MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yold__ | 2025-06-26 00:11:57+00:00
Semaglutide / GLP-1 compounding is not limited to just Hims. Lot's of pharmacies do it. The manufacturer (Novo Nordisk) charges 5x-10x for the exact same thing. The author calls the GLP-1s used in compounding "Chinese Knockoffs", but offers no evidence of quality control problems, and is instead relying on the reader's prejudices.

GLP-1 drugs may be a game-changer for obesity and diabetes, the same way that cholesterol (statin) drugs have greatly improved heart health. Hopefully reversing a long trend of increasing waistbands in developed / developing countries. Unfortunately, America will pay the highest price (including Medicare). I'm all for anything that makes them cheaper, including the many compounding pharmacies currently exploiting the loophole the author takes issue with.
by noahjk | 2025-06-26 00:11:57+00:00
To me you talk at what I would consider "1.2x" of podcast speed (which to me is a decent average measure of spoken word speed - I usually do 1.5x on all podcasts). You're definitely still in the normal distribution for tech YouTubers, in my experience - in fact it feels like a lot of tech YouTube talks like they've had a bit too much adderall, but you don't come off that way. Naturally people may choose to slow down tutorials, because the person giving the tutorial can never truly understand what someone learning would or wouldn't understand. So overall I think your speed is totally fine! Also, very timely video, I was interested in the exact topic, so I'm happy I found this.
by kj4ips | 2025-06-26 00:13:02+00:00
Massive. AD isn't just LDAP and Policies. There's somewhere around 14 services that are involved, even NetLogin still has it's tiny part to play. AD uses LDAP referrals, expects clients to follow them, and use the SRV records to find the DC in the same site (if one exists). AD as it is typically deployed is active/active multimaster with per-record tiebreaking based on edit time, client-based load balancing with proximity awareness, ACLs for every possible field and record, overridable at any point in the tree (389ds can do this, but openldap is a nightmare). There's a full automated PKI in there for managing certs for everything, and that's before we get into the KDC logic, the strange things SYSVOL can do, and various other things that integrate with AD.

Samba, krb5 &co can handle small cases, but it's architecture is still stuck in the nt4 days, and there's limited cohesive integration with LDAP and the other services.
by robocat | 2025-06-26 00:13:48+00:00
You can not say it hasn't come close yet: that is not measurable. How many brinks have there been in the last 56 years, is surely undefinable because we don't know the effects of quantum butterflies in the counterfactual timeline.

We might be able to say it hasn't destroyed itself yet?

And what is meant by the "present system" is unclear. Plus the present system cannot be the past system so your choice of words is kinda weird!

Sorry, pedantic nitpicking can be a hobby. I don't like this comment.
by eszed | 2025-06-26 00:16:31+00:00
To support your point, and pre-empt some obvious objections:

- I've ridden a bike with a bamboo frame - it worked fine, but I don't think it was very durable.

- I've seen a video of a belt- (rather than chain-) driven bike - the builder did not recommend.

You maybe get there a couple of decades sooner with a bamboo penny-farthing, but whatever you build relies on smooth roads and light-weight wheels. You don't get all of the tech and infrastructure lining up until late-nineteenth c. Europe.
by Aloisius | 2025-06-26 00:16:40+00:00
Amazon is packed full of fake reviews.

They just catch some of the easily detectable ones that some authors use (everyone following the same link or links from the same site rating books universally high, for instance).

They don't detect commercial review buying services which involve actual product purchases nearly as well or some of the other scams like ASIN laundering.

All one needs to do is look at 100% identical white labeled products that get vastly different reviews to see Amazon's measures are wholly insufficient.

Worse, people buy 4-5 star good reviews for their own products and 1-3 star bad reviews for competing products, so there's no easy way for a user to tell what is real and what is fake.
by crazygringo | 2025-06-26 00:17:21+00:00
> We can try to disincentive that by saying, "hey, you don't want to turn a profit, that's fine, but you still have to pay up".

