MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SoftTalker | 2025-06-05 20:41:11+00:00
Yeah it's irritating enough when humans do it, it's so transparently insincere. Just help me with my problem.

I guess I am just old now but I hate talking to computers, I never use Siri or any other voice interfaces, and I don't want computers talking to me as if they are human. Maybe if it were like Star Trek and the computer just said "Working..." and then gave me the answer it would be tolerable. Just please cut out all the conversation.
by croemer | 2025-06-05 20:41:14+00:00
Yes, my health relies on it.

I sideload a glucose monitor app that's not available through Playstore (it's FOSS and health is a tricky area with liability).

It's a fantastic app and the ability to sideload it is a major reason I use Android over iOS.

I also sideload a patched app of the Dexcom glucose reader OEM's shitty app to allow the data to be read by the better (sideload) FOSS app.

https://github.com/NightscoutFoundation/xDrip

https://www.patreon.com/byod/about?

Ok I'm not an ordinary person, I guess, but if I was I'd still use those apps and I know people who are ordinary and do so.
by donenext | 2025-06-05 20:42:00+00:00
Thats fair. It just seems silly that a spec intended to "uniquely ID a package" supports a type that is the complete opposite of "unique". I guess another way to frame my take is should `generic` be consider a valid PURL? Keep it as a fall back sure, but distinguish between "fully qualified" PURLs and "partial" PURLs.

This then gives tooling a path to prompt users to provide missing context needed to fully qualify the PURL
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-05 20:42:02+00:00
The Second Amendment was expressly (its even in the text) to protect the ability of the state to have and rely on a militia to mobilize against internal and external security threats, not to deny the state the ability to do so and force it rely on professional forces.

Large, permanent, professional internal and external security forces were not something the framers of the Constitution trusted, and the Second Amendment was, as much as anything, a way to reduce the temptation to rely on those instead of summoning a posse (for law enforcement) or conscription (for war, when necessary), rather than a way to prevent conscription.

They ultimately failed at that, too, though.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-05 20:42:09+00:00
> What you are describing is so-called "thrifty gene hypothesis", it makes a lot of sense, but it hasn't been corroborated by actual genomic observations yet

The problem with thrifty genotype is hunter-gatherers seem to have had less caloric volatility (if we control for habitat quality) [1]. So to the degree such genes might have emerged, it would have had to have been selected for during migrations. That, in turn, requires it be a relatively human-specific adaptation, which frankly makes me sceptical.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24402714/
by luckylion | 2025-06-05 20:42:27+00:00
I think stocking fees are comparable to the ads you can buy in the app store. But Apple does not buy the apps and then resells them, which Walmart does.

Brokers are a thing, but would you consider Apple's "app store" a broker? A broker's value-add is making the connection, but Apple's app store's is "being the only app store available on Apple devices".

If you forced them to let users choose like Microsoft had to with browsers, that would be different, and I predict their perceived "value as a broker" would drop of a cliff because others could provide the same at a fraction of the cost.
by zdp7 | 2025-06-05 20:43:27+00:00
I totally disagree with your reduction of NASA to luxury space exploration.NASA provides numerous benefits through projects monitoring earth. I'm confident cutting NASA funding will lower our quality of life. You are also completely ignoring that the budget cuts are being applied to basic needs and military spending is going up. These cuts are being applied to save the wealthy money. It's not a situation of basic needs or funding NASA. We can have both.
by yowlingcat | 2025-06-05 20:43:27+00:00
My goals are outcomes on the key metrics of the business I run (such as opex, funnel pull-through, time to resolution) that translate the human effort and inputs into significantly more output than previous approaches we were using. That particular quotient (amplification of outputs over inputs) is the definition of leverage, and it is plain english. I don't think it's fair to hand-wave a word with a very specific meaning away as "manager speak" because you're unfamiliar with it.

I have been using LLMs very specifically to drive towards those goals, and prompt engineering (or crafting given you dislike the phrase "engineering") is a crucial tool to get to those outcomes. And yes, sometimes that means writing my own code itself to interact with them, template prompts, post process, utilize them in workflows. And so, the more I think about it, the more that I see patterns in how I create prompts (that probably could be automated with the same tools used for content templating) that make it feel somewhere in the middle of engineering and crafting.

