MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alganet | 2025-05-03 06:12:25+00:00
What you said sounded like a bold claim. I just wanted to understand if you understand the implications of applying that label. I wanted to know if you understand the reason.

I'm not gonna blindly fight based on a vague idea that history is repeating itself. Or should I? (rethorical).

You seem like a very educated person with broad historical knowledge. Why use cheap accusations to put your ideas forward? (rethorical).
by nickwatson | 2025-05-03 06:12:37+00:00
Thanks for the feedback, hoc. I am already re-coding the whole thing to use more of an Agents/crew style approach where certain roles can be assigned to critique the research, fact-check, etc.

I re-built with CrewAI but was limited so now doing the same again but using AutoGen.

The criticism is important to this, as is any research project. That's why good research works, if it is challenged. I'm implementing that "challenging" directly into the LLM as separate agents.

Balancing token efficiency with regular check-ins and critique is important, and something I want to ensure the user has control over.

Nearly to version 0.1.3, and much to learn still.

I loved that use case! I will keep testing, refining and hoping others will do until we get there. Persistence is what matters, to try our best and strive towards collaboration, openness and accuracy.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.” - Quote by Socrates.
by yorwba | 2025-05-03 06:14:20+00:00
When you randomize the event occurences, you create intervals that are shorter and longer than average, so that a random point is more likely to be in a longer interval, so that the expected length of the interval containing a random point is greater than the expected length of a random interval.

To see this, consider just two intervals of length x and 2-x, i.e. 1 on average. A random point is in the first interval x/2 of the time and in the second one the other 1-x/2 of the time, so the expected length of the interval containing a random point is x/2 * x + (1-x/2) * (2-x) = x² - 2x + 2, which is 1 for x = 1 but larger everywhere else, reaching 2 for x = 0 or 2.
by JodieBenitez | 2025-05-03 06:17:05+00:00
> If it is perfect for your needs other than the look, you could update the superficial parts to match your liking?

I would, but the author is not ok with this:

> Anubis is provided to the public for free in order to help advance the common good. In return, we ask (but not demand, these are words on the internet, not word of law) that you not remove the Anubis character from your deployment. If you want to run an unbranded or white-label version of Anubis, please contact Xe to arrange a contract.
by firecall | 2025-05-03 06:17:14+00:00
Similar prices in AU$ here in Australia too. So around AU$300 to AU$400 for a months supply, or thereabouts. It varies - just going off my experience.

Hopefully the market will correct the pricing situation once the goldrush calms down.

Even my local pharmacist ranted about what a rort it is last time I asked LOL
by 47282847 | 2025-05-03 06:17:54+00:00
Share your thoughts. Ask and you will know. Or don’t, and move on, knowing that you don’t know, without the need to judge the other. There is no reason to “drive yourself crazy“ with your thoughts.

We all make assumptions, and then we can communicate about them to validate. It is turning your assumptions into insinuation without actually giving the other the benefit of the doubt that creates communication mismatch, not the assumption itself. (“Their behavior must mean that they are not interested, and the only way to address this requires them to adopt to what is right for me.“)
by otabdeveloper4 | 2025-05-03 06:19:12+00:00
> Yeah, let's all brush this tech off as unoriginal, uninspiring and bland.

The tech is great, it's the music it produces that's unoriginal, uninspiring and bland.

> Be ready to see it popping up everywhere—in cafes, restaurants, on TV ads, on your next spotify playlist.

So music will become even shittier going forward? Yay tech! Thanks for automating away the act of music listening!

Seriously though, now that music-as-a-product has been killed by techbros, can we go back to music-as-an-act, like before? That would be the silver lining.
by computerdork | 2025-05-03 06:19:18+00:00
Agree with this for the most part. In fact, I write my pieces by hand on paper, use notation software (Dorico) to create the sheet music, listen to the piece using playback software (Noteperformer) which is connected to multiple virtual instruments (BBC Symphony Orchestra, etc.). These are all wonderful tools, and make writing music easier. For me at leas, they're not absolutely necessary, but are definitely helpful.

