MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by doix | 2025-05-05 09:01:29+00:00
Yeah, I was one of those "live in the moment" type people, still kind of am. But my girlfriend meticulously photographs everything. Google photos will every now and then give me a notification along the lines of "Merzouga 3 years ago". I don't remember the exact wording, every time it's different and about a different location/topic. I get to relive all those moments and keep them "fresh" in my memory.

If she didn't take those photos, it's very likely those moments would fade and eventually I would forget everything apart from "Oh yeah, I was there one time".

I do hate the trend of AI editing photographs. If we took a selfie and I closed my eyes, or if there a whole bunch of people in the background, I want that to be captured. Removing the imperfections will change the memory. It's why I don't mind her recreating the same photograph that hundreds of other people have done, because it will still be different. It's what that "thing" was like when we were there, which will most likely be slightly different from everyone elses photo.
by 59nadir | 2025-05-05 09:01:52+00:00
> Every year since chatGPT has seen incredible advancements

Advancements in what exact areas? My time using GitHub Copilot years ago was more successful for the simple act of coding than my more recent one trying out Cursor with Claude Sonnet 3.5. I'm not really seeing what these massive advancements have been, and realistically none of these LLMs are more useful than a very, very bad junior programmer when it comes to anything that couldn't already be looked up but is simply faster to ask.
by notahacker | 2025-05-05 09:02:22+00:00
> Biden didn’t have the mandate to do that.

Course he did, by your own arguments not only did he have precisely that mandate as the president that people voted for [on a manifesto of broadening pathways to citizenship], but nobody else should have had any right to try to stop him.

It's interesting that you regard Biden's administration pursuing a policy in their manifesto (but ceasing part of the parole-in-place programme as soon as the unelected judges of a state court ordered them to do so) to be a more egregious violation of the rule of law than Trump rocking up in El Salvador to sneer at the idea of abiding by a rare unanimous Supreme Court verdict. Much like your insistence that whereas Trump has a mandate to disregard court orders, Biden didn't even have a mandate to undo executive orders on border control he said he was going to undo, the "rank hypocrisy from people who don't believe in rules of law" displayed in this exchange is all yours...
by _bin_ | 2025-05-05 09:03:07+00:00
MDMA is not safe at all for rec use. It’s known to lesion the serotonergic system, even with a single dose. HED is always hard but if you compare the rat dosage they used with a typical 6-7x adjustment I think it comes in at not 150mg ish for a 175lb adult. Not that high relative to common dosing, especially if you’re a 98lb rave chick not a 175lb male.

Now factor in how hard it is to actually dose and the possible inclusion of other amphetamine analogs. Eg I’ve heard of para-chloro(meth)amphetamine showing up a few times, which is used intentionally as a neurotoxin to permanently destroy neurons.

And of course you have dysregulation of the brain’s temperature, magnified by the hot and high-cardio environments where MDMA is usually taken, which can be additionally neurotoxic.

If you synthesize your own or know someone who can, your risk is lower, but MDMA is simply not a safe thing to take.
by rickdeckard | 2025-05-05 09:03:10+00:00
> Cultivating memories instead of snapshots

I started looking for alternatives to standalone cameras and Smartphones for exactly that reason.

Especially when spending time with my kids I wanted to stop disrupting a situation by aiming a camera or keep holding a smartphone (also, I don't want my toddler to learn that a Smartphone is always part of every experience).

So I started looking for a small compact camera I can just pull out, roughly aim at a scene and take plenty of pictures for later, with minimal disruption of the moment. Everything except battery and a good sensor/lens is optional.

GoPro's were my first thought, but I didn't like the fishlens fixed-focus of the pictures. Sony has a compact cam-only device called the RX0, but it's also fixed-focus and I wasn't that sure how well it would fit my needs.

After some searching I found an AWESOME gem of a little camera: The DxO One, a camera from back in 2016 from DxO, a company specialized in benchmarking cameras.

At some point a decade ago, DxO decided that they should make a camera, and went out to build a really high-end iOS-attachable camera (1" sensor of Sony RX100, Auto-Focus, mechanical Iris (!), f/1.8 lens, microSD, Wi-Fi,...) [0].