My guess is that semantic ambiguity makes a lot of folks uncomfortable. If that's engineering, what isn't engineering, and doesn't it dilute engineering? Yet from the other angle, it's absolutely the case that LLM utilization is absolutely becoming a greater and greater part of how cutting edge companies write code, so much so that the "code" that the humans must put effort and intention into writing is just as much prompts as it is the fine tuned artifact created by running the prompt. If the reality of what actually is "code" is itself evolving, it's hard to imagine anything but that what constitutes software engineering must also itself be evolving in a very fundamental way.
by reddit_clone | 2025-06-05 20:43:33+00:00
> fairly easy

Very subjective. I understand the rite-of-passage impulse to build one's own config. But it is simply too much time/effort investment if you are relatively new. This I say as someone who had my own config for a couple of decades.

When I came across Doom, I threw mine away and just adopted it. I even learned to like VIM/VI style text editing to use Doom effectively.

I also like the GodMode/Leader/Model style of text editing. The keybindings are more intuitive and more discoverable. When I enter a key and wait a bit, doom pops up next available options. I no longer memorize the keybindings. Just use the whichkey integration to find things I use infrequently.

Not to mention that it is well tested with the sets of packages for each release.

Obviously, not for everyone.

But I am a happy user and hope it exists for a long while.
by throwaway173738 | 2025-06-05 20:44:29+00:00
It costs money to landfill it. You can watch the same progression on shows like Storage Wars where the early episodes have nice stuff in the units and people making good money on DVDs and furniture and then in later seasons they’re getting 10% of what they used to get because the market is flooded with brand new junk and nobody wants the quality used stuff anymore.
by dctoedt | 2025-06-05 20:45:02+00:00
> Our countries are too big. The only way for the public to police this stuff is with small polities like the Scandinavian countries, where there isn’t too much going on.

In armed conflict, having a large polity can pay off — big time — while having a small one can be fatal. To name just a few examples: Belgium 1914 and 1940; (the Scandanavian) Norway and Denmark 1940; Tibet 1950; Kuwait 1990; and Chechnya 1999-2000.
by tough | 2025-06-05 20:46:00+00:00
I haven't tried Elixir yet, but I've noticed this same effect with Rust or Go, as in what previously would have been syntactic hell without LLMs, becames tighter feedback loops with good errors and testing, and produces much better, cleaner code bases.

interesting how this will shift adoption of languages that are a bit harder to grok for humans, but not really for llms
by genewitch | 2025-06-05 20:47:09+00:00
My car has a pushbutton "ignition switch" and i have not tried pushing it while travelling; however, my lexus also has floormat retention to stop the floormat from going onto the gas pedal. It wasn't "accidental" - there was a recall. The toyotas and lexus affected don't have a floating accelerator pedal, where it hangs from above and there's space underneath. The gas pedal is hinged on the floor, and swings free at the top. So you could shove something forward and it will push the gas pedal down.

If memory serves there was an instance in southern california where the driver called 911 or some other recorded line (they died); but it may have just been a witness statement i remember.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-06-05 20:47:35+00:00
I know there are problems on both sides, but I simply don't think it's logical or humane for other countries (especially the U.S.) to send Israel enormous amounts of high-powered weaponry to fight, either. Both sides are committed to hating each other so why add fuel to the fire? Not to mention that Israel was foisted upon the Palestinians by the British and the Israelis just started claiming that the land was theirs due to their religion of supremacy.

Again, yeah obviously Palestinians has some responsibility in this conflict as well, and I don't know if it could ever be solved but why send huge amounts of weapons there? It feels like the U.S. is sustaining a game of the card game "war".
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-05 20:49:58+00:00
If and only if someone has taken time to write specific optimizations for your specific CPU.

In embedded land, if your microcontroller is unpopular, you don't get much in the way of optimization. The assembly GCC generates is frankly hot steaming trash and an intern with an hour of assembly experience can do better. This is not in any way an exaggeration.

