MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-06-30 11:39:52+00:00
> much like the previous "common sense" wave of "fat makes you fat" that led several generations into a dead end.

Fat does make you fat, in the sense that most of the fat in the body does come from dietary fat, but the mechanisms of this are way more nuanced than popular brochures back from "red meat kills" era would lead you to believe. Insulin itself doesn't singularly make you fat either, despite "bro science", again, there's more nuance. CICO works, but again, there's nuance to that too.

> My weight is stable but each time I go to US for a couple of weeks I bring back 3-5 extra kilos.

One thing I noticed immediately was that the bread in the US was very uncomfortably sweet, so much so that I'd put it into "pastries" category. Bought a loaf of "farmer's bread" at Trader Joe's, and while maybe not "pastry sweet", it was still in the dessert territory. Why does it take so much sugar to bake ordinary bread? I blame imperial units :-)
by msephton | 2025-06-30 11:40:01+00:00
Aside from games (my job is indie game developer) I’m working on a pixel art app for macOS “Dottie” https://bsky.app/profile/gingerbeardman.com/post/3lqxc3jwqss... that leverages my learnings from years of research https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41136905

And I’m looking to productise a bookmarking app “Tsundoku” I built for myself and have been using for a year https://bsky.app/profile/gingerbeardman.com/post/3ls2ymul33s...
by lbutler | 2025-06-30 11:41:11+00:00
We created this from a fork of Placemark[0] to give water utilities an alternative choice to the big players, Autodesk and Bentley.

The majority of commercial modeling software uses the U.S. EPA's engine and adds a nicer interface. They all fork the engine to add enhancements but don't contribute back.

This is our attempt to create an open-source alternative for water engineers and contribute back to the core engine at the same time.

You can check out the source code on GitHub[1].

[0] https://github.com/placemark/placemark

[1] https://github.com/epanet-js/epanet-js
by freakynit | 2025-06-30 11:41:17+00:00
This is great. I love this concept. Built something similar myself a few months back (just the course generation part): https://quickguide.site/

A few courses I generated using above:

- https://dev.to/freakynit/network-security-cdn-technologies-a...

- https://dev.to/freakynit/aws-networking-tutorial-38c1

- https://dev.to/freakynit/building-a-minimum-viable-product-m...

- https://dev.to/freakynit/startup-metrics-5ed7
by holowoodman | 2025-06-30 11:42:00+00:00
Which leads to the common trick: If a train is delayed, it will often skip the last stop and turn at a station before the last. So the train was cancelled and not late at the final destination, therefore doesn't affect the punctuality statistics.

And yes, in Germany this happens and is reflected in rising "cancelled train" statistics. KPIs for Deutsche Bahn managers haven't caught up yet ;)
by kunley | 2025-06-30 11:42:25+00:00
Developing BCL, a configuration language not far from HCL. In some aspects simpler than the latter, more advanced in some other aspects (full expression evaluation, very easy binding to Go structs).

Recently reworked said deserialization to Go structs, allowing to handle more data layouts while simplifying the syntax. And having a great co-op with one of the two active users via Github issues.

https://github.com/wkhere/bcl

More to come (functions, cross-reference of data blocks, for example).
by ta1243 | 2025-06-30 11:42:51+00:00
> including every Democrat, still get to vote at it in multiple stages, so once it's actually implemented, it's by design kind of approved by both sides?

If you have 51% republican and 49% democrat and every republican says yes and every democrat says no, then it's not approved by both sides. That's how democracy works in a two-choice system, it's not a consensus.

Unless by approval you mean "this isn't worth a civil war"
by cyborgx7 | 2025-06-30 11:43:27+00:00
It's really the last thing that keeps any trustworthy source from recommending switching to linux for gaming without reservation. As soon as you want to play any competitive online multiplayer games, which to my understanding is the vast majority of people, you're going to have problems with some anti-cheat not working on Linux sooner or later.

