MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qualeed | 2025-06-09 14:37:12+00:00
>as evidence that they’re widely blocked due to fediblock

It seems like you're laser-focused on the fact that they link to fediblock instead of the actual words of the sentence.

Their complaint is not about being blocked, they make that clear in the part of the sentence you decided not to quote. They apparently just don't want the reason in the "Reason" column to be a lie.

It's probably a good bet to just read the whole sentence they wrote.

"I understand people on "gated community" instances not wanting to deal with it [...] but I would prefer if they did not lie about their reasons or about me personally."

They (seemingly) just don't want pedos thinking it's okay to post on there. Which is a good thing. So, if you're filling out a reason, just put "massive assholes" or whatever instead something untruthful.
by motorest | 2025-06-09 14:37:48+00:00
> A lot of open source software literally come with "it's what it is" clause in the license, meaning that the maintainer has ZERO responsibility towards you, the user.

There's a loophole in that scenario, which is created by the fact that in FLOSS there is no clear distinction between users and mantainers. Meaning, the whole concept of FLOSS is based on community modifying and redistributing their own contributions, as a form of giving back to the community.

The same principle applies to wikis. You can take it or leave it, but the whole notion of a wiki lies on your ability to make it your own.
by tinco | 2025-06-09 14:38:17+00:00
Perhaps it's related to what age you were when that particular computer caught your attention. I don't have any attachment to any hardware that came out after I was 18 or so. But my parents bought the Compaq Presario 5030 when I was like 10, and even looking at a picture now fills me with excitement. A computer could not be less important to computing in general: A bog standard mid market Pentium II from one of IBM PC clone companies. But to me it represents my first connection to the internet, and a huge part of what grew into my identity.

Perhaps you'd feel the same way about a machine or tool or toy that you used when you were 10?
by mecinkameceva | 2025-06-09 14:38:24+00:00
I’ve been exploring how AI chatbots are being used by small businesses to automate support, reduce costs, and offer 24/7 service. This article summarizes the main benefits, practical use cases, and some tips for implementation — based on real data and recent trends. Would love to hear HN’s perspective and actual experience with AI-powered customer support (positive or negative).
by webstrand | 2025-06-09 14:38:35+00:00
By hand sanitizers, do you mean something other than the isopropyl-gel based hand sanitizers? If not, I would have guessed that would be little different than using a strong soap.

That said, unfortunately there's some element of luck to it. There's compelling evidence that C-section babies have abnormal immune responses and less diverse body flora. And I imagine childhood circumstance affects things too, city vs country affecting the childhood exposure to pathogens and non-pathogens for training.
by robtherobber | 2025-06-09 14:38:54+00:00
One can't ever know for sure, of course, but this reads like a US or Musk empire financed piece. Of course that a country that sees the US and its subsidised businesses as a threat would push back on things like this, considering the historical tensions between the two countries and the importance of (as-much-as-possible) independent communication infrastructure.

The article completely fails to mention the tensioned relationship between the two countries, framing the situation in terms of consumer benefits and competition, which could be seen as disingenuous at the very least.

Out of the many (~30) coups that the country has been plagued by historically, at least 6 to 8 were directly backed, supported, or facilitated by the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/silenc...

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-i...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/27/bolivia-foils-milit...

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/can-boli...
by 93po | 2025-06-09 14:38:56+00:00
The problem is that we don't. We see the same thing in politics - we focus so much on "us vs them" and while the "them" is uniquely damaging, we lose sight of the fact that there is a lot of overlap in how they're both really damaging.

Corporate news media hyperfocuses on the clickbait, rage-inducing, enagement-farming stories. And passes over companies like Oracle because they spend a ton on advertising (i.e. they kiss the ring)
by sovietmudkipz | 2025-06-09 14:39:11+00:00
Minor off-topic quibble about streams: I’ve been learning about network programming for realtime multiplayer games, specifically about input and output streams. I just want to voice that the names are a bit confusing due to the perspective I adopt when I think about them.

Input stream = output from the perspective of the consumer. Things come out of this stream that I can programmatically react to. Output stream = input from the perspective of the producer. This is a stream you put stuff into.

…so when this article starts “My input stream is full of it…” the author is saying they’re seeing output of fear and angst in their feeds.

Am I alone in thinking this is a bit unintuitive?
Ask HN: How does your team triage an alert that spans multiple tools?
by gurmehar_kaur | 2025-06-09 14:39:21+00:00
I’m researching day-to-day incident workflows and trying to learn how engineering teams triage multi-tool incidents today.

If you’re on-call, I’d love to hear:

- First 5 minutes: which tabs/CLIs do you open and in what order?

- How do you jump from “Datadog spike” → “suspect commit” (or infra change)?

