MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cxr | 2025-06-17 14:08:39+00:00
Weird subthread.

> The selfish point (there are other points too) of "hi" is to confirm you have their attention

No one is unsure of the selfish/self-serving motivation behind the lone "hello". The singleminded self-centeredness at the expense of others is the _entire_ basis of the criticism.

This response is like encountering in a thread about lunch theft in the workplace, "Some people take food that isn't theirs because they didn't bring anything for lunch, and they see food that someone else brought sitting there in the fridge." The power of this response to be able to explain something not already understood is nil—and so is its exculpatory power.

> to remove plausible deniability of "oops I missed your message."

I'll dispute this. The overwhelming purpose is so the sender can confirm they have the receiver's attention so the sender knows whether to bother themselves with typing out the rest of their inquiry. They're happy to trade the negative consequences on others for a minor convenience to themselves.
by tbrownaw | 2025-06-17 14:08:52+00:00
> When 42 of the participants came back to the laboratory weeks, months and even two years later, to take part in another 24-hour measurement, the trained algorithm could identify them from their breath patterns. Data from periods when the participants were awake gave more accurate results than did those from sleeping periods, but when the researchers used a 100-parameter characterization of a full data set instead of one using 24 parameters, they could pick individuals out with 96.8% accuracy.

The correctly identified .968x42=40.696 of the participants.

Also any standard-ish physical activity that comes with instructions usually includes breathing in those instructions. So I would expect results to vary substantially depending on where they found the study participants.
by ddtaylor | 2025-06-17 14:09:15+00:00
It does work with pirated games AFAIK.

Steam as a platform is very open in many ways. Likely not intentional, just holes that never got plugged.

Most of the pirated steam clients just lie and say you're always playing a free Steam game that everyone owns and use that to backchannel all of the steam features like messaging, p2p, etc.

Last I checked they even had some rigged up system for achievements since some games interact with them in ways that are needed.
by aziaziazi | 2025-06-17 14:09:21+00:00
> the company [microsoft] plans to be water positive by 2030 which means that they “put more water into the local basins where we operate than we withdraw”

> AWS has the same target, while Google has pledged to “replenish 120 percent of the freshwater volume we consume, on average, across our offices and data centers by 2030.”

How is that supposed to work?

The cynic in me can’t help thinking of an high-energy or production-externalities-imported system, but I’d be glad to ear about a sustainable local water creation.
by WillAdams | 2025-06-17 14:09:32+00:00
Good point on SSL, should have used: http://literateprogramming.com/

Well, I worked up:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/literati...

for my current project (and will use it going forward for any new ones) and:

https://github.com/topics/literate-programming

has 443 projects...
by dymk | 2025-06-17 14:09:45+00:00
Sure it can’t be more than 150mg of MDMA, but that doesn’t tell you how much meth / fentanyl / whatever is in there, so it’s not like you’re somehow in a safer boat with it. At least it’s easier to test LSD for adulteration due to it being such a different chemical than what it could be adulterated with.
by floatrock | 2025-06-17 14:10:43+00:00
> Get a crew out there and figure it out.

I mean, to be fair, the city maintenance crews don't generally run tear-down youtube channels with appropriate equipment to take a close look at a failing semiconductor-based light assembly.

But the general point is correct. What could be done is connect with some of those crews' offices, understand what warranties are provided with the municipal purchase of those bulbs, and how much comes out of the infrastructure budget to do an early replacement of these bulbs. Hopefully these bulbs weren't purchased from a RANDOMSYLLABLE amazon china dropshipper who disappeared after 3 months.

But yes, that requires talking to municipal governments, and there's not enough click revenue to support that level of journalism anymore.

Maybe a youtuber who runs a tear-down channel can do that.
by angry_moose | 2025-06-17 14:11:02+00:00
I loved Wave. It came out my senior year of college; and for one class all four of us on a group project managed to snag it and it was amazing.

Unfortunately, for every other class, the Wave signups were so rationed that it was impossible to get everyone on it.

