MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjc50 | 2025-05-20 15:36:18+00:00
Factual work remains true regardless of who discovered it. If they actually found the solution to global warming or cancer, then fine. It remains true and useful regardless of the person. But you might want to consider how to not pay them royalties for it.

The problem with unethical behavior in sciences is that you have to check - which you should be doing anyway, but once someone has been exposed as a fraud the community as a whole needs to go back and clean out all the fraud by checking all their work. Unethical behavior in someone's personal life doesn't necessarily invalidate that.

Although I don't see many people talking about ReiserFS these days.
by marcusverus | 2025-05-20 15:36:24+00:00
> Imagine having to tell the economy it can only grow as fast as a specific rare metal is mined for money to continue to make sense.

It makes intuitive sense that the gold standard would have limited economic activity, but did it actually do? If the gold standard had been constricting economic activity, one would expect GDP growth to have accelerated after the gold standard was eliminated, but as far as I can tell that didn't happen.
by keeda | 2025-05-20 15:37:11+00:00
I'm not sure about this case, but maybe the assumption here is that these are people from a technical branch of Mossad, such as Unit 8200, which does SIGINT. I've interviewed 3 of them for your typical Big Tech SWE position, and to a candidate, they were very strong engineers. I never got to work with them, however, because they always got better counteroffers...
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-20 15:37:17+00:00
I chose 320 x 180 because of Animal Well. In fact, the whole app was originally conceived as a way for me to make an Animal Well style game, but more conveniently than using Pico8 (Billy Basso implied once that he used Pico8 to prototype Animal Well before moving to C++). I still think 320 x 180 is the right size for both games and game makers.

For example, here's a very early (mostly broken) prototype of 90s.dev

https://90s.dev/v1/

Because of 320x180, it can fit the code editor and the mapmaker or spritemaker on the screen at once, and each tab is big enough to be usable.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-05-20 15:37:28+00:00
Second worst economic period in US history directly caused by the lack of fiat currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Depression

Worst economic period in US history directly caused by the lack of fiat currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression

Fiat currency is just below electricity and insulin as the greatest inventions of the recent centuries.
by anttiharju | 2025-05-20 15:37:32+00:00
Do you think https://github.com/openai/CLIP can be ran on it? LLM makes me think of chatbots but I suppose because it's inference-based it would work. Somewhat unclear on what's the difference between LLMs and inference, I think inference is the type of compute LLMs use.

I wonder if inference-d would be a fitting name.
by flotzam | 2025-05-20 15:38:25+00:00
> Reading docs ("research") is essential part of engineering.

Sure, but so is safety engineering. Making mechanisms more obvious to use correctly or fail safe if used incorrectly improves outcomes when flawed human beings use them. It also makes them more pleasant to use in general.

Besides, look at the man page in question. It's talking about this in terms of encoding niceties and doesn't even spell out the possibility of deliberate, let alone malicious multiline values:

"curl makes sure that each header you add/replace is sent with the proper end-of-line marker, you should thus not add that as a part of the header content: do not add newlines or carriage returns, they only mess things up for you."

That's inducing a wrong/incomplete mental model of how this parameter works.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-20 15:38:26+00:00
I haven't made any games with it yet. I barely finished any of the game making tools. The platform itself is relatively stable, which is what I spent so much time on. And the hope was that the community would help make the game making tools and the games. But maybe you're right, maybe I have to finish some game maker tools, finish some games, and finish some tutorials to make game maker tools and games, and then relaunch in a few months.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-20 15:38:40+00:00
>There's the risk of this system stop working and that's when the US might have hard times due to being forced to live by its means and have no ability to kickstart its own production when that time comes.

I think the risk is greater than that. A concern is not just a regression to the mean, but indebtedness and the future having to pay up for the spending of the past.

I think a different analogy would be a joint credit card where someone can run up the bill and then die. Like national debt, you can always default, but it will be the survivor that takes the hit, not the dead person that spent their life in luxury.

