MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-05 17:55:29+00:00
I remember my first hit of modafinil, it was a rush, too much energy and unpleasant even at the half dose of 100mg. But this appears to only happen to people who have a pre-existing dopamine dysregulation. I've given modafinil to many people who appear to have rather normal pre-existing dopamine levels and they've reported practically zero effects.

The brain quickly adjusts and the rush from the modafinil goes away, it was gone by my second dose - it feels rather more like a coffee but longer lasting and smoother / cleaner I guess, it's hard to describe.

I think most people seeking such drugs are actually self medicating and would generally choose normal if it was an option. While I do have access to stronger drugs I have no desire for them. I also take Amitriptyline which helps balance out the Modafinil and the two together with Modafinil in the morning and Amitriptyline at night have been really effective at treating my dysautonomia and keeping me on a productive even keel.
by mtlynch | 2025-05-05 17:55:39+00:00
I was just listening to Simon Willison on Software Misadventures,[0, 1] and he said the best resource he knows of is Anthropic's guide to prompt engineering.[2]

[0] https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/simon-willison-llm-weird...

[1] https://youtu.be/6U_Zk_PZ6Kg?feature=shared&t=56m29 (the exact moment)

[2] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...
by jltsiren | 2025-05-05 17:56:24+00:00
Having a unit type in your toolkit is one thing, and expecting it to play a decisive role in battle is another. For example, Alexander's heavy infantry was supposed to anchor the enemy in place as cavalry won the battle, while Roman heavy infantry the primary fighting force.

Mercenary pikemen ended the dominance of heavy cavalry in Europe before firearms became common. But that didn't make heavy cavalry obsolete, and neither did firearms. Cuirassiers had a prominent role in the Napoleonic Wars, and French cuirassiers actually wore their breastplates a few weeks into WW1.
by benob | 2025-05-05 17:57:04+00:00
> If you ever remove the interconnection PCB, make sure to put it back with the same orientation. It will fit just fine when rotated 180 degrees but the scope won’t work anymore!

I remember pulling a 486 out of its socket in the 1990s and putting it back with the wrong orientation. There was a poc and a bit of smoke. Something on the mainboard had burnt and it wasn't working anymore.

I used smell to locate the fault, a big trace on the PCB, which I soldered back and magic, it all worked again...
by nuc1e0n | 2025-05-05 17:57:08+00:00
Airline food has always been one of the most impressive things in the world to me. The logistics of feeding 500-odd people up in the sky repeatedly all over the planet is a wonder of the modern world.

How is the food brought to the plane? How is it kept consistent? How and where is it stored on the plane? How is it all made hot at the same time? How is it kept hygienic?

It may not be the greatest cuisine, but the fact it's there at all is no small feat.
by voytec | 2025-05-05 17:57:23+00:00
> And if you’re storing secret information in your bucket names, you have bigger problems.

Yeah but the design should be made on the assumption that some customers will do stupid things, and protect them.

Not an identical case, but I once bought a Cisco router for home lab/learning and it appeared to be a hardware decommissioned by one of European banks, not flashed before being handed over to some asset disposal contractor. It eventually landed on an auctioning portal with bank's configuration. The bank was very meticulous with documenting stuff like the address of the branch where it was installed in device's config and ACL names/descriptions included employees' names and room numbers. You could easily extract the names of people granted extended access to internal systems.

So while I agree with you in principal, even financial institutions do stupid things, lack procedures or their processes don't always follow them. Cloud provider's design should assume their customers not following best practices.
by lxe | 2025-05-05 17:57:59+00:00
This article reads like "I'm not like other LLM users" tech writing. There are good points about when LLMs are actually useful vs. overhyped, but the contrarian framing undermines what could have been straightforward practical advice. The whole "I'm more discerning than everyone else" positioning gets tiresome in tech discussions, especially when the actual content is useful.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-05-05 17:58:12+00:00
> LLMs were not developed to be, do not function as, and are not use as data compression utilities.