Initial price-point of the DxO-One was ~700 USD, the device flopped, was dropped in price and later discontinued. The camera is still great, and can still be bought NEW for ~110USD now.

Size is fantastic, Pictures are great, I can only recommend it if someone just wants to capture a moment like it is without people getting pulled out of it.

The device is also somewhat hackable, as it's based on the Ambarella platform (RTOS and Linux).

I started collecting infos about it to preserve it [1], there's still alot of potential in this little gem.

[0]: https://github.com/rickdeck/DxO-One/wiki/1.-Hardware

[1]: https://github.com/rickdeck/DxO-One/wiki
by timschmidt | 2025-05-05 09:03:27+00:00
> He was allowed to keep his BlackBerry for personal communication only, not classified communication

Presence of the senior staff on his (very limited) contact list would seem to contradict that statement. Communication with them would be, by definition, not personal.

I agree with you that our government officials should be using the secure infrastructure our patriotic service members and civil servants work so hard to build and maintain.
by michaelt | 2025-05-05 09:05:34+00:00
A few decades ago, the Republican party had one foot in the anti-intellectual camp, but only one.

They were the party of young-earth creationists, religious pro-lifers, climate-deniers and gun-lovers - but also of educated fiscally conservative folks. The party would welcome economics professors and leaders of medium-sized businesses, promising no radical changes, no big increases in spending or regulation, and a generally pro-market/pro-business stance.

The genius of Trump was in realising the educated fiscally conservative folk were driving 95% of the republican policy agenda but only delivering 10% of the votes. The average Republican voter loves the idea of disbanding the IRS and replacing all taxes with tariffs on imports. Sure, you lose the educated 10% who think that policy is economic suicide - but you can more than make up for it with increased turn-out from the other 90% who are really fired up by the prospect of eliminating all taxes.

And it works - jumping into the anti-intellectual camp with both feet has delivered the house, the senate, the presidency (electoral college and popular vote), and the supreme court.

The conservative movement has a brain-drain because they've realised they don't want the votes of smart, educated people.
by INTPenis | 2025-05-05 09:05:38+00:00
I think the main argument against volley fire was that it's just impractical. An archer wrote a comment in another thread here on HN saying that they would do volley fire for an audience because it was expected, but the leader had only seconds to wait while they all drew back before they had to shout for them to loose. An archer just doesn't have the strength to hold the bow drawn and wait for a command like that. It's a waste of energy and resources.

What we see on TV is always one completely unprotected army, and one squad of arhcers.

But in the real world if squads of archers exist, then every single army would have a protection against them. The romans had the tortoise formation, I can't believe this was just forgotten for 1000 years.
by matrixswarm | 2025-05-05 09:08:10+00:00
I've been exploring a filesystem-native architecture where small agents (scripts or autonomous programs) are spawned into their own runtime folders — and all coordination happens through the file system only.

There’s no HTTP, no message queues, no shared memory, no containers — just folders like /pod/{uuid} and /comm/{agent_id}. Agents send heartbeats by touching files. Commands arrive via .cmd drops. When something crashes, a watcher detects the stale state and respawns it from a JSON directive.

What started as a curiosity grew into something that feels closer to an operating system for AI agents. It’s recursive, self-resurrecting, and bootstraps entirely from folders. Each agent knows who it's watching and who it spawns. If one dies, it comes back — hot-swapped with the latest code.

It’s not container orchestration. It’s not traditional IPC. It’s folder-based coordination at OS scale.

Is anyone else building things like this? Would love to hear any feedback or examples from similar systems. This feels like a rabbit hole worth falling into.
by littlecranky67 | 2025-05-05 09:08:38+00:00
I challenge the "Bad performance" part.

NextJS generates by default all assets and js-chunks with a sha256 hash in the filename - essentially making them immutable. As outlined in the NextJS, I serve my assets folder with `Cache-Control: public, max-age=604800, immutable`. In a webapp where your users use your app on a semi-daily basis that means all assets and resources will be cache forever, or until you re-deploy a new version of the app. The data comes via REST (in whatever backend-language you want to use) so I don't see how any SSR can outperform nextjs here.
by gj5904wj90wop | 2025-05-05 09:08:50+00:00
Completely disagree; photographs are just another kind of symbol, whether they be with others or not. I rarely travel with other people, and I despise having my own picture taken. All my photographs are of landscapes or objects; they're not terribly pretty but they do have meaning to me.

