MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-05-29 00:00:32+00:00
Fruits mostly have much less sugar period, it's not really other ingredients that help process it. (Unless you over-ingest them by juicing, in which case OJ can be just as bad as Coke.) And yogurt is often full of just as much sugar as ice cream.

The main theory around why ice cream doesn't show the negative effects is that the sugar is mostly trapped in a fat matrix that takes a long time to break apart and therefore to digest and release the sugars. So there's very little harmful sugar spike in the blood, and the carb intake surprisingly becomes more akin to e.g. slow-digesting unprocessed whole grains (obviously without benefits of fiber or other whole-grain nutrients).

Of course it's also very different if we're talking about plain chocolate ice cream, vs filled with ribbons of caramel and chocolate-coated candy pieces, which will produce sugar spikes. And of course it's also not accounting for overeating, ice cream or not. If you eat calories you don't need, it's going to make you fat no matter whether it's ice cream or something else.
by arunabha | 2025-05-29 00:00:52+00:00
From the article

> In 2016, I canvassed for Bernie Sanders. I spent my first day in Nevada > walking door-to-door in the desert heat with a dying phone battery and a stack > of printed papers delineating potential voters, thinking "there really should > be an app for this." There, I ended up writing some Google Apps code for > caucus result reporting. > > This was a chance to do something bigger.

The original motivations as stated seem to be good. Essentially, he wanted to leverage technology to deliver positive impact, a sentiment that most of the HN audience will resonate with.

I'm wondering if the author evaluated his initial convictions with the ongoing actual negative impact DOGE was causing just a few days in. Sure, it's hard to leave a paying job if your mortgage depends on it, but in the DOGE case pay was minimal if it even existed. If this was a move of conviction, then there were plenty of signs that the stated purpose of DOGE was not being followed. Yet, I can't fail but notice that the author stuck around with DOGE till he was unceremoniously fired.
by heisenzombie | 2025-05-29 00:02:37+00:00
No I had the same reaction. This kind of rigid "semantic network" kind of approach just can't work in the absolute case. And the author seems quite "absolute" about it.

It comes down to - what's the point of this? If it's to prove theorems to a computer then it's obviously the wrong approach. If it's to explain concepts to humans then it's _also_ the wrong approach. It's not true in any useful way that one can learn something by just starting at a random "node" and then "tree shaking" some big "knowledge graph" and just learning the specific edges that remain.

That said, no hate for this kind of tool! Interlinked knowledge is obviously great and useful, it's the emphasis on designing a rigid ontology that makes me raise an eyebrow.
by shwouchk | 2025-05-29 00:03:31+00:00
warc is not a panacea; for example, gemini makes it super annoying to get a transcript of your conversation, so i started saving those as pdf and warc.

turns out that unlike most webpages, the pdf version is only a single page of what is visible on screen.

turns out also that opening the warc immediately triggers a js redirect that is planted in the page. i can still extract the text manually - it’s embedded there - but i cannot “just open” the warc in my browser and expect an offline “archive” version - im interacting with a live webpage! this sucks from all sides - usability, privacy, security.

Admittedly, i don’t use webrecorder - does it solve this problem? did you verify?
by kayodelycaon | 2025-05-29 00:03:44+00:00
I really don't understand the distinction you're trying to make. I think you're trying to make community too specific. And support meetings are very much clubs by your definition.

Also I haven't had to deal with "awful rainbow clubs". In fact my experience has been the exact opposite. Twelve years ago, I went to a furry convention and ended up joining one of the most accepting communities I've ever seen. And let me tell you, once a community gets to a certain size, it will have Problems™. :)
Ask HN: Any modern mobile friendly family tree / genealogy builders?
by sherdil2022 | 2025-05-29 00:06:20+00:00
I have used most of the ones out there already but I hate the UI and UX of those. They are like they were built in the 90s and don't have much oomph.