The trade deficit isn't necessarily a problem, but national debt is. It would be one thing if this money was being invested in growth, but it largely isn't. Most of it funds non-growth consumption.

This is largely a self-made internal problem around governmental prioritization and balancing revenue with expenditure. That isn't to say other countries don't also benefit.

The US is trading future prosperity for consumption today. Investing countries are trading consumption today for future prosperity.
by RetroTechie | 2025-05-20 15:38:56+00:00
> They recently held the Olympics, yes they are a functioning country. Or are westerners too clueless to make that connection?

It's not those westerners who are clueless...

NK capital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyongyang

SK county where Olympics were held: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyeongchang_County
by ModernMech | 2025-05-20 15:39:17+00:00
This reminds me of a tweet from a while back: https://x.com/jonathoda/status/960952613507231744

My thesis: The theory and practice of programming is permeated with the sensibilities of high-functioning autistics like myself. De-nerding programming will unlock great benefits for all of humanity. We too will benefit, for despite our hubris we are also way over our heads.

There's a great deal of truth to that. Programming languages are made by nerds, for nerds, and that's a problem in a world that is becoming more automated every day.

> Compare to the 80s, when a child or teen's "game console" might have been a ZX Spectrum or Commodore 64, which would boot right to BASIC

Fully agreed here! I had a very unsettling conversation with a student interested in making video games. He was 18, and in a CS degree program, and he has told me he had been into video games his whole life, but he never knew you could use the computer he had at home growing up to make them.

This floored me because like you, I had experience booting up an old PC and having access to a programming language right there. Mine was QBasic on DOS, and I used it to make a rudimentary Zork type text adventure game. I was 6 or 7, and tons of people my age had that same experience getting into programming.

I would have thought in the 30 years since that time, with the proliferation of computing devices and especially game creation software, that it would be more accessible today to get into gaming. And in some ways it is, but in many ways it's also been heavily monetized and walled off, to the point that every day people are discouraged from creating their own games. It's really quite sad, because we've actually learned a lot over the years about how to make computing more accessible to people, but we haven't invested enough in putting that knowledge into real products that people use.
by jchw | 2025-05-20 15:39:35+00:00
"Works on my machine!" is stupid when it comes to software running under an OS, because a userland program that is correct shouldn't work any differently from box to box. (Exceptions you already know notwithstanding.) It is very different when it comes to an operating system.

I know people here hate this, but if you want a good Linux experience, you need to start by picking the right hardware. Hardware support is far and away the number one issue with having a good Linux experience anymore. It's, unfortunately, very possible to even set out to pick good hardware and get burnt for various reasons, like people misrepresenting how well a given device works, or perhaps just simply very similar SKUs having vastly different hardware/support. Still, i'm not saying you have to buy something from a vendor like System76 that specifically caters to Linux. You could also choose a machine that just happens to have good Linux support by happenstance, or a vendor that explicitly supports Linux as an option. I'm running a Framework Laptop 16 and it works just fine, no sleep issues. As far as I know, the sole errata that exists for this laptop is... Panel Self Refresh is broken in the AMDGPU driver. It sorta works, but it's a bit buggy, causing occasional screen artifacts. NixOS with nixos-hardware disables it for me using the kernel cmdline argument amdgpu.dcdebugmask=0x10. That's about it. The fingerprint reader is a little fidgety, and Linux could do a better job at laptop audio out of the box, but generally speaking the hardware works day in and day out. It's not held together with ducktape.

I don't usually bother checking to see if a given motherboard will work under Linux before buying it, since desktop motherboards tend to be much better about actually running Linux well. For laptops, Arch wiki often has useful information for a given laptop. For example, here's the Arch wiki regarding the Framework 16:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Framework_Laptop_16

It's fair to blame Linux for the faults it actually has, which are definitely numerous. But let's be fair here, if you just pick a given random device, there is a good chance it will have some issues.
by jabl | 2025-05-20 15:39:37+00:00
> As for freight, the US actually moves a significantly greater portion of its freight by rail than Europe does. Rail has around 40% modal share for freight in the US vs only 17% in Europe. One reason for this is that in Europe many lines are congested with passenger traffic, leaving few slots for freight trains to operate - except late at night.