But, AI isn't just a tool, it's actually generating musical ideas at a highly finished level. For the first time, we have something that takes over a substantial amount of the creativity used to write a piece, a process which has always been the domain of people, and it's doing it at levels that are close to what the best skilled humans can do. Yeah, this isn't just something that aids creation, but is doing the creating itself.

Maybe one day, will use AI to create substantial amounts of the music I write, but am not nearly at that point yet - don't think most classical concert audiences want to got to a concert hall to hear AI generated music, but that may change. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
by motoxpro | 2025-05-03 06:19:59+00:00
The wild thing was this is what people "wanted"

- The agreeableness came from heavier weighted user signals, not from OpenAI. The users give better feedback when the answers positively respond to their questions.

- The most common use case for AI is a therapist.

- The reward signals (user feedback) being positive means that the response helped them emotionally. Which is easy to imagine someone asking a hard question "Am I enough in this situation?" The model then assures that the user IS enough, and the user gives it a thumbs up.

- I would say: 1. Coding is not the killer use case. Productivity is not the killer use case. The killer use case is emotional support. 2. Who is anyone to say that this use case is wrong? 3. It is impossible to say what is "right" in this situation. (everyone thinks their advice to a friend is the right advice, even when it is opposite). So there is no objectivity.

- I think a lot of people who wanted an "open, do anything" model, are going to have more problems and dissonance with this idea than they would about the model allowing people to create weapons, allow self-harm, etc. because it will feel uncomfortable that a model is shaping reality for a large portion of the population.

https://hbr.org/2025/04/how-people-are-really-using-gen-ai-i...
Show HN: GitHub-CLI extension to generate PR title and body
by quiker | 2025-05-03 06:22:39+00:00
I use github-cli in my workflows both at work and with pet projects — it's handy to open new and checkout existing PRs, list them, watch them, etc.

What I noticed is that when submitting a PR, I would just send it with the default title and description so CI gets the pipeline rolling, and then would go back to edit some meaningful title and description of the work. We also use a PR template at work we have to follow which adds some burden to the task.

Doing that a few times a day is time consuming and surely can be automated.

LLMs got pretty good with reading and explaining the code so I figured they can be useful.

As github-cli allows extensions — me and my friend built a simple one, that feeds the diff to the prompt to generate PR title and body (following the template if any) using the LLM of choice based on available api keys.

So instead of `gh pr create` you now can run `gh aipr` to have the PR title and description populated automatically.

Hope you find it useful. Feel free to open issues or make contributions to the tool as well. I would appreciate any feedback too.
by raincom | 2025-05-03 06:23:23+00:00
I see at least three sources of problems.

1. Test it for mass, purity, endotoxins, whether it is the real deal or not; this can be easily mitigated if one joins some testing group to share costs.

2. Calculate the dosage units properly, as it depends on how much bacteriostatic water is mixed with the powder. Here, many peptide calculators help. Some will end up making mistakes here; instead of taking 5 units, one will take 50 units--this leads to ER visits.

3. Hygiene: use gloves and alcohol wipes.
by skissane | 2025-05-03 06:24:20+00:00
> I'll probably grab UK citizenship soon, but I would never say "I'm British"

I’m a British citizen, but I’m not British. I’ve never stepped foot in the UK in my whole life, I became a citizen through descent.

And my late grandmother, who was born in Scotland and lived the first half of her life there, I remember once calling her Scottish, and she corrected me “I’m not Scottish, I’m Irish” (both her parents were born in Ireland)
by asingh_oppla | 2025-05-03 06:26:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m Abhi (long‑time PM, first‑time YC hopeful) and I’ve been building Oppla because I was tired of juggling Mixpanel, Amplitude, Looker, spreadsheet models and a dozen Slack threads just to answer a simple question: “What should we ship next, and why?”