"Can we use Wave? No, Steve has been trying to get an invite for weeks".
by luciodale | 2025-06-17 14:11:19+00:00
I really didn’t want to build this, but I just couldn’t find a dropdown that handled everything I needed. It started as a project requirement and slowly grew into something that now covers single and multi selection, creating new options if needed (but only if you want), virtualization (no opt out) for big lists, full keyboard support, search with highlighting, and easy styling with plain CSS (no frameworks), no themes to fight against.

I think this gets close to what most people actually need from a dropdown without making you glue together a bunch of separate pieces. Hopefully it saves someone else the time I spent chasing edge cases. Feedback is very much welcome.
by conaclos | 2025-06-17 14:11:23+00:00
Hi! Biome core contributor here.

It could be nice to have a more descriptive title like:

"Biome 2: first type-aware linter that doesn't require TSC"

Some details about this reelase:

- Type-aware lint rules

- Plugins

- Monorepo support

- Revamped, configurable import sorting

- Linter domains

- Bulk suppressions

- Analyzer assist
by LaGrange | 2025-06-17 14:11:35+00:00
This ain't a defense of Steam Workshop - it has a lot of issues and sucks quite bad- just a remark for anyone struggling with using Workshop next to anything else.

You don't actually need a steam account or the client - with SteamCMD you can have CLI access to all the mods there, as well as download any mod (or, for example, dedicated server hosted via Steam) to a custom location.

As for what's bad with Steam Workshop: - No built-in way to host multiple versions of a mod or to revert to an old version.

- Very unreliable reinstalls (you might think you deleted a mod, and yet there are leftovers - and at least historically they liked to remain even over fresher files).

- Somewhat arcane directory structure (that makes fixing the above harder than it should be).
by goku12 | 2025-06-17 14:12:47+00:00
Strange! I was going to say the exact opposite. I find the near-white light from LEDs very harsh and tiring to my eyes. I often end up rubbing my eyes under them. The sodium orange feels cooler and easier. The strain on my eyes is similar to daylight, but without the alertness it induces. (White LEDs actually feel worse than daylight, for some reason)

There were articles a few years back stating that the blue emissions from these LEDs were rather energetic and damaging to the retina. Conversely, some articles used to claim that red light actually improves the health of the retina. I don't know if those results were corroborated or debunked afterwards.

I know that personal beliefs and biases affect our perceptions. But such diametrically opposite experiences are surprising. I'm curious to know what everyone else experiences and any insights on this.
by emushack | 2025-06-17 14:12:49+00:00
Putting a price on it does not solve it because the entities that compete for the water with the data centers are out-matched financially. How is a city that has a budget that is constantly dealing with budget cuts supposed to pay more for water than a multi-billion dollar company? Taxing it does not solve it either, because there are so many incentives to writing loopholes into the tax code.

They don't even have to use water - there are alternatives. The solve is changing behavior of the leaders in this greedy industry.
by mathattack | 2025-06-17 14:12:50+00:00
A few made up examples:

- Asking you to lie about the status of your work in a status report. (Hiding bad news)

- Deliberately misrepresenting how much something will cost. (Or did cost)

- Asking you to interview someone from a competitor purely to gain market intelligence.

- Falsely blaming another team for mistakes.

- Misrepresenting financial metrics or KPIs.

Micromanagement can be bad, though sometimes it's needed and sometimes it's a symptom of a weak manager doing what they need to in order to stay accountable. Sometimes it's a control tool for sociopaths. When the ethical boundaries are crossed, it's a symnptom of sociopathy.
Show HN: GenSpeed – AI Text Humanizer and Detector Bypas
by yanwenai2021 | 2025-06-17 14:13:04+00:00
We've just launched GenSpeed (https://genspeed.ai/bypass-ai), a tool designed to help with AI text detection bypass and humanization.Key features:

1.Zero data storage policy for privacy 2.Real-time processing and instant results 3.Multi-model support for different AI detection systems 4.Free during beta (limited spots)

The tool helps creators, students, and professionals who need to ensure their AI-assisted content passes detection tools while maintaining natural human-like qualities. We're particularly focused on maintaining text authenticity while removing typical AI patterns.

