the wine cave but that's a white labeled Liebherr
by zahlman | 2025-05-19 07:32:11+00:00
Ah, I forgot I was going to address this one...

> Maybe "answered by duplicate" would have been a more friendly way to say it

That's why the current banner template starts off with "This question already has answers here:" and the link.

> more often people just like interacting with other humans and teaching.

Most people eventually get fed up of troubleshooting for others with the same basic problems, and trying to decipher their overall poor communication, and noticing that they never pick up basic skills when those services are available to them.

This is the failure mode of trying to teach on discussion forums: you don't get to teach because the humans you're interacting with don't actually come to learn.

The few who want to learn, rarely need much interactivity. That's bad for getting basic ground covered, but it's good for actually producing something of value.

> the day may soon come that StackOverflow isn't even hosted anymore.

I'm absolutely confident that the company will make something of the information in the long run. But more importantly, they have been releasing data dumps (mostly as promised - check out https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/data-dump ) that others may pick through in the future, and maybe even re-host. The content is under Creative Commons license; and while the company may reserve additional rights, they can't take those rights away from others.

But beyond that - alternatives exist. I'm a moderator now at https://software.codidact.com/ and while it's been slow going I continue to believe in the project.

> StackOverflow was in steady decline long before AI was competent at answering questions

This is true, but the data trends show clearly that LLMs were an "aggravating" (I would say the opposite; it relieves curators who can now do something more important) factor, and the meta archive shows clearly that it's been a policy flashpoint.

> even in 2025 the competence of AI is still in question

I see only two possible futures: the one where it's always in question, and the one where it's in question right up until shortly before the apocalypse and/or rapture. And I don't consider the latter because there would be no meaningful way to prepare (and I'm a skeptic anyway).
Show HN: VibeShift MCP – Getting secure working code from AI
by Ilikepizza2 | 2025-05-19 07:32:17+00:00
Hi HN, We are the devs behind VibeShift. We have been building this MCP server to put AI coding assistants in an automatic feedback loop. They code, test, debug, fix everything until we have a fully working, secure code. It tests like a real user, copies network/console and logical errors to give them back to cursor. (1 min demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_RgQGa8B0)

We felt this was the natural next step for AI coding assistants. And with new asynchronous assistants like codex, having a plug & play tester makes sure you don't have to spend time debugging and reviewing AI's code and can keep up with the speed with which AI codes.

For basic QA testing, we have - UI, visual regression testing - save tests for regression - Self healing - persistent browser auth states across tests

For security analysis, we have - SAST - DAST

By the time we had already written 10k lines of code, I realised we should launch the product asap so we know what features people actually want.

All this makes sure that you just give the initial prompt, and then directly interact with the final working code. You can be just a bit more sure before deploying vibe coded SaaS since you'll have tested and secured all the basic stuff even if you don't know how to code.

We have tested this with the free version of gemini-2.0-flash and the results are good :) We use it daily in our workflows to build websites and as a final check before committing anything. It pinpoints errors, makes sure previous working features don't break and tells cursor if there is a common security issue and how to fix it.

We also limit token usage by smartly filtering and augmenting the DOM context from websites. This was achieved by modifying the browser-use code heavily to suit to a testing framework. Special thanks to them for their stellar open source work :]

Although you can use it locally and completely free from GitHub, a cloud based solution is also available on our website - (groundng.site) for $20. We appreciate any and all feedback to make this better.

Thank you all for your time :)

PS: We also launched on ProductHunt today [https://www.producthunt.com/posts/vibeshift-mcp].
by johnisgood | 2025-05-19 07:32:18+00:00
I did not ask AI about this (not sure where you got this from, it was probably someone else), nor have I thought that Elixir technically requires a lot of files, but typically you do have more files, just like in Erlang, which is why I said I use Go for less serious projects. Challenge: find me any serious projects in Erlang or Elixir that consists of less than 4-6 files. And I mean, we are talking about web frameworks, so, "mix phx.new" alone creates a lot of files (100% true, even with specific CLI flags).

If you have experience with these languages yourself, then you know that separation of concerns is a core principle. Elixir (and Erlang) projects, especially those built with Phoenix or OTP principles involve a multitude of files, even for relatively small applications. This is not because the languages require them per se, but rather because the conventions and idioms of both languages, especially within the OTP framework encourage modular, isolated units of behavior spread across separate files, which I do not think is a bad thing in itself.

> If you are just doing a script in Elixir it is just one file.

I know! I already left a comment agreeing with someone else saying that, which I have known already anyways.

