MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by M0r13n | 2025-06-09 15:46:39+00:00
> But in people with diabetes, this sensing system is dysfunctional, and the liver releases glucose even when blood levels are already high, causing a host of health problems.

I am pretty sure, that the dysfunctional glucose sensing and inappropriate liver glucose release are consequences and complications of diabetes, not the primary causes. Diabetes (Type 2) is primarily caused by insulin resistance combined with progressive beta cell dysfunction.

Therefore, treating the liver to treat diabetes seems .... weird?
by ghaff | 2025-06-09 15:47:37+00:00
Yeah, you could get an unlisted number but you were charged for it and almost no one did because it was also how people you wanted to get in touch with you found you a lot of the time. Not that data breaches aren't bad but a lot of the breached info has been pretty routinely available for a very long time. (And, as you say, cell phone numbers are probably less routinely available than landlines were.)

I don't go out of my way to publish my cell or address but a lot of people have them.
by okanat | 2025-06-09 15:47:38+00:00
While your argument seems to make sense on the surface, it fails in deeper inspection.

What security implications did Google Reader have? I do understand keeping older APIs and endpoints for authentication and authorization are indeed dangerous. However, if your architecture causes the mere clients of those authorization infra to be exploited, I think the problem isn't keeping the products running. You designed something inherently insecure.
Show HN: Angle – An open-source alpha-stage Matlab alternative (student project)
by lixiasky | 2025-06-09 15:47:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m an undergrad student, and I recently started working on a side project called Angle — an open-source experiment trying to recreate the basic workflow of MATLAB.

GitHub: https://github.com/lixiasky/Angle

Currently, it's just an alpha preview. Only basic features work:

- Python script execution (standard lib only, no pip support) - Markdown / LaTeX editing and export

The core of the project is there — including a module system for block diagrams, matrix ops, and control systems — but most of the modules are not yet connected to the frontend, and some don’t align with UI logic yet.

This whole thing started after a talk at my university, where a senior student proudly mentioned how powerful MATLAB was. That kind of lit a fire under me to try building an alternative, with help from AI tools.

The codebase is rough, the UI is mostly placeholders, and only a few parts actually work. But if you're curious about the structure or want to help build it into something better, I’d really appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!
by Bender | 2025-06-09 15:48:11+00:00
There are several fallback options if GPS goes away [1]. Pilots are trained in all of them. Whether or not all the pilots will remember each option is another topic I suppose. For drivers on the ground this was and still is a solved problem using map books. When that fails get out of the vehicle and meet people. I do it all the time.

[1] - https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/19295/what-will...
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-09 15:48:53+00:00
It is easy to manufacture contradictions by prooftexting. It isn't difficult to read in a favored hypothesis that contains contradictions, but that is by no means demanded by the text. Many can be resolved by recognizing that the same thing was being described from two different perspectives or with a focus on different aspects.

The quintessential example is perhaps #3 which purports that the two accounts of creation are contradictory. But there are a number of ways to interpret Genesis [0] that doesn't result in contradiction while maintaining the theological truths that are the purpose of biblical texts. The Bible isn't a scientific treatise.

Another typical class of examples are the purported inconsistencies within the Gospels themselves [1].

An article on inerrancy you might find interesting [2].

[0] https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/are-there-co...

[1] https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/how-to-reso...

[2] https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/is-scripture...
by david-gpu | 2025-06-09 15:49:29+00:00
No, no. He didn't give us any option. God is all-powerful and all-knowing, so he made us knowing that we would break his rules and thus knowing that he would later punish us for eternity for breaking them. The notion of free will is in complete contradiction with an all-knowing all-powerful agent that sets things in motion. And the fact that God still punishes us even though we never had a choice is proof that it's not benevolent.

So: all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving. Pick two.
by pbronez | 2025-06-09 15:50:28+00:00
> I don't want to have to log into Kagi on each one.

Yes, this is annoying. They make it as easy as they can (QR code login, session links) but it's still a speedbump.

