MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SableMonroe1 | 2025-05-22 05:29:53+00:00
Yes, I’ve used Satoshi Eye a few times. It’s surprisingly fast and doesn’t need registration or API keys. Just paste the address, and it breaks down where the funds came from, where they went, and whether the wallet is flagged. Helped me avoid a payout from a wallet tied to a previous phishing scam. Wouldn’t mind seeing this integrated directly into wallets
by EvanAnderson | 2025-05-22 05:32:58+00:00
Years ago I made a "poetry generator" web app stylized like a piece of music synthesizer gear (an "Angst Modulator"). In the "filters" section I had an "ee cummings" filter that removed punctuation and made everything lower case.

(All the silly thing did was chain together stanzas randomly based on subjective "scores" I'd given to each stanza and the position of the "knobs" the user set for various "feelings". It was a fun gimmick 30 years ago. God. I'm old...)
by guappa | 2025-05-22 05:34:19+00:00
They offset that risk by taking 2 months to design and implement complex features like "add a new text box in the form, to enter an IP address".

I haven't seen them merge a pull request in less than 3 days. However simple.

The team lead, in 2 years, contributed less than 20 pull requests, all of which were 1 to 3 line changes to CSS or similar.
by phire | 2025-05-22 05:34:40+00:00
Though, the late 90s feels achievable.

The Front Side Bus of the Pentium III maxed out at 133 MHz, single transfer (and was often configured at 100 MHz for lower spec CPUs), and the AMD K6 was even slower. I don't have much PCB design experience, but my understanding is that 133MHz is quite achievable for hobbyists these days.

Things very quickly go off the rails after that.
by golly_ned | 2025-05-22 05:35:12+00:00
“ Have tried a ton of antidepressants and vyvanse, nothing's worked.”

Could just as easily make it worse. I had gone on a lower dose of an antidepressant and had exactly this problem. I had to go on medical leave until I could get back on my previous dose and stabilize.

Sleep and exercise, especially cardio, are all that worked. The drugs interrupt sleep. They can easily hurt more than help.
by Fomite | 2025-05-22 05:36:14+00:00
"In the old days, people did research for the sake of research, and mostly out of Europe came the greatest scientific works we have seen."

In the old days, scientific careers were largely restricted to the independently wealthy or those who could secure patrons.

I also feel like there's a sort of tension with what Hacker News broadly wants out of science. There's often a lament that there aren't enough staff science positions, or positions where people can have a career beyond a postdoc that's just devoted to research.

Those things have to be paid for. Postdocs are expensive. Staff scientists are expensive - and terrifying, because they have careers and kids and mortgages. Postdocs are expensive.

That ends up eating a lot of a PIs time, because the success rate on proposals are low. Even worse now.

Would I love to be able to just sit in my office, think my thoughts, and occasionally write those thoughts up? Sure. But I'd also like to give people an opportunity to have careers in science where they can get paid.
by lhoff | 2025-05-22 05:36:41+00:00
That exists. There are multiple vendors that have solutions to automatically transform COBOL code.

Deloitte, for example, has quite a big practice around Mainframe modernization with a toolsuite https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/topics/appl...

And AWS bought a company with such a toolsuite and offers it now as a service https://aws.amazon.com/de/mainframe-modernization/capabiliti...
by pzo | 2025-05-22 05:37:38+00:00
Humane was very impressive product from hardware perspective and design but poor execution and software (partially because they don't own smartphone os like android/iOS).

If similar hardware was:

- released by apple or google and deeply integrated with android/iOS

- embedded inside apple watch / pixel watch

- embedded inside slim airpods case that could be wear as pendant

- apple had siri as good as gemini and very good local STT to reduce latency

- MCP clients got more adopted by integrated in smartphones AI assistants

then it could be a hit. They lost because they shipped to early, without having big pockets for long game, without owning android OS / iOS and charged big price + subscription for this gadgets.