That doesn't make any sense. You're saying, instead of consumers getting lower prices, they should pay more and that money should go towards taxes. That means, essentially, that you're asking the consumers to pay taxes.

What you're describing is predatory pricing. People have mixed views on that, but if you want to address it, then address it directly. Taxing revenue is a strange, roundabout way of doing it that is going to harm a ton of non-predatory businesses without actually changing the market dynamics of predatory pricing -- because your taxes will be affecting the non-predatory companies even more! Since they, by definition, charge more money and therefore will be paying more taxes on the greater revenue.
by gerdesj | 2025-06-26 00:17:28+00:00
When enough people don't want to do it anymore. Feel free to step up, live with email patches, and add to the numbers of those who don't like it and say so.

Why is it archaic if it works? I get there might be other ways to do patch sharing and discussion but what exactly is your problem with email as a transport?

You might as well describe voice and ears as archaic!
by emporas | 2025-06-26 00:17:53+00:00
Certainly. An authentication layer, and everything else customizable by the user.

The web, HTML that is, is a grammar, an app is a grammar, the buttons of my car are a grammar, I want each grammar served, transformed to my grammar however I like it, probably org-mode file grammar.

I don't want each website's colors, or clickable elements to be determined by any other person than the user. There are themes, I want to select exactly what theme I am browsing the internet today. I also want my fridge to be connected to the internet, accessed using an authentication layer on top of IPv6, and using it's functionality with a grammar.

In other words, the web, browsers, apps and physical buttons will go down the drain soon and they will be replaced by something which can open and manipulate org filetypes.

The web was/is a huge financial bubble anyway, and it will burst quickly when that happens.
by boston_clone | 2025-06-26 00:18:21+00:00
My previous description was clipped when submitting, but stated that:

This app is sponsored in part by the now-pardoned leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, and encourages US citizens to publicly film and photograph suspected migrants with the promise of a potential reward via meme coin. While deceptive in appearance, the website has no affiliation with the US government.
by LeoPanthera | 2025-06-26 00:18:30+00:00
Reminds me of Tres Lunas and Maestro, created by British musician Mike Oldfield (more famous for "Tubular Bells"), in 2002 and 2004, making them very ahead of their time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tres_Lunas#Computer_game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maestro_(video_game)
by hypeatei | 2025-06-26 00:18:46+00:00
As long as games are running on user hardware/OS, you'll always deal with cheating. Server-side checks and computation can only go so far.

For example: in competitive shooters (where cheaters are most prevalent) you can't have things appearing out of thin air. The client needs to know about things ahead of time to play sounds and to give other environmental hints.
by mlsu | 2025-06-26 00:18:57+00:00
The explosive growth of Hims and other side-channel healthcare businesses (using this model -- telehealth combined with compounded meds) is entirely due to the "legitimate" healthcare system's complete and total failure to serve patients' needs.

You can maybe talk about the hollow men of Novo and Lilly, who colluded with PBMs and insurers for most of a decade to push the cost of insulin analogues into the stratosphere, taking billions in profit while people died in agony rationing insulin. (in horrible agony -- blood turning into acid until brain death)
by towledev | 2025-06-26 00:18:59+00:00
It's funny, we've watched for two decades as the click-driven dynamics of the internet have degraded the meanings of words. At first, I was outraged on a daily basis. Then, as we all did, I learned, against my will, to forgive. "Can't blame them for chasing clicks! Who among us wouldn't cheapen a word if it meant a view?"

But - and this is the funny part - I feel like my teen-angsty self has been vindicated. I'm so burnt out on exaggeration, not a single news site has gotten regular clicks from me in over a decade, nor do I comment or read comments. I listen to a little history dork YouTube before bed, or for tutorials. I'm free.
by n8cpdx | 2025-06-26 00:19:49+00:00
> Regulatory arbitrage disguised as innovation, dressed in the fashionable vocabulary of patient empowerment while serving no master but the quarterly earnings call.

No masters except the patients that are literally being empowered to make choices about their medical care and are paying a substantial premium (in many cases) to do so.

