MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-06-19 05:47:56+00:00
That's a tough bouncing ball to follow as it appears that the resolution was to upgrade to a newer version of a dependency, but if we look at that dependency, the fix seems to be found somewhere in this https://github.com/microsoft/LightGBM/compare/v2.2.1...v2.2....

There is admittedly a lot in the update and I may have simply missed it, but I don't see any modifications, even additions, to tests to denote recognition of the problem in the earlier version. Which, while not knowing much about the project, makes me think that there really isn't any meaningful testing going on. That maybe be interesting for what it is, I suppose, but not really in the vein of the discussion here about where one is using type systems and testing to overcome their personal limitations.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-06-19 05:49:46+00:00
In this very narrow case, the grass on the Android side is much greener: You can install your own APKs on an Android device without paying anyone at all, without having to upload anything anywhere, and without requiring any particular device to build the APK in the first place. You don't even need to touch the bootloader or root it; you just toggle a setting to allow the installation and it works.
by Liquix | 2025-06-19 05:50:04+00:00
2. is almost immediately fingerprintable even with JS enabled. 0.00% similarity for canvas, 0.09% similarity for font list, 0.39% for "Navigator properties", 0.57% for useragent. with JS disabled (best practices for tor) it's even worse. maybe this works for windows users?

(debian, latest tor browser 14.5.3, no modifications)
Ask HN: Can Language Carry Physical Energy? Challenging E=Mc² with Semantics
by WFGY | 2025-06-19 05:51:20+00:00
I’ve been exploring the idea that language—specifically, meaningful information—might have a measurable physical effect on biological systems. Inspired by both information theory and quantum biology, I recently wrote a paper extending Einstein’s classic equation:

E_total = mc² + λS

where S represents a quantifiable measure of semantic information (using NLP models and acoustic features).

My core question for the HN community: Could semantic content—what we say, or how meaning is encoded—actually carry energy that has a measurable impact in the physical world?

For example, I ran double-blind experiments on plants exposed to different types of speech. Results suggest that positive, meaningful language increased ATP production and thermal output in plants (compared to controls and scrambled speech).

Has anyone seen similar research or run experiments on information/meaning as a physical variable? Are there alternative ways to test or falsify this idea? Where would you look for the strongest arguments for or against treating “meaning” as a real factor in energy equations?

I’m not promoting any product or service—just genuinely interested in how this kind of “semantic field” could be validated or challenged. If anyone wants to see the technical details or data, I’m happy to share more in the comments.

Looking forward to a spirited discussion!
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-06-19 05:51:47+00:00
I think it’s interesting that SpaceX is struggling so much with the shift to a full flow staged combustion engine using liquid methane.

We knew from the Soviet that it was going to be really hard but after the successful flights I thought they had it in the bag.

We might be touching on the limits of SpaceX constant tweaking fail fast approach.
by intended | 2025-06-19 05:51:57+00:00
This is moving the goal posts.

You can point out that the constitution is for Americans only etc. etc.

The thing is, that the right to free speech, as defended by court cases and by precedence, is about the market place of ideas being functional, and allowing society to figure out what it considers “true”.

This is the spirit of the clause, and the purpose behind the freedoms Americans enjoy and used to uphold.

The reading that it applies “only to American citizens, and visitors on US soil”, is an after the fact reinterpretation to win arguments online.

Free speech in America has always been about the government not being able to decide what can and can’t be said, especially when it comes down to deciding which nations can and can’t be spoken about.

Your argument, can only be built on the ruins of the American free speech experiment. Because it accepts the death of the spirit of the idea, the a marketplace of ideas as a way to address the unknowns of reality, with a centralized, and enforced way of safe topics.

For what its worth, you only reach this level of banana republic, after your information and idea markets are compromised or overwhelmed.

I’m simply pointing out that your argument on procedural merits, takes the spirit of the law to the back of the shed, and shoots it.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-06-19 05:52:00+00:00
Looks fucking ugly. Even the logo is terrible. And the colours make you feel nauseous. Instead of nuthugging the compute power of these things, why not make something that looks and feels lovable. Is that so much to ask? Like the pixel phones, which are the ugliest, nastiest looking shitpile I've ever seen. And they slam it down the throats of people.

In nature, even supposedly ugly things look OK, but in the artificial industrial world, things look ugly and out of place. I don't know how they achieve this. But it must be something around, 'Oh, this part costs so much', or someone who has power over things he/she shouldn't have, so we instead create these horrendous-looking monster machines that suck our souls.
by sothatsit | 2025-06-19 05:52:34+00:00
I specifically do not want AI as an auto-correct, doing auto-predictions while I am typing. I find this interrupts my thinking process, and I've never been bottlenecked by typing speed anyway.

