MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yellownator | 2025-06-17 05:45:26+00:00
Seems to be locked down... last I checked mods have bans running on AHK or it looks like it since they're incredibly thin skinned people. I don't know what the point is, considering it looks like Discord only exists for them to do that?

It's gotten worse lately in my opinion. Ever since the new update it's been more restrictive, and functions more like a honeypot for banning consumer electronics types than anything. :\

I've experienced all sorts of social engineering on Discord, usually it's pretexting followed by a macro-ish ban event that takes a few "ticks" to fully register, and then the ban itself always shares similar timing. It's impossible to idle because of how they incite with absurdly stupid rules in otherwise "good" servers...
by flowerthoughts | 2025-06-17 05:46:22+00:00
> You can use them just about anywhere that collects water—bird baths, fish ponds, etc.–because BTi is totally non-toxic to other wildlife. The only caveat here is that you don't want to use mosquito dunks in water that'll be ingested or touched by humans, so avoid using it in pools.

It's totally safe! Except for two species: mosquitos and humans. Right. At least the label [1] doesn't make any claims about it being safe for wildlife. It just says it's not safe for humans (and mosquitos.)

[1] https://www.domyown.com/images/323-2.jpg
by implements | 2025-06-17 05:46:31+00:00
Argon is an interesting one. A comparison between chemically synthesised nitrogen and ‘pure’ nitrogen extracted from the air (with the oxygen, carbon dioxide and water removed) revealed a discrepancy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argon#History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loqudG71uBM (Chemistorian, noble gases)
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-17 05:48:15+00:00
> Another common argument I've heard is that Generative AI is helpful when you need to write code in a language or technology you are not familiar with. To me this also makes little sense.

I'm not sure I get this one. When I'm learning new tech I almost always have questions. I used to google them. If I couldn't find an answer I might try posting on stack overflow. Sometimes as I'm typing the question their search would finally kick in and find the answer (similar questions). Other times I'd post the question, if it didn't get closed, maybe I'd get an answer a few hours or days later.

Now I just ask ChatGPT or Gemini and more often than not it gives me the answer. That alone and nothing else (agent modes, AI editing or generating files) is enough to increase my output. I get answers 10x faster than I used to. I'm not sure what that has to do with the point about learning. Getting answers to those question is learning, regardless of where the answer comes from.
by zengyue | 2025-06-17 05:48:30+00:00
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by cbsmith | 2025-06-17 05:51:01+00:00
It seems counter intuitive that the reader would no longer have that authorial instinct due to lack of writing. Like, maybe they never had it, in which case, yes. But being exposed to a lot of different "writing opinions" tends to hone your own.

Let's say you're right though, and you lose that authorial instinct. If you've got five different proposals/PRs from five different models, each one critiqued by the other four, the needs for authorial instinct diminish significantly.
by joegibbs | 2025-06-17 05:51:42+00:00
Complete tinfoil conspiracy nonsense. Musk and Thiel hacked the election with Starlink? How is that meant to work? Maybe next you can say that Trump used spirit cooking or fluoride mind control or something to win. It's literally the same crackpot magical thinking of connecting random strands of information and interpreting out-of-context quotes as when people tried to "prove" that Hillary was a reptilian and 2020 was stolen.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-17 05:53:01+00:00
I'm using mpv without frontend too. But I'm wondering about what you do mean by 'learning curve' and 'less sane'?

It seems, related to these two players I've had the opposite experience. VLC always felt sluggish and slow to me, still does, though I've got it installed, still. Just in case.

The thing with VLC for me was the lack of 'snappiness', which led me to fiddle with the endless options in advanced mode. 'Bricking' it. Maybe too advanced for me.

With mpv I had to do nothing at all, it just worked(for me) and my basic needs. And the OSD is enough frontend for me.

All of this under Linux. Maybe it's a matter of different distro-defaults and compilation options?