I can build one (semi vibe-code actually) - but before I do wanted to find out if there are any modern (optionally mobile friendly - since I know small screens and family trees don't mix).
by maxwell_smart | 2025-05-29 00:07:42+00:00
By age 17, he published 10 peer-reviewed manuscripts in quantum field theory and particle physics. At 19 he got his PhD in particle physics from Caltech. Age 21, youngest ever recipient of what they used to call the MacArthur "genius" grant. Then struck it rich founding a mathematical software company. So, to be fair, he's done ok for himself.
by austin-cheney | 2025-05-29 00:07:51+00:00
Nonsense.

Neurology has proven numerous times that it’s not about the size of the toolbox but the diversity of tools within. The articles starts with cats can’t talk. Human can talk because we have a unique brain component dedicated to auditory speech parsing. Cats do, however, appear to listen to the other aspects of human communication almost, sometimes much more, precisely than many humans.

The reason size does not matter is that 20% of brain volume accounts for 80% of brain mass in the cerebellum. That isn’t the academic or creative part of the brain. Instead it processes things like motor function, sensory processing (not vision), and more.

The second most intelligent class of animals are corvids and their brains are super tiny. If you want to be smarter then increase your processing diversity, not capacity.
by RickS | 2025-05-29 00:11:07+00:00
Oof, i'll be donating big to help out. My partner's from here and i visited for the first time last year. Its fantastic. Half kitschy weird science stuff, but half genuinely fantastic maker materials at great prices. Salvaged air pumps, motors from GMC electric seats, super high load bearings, all kinds of stuff that is at the intersection of obscure, extremely useful, and difficult to get on Amazon, especially at a reasonable price or small quantity.

Anyone from the area should check it out.
by JohnBooty | 2025-05-29 00:11:27+00:00
My experience is that people want to do their jobs well, but SYSTEMIC reasons tend to prevent this.

Typically (almost ubiquitously, really) this comes in the form of time constraints. I mean, come on, we're (nearly) all engineers here.

How much suboptimal code have you shipped? How much of it was due to a lack of skill or motivation vs. time constraints or other external factors?

Where I live, it seems like half the streets don't have street signs (this isn't a backwater where you'd expect this, it's Boston).

Again, I'd bet dollars to pennies that it's a systemic issue. Voters tend to demand lower taxes as their #1 or #2 issue, especially in local elections where big-picture issues like abortion etc. are not decided.

So, are Boston's missing street signs a symptom of people not caring? Or a symptom of that department probably being underfunded? I obviously don't know, but my money would be on the latter.

In my experience the only people not trying their best on an indivdual basis are people who have been completely screwed over and beaten down by their jobs. Everybody else is trying, if only out of rational self-interest (wanting promotions, or at least needing to keep their jobs)
by rswail | 2025-05-29 00:11:34+00:00
Falsely false.

RFID: Radio Frequency Identification: passive powered by RF, returns data when powered.

NFC: Near Field Communications, is a protocol for communications, built on RFID, includes polling for readers and protocols for defined crypto and data storage/retrieval.

EMV: Eurocard/Mastercard/Visa standard for the data and crypto operations for an EMV chip, extended from physical by the use of NFC for contactless payments, primarily by replicating the data on the magstripe and adding some additional crypto and dynamic elements.

EMV is one standard for how to use an NFC card, there are others, primarily used for transit.
by mos_basik | 2025-05-29 00:11:58+00:00
The belief that grunts (like the hard working grunt) aren't paid enough might not be sufficient on its own to make the end result (people getting mad at that grunt) believable.

But what if one considers it as one of several beliefs frequently held together? What if a grunt believes the following?

A) grunts (in general, but also including the hard worker) don't get paid enough for how much they work

B) grunts have more control over how hard they work than over how much they are paid

C) if one grunt works extra hard, management will start expecting all grunts to work that hard (exacerbating what they already think is a poor work/pay ratio; see A)

Now is it a stretch?
by nathan_compton | 2025-05-29 00:13:55+00:00
Well attested to is different from convincingly attested to. You may have noticed that people will say just about anything for lots of reasons other than averring a literal truth, and this was particularly true for those many millennia during which human beings didn't even know why the sky was blue and almost literally could not have conceived of the terms in which we can presently formulate an explanation.
by pezezin | 2025-05-29 00:14:25+00:00
It is even more complex than that: within a neighborhood you have "chome", then blocks, then buildings. All three levels are numbered chronologically and don't follow any kind of logical order. Oh, and streets don't have names. Honestly, I don't know how people did before modern navigation systems.

