MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Mr_Minderbinder | 2025-06-26 03:27:20+00:00
> The fact that PNG stores straight/unpremultiplied alpha says everything if you know anything about imaging in computer graphics.

> And the fact that the updated format spec just released didn't address this tells you everything you need to know about the group in charge of that, today.

What does it say? That they are naive or have the wrong priorities? Their rationale for this seems quite reasonable to me: https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Rationale.html#R.Non-premultiplied...
by joshstrange | 2025-06-26 03:27:55+00:00
I’ve started to experience/see this and it makes me want to scream.

You can’t dismiss it out of hand (especially with it coming from up the chain) but it takes no time at all to generate by someone who knows nothing about the problem space (or worse, just enough to be dangerous) and it could take hours or more to debunk/disprove the suggestion.

I don’t know what to call this? Cognitive DDOS? Amplified Plausibility Attack? There should be a name for it and it should be ridiculed.
by skygazer | 2025-06-26 03:29:18+00:00
Use an openai compatible API client on your laptop, and LM Studio on your server, and point the client to your server. LM Server can serve an LLM on a desired port using the openai style chat completion API. You can also install openwebui on your server and connect to it via a web browser, and configure it to use the LM Studio connection for its LLM.
by throw10920 | 2025-06-26 03:30:51+00:00
To reinforce your point, here's a quote from the article:

> but these enforcement efforts feel perpetually behind the curve in an economy where regulatory complexity has become a competitive advantage

The only way for "regulatory complexity" to become a "competitive advantage" is for there to be very high levels of regulation.

I think that the solution isn't specifically more regulation, or less regulation, or more regulators (which would just compound the problem), but better regulation. Law should be treated like code - as a liability (not an asset), but one necessary to accomplish a purpose, and so written as carefully and simply as possible.

Where's our team of pen-testers looking to find holes in the draft of a new law? Our Unix-philosophy-adjacent lawyers proclaiming that "less is more" and striving for composability in separate laws instead of bundling everything together? Our git forge for legal documents where the public can view and comment on the legal system (even if actually making changes is more complicated)?

Software engineering and the law could learn so much from each other - it's a shame there's so little cross-pollination.
Show HN: Use Apple Container with Gemini CLI
by mkagenius | 2025-06-26 03:30:53+00:00
Gemini CLI has native support for sandbox via Docker but this integration[1] extends it to Apple Containers on M1/M2/M3 Mac.

1. https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner?tab=readme-ov-file#...
by secabeen | 2025-06-26 03:32:23+00:00
I think it's both. Hims doesn't really even do the telemedicine bit all that well, and Hims customers know what they're there for. This is isn't a "by the way" conversation at the end of an annual physical, nor is it a dedicated full-cost office visit to discuss ED, Weight Loss, or Hair Loss. It's a quick website visit, and then maybe 5 minutes zooming with a doctor in another state you will never see again and who will never remember you among the thousands of patients they "see".

There's a lot of shame in society around all of these issues, and it's really appealing to a lot of Men to be able to spend an extra $100-200 to not have to have a conversation that embarrasses them with a Doctor who may know their wife, friends, or otherwise may be part of the community. That's the value proposition of Hims; a $200 fee to maintain the illusion of their inherent virility and masculinity. A lot of Men will happily pay that, and have the disposable income to do so.
by MostlyStable | 2025-06-26 03:32:56+00:00
I'm actually curious how much difficulty they have with their actual customers. There are always a ton of negative comments in these threads, but those seem to be from people who just fundamentally value different things than what framework is tyring to do (which is totally fine and valid!), and therefore very specifically aren't the customer base. I can't speak more broadly, but I've been super happy with my Framework16, warts and all (and there are a few).

My guess is that the core audience of people who want a repairable, upgradeable laptop tend to be tinkerers and don't mind a little bit of extra effort.
by petesergeant | 2025-06-26 03:35:01+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.

I would find it very insulting if someone did this to me, for sure, as well as a huge waste of my time.