What Oppla does Unified event pipeline – We capture product events (JS/SDK), enrichment from Stripe, CRM, etc., and store them. Feedback ingestion – In‑app widget and meeting transcript integrations hook dump qualitative feedback into the same warehouse. AI Signals engine – A retrieval‑augmented LLM agent clusters events + feedback, surfaces “signals” (e.g., “40 % of paid users drop at onboarding step 3; 17 tickets mention missing SSO”) and runs counterfactual sims on potential fixes. Workflow automation – When a signal meets a rule (“MAU drop > 10 %”), Oppla can open a JIRA ticket, ping a Slack channel or launch an A/B test via GrowthBook. Lightweight experiments – Built‑in sequential testing with CUPED adjustment; choose control vs. multi‑var, get a simple decision memo instead of dense stats output. AI Native - Oppla is built natively on AI hence you can interact with your workspace through AI Agent that provides you answers for what you need instead of what you want.

Why we think this matters Data is still siloed – PMs spend days merging CSVs while engineering waits for specs. AI is only as good as context – We pull all the context automatically, so the agent’s answers are grounded in truth, not vibes. PLG teams move fast – They need “Friday‑afternoon clarity” without a dedicated data science squad. Pricing Open beta is free for 7 days → then $50 / 250 MAU starter plan. We’re usage‑metered so small teams aren’t subsidising large ones.

Ask Does the Signals concept resonate? What would you need before trusting automated recommendations? If you’ve hit scale limits in event analytics, what bit us next? Anything feel like pure noise / over‑engineered?

Request for beta access: https://oppla.ai

Appreciate any blunt feedback or “this is worthless unless X” comments.

Thanks! Abhi
by bgnn | 2025-05-03 06:28:07+00:00
most of Europe north of the alps is fairly flat in elevation. Railways are oversubscribed because they are not expanded enough, defunded if you like, to expand and fund the highway network.

It is stupid to travel thousands of kilometers by trucks. It's inefficient, expensive and nit scalable. Currently we use mostly huge container ships and empty them with trucks, absolutely insane. There's quite a bit of river boat activity in Europe luckily, which is great if electrified. Though the sorry state of the railways is just human-made and not didtated by economics.
by skissane | 2025-05-03 06:30:01+00:00
> Yeah, the way Americans mean "I'm X nationality" and the way the rest of the world means it are different.

I don’t think this is uniquely American - I know people in Australia who identify as Italian despite the fact their parents were born here. And I wonder if you’d find something similar in other places where large numbers of Italians emigrated, such as Argentina. And the same applies to various other groups too, mutatis mutandis.

A word like “Italian” can variously describe legal nationality/citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, language, self-identification - and different combinations of those possibilities in different contexts or as used by different speakers
by SkiFire13 | 2025-05-03 06:31:28+00:00
Did you actually started to appreciate the same OOP that made class situations impossible to understand or did you gradually switched to a simplier OOP, made up of mostly interfaces and classes that implement them (as opposed to extending other classes)?

In my experience OOP is actually pretty pleasant to work with if you avoid extending classes as much as possible.

> These kinds of niche optimizations are still significant. The OOP model allows them to be implemented with much less fanfare.

If you're referring to the optimization in the article posted then I would argue an OOP model is not needed for it, just having encapsulation is enough.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-03 06:33:54+00:00
The a capital example of an exception that prove the rule.

I absolutely value & have huge respect for the deeply computational works that advance us all along!

But this is an exceedingly rare event. Most development is more glue work than advancing computional fundamentals. Very very very little of the industry is paid to work on honing data structures so generally.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-03 06:34:33+00:00
In general I think the issue is a lot of people equate Stalin with USSR. Things were substantially different both before and after him. And his reign was also from the 20s to the 50s in which there was the context of, amongst other major issues, WW2 where the Soviets lost tens of millions of people. As one can see in certain ongoing wars, exceptional loss of life seems to gradually push leaders towards having zero concern for life at all - let alone the liberties and values we hold to be desirable, even in authoritarian systems. When the "hard" decisions become quite easy, you're well on your way to dystopia.
by insin | 2025-05-03 06:35:46+00:00
> but also game & movie soundtracks ... tv shows

I can't begin explain how taken aback I am by this comment, to call others cynical and come out with this - do you think these currently feature the work of anonymous composers of unloved background music?