- Where does the investigation usually stall or loop?

- Any small hack that shaved meaningful time?

- If you could delegate one step to an intern (human or software), which would it be?

Context for transparency: mid-size SaaS, k8s, Datadog, PagerDuty, GitHub. Trying to map real pain points before I build anything.

War stories about your last 2 a.m. incident, screenshots, “we tried X and it bombed” are all welcome. Thanks so much!
by amluto | 2025-06-09 14:40:04+00:00
If the reasoning in the OP is right, then one might infer that the evening is the right time to take it. The goal of cancer immunotherapy is to convince your body to treat the cancer as harmful. The goal of allergy immunotherapy is to convince your body to tolerate allergens. If you are more likely to consider antigens harmful in the morning and tolerable in the evening, then evening is better.

As a giant confounding effect, it seems that allergy immunotherapy might work, at least in part, by convincing your body to make large amounts of IgG antibodies to the allergen, and IgG antibodies are in the “kill it but don’t sneeze at it” category, which isn’t same thing as having your T cell population tolerate the antigen.
by cybadger | 2025-06-09 14:40:38+00:00
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by bob1029 | 2025-06-09 14:41:02+00:00
I agree that some kind of meltdown/crash would be the best possible thing to happen. There are too many players not adding any value to the ecosystem at this point. MCP is a great example of this - Complexity merchants inventing new markets to operate in. We need something severe to scare off the bullshit artists for a while.

How many civil engineering projects could we have completed ahead of schedule and under budget if we applied the same amount of wild-eyed VC and genius tier attention to the problems at hand?
Show HN: GitLost – A smart .gitignore generator that auto-detects your stack
by NeatShift | 2025-06-09 14:41:14+00:00
I built this because I was tired of having to manually assemble .gitignore files from multiple sources or digging through bloated templates.

GitLost is a smart .gitignore generator: - Lets you select by language, framework, OS, IDE - Auto-detects from package.json or requirements.txt - You can preview, copy, or download the file directly

It's open source: https://github.com/BytexGrid/gitlost Live site: https://bytexgrid.github.io/gitlost/

Would appreciate any feedback, ideas, or suggestions — I'm actively working on improving it.
by wincy | 2025-06-09 14:41:58+00:00
If you’re driving around in your 1971 Ford Thunderbird and the vacuum line fails, making it so your headlights doors are stuck closed, that would have been super annoying in 1977 as you were driving home in the evening.

In 2025 it’s just “the charm of owning a classic car”. Instead of an annoyance, you might think of it as having a unique and endearing quirk.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-09 14:42:08+00:00
- Get vaccinated fully and regularly. Any kind of infection is much harder to deal with for the body than a vaccine. Particularly important are the measles and Covid shots, an infection with either of the actual pathogens can wipe out your immune system history and you lose a lot of protection.

- practice safe sex, get tested regularly (even if both you and your partners are exclusive) and get that HPV shot. Yes, even if you're male. Cancer on your bits ain't pretty.

- keep the drug consumption reasonable, especially smoking and alcohol

- the better quality the food, the better your health. Should be a no-brainer and I know about food deserts, lack of time etc
by username223 | 2025-06-09 14:42:36+00:00
It's addressed poorly.

> First, there's not that much motive to gain API market share with unsustainably cheap prices. Any gains would be temporary, since there's no long-term lock-in,

What? If someone builds something on top of your API, they're tying themselves to it, and you can slowly raise prices while keeping each increase well below the switching cost.

> Second, some of those models have been released with open weights and API access is also available from third-party providers who would have no motive to subsidize inference.

See above. Just like any other Cloud service, you tie clients to your API.

> Third, Deepseek released actual numbers on their inference efficiency in February. Those numbers suggest that their normal R1 API pricing has about 80% margins when considering the GPU costs, though not any other serving costs.

80% margin on GPU cost? What about after paying for power, facilities, admin, support, marketing, etc.? Are GPUs really more than half the cost of this business?

(EDIT: This is 80% margin on top of GPU rental, i.e. total compute cost. My bad.)

Guessing about costs based on prices makes no sense at this point. OpenAI's $20/mo and $200/mo tiers have nothing to do with the cost of those services -- they're just testing price points.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-06-09 14:42:41+00:00
It might be just a quirk with the corpus Google uses.

If it's not a quirk, then it is probably due to one usage of the words (eg: "So you got this angry customer, see?") peaking in the 1940s, and a different usage (eg: "You can do it... you got this!") rising in the 2000s.
by EMM_386 | 2025-06-09 14:42:47+00:00
Did I say it did!?

These are the type of responses that REALLY will drive me nuts.

I never said the flag emojis were special.

