MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by al_borland | 2025-05-26 15:09:04+00:00
I oscillate between Apple Notes and a bunch of markdown files, which is a pretty painful thing to do.

I like how future proof a folder of markdown files is. But I like the design, simplicity, and deep features for capture and media support offered in Apple Notes.

The more a markdown app supports extra stuff, the more proprietary it starts to feel, as any app to read it will also need to support those things.

A while back I told myself I was going to stick to Apple Notes, as going back and forth to other things is painful, and doing it proactively means more pain, rather than maybe having some pain in 10 years of the app goes away. However, where I am again, in the middle of a largely manual migration back to Obsidian for my folder of markdown files. I used an export, but the formatting is so bad that I need to clean up every single note.
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-26 15:09:17+00:00
> This is very similar to the economic destruction wrought by those who block housing in the most highly productive geographic regions of the country.

It's not. You are just repeating Cloud providers' talking point.

Housing is a basic need, and I such many people including myself wouldn't mind overruling the locals' preferences in order to make sure everyone can have access to housing at a decent price.

Data centers aren't and there are already too many of them. As a matter of fact the majority of them exist because companies worth hundreds of billions of dollar use cloud-based walled garden to milk consumers in ways they couldn't if the software was local.
by yboris | 2025-05-26 15:09:37+00:00
Adding a Portuguese translation for https://www.utilitarianism.net/ and a French one is on the way too!

https://github.com/whyboris/utilitarianism.net

Built this website with Hugo and it's been one of my favorite (and best) projects of my life. Has PDF generation of articles and a static low-bandwidth instant search of the whole website. Very happy with the build system too (using just)
by Citizen8396 | 2025-05-26 15:10:03+00:00
Fluticasone can be especially helpful for people with allergies and/or OSA.

"Intranasal fluticasone treatment may be useful for patients with nasal obstruction-related obstructive sleep apnea to improve sleep quality and limit daytime dysfunction."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31521518/

"Intranasal steroids and montelukast did not decrease AHI; however, total sleep time and percent of stage R sleep significantly increased. Self-reported improvement could be explained by observed changes in sleep parameters. Larger prospective studies could help elucidate the effects of medical therapy on adult patients with OSA."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31383235/
by severusdd | 2025-05-26 15:10:06+00:00
Interesting parallel, but as it is packaged today - "AI" looks much lighter on technical customization than quant.

What can you really meaningfully change on the large models today? a bit of RAG, some prompting - sure. But that sounds like a much lighter lift compared to the tasks done by large teams of top-tier CS grads in older quants firms.
Show HN: Big 5 Archive – Auto-open news articles in Archive
by bobsacamano19 | 2025-05-26 15:10:35+00:00
Big 5 Archive is a Chrome extension that auto‑opens news articles in Archive. I've been reading the Wall Street Journal every morning this year but I'm too cheap to pay for the hefty $39/mo. subscription. My routine was: open article → hit paywall → copy URL → paste into Archive. After a few dozen times that got old.

So I built Big 5 Archive: a tiny Chrome extension that automatically redirects any link from WSJ, NYT, Washington Post, L.A. Times, or USA Today to its archived, paywall‑free copy.

I had fun making this and I hope it is helpful to the news-readers out there. Feedback welcome, happy reading!
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-26 15:10:47+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL

[The keyword "PLEASE"] provides two reasons for the program's rejection by the compiler: if "PLEASE" does not appear often enough, the program is considered insufficiently polite, and the error message says this; if it appears too often, the program could be rejected as excessively polite. Although this feature existed in the original INTERCAL compiler, it was undocumented.
by sach1 | 2025-05-26 15:10:53+00:00
> AI is clearly a net negative to humanity in its current form, and almost certainly all future forms.

I'm going to make an equally supported and valid statement here and say AI is clearly a net positive to humanity in its current form, and almost certainly all future forms.