I've run into several situations where hand-optimized assembly is tens of times faster than optimized C mangled by GCC.

I do not trust compilers anymore unless it's specifically for x86_64, and only for CPUs made this decade
by carefulfungi | 2025-06-05 20:50:15+00:00
My foray into otel with aws lambda was not a success (about 6 months ago). Many of my issues were with the prom remote writer that I had to use. The extension was not reliable. Queue errors were common in the remote writer. Interop with Prometheus labels was bad. And the various config around delta and non-delta metrics was a bit of a mess. The stack I was using at least didn’t support exponential histograms. Got it to work mostly after days of fiddling but never reliably. Ripped it out and was happier. Maybe a pure OTEL stack would have been a much better experience than needing the prom remote writer - which I’d like to try in the future.

I’d certainly appreciate hearing success stories of OTEL + serverless.
by glompers | 2025-06-05 20:50:19+00:00
Provided the goal is solid internal culture at the company, the company would have an automatic dart thrower that reliably hits a target that is the wrong target altogether.

Supposing you hired a consultant to be "culture keeper" for this company -- and she or he said, "I'm just going to reason about context by treating this culture as a body of text" -- you would instantly assume that they didn't have skin in the game and didn't understand how culture actually grows and accretes, let alone monitoring and validating eventual quality or reliability. We can't read about what rules apply in some foreign culture's situations and then remotely prescribe what to do socially in a foreign culture we've never set foot in. We can't accurately anticipate even the second-order effects of our recommendations in that situation.

We simply have to participate first. It would be better for this to be a role that involves someone inside of the company who does participate in navigating the culture themselves so that they make accurate observations from experience. A person trustworthy enough to steward this culture would also necessarily be trustworthy enough not to alarm the chief of HR. Based on my model of how work works, from experience, I am wondering if they imagine they want this sensitive role filled with a nonhuman 'trusted' advisor so that it can't ever become a social shadow power center within the firm.

Or maybe they don't want to admit that modeling culture is beyond the reach of their matter-of-fact internal process models and simulations, and they're just wishfully hoping you can abstract away all of the soft elements without producing social fever dreams or ever having to develop a costly true soft element model. But then you absolutely abstract away where the rubber meets the road! That's quite a roadblock, to be honest with you.
by dctoedt | 2025-06-05 20:50:59+00:00
> Attorneys and architects loved Word Perfect because it did line numbers better than any other software.

Lawyer here: I loved WordPerfect (for DOS) because of Reveal Codes and its easy keystroke macros, which let me write an Emacs keyboard emulator for it. (Yes, I eventually did one for Microsoft Word for Windows, which I use to this day.)
by drdeca | 2025-06-05 20:51:05+00:00
The test I use to determine that there exist qualia is “looking”. Now, whether there is a test I can do to confirm that there is any that anything(/anyone) other than me experiences, is another question. (I don’t see how there could be such a test, but perhaps I just don’t see it.)

So, probably not really falsifiable in the sense you are considering, yeah.

I don’t think that makes it meaningless, nor a worthless idea. It probably makes it not a scientific idea?

If you care about subjective experiences, it seems to make sense that you would then concern oneself with subjective experiences.

For the great lookup table Blockhead, whose memory banks take up a galaxy’s worth of space, storing a lookup table of responses for any possible partial conversation history with it, should we value not “hurting its feelings”? If not, why not? It responds just like how a person in an online one-on-one chat would.

Is “Is this [points at something] a moral patient?” a question amenable to scientific study? It doesn’t seem like it to me. How would you falsify answers of “yes” or “no”? But, I refuse to reject the question as “meaningless”.
by hgomersall | 2025-06-05 20:51:16+00:00
FWIW, Hyundai seem to totally hide the false floor in the boot, which turns the so-so boot space into a much more substantial and usable space. The AWD variant does not seem to have anything like as much space under the false floor. Perhaps they don't want to bring attention to the deficiencies of the more expensive variant.
by layer8 | 2025-06-05 20:51:24+00:00
The term has some validity as a word for what I take to be the inner perception of processes within the brain. The qualia of a scent, for example, can be taken to refer to the inner processing of scent perception giving rise to a secondary perception of that processing (or other side effects of that processing, like evoking associated memories). I strongly suspect that that’s what’s actually going on when people talk about how it feels like to see red, and the like.
by koonsolo | 2025-06-05 20:51:58+00:00
I'm pleasantly surprised by your answer, to be honest.