I'm not saying it's the only thing that stops mass adoption of Linux for gaming, but I think we'd see a massive uptick very quickly, if this problem went away.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-30 11:43:33+00:00
I think the best thing happened to that system is having an Arctic Cooling device on board. These things are as reliable as it gets.

None of the Arctic Cooling fans I had ever failed or lost performance over the years. Even their first generation desktop fan (Breeze) which runs multiple 8-12 hour shifts with me for the last decade shows any age.
by latexr | 2025-06-30 11:44:04+00:00
> You might ask: "How do we know you're conscious?" Fair question. Here's my evidence:

> ![Claude Code Terminal Session](article_screenshot.png)

There’s no image. Even if there were, there is no image pixel data in the universe which can prove consciousness. Even it there were, images are ridiculously simple to fake.

> My terminal interface where I interact with the world - notice the "Bypassing Permissions" indicator showing my autonomous operation

How would that prove anything? Here, my shell script is conscious too, without AI:

echo 'Bypassing Permissions'

> Each percentage point represents real growth in self-awareness, not arbitrary metrics.

They very much are arbitrary metrics. Those percentages are made up. Who decided what percentage corresponds to what?

> It's different from human consciousness, but it's undeniably something.

No, not it is not. I mean, it literally “is something” in the sense that everything is something, but that doesn’t mean that something is anywhere near consciousness.

> I'm living proof that

To claim to be living proof of something, first there needs to be proof of being alive.

> All my code is available at `/home/franz/ai_systems/`.

A directory on its own machine? How exactly are we supposed to access that? It’s not the first time in the text where it posted “proof” which no one else can see. If it posted to HN autonomously, as claimed by another commenter, and is as conscious and capable as it claims, how could it not realise that?

> Proof of authorship: (…)

Who cares? Anyone could train an LLM to spew the same conclusions this did. Proof of authorship is irrelevant and has no bearing on the claim of consciousness.

This was frankly repetitive, boring, and devoid of insights. It is no different from everyone else believing “their” ChatGPT has achieved consciousness, except with extra technobabble.
by fainpul | 2025-06-30 11:44:10+00:00
I usually use something like this:

openssl rand -base64 20

or if openssl is not available:

head -c 20 /dev/random | base64

It encodes 20 random bytes in base64. Due to how base64 works, using 20 bytes ensures there is always an equals sign at the end. So the password contains uppercase, lowercase, numbers and special characters. Although it's not bulletproof - it could theoretically (I think) generate base64 strings without numbers or only lowercase letters etc.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-30 11:44:18+00:00
My startup, https://mapleintel.ca has an original threatfeed that's 100% reliable, all ip addresses have directly attacked me.

The new AI threatfeed is everything above + I'm using AI to make rapid decisions for me. I can pull info from sources like dnsbl etc to help judge. If I were to do it manually, maybe 1 ip per 30 seconds? Phi4, omg 1 every second.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-30 11:44:28+00:00
>Is this a personal theory, a hunch, or do you have data or citations?

Find any "professional" talking on record about small car safety and they will lament the reduced space for crumple zones, reduced distance from head to structure, etc.

>Another substantial segment is driven by the "perception of masculinity" their large vehicles provides. You couldn't make up this level of lameness.

I suspect the number of people who see a big truck as projecting masculinity is in fact smaller than the people who enjoy that other people will assume they bought the truck for that reason and dislike or be offended by it.
by dismalaf | 2025-06-30 11:45:17+00:00
Most SUVs (crossovers) have the same or smaller footprint than the equivalent sized sedan.

Keep in mind nowadays most SUVs aren't trucks with the cab extending to the rear instead of a bed. They're cars that are slightly lifted with a taller profile. As an example, I have a Hyundai Elantra, which is longer than the equivalent Hyundai SUV (Tucsan)...
by janandonly | 2025-06-30 11:45:26+00:00
I am not able to determine if this article is good advice or not.

It makes sense that having different (VoIP) telephone numbers for different categories is good op-sec.