Similar to when I still used Windows 7 sometimes. VLC? Arrgh! Some fork of MPC-HC with some codec-pack to the rescue, so supersmooth, unbeatable by anything else.

Edit - My basic needs are:

1.) Just play that thing.

2.) No matter how, and where. Meaning either windowed, and movable to any screen I have in whichever multi-screen setup. Or go fullscreen somewhere.

3.) Not having artifacts, stuttering, or causing such on other screens. Don't burn my CPU while doing so.

4.) Let me fast-forward, rewind, stop, slowmo frame by frame, skip, smoothly without destroying my ears or speakers with crackling noises.

5.) Do good stereo-downmix of whichever surround-sound to headphones.

6.) Subtitles? See 1.)!

Eddding:

7.) I don't stream, and don't care about grabbing streams from Websites. (From within VLC. There's yt-dlp for that.)

I'm old-fashioned enough to just prefer local files.
by specy | 2025-06-17 05:54:06+00:00
Most liquid glass implementations in the web are using feDisplacementMap to simulate the glass, but what if we actually use a 3D piece of glass to do it?

This approach takes a copy of the page and puts it inside a 3d context (three.js) to then simulates the page scroll to seem like a 1:1 copy of the paint layer of the browser. The post goes through the two approaches and shows a demo of liquid glass.

The implementation of glass is rather basic, but with the access to the whole paint layer, anything else can be added to it (PR welcome!)
by wagslane | 2025-06-17 05:54:11+00:00
I've had the chance to interact with both Preston and Clyde (Preston helped Clyde get going in code as well) - Clyde actually completed like all the backend courses on boot dev and is doing great at unlocked labs.

anyhow, thanks for all you did to help Clyde Preston!!! and thanks to glauber and turso for giving Preston a chance, he's such a a cool guy with such a cool story
by hunglee2 | 2025-06-17 05:57:21+00:00
We're going to find out that the representative democracy was always dependent on centralised control or supervision of narrative production, rather than the 'free exchange of ideas'.

Social media - more specifically, the social media outside of centralised control or supervision - creates narrative dissonance which is highly unsettling for us all, and we seek to resolve it by polarising into tribes whose purpose is to win the competition for narrative dominance. The most effective way of doing this is not presenting rational arguments, but by drowning out dissenting narratives by overwhelming them with your own. These are techniques deployed by both left and right of the traditional political / cultural spectrum, as should be self evident to anyone who has been awoke in the past decade.

How this manifests politically? The other side never accepting the result, and doing everything you can to win back power again, including sacrificing the foundational principle of democracy - to accept the will of the people
by whilenot-dev | 2025-06-17 05:57:33+00:00
I doubt that, EU consumer rights already stated that "the consumer shall have a period of 14 days to withdraw from a distance or off-premises contract". Steam purchases count as "digital content" in that case.

[0]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2011/83/oj#art_9.tit_1
by socalgal2 | 2025-06-17 06:00:03+00:00
To add, another experience I had. I was using an API I'm not that familiar with. My program was crashing. Looking at the stack trace I didn't see why. Maybe if I had many months experience with this API it would be obvious but it certainly wasn't to me. For fun I just copy and pasted the stack trace into Gemini. ~60 frames worth of C++. It immediately pointed out the likely cause given the API I was using. I fixed the bug with a 2 line change once I had that clue from the AI. That seems pretty useful to me. I'm not sure how long it would have taken me to find it otherwise since, as I said, I'm not that familiar with that API.
by rendaw | 2025-06-17 06:02:42+00:00
I'm sure it's controversial, but I think general concern for the environment would increase if we killed off human-biting mosquitos. I and lots of other people avoid going outside for large parts of the year due to mosquitos. Walks, if at all, are brisk. No eating outside, no hanging out in parks, exercise at a gym, run to your car, etc. It's hard to care about the environment when you're never in it.