On the other hand I've also worked with some very intransigent developers who've actively fought against things they simply didn't want to do on flimsy technical grounds, knowing it couldn't be properly challenged by the requester.

On yet another hand, I've also been subordinate to people with a small amount of technical knowledge -- or a small amount of knowledge about a specific problem -- who'll do the exact same thing without ChatGPT: fire a bunch of mid-wit ideas downstream that you have already thought about, but you then need to spend a bunch of time explaining why their hot-takes aren't good. Or the CEO of a small digital agency I worked at circa 2004 asking us if we'd ever considered using CSS for our projects (which were of course CSS heavy).
by evanjrowley | 2025-06-26 03:35:08+00:00
>They were found and decoded by a team including George Lasry, an Israeli computer scientist, Satoshi Tomokiyo, a Japanese astrophysicist, and Norbert Biermann, a German music professor.

>They routinely go through archives and decode ancient ciphers purely for fun.

Glad there are people who can pursue eccentric hobbies like this.
by smallstepforman | 2025-06-26 03:36:09+00:00
Every simple code base / API is faster than mature API’s due to the fact they do less. A simple string handling library which isnt biderectional, doesnt cater to people with accessibility, doesnt take locale formatting into account, doesnt cover 100% unicode spec will always be faster than complex code that does.

Code and kernels that target known hardware doesn’t need dynamic conditional code to handle unpredictable hardware. This will be faster.

General purpose operating systems handle printing events, background updates, periodic online checks, network discovery, maintenance jobs etc, all these operations consume resources and time.

Yes, Steam deck on Linux will run faster than equivalent games on Windows. But Steam deck on a smaller OS like Haiku will run even faster than Linux.

Engineering is a compromise. A F1 car can corner faster than a passanger car. But it probably sucks to reverse park. Also, I cannot imagine using a sports car for grocery shopping and hauling furniture from Ikea.
by aiforecastthway | 2025-06-26 03:36:42+00:00
I do not think I have ever spent more than an hour per visit actually in the room with my GP. I have an annual checkup. For a while there my GP was world class and also a blood relative.

200 patients at one hour per is a bit more than a month of 9-5s.

If I visited my GP once per 1.5 months I’d be paying a fuckload more than $50/mo in copayments alone, in addition to my incredible premiums.

Healthcare becomes pretty affordable when you’re not paying for actuaries and other scammers.
by const_cast | 2025-06-26 03:37:30+00:00
When it comes to Men's health, doctor's really don't give much of a fuck. Their primary concern is are you actually sick, they don't care about how you feel, or your self-image, or your sense of masculinity.

Hair loss is sucky, sure, but in the grand scheme of medicine it's nothing. Erectile dysfunction sucks, but are you old? That's just the name of the game.

I lost my testicles to cancer (yippee) and you would be shocked how difficult it is to just... get testosterone. My fundamental bodily functions no longer exist, but I'm technically fine so... I guess that's okay? Like I'm not dying, and quality of life is in the eye of the beholder or something. Never mind I'm literally castrated, like physically. And they'll talk your ear off about side effects.

Side effects? What about primary effects? Man, I have no balls! Everything sucks and I wake up feeling like I've been run over by a truck!
by j_timberlake | 2025-06-26 03:38:48+00:00
If food prices went to near zero, healthcare and housing would mysteriously get more expensive until people could barely afford them even with cheap-as-salt food.

The opposite is probably true too: if food prices went up, all of a sudden health insurance companies and landlords can lower their prices just enough to keep their customers.

I'm sure the voters would still freak the f out though.
by MostlyStable | 2025-06-26 03:39:11+00:00
People have a lot of pretty valid issues with Framework. When you optimize as hard as they do for repairability, upgradeability, and modularity, you are going to make some sacrifices in other arenas that won't be to everyone's liking, and that's totally fine. But the one criticism that I haven't quite understood is price.