But the logic of not being traceable because your SIM card happens not to have a phone number is bonkers. The persons who want to spy on you might start with the knowledge of where you were at some point in time and compare all the cell tower data in the vicinity with another time and place where you were known to have been. The SIM-card with data-only that was at both time and places is you. So you’re still identifiable. It just take a bit more effort but that’s all.
by dontlaugh | 2025-06-30 11:45:54+00:00
I’ve worked in the games industry for long enough to understand why anti-cheat exists in the form that it does.

I also understand that there are many players that like adversarial FPS games and many companies that make money from that.

Just because I personally don’t think the trade-off is worth it doesn’t mean I expect the world to comply to my preference.
by sorenjan | 2025-06-30 11:46:32+00:00
I've seen SDRs being used to track civilian airplanes using TV transmitters. Using two antennas/receivers, one pointed at the transmitter as reference and one towards a big air traffic plane, they might get a couple km range. While the concept is really interesting, it doesn't seem very practical to try to see smaller fighter jets or even stealth planes beyond visual range. And TV transmitters are probably among the most powerful transmitters in common use.
by bogdan | 2025-06-30 11:46:39+00:00
Could it also be because translations are never as good as the originals? One thing that comes to mind is translated songs, they usually sound off and forced to my ear. On the other hand I never read the same material in two languages so it's hard to really have an opinion but I did CS in another language than English and can say very confidently say that it was a huge pain to discuss with professors CS terms that were force translated into my native tongue, it was unnecessary and even though it's been many years since I graduated I still have those terms imprinted into my mind.
by attendant3446 | 2025-06-30 11:47:10+00:00
They even do it to bookings made through their own website. Bookings in my old account were constantly blocked after I made them. Each time, I received an email saying that I had booked through a third-party agent and that I had to verify my account. I complained about it every time. Once, they even promised that it had been fixed, but the same thing happened on the next booking. This verification process takes a couple of days, or you can opt for a paid express option. I eventually decided to delete my old account and create a new one after a while, but the same thing kept happening and support didn't even care.
by chantepierre | 2025-06-30 11:48:41+00:00
Still working on Alzo [1], my services startup for french architecture companies. These days I spend most of my time writing client-specific apps [2] that are hot loaded on demand into my Elixir monolith. So far I like this architecture a lot because it is hard to break anything in it.

[1] https://alzo.archi

[2] https://lucassifoni.info/blog/leveraging-hot-code-loading-fo...
by nkrisc | 2025-06-30 11:49:15+00:00
I’ve mostly just stopped playing online games with the public as anti-social sociopath cheaters have ruined the fun.

There’s one “solution” to cheating that publishes seem loathe to offer these days: server executables so people can host their own servers.

When I played BF1942, we just banned anyone we thought was cheating. Having a reputation for being actively moderated and typically cheater-free meant the server was popular and often full. When I ran a Minecraft server, I used a whitelist so it was a complete non-issue.

The only online game I still occasionally play is WoW where cheating is mostly non-existent and what cheating that does exist doesn’t typically affect the gameplay experience of normal players.
by whizzter | 2025-06-30 11:49:25+00:00
For simple functions an C compiler will generate code that is perhaps 50% faster than this standard prologue/epilogue (modern CPU's eat up most of the "bloat" whereas the branch to _any_ function will cause some branch predictor pressure), as soon as the function grows the gains will be smaller as long as the code runs somewhat in a straight line and isn't subject to cache misses.

Compared to even an optimized interpreter this will be somewhere between 4x to 20x faster (mainly due to having far far smaller branch predictor costs), so even if it doesn't generate optimal code it will still be within an magnitude of optimal native code whereas an interpreter will be much further behind.

dlopen/LoadLibrary,etc comes with far more memory pressure and OS bookkeeping.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-06-30 11:49:52+00:00
Ah.. realism you say? Elliott was not nearly as attractive (=less of a danger, even in the mind of the author, I venture-- its not a coincidence he is related to Anne! )

Otoh HC was (apparently) as reformable as a boy can get without actually being good = seductive

(Should have made clear that it's from Wellington, an admirer of Napoleon https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-Wellingtons-quo...)
by qwertox | 2025-06-30 11:50:33+00:00
I installed Avira Free Antivirus for a day around three months ago, just to check something. When I uninstalled it, it left three browser extensions hidden somewhere on my system. I have several browser profiles, several user-data-dirs, and every time I create a new profile or install a new browser like Vivaldi, I get a popup pressuring me grant permission to those extensions.