I guess my stance is (maybe) the benefits of getting rid of human-biting mosquitos could outweigh the negatives of the effect it'd have on ecology.
by WhatsTheBigIdea | 2025-06-17 06:03:54+00:00
A positive step! Bravo Nature!

To little, to late? Maybe.

Surely very little, surprisingly late.

There are so many great reasons to distrust "The Science"... perhaps the greatest is that without powerful and persistent skepticism, science simply isn't science. Questioning and skepticism is profoundly fundamental to the scientific process. "Trust the science" or worse yet "Believe the science" are statements that are about as destructive to the foundation of science as one can get.

The whole point of science was that everyone has access to the true nature of the universe which we can discover through theorizing and experimentation. Empirical experience is the great equalizer that puts the Arch Duke of Where-and-What or the Highest of High Priests the on the same footing as, say, Joseph Preistly or Benjamin Franklyn. Questioning and skepticism must be accepted from all quarters. To say that only the most select, distinguished and credentialed can be admitted to the discussion smacks of priesthood and aristocracy.

The argument that we need to re-persuade the people to trust in science is missing the point by such a wide margin as to be a symptom of the problem.

It is more or less the same as fretting that people aren't going to church so much any more.

The science should not be trusted. The science should be tested. Those who say "Trust the science" have completely lost the thread.
by chrismorgan | 2025-06-17 06:05:20+00:00
> When I’m trying to debug a web app, it’s hard to orient myself in the DevTools if the entire UI is “div soup”

That’s tame. Try adding some Tailwind CSS.

After monitoring Tailwind CSS since its early days, and believing I had some pretty serious philosophical disagreements with it, I recently took an opportunity to try it out in earnest, and it is so mindbogglingly obnoxious in dev tools that I think surely I must be missing something. How do people cope with this stuff!?

If you’re not sure what I’m on about, go through some of the sites linked near the bottom of https://tailwindcss.com/. In the Inspector/Elements panel, the DOM tree is a bloated mess with a class attribute which amounts to inline styles or worse, commonly hundreds of characters long, discouraging you from using semantically-meaningful classes, and duplicating stuff enormously rather than using sane selectors; the mostly-better ones are those that have data-sentry-{element,component,source-file} attributes. The styles subpanel becomes utterly unnavigable.

(I’m not saying everything in Tailwind is bad; I think I am likely to use a limited utility styles approach more than I did in the past, and there are a couple of other things that are provoking thought in me, and I think it would be more suitable in apps than in marketing-style websites. But the total embodiment of it is not for me.)
Show HN: Jan-nano, 4B agentic model that outperforms DeepSeek-v3-671B using MCP
by emreckartal | 2025-06-17 06:05:48+00:00
We’ve been experimenting with how far a tiny model can go when it’s good at calling external tools - and have just released Jan-nano, a 4 B model trained for MCP.

Jan-nano: - tops DeepSeek-V3-671B on MCP tool-use (SimpleQA 80.7%) - handles live web search and multi-step deep research - runs fully on-device (≈4GB VRAM)

Tech notes

- Base: Qwen3-4B - Fine-tuning: DAPO - We're going to release the full technical report soon

Links

- Demo tweet: https://x.com/menloresearch/status/1934809407604576559 - Model + GGUF: https://huggingface.co/collections/Menlo/jan-nano-684f6ebfe9... - Jan Beta desktop (viewer/runner): https://jan.ai/docs/desktop/beta

How to try it:

- Install Jan Beta (macOS/Win/Linux): https://jan.ai/docs/desktop/beta - Go Jan Hub and download Jan-nano (onboarding steps help you to download it) - Get your free Serper API key to test deep research & real-time web search: https://serper.dev/ - Settings -> MCP -> paste your SERPER_API_KEY (gives the model web search access).

We’re testing Jan-nano inside Jan's beta (an open-source ChatGPT alternative). Feedback on both the model and the app is very welcome.

If setup feels clunky, follow us on X for a short walkthrough video (coming soon) or join our community chat.