Yes, Framework is more expensive....the first time. But from then on (and for the 13, this is now 3 or 4 generations I believe), buying a new mainboard with a latest gen chip is going to be the cheapest you can get those specs for. Yeah, a used laptop might still be cheaper, but it won't be the same specs, and if used is what you want, you can probably get a used mainboard from the last gen that someone else is upgrading from for even cheaper.

Unless you are someone who thrashes their laptops so hard that you expect to need to replace not just the mainboard, but also the screen, keyboard and chasis, then framework represents by far the cheapest way to keep getting new laptop specs into the future.

I'm not even someone who upgrades laptops very often (every 5 years or so, historically), and even on that schedule, and I still thing that long term it will be cheaper. If you are someone who upgrades more often, then it makes an even bigger difference.

Again, to be clear, I think there are very valid reasons that a Framework might not be the right laptop for someone. I just thing that thinking about the one-time purchase price of the entire laptop is completely missing the entire point of Framework.
by Spivak | 2025-06-26 03:39:23+00:00
> I'm out money when my insurance premium goes up to support the new expensive drugs

It's a good thing then that insurance won't pay for it and these services don't even bill insurance.

It's also not $12k a year for the generic, it's around $1200 a year. The drug isn't that expensive to make, the brand is just jacking up the price.
by amoshebb | 2025-06-26 03:41:24+00:00
I love solar, but this "those who can afford microgrids can shield themselves from blackouts" paired with net metering where "the wealthy get paid a premium for excess generation and can buy expensive high-demand power back at a discount" probably aren't steps on the path to improved grid resiliency for any definition other than this weird "no island-wide outages" definition.
by runfaster2000 | 2025-06-26 03:41:31+00:00
This is a good example[1] at 64k LOC removal. We removed built-in support for C# + WinRT interop on Windows and instead required users to use a source-generation tool (which is still the case today). This was a breaking change. We realized we had one chance to do this and took it.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/36715/files
by halostatue | 2025-06-26 03:44:27+00:00
Not all jurisdictions are the US, and not all jurisdictions allow fair use, but instead have specific fair dealing laws. Not all jurisdictions have fair dealing laws, meaning that every use has to be cleared.

There are simple algorithms that everyone will implement the same way down to the variable names, but aside from those fairly rare exceptions, there's no "maximum number of lines" metric to describe how much code is "fair use" regardless of the licence of the code "fair use"d in your scenario.

Depending on the context, even in the US that 5-second clip would not pass fair use doctrine muster. If I made a new film cut entirely from five second clips of different movies and tried a fair use doctrine defence, I would likely never see the outside of a courtroom for the rest of my life. If I tried to do so with licensing, I would probably pay more than it cost to make all those movies.

Look up the decisions over the last two decades over sampling (there are albums from the late 80s and 90s — when sampling was relatively new — which will never see another pressing or release because of these decisions). The musicians and producers who chose the samples thought they would be covered by fair use.
by throwawaycities | 2025-06-26 03:45:08+00:00
Since 1970 testosterone has declined 1% per year and it’s well established higher testosterone is linked to impulsive and violent criminal behavior and in countries like the US crime rate is at a 50 year low correlating with this decline starting 1970.

There are many factors that correlate and potentially contribute to a reduction in incarceration rates.

There are estimated 1.8-1.9M incarcerated. Since 1980 to the present there are well over 1M violent crimes (rape, murder, aggregated assault, robbery) per year. Let’s look at another factor that might contribute to falling incarceration rates that tend to explain this discrepancy in incarceration vs total crimes…conviction rates:

Murder: ~57.4% in 1950 vs. ~27.2% in 2023—a ~2.1x difference.

Rape: ~17.3% in 1950 vs. ~2.3% in 2023—a ~7.5x difference.

Aggravated Assualt: ~19.7% in 1950 vs. ~15.9% in 2023—a ~1.2x difference.

The neurological effects of lead don’t tend to explain away falling police clearances nor convictions.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-06-26 03:48:18+00:00
> the authors vibe out while playing guitar and clipping their toenails

I don't think anyone is claiming that. If you submit changes to a FOSS project and an LLM assisted you in writing them how would anyone know? Assuming at least that you are an otherwise competent developer and that you carefully review all code before you commit it.