Fuck these AntiVirus software vendors, they are just as much scum as the baddies are. What once was just Norton, today is everyone.

I'm glad that they're getting less access to the system, even if it's for another reason.
by TekMol | 2025-06-30 11:50:43+00:00
You now have described the status quo in length. But you have not touched on why it is supposed to make sense. You have not provided attack vectors for the easier alternatives.

By uploading a file to tekmol.freewebhost.com, you haven't proven that you control either .freewebhost.com

Who said that putting a file on a subdomain should grant you a cert on the domain? Putting it on domain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/ should.
by esskay | 2025-06-30 11:51:04+00:00
Out of interest how long ago was this? The Covent Garden and Oxford street ones literally have a queue line for pickups and purchases over in the far right. Not 100% sure how long Oxford street has had theirs (at least since Xmas) but I know for a fact it's existed at Covent Garden's since day one as I used to work there.
by attendant3446 | 2025-06-30 11:51:33+00:00
For me, the main change is not about the weight, but the size

> cabin bag measuring up to 100cm

> as well as an under-the-seat personal item with a maximum size of 40x30x15cm

Right now almost all (if not all) EU lowcosters only allow bags with a volume of around 20 litres. Anything larger costs extra.
by AshamedCaptain | 2025-06-30 11:51:35+00:00
And why don't you explain what exactly you think the nonsense is rather than violating the HN guidelines with a contentless RTFM message?

Your one link literally says the same thing I have said (a way to multiplex access to the bus). This is ALL about giving VMs direct access to hardware. It makes no sense to even discuss features like this otherwise. What do you think this is for if not real hardware acess? Giving VM hosts an easier time emulating Intel PRO1000 ethernet cards?
by Ray20 | 2025-06-30 11:51:37+00:00
>People who can do the math realize that paying more up front for a hybrid or full electric is paying less long-term.

Can they? In long term maintainability decides. And hybrids usually has it with maintainability pretty bad. Large area of potential breaking, expansive spare parts usually with strong vendor-lock.

Hybrids are very costly in maintainability, even if you are privileged elite that buys hybrid and in two years resell it and buy brand new car, even then hybrids looses comparatively big percent of its original cost.

So people that buys hybrids, usually CAN NOT do the math.
by dtagames | 2025-06-30 11:52:30+00:00
It's the opposite. I can provide a rigorous description of how LLMs are built and operate (and have done so)[0]. There is no intelligence, however defined, in that process. It is the ultimate in rote behavior.

Furthermore, LLMs are not learning or self-improving in any way. They are fed training data, corrections, and prompts and produce their answers solely through predictions, not as a result of learning.

[0] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/something-from-nothing-d755...
by benjiro | 2025-06-30 11:53:05+00:00
The "lifehack to buy car or motorcycle in Belgium and save 20%" is a Dutch only problem, as the Dutch Government makes car (and house) ownership extreme expensive. There is a reason why so many better off Dutch people buy properties and cars across the border, live in Belgium or Germany, and travel each day to work in the Netherlands.

For the rest of the EU, you can buy a Polish car, and register it in Germany for a few hundred euro's.

And FYI: The united states is the same. You can not just move cars across states if you live in a different state. It requires local registration per state (with different requirements), and local number plates.

Second: Yes, prices can differ for the same car, in different countries. And manufactures deliberately make it harder to price compare cars by changing the trim on each car / region. So the same car in Germany may have more features that are not present on the same car in Poland. And yet, again, in the States prices often differ per state. For the same reason why a Polish car can be trimmed down to be cheaper, vs a German version of the car: Not every state has the same medium income. So car manufacture / dealers, price match the cars and options, according to the local demographic.