> having to login is inevitably makes it easier for them to associate activity with a specific real-like person.

That's a legitimate concern. Kagi added Privacy Pass support to mitigate it

https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-privacy-pass
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-09 15:51:03+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffi !

Furthermore: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milchversorgung_Rheinland

cf.: https://duckduckgo.com/q=tuffi+milch&ia=images&iax=images

Muuuh...äh...Tröööt!
by icedchai | 2025-06-09 15:51:15+00:00
Have you tried any of the tools, like Cursor or Zed? They increase productivity if you use them correctly. If you give them quality inputs like well written, spec-like prompts, instruct them to work in phases, provide feedback on testing, the results can be very, very good. Unsurprisingly, this is similar to what you need to give to a human to also get positive results.
by coldtea | 2025-06-09 15:52:22+00:00
>It was clear you needed a new phone and your current one just became a lot worse for everyday tasks.

Not, it wasn't clear at all. In fact, gadget freaks aside most people don't care, and update after when the device is all battered and battery has had too many cycles, or in some 2 year schedule or so, based on what funding they get from their carrier.

What's more, iPhones hold their resale second hand value just fine (better than any Android phone), which means lots of people also buy older models, and don't see the "latest and greatest" as a necessity.
by wnorris510 | 2025-06-09 15:52:24+00:00
Founder of https://snapcalorie.com and ex-Google AI researcher here. The article actually gets our pricing wrong, it's completely free to use SnapCalorie, the $79.99 price is a donation to support our research and help us continue providing the best tools to everyone for free.

We've published in top peer reviewed academic conferences and our algorithm (can't say the same for other apps) IS actually more accurate than people trying to visually estimate portion size, but the truth is both are quite inaccurate.

Most people won't spend the time to track, so photo logging is a faster and easier approximation. If you want more accurate logging you should use the voice logging feature and a kitchen scale (also completely free in our app).

As many mention the goal is to learn, not to tediously track every little thing. Do what's sustainable for you and helps achieve your health and fitness goals.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-09 15:52:30+00:00
people always trot this out, but it was very possible to have your information unlisted so it was not printed in the book. you could also use a different name. an old coworker selected to have his name listed as David King so that when found in the book it would show up as King David.

having an unlisted number wasn't uncommon. for privacy minded people, it was a simple phone call to make it unlisted, and most just did it at time of getting the number.
by lyu07282 | 2025-06-09 15:52:41+00:00
> If these tools have some value, then we can finally invest in forms of energy (i.e. nuclear) that will solve the underlying problem

I'm confused what you are saying, do you suggest "the market" will somehow do something to address climate change? By what mechanism? And what do LLMs have to do with that?

The problem with LLMs is that they require exorbitant amounts of energy and fresh water to operate, driving a global increase in ecological destruction and carbon emissions. [ https://www.greenmemag.com/science-technology/googles-contro... ]

That's not exactly a new thing, just making the problem worse. What is now different with LLMs as opposed to for example crypto mining?
by manofmanysmiles | 2025-06-09 15:52:55+00:00
This isn't getting much love.

I love this not because any individual tool is necessarily that impressive (though some are very cool), nor the shear number of them, but rather this shows me a hint of a very different software world, one where every tool is a response to a immediate need.

Each one of these looks almost like crystallized intention. This makes me think what's needed next is a meta tool that indexes all of these in a embeddedings db.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-06-09 15:52:55+00:00
FWIW, the LDS isn't really Christian. The theological differences are just too vast. Indeed, AFAIK, while the Catholic Church recognizes the baptism of many Protestant sects, it does not recognize the validity of LDS baptism. So a convert to Catholicism from the LDS must be baptized as part of his conversion.

W.r.t. your first question [0].

[0] https://www.catholic.com/tract/infant-baptism
by Bender | 2025-06-09 15:52:58+00:00
Telemetry to the outside world should be considered spyware in all cases.