There one of of a non descript mountain turn with a small gravel pullout. There's a million prettier pictures but that one means the most meaning to me.

I almost died there; crashed on my motorcycle. Took the turn just a little too fast, panicked and just went over the edge trying desperately to stop. I don't remember much of the crash itself; just green, brown, and blue. Just that when I finally managed to get myself together, my leg crushed under the bike on on dirt that felt like concrete. No chance of pushing the bike off. No chance of digging or wriggling free. No chance of being seen from the road. My only hope was 911.

Except... I couldn't bring myself to call. There was nothing technically stopping me; good signal strength, modern phone with enhanced positional reporting. Just one little button press and help would be on the way. But why?

Why should I call for help?

Why did I want to keep living?

Why do I deserve to live?

Damned questions that I had been asking myself nearly every day for almost 26 years of my life by then. And here, finally at that mountain road I couldn't run from it any more. But it was also the first real chance I had to put myself to the test; to know myself one way or the other. So I turned my phone off. And left my mortality to the hands of fate.

For 7 hours I just lay there, nothing else to do but watch sun and cloud drift in the sky with waiting for an end. And yet there was a stillness there that I had never experienced before in my life. No more voices demanding that I meet their expectations. No more fear. No more uncertainty. Just a blessed silence with a light at the end of the road that I had no seen in a long time.

It seemed almost cruel when motorist looking to relieve himself found me. Part of my wished he hadn't but there was not much else that could be done then. Him and his buddy played the rescuers, and I played the victim; freed me from my entrapment, got my bike on the road, kindly offered to call for help or stay with me, and I declined as graciously as I could and limped both myself and bike home.

But after so long, I had an answer.

I don't want to live.

I don't deserve to live.

My life has no meaning.

But it also means that I don't have to care anymore either. Not about trying to maximize my career. No more forcing myself to fake smiles to make friends I can't find any connection with. No worry about finding a partner. Not about measuring myself or trying to improve or anything.

That photograph on my phone is meaningless to everyone else.

To me, it was where I finally found peace. And nothing can ever replace that.
by joshvm | 2025-05-05 09:09:37+00:00
Yeah that's tricky. I suggest Occam's razor: environmental control is likely to be the most serious factor? Any $1k printer should be able to extrude filament at the right rate in the right place, and I don't know that ABS is particularly challenging to melt. The difficulty seems to be in fume management (extraction) and the parts not warping on the bed?

Or you pay a lot of money for a higher end printer and make use of a support contract where they can figure out where your parts are failing.

One other suggestion would be to contract the parts out to a company like Shapeways and see if people are actually able to reliably make them in low volume, then try to replicate. May be a dumb question, but presumably you've tried to print the same parts in PLA or a more forgiving material to confirm that they are "printable"?
by cousin_it | 2025-05-05 09:09:46+00:00
Yeah, this is pretty funny. Maybe the simplest version is an "AI secretary" that will have its own email address, and also will search the web for people to connect to (or other AI secretaries). Once something is promising, it'll forward stuff to my actual inbox. It seems like a thing that'd be really easy to demo, or maybe some startups are already doing this, I'm too lazy to look and definitely too lazy to build it.
by colbyn | 2025-05-05 09:09:57+00:00
> I should hope that the purpose of a class writing exercise is not to create an artifact of text but force the student to think; a language model produces the former, not the latter.

Personally, I’ve been enjoying using ChatGPT to explore different themes of writing. It’s fun. In my case the goal is specifically to produce artifacts of text that’s different from what I’d normally produce.
by _djo_ | 2025-05-05 09:11:11+00:00
If you’d prefer, we can call it unclassified communication rather than personal communication. The point is that it was not used for Secret, Top Secret, or other classified communications. For that, he had the SME-PED device.