Would love feedback from the HN community on the approach and implementation. Currently in open beta with free access to test the capabilities.
by addaon | 2025-06-17 14:13:14+00:00
> Sodium lights aren’t even orange in the normal sense of the word. They only emit one wavelength.

It's hard to think of a more normal sense of the word "orange" than "emitting and/or reflecting predominantly wavelengths between 590 and 620 nm." I guess you could argue that sodium is close enough to that lower edge to be yellow?
by AuthorizedCust | 2025-06-17 14:13:32+00:00
There are two Dull Men's Clubs on Facebook. This article covers both.

Both have around 1.8M members. The smaller one features Andrew McKean, the main topic of that article. The other one--with the registered trademark symbol in the name on FB--appears to be more of a commercial enterprise, run by the Grover Click character.

I learned that the article is wrong on a point. All contemporary Dull Men's Clubs are copycats. The original is from 1980 and no longer exists.
by mellosouls | 2025-06-17 14:13:32+00:00
The author makes the excellent point that LLM-coding still has a human bottleneck at the code review point - regardless of whether the issue at hand is fixed or not.

Leaving aside the fact that this isn't an LLM problem; we've always had tech debt due to cowboy devs and weak management or "commercial imperatives":

I'd be interested to know if any of the existing LLM ELO style leaderboards mark for code quality in addition to issue fixing?

The former seems a particularly useful benchmark as they become more powerful in surface abilities.
by brendoelfrendo | 2025-06-17 14:13:48+00:00
Lmao that mod is clearly targeted at the worst kind of right-wing snowflakes. People who can't even see a trigger warning without getting incensed and try to legitimize their behavior by saying it's "misinformative," but then dog whistle who they're really talking to with the Pepe frog. Nazis are, by default, weak-sauce; not being able to tolerate something this innocuous is both weak-sauce and perfectly coherent with fascism's inherent insecurity.
by energywut | 2025-06-17 14:14:03+00:00
I genuinely believe humans are kind and empathetic by nature. I believe that humans have invented systems that penalize kind and empathetic behavior and adhere to those systems because they are familiar.

Look at what happens after a disaster or when a neighbor falls ill -- people band together and feed one another. They care for one another. They pick up the slack. Not because anyone pays them, but because it's what they intrinsically want to do.

But it only occurs during disruptions from the norm.
by josephg | 2025-06-17 14:14:03+00:00
Yeah the wave codebase is a bit of a poster child for me of how the enterprise Java programming style can easily drown you. I think we opensourced ~350k lines of Java and it honestly doesn’t do anywhere near enough to justify its weight.

I feel like you could rewrite the whole thing today in about 1/20th as many lines using modern tools & frameworks.

Thanks for trying to keep it alive. That was a tough thing to do!
by tacitusarc | 2025-06-17 14:14:13+00:00
It feels like there’s a house on fire and one party is like, “It’s fine, I don’t see the problem and neither do you” and the other party is like “OMG the house is on fire, quick pour gasoline on it.”

I’ve sort of accepted it’s going to burn down. The problem is that it doesn’t seem there’s anyone capable of rebuilding it.
by glenstein | 2025-06-17 14:14:31+00:00
I think this is a meaningfully different variation on the "Google doesn't commit to their products" convo. If we look at the subset of those where, retrospectively, we see that others enter the same space executed successfully and built big businesses, it's a new way of articulating Google's collapse of strategic vision.

Wave is a good example. I think Stadia is another one, they checked out right as handheld gaming started taking off. Probably others once you start looking through everything.
by diggan | 2025-06-17 14:14:31+00:00
I don't know enough about Overwolf to say yay or nay, but it is possible to use r2modman/Thunderstore without Overwolf, since I never had it installed yet I have mods published on Thunderstore + used it in the past for using mods. So I don't feel like Overwolf being bad should translate to r2modman+Thunderstore also being bad by association.
by jmyeet | 2025-06-17 14:14:58+00:00
This is self-evident.