Not if I double-opt-in and can read everything it has sent or will send. It can still be automated even if I can review it prior to being sent. Telemetry is indeed a terse form of reporting. If I did not double-opt-in then yes it is spyware and will set off alarms on the firewall.
by bartread | 2025-06-09 15:53:39+00:00
Ah, yes, now that's interesting. In the UK you do not pay tax on winnings from gambling so, assuming the government gets a cut, this might be in lieu of tax that they would otherwise not accrue from the professional/expert gambler due to their winnings not being taxable.

And modern KYC checks mean, I'd imagine, you can't simply subvert this by running multiple accounts or by periodically shutting down your accounts and setting up new ones.
by pixl97 | 2025-06-09 15:53:40+00:00
The trick is the other person doing that too. Simply put a lot, if not most people don't want a rational debate where they discuss the many sides of an issue. They want to win.

Take religion for example, seemingly most people that have one tend to believe not only they are right about it (if you debate it's correctness it shows your lack of faith), they are trying to convert you and if they fail you are an enemy.
by anonfordays | 2025-06-09 15:55:24+00:00
>I think you are a couple decades behind the times.

Not at all, stop getting political commentary from reddit comments. Bush, Romney, McCain were all in the past two decades.

>The current conservative movement is all in on monarchy, not what you are proposing. Look at Moldbug/Yarvin for their current philosophy.

The current Republican party's platform follows classical liberalism: "Classical liberalism is a political tradition and a branch of liberalism that advocates free market and laissez-faire economics and civil liberties under the rule of law, with special emphasis on individual autonomy, limited government, economic freedom, political freedom and freedom of speech."[0]

You can argue that Trump isn't following that, but it is what the Republican party has incorporated into it's platform for decades.

>Moldbug/Yarvin

Basically a non-player who is oversold on reddit as having some outsized influence.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism
by bartread | 2025-06-09 15:55:34+00:00
No, let's say I bet £100[0] on an exchange. That doesn't guarantee the bet will be matched. Maybe only £10 of my bet is matched. And it's the counterparty or counterparties to the bet that are on the hook, not the exchange. I.e., it works much like a marketplace for other financial instruments, and the situation I'm describing is much like a "partial fill" on a stock order. The exchange takes its commission on the matched value of the bet no matter what, and they don't care which way it goes.

[0] I'm using small numbers because the total value of matched bets on many horse races can be small. If you go in and drop £100k or £10k, or even £1k, especially if you did it all in one go (and assuming the exchange would allow it), there are plenty of races where only a tiny portion of that would be matched. In fact most races have only thousands of pounds or low five figures matched.
by bredren | 2025-06-09 15:55:54+00:00
> This is a straw man. The idea is part of the product.

It is a part of the product but I’m not sure I agree it is a straw man. (Side note I just realized the …absolutely no one… meme labels this fallacy!)

In music, few artists can count themselves as capable songwriters, producers, instrumentalist and vocalist recording artists and live performers.

Yet the front page of Rolling Stone is generally reserved for those on the tail end of the full stack of talent described above.

To continue the parallel, in SWE engineers are generally compensated better than non-technical product folks.
by gs17 | 2025-06-09 15:55:59+00:00
> Intuitively, this seems wrong: the art museum receives a far larger subsidy, yet many more people benefit from replacing the lead pipes, and the utility-per-individual is arguably much higher as well.

Well, yes, but those many more people getting more utility didn't contribute. If the same contribution was spread out over 10x the people each contributing $10, they'd get 10x the funding.

Their complaint here is really that ideal QF would also require assuming people actually get involved with it. I agree it has issues, but this isn't what I'd lead with. Coordination seems like a much larger threat to the concept.
by Arainach | 2025-06-09 15:56:29+00:00
Dogs have nothing to do with it. People are choosing not to have kids, especially in America, because they can barely pay for rent, food, and (if they're fortunate) healthcare for themselves. Going out to eat is a luxury that even software engineers earning 6 figures are having to reevaluate with prices to say nothing of other entertainment.