It's also that rail tends to be more competitive for long haul traffic, and the US operators have big trans-continental freight networks well suited to that. In Europe there's a sharp drop off in modal share as freight crosses borders. Each national railway operator is in practice fiercely protective of its own turf, and there are a lot of hurdles to overcome. So in practice cross-border freight is largely done with trucks instead.

Despite the EU commission wanting to get some competition going on the rails and better interoperability requirements etc etc. for at least the past 30 years, the operators are still in the "discussion about preparing to setup a committee to discuss interoperability" phase.
by vayllon | 2025-05-20 15:39:39+00:00
Another type of topology you’ll encounter in deep neural networks (DNNs) is network topology. This refers to the structure of the network — how the nodes are connected and how data flows between them. We already have several well-known examples, such as auto-encoders, convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and generative adversarial networks (GANs), all of which are bio-inspired.

However, we still have much to learn about the topology of the brain and its functional connectivity. In the coming years, we are likely to discover new architectures — both internal within individual layers/nodes and in the ways specialized networks connect and interact with each other.

Additionally, the brain doesn’t rely on a single network, but rather on several ones — often referred to as the "Big 7" — that operate in parallel and are deeply interconnected. Some of these include the Default Mode Network (DMN), the Central Executive Network (CEN) or the Limbic Network, among others. In fact, a single neuron can be part of multiple networks, each serving different functions.

We have not yet been able to fully replicate this complexity in artificial systems, and there is still much to be learned and inspired by from this "network topologies".

So, "Topology is all you need" :-)
by pjc50 | 2025-05-20 15:39:59+00:00
> "It's okay to be white": I think this slogan is the perfect example of effective propaganda.

It's so effective because negative polarization is so powerful. People see something that makes them mad on the internet and then make it their whole mission in life to fight it. That slogan was designed to bait people into saying "it's not OK to be white", which is obviously absurd and guaranteed to cause white people to get angry and say racist things in response. Magnifying the Internet race war that they want to break out.
by zchrykng | 2025-05-20 15:40:08+00:00
> I'm not dismissing onedrive here but I wanted to say monseur was cheating when he mentioned onedrive/sharepoint as real features of Excel application – they are not directly related to the essence of spreadsheet editing and can be substituted with any solution which does the job, even Dropbox itself.

Not true. Sharepoint and OneDrive are key enablers for real time collaboration. It lets multiple people work on the same file at the same time using native desktop applications. Dropbox has tried to bolt stuff like that on, but it is janky as heck. OpenOffice, etc can't integrate with Excel for real time collaboration (honestly, I'm not sure they support any level of real time collab with anything). Google Sheets won't integrate with Excel for real time. Google is great for collaboration, but sticking everything in Google's cloud system isn't dramatically better than being stuck on Microsoft's stuff. Also Google Sheets just doesn't work as well as Excel.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-05-20 15:40:59+00:00
Time to take off your blinders? Trump accused Biden of hiding his cancer diagnosis and conservatives are running with that narrative.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Conservative/comments/1kqlri6/they_...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-jr-mocks-jill-230953...