I think google currently is the best positioned to pull seamless experience with pixel devices (smartphone, watch, buds, gemini)
by mdaniel | 2025-05-22 05:38:29+00:00
gnu-cobol is likely what you're after (cloudflare even used it to demo their Worker platform) but my experience has been that the language isn't the nonsense it's the environmental that's horrific to port

Consider a hypothetical Python example:

import os os.system("DIRECTORY ./SHELVED_STATE")

if you ported the python to C# it wouldn't suddenly work on Windows or Linux
by hansvm | 2025-05-22 05:38:44+00:00
Assuming your goal is mimicking the training data, you need some mechanism for drawing from the same distribution. AR happens to provide that -- it's a particular factorization of conditional probabilities which yields the same distribution you started with, and it's one you're able to replicate in your training data.

AR is not the only possible solution, but many other techniques floating around do not have that property of actually learning the right thing. Moreover, since the proposed limitation (not being able to think a long time about your response before continuing) is a byproduct of current architectures rather than a fundamental flaw with AR, it's not as obvious as it might seem that you'd want to axe the technique.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-05-22 05:38:55+00:00
> Diffusion models for code generation are a big deal.

This is my intuition as well, as there are a lot of low-hanging fruits that a model like this could tackle in coding:

- you should be able to have a workflow where you constrain the generation w/ a function definition, and its output, and "generate" the tokens in between. Kind of like constrained generation but with the model being able to attend to tokens both ways.

- you should also be able to use a 2 step workflow like first writing a high level description of the function layout (think "write the chapters for an article on x" from LLMs) and then ping-pong between the actual implementations ("and now write chapter x"), using larger and larger context, using proxies like linters, code compilation, AST derived info, etc. for signals of "completion". Lots of things to be tried here indeed.
by willvarfar | 2025-05-22 05:39:12+00:00
I only retired my 2014 MBP ... last week! It started transiently not booting and then, after just a few weeks, it switched to be only transiently booting. Figured it was time. My new laptop is actually a very budget buy, and not a mac, and in many things a bit slower than the old MBP.

Anyway, the old laptop is about par with the 'big' VMs that I use for work to analyse really big BQ datasets. My current flow is to do the kind of 0.001% queries that don't fit on a box on BigQuery and massage things with just enough prepping to make the intermediate result fit on a box. Then I extract that to parquet stored on the VM and do the analysis on the VM using DuckDB from python notebooks.

DuckDB has revolutionised not what I can do but how I can do it. All the ingredients were around before, but DuckDB brings it together and makes the ergonomics completely different. Life is so much easier with joins and things than trying to do the same in, say, pandas.
by fragmede | 2025-05-22 05:41:50+00:00
What sort of videos? For Twitch streaming, the way to do is not have passwords on screen by having OBS only show a portion of the screen, with an extra terminal/whatever outside of the shared section (find a more in depth guide for details on how this works in detail/practice)

Redacting an area of the screen is easy with a bit of practice, even though the location of the password on screen may move, you just have to trace a path for the black box to move along. However, thattakes a bit of time unlike a hypothetical hide password with AI button.
by CairoBlack1 | 2025-05-22 05:43:50+00:00
I used to just Google wallet addresses or ask around in Discord. That got tiring fast. Tools like Satoshi Eye are a big step forward — they make due diligence feel like checking someone's LinkedIn before a meeting. Also tested it on some known scammy addresses and it flagged them right away. Curious to know how it compares to enterprise tools though
by encom | 2025-05-22 05:45:28+00:00
Because in v115 (I think, it's been a while), the interface received a thick coat of clown makeup for no reason, and now it's terrible and there's no way to revert it. You can apparently hack some CSS to make it tolerable, but I'm not going to engage in a war with my email client, because I know that solution will break with every update.

You search for a solution to this, you get plenty of hits of people trying to revert the UI. I'm not alone with this opinion. It's an email client, it's not supposed to be new and exciting. The interface was fine.