I want AI as a "co-worker" providing an alternative perspective or implementing my specific instructions, and potentially filling in gaps I didn't think about in my prompt.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-19 05:53:14+00:00
It's a structured way of programming that can invoke particular mental models when solving certain problems. You could for example see it as a scripting language for high-level tasks.

For example, look at what Blender and Unreal Engine do with visual programming. Or you could see how Max MSP or Processing make music and data manipulation intuitive. And you can still address lower-level or complex concerns with custom nodes and node groups.

Done correctly, you can hide a lot of complexity while having an appropriate information density for the current level of abstraction you're dealing with. Programming environments don't need to be one-size fits all! :)
by mbreese | 2025-06-19 05:54:19+00:00
I figured you'd have that opinion :).

It is completely a personal preference, but I think you can get closer to a "daily driver" experience with a beheaded laptop. Two reasons: 1) you'll get better performance. This would be a moot point if you were using a Framework motherboard (or the Steam board was more widely available). 2) form factor. I would prefer to carry around a thinner slate computer over a thicker lunchbox computer. This is just personal preference.

For most people though, I think adapting an existing laptop is an easier project than what you've been able to accomplish. Don't get me wrong - I'm impressed. And I also really like the idea of a headless computer with AR glasses as the display. I think it's a use-case that needs to be taken seriously.
by mrtksn | 2025-06-19 05:57:11+00:00
So apparently SpaceX is building many of those all the time and the latest spotted one in development is Starship 42: https://starship-spacex.fandom.com/wiki/Ship_42_(S42)

I guess how much of a setback this is will be determined by how much damage is there on the facilities and the nature of the cause of the explosion(do they need to re-work the next 6 already being assembled so it doesn't happen again?).
by dend | 2025-06-19 05:57:55+00:00
The analogy that was used a lot is that it's essentially USB-C for your data being connected to LLMs. You don't need to fight 4,532,529 standards - there is one (yes, I am familiar with the XKCD comic). As long as your client is MCP-compatible, it can work with _any_ MCP server.
by autumnstwilight | 2025-06-19 05:58:07+00:00
It troubles me to see how many X users seem to see Grok as an objective source of truth rather than a collation of data available on the internet- for example, someone will post a brand new article from a major news source about a deportation case, and users will be asking Grok what the "real story" behind the deportation case is, and seem surprised and disbelieving when it responds with the same information as in the original article. I don't know where they expect Grok to get "the truth" on an ongoing legal case that has only just been reported in the news.

(But it is funny to see them argue with it.)
by boroboro4 | 2025-06-19 05:58:28+00:00
Just to be clear by alternatives I mean currently used oral prep pills: truvada (which is available generic) and descovy, both from gilead. Both are 1 pill a day, with truvada available in a regime where you basically take it only for couple of days before and after high risk activity. And most importantly it can be cheap since it’s generic.

This thing is cool but it would be even better if it didn’t cost a fortune.
by opello | 2025-06-19 05:58:44+00:00
This is a clip of just the explosion: https://x.com/i/status/1935548909805601020

Unfortunately just on Twitter, haven't seen much elsewhere yet. But the link seems to work.

The frame of the video has a burnt in clock in the top left corner though, so if you get that to be about 11:01:50 PM CDT you'll be at the point of the explosion.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-06-19 05:58:47+00:00
>How much something costs is not what determines how much a company charges for something.

It actually does - in a free market. That's, like, one of the main arguments why capitalism is good for the population and not evil. But in a gate-kept oligopoly like phones, actors can abuse the system to squeeze more money out of consumers, leaving the corporations as sole beneficiaries. That's why this kind of stuff usually gets curbed in functioning democracies.
by fsh | 2025-06-19 05:59:14+00:00
The problems with Starship make the Saturn V and STS programs even more impressive. However, I still don't get the rationale of building a rocket with such a large payload. The rocket equation will always force you to build an absolute monster compared to a series of smaller rockets. Even worse if you have to haul up a massive orbiter each time. No wonder that small/medium sized rockets (Soyuz, Atlas, Ariane, Falcon 9,...) have always been the most successful.
by roskelld | 2025-06-19 05:59:34+00:00
I just looked up stats on the install base. I don't know how trustworthy statcounter is, but they state that this data is from may

Desktop Windows Versions Percentage Market Share Win10 53.19% Win11 43.22% Win7 2.48% WinXP 0.54% Win8.1 0.29% Win8 0.22% Desktop Windows Version Market Share Worldwide - May 2025
by kathir05 | 2025-06-19 05:59:52+00:00
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by somenameforme | 2025-06-19 06:00:16+00:00
It's going to be a relatively minor setback. Biggest issue will be pad repair time. Starships is still in development and has been going boom pretty regularly, though not before launch usually! The investigation of the cause will be interesting. Given the current political context it's probably going to be AMOS-6 ramped up exponentially.