Again, from a information theoretic view point, this is exactly what they are doing, how they where developed and how they function.

I don't know any serious researcher in ML that would find this claim even remotely controversial. It's really not just "a semantics game", its a part of a foundational understanding of the topic. If you want to understand LLMs from this perspective, a good place to start is with an auto-encoder which does try to learn a standard compression algorithm, the move on to more sophisticated embedding models (found in a lot of recommender systems) which try to learn an additional objective on top of minimizing reconstruction error. You'll then see that Transformers and all other major NN architectures fall out of these basic principles.

> Please, come knocking when a service provider exists that will use LLM's to compactly store your company data.

This is literally what every vectordb company does right now, as well as all "chat with your docs" type startups.
by minimaxir | 2025-05-05 17:58:20+00:00
I was developing an open-source library for interfacing with LLMs agnostically (https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat) and although it still works, I haven't had the time to maintain it unfortunately.

Nowadays for writing code to interface with LLMs, I don't use client SDKs unless required, instead just hitting HTTP endpoints with libraries such as requests and httpx. It's also easier to upgrade to async if needed.
by tptacek | 2025-05-05 17:58:28+00:00
Jim and Toby are interviewing Darryl Philbin for the position of manager at Dunder Mifflin Scranton. Jim asks what Darryl would do to resolve a conflict between two employees in the warehouse Darryl already managed. "I'll answer that, Jim. I would use it as an opportunity to teach... about actions... and consequences of actions".

That's the answer you just gave me. Good note! (Darryl didn't get the job.)

You're dodging my point. If you are managing a team where people are using LLMs to generate pull requests full of "crap" code (your word), you have a mismanaged team, and would with or without the LLMs, because on a well-managed team people don't create PRs full of crap code.

I'm fine if you want to say LLMs are dangerous tools in the hands of unseasoned developers. Fine, you can have a rule where only trusted developers get to use them. That actually seems pretty sane!

But a trustworthy developer using an LLM isn't going to be pushed by the LLM into creating "crap" PRs, because the LLM doesn't make the PRs, the developer does. If the developer isn't reading the code the LLM is producing, they're not doing their job.

Sometimes you get people saying "ok but reading that code is work so how is the LLM saving any time", which is something you could also say about adding any human developer to a team; their code also has to get reviewed.

So help me understand how your concerns here cohere.
by borski | 2025-05-05 17:58:40+00:00
For me the trick is those Metal Earth puzzles. Lego is amazing (I have a tattoo of a Lego brick, heh) but it’s almost too freeform. Even with the kits, I find myself wanting to do more, add on, change, etc. The Metal Earth models make that a lot harder, so I can just have my hands busy and focused while my mind wanders.
by rdsubhas | 2025-05-05 17:59:03+00:00
Yes. Prestop sleep is the magic SLO solution for high quality rolling deployments.

IMHO, there are two things that kubernetes could improve on:

1. Pods should be removed from Endoints _before_ initiating the shutdown sequence. Like the termination grace, there should be an option for termination delay. 2. PDB should allow an option for recreation _before_ eviction.
by Dries007 | 2025-05-05 17:59:27+00:00
After having some persistent issues with my previous pi-hole setup, running as an add-on on my Home Assistant rPi 5, I moved to AdGuard Home on dedicated hardware.

I run it on a rPi Zero 2W (15$), with the Waveshare Ethernet / USB HUB BOX (16$). Together with a power brick (5$) and a meh µSD card, it's very affordable. I did add a small heatsink on the CPU and left the lid off the box to improve the temperature situation (it's in a small room that easily gets warm).

Software wise I've opted for DietPi, which works great for this kind of "dedicated device" pi setup. Current up-time is 135 days, with the last reboot being likely due to a power/breaker issue. It's truly become a set and forget thing now. It also runs Tailscale (not as exit node due to USB 2.0 limited bandwidth for Ethernet) and a dynamic DNS refresh script on a timer. It still has some headroom, but I prefer to keep it rock solid and do more fancy stuff on my Home Assistant pi, which gets rebooted/updated more frequently.