So, again, it’s not a parallel to the current situation. Nobody is saying the SecDef and other staff shouldn’t have unclassified devices as well as their classified devices, the issue is that they’ve been using the unclassified devices to conduct Secret or Top Secret discussions.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-05-05 09:11:28+00:00
Au contraire, the burden is on the end consumer's employer, who pays the money to the consumer, who pays it to the business, who is responsible for giving the money to the government.

… And so on, and so forth. "The burden is on" is not how economies work. Personal property is owned, but money is merely controlled – and that control is subject to caveats, because money only has value as far as it can be exchanged for goods and services. Most forms of taxation (but especially VAT) are abstract accounting tricks to accomplish complex cybernetic effects, with no simple interpretation as a levy or tithe.
by anthk | 2025-05-05 09:12:19+00:00
The books:

- Assembly language of the 80x86'es

- 8086, 80286 and 80386 microprocessors

- 386 and486 Advanced microprocessors / Introduction to the Pentium and Pentium Pro

On DOS and DPMI, DOSEmu ran DOS (FreeDOS, DRDOS and MSDOS) and it was much faster than DOSBox as it was something closer to Wine than full emulation, and it had a setting for DPMI too. DN3D ran in real time on machines where DOSBox would halt to it knees.
by lukan | 2025-05-05 09:12:29+00:00
"Am I missing something here?"

The way a bow works. I could shoot much more arrows in my own rhytm, then coordinating with everyone in the unit and wasting energy holding the string longer than needed.

So I am pretty sure, there were some sorts of volley fire, when the archers start firing when the enemy gets in range. But once the shooting starts you would loose lots of kill power restricting your archers for very little gain.

I would ask the question the other way around: if you wouldn't learned of it in spectacular movies - why would anyone ever implement it?

With crossbows and musquets, where holding the fire does not cost energy - different story. But maybe try it for yourself: hold a war bow at full strength - you don't want to any longer than needed. So typical you pull and release.
by Nursie | 2025-05-05 09:14:02+00:00
Mine was "I want to be experiencing life, not recording it", and recently when a large group of acquaintances were sharing memories of a particular period, I had nothing to share.

I too wish there were some more photos from my late teens/early 20s.

Of course this was all before smart phones, and now perhaps one may be justified complaining more about ubiquitous surveillance and incessant sharing online.
by const_cast | 2025-05-05 09:14:13+00:00
We can, and we do. We already do this for not-digital stores. We've just gotten so greedy that we just throw our hands up and say "nope! Impossible!" when it comes to internet stores.

Guess what, I can go to Walmart and buy just about fucking anything and I can be very certain:

1. It won't kill me or seriously harm me if used in a manner consistent with it's instructions.

2. The product is what it says it is.

3. The product will do what it says it will do, to a reasonable expectation.

How did they do it? Did they burn the company to the ground with all this anti-fraud? No. And, I will give you this, they do get some help from consumer protection agencies like the FDA. But they put in effort, too. For example, the above does not apply to Amazon!
by goku12 | 2025-05-05 09:14:32+00:00
PDF is used for pre-formatted content with reproducible layout. HTML is used for dynamically formatted, dynamically laid out and often reflowable content. It's debatable whether PDF needs a more modern alternative, but HTML is certainly not a replacement for it. There are several use cases where HTML is not the appropriate choice - especially for carefully laid out documents or books. You can simulate pre-formatted layout in HTML, but it always feels like shoehorning an unintended functionality.

LaTeX and Typst are markup primarily for PDF type contents. Something like Asciidoc or even Markdown is more appropriate for HTML type content. You can always switch the purposes, but I never got a satisfying output by doing that.
by _bin_ | 2025-05-05 09:14:59+00:00
Nope. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16472832/

2mg/kg dose, so ~160mg for an adult human. More importantly rat to human is usually a 6ish HED factor so that’d be <30mg. In reality metabolism, brain volume, etc all matter but this is not an even remotely safe drug.