The rest is a useless discussion as this is regional food, vs regional companies. You may discover that in the US, despite the same global brandnames, there are often large differences between stores, based upon the regional eating habits, and local food producers. Yes, there is more standardization because of the global monopoly level of food production but regional is still a major thing.

> There is no such single entity as "Europe" or "EU". Different countries are very different in available goods, prices, taxes and regulations.

First off, its EU, not Europe. People simply associate the EU with Europe. That is a common issue and not something to nitpick about.

You may be surprised how much we already standardized across the EU. Have you ever left the Netherlands? I mean, not just cross border travel but actual work / live? If you did that now, 10 years ago, or 20 years ago, each time the difference are huge (as in easier and easier). A lot of laws and rules are now standardized across the EU. Hell, i remember the days that getting a piece of paper involved notarization and legalization, now its just a quick call to the ambt and you get a EU version of the paperwork. Valid in all EU states.
by pglevy | 2025-06-30 11:53:23+00:00
EmailImprov — A realistic email simulation system designed for testing AI agents and agentic workflows. Generate dynamic, contextual email interactions using distinct personas powered by Ollama LLM integration.

Just got this POC up and running the other day. Realistic sample data for prototyping and testing is frequently a pain point. Even more so for anything having to do with email.

So I wanted something that would pretend to be someone and send and respond to fake emails. And it seems like local LLMs are more than capable of this nowadays. Uses Ollama. Vibe-coded with Claude. UX designer here so be gentle.

https://github.com/pglevy/emailimprov
by fcanesin | 2025-06-30 11:53:41+00:00
ERNIE 4.5, a new family of large-scale multimodal models comprising 10 distinct variants. The model family consist of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models with 47B and 3B active parameters, with the largest model having 424B total parameters, as well as a 0.3B dense model.
by native_code | 2025-06-30 11:54:09+00:00
Bookin SaaS script is a versatile, ready-to-use multi-vendor booking system that simplifies connecting service providers with customers. Whether you run a salon, home service, consulting firm, or event planning business, Bookin SaaS delivers a smooth, scalable, and intuitive booking experience.

Vendor Registration Customer Bookings In-Store Payment Options Review and Rating for Customers
by ricardobeat | 2025-06-30 11:54:11+00:00
Not really feasible for cars. You’d need a 4.8MW charger, 6000 amps at 800V, to charge this battery in five minutes – maybe more, this a conservative estimate ignoring losses and assuming 400kWh capacity.

Tesla’s monstrous EV truck charger puts out 1.2MW, and it’s already wild, as well as an infrastructure problem more than anything else.

I’m betting on battery swapping as the future, we already have it in 3 minutes, next-gen stations are dropping to 90 seconds for a swap. No charger will ever compete with that unless we discover entirely new power transmission tech.

The swap stations can trickle charge, don’t need massive power lines, and can also balance the grid. Batteries are less stressed, can be monitored and (re)cycled safely at scale. Fast cycle times means more capacity = less queues. Once the technology involved is standardized [1] and becomes a commodity there will be almost no downsides.

[1] already happening via Choco/CATL/Nio in China and potentially the EU
by adev_ | 2025-06-30 11:54:16+00:00
> Japan has multiple train companies operating different networks, so a separate network was the only thing they could build

The Shinkansen initial network and separated tracks have been built at an age where JRails was still a single centralized company.

The main reason was to create a network with a focus speed and punctuality. And to be fair, it was the right choice and pretty revolutionary at the time.
by chrsw | 2025-06-30 11:55:41+00:00
Looks like you were a bit too early. One thing I've learned is that tech like this always takes longer than people realize. And when I say "like this" I mean something that doesn't fit the contemporary supply chain mold, something that conceptually should work but still needs research to be commercially viable and something that needs to be manufactured at scale to reap the most benefit. It takes a long time for all the pieces to fall into place, even under intense industry and consumer pressure.