Again, I was voicing my frustration with keeping track of a lot of files, which is not what I want to do in the case of not-too-serious projects, which is why I use Go for less serious projects, as I have previously mentioned. I do not always mind having a lot of files, but there are cases when I do, just like how one may not prototype in a low-level language as opposed to a high-level one.

In any case, I hope I could clarify well enough for you. Do we still disagree?
by norman784 | 2025-05-19 07:32:22+00:00
AFAIK Rust isn't a great language for writing browsers, because the pattern that HTML/DOM needs isn't something that Rust supports out of the box, you need a lot of pointers here and there, IIRC Andreas Kling (Ladybird dev) said something like that, where Swift was better suited than Rust for the job, or at least more pleasant to work with after the team evaluated a few languages, including Rust.
by mleonhard | 2025-05-19 07:33:11+00:00
The microwave in my apartment also has bad firmware. It beeps four times when the timer runs down and it turns off. Unfortunately, the beeping continues unnecessarily after opening the door. I believe Frigidaire (the brand) contracted a manufacturer to build the model, but they have their own people install the official firmware. Then the manufacturer produces extras, installs their own firmware, and sells them, cutting out the brand. And that's how I end up with a "Frigidaire" microwave that beeps when it shouldn't and says "GOOD" instead of "DONE". At least that's my theory.

Firmware is an important part of the appliance. An appliance with Frigidaire hardware and third-party firmware is counterfeit.

Maybe the same thing happened with your Miele appliances?
by JonChesterfield | 2025-05-19 07:33:21+00:00
I think trillium is stashing the notes in a database. Certainly it thinks there is a migration step needed to move files around.

The everything markdown feature of obsidian is the dominant one. I can edit the files in emacs when I want to and the sync sorts it out just fine. They're stashed in a fossil repo by one of the machines as a backup because I'm paranoid and that also works fine because it's all ascii files.
by socalgal2 | 2025-05-19 07:33:32+00:00
Vulkan is by far the worst API of all the modern graphics API. It's crap. It's also not even trying to be portable, expecting you to query a million things and then adapt to the platform.

I for one am glad Vulkan is not "it"

Also, it's not even portable on Windows. Sure, if you're making a game, you can expect your gamer audiences have it installed. If you're making an app and you expect businesses to use you it you'll find neither OpenGL nor Vulkan work on most business class machines view Remote Desktop. The point being, it's not portable by design nor in actuality
by newdee | 2025-05-19 07:33:43+00:00
Tailscale is more than just a VPN. It has a number of features and capabilities which make it more like a private overlay network that just seems to work wherever and whenever. Some of those features; WireGuard (the VPN bit), NAT punching, automatic key distribution, ACLs, split or full tunnel routing to internet resources, SSO. Just to name a few.
by ljsocal | 2025-05-19 07:33:51+00:00
Take a day-long walking tour with Fabian. He’s a German expat who is a city plannner in london. Besides being a super-nice guy, his tour offers a view of some of london’s most interesting neighborhoods. Not a tourist’s view. Buy him a beer and tell him Cal sent you. https://www.airbnb.com/slink/IH7SGUyq
by Deukhoofd | 2025-05-19 07:34:00+00:00
Also note that The Netherlands frequently does constitution changes, even with that complexity. Our current version for example dates from 2022, when (among other changes) the secrecy of correspondence was amended to include all telecommunication, as it only included communication of letter, phone, and telegraph before that.

https://www.denederlandsegrondwet.nl/id/vlxuov0ja0xh/grondwe...
by sunshine-o | 2025-05-19 07:34:15+00:00
At this point Open Source doesn't mean anything anymore.

It is like everybody putting a "fat free" logo on highly processed junk food a few decades ago. Yes but what is fat exactly?

What really make me suspicious is there is now a very dense web of fake, captured foundations and non profits with a lot of money flowing through them. Most of them do not write any code of course and it is very hard to understand they purpose or what they do beyond "advocacy".

None of those Open Source advocates care about the most urgent problems like the fact that now almost every human has one of the most locked up system in its hand (yes I know about AOSP) or we can't trust the connected micro-controllers in our homes.

Instead they have as their top goal to fight things like climate change [0] (I wish)

Strangely postmarketOS (the ones trying to make possible that we don't have to trash those cellphones after 3 years) survives on €12656 in yearly donations, €11175 after banks fees [1]. So probably less than the monthly salary of most of those foundations executives and employees. Or probably the cost of one big Zoom meeting in the UN.

Also ask yourself why the FSF, GNU and RMS have been marginalized while Open Source became an UN level cause...

- [0] https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/digital-public-goods-alli...