- X: https://x.com/menloresearch - Discord: https://discord.gg/Exe46xPMbK

Huge credit to the Qwen team for the base model.
by dwringer | 2025-06-17 06:05:54+00:00
> It would be helpful if I had a long rambling dialogue with a chat model and it distilled that.

IME this can work pretty well with Gemini in the web UI. If it misinterprets you at any stage you can edit your last comment until it gets on the same page, so to speak. Then once you're to a point in the conversation where you're satisfied it seems to "get it", you can drop in some more directly relevant context like example code if needed and ask for what you want.
by elevaet | 2025-06-17 06:07:46+00:00
I 100% agree with you on the "signal feedback inside an analog signalling system".

I've done a lot of tripping, and I've come to this same hypothesis independently. I believe this explains a great deal about the visual geometric and fractal patterns you can see on psychedelics and also that analogous things happen within the auditory processing system, memory, emotions, and so on when you trip.

So much of tripping comes down to turning up the gain on signalling in your brain, which causes feedback pathways to start resonating. This results in colour saturation, tracers, geometry, exaggerated patterns and edge detection, echoing, reverbs, increased impact of thoughts, and following thoughts down deep rabbit holes etc.

None of this is to reduce the experience, I love psychedelics and think they are super important. But that's whole other discussion.
by deepsun | 2025-06-17 06:08:10+00:00
I swear psilocybin affects the sense of importance, sacredness, meaningfulness. One can be staring at the most boring thing and see the Universe in it. Doesn't mean there's really anything important nor useful in it. Just like a shot of dopamine affects feeling of pleasure, psilocybin affects the brain's feeling of "importance".
by kavout | 2025-06-17 06:09:14+00:00
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by aspenmayer | 2025-06-17 06:10:25+00:00
I agree that farming wouldn’t address the environmental issue. I was mentioning farming because you mentioned supply chains. Snakes are picky about what they eat, but they eat mice, and there are already live mice supply chains, so that is probably the cheapest way to feed them: just outsource it. I think that snakes are already farmed in other Gulf states where alligators are farmed, so I don’t think there’s room for much innovation here. It was just food for thought for you and others.

I don’t think that marketing the snake as a delicacy would do anything but increase the demand for the snakes. When incentives have been advertised and paid for invasive species in the past, breeders immediately started cashing in, so there are limits to how much nudging you can do, and how you can do it, or you will have rewarded bad behavior and perhaps created negative externalities that did not exist before.

I was trying to explore the idea of farming them and what would happen if consuming them became popular, which is likely farming them unless prohibited, which would probably be cheaper than catching them. If the wild ones are higher in mercury, then farmed ones might be worth less even though they are healthier, due to potential subsidies to promote eradicating them and charges due to it being a wild caught novelty menu item. This could create perverse incentives leading people to adulterate farmed pythons to pass them off as wild ones. I think the entire idea is fraught and isn’t as simple as a comment thread might make it seem, not that I think you are minimizing the issue. I just don’t know if any individual comment can do the issue justice, so it’s hard to explore the issue in bite size pieces.
by turtlebits | 2025-06-17 06:10:29+00:00
It's perfect for small boilerplate utilities. If I need a browser extension/tampermonkey script, I can get up and running quickly without having to read docs/write manifests. These are small projects where without AI, I wouldn't have bothered to even start.

At its least, AI can be extremely useful for autocompleting simple code logic or automatically finding replacements when I'm copying code/config and making small changes.
by ezst | 2025-06-17 06:11:51+00:00
It matters even more that Signal doesn't tolerate you using the client of your choice (like, one that doesn't push dark patterns and crypto in your face), or risk having your account suspended. It's time for people to wake up to the centralised platforms not having their users' best interests at heart.