Third places and opportunities to meet people are greatly reduced because everything's taken over by venture capital chains and so expensive, and even if you meet someone the odds of the two of you making enough money to afford to raise a child is low.

If you have that money, you're probably educated enough to see that life for your child will be significantly worse than life for you right now - the rise of authoritarianism, climate change, the active ongoing destruction of American economic power and soft political power, the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands, disinformation causing massive chunks of the country to oppose science, education, and other things, discrimination based on gender and race....we're in for some very hard times and it takes a certain mindset to decide that you want to subject a child you love to all of it.

It's not the dogs.
by lesostep | 2025-06-09 15:56:43+00:00
Funnily enough, my "full id" (full name, city, profession plus year) isn't unique to me unless you add a date of birth. Maybe it's not unique with a date of birth either, but statistically it should be.

It's a regional thing, but roughly translates to "John Smith, programmer from NY, born 1995"
Google Workspace raises prices due to new AI features
by binarynate | 2025-06-09 15:56:52+00:00
I use Google Workspace for my business and just received an email from Google saying they're raising the price. The reason they stated:

> The updated subscription pricing reflects the significant added AI value, as well as the many new features we have introduced and are launching to Google Workspace editions.

The reason I'm sharing this is that I want to discourage other companies and product creators from taking this path. I don't want or use the AI features they've added. From my perspective, they've actively made their products worse by adding distracting popups trying to get me to use the AI features I don't want, and now they're charging me for that.
by mindslight | 2025-06-09 15:56:53+00:00
as someone who was wearing a respirator before the pandemic was even acknowledged by the government -

The original CDC statement was something like "masks have not been shown to be effective for the general population". It was technically correct, but if you weren't reading defensively you'd come away with the impression they were stating a negative suggestion rather than the null suggestion (ie nothing). So despite being technically correct, most people would consider this a lie, especially if they were misled by it.

It was definitely a black mark on the CDC response - they should have been honest with people that there simply weren't enough respirators, delay the statement by a day if the healthcare system needed more time to destock Home Depot.

But how that statement gets dragged out as an example of the government being deliberately wrong, to imply that it must have been prudent to do the opposite of what they said is also terribly misguided.
by iwontberude | 2025-06-09 15:57:08+00:00
This is certainly not engineering. Maybe I’m finally a curmudgeon after years of chasing everything in this industry and getting burned enough times but vibe coding without manual review and testing is antithetical to contemporary study on software engineering and development. Are we really gluttons for punishment like this? Like writing a novel on a Nokia 6630, it’s a fun oddity but not really a scalable way to create value.
by Pramodith | 2025-06-09 15:57:29+00:00
I created a super-comprehensive GRPO Tutorial, where you can learn to code up your own GRPO Trainer. In addition to the code I also go through the math and highlight some of the interesting properties of the GRPO loss like why the loss will always be 0 at step 0 and why the policy loss will always be 0 when the num iterations (mu) hyper-parameter is set to 1. Appreciate any feedback!
by deadbabe | 2025-06-09 15:57:42+00:00
Be honest: do people vibe code because they simply can’t imagine all the complexity and details of what they’re trying to achieve, or is it simply because it’s faster than typing it all out?

If it’s the latter, perhaps it’s a sign that we are making languages too verbose, and there’s a lot of boilerplate patterns that could be cut down if we give ourselves wider vocabulary (syntax) to express concepts.

In the end, if we can come up with a language that is 1 to 1 with the time and effort spent to write equivalent prompts, there will be no need for vibe coding anymore unless you really don’t know what you’re doing, in which case you should develop your skills or simply not be a software engineer. Some may say this language already exists.
by LanceJones | 2025-06-09 15:58:01+00:00
Congrats on shipping!

Here's some quick feedback -- hope it's useful:

1. Is the little bug icon sufficiently visible? I'm not sure...

2. Do visitors automatically know what to do with the bug? You have a tooltip, but do all visitors know what "Spotted a bug?" means?