Imagine a society with no laws, no regulations and no courts. How would you enforce a contract? How would you resolve a dispute other than "might is right"?

Even beyond this, we have a thriving commercial aviation industry. How would that work without safety standards? How would consumers have confidence in the planes? What about pilot qualification? Managing airspace? Having confidence in the parts you need, the people you need to maintain the planes and things like the fuel that goes into the plane without regulation?

Occasionally anarchists or libertarians and argue you can Yelp review your way to a functioning market. "Pilot could not fly plane but was nice to us. 2 stars"

The idea of "deregulation" is fundamentally silly and entirely devised to increase profits by getting rid of pesky safety regulation while maintaining regulations that protect profits and restrict competition. Imagine what deregulation would do to Vertizon or AT&T. Do you really think deregulation will remove restrictions on municipal broadband? Or instead just remove requirements to build out their networks to less profitable areas?

Libertarianism and deregulation are just fundamentally ridiculous ideas. Ergo, you need regulation for a market to function.
Show HN: AI Physics Tutor with Free Body Diagrams
by andrewrn | 2025-06-17 14:15:37+00:00
Hi HN. I built a prototype AI physics tutor that can interpret, draw, and edit free body diagrams.

Lately I've been transfixed with generating diagrams with LLMs. If you pipe generated JSON through a D3.js renderer, you can get pretty consistent SVG results with the smarter models.

This physics tutor prototype is an example of an application. For a couple premade scenes, you can ask it to make an FBD, decompose an angled force into components, run through the math of Newton's Second Law, or off-road and try and generate a FBD for a scene of your own description.

I previously made a similar example for electrical circuits: www.circuit-tutor.xyz

LLMs have been really fun for me to brush up on my favorite physics and engineering topics, but if they could diagram and even simulate systems while also being able to explain the math, I think it could be genuinely useful for learning concepts from scratch.

Would love any feedback on whether this, built out further with more diagram types and better UX, could be useful for people learning intro physics.
by Jgoauh | 2025-06-17 14:15:46+00:00
i'm sorry but yes, TPB and torrent sites DO rely on money, the user who uploads the mirror pays for their own storage, they pay to serve the file to others and they pay to keep their computers powered on when it wouldn't be otherwise, the money comes from somewhere too.

I hate capitalism as much as the next guy but the comment i was replying to was about the hope of the new owners being less profit driven, you cannot be a non profit driven company, and the problem do not rely on the owner of the business but with the system and insentives at play.

Please do not deform my words or this conversation to try to make yourself look smarter than others.

I don't see a near future where every work hour, gigabite, watt and kb of data that is currently required to make nexusmods work every day will be obtained without the insentives of 9-5, salaries and other profit type shit. TPB heavily relies on a low maintenance structure, and hyper dedicaded users relying on the intense belief that knownledge and culture should be free. All things the 'prettier textures' industry do not have.

If you know of or have plans to create a free equivalent of NexusMods, maybe relying on open source technologies and torrents, feel free to let me know, it sounds very interesting altho i think it will remain niche.
by quickthrowman | 2025-06-17 14:15:53+00:00
I have taken LSD and mushrooms about a dozen times each. They’re just drugs. Drugs that mess with the way you perceive things, there’s nothing spiritual or profound about any of it. I very much enjoy hallucinogens but any ‘meaning’ or ‘spirituality’ about the experience is nonsense. I still think the experience itself has positive effects overall.
Show HN: A voice-controlled image editor for meetings
by ruben-davia | 2025-06-17 14:16:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I just built an MVP of a collaborative image editor you control by speaking.

You can say things like “remove the background” or “make the image look more realistic,” and it updates automatically.

It’s powered by an OpenAI agent sdk that routes requests to the right tools: • Speech-to-text using OpenAI API • Image operations like background removal via OpenCV • Higher-level transformations using OpenAI’s image API

I used Davia.ai for the frontend and deployment.

Still rough, but happy to share it.