I would happily be empowered by my doctor and UnitedHealthcare instead, but sadly that’s not on the table.

Try getting tretinoin from a real doctor; I’ve been written prescriptions multiple times, never once succeeded in actually getting it, because insurance is a fucking nightmare. And I’m not on a cheap plan.

Also note that the compounded semaglutide is superior because it comes in adjustable dose vials, unlike the pens. But I’m sure the author would claim that taking a smaller dose to reduce side effects is “a dangerous and unproven approach to medicine that puts patient lives on the line purely for profit”.
Try out Tess.AI for Mac ( Promo codes available)
by gananthraman | 2025-06-26 00:20:21+00:00
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by Art9681 | 2025-06-26 00:21:01+00:00
This is a "BlockBuster laughs Netflix out of the room" moment. I am a huge fan of QEMU and used it throughout my career. The maintainers have every right to govern their project as they see fit. But this is a lot of mental gymnastics to justify clinging to punchcards in a world where we now have magnetic tape and keyboards to do things faster. This tech didn't spawn weeks ago. Every major project has had at least two years to prepare for this moment.

Pull your pants up.
by benlivengood | 2025-06-26 00:21:02+00:00
Open source and libre/free software are particularly vulnerable to a future where AI-generated code is ruled to be either infringing or public domain.

In the former case, disentangling AI-edits from human edits could tie a project up in legal proceedings for years and projects don't have any funding to fight a copyright suit. Specifically, code that is AI-generated and subsequently modified or incorporated in the rest of the code would raise the question of whether subsequent human edits were non-fair-use derivative works.

In the latter case the license restrictions no longer apply to portions of the codebase raising similar issues from derived code; a project that is only 98% OSS/FS licensed suddenly has much less leverage in takedowns to companies abusing the license terms; having to prove that infringers are definitely using the human-generated and licensed code.

Proprietary software is only mildly harmed in either case; it would require speculative copyright owners to disassemble their binaries and try to make the case that AI-generated code infringed without being able to see the codebase itself. And plenty of proprietary software has public domain code in it already.
by ProgramMax | 2025-06-26 00:21:04+00:00
Yeah. I mentioned this elsewhere but repeating here:

I designed the article to be accessible and understandable for the average person. So I took some liberties like showing only HDR primaries and not deep diving into HDR transfer functions. People understand the primaries intuitively.

But you are right that a wide color image could also use those same primaries without being HDR.

My goal was to be as truthful as possible while still being digestible at a glance.

In the article, I linked to Chris Lilley's post which explains it more thoroughly for the technical people.
by t1amat | 2025-06-26 00:22:35+00:00
(Replying to both siblings questioning this)

If the primary use case is input heavy, which is true of agentic tools, there’s a world where partial GPU offload with many channels of DDR5 system RAM leads to an overall better experience. A good GPU will process input many times faster, and with good RAM you might end up with decent output speed still. Seems like that would come in close to $12k?

And there would be no competition for models that do fit entirely inside that VRAM, for example Qwen3 32B.
by shuhongwu | 2025-06-26 00:22:49+00:00
Great ideas! We're totally considering these.

For the comments summary - honestly, we think comments are pure gold. Sometimes they're way better than the actual news (which says something about journalism these days ). I personally read every single comment because you never know when someone drops absolute wisdom in there. But, not everyone has my comment-reading obsession, so we'll definitely add a summary option for the normal people!
by sachinag | 2025-06-26 00:22:57+00:00
Ah I think I see based on the other comment but just to confirm - you want to use Vertex provided Gemini API endpoints without having to create a Google Cloud project. Is that correct? (I’m just trying to get as precise about the problem statement and what success looks like - that helps me figure out a path to the best solution.)

Appreciate the feedback!
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-06-26 00:24:04+00:00
There are two types of responsible disclosure: coordinated disclosure where there's an embargo (ostensibly so that the maintainer can patch the software before the vulnerability is widely known) and full disclosure where there's no embargo (so that users can mitigate the vulnerability on their own, useful if it's already being exploited). There's no reason a maintainer shouldn't be allowed to default to full disclosure. In general, any involved party can disclose fully. Irresponsible disclosure is solely disclosing the vulnerability to groups that will exploit it, e.g. NSO.
Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation
by fcpguru | 2025-06-26 00:24:20+00:00
Hello!