- [1] https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/17/pmOS-budget-and-fin...
by madaxe_again | 2025-05-19 07:34:56+00:00
It wouldn’t be fun, no, but it would sure as hell make you appreciate not undergoing surgery without anaesthesia.

From a personal perspective, I spent years suffering from a mystery illness (ah, the joys of tropical diseases), and it made me appreciate the times when I wasn’t having an acute episode immensely, which otherwise would have been “ordinary”. My wife would be like “there are leaves all over the driveway!” and I would be like “yes, aren’t they beautiful?”.
by coldblues | 2025-05-19 07:35:00+00:00
There is no reason to forget. Your brain does memory crystallization whether you like it or not, this is not something that is up to you. There is no upper bound to memory as far as we know. https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Spaced_repetition_memory_sys...

You are just making a very silly "Appeal to nature" argument. Your notes, just as your memories, change and morph. For your memories, every time you access them, for your notes, every time you notice something you could improve. Old notes should not bother you, just ignore them if they're not relevant. They take a negligible amount of space on your devices. Personally, every note I've taken serves a purpose, even if their purpose is to just fill a spot so that I may be continually aware I've tackled a particular subject before even if it has not had any relevance for years.
by sjogress | 2025-05-19 07:35:39+00:00
I'm of the opinion that these passion projects are incredibly important.

Your passions projects were problably also far more important to your growth than you give them credit for.

Scratching an itch is how we, as programmers/engineers/whatever, grow. It is also how we stumble into solving real problems and make our mark on the world.

Who knows, this could become the next big player in the browsersphere, or maybe it'll pivot into something else, or perhaps it will spark someones imagination. At the very least it has (probably) already been a source of creative bliss and pride for the ones involved, which in my opinion makes it worthwhile.
by cess11 | 2025-05-19 07:36:13+00:00
What you experience as perception happens inside the brain, it's inherently deceptive. With suggestive practice you can teach your brain to 'perceive' all sorts of things that to you appear as real as any other perception.

One way to study this is to shut off the neural channels for external stimuli with NMDA-antagonists or isolating the entire body, you'll experience immersive perceptions, including visions. Falling for various degrees of decoration your brain provides spontaneously or has been trained to provide is foundational to many religious and mystical currents throughout history. Some of them consider not falling for at least some of these things to be the basic exercise of their regimes, e.g. non-reaction to mental phenomena in Goenka's vipassana or time-locked prayer as in canonical hours and islamic prayer.
by PinkSheep | 2025-05-19 07:36:23+00:00
> unmodifiable by any third party then what you said makes sense.

You are right, I do. The same reason I don't think the cryptocurrency is for everyone. And the reason I accept this, is because "traditional institutions" still can be "easily" gamed: enough cases of social engineering around to be considered a norm. Where law enforcement won't try enough or can't do enough to return the money transferred to a hostile account. Following this, if someone smart enough to avoid the banking scams, they are probably smart enough to manage their own wallet safely.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-05-19 07:37:10+00:00
Step 0. Recognizing the so-called modern public commons are run by not-always-so-benevolent corporations.

Step 1. Making and/or using viable alternatives, preferably run by self-sustaining nonprofits or social ventures that aren't social-washing and not easily raided, shutdown, or censored by any one hostile government. If it's going to be a "Youtube" or "Twitter" replacement, it has to be usable or it's an aspiration rather than a realization.
by Chilinot | 2025-05-19 07:38:50+00:00
This seems to be the research behind it: https://www.fpl.fs.usda.gov/documnts/pdf2018/fpl_2018_song00...

And there are only smaller comparisons towards steel. They are more focused on how it compares to regular wood.

In summary, what they are doing: 1. Boil the wood. 2. Press the wood. 3. Done.
by senectus1 | 2025-05-19 07:40:20+00:00
you make pretty structural beams