So yeah, this system looks like a godsend, I want to try it as soon as possible.

* I don't know if there is a translation for this word.
by travisjungroth | 2025-05-29 00:14:26+00:00
I like this idea. I’ve thought of a similar idea at the other end of the limit. How much less intelligent could a species be and evolve to where we’re at? I don’t think much.

Once you reach a point where cultural inheritance is possible, things pop off at a scale much faster than evolution. Still, it’s interesting to think about a species where the time between agriculture and space flight is more like 100k or 1mm years than 10k. Similarly, a species with less natural intelligence than us but is more advanced because they got a 10mm year head start. Or, a species with more natural intelligence than us but is behind.

Your analogy makes me think of boiling water. There’s a phase shift where the environment changes suddenly (but not everywhere all at once). Water boils at 100C at sea level pressure. Our intelligence is the minimum for a global spanning civilization on our planet. What about an environment with different pressures?

It seems like an “easier” planet would require less intelligence and a “harder” planet would require more. This could be things like gravity, temperature, atmosphere, water versus land, and so on.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-05-29 00:14:56+00:00
I’m probably too optimistic as a default, but I think it might be okay. Agriculture used to require far more people than it does now due to automation, and it certainly seems like many industries will be able to be partially automated with only incremental change to current technology. If less people are needed for social maintenance, then more will be able to focus on the sciences, so yes we may have less people but it’s quite possible we’ll have a lot more in science.

I don’t think AI needs to be conscious to be useful.
by itishappy | 2025-05-29 00:16:43+00:00
We need a model that includes electromagnetism. The author isn't the only one making this claim. When we do magnetohydrodynamic cosmological sims we consistently find surprising effects. The recent simulation showing that black hole accretion disks are supported by magnetism comes to mind.[0][1]

Apologies, I know this is typically considered bad form, but have you gotten to the following section in the article?[2] It appears to directly contradict your claims.

> MOND’s also been around since the early 1980s, but, in 2021, it finally developed a model – the Aether-Scalar-Tensor framework, or AeST – which ALSO maps perfectly onto the acoustic peaks revealed by WMAP and Planck. (It does it by proposing a new vector field and scalar field that duplicate the effects of Cold Dark Matter in the early universe...

[0] https://astro.theoj.org/article/93065-an-analytic-model-for-...

[1] https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/cosmic-simulation-reveals...

[2] https://theeggandtherock.com/i/158515951/more-matter-or-less...
by godelski | 2025-05-29 00:16:46+00:00
You might be doing it wrong. Make your code more modular. Think about how powerful functions actually are. But also make them simple and self contained. All those programming books suggest this not because "it's pretty", "good form", or whatever. You do this because you know that things never work out like you expect them to. Only a naive programmer or a literal god thinks they'll get the program right on the first go. Even just the fact that the world changes underneath our feat means it will change.

So you write expecting things to change. You write so a change can be added quickly and not break everything else. You write so you don't have to pull apart a bunch of tangled mess. There's a lot of complexity no matter what, so even a little goes a long way.

> My sleep is nearly nonexistent so I don't have a lot of time for logging things anyway

I'll make a bet.

I'll bet that if you log you'll get more sleep. This is a classic negative feedback loop and is honestly why I started doing this in the first place. A little extra work upfront saves me a lot of work down the line. You need to be concerned with today but that doesn't mean you can ignore tomorrow.

The point of my strategy is in how positive things compound. A little here, a little there, do this for a bit and you got something beautiful while it seems like you did no extra work (because you spread it out)

But the negative effects compound too. They create more work. The less sleep you get the more mistakes you make. Worse, the more subtle hard to catch mistakes you make! You just end up missing sleep chasing down bugs and issues introduced because you wrote while being sleep deprived. We all do this! But we need to recognize it and try to break this cycle as soon as we recognize it happening.