I'm Andrew Arrow, a developer and Final Cut Pro user. My history with FCP goes back years and years, I tried to be a video editor as a career but ended up a software developer. I purchased the full version of the software a long, long time ago. And to Apple's credit, every single time I goto the App Store on any mac I still have access to download it. I must have been through 20, 30? I don't know, but a lot of macs over the years. Just recently I downloaded it again and noticed the XML Export feature.

Wow. There's a lot of stuff there. I mean a lot. I started playing around with generating the XML and that has lead to this project.

https://github.com/andrewarrow/cutlass/blob/main/README.md

Read through those go structs and xml tags. Keep going. And going. It just never stops! It's a very sophisticated XML format that can describe any timeline, effect, or animation you can imagine. Apple's documentation is scattered, the XML is notoriously finicky, and one wrong attribute crashes your import.

And of course with Claude Code (or others, pick your favorite AI) you can have your AI write some amazing things in go using cutlass.

```go // Generate a timeline with precise keyframe animations

video := fcp.Video{

Ref: assetID, Offset: "0s", Duration: fcp.ConvertSecondsToFCPDuration(10.0), AdjustTransform: &fcp.AdjustTransform{ Params: []fcp.Param{{ Name: "position", KeyframeAnimation: &fcp.KeyframeAnimation{ Keyframes: []fcp.Keyframe{ {Time: "0s", Value: "0 0"}, {Time: "240240/24000s", Value: "100 50"}, }, }, }}, },

} ```

So I haven't been writing code like that with my human brain. I spend most of my time just telling Claude the video I want to create, and he uses the cutlass library to achieve it. I'm hooking up FCP directly to Claude. A different kind of AI Video generation.

Would love feedback, thanks for reading this far! -aa
by 4ad | 2025-06-26 00:24:40+00:00
> This post is mostly AI generated, of course with significant guidance, feedback, iteration and some edits from me.

I can tell, because it is garbage.

AI's notion of PK is useless because of Blum's speedup theorem. Because the invariance theorem fails in PR (PR is not universal), description-length gaps between PR and Turing complete languages can grow without bound.

Essentially a more expressive formalism can encode an interpreter for the weaker one and then diagonalise over it. Restricting yourself to a total language, you sacrifice potentially unbounded conciseness.

This is a profound difference between TC and non-TC languages, and it manifests even for terminating functions. It's not just that a TC languages can encode non-terminating computations, it's that a TC language can encode terminating functions more efficiently than a non-TC language. A terminating program expressed in a total language must manifest its termination proof in a strict way with finite degrees of freedom, whatever the choice of total language might be. In a TC language it doesn't have this artificial constraint.

In some sense, as program complexity grows (expressed in a total language), more and more of the program is dedicated just to encoding its own termination proof. We can sort of see this a corollary of this experimentally with programs (proofs) written in theorem provers like Coq (which are total). Giant proofs extract to very small programs. We don't see the sort of phenomenon in theorem provers using a Curry-style type system, for example Nuprl, where the underlying lambda calculus is Turing complete. This is experimental evidence that even though most interesting functions might be PR, a PR language might not be the best language to express those functions. And this seems to be the case even without choosing specially-crafted pathological examples.

These are subtle issues and I can't fault the author for not knowing about them, but I can fault him for using AI to appear to say something profound when all that was said was woefully naïve.
by anyfoo | 2025-06-26 00:25:20+00:00
Nobody said you should wait that long. As for your anecdote, what’s wrong with figuring out early during dating whether you plan on having children or not? People should talk about those things early, since there is hardly anything that makes a relationship more incompatible long term, and leads to more (even mutual) heartbreak and sorrow than having to break up with a person solely because their most uncompromisable life plan differs.

In my 20s, it felt indeed weird to bring that up early for me, because I wasn’t ready yet and didn’t even really know what I wanted yet. Later in life, when dating we always talked about potential family planning and general outlook on life early. (Unless it was never meant to be a serious relationship to begin with.)