For me, NATO needs to secure the left of the Dnipro river. This would free up manpower and material on Ukraines side, to fully focus on the front-lines. It would also send a clear message to Russia that we mean business.

Also, when Russian jets fly over NATO territory, they should be shot down, just like Turkey did.

I have the feeling the West is giving enough material for Ukraine to survive, but not enough to really push back.
Show HN: I made a search engine for the indieweb
by dapoyo | 2025-06-05 20:52:25+00:00
Hi there! I made a project for pure joy called Indieseas.net. I made it because I disliked how search engines completely ignore smaller websites, prioritizing ads and businesses. That said, I decided to make my very own search engine! But, how could I keep business websites outside the system? The solution were 88x31 buttons. These are images or gifs that were used back in the days to connect websites between eachother. This was useful because search engines weren't very bad in the times. Thankfully, people still use them a lot nowadays! So, I whipped up a program in Typescript using Bun that used Cloudflare Workers to scrape pages, and then extract links, text, meta tags (title and description) and the images, which I later processed to verify they were actual 88x31 buttons. Now, this setup (multiple bun workers) was super laggy and haggled a lot of resources, so naturellement I decided to rewrite it in... RUST! Now, don't get me wrong, this was way harder than expected, but nonetheless I got a pretty decent result. Now, indexing. It was prolly the easiest part of them all, since I integrated it directly within the scraper and all I did was "docker build" and code a mini embedding API using model2vec/potion-base-32M. I then spun up an instance of the same Docker container and voilá, I've got myself an embedding api that's fairly quick. The last step was querying, for which I made an api directly in the Astro frontend. It's a single SQL query and it works really, really badly. I got to fix it! But the "discover a website" and the "button gallery" functions were very well received by peers and friends.

That's all! Thanks for coming to my mini TED Talk.
Talented Designer Looking for a Technical Co-Founder (AI X Design Tools)
by hello_aura_ai | 2025-06-05 20:52:43+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m building Aura — an AI-powered design agent that transforms prompts and sketches into finished, production-ready software designs. Think: turning an idea into a real interface and layout — fast, intuitive, and beautiful.

I’m a solo founder and product designer from big tech. I’ve created the full concept, built a working prototype in Figma, and recorded a video demo to share the vision.

Now I’m looking for a technical co-founder (full-stack preferred) — someone excited about co-creating in the AI x creativity space.

If you’re curious, feel free to reach out: hello.aura.ai@gmail.com I’d love to share the demo and see if we vibe.

Let’s build something magical together.
by zamadatix | 2025-06-05 20:53:29+00:00
The first laugh in that "<LAUGHS> Hey, Dr. Von Fusion" is a dedicated laugh section, which the model does extremely well, but it works because that's a natural place to laugh before actually speaking the following words. Skip ahead to "...robot chuckle. Jessica: <LAUGHS> I know right!" and you get an awkwardly time/toned light chuckle completely separated from the "I know" you'd naturally continue saying while making that chuckle.

You can always rewrite the text to avoid times where one would naturally laugh through the next couple of following words but that's just attempting to avoid the problem and do a different kind of laugh instead.
by nradov | 2025-06-05 20:53:30+00:00
Exhaustion is in people's heads to an extent, but I think you're lying about your energy intake and/or activity level. If you do three 36 hr fasts per week then you're effectively only eating 2.5 days per week. Consuming 1500 kcal/day on non-fasting days equates to only 3750 kcal/wk total. Running burns at least 90 kcal/mi even for a small person so if you're doing 35 mi/week that means >3000 kcal/wk just from exercise, plus at least 7000 kcal/wk for basal metabolism. At that rate you would therefore be losing about 2 lb/wk of fat, which is an unsustainable for more than a few weeks at a time.