AMOS-6 was a pretty similar situation where a rocket exploded prior to a static-fire, and in fact is the reason that static fires are done without payloads, though Starship would not yet have a payload. The difficult to explain nature of the explosion, alongside some quite compelling circumstantial evidence, caused a theory of sabotage (sniping an exact segment of the rocket) to become widespread. Of course the cause here could be more straight forward to pin down - we'll know a lot more in a few days!
by intended | 2025-06-19 06:01:53+00:00
This is too easy a criticism and the unhelpful form of cynicism.

America also made efforts to recognize that those events counted as screwups and failures of their own value systems, and struggled against the forces that allowed such situations to happen.

This isn’t to say they succeeded, or that these situations wouldn’t happen again.

Its to say that theres a difference between pushing against the current, and flowing with it.
by quotemstr | 2025-06-19 06:02:19+00:00
> STS programs

The shuttle was a deathtrap. It had inadequate abort modes and a launch process that practically guaranteed minor (until it wasn't) damage to the heat shield during launch.

Classic example of https://danluu.com/wat/ --- the normalization of deviance.

STS crews were lucky that only two of the things got violenly disassembled.
by fancy_pantser | 2025-06-19 06:02:45+00:00
I've been using the unofficial builds via scoop for the last two months. It's working great so far. I use it on a Macbook as well and I haven't found any features that are missing or buggier on Win11. Really enjoying the new agent version of the AI assistant, which I use with both Claude API and devstral locally via Ollama.

https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds
by mathieuh | 2025-06-19 06:03:00+00:00
> How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
by sfn42 | 2025-06-19 06:05:12+00:00
I'm currently working on one of those wonderful greenfield projects where the monkeys who put it together made these mistakes I describe and everything is slow. Website isn't even in production yet and everything takes 5+ seconds to load for no reason. Because they just store the data the way they got it which is shit, instead of shaping it into something sensible that allows efficient queries.

And yes there's a corporate vpn and fire walls and vents and subnets and whatever else, but when I create a feature it doesn't take 5 seconds to load. It takes milliseconds to load. Because there's nothing in our environment that justifies this bullshit, the guys who built this app just suck. And I'm going to fix it like I always do.

I have also worked on large production systems where I've fixed lots of performance issues. Often I can see them just by reading the code, I'll find some code that looks ass then I'll run it and sure enough it's slow. So I fix it. It doesn't take a profiler or micro optimization, it just takes some basic understanding of what we're doing.

Some times slow code is justified, some times there's just a lot of processing to be done or a lot of network requests to send or something. But most of the time it's just devs who don't understand fundamentals.
by LightHugger | 2025-06-19 06:05:13+00:00
Uh, he has a detailed historical view of the forces that caused WW2 and argued that the rest of world powers at the time put germany in a position that was very likely to cause the second world war. woOoOo scary, the only allowed thought pattern is "ww2 germany bad" after all. If you want to debate him on details go ahead, but trying to use this as some kind of cancel-culture fodder is a waste of everyone's brain cells.

Character assassination campaigns like this are so pathetic on so many levels. What you are doing is already worse behavior than what you're trying to accuse him of.

And that you quoted him complaining about the russian developer bans is confusing. Why do you think "not wanting people banned by their country of origin" is a bad thing? What, are you racist?
by Schlumpfli123 | 2025-06-19 06:05:33+00:00
There were weeks in my workout journey when I could only work out 2x a week and then the next week 3x again or I didn't have access to the gym on some days. It always bothered me how the 3-day split now was suddenly useless when I only managed to get in 2 workouts or when I kept feeling some pain during one specific excercise and I wanted to avoid that excercise.

The thing is, I've worked as a fitness instructor during all of my uni years and I've been building WorkoutPlanAI as a side project now for multiple months.

I've fed an AI model 100s of workouts and research papers on optimal workout and meal plans. You complete your entire Profile with goals, preferences, etc. and it spits out a complete workout and meal plan for you. Don't like an excersise? No problem, switch it out and it generates another excercise that fits into the workout. Can only workout twice instead of 3x? No problem, just update the workout and type that you can only workout twice this week and a new workout plan is created that fits your profile and progression.

Do you currently have a workout plan and you want to see how well it fits you? You can try out Review My Workout completely free, no signup, no mail, nothing.

Do you want to generate your own workout and meal plan based on 100s of workouts and research papers that fit you perfectly? You can try out WorkoutPlanAI for free as well.
by neilv | 2025-06-19 06:05:35+00:00
(I appreciate you sharing your perspective, and I'll assume it's sincere, and I don't know why you were downvoted.)