You should consider providing a less hyperbolic point to argue if you are looking to have any kind of productive or healthy discussion on the internet.
by conductr | 2025-05-26 15:11:10+00:00
My guess is it depends on what you work with. I’ve been impressed by my ability to spin up nice looking websites and landing pages. Yet, I’ve tried to build a game and despite it appearing to work, it eventually has gotten confused about its own codebase and I end up with a ball of spaghetti where requirements of yesterday get lost or broken when adding functionality today. It feels more like I’m chasing my tail, vibe coding as they say, it’s just seems endlessly circular.

My game dev is going to be a hybrid approach going forward. I’ll ask it to create a new project with the desired functionality and see how the solution was proposed and then incorporate that into my main code branch.

I find this easier than the Cursor roll back or being overly cautious with suggested edits. I’m just getting to this realization so tbd if it works well. FYI, I’m good at programming generally but game dev is my Achilles. We’ll see how it it goes.
by mritchie712 | 2025-05-26 15:11:21+00:00
> an earlier Opus was highly committed to animal welfare and they’re not sure why; other versions and models have not been

I caught that too, very interesting.

Many people treat their pets as part of their family. Many people make statements online like: "I like dogs / cats more than most people". So it's not surprising that this sentiment would be picked up in training data. I'd wager animals on average are thought of more highly on a site like Reddit than humans are. i.e. the average sentiment of a post on cats is more positive than a post about a human. Cats, in the training data, may be perceived as "more important" or "better" than humans.

It is surprising Opus holds on to this tighter than other models.
by chasil | 2025-05-26 15:11:24+00:00
> It’s a shame we can’t use timeout with until directly

The until keyword is part of the POSIX.2 shell specification, which does not include any sort of timeout functionality. It could be implemented in bash, but it would not be portable to other shells (Debian dash being the main concern).

This is the reason that it is implemented as a separate utility.

Search for "The until loop" below to see the specification.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
Show HN: I built a site for documenting AI-coding disasters
by skris | 2025-05-26 15:11:39+00:00
I keep reading things like "I built my entire SaaS with AI", "AI is going to replace devs", but they end up becoming disasters with sky-high bills, leaked secrets, and broken apps. So, I thought it'd be fun to collect such stories in one place. At the minimum, it might end up becoming evidence for history books.

Heavily inspired by serverlesshorrors.com
by thejazzman | 2025-05-26 15:12:05+00:00
For nerds; I still have to debug my relatives devices (age 16-80 ... today) by asking them to turn it off and back on. And it typically works.

Our society today is not that of the excited 90s where everyone was excited and learning. They don't try AT ALL, and while you and I may never lose access, as far as they're concerned it would be gone

Many would also rightfully fear legal retaliation, as it's easy to expose yourself when you don't know what you're doing
by 90s_dev | 2025-05-26 15:12:25+00:00
We would only need a committee's approval if changing it would break things.

I say we skip that process, test it in a lab somewhere in rural midwest where nobody lives, and see if gravity starts changing or whatever. As long as cows don't start to float in a 3 mile radius within 4-5 hours, that's probably good enough validation to move forward with changing thermodynamic legislation.

[edit] we should also probably make sure the boiling point of water stays the same
by maxwellg | 2025-05-26 15:12:40+00:00
Ooh this is a favorite pet peeve of mine. HMAC is the better solution IMO but API Keys are so much easier for your customers to use:

- API Keys are much, _much_ easier to use from the command line. CURL with HMAC is finicky at best and turns a one-liner into a big script

- Maintaining N client libraries for your REST API is hard and means you'll likely deprioritize non-mainstream languages. If a customer needs to write their own library to interact with your service, needing to incorporate their own HMAC adds even more friction.

- Tools have gotten much better in recent years- it is much easier to configure a logger to ignore sensitive fields now compared to ~10 years ago
by glitchc | 2025-05-26 15:12:59+00:00
> Must R&D be prioritized over quality of life, environment, and be subsidized by local tax breaks/grants?

Yes, yes and maybe, if it needs to be accelerated.