Backend code here : https://github.com/davialabs/collaborative-photoshop
by bob1029 | 2025-06-17 14:16:44+00:00
> Hopefully these bulbs weren't purchased from a RANDOMSYLLABLE amazon china dropshipper who disappeared after 3 months.

This is how most LED bulbs in use today are purchased. In theory, LED is absolutely superior when engineered correctly, but it rarely is on a statistical basis when looking at the available products.

It's hard to make an incandescent bulb that is shitty, other than making it not last for a very long time. I'd rather a dead bulb than one that turns my street into a nightclub.
by showmexyz | 2025-06-17 14:16:56+00:00
His videos/experiments are really really good. Some of other good videos-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIqhpxul_og

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR9EN3kUlfg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj4tRnLKN6U
by thatjoeoverthr | 2025-06-17 14:17:02+00:00
What timing. I rented a BMW from Sixt in Italy last week. Worst thing I have ever experienced as a driver. I wrote about it here: https://x.com/thejoephase/status/1933156741031633159

Constant interruptions and problems from the computer. I've dealt with a few "modern cars" but this was over the top. I'll never rent or buy a BMW going forward.
by Covzire | 2025-06-17 14:17:16+00:00
That misses the point entirely. You know how bigoted people were in the 1970s right, when video games were still in their infancy? What if the early game industry or congress and the courts had decided that any depiction of a woman in games must conform to the moral standards of the day, so that if you have a female, she must be either a straight virgin, married to 1 faithful man, an old maid, a widow or dead.

Thats exactly what is happening today but in reverse.
Free Notion Templates for Creators, Freelancers, and Students
by Homos | 2025-06-17 14:18:01+00:00
Hey HN

I built a collection of free Notion templates to help people organize their work and life.

No sign-up required. Just duplicate into your Notion and go.

I made this because I couldn’t find simple templates that didn’t ask for email or upsell me. I’d love your feedback — what should I build next?

https://notionrealm.com/notion-templates/
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-17 14:18:05+00:00
>It is absolutely true, and AI cannot think, reason, comprehend anything it has not seen before. If you're getting answers, it has seen it elsewhere, or it is literally dumb, statistical luck.

How would you reconcile this with the fact that SOTA models are only a few TB in size? Trained on exabytes of data, yet only a few TB in the end.

Correct answers couldn't be dumb luck either, because otherwise the models would pretty much only hallucinate (the space of wrong answers is many orders of magnitude larger than the space of correct answers), similar to the early proto GPT models.
by derbOac | 2025-06-17 14:18:26+00:00
The US is long past the point where we need to stop talking about medical regulation generically. Some regulation and enforcement needs to be increased, and others need to be decreased or eliminated, at least in my opinion.

To me this sort of thing is fraud, and I feel like the FDA needs more resources and oversight to fight it. But with other things I think the FDA needs to back off completely, where it's overstepped its useful mission. I personally would like to see the FDA stop telling people what they can purchase or receive from whom, but spend more time guaranteeing that whatever is on the label is what it says it is and nothing else.
by JohnFen | 2025-06-17 14:18:48+00:00
There are reasons to job-hop other than pay rate, though. Typically, I move on from a position because I've learned all I can learn from my current one and start stagnating, not to get more pay.

That said, I've certainly maintained pay parity with people who hunker down in one place for their whole career. But even if I didn't, I'd still job-hop for the other benefits.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-17 14:18:54+00:00
> if continuing education has to be mandated, it is likely a symptom of a system that lacks proper incentives

I’m a pilot and work in finance. They both have continuing-education requirements. The ones in the former are practical and helpful. The ones in the latter are mostly performative. (In some cases, arguably counterproductive.) The existence of continuing-education mandates per se tells you almost nothing about the system as a whole.
by molteanu | 2025-06-17 14:19:01+00:00
If we would really have a chance to ask an official, whomever that may be, either from government or the tech companies, the (scripted) answer would probably go like this:

By 2030, AI will make revolutionary advancements in water management which will reduce our total water consumption, reduce waste, improve the wastewater treatment efficiency by 15x, so that, overall, the industry is not consuming but producing water.