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s1-5403887/trump-biden-can...
by jerf | 2025-05-20 15:41:12+00:00
You'd have to get a hold of a model that was simply tuned on its input data and hasn't been further tuned by someone who has a lot of motivation to twiddle with the results to determine if that was the case. There's a lot of perfectly rational reasons why the companies don't release such models: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972906
by antirez | 2025-05-20 15:41:25+00:00
Check my YouTube channel for an experiment on how I added UTF-8 support to Kilo showcasing what was, back then, some early experiment at using LLMs to ship working code. I need to push the changes after some cleanup, but that's not enough for a Kilo 2, as it makes things more complicated without showing worthwhile programming techniques. So it's sitting on my laptop.
by smarterclayton | 2025-05-20 15:41:30+00:00
Inference is the process of evaluating a model ("inferring" a response to the inputs). LLMs are uniquely difficult to serve because they push the limits on the hardware.

The models we support come from the model server vLLM https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/models/supported_models.html, which has a focus on large generative models. I don't see CLIP in the list.
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-05-20 15:41:35+00:00
The premise is false, and the billions of dollars spent by manufactures every year training foreign-market competitors had increased exponentially since the 1990s.

There is no fix for the world moving into its own derivative technologies, and simply abandoning increasingly hostile origin markets.

It is a complex situation, and throwing taxes/money at the issue is naive =3
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-05-20 15:41:56+00:00
> I pointed out that hammer is not a suitable metaphor...

Your claim that a hammer manufacturer's "pay us for every nail" model is not a suitable metaphor for the apple's "pay us for every dollar" payment processing model, was respectfully communicated (thank you for that) and heard. The case you made for that claim, was not persuasive enough to convince the people who think it is. I think no more meta-arguing (or meta-insisting) need be done regarding whether a metaphor is perfect or not: I will be the first to admit that none are (because comparing a thing to itself is useless), but some are illustrative.

To wit, this metaphor illustrates that the world would be a better place without apple asking to be paid for every dollar accepted in-app which is distributed in the app store, just like the world would be a better place without a hammer manufacturer asking to be paid for every nail driven by the hammer.

Maybe one might think otherwise if apple showed data that explained how their 27-30% cut of others' sales was necessary to allow payments? We understand that making 2 hammers costs ~2x as much as making 1 hammer, but does allowing an app to accept $2 cost ~2x as much as allowing an app to accept $1? What is the magnitude of that cost? Remember that compensation for distribution (which covers the costs of running the app store, and need not be correlated with in-app payments) can happen separately.
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-20 15:42:08+00:00
I think I figured out how to explain it:

I basically wanted to make a much more usable pico8 for game prototyping. Hence the 320x180 design, and this prototype: https://90s.dev/v1/ But I also wanted the full convenience of VS Code, including full type checking and autocompletion support for TypeScript. So I designed it to be a platform that can be used to make and publish the things that pico8's tabs contain.

Now I see that I released this much too soon.
by Manuel_D | 2025-05-20 15:42:39+00:00
Your own study showed a preference for women. Look at the row "female gender" in the results table: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00142921220019...

More positive bias than negative.

None of the DEI programs I've encountered have focused on age or disability. Only race and gender, mostly the latter.
by brad0 | 2025-05-20 15:43:08+00:00
There was another reply here earlier that was saying it isn't a trade deficit. I wanted to steelman the parent post:

Foreign investment into USA companies reduces the USA trade deficit but it isn't tracked in traditional methods.

I've heard that foreign investment in real estate generally isn't counted as each country owns properties equally between the two, so it nets out. I wonder if investments into companies is the same?
by CuriouslyC | 2025-05-20 15:43:10+00:00
Bun is still faster, and Bun's testing is insanely fast -- I had a test suite that would take 30 seconds with Jest that finished in 800ms with bun. Plus Bun's networking performance is insane compared to Node, and you can have a lot more concurrent clients in a light vpc (think 1gb).
Show HN: I made a mobile app to stop sugar cravings
by Daveatt | 2025-05-20 15:43:31+00:00
Hey guys

I 100% vibe coded a Flutter mobile app for iOS/Android using science-based methods to stop our processed sugar cravings.