No part of our modern life would exist without scientific and engineering advancement. Centuries of inventions and discoveries have built on top of each other to give us the very essential (housing, plumbing, food production) that are vast improvements on the original as well as the very boutique (space travel, self-driving cars, AI), the benefits from which are not fully realized yet. Pressing pause on science is guaranteed to cause misery. The last time Europe did that it lead to the Dark and Middle ages, leading to centuries of suffering.

Science is one of those few things that benefits everyone, from the very rich to the very poor. It's how we ensure that life does not remain a zero-sum game, it's how we grow the pie so that everyone can have more. Science is not free: It comes at a cost, but that cost is repaid many times over.
by vessenes | 2025-05-26 15:13:38+00:00
Resist getting your news from Brooklyn journalists. :)

Tooling has improved, and the models have. The combo is pretty powerful.

https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ will give you a flavor of the last six months of improvements. Francois Cholet (ARC AGI: https://arcprize.org/leaderboard) has gone from “No current architecture will ever beat ARC” to “o3 has beaten ARC and now we have designed ARC 2”.

At the same time, we have the first really useful 1mm token context model available with reasonably good skills across the context window (Gemini Pro 2.5), and that opens up a different category of work altogether. Reasoning models got launched to the world in the last six months, another significant dimension of improvement.

TLDR: Massive, massive increase in quality for coding models. And o3 is to my mind over the line people had in mind for generally intelligent in, say, 2018 — o3 alone is a huge improvement launched in the last six months. You can now tell o3 something like: “research the X library and architect a custom extension to that library that interfaces with my weird garage door opener; after writing the architecture implement the extension in (node/python/go) and come back in 20 minutes with something that almost certainly compiles and likely largely interfaces properly, leaving touch-up work to be done.
Show HN: Syntax – Free tool generating dorks for precise, professional search
by sabi_soltani | 2025-05-26 15:13:38+00:00
I'm excited to share Syntax, a free online tool we've built to help generate advanced search queries (dorks) for more precise and practical research.

We've all been there – trying to find specific information online can sometimes feel like wading through endless irrelevant results. Syntax aims to simplify this by making powerful search techniques more accessible.

How it works:

You enter what you want to search for (e.g., "AI," "vulnerability research," "specific PDF manual"). Syntax then generates over 100 targeted dorks based on your input. As seen in the screenshot (e.g., 105 total dorks for the "AI" query). These dorks are categorized to help you refine your search. You can click on any generated dork, which will take you directly to the search results. Syntax covers a range of categories, including:

General: Broad starting points.

Files & Documents: For locating specific file types like PDFs, documents, and spreadsheets.

Educational: Finding .edu resources, academic papers.

Forums & Discussions: Uncovering community conversations and insights.

Social Media: Targeting searches within specific platforms.

Security: Assisting in OSINT, finding public exposure, etc.

Websites: Using operators like site:, inurl:, intitle:.

Recent Content: Focusing on newer information.

The goal is to streamline the crafting of complex search queries, allowing you to quickly surface information that might otherwise be hard to find. It's completely free, online, and designed to be easy to use.

We built Syntax because I often need to dig deep for specific information and found that having a quick dork generator tailored to different contexts can be a real time-saver.

Would love for you to try it out and hear your feedback! What other categories or dork types would be helpful?

Thanks!
by gilbetron | 2025-05-26 15:13:43+00:00
People aren't binary - there isn't just two groups of "want ambitious plans" and "don't want ambitious plans". It is reductive, there's all kinds of beliefs and desires between those two points. "want ambitious plans but needs to take care of aging parents" or "would like ambitious plans if it doesn't mean selling their soul" or any amount of nuance.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-26 15:13:43+00:00
I think this advice is very dependent on the situation. There are many cases where you will not even get your foot in the door if you advertise the true team/company size.

At least for myself, I've only experienced shock/surprise when people find out the size of my company (1), this normally happens either never or late/after the sale. I'm sure the software-buying process in an org is always a challenge, but my product replaces a in-person-only/physical-only workflow so there are, understandably, some people who are nervous/apprehensive about the change to software. Injecting any extra uncertainty based on company size/sales into process seems unwise.