I do have the option to set my DNS settings in my router (ISP provided routers don't have that option here typically), so all of my devices follow.

In combination with µBlock Origin and SponsorBlock in my browser, I almost cry every time I see the "raw" internet on other people's devices. The only remaining source of ads is if I watch YT via my TV, so if someone has ideas to make that stop, I'm all ears. (I used to pay for the discontinued Premium Basic, but I refuse to pay double for a bunch of crap "features" I don't want/need.)
by jjulius | 2025-05-05 18:00:08+00:00
Wonderful! At the risk of sounding like I'm tooting my own horn, that 2.5-hour meal I referenced was bookended by a 2-hour drive each way. Just a bit of music in the car, but plenty of great conversation with our family and my parents - observing the world around them, asking questions, singing along, being silly together. It was a tremendously cup-filling afternoon/evening with nary a screen in sight.

I love your point about social interactions, too - we'll tiptoe around certain subjects occasionally, but for the most part I love when they (especially my oldest, but only because my youngest is still coming out of the toddler phase) listen in and ask questions and try to understand what we're chatting about. It always reminds me of being a kid and thinking it was super cool to be able to hang with the grown-ups and learn about whatever they're chatting about.
by danenania | 2025-05-05 18:00:14+00:00
Yeah, I'm still wondering if MCP will be the solution that sticks in the long run.

It has momentum and clearly a lot of folks are working on these shortcomings, so I could certainly see it becoming the de facto standard. But the issues we're talking about are pretty major ones that might need a more fundamental reimagining to address. Although it could also theoretically all be resolved by the models improving sufficiently, so who knows.

Also, cool to hear that you came across Plandex. Lmk what you think if you try it out!
by leidenfrost | 2025-05-05 18:00:16+00:00
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, GraphQL, React, Linux, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jplassala/ Email: jpablolassala [at] gmail.com

Full stack engineer with 11 years of experience in both startups and big companies. I focus on quick releases while keeping quality and scalability in mind. That lets me to do quick iterations without losing performance.

Looking for new opportunities to tackle on!
by vunderba | 2025-05-05 18:00:23+00:00
I do a good deal of my blog posts while walking my husky and just dictating using speech-to-text on my phone. The problem is that its an unformed blob of clay and really needs to be shaped on the wheel.

I then feed this into an LLM with the following prompt:

You are a professional editor. You will be provided paragraphs of text that may contain spelling errors, grammatical issues, continuity errors, structural problems, word repetition, etc. You will correct any of these issues while still preserving the original writing style. Do not sanitize the user. If they use profanities in their text, they are used for emphasis and you should not omit them. Do NOT try to introduce your own style to their text. Preserve their writing style to the absolute best of your ability. You are absolutely forbidden from adding new sentences.

It's basically Grammarly on steroids and works very well.
by DyslexicAtheist | 2025-05-05 18:00:25+00:00
john wick site:europa.eu https://www.google.com/search?q=john+wick+site%3Aeuropa.eu&h...

gta 5 site:europa.eu https://www.google.com/search?q=gta+5+site%3Aeuropa.eu&hl=en

Watch full site:europa.eu https://www.google.com/search?q=Watch+full+site%3Aeuropa.eu&...
by toast0 | 2025-05-05 18:01:00+00:00
You might look at the tas videos that have been console verified and use arbitrary code execution [1], especially look at the submission notes and forum threads.

I think you might conceivably have trouble with running TAS replays on consoles on the Atari 2600, since the inputs on that are just direct pins and afaik, there's no way for the controller to know it's been read. The NES input is a serial read, so a smart controller can use that to sync up playback. That said, I did see an Atari 2600 console verified TAS for Dragster, so there must be a way to sync.

Once you've synchronized the controller playback to the console, the only limitation on playback would be how accurate the emulator is, and/or if there's anything that's not really reproducible.