Have you heard of the likes of Nobuo Uematsu, Yoko Shimomura, Lena Raine, John Williams, Clint Mansell, Ennio Morricone, Ramin Djawadi, Max Richter, holy shit Max Richter, have you never been pierced to your very core by something like On The Nature of Daylight used to perfect effect at an emotional climax in a movie or TV show? The hair on my arms is standing up just thinking about it.

This is the most shallow sampling of a group people who are beloved for their work in these media and likely for lifetimes beyond it.
by codedokode | 2025-05-03 06:36:46+00:00
Stalin died in 1953, and these probes were launched much later, so there were no chance to get into a Gulag. However for people who worked earlier the possibility to get there was always nearby.

Sergei Korolev, a famous Russian rocket designer (who was later responsible for launching a first satellite and first human space flight), had to go through the prison and labour camp. In 1938 he was head of a laboratory for jet propulsion (mainly for development of weapon), and as jet engines were not well studied, experimental models often failed with explosions. After another failed test, several laboratory employees were arrested, and after they testified, Korolev. They were charged with sabotage - creating a secret anti-Soviet organization with the purpose of weakening Soviet defence. After series of interrogations, during which he had his jaw broken, he admitted the guilt and soon was sentenced to 10 years of work in labour camps [1]. The sentence was later reviewed and he was transferred to a prison where he was allowed to continue working on jet propulsion.

Another example is Andrey Tupolev - Soviet aircraft designer ("Tu" series of planes is named after him). He was also charged with sabotage (conspiracy to slow down aircraft development in USSR) and espionage during Stalin times and had to design his planes in a prison [2].

After Stalin death, both Korolev and Tupolev cases were reviewed and they were admitted not guilty.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev#Imprisonment

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Tupolev#Sharashka
by tomhow | 2025-05-03 06:36:53+00:00
This kind of comment breaks the HN guidelines, particularly these ones...

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by psgdev | 2025-05-03 06:37:07+00:00
Most will simply go to the gray/black market.

A 2 year supply of Ozempic (Semaglutide) lyophilized in sterile vials is ~$120USD (300mg of Semaglutide, 2.4mg a week at max dose so 125 weeks) on the black/gray market and that's with at least 2 middlemen making a profit so realistically the cost might be closer to $70USD?. Anyone can pay to get it HPLC tested to confirm the quantity, purity, sterility etc not to mention people (bodybuilders) have been using gray market peptides for 10+years and you never hear any stories about something going wrong (Things go wrong with oil based steroids for bodybuilders commonly not peptides in BAC water).

Meanwhile that same ~$120USD 2 year supply of Ozempic is $8400 in Europe, $9600 in Canada and $24000 in the USA.
by JustExAWS | 2025-05-03 06:37:33+00:00
Etsy charges 6.5% transaction fee + 3% payment processing fee + a flat $0.25 fee per transaction. That would end up being more than 15% for most Apple purchases of $1-$3.

eBay charges a final value fee of 12.9% and $.30 - $0.40 flat fee per order. And you pay a fee for international orders.
Show HN: PHP MultiRunner – another package to run multiple processes in parallel
by justmisha | 2025-05-03 06:37:49+00:00
Hi, everyone!

It so happened that I had to "reinvent the wheel", namely I wrote the package to run multiple processes in parallel — PHP MultiRunner. Yes, there are already a few similar packages out there on Packagist.org. But, when the one was needed, all the packages I tried had some weird limitations and bugs.