by hughw | 2025-06-26 00:25:42+00:00
I'd hope there could be some distinction between using LLM as a super autocomplete in your IDE, vs giving it high-level guidelines and making it generate substantive code. It's a gray area, sure, but if I made a contribution I'd want to be able to use the labor-saving feature of Copilot, say, without danger of it copying an algorithm from open source code. For example, today I generated a series of case statements and Copilot detected the pattern and saved me tons of typing.
by striking | 2025-06-26 00:27:16+00:00
I think it is potentially still AI prose, perhaps just well-edited or working from a good prompt. Aside from using quite a few em dashes and being relentless in shoving cleverness in, there's a link to Wikipedia with a `?utm_source=chatgpt.com` in there.

To be clear, whether or not it is AI prose is beside the point in my opinion. I think this piece is informative and funny but could be edited down significantly, regardless of how it was produced.
by dheera | 2025-06-26 00:28:02+00:00
That and also just AI glasses that become an extension of my mind and body, just giving me clues and guidance on everything I do including what's on my screen.

I see those glasses as becoming just a part of me, just like my current dumb glasses are a part of me that enables me to see better, the smart glasses will help me to see AND think better.

My brain was trained on a lot of proprietary code as well, the copyright issues around AI models are pointless western NIMBY thinking and will lead to the downfall of western civilization if they keep pursuing legal what-ifs as an excuse to reject awesome technology.
by jksmith | 2025-06-26 00:29:42+00:00
Well, I don't have the rights to bundle anything with windows, nor would I want to. All you'd need is a thin player to reproduce a TUI screen if done in FPC, and it wouldn't be limited to Windows. All I'm suggesting is we tend to have some recency prejudice in our development, even when it costs more time/money than it should. I'm sure I've done the same over the years.
by andy99 | 2025-06-26 00:29:43+00:00
Had someone higher up ask about something in my area of expertise. I said I didn't think is was possible, he followed up with a chatGPT conversation he had where it "gave him some ideas that we could use as an approach", as if that was some useful insight.

This is the same people that think that "learning to code" is a translation issue they don't have time for as opposed to experience they don't have.
by avoutos | 2025-06-26 00:29:59+00:00
As someone who grew up during the heyday of common core, I can attest to this. Standardization is not a bad thing, but the pace and complexity were dumbed down. We were taught arithmatic with block visualisations and "bundles" far too long as if it took great effort to understand the abstraction of arabic numerals. I constantly felt like my desire and aptitude to learn outpaced the learning materials supplied and I have never considered myself "gifted" with math.

I think many will be surprised by the amount children can learn if you actually test the limit of their capabilities.

I feel the limiting factor when it comes to learning increasingly difficult concepts is not intelligence but effort. Often teachers and parents may mistake the attention-span deficits of kids for a sign that the material is too hard, when the ability is there and only needs to be distilled with discipline.
by catlifeonmars | 2025-06-26 00:30:33+00:00
> If the problem is too many submissions, that would suggest there needs to be structures in place to manage that. > Perhaps projects receiving lage quanties of updates need triage teams. I suspect most of the submissions are done in good faith.

This ignores the fact that many open source projects do not have the resources to dedicate to a large number of contributions. A side effect of LLM generated code is probably going to be a lot of code. I think this is going to be an issue that is not dependent on the overall quality of the code.
by tony-allan | 2025-06-26 00:31:28+00:00
“A profound shift is taking place where technology can no longer be thought of as simply a tool to support the business. It has to be thought of as a tool that’s going to innovate the business. With that shift, the traditional role of an engineer will disappear and will be replaced by engineers who understand human interaction and behaviors with technology, because the creation of the technology itself will be done by AI and AI agents. The new breed of engineers will be behavioral experts who develop and deploy tools so people can achieve peak productivity as fast as technologically feasible.”