All I really want is working Kmail. It's boring in the best kind of way.
by onecommentman | 2025-05-22 05:46:26+00:00
“But no world of make-believe [the early movie industry] could long engage the attention of Southern Californians of that period [1921] in competition with the genuine and authentic freaks who helped to make up the lists of their fellow-citizens. I once compiled a list of the subjects which it was well to avoid, lest the toes of any chance acquaintance might be stepped on. They included astrology, numerology, vegetarianism, the single tax, prohibition, vivisection, celibacy, free verse, and many more. All these isms, of course, had and have their advocates everywhere; but in southern California they seized their victims in more virulent form. I have had a strange lady kneel publicly on my doorstop in Los Angeles and implore her God aloud to make me vote dry and thus “save the precinct" from the contamination of my solitary wet ballot. Even Kansas would have to hunt hard to tie that.

Swamis, Rosicrucians, Theosophists, and other organized mystics abounded, together with disciples of every known variety of the Newer Thought from Koreshan to Baha'i. The present crop of social panaceas which in recent years [1940] has sprung up in this territory - Synchrotax, Epic, the Townsend Plan, Utopians Incorporated, $30 Every Thursday, and the rest - is merely the lineal descendant, diverted by the depression into the economic field, of the religio-philosophical blossoming of two decades ago. And a lot of these sects were rent by schisms and divided into factions at bitter enmity with one another.”

- The Santa Fean, March-April 1941
by someothherguyy | 2025-05-22 05:48:30+00:00
> Backend – a headless service that does the heavy lifting: indexing, static analysis, advanced search, navigation, and the like. Every such operation is initiated by a request from the workspace, which then processes the response and dispatches the data to the components that require it.

> As a backend, you can use a headless IntelliJ IDEA or a language server.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/fleet/architecture-overview.h...
by scurth | 2025-05-22 05:49:47+00:00
That is something increasingly happening to people without traditional IT background’s using AI assisted coding. They are now able to create and run their own products. Don’t get me wrong here, i strongly believe thats an awesome situation and chance, but brings loads of responsibility with it. I added a new service to my company portfolio to support these. As this is a hot topic, i got an unexpected amount of traffic and inquiries. https://secure-vibe-coding.de/
by yorwba | 2025-05-22 05:50:41+00:00
Perfection seem to be using a lot of foil tunnels: https://www.perfection.com.au/our-farms/perfection-berries-r... Which makes sense, because they're cheap and easy to construct. But for some reason "indoor farming" startups don't seem very interested in taking the simplest solution that could possibly qualify as "indoors" and scaling it up.
by hhhAndrew | 2025-05-22 05:51:01+00:00
In what is surely not a coincidence, 2012 is also the year in which a Stack Exchange question about how to generate these beautiful diagrams in Mathematica came up: https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/11657/factor...

I wrote an answer there that produced these diagrams from fairly few lines of code.

The question there referred to same now-broken link mentioned above so the origin still unknown.
by theptip | 2025-05-22 05:51:40+00:00
Can someone help with the intuition here? My understanding from vision transformers is you start with noise and use a series of hierarchical models to iteratively refine the noise into the target. Each layer is trained to produce images at an increasing resolution, and by layering them you skip the problem of sparse gradients at the beginning to get from “noise” to “noise that kinda looks like a face”.

How does this work for coding? It would require you to be able to hierarchically structure the emitted artifacts. Maybe this sort of works; low granularity concepts like “use Django for this problem”, then “I need these endpoints” then “emit the code”. But AIUI diffusion doesn’t have a mechanism for backtracking, so you can’t feed back signals from the detailed layers to the “higher abstraction” layers at the top of your need to change an aspect of the design in response to a low-level problem.

Whereas transformers, you go through the whole model for each token and therefore can deploy all your smarts and logic at each step of the problem (if needed), including backtracking on key design decisions.

I’m sure my mental model has some big gaps, would appreciate any insights.
by fragmede | 2025-05-22 05:54:29+00:00
> want, it isn't going to create the video I want from a prompt when I've already got the video clips I want to edit.