This package:

- has a very simple interface; - can run any program, script or code that has an interpreter installed on the system; - works on both Windows and Linux; - allows you to transfer large amounts of data between processes and your code - tests confirm 1/6 of the value set by the memory_limit parameter in php.ini with 3 processes, i.e: - 21Mb with memory_limit=128Mb; - 42Mb with memory_limit=128Mb.

Under the hood, it uses proc_open() to start processes and hides numerous complexities and peculiarities of working with processes in PHP.

It does not require any other packages or extensions to be installed.

Hope you like the package! Your feedback is valuable, so please let me know what you think in the comments here or on the Github Issues page.
by istjohn | 2025-05-03 06:38:29+00:00
You saying talk therapy just isn't for you is like me saying physical therapy just isn't for me. Well, I'm glad that everything is functioning well for you in that area, but it would be kind of silly for me to write off physical therapy because I haven't needed it yet. Talk therapy can help people with social anxiety or chronic depression, but it can also help people cope with major life changes like losing a loved one, losing a job, getting divorced, or even retiring. We all have difficult moments in our life.
by rashunain | 2025-05-03 06:39:05+00:00
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by rikroots | 2025-05-03 06:40:40+00:00
I just extended the sequence - Utd needed 8 more wins to get to 21, City needed 5 to get to 13, etc. The only prediction I'll put money on is Leicester winning in 2040 because the only thing that explains their 2015 win was some divine intervention to reward the city for rescuing an anointed king from a car park and reburying him in their cathedral that year.
by smolder | 2025-05-03 06:43:10+00:00
No one is really validating me for learning new things. I think the value of learning has more to do with whether you can leverage your learning in a socially positive way. It's hard to know whether learning about a particular topic will create opportunities to help anyone. I'm pretty sure no one but me will get anything from my recent interest in astrophysics beyond a little entertainment value. I consider it hedonic learning, but less so than stuff like pop culture trivia.
by jjmarr | 2025-05-03 06:44:23+00:00
> This music is already as good as what's produceable by humans, and will be available for a fraction of the cost without the licensing fees.

I'm trying to use Suno 3.5 to create low quality 90s/00s-style MIDI music (similar to Vektroid[1]) since that's my favourite genre. Ironically, what it created[2] still doesn't properly evoke the hollow, tinny, low-quality computer-generated sound that I want to hear.

Specifically, it reduced the number of instruments, so the final result still sounded good. It didn't mash a bunch of MIDI instruments together and create something just a little incoherent that implies it was based on something better.

I think humans are better at stealing/remixing other songs and making them deliberately worse.

Tastes will probably change to be into whatever AI is unable to generate effectively and this seems similar to Stable Diffusion's inability to generate ugly people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(Vektroid_album)

[2] https://suno.com/s/FVCY0EZhWucyg6zM
by bruce511 | 2025-05-03 06:44:32+00:00
I'm not downvoting you, because this is a common economic misconception, and I'm sure your opinion is shared by many.

Money is never wasted.

While the long explanation is some what technical and boring, the short version is this;

"Money is neither created nor destroyed, it simply moves from one hand to another".

Put another way, the National Gallery had 20 mil to spend. So they spent it. That 20 mil us now in the economy, and will travel further. The family that sold the painting might need a new roof, or a tractor, or whatever. They in turn spend the money and it flows.

An economy is just the flow of money. An economy stalls when the money stops flowing and is hoarded.

Fundamentally you want rich people to spend their money. On "what" is mostly irrelevant.

Here's another simplistic example. The US produces a surplus of wheat. USAid buys a lot of that wheat (using tax money) which is thus a round-about subsidization of wheat farmers. This is prudent because local food security, ie having farmers at all, is a good thing.

Now USAid have a pile of wheat, so they donate it to countries that can't afford it. This buys US prestige, both with those countries and their neighbors.

Now USAid stops. The govt "saves money". Farmers loose their subsidy. Long-term US citizens lose their food security.

Money itself has no value. Spending that money has value. Because only by spending it can you realize that value.