As a point of comparison I'm a large man and fairly active with endurance sports so I have to consume about 3100 kcal/day (with no fasting) to maintain body weight.
by ath3nd | 2025-06-05 20:54:55+00:00
> It might give you a feel of control and proper engineering

Maybe a super salty take, but I personally haven't ever thought anything involving an LLM as "proper engineering". "Flailing around", yes. "Trial and error", definitely. "Confidently wrong hallucinations", for sure. But "proper engineering" and "LLM" are two mutually exclusive concepts in my mind.
by sixtyj | 2025-06-05 20:54:55+00:00
In the article is this paragraph: Dr Paul Brennan, a co-author of the Lancet paper and a hepatologist at NHS Tayside, said: “GLP-1s (including Wegovy and Mounjaro) offer the potential to resynchronise our metabolism, by introducing feelings of satiety – fullness – and delaying the time the stomach takes to empty. These effects often result in reduced calorie intake, and improvements in how the liver handles nutrients as a result of weight loss, thus reducing scar tissue formation in the liver.”
by AstralStorm | 2025-06-05 20:55:32+00:00
Agreed. Android already has seriously big whitelisting requirement for installing applications from outside the Google Play store.

The correct way to do it would be to whitelist other good stores, and allow developer mode installs with an extra process that says explicitly I am extra sure this may be danger, but no. This would reduce Google's income streams.

The way I see it, it must be attacked the way default Internet Explorer was attacked.
by 8lall0 | 2025-06-05 20:55:58+00:00
Pretty odd article.

WASM is not so supported, but it's not like a major technology right now.

If you need complex UIs, separate backend and frontend and write the latter in something well supported (like, i dunno... JS)

"The days of crappy NPM packages are over" said no one ever, and no one will ever say.

TS is never going to catch up with Go performances, and the lack of IPC and true concurrency actually is very bad for backend services that need to handle stuff.

I think the OP wants to use Go for stuff that isn't supposed to do with.
by librasteve | 2025-06-05 20:56:16+00:00
an intriguing post with the ubiquitous todo example

here’s how that looks in https://harcstack.org

model Todo does Component::Red[:C:R:U:D] { also does HxTodo; has UInt $.id is serial; has Bool $.checked is rw is column = False; has Str $.text is column is required; method toggle is controller { $!checked = !$!checked; $.^save; self } method HTML { tr td( input :type<checkbox>, |$.hx-toggle, :$!checked), td( $!checked ?? del $!text !! $!text), td( button :type<submit>, |$.hx-delete, :style<width:50px>, '-'), } } Todo.^create-table;

full code is here https://github.com/librasteve/Air-Play/blob/main/lib/Air/Pla...
by mrtksn | 2025-06-05 20:56:17+00:00
It would be poetic if Elon Musk gets his citizenship canceled, assets seized and deported to El Salvador due to the alleged irregularities with his US visa.

Not that I wish him this but I just can't keep myself thinking about it considering that Musk tried to deport other immigrants pretty hard. I know people from Ivy league universities in USA getting their student visa canceled for parking tickets, speeding or laud partying.
by SeasonalEnnui | 2025-06-05 20:56:18+00:00
I really like this. Did you investigate the options regarding CO2 sensors? I'm interested to know if you compared SCD30 to SCD41? The dual-channel design of SCD30 is supposed to offer lower drift and longer stability compared to the SCD41 (which claims to need taking outside once a week). That's the deal on paper, I'm wondering if you got any real data on this.
by NamTaf | 2025-06-05 20:58:16+00:00
I was waiting for the inevitable Connections reference. It took longer than I expected.

I like the idea and I like the article describing the background and rationale. I look forward to poking around in it. However I have a little bit of a hang-up with calling it a “tree”. Namely, a tree conjures the image of it being a 1-to-N graph, i.e. a single idea leads to several new ones, and so on, when it is very much not.

Ironically Connections was really what rammed this point home for me. It really is more like a social media graph, where ideas from all over, old and new, coalesce into a new epiphany that leads to a new invention. Burke constantly demonstrated this in his examples, and explicitly rejected the linearity of inventions.

But then again, the concept of a ‘tree of tech’ is rather poetic :)