My bet is you are the one creating most of the work that is keeping you up and making you feel over burdened.

My bet is if you take a break you'll actually get more done.

My bet is you're caught in a destructive loop.

I'll make this bet because I have so much experience with this same self-destructive behavior. Been there. Done that. I don't want to be there nor do I want you to be. But to get out, you have to fight that impulse that got you there in the first place.
Show HN: Tapflow – Built for devs/designers with way too many docs
by hewmax | 2025-05-29 00:18:12+00:00
We built Tapflow for devs, designers, PMs, and tech folks who’ve been sitting on internal docs, templates, and systems — but never productized them. Upload a PDF, notes, or workshop deck, and Tapflow drafts a structured product (with chapters, teaser and pricing plans).

It’s good for AI kits, onboarding guides, design systems, and frameworks. You can sell through Stripe, LemonSqueezy, or PayPal. Real-time collaboration is in early beta. No site builder, no LMS — clean design and just focused tools to ship.

Fully bootstrapped and just launched on PH today → https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tapflow-2-0 Demo: https://tapflow.co/p/untitled-Ot9_UMMiUd

Would love your feedback — or weird use cases we should support.
by kristianp | 2025-05-29 00:18:19+00:00
> many "advanced" desktop use cases

I've found that the GUI library I tried (fyne with go) was mobile-first, so some desktop things e.g. file-open dialogs didn't have the functionality I expected (the "dialog" was actually drawn within the same window as the application window). Flutter is mobile first too IIUC.

Outside of Qt, languages like rust and go don't have a good solid desktop GUI development option.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-05-29 00:18:43+00:00
Scored a lot of Lindsay's books when you still could (lot of build-your-own regenerative receivers and similar, reprints of "The Boy Mechanic", "5 Acres and Independence", etc.).

I would suspect (hope) many have been "archived" at "the org".

(EDIT: I see for example "The Impoverished Radio Experimenter Vol. 4": https://archive.org/details/impoverishedradi0000lind/mode/2u...)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-05-29 00:19:42+00:00
Intelligence is ability to predict (and hence plan), but predictability itself is limited by chaos, so maybe in the end that is the limiting factor.

It's easy to imagine a more capable intelligence than our own due to having many more senses, maybe better memory than ourselves, better algorithms for pattern detection and prediction, but by definition you can't be more intelligent than the fundamental predictability of the world in which you are part.
by the_af | 2025-05-29 00:20:47+00:00
The domestication of wolves was probably not initially "an idea", it just happened that scavenging wolves nearby humans became less afraid and started following them. Mobile waste collectors plus early warning systems.

If at some point humans had articulated this into "an idea", they would have seen it as a good idea. Which it would have been, since it's unrelated to wolves attacking humans. It's not that humans said "hey, let's go pet a wolf pup, I'm sure their parents won't mind!".
by noone_youknow | 2025-05-29 00:20:49+00:00
This is simply amazing work, I take my hat off to you. And not just the threading in an emulator (which is a genius concept all by itself) but for the article itself - I have spent years trying to find the right way to articulate exactly your points in hopes of engaging people to learn more about the systems they’re building on top of.

From now on, I’ll simply send out a link to this. Thank you!
by boroboro4 | 2025-05-29 00:22:15+00:00
They can't host DeepSeek because it's too big. Their chips have 230mb of memory, so it will take them ~3000 chips to host the model + (possible large) number of chips to keep kv cache. I bet it's just too hard to bring such topology online at all, and impossible to make even near to be profitable.
by photochemsyn | 2025-05-29 00:22:36+00:00
"...a single thread of experience through time."

Do human brains in general always work like this at the consciousness level? Dream states of consciousness exist, but they also seem single-threaded even if the state jumps around in ways more like context switching in an operating system than the steady awareness of the waking conscious mind. Then there are special cases - schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorders - in which multiple threads of existence apparently do exist in one physical brain, with all the problems this situation creates for the person in question.