(And yes, my comments history has me extensively promote XMPP, no big secret here.)
by egamirorrim | 2025-06-17 06:13:58+00:00
I was trying to look for the conspiracy in this but then the story started sounding really plausible

TL;Dr billionaire buys company that make UPSs that are connected directly to voting machines and allowed to have their firmware/drivers updated without checks. Same company contracts Palantir and a new Starling contract - the implication being they've snuck SIM cards into their UPSs and are communicating via Starlink from what should be airgapped systems connected directly to voting machines.

Of course why go to the hassle of Starlink when you can just use any cell provider, and surely surely hardware changes to the UPS, like adding a SIM card, are audited?
by p0w3n3d | 2025-06-17 06:15:40+00:00
in a few months:

<Your wife> 30m ago: Honey, buy me new Tampax Eraser Pro Black Night <You> 1m ago: There are only Day version, should I buy it? <Your wife> 0m ago: What? What are you buying? <Your wife>. 0m ago: I didn't write this...
by czhu12 | 2025-06-17 06:15:53+00:00
Yeah coolify is great, and they’re light years ahead on features.

Main difference is that coolify supports mostly single node deployments (I could be wrong about this). A single beefy vps could handle a massive amount of load, but for a lot of orgs, it doesn’t quite meet needs for resiliency, workloads, etc.

Canine is built on Kubernetes, so it can take advantage of the entire ecosystem, helm charts, third party add ons, etc.

A good example: I was able to deploy Dagster + clickhouse, hosted behind a VPN with telepresence, all with canine, with a few clicks.

I think for personal projects, coolify is more than enough though, and probably the better option at the moment. Most of my next year will just be adding features coolify already supports.
by nobody9999 | 2025-06-17 06:17:03+00:00
>What kind of normie uni student is buying 8 USD bubble teas? Ridiculous.

I can't speak to anywhere else, but these[0][1] are near Columbia University and $8 is pretty normal there, AFAICT. Presumably YMMV depending on where you are.

[0] https://order.gongchausa.com/

[1] https://www.trycaviar.com/store/tea-magic-new-york-841338/11...
by KingMob | 2025-06-17 06:17:14+00:00
I don't know anything about Wolfram's theory, but one general way to address this is to compare the Akaike information criterion (or similar measures).

The metrics attempt to balance the ability of a model to fit data with the number of parameters required. For equally well-fitting models, they prefer the one with fewer params.

If Wolfram's theory fits as well but has fewer params, it should be preferred. I'm not sure if fewer "concepts" counts, but it's something to consider.
by b0a04gl | 2025-06-17 06:18:23+00:00
everyone saw this coming the day facebook bought it, but the real issue isn't ads in status . it's that the platform is now locked into meta's attention monetization engine. the founders explicitly said no ads. now not only ads, but paid channels, algorithmic exposure, and user segmentation creeping in. most people won't switch because of network effects, so meta can keep tightening the screws. this isn't about revenue, it's about control. they’re reshaping a private messaging tool into a broadcast platform with tracking hooks. and most users won’t even notice until it’s too embedded to undo
by freetime2 | 2025-06-17 06:19:26+00:00
Recently some spinoff/copycat groups have also sprouted up. There’s a “Dull Men’s Forum”, and a “Dull Men’s Fun Club”, for example, which post similar memes. And a “Dull Women’s Club” as well (even though I also often see women posting in the Dull Men’s Club, I suppose women on average have different sensibilities about where to draw the line between dull and interesting).

I view this as a sign that the group has become too popular and lots its “edge” (which in this case was its authentic dullness), and now is just a place for farming likes and impressions from the broader FB community. A lot of it is quite derivative of other popular posts - “what is the purpose of this thing I found in my hotel/new house/grandma’s house” posts seems to be a really common theme, for example.
by ezst | 2025-06-17 06:19:34+00:00
> 1. I think folks would be naturally more skeptical of the government than they are of big tech, ideally leading to E2EE for email that's usable by the masses.

That is so weird to me. "Institutions that exist for the sole purpose of serving the people might end up having some power, so let's instead give it all to the literal oligarchs."