3. [more of a suggestion; perhaps it does this already] Would be great if the bug position pulled in a CSS class or the content surrounding the "dropped" bug -- to give more context to the site owner.
by nduncan_hmc | 2025-06-09 15:58:05+00:00
It's surprisingly hard to get transcripts and recordings out of Zoom, Teams and Google Meet meetings.

The only API that had the features I needed (Recall.ai), charges $1000 / month minimum, so I decided to build my own. We're now processing thousands of hours of meetings each month and it works reliably. We also have a few features that let the bot interact with people in the meeting, in addition to recording it.
by bartread | 2025-06-09 15:58:06+00:00
> This might come as a surprise to you

You're right: TIL, so thank you. I've done no more than dip my toe in the water on betting exchanges.

That level of expert tax seems... rude. Really rude.

But I wonder if some goes to the government in lieu of taxes that would not otherwise be payable on winnings from gambling (at least not here, in the UK, since winnings from gambling aren't taxable).
by mmsc | 2025-06-09 15:58:17+00:00
The difficulty in reporting a bug comes from the friction required to filter the "page doesn't work" with no further explanation reports, or the "my neighbour is a spy for the government and I have proof" reports (real types of reports for a browser company, for example, which surely exist for other places users think that "is" the internet like Facebook).

I agree that reporting bugs can be hard, but the amount of spam that follows an effective open form, of craziness to uselessness, outweighs the useful bug reports.

Having two types of reports: one which is a simple screenshot taker with the ability to draw a circle over what is wrong, and one which is a more detailed report, would be useful.

Some LLM that filters out what is a useless report be a useful report would be good, too.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-06-09 15:58:21+00:00
As the article says, for some people it serves as a substitute for having kids/a family. Life is about more than your personal well being. Maybe you disagree; there are certainly a lot of moral frameworks under which that's not a true statement, and unless there's a higher power to appeal to nobody can tell you that your chosen philosophy is wrong. But all of us will someday grow old and die, and dogs aren't going be our legacy, nor will they be taking care of us in our old age. Just something to consider...
by tsoukase | 2025-06-09 15:58:30+00:00
I had a dog for decades (not the same). The trend of dog craziness of some people in the last 5-10 years belongs to a specific psychiatric situation (depression, personality disorder, OCD?). On the other side many, mostly childless, women feel some kind of loneliness and adopt a dog. The dynamics of pet love has many paths.
by thenthenthen | 2025-06-09 15:58:51+00:00
I am quite curious about the etymology behind the name ‘Panjandrum’, It is not explained in the article IIRC. Furthermore, the article writes about the improbability of homing/self-stearing devices, again IIRC flight navigation around this time already made use of known radio broadcasts for direction finding before the war (Amelia Earhart), did they research this or was it to unreliable.. because said war (jamming etc)?
by lonelyasacloud | 2025-06-09 15:59:28+00:00
>> how can kids, think K-12, who don't even know how to "use" the internet properly - or even their phones - learn how to learn with AI?

For every person/child that just wants the answer there will be at least some that will want to know why. And these endlessly patient machines are very good at feeding that curiosity.
by username223 | 2025-06-09 15:59:29+00:00
> As an anology: Most people wouldn't want to dig through machine code/compiler output. At least not without proper tooling.

My analogy is GUI builders from the late 90s that let you drag elements around, then generated a pile of code. They worked sometimes, but God help you if you wanted to do something the builder couldn't do, and had to edit the generated code.

Looking at compiler output is actually more pleasant. You profile your code, find the hot spots, and see that something isn't getting inlined, vectorized, etc. At that point you can either convince the compiler to do what you want or rewrite it by hand, and the task is self-contained.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-09 15:59:29+00:00
This is where modern "learning" falls down. You load a page, read its contents, compare with what it is supposed to be, update if outdated, move on. I know I know, that sounds like, egad, work, but that's called a job.

Your immediate dismissal of an actual task I've been assigned irks to the point of being given a snarky response.