I _never_ lie but I also don't start the sales pitch with "Hi, I'm a 1-person company with X previous sales".
by malnourish | 2025-05-26 15:13:50+00:00
While I agree with you and have done this myself, if you're going to make lifestyle change recommendations, at least spell "lose" correctly ;)

I went from ~220 lbs/100 kg to ~160 lbs/ 73 kg. I had to dial back my CPAP over time and eventually switched to a mouth guard which can treat both OSA and TMD.
by carlosjobim | 2025-05-26 15:14:04+00:00
> They do other things that's baffling like selling tickets a year ahead of time, which is kind of weird considering very few people, even big fans, would be really on top of buying tickets a year out. It's obviously designed for scalpers.

Serious venues and artists do the same thing. It is to reward the early fans with the cheapest tickets and to get early cash flow. Nothing shady about it.
by solaire_oa | 2025-05-26 15:14:06+00:00
The submitter should also have thoroughly reviewed their own MR/PR. Even before LLMs, coders not having reviewed their own code would be completely discourteous and disrespectful to the reviewer. It's an embarrassing faux pas that makes the submitter and the team all look and feel bad when there are obvious problems that need to be called out and fixed.

Submitting LLM barf for review and not reviewing it should be grounds for termination. The only way I can envision LLM barf being sustainable, or plausible, is if you removed code review altogether.
by rzzzwilson | 2025-05-26 15:14:28+00:00
There is a probably outdated page of python success stories:

https://www.python.org/about/success/

One example not mentioned in the above page is reddit which is written in python. I once helped maintain the ANUGA system, mostly python, which was being used to simulate the effects of tsunamis on a shoreline. It can be used for a lot of other things such as riverine flooding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANUGA_Hydro
by gkbrk | 2025-05-26 15:14:46+00:00
> Wouldn't "grok says it is Claude 3.5 Sonnet yet other LLMs do not" make you update your chance that grok is actually just Claude 3.5 sonnet?

Not if you're familiar with Large Language Models.

As an example, "R1 distilled llama" is a model trained by Meta fine-tuned on Deepseek R1 outputs, but if you ask it, it claims to be trained by OpenAI.
by gertop | 2025-05-26 15:15:01+00:00
> That's not really much of an issue.

Yes yes love conquers everything and whatnot. Doesn't change the fact that some people need absolute silence to fall asleep and a CPAP machine is very disturbing to them. So they have to sleep with earplugs which, again, is an issue for other reasons.

Please don't generalize your own experience with your partner onto all of us.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-05-26 15:15:35+00:00
That's not really how I have observed progress working. It seems to broadly do two things:

convert labor demand into the cheapest most abundant labor (i.e. assembly where you can teach almost anyone a small set of tasks and have a lot of stations drastically increasing output while keep labor scarcity and thus cost lower or straight up geographic arbitrage moving production to much cheaper labor countries)

Increase the complexity and therefore scarcity of labor demanded to keep progressing.

Neither of these things end up where you want as far as working less while having all your comfort things because the first one tends to push unit labor costs down making your labor hour demand go higher to support your lifestyle at the lower wage and the second one increases value of the limited group of humans that can deal with the complexity, so their wages can and do easily trend high enough to incentivize full time or more hours.
by sealeck | 2025-05-26 15:15:39+00:00
You have completely misread my comment; the point is that checking names would not be for security (it would be to prevent ticket scalping). As you have correctly identified, handling security threats is somewhat orthogonal to this - i.e. your claim is false. Large venues will inevitably have to introduce security screening irrespective of whether or not they match names and tickets.
by nothercastle | 2025-05-26 15:15:40+00:00
Many times it’s just unplanned uncontrolled growth. It causes issues that aren’t mitigated and generally makes life worse for existing residents. NIMBY is strong because residents know that their politicians are corrupted and incompetent. Politicians will get kick backs and infrastructure will never get extended sufficiently to support. Theoretically we all benefit from increased density due to reduced infrastructure costs and shared resources, in practice the growth leads to government inefficiency and that offsets any costs savings. Similar to how larger companies cost savings from size is offset by internal inefficiency and friction.
by _p2zi | 2025-05-26 15:16:03+00:00
> This article is about covert agent communication channel websites used by the CIA in many countries from the late 2000s until the early 2010s, when they were uncovered by counter intelligence of the targeted countries circa 2010-2013.