First month in business I did $3.2K with 110 paying subscribers

Let's see if I can 10X this as I clearly see on TikTok/IG there is a strong demand from the Gen Z

Thank you David
by pbohun | 2025-05-20 15:43:59+00:00
This is so cool! It's funny because open source devs are making Windows better while MS is actively making it worse. If MS removed all telemetry and AI (and restored win10 functions in context menus), I would probably move back to it.

I've recently started playing around with Janet, and it's a great language. I think it's inspired by Clojure and Lua, and somehow manages to be better than both (in my opinion).
by Spivak | 2025-05-20 15:44:35+00:00
> It takes left-wing views as axiomatically correct

This is painting with such a broad brush that it's hard to take seriously. "Models should not be biased toward a particular race, sex, gender, gender expression, or creed" is actually a right-wing view. It's a line that appears often in Republican legislation. And when your model has an innate bias attempting to correct that seems like it would be a right-wing position. Such corrections may be imperfect and swing the other way but that's a bug in the implementation not a condemnation of the aim.
by alwa | 2025-05-20 15:44:41+00:00
Here is his essay, if you’re wondering! It’s short and zippy and pretty fun—has the flavor of that slightly smug, sarcastic, sassy contrarianism of the New Atheists’ writing in that time—

https://cslc.nd.edu/assets/141348/pullum_eskimo_vocabhoax.pd...

> What i do here is very little more than an extended review and elaboration on Laura Martin's wonderful American Anthropologist report of 1986. Laura Martin is professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the Cleveland State University. She endures calmly the fact that virtually no one listened to her when she first published. It may be that few will listen to me as I explain in different words to another audience what she pointed out. But the truth is that the Eskimos do not have lots of different words for snow, and no one who knows anything about Eskimo (or more accurately, about the Inuit and Yupik families of related languages spoken by Eskimos from Siberia to Greenland) has ever said they do. Anyone who insists on simply checking their primary sources will find that they are quite unable to document the alleged facts about snow vocabulary (but nobody ever checks, because the truth might not be what the reading public wants to hear).
Show HN: I made a tool that helps your content get cited by LLM's like ChatGPT
by rashwell | 2025-05-20 15:45:29+00:00
I’ve been working on LLMContentReady, a tool that analyzes and improves your website’s visibility to large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and more.

The idea is simple: content that’s well-structured, citable, and knowledge-rich is more likely to be surfaced by AI assistants — and LLMContentReady scores and helps optimize your pages for exactly that.

It crawls your site, gives you a breakdown of what LLMs look for (headings, Q&A patterns, citations, schema, etc.), and suggests improvements with an AI-powered editor.

Still early, and I’m looking for feedback from technical folks who care about the future of search and content discovery.

Would love to know:

•How useful is this in your workflow? •What would you expect from a tool like this? •Would you use this as an SEO/content lead or founder?
Show HN: I built a tool to track top indie profiles on X using engagement data
by VaultCodeBoy | 2025-05-20 15:45:34+00:00
I developed https://www.socialleaderboard.com, a web tool that tracks engagement metrics for indie founders and creators posting on Twitter.

It’s built for two groups:

Creators and solopreneurs who want to analyze their tweet performance over time

Brands or SaaS tools looking to identify high-performing, relevant profiles to potentially collaborate with

The leaderboard ranks profiles monthly based on engagement rate and surface-level performance. Each user profile includes average metrics per tweet, engagement rate, top content, and topic trends over time.

All data is public and focused on discoverability and insight rather than influencer scale. Profiles can be requested directly from the page if someone isn't tracked yet.
Show HN: I made the vibe coders' cybersecurity app
by lorikmor | 2025-05-20 15:45:54+00:00
I developed and app that helps coders that use cursor windsurf lovable or bolt to scan their websites and get a light audit for things like leaked api keys, missing headers, public .env and misconfigured databases like Supabase RLS.

The tool also includes a widget to make sure that an authenticated user can't change his sensitive data.

I just released this not even a month ago and I am at $100 MRR and a lot of paying users saying that they loved it and it helped them.