I think that's a nice Mad Men scene in some ways. But we can agree that the writer used weak, stoned, strawman hippie characters for dramatic effect, so that Don Draper could be cool and reinforce the character. The closing line was especially smooth, and fit (and burned).

That scene expresses how you feel, and that's one entertaining way to communicate it, and that's fine.

But I hope we all agree that the scene doesn't constitute competent debate of the merits of feeling that way?
by xvector | 2025-06-19 06:06:36+00:00
> keep_self.select(&self.peer, &other.peer);

> Rather than if or match expressions, we use FheBool’s select method. It returns the first argument if the underlying FheBool value is true, or the second argument if the underlying value is false.

This wasn't super clear to me. I get the computation is performed on encrypted values, but how does ".select" actually work?

Is ".select" just evaluating to "keep_self*self.peer + keep_self*other.peer"?
by tdeck | 2025-06-19 06:07:35+00:00
I sometimes worry that this focus on accessibility testing and the industry around it makes folks think this is some monumental undertaking that they can't hope to approach themselves. But a lot of these issues are glaringly obvious (e.g. "this UI element has no label so I can't identify it"). The visual equivalent would be shipping your app with transparent text labels or a 2 pixel font height.

Any developer can test their software with a screen reader for free. If it's not usable with a screen reader, it won't be usable to screen reader users. The problem is that almost nobody who isn't Blind will do this, or even consider doing it. They'll effectively build an entire UI flow without running through it even once. If you're lucky, they'll work at a company that has some policies and checklists for accessibility and they'll follow that. If you're really lucky, they'll pay to have someone else do accessibility QA. But even just testing it yourself the way it's going to be used would be a huge step up.
by zaptheimpaler | 2025-06-19 06:09:30+00:00
I’ve seen the tide beginning to shift among prospective students and some engineers, particularly those from India or China who could face 20+ year waits to get a green card even if they were sponsored. Doubly so with the big cuts in research funding. The last 10 years have shown how capricious the conditions for temporary immigrants are so it’s risky to be in that position unless you plan to go somewhere else after studies or have a clear and fast path to permanent residence/citizenship. As Canadians many of us have decided not to visit the US for tourism until things change. Realistically the US has a lot going for it so things will probably not change dramatically unless the administration continues to damage trust over a long time period and some compelling alternatives appear.
by intended | 2025-06-19 06:09:48+00:00
Your argument only makes sense, when you jump through the hoops, squint, and crucially - add in your bits to make it make sense.

The bit you added here was “99% of people from my country broke visa conditions”.

This is something that is added by you, to make it make sense. What you are unaware of, is that the current visa process already accounts for this. I know of people who had visas rejected, because freelancer with their own training business are counted as flight risks. They get rejected at the interview stage itself. And it seems that wait times for tourists visas are years long.

Now, you might be the kind of person, who by nature either tries to see the good in something, or takes a contrarian position. The question is, did you dive beneath the ice with knowledge of what arguments are too far?
Show HN: DreamASMR – Generate Veo3 Binaural ASMR Videos from One Prompt
by howardV | 2025-06-19 06:10:00+00:00
Hi HN, I recently pivoted a generic video-generation side-project into DreamASMR: a web app that turns a text prompt into a fully-downloadable, 16:9 ASMR video with true binaural audio in ~30 seconds.

Why niche down to ASMR? 1. Slicing / pouring / tapping videos dominate “oddly satisfying” niches; audio quality is crucial yet underserved. 2. Veo3’s macro rendering + high FPS beats SD/Sora for tiny textures (glass, sand, honey). 3. Most existing tools lack a licensing path for commercial ASMR creators.

Key features • Prompt enhancer – backend auto-adds acoustic & visual context so beginners get good results. • Binaural pipeline – converts mono Kie.ai output to left-right stereo; best with headphones. • One-click download – videos stored on Cloudflare R2; server proxy sidesteps CORS. • Credit billing – only charge 1 credit on success, zero on failure.

Tech stack • Next.js (App Router, mostly server components) + Tailwind + Shadcn • Veo3 API via Kie.ai proxy • PostgreSQL + drizzle-orm • Cloudflare R2 for storage • Next-Auth (Google / Email) • Cloudflare Turnstile to stop bots • 100 % TypeScript; minimal client-side JS

Demo https://dreamasmr.org/

Looking for feedback on 1. Generation quality – which objects/sounds still feel off? 2. Prompt UX – text box vs. template presets? 3. Pricing – would you pay for commercially licensed ASMR loops? 4. Perf / architecture – any bottlenecks in large file downloads or concurrency?

Roadmap • Perfect-loop mode • Pure audio ASMR generator • WebM + alpha channel for compositing • Public API / SDK

Thanks for reading & ship your thoughts!