The (admittedly still controversial) claim being made is that developers with LLM assistance are more productive than those without. Further, that there is little incentive for such developers to advertise this assistance. Less trouble for all involved to represent it as 100% your own unassisted work.
by rafram | 2025-06-26 03:49:38+00:00
Yeah and it was terrible. Your password would be stored as an unsalted MD5 hash if you were lucky.

Enterprise customers did the math on what a security breach lawsuit could cost and started demanding verifiably decent security, which meant some off-the-shelf off-premises solution.

That’s basically where we are now, and it’s the reason that most of Better Auth’s users are early-stage startups — they need to scale quickly, and they don’t have many pesky enterprise/governmental customers who might want to see a certification.
by addieg | 2025-06-26 03:49:51+00:00
We’re building a zero-trust, on-demand data fabric that runs in your VPC and spins up AI-ready views across silos, every query or LLM sees only the slice it should.

One key challenge is handling PII: don’t expose it to the LLM, but don’t lose the meaning either. We couldn’t find a good solution in Go, so we built one: fast, deterministic, and no external dependencies.

The lib preserves semantic structure — think emails that look like emails, ZIP codes/phone numbers that match state, and names that remain gendered. Curious what other use cases folks might see for this!
by xarope | 2025-06-26 03:51:59+00:00
I think the OP does themselves a great disservice by not seeking a qualified swim coach to start with. Swimming is a deeply experiential workout and technique is very important. You can learn a lot of bad habits by swimming badly; 50m freestyle in ~2mins is, as example, showing that their technique is very bad right now (I suspect most swimmers here can probably kick 50m in <2mins with just a kickboard).
by motorest | 2025-06-26 03:53:23+00:00
> When your IP is found to have been part of a botnet, I think ISPs should just limit you to like 20Mbps for at least a year, so you think twice about buying that 10$ wifi baby monitor next time.

You're talking as if people can't just get another account or change ISPs.

Also, it seems you're mainly interested in gratuitously punish people who are powerless about issues instead of thinking about very basic approaches such as rate-limiting policies.
by userbinator | 2025-06-26 03:53:42+00:00
The old documentation was the best. The new stuff is a mix of barely acceptable and absolute crap, and some of it is even AI-generated. Here's a recent funny:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/u...

"The characteristics of the endpoint determine the size of each packet is fixed and determined by the characteristics of the endpoint."
by Nursie | 2025-06-26 03:54:09+00:00
Queensland seems to be making a lot of noise about that at the moment as well.

Seems to be this weird reasoning (and I know it has cropped up in the US too) that - if they did an 'adult' crime they should be tried as an adult. It totally ignores what we know about developing brains - they are not fully developed, they don't consider consequences the same way as older people.

That's not to say they should be allowed to 'get away with it', but we need to take into account that it's not really the same thing as adults doing it.
by sandspar | 2025-06-26 03:54:43+00:00
Interesting how a few rare commenters strongly agree with this article and yet most comments here don't.

Perhaps HN is full of people with high digital literacy, relatively high reasoning ability etc. People like this can benefit from the service.

The article's core point is that Hims uses unethical marketing. Maybe the HN crowd is privileged: people here may be able to resist marketing.

The article's unstated point is that many people who use Hims would be better off not using it.

HN people tend to be wealthy tech workers. I'm not sure how many people here know about the brutal conditions outside their cozy tech bubble.

There are tens of millions of Americans with low cognitive ability, low digital literacy, high susceptibility to advertising, high stress, poor health, and demeaning jobs - all at the same time.

Many of these unfortunate people spend pretty much their whole lives bouncing around from scam to scam. At age 15 they get exploited by an older boyfriend. At age 26 they get exploited by a for-profit college.

Then at age 45 they get exploited by unethical pharma companies. Like Hims.