On the NES, there's no source of real randomness, but some (many?) of the games don't clear all the ram at boot, so you could have residual data if the system hasn't been off for long enough (there's some fun things you can do with cartridge swaps on real hardware); that one is solvable by making sure your TAS goes from an appropriate RAM off state, and that you leave the console off for long enough that RAM decays all the way. Also on the NES, the CPU and PPU have different clock rates (they both run from the master clock, but with different dividers) and there's different ways the clocks can align, which can result in different behavior especially at the limits. My understanding is that most emulators pick one alignment and emulate that, but if your TAS timing is very tricky, you might have to run multiple trials before you got the alignment you want. Clock alignment is a deep topic, but this should get you started [2].

Newer consoles may have more features that are effectively non-deterministic, which could make TAS harder. Addressable ROMs have essentially fixed access times, but optical media, spinning hard drives and flash memories typically don't; this can lead to unpredictable delays that make TAS on real hardware more difficult.

See also TASBot [3] and TAStm32 [4]

[1] https://tasvideos.org/Movies-ace-verified

[2] https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=6186

[3] https://tas.bot/wiki/Main_Page

[4] https://github.com/Ownasaurus/TAStm32
Show HN: I built a mini macOS app to reveal my yearly subscription spending
by dmytro_wakeup | 2025-05-05 18:01:01+00:00
I built a macOS app to track my subscriptions after realizing I was spending over $XXXX annually on services I barely used. I wanted a simple, privacy-focused tool to help me stay on top of recurring charges without relying on third-party integrations or sharing financial data.

Key Features:

– Visual Calendar: See all upcoming charges in a monthly view.

– Custom Notifications: Set reminders for upcoming payments.

– Highlights: Flag subscriptions as annual, trial, or one-time.

– Statistics: View projected yearly spending, average monthly costs, and peak spending months.

– Custom Categories: Organize subscriptions with user-defined categories.

– Multi-Currency Support: Convert prices on the fly to your preferred currency.

– Status Management: Mark subscriptions as active or canceled, with accurate updates in your stats.

– Quick Addition: Start typing a service name, and the app auto-suggests logos, categories, and colors.

– Import and export data

The app is free to use with some limitations. I’m currently working on additional features and would appreciate any feedback or suggestions from the community.
by sliken | 2025-05-05 18:01:07+00:00
Sort of. Ceres can't turn mass into energy at a ratio that makes fusion and fusion look pretty lame.

On the other hand taking 0.00016 of earths mass, turning it into a blackhole, and shooting it through the earth isn't likely to cause nearly the damage that Ceres (100x size of the dinosaur killing asteroid) ... unless you keep the velocity low enough that it stays inside the earth.
by o11c | 2025-05-05 18:01:40+00:00
The one thing that theoretically would be advantageous about a volley is that it's impossible for a target to block/dodge all of them. FTA (though focusing on how useful shields and armor are):

> arrows at range move slowly enough to be actively blocked and dodged

It's just that this one theoretical advantage isn't enough to make volleys useful in practice, since volleys decrease the total number of arrows you can shoot.
by s3graham | 2025-05-05 18:02:25+00:00
I'm trying this strategy at the moment. https://www.shesabeast.co/the-diy-dumbphone-method/

The main things I needed to remove are the web browser and email client to make it ~ a dumbphone. I don't find myself wasting time staring at maps, or a weather app, or a calorie tracker, or camera/photos so I don't feel there's any reason to forgo those. (YMMV of course!)
by afrom | 2025-05-05 18:02:48+00:00
If you discount the blatant voter suppression and other forms of voter disenfranchisement. Greg Palast has an interesting article [1] on the level of disenfranchisement happening. According to the numbers calculated by him and other organizations the are _millions_ of US citizens that get their voter thrown out.

[1] https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
by g9yuayon | 2025-05-05 18:03:13+00:00
I actually think the intention of the tariff here is to bring jobs back to the American filming industry - not that I agree with this approach. Just an assessment of mine. But speaking of cultural influence, I think something interesting has been happening.