You act as if there aren't a bunch of non-AI video editing apps that try to do exactly that, nevermind AI apps that try and do that.

> I don't need to edit clips of people with 7 fingers

There's more to AI than image generation (and 7 fingers isn't the same problem it was 6 months ago). Specifically, picking out the important part of the clip, adding appropriate captions and music from the AI processing the video.

> I need to edit my family vacation video

Yes. What do you think an AI enhanced video editor would do? Be Photoshop? Editing the family video from hours down to a digestible video for sharing is a time intensive process, and while I'm sure you enjoy it, not everyone does. A "Make vacation video" button for those people for whom that's a chore and not fun, and don't remotely care to be semi-professional video editors is the target market for a program with a feature to find decent photos and snippets of video from a giant pile of stuff, and arrange them into something cromulent.

As far as state of the art for generated content, a cousin of mine used AI to take a still image of the extended family at dinner with their hands under the table, and turn it into a convincing video where everyone raises their hands and waves (with the correct number of fingers, in case that needed to be stated.)

Anyway, to answer your question, the react library backing this for building your own to drop in is called Remotion. If you'd rather a different video editor, https://omniclip.app/ was mentioned as being an open source no-upload video editor.
by kazinator | 2025-05-22 05:55:50+00:00
Antimater has positively charged electrons (positrons) and negatively charged protons (antiprotons). Its neutrons are antineutrons made of a positron and antiproton.

So just the charges are swapped around.

Charges interact with electric fields.

Gravity is related to mass. It doesn't matter whether the bulk of the mass comes from negatively or positively charged particles.

Of course, antimatter has opposite electrical attraction. If an antimatter plastic comb attracts antimatter styrofoam crumbs, those crumbs will be repelled by the matter plastic comb (luckily for them).
by mickelsen | 2025-05-22 05:55:56+00:00
Several! In this one I shared what I did to deal with my case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33905368

For those with unilateral tinnitus that seems influenced by neck stretches or TMJ issues, try sleeping on your back or on the opposite side to avoid pressure on the affected ear.

Also, consider getting an MRI to check for possible causes; in my case, a vascular loop was found contacting the vestibulocochlear nerve inside the internal auditory canal.

While I consider my case largely managed, it still flares up a few times per month, usually triggered by irritation or inflammation (allergens, getting sick, poor neck posture, loud music for hours)
by southernplaces7 | 2025-05-22 05:57:36+00:00
It is indeed speculative to not just suggest that technology will improve but make specific claims about how and in what way based on no clear connection to any current development.

Also, there's nothing hand wavy about pointing out -aside from all the vastly efficient parallelism and generalist computing that the brain does with absurdly minimal power needs- that it also seems to be where our consciousness is housed.

You can go ahead and naval gaze about "how do we know if we're conscious? How do we know an LLM isn't?" but I certainly feel conscious, and so do you, and we both demonstrably have self-directed agency that indicates this widely, solidly accepted phenomenon, and is very distinct from anything any LLM can demonstrably do, regardless of what AIbros like to claim about consciousness not being real.

Arguments like these remind me of relativist fall-back idiocies of asking "but what is a spoon" whenever confronted with any hard counterargument to their completely speculative claims about X or Y.
by catoc | 2025-05-22 05:58:30+00:00
Nothing necessarily perverse here. I don’t know Williams but don’t image him disliking the other guy or being unhappy with progress in general, but just being someone who truly challenged himself only to find him being trumped a week later; and kicking himself for that.

Either way, the week is not yet over, at least since the quanta article, so maybe no kicking will ensue.
by Incipient | 2025-05-22 05:59:42+00:00
I'm in the camp of 'no good for existing'. I try to get ~1000 line files refactored to use different libraries, design paradigms, etc and it usually outputs garbage - pulling db logic into the UI, grabbing unrelated api/function calls, to entirely just corrupting the output.