Now, could one create a system of multiple independent single-threaded conscious AI minds, each trained in a specific scientific or mathematical discipline, but communicating constantly with each other and passing ideas back and forth, to mimic the kind of scientific discovery that interdisciplinary academic and research institutions are known for? Seems plausible, but possibly a bit frightening - who knows what they'd come up with? Singularity incoming?
by netsharc | 2025-05-29 00:23:57+00:00
Well, that felt like entering a dream on my phone. Fuzzy virtual environments generated by "a mind" based on its memory of real environments...

I wonder if it'd break our brains more if the environment changes as the viewpoint changes, but doesn't change back (e.g. if there's a horse, you pan left, pan back right, and the horse is now a tiger).
by XorNot | 2025-05-29 00:24:14+00:00
Well..except they do? HTTP is an anomaly in having largely human readable syntax, and even then we use compression with it all the time which translates it to a rarefied symbolic representation.

The limit beyond that would be skipping the compression step: the ideal protocol would be incompressible because it's already the most succinct representation of the state being transferred.

We're definitely capable of getting some of the way there by human design though: i.e. I didn't start this post by saying "86 words are coming".
by andrekandre | 2025-05-29 00:24:35+00:00
> Enormous amounts of money have accrued to a tiny proportion of humanity in the past 30 or so years. There is no way there wouldn't be tons of waste when spending decisions are made by so few people.

the other issue with that isn't just the decision making but the fact so much capital is accruing at the top they have nowhere else to put it all, meanwhile average people are struggling to pay rent and buy food...
by the_af | 2025-05-29 00:25:00+00:00
There's no anything cooked into reality. The very concept of "idea" is human-centered.

But that's a fruitless line of thought in this context.

It doesn't negate the fact there are bad ideas. Heaven's Gate mass suicide was a bad idea (and its justification was patently wrong: no soul was uploaded into the mothership). Bringing feral tigers into your apartment is another bad idea. They are only "subjective" in the most theoretical, I'm-having-an-internet-argument sense; in practice they are objectively bad ideas.

Some ideas -- maybe most -- are neither good nor bad. But again, this doesn't negate that some ideas are objectively bad or good.

Hardcore moral relativism (or is it "ideas relativism"?) is such a boring position to hold. I suspect it's also a dishonest position, in that deep down very few people actually hold it.
by asdff | 2025-05-29 00:25:01+00:00
Right and all of that in the library is built to be legible for the human programmer with constraints involved to fit in within the syntax of the underlying language. Imagine how efficient a function would be that didn't need all of that window dressing? You could "grow" functions out of simulation and bootstrapping, have them be a black box that we harvest output from not much different than say using an organism in a bioreactor to yield some metabolite of interest where we might not know all the relevant pieces of the biochemical pathway but we score putative production mutants based on yield alone.
by sandspar | 2025-05-29 00:26:08+00:00
Hmm good question! I think AI chatbots are pretty awesome right now. There's no ads, they're still dumb enough that you can steer them, they're still mostly used by smart people so they haven't been ablated to appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think we'll look back on this era of chatbots with nostalgia.
by codethief | 2025-05-29 00:26:39+00:00
> Why can't we add millions of dollars of tool engineering on top of polyrepos

I don't think the "stock polyrepo" characterization is apt. Organizations using polyrepos already do invest that kind of money. Unfortunately, this effort is not visible because it's spread out across repos and every team does their own thing. So then people erroneously conclude that monorepos are much more expensive. Like the GP said:

> Polyrepos are a thousand species living and dying, some thriving, some never to be known, most completely in the dark.
by bediger4000 | 2025-05-29 00:27:00+00:00
This article mirrors my experience. I eventually quit asking questions and deleted my account, at least on the Unix & Linux stack exchange. The moderation got weird, allowing edits to my answers so extensive that I felt the answers were no longer mine, and I didn't want credit for them.

The other factor to consider Is that there's only so many questions in any given topic. Common questions will get asked and answered quickly, then niche and very specific questions will eventually trickle in. Focusing on rate of questions seems wrong, somehow.