Also taking SSRIs near MDMA administration is one of the worst pieces of what is doubtless intended as harm reduction advice I’ve ever seen. You don’t hand people a recipe for serotonin syndrome because of a small scale rat test or two.
Show HN: Architect Mode for GPT – For Logic, Not Just Code
by ArchitectSys | 2025-05-05 09:15:00+00:00
Hi all,

I’ve submitted a request to OpenAI for a new operating mode in GPT: ARCHITECT MODE.

Why? Because GPT assumes that all code should be simplified, optimized, or templated — but some of us build systems where structure is logic.

ARCHITECT MODE should: - Avoid altering user input unless asked; - Disable "auto improvements"; - Treat structure as intentional; - Ask before acting.

I’m not a full-time dev. I work 12-hour shifts at a non-creative job and only get 1.5–2 hours a day to build my system. I need GPT to act with precision — not assumptions.

Thoughts or support welcome.

– Shvardak Stanislav System Architect
by Retric | 2025-05-05 09:15:12+00:00
There’s a huge difference between living to a healthy 85 and having major cognitive / physical issues at 65 and symptoms well before then. Yes you’re guaranteed to have significant physical decline by 85, but the baseline isn’t static you can still be more physically capable than an un athletic 30 year old.

So we’re talking roughly an extra 30%!
by CTDOCodebases | 2025-05-05 09:15:13+00:00
I used to have a really good long term memory for things until I started having sleep issues.

It's great to look back and have reference points for things but I think what photos do is they server as a key to unlock memories. It's like they contain parity data which allows us to remember a whole day or night or week. Some times we just need a few bit's and the memories come flowing back whole and uncorrupted.
by cosenal | 2025-05-05 09:15:36+00:00
Unitary Foundation | Full-Stack Web Developer (UI/UX) | Open-source | Full-time | Remote (EU/NA timezones) | https://unitary.foundation/

We're a quantum computing non-profit organization, and we are looking for a web developer.

The job is classical — mostly building web portals — but those portals open into the quantum world.

Quantum computing knowledge is a plus, but not required. The initial project is a platform to understand the trajectory of quantum computing. The focus is on data visualization, so strong skills in that area are preferred. The candidate will work mostly alongside quantum engineers and researchers, so ownership to work independently on the classical side of things is important.

The stack of the main web project is PERN, but the organization maintains other projects in Python.

For more info, reach out to info@unitary.foundation

Full description of the role is here: https://unitary.foundation/jobs/mts-fullstack-webdev/
by charcircuit | 2025-05-05 09:16:11+00:00
>Most (nearly all) consumer level hardware doesn't support it

Some cards are just limited by the firmware and have hardware support. Microsoft can work together with GPU vendors to get the ecosystem into a state where things will work.

>The officially sanctioned security model does not provide anything of value to me (from a technical perspective)

What about things like malware not being able to steal all of your accounts from your device?

>I can never be confident that I'm not being watched.

Most operating systems have implemented features to let you know when the camera is being used.

>Ad tech is a massive industry.

Adtech is not spy tech. And it doesn't work by seeing everything you do.

>Have you tried customizing the OS on a vendor bootloader locked mobile device lately?

If it's locked then you can't change the operating system that initially loads up, but you can still run a second operating system within the other.

>detrimental to society in the long term

I fail to sympathize when these "detriments" are antisocial things like being unable to cheat in games or being unable to pirate copyrighted works. We already experienced a reality where there was 0 security and it turned out that it was extremely abused inspiring the next generation of computing platforms that offered security and were able to partially mitigate antisocial behavior.
by so-rose | 2025-05-05 09:17:56+00:00
`typst` might meet your needs. No, really.

It embeds almost anywhere, including via client-side WASM, and someone even made a nice TypeScript lib [0]. If you dislike `typst`, it even has a package that transpiles LaTeX strings into native typst, which somehow doesn't seem to make `typst` any less fast [1]. WASM plugin magic will do that!

The curious consequence is that the fastest and most portable way to render lightwight LaTeX code might actually be... To transpile LaTeX to embedded `typst`? Sure, sure, not all of LaTeX will map. But from an 80/20 mindset it might just be enough.

- [0] https://github.com/Myriad-Dreamin/typst.ts - [1] https://typst.app/universe/package/mitex/