I'm sure there is a way to correctly use this tool, so I'm feeling like I'm "just holding it wrong".
by littlestymaar | 2025-05-22 05:59:43+00:00
> Unless you run for President, nobody is going to bother reading through your thousands of comments to stitch together your identity

This comment feels a lot like what someone would say in the early internet, but for the past decade the targeted ads business has been doing that in real time with all the data you give it. And it has spread out of ads, insurance and credit companies are now buying this kind of info too.

You have more to hide than you believe.
by bokke | 2025-05-22 06:01:28+00:00
Relative to your actual value to humanity you are over privileged.

Bizarre incrementalism measure of progress, they’re people so they’re automatically peers.

Wank your economic political philosophy all you want. One of billions is one of billions; metrics don’t lie. I say we devalue a bunch of first world office workers whose knowledge work skills are replicated by machines. It’s just a few million relative to billions. A minority with too much privilege and reach into other’s lives for economic skills replicates by others and machines. Let’s have some grown up conversations these days shall we, twee America?
by eeeeeeehio | 2025-05-22 06:01:34+00:00
Academics seem to have this fixation on "ideas":

> And it’s not just a pace thing, there’s a threshold of clarity that divides learned nothing from got at least one new idea.

But these days, ideas are quite cheap: in my experience, most researchers have more ideas than students to work on them. Many papers can fit their "core idea" in a tweet or two, and in many cases someone has already tweeted the idea in one form or another. Some ideas are better than others, but there's a lot of "reasonable" ideas out there.

Any of these ideas can be a paper, but what makes it science can't just be the fact that it was communicated clearly. It wouldn't be science unless you perform experiments (that accurately implement the "idea") and faithfully report the results. (Reviewers may add an additional constraint: that the results must look "good".)

So what does science have to do with reviewers' fixation on clarity and presentation? I claim: absolutely nothing. You can pretty much say whatever you want as long as it sounds reasonable and is communicated clearly (and of course the results look good). Even if the over-worked PhD student screws up the evaluation script a bit and the results are in their favor (oops!), the reviewers are not going to notice so long as the ideas are presented clearly.

Clear communication is important, but science cannot just be communicating ideas.
by defrost | 2025-05-22 06:02:12+00:00
> I just don't see how the video I watched could have been editted ..

The video you linked has been edited twice .. once from raw live footage in order to create the TV panel show that went to air, and again a second time to extract and join short specific sections from the TV show to create the segment you linked .. with additional voice over added.

The original TV footage appears to have been sourced from Geoffrey Robertson's Hypotheticals.

The very name "Hypotheticals" might indicate to you how you the second round of editing has led you astray.

The segment you linked has removed all context .. there is nothing of Geoffrey Robertson setting up a situation and instructing panel members "to imagine they are ...".

All you have there is a tight segment lacking the larger context with an added voice over claiming that this is Islam speaking from his heart as himself, nothing about being asked to play himself as a more fundemental true believer.
by transpute | 2025-05-22 06:05:01+00:00
On embedded systems with enough power budget to run statically-partitioned virtualized guest VMs, one could use different languages in different VMs, e.g. separated by maturity and talent availability for specific use cases. Or code that runs on a special-purpose processor.

> lack of community & ability to hire devs would be it's biggest problems

In some contexts, this might be a competitive advantage, e.g. Nvidia uses Ada to secure RoT firmware that protects their industry-leading margins. But they have the luxury of deep pockets and a full hiring pipeline, "Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?”, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42998383

SPARK is a formally defined computer programming language based on the Ada programming language, intended for the development of high integrity software used in systems where predictable and highly reliable operation is essential. It facilitates the development of applications that demand safety, security, or business integrity.
by asveikau | 2025-05-22 06:05:33+00:00
Why does Ive need to be churning out continuous hits? There is no shame in quitting while ahead, or considering your previous success to be a tough act to follow.

I feel similar about Zuckerberg. That guy should just let the government break up his empire, let some other people run the pieces, and retire. Otherwise he just faces humiliation and being in over his head.

But I guess ego keeps these people going.