>Ultimately, InventWood is planning to use wood chips to create structural beams of any dimension that won’t need finishing. “Imagine your I-beams look like this,” Lau said, holding up a sample of Superwood. “They’re beautiful, like walnut, ipe. These are the natural colors. We haven’t stained any of this.”
by jltsiren | 2025-05-19 07:40:43+00:00
I think the ultimate point is that capitalists don't care about your country, whatever country that is. Capitalism is the least bad economic system discovered so far, but the success or failure of any particular country is irrelevant in it. If a country wants to be successful under capitalism, its leaders (and ultimately citizens) must choose policies that make it successful. You can't rely on businesses, because capital has no homeland.
by song | 2025-05-19 07:41:23+00:00
Memorable experience at a four seasons in Shenzhen (memorable for how well they fixed my screwups that is), I had forgotten my laptop charger (apple laptop). They didn't have any I could borrow, went to the apple store to buy one and lent it to me. I forgot my phone in the taxi arriving at the airport. Noticed immediately, I tried calling my phone, the taxi driver hung up immediately on me (so he knew I left my phone there and was probably planning on selling it). I called Four Seasons, they had kept a record of the taxi number, got the phone fedexed it to my destination.
by WickyNilliams | 2025-05-19 07:41:52+00:00
Yeah, I have my obsidian vault in Dropbox and synced to my phone and back with Dropsync on android. The obsidian mobile app Just Works™ with this. It was a one time setup. Of course there's no fancy conflict resolution going on, but it's unlikely I'm editing in two places at once so it's not needed.
Show HN: Hsdlib – A C Library for Vector Similarity with SIMD Acceleration
by habedi0 | 2025-05-19 07:42:15+00:00
Hsdlib is a small C library for fast vector distance and similarity calculations.

At the moment, it supports:

- Euclidean, Manhattan, and Hamming distances - Dot product, cosine, and Jaccard similarities

Hsdlib uses SIMD acceleration (AVX, AVX2, AVX512, NEON, and SVE instructions) to speed things up.

GitHub link: https://github.com/habedi/hsdlib
by bubblyworld | 2025-05-19 07:42:27+00:00
I don't think the OP is arguing that it's illegal, merely that it feels somewhat immoral. It's a public forum, yes, but to me it also feels like this violates the spirit of the dataset (or the "social contract" if you will).

I'm completely aware that the information is available regardless, with some scraping effort. I still think it's a bit gross. Let's not be machine men, with machine minds?
by moontear | 2025-05-19 07:42:44+00:00
You can self-host obsidian syncing which is exactly what I'm doing. You can also share your notebooks with something like Syncthing, but you may get merge errors that way - just self host the database (CouchDB) and you're good to go:

https://leduccc.medium.com/setup-self-hosted-synchronization...
by dontTREATonme | 2025-05-19 07:43:23+00:00
It’s kinda astounding how hard you’re trying to cover for a group of people who have such obvious contempt for you.

Truly remarkable how hard people will go to never have to admit “losing face”.

Not only did they very obviously lie to your face, they’re now continuing to lie and you, instead of calling out their lies, and demanding accountability or something are gobbling up the lies and asking for more.

Your incredulity doesn’t make you look clever it makes you look foolish, because everyone else knows who “they” is. Everyone else knows why the Biden family would do the thing every single politician has done since time immemorial when a bad news cycle is about to break (ie distract with a sympathetic story). And you’re sitting here asking “what is a bad news cycle?”

The Jake tapper book points to an intentional cover up by Biden, his entire family and staff. It implicates nearly the entire DNC leadership. It’s not just a sad story about elder abuse, it’s an entire administration spending four years overtly lying to the public. It calls into question not just all those people’s credibility and integrity but also implicates them in multiple felonies.

It’s pretty obvious why his family and supposed friends would do anything to try to distract from their crimes and say “he’s dying leave him alone”
by barrell | 2025-05-19 07:44:58+00:00
If you don’t mention an item, it is skipped (no grade). If you can’t remember an item, but you recall learning it, you describe it and it will be marked as fail. At the end there is a screen with all the words and you can change any from skip to fail if you truly forgot it.

Any skipped items are then prioritized in the flashcards/cloze completion/shadowing modalities.

AFAIK free recall is not very high signal as to which words you know and which ones you don’t. Skipped words I just as often forget about cards because they’re so easy as I do because they’re so hard. It is however an incredibly effective exercise to cement your recall (and in my apps case, a good way to skip a good portion of your reviews in a day)
by EvanAnderson | 2025-05-19 07:45:15+00:00
Through some odd circumstances I found myself receiving a lot of catalogs and sales solicitations for a reasonably wealthy person. Most of the stuff was what you'd exoect-- expensive furnishings, clothing, home goods.

The two that were most interesting were the travel-related (guided trips in exotic locales w/ profiles and resumes of the local guides), and oddly specific and highly-focused catalogs (gardening, specific types of home goods). The one that really stands out was a catalog with hundreds of different brushes-- each with a very specific purpose (and many with carrying cases and other accessories). I had no idea there were so many different brushes.
by ars | 2025-05-19 07:45:33+00:00
I have that, but for my entire house - in the Summer the walls get covered with sun blocking plates, and in the winter the walls are exposed to the rays of the sun.

If you want your own, you can buy it, it's called: Parthenocissus tricuspidata or you can get the Parthenocissus quinquefolia.

It really does work!