The healthcare industry spends a lot of time dealing with this population. Many of these people tend to be "frequent flyers" of government-run programs. People who work in hospitals understand these unfortunate people intimately. When those hospital workers make laws, they spend a lot of time thinking about how to protect these people. Then Hims come along and targets them specifically.

The article's point is that Hims exploits vulnerable people. And I agree.
by flaminHotSpeedo | 2025-06-26 03:56:05+00:00
Quote:

Today, though, Ars testing on the Lenovo Legion Go S finds recent games generally run at higher frame rates on SteamOS 3.7 than on Windows 11

That's not just a buried lede, this title is straight up wrong (or at least, not backed up by data)

With SteamOS coming to arbitrary hardware, that is a very bold claim to make. And not one that ars has data to back up, apparently.

It's also an embarrassment of an article because they were gifted the steam version of the handheld, then compared that performance against them installing windows... on the steam version of the handheld. Why not buy the version with Windows by default?

Personally I'm nearly certain that SteamOS would give better apples to apples performance than windows, but we shouldn't give an article that shits on both the scientific method and journalistic integrity the light of day
by schoen | 2025-06-26 03:56:31+00:00
Yes (if the TLS-ALPN-01 challenge method was used). The CA/B Forum Baseline Requirements currently permit proof of control using any of four specified ports

> Authorized Ports: One of the following ports: 80 (http), 443 (https), 25 (smtp), 22 (ssh).

Let's Encrypt uses only port 80 and 443.

This is the same for certificates for domain names and for IP addresses.
by defrost | 2025-06-26 03:56:37+00:00
That's a lightweight comment given multiple things can be true.

The claim you are responding to is contempory, "Right now China is", and concerns "its increasing energy demand" .. a response about total existing use twelve years past is no rebuttal.

Rather than direct link to an untitled graph sans context (the June 2022 paper the twelve year 2013 elicited graph is snapshotted from) perhaps link to a time series graph: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/global-coal-c...

and maybe recommend diving into the ongoing series of IEA global energy generation and consumption reports.

China's coal consumption is for a purpose, it has a projected wind down, and it represents not just the per capita coal consumption of China's people but also the coal consumption of the world that avails itself of China's solar panel and battery technology.

With a small amount of effort you can create a better comment.
by linsomniac | 2025-06-26 03:56:43+00:00
Not OP, but:

I'm getting towards the end of a vibe coded ZFS storage backend to ganeti that includes the ability to live migrate VMs to another host by: taking snapshot and replicating it to target, pausing VM, taking another incremental snapshot and replicating it, and then unpausing the VM on the new destination machine. https://github.com/linsomniac/ganeti/tree/newzfs

Other LLM tools I've built this week:

This afternoon I built a web-based SQL query editor/runner with results display, for dev/ops people to run read-only queries against our production database. To replace an existing super simple one, and add query syntax highlighting, snippet library, and other modern features. I can probably release this though I'd need to verify that it won't leak anything. Targets SQL Server.

A couple CLI Jira tools to pull a list of tickets I'm working on (with cache so I can get an immediate response, then get updates after Jira response comes back), and tickets with tags that indicate I have to handle them specially.

An icinga CLI that downtimes hosts, for when we do sweeping machine maintenances like rebooting a VM host with dozens of monitored children.

An Ansible module that is a "swiss army knife" for filesystem manipulation, merging the functions of copy, template, file, so you can loop over a list and: create a directory, template a couple files into it, doing a notify on one and a when on another, ensure a file exists if it doesn't already, to reduce duplication of boilerplate when doing a bunch of file deploys. This I will release as a ansible galaxy module once I have it tested a little more.
by thebigman433 | 2025-06-26 03:56:56+00:00
A year after quitting semaglutide, 20% of people maintained their achieved weight. But, some 44% regained weight. Of that 44%, most (59% of them) still had improved weight: their weights had not fully rebounded to their pre-semaglutide level! Possibly even more importantly, the remaining 36% continued losing weight, either mildly (47%) or majorly (53%)

https://archive.md/Wsuoz