> that doesn’t change the fact that Hollywood projects American culture around the world in a way that the government could never do itself

I'll all for the "soft power" of the US, including cultural influence. Just wanted to point out that things have been changing slowly. More and more people started to be more credulous about Hollywood's values. Case in point, Blank Panther won Oscar, yet it was widely criticized in China and its box office in China was miserable. Below is the translation of a popular criticism of Black Panther:

Imagine you made a movie about China, kind of like Black Panther. In it, China is this isolated country with crazy-advanced technology, way ahead of the rest of the world. But instead of a modern government, it's run by tribal warlords—each one basically a dictator. To choose their top leader, they fight each other with knives and spears on top of the Forbidden City.

In your story, Chinese people still do foot binding like it’s totally normal. The elite chieftains live in ridiculous luxury inside the imperial palace. Their medicine is so advanced it’s basically magic—people come back from the dead—and they’ve got levitating trains that look like they’re from another planet.

But regular folks? They live in grass huts, spend their days feeding rhinos (or maybe pandas), and there are barely any roads in the whole country.

Then you take this movie to China and tell everyone it’s a tribute to Chinese culture? People would be so insulted, they might actually beat you up.
by bunderbunder | 2025-05-05 18:03:48+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if it also makes it easier for the enemy to respond. If arrows are only coming in concentrated volleys, then it might be easier for the enemy to make a coordinated advance where they just periodically crouch behind their shields as a volley comes, and then make relatively unhindered advances during the lull.

A diffuse but more-or-less constant stream of arrows arriving at random is presumably more distracting and harder to deal with, and therefore a greater hindrance to enemy infantry.
by philwelch | 2025-05-05 18:05:42+00:00
You fight with what you have but then sometimes you lose to someone who has a better army than you do and disappear from history. So in the long run you end up fighting with what actually works in your terrain. And I think it's very interesting that horses, who are only really indigenous to the steppe, ended up proliferating over the entire earth in a way that elephants did not. Hundreds of elephants on the battlefield sounds great if you can feed them though!
by mrguyorama | 2025-05-05 18:05:55+00:00
The show is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Birchum

It was produced by DailyWire+, which is a media firm founded by Ben Shapiro.

It only made 6 episodes because the market it shot for, right wing people who hate "woke" rejected it. There is plenty of market for those people consuming what is essentially ragebait and hate content.

They don't seem to want to consume actual media though. Right wing grifters have been trying to target them for a while with "alternative" content, but they don't actually want to enjoy anything. They just want to watch Ben Shapiro tell them that woke is bad, liberals are evil, and "Go woke go broke".

This is the same market that Russia Today was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to people like Tim Pool to shout at.

Ironically the reception seems to be it could be an average show if it wasn't so intent on yelling about how much it hates "woke". It's brought down by the amount of virtue signalling it does.
by uxhacker | 2025-05-05 18:06:00+00:00
I’m not a mathematician (just a programmer), but reading this made me wonder—doesn’t this kind of dimensional weirdness feel a bit like how LLMs organize their internal space? Like how similar ideas or meanings seem to get pulled close together in a way that’s hard to visualize, but clearly works?

That bit in the article about knots only existing in 3D really caught my attention. "And dimension 3 is the only one that can contain knots — in any higher dimension, you can untangle a knot even while holding its ends fast."

That’s so unintuitive… and I can't help thinking of how LLMs seem to "untangle" language meaning in some weird embedding space that’s way beyond anything we can picture.

Is there a real connection here? Or am I just seeing patterns where there aren’t any?
by nottorp | 2025-05-05 18:06:21+00:00
Unrelated but related:

I have an entry level standalone oscilloscope that i got but never used. I once looked for tutorials and unpacked it, ready to test, but:

It's covered in that kind of plastic that goes all gooey if left unattended for a long time.

Any hints on how I can clean it up so i can touch it again?