> This article uses publicly available information to publicly disclose for the first time a few hundred of what we feel are extremely likely candidate sites of the network. The starting point for this research was the September 2022 Reuters article "America’s Throwaway Spies" for the first time gave nine example websites, and their analyst from Citizenlabs claims to have found 885 websites in total, but did not publicly disclose them. Starting from only the nine disclosed websites, we were then able to find a few hundred websites that share os many similarities with them, i.e. a common fingerprint, that we believe makes them beyond reasonable doubt part of the same network.
by maratc | 2025-05-26 15:16:04+00:00
Every time I read about a purported "housing shortage" I'm reminded that there are about 140 million housing units in the US[0], with an average of 5.5 rooms per unit[1], or about 700 million rooms, all that for 350 million of population, or about 2 rooms per person.

This doesn't look like "we have a housing shortage". What we do have is a shortage of affordable housing in the megacities, and "it’s a rampant problem" in all the megacities.

[0] https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/time-series/demo/popest...

[1] https://www.census.gov/acs/www/about/why-we-ask-each-questio...
by AdamH12113 | 2025-05-26 15:16:09+00:00
Unless there’s a leak (and there shouldn’t be) CPAPs are much quieter than you think they are. The only time I even notice mine (Resmed with P10 nasal pillows) is when using it from a battery during a power outage when everything is dead quiet. If you have any kind of background noise (fan hum, AC, air purifier, living near a freeway) you probably won’t even notice it.
by martinleslie | 2025-05-26 15:16:20+00:00
I don't use Matlab currently, but like many people trained in various engineering and mathy fields, I've used it a fair bit. It's maybe a bit old fashioned and clunky but an interesting language/experience, and still nicer than NumPy in some ways.

I've been seeing people talking about not being able to login at https://www.reddit.com/r/matlab/, seems like quite a problem!
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-05-26 15:16:29+00:00
The stuff that gets upvoted here...

Next up:

- "SQLite is almost the best notebook in the world" - "Claude is almost the best notebook in the world" - "An SQLite database containing only Markdown files in a Git repo self-hosted on an SD card in my Raspberry Pi served by a Node.js web app accessible via 56k modem is almost the best notebook in the world" - "I created a startup to take the previous thing, reinvent GitHub Issues on top of it, call it AI Notes, and make almost the best notebook in the world, and it's now valued at $50B"
by Citizen8396 | 2025-05-26 15:17:05+00:00
You might want to consider an oral appliance. There's no guarantee you will tolerate them or get the desired effect, but the same goes for surgery. Oral surgeries often have dentists who are certified in sleep medicine who can create a custom, medical-grade appliance for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibular_advancement_splint
by karaterobot | 2025-05-26 15:17:18+00:00
I'm the kind of creative whose job is threatened by AI, but if I'm being honest and cold-blooded, I'm not actually sure that I'd call what AI training does stealing—apart from any illicit acquisition of the data, that is. I'm open to being persuaded. I just have not read a really persuasive argument that when a model is trained, what it's doing is closer to stealing than it is to being influenced and then recapitulating the general form of those influences.

The latter is something we have no problem with in our culture. Every generation of artists do this. Every artist does this, in fact. It may be how creativity itself works, for all I know. But we never call it stealing, or when we do we say things like "great artists steal" and acknowledge it as a process rather than a problem.

It feels to me like when people make the "AI is stealing" argument, they're really arguing about something else and using this as a proxy for it. Not exactly sure what that other thing is. Fear of losing work and being displaced is the obvious one, and it's a valid fear. I share it! But, if that's what it is, I think we should be having that discussion directly, rather than talking around it. We always do the thing where we piss around talking about proxies, rather than going right to the agon.