I've been a software engineers for almost 30 years.

I know what Unicode code pages are.

This is not helpful. How is my example missing your definition of understanding?

Replace the flags with yours if it helps ... same thing.

It's not the flags it's the understanding of what they are. They can be pirate ships or cats.

In my example they are surrender flags, because that is logical given the conversation.

It will "understand" that too. But the article says it can't do that. And the article, sorry, is wrong.
by Brybry | 2025-06-09 14:42:58+00:00
> This time can also be significantly reduced through phone number hints from password reset flows in other services such as PayPal, which provide several more digits (ex. +14•••••1779)

I've never thought about this but it's extra scary. If you have the same phone number and email address with enough services and they all mask in a different order for reset hints...
by fastball | 2025-06-09 14:43:14+00:00
Yes, but what does climate change have to do specifically with LLMs? How are they different from any other use of energy? As far as I can tell they are better than most uses, given that (as software) they run entirely with electricity, which of course can be generated with near-zero CO2 emissions.

Given that, this interjection about climate change seems like a complete non-sequitur to the topic at hand.
by eggy | 2025-06-09 14:43:31+00:00
I spent 6 months in Saudi in 2022 and 2 months in 2023, and I went to the UAE and did business with both countries. They've been on this wave like the world has. The UAE mandated AI education in their schools, are acquiring and training talent, and have huge, huge amounts of money invested in developing on all fronts from education to engineering to application for their 2031 initiative. The AI genie is out of the bottle, and although OpenAI is a hybrid non-profit / for-profit company in that they have for-profit LLCs that are managed by the non-profit, so this gets murky. See OpenAI Holdings, LLC and OpenAI Global, LLC. I don't think you can monopolize technology such as AI when computing hardware is expanding in capability and cost is going down as well as the immediate ability to read research papers, YouTube videos, books, and all media available on the internet or other media venues. The Saudi Digital Library in the largest digital library in the Arab world. Is China's AI better than the West's? They've certaily implemented a lot of real world installations and applications of it, but I am not sure how it compares to the NSA pre and post Snowden.
by fastball | 2025-06-09 14:44:17+00:00
Running LLMs does not have any intrinsic impact on the climate.

If you want to talk about the impact of different power generation methods on climate change, fair enough, but I don't think this thread is the place for it. Unless of course the idea is to talk about climate change in every single thread centered on "things that consumes energy", which is approximately all of them.
by lowsong | 2025-06-09 14:44:34+00:00
> at the moment I’m mostly in tune with Thomas Ptacek’s My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts. It’s long and (fortunately) well-written and I (mostly) find it hard to disagree with.

Ptacek has spent the past week getting dunked on in public for that article. I don't think it lends you a lot of credence to align with it.

> If you’re interested in that thinking, here’s a sample; a slide deck by a Keith Riegert for the book-publishing business which, granted, is a bit stagnant and a whole lot overconcentrated these days. I suspect scrolling through it will produce a strong emotional reaction for quite a few readers here. It’s also useful in that it talks specifically about costs.

You're not wrong here. I read the deck and the word that comes to mind is "disgusting". Then again, the morally bankrupt have always done horrible things to make a quick buck — AI is no different.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-09 14:44:42+00:00
If God or The Gods are defined as not being man-made, then each person will be able to find their own interpretation and understanding. As contrary to man-made objects and concepts. Most modern people worship "the government" or "the state", even though there is no dispute whether it was created by man or not and whether it acts under the influence of man or not.
by joenot443 | 2025-06-09 14:44:55+00:00
> If you had some bizarre image unlike anything anyone's ever seen before and showed it to a clever human, the human might manage to figure out what it is after thinking about it for a time

Out of curiosity, what sort of 'bizarre image' are you imagining here? Like a machine which does something fantastical?

I actually think the quantity of bizarre imagery whose content is unknown to humans is pretty darn low.

I'm not really well-equipped to have the LLMs -> AGI discussion, much smarter people have said much more poignant things. I will say that anecdotally, anything I've been asking LLMs for has likely been solved many times by other humans, and in my day to day life it's unusual I find myself wanting to do things never done before.
by nvahalik | 2025-06-09 14:45:00+00:00
Yeah. The big problem is that "augmentation" is hard because we (humans) have an internal process for how we think about things that is hard to define and building a flowchart for how we understand foods doesn't even necessarily capture things. Very well. You can take something like "chocolate chip pancakes" where the context can be "<brand> <item>" or "<modifier> <food item>". And then you can search.

But even though we've integrated it with a good food database, the process of searching isn't great because sometimes things like brand names don't get recognized and/or modifiers may get confused because... is it a brand? Is it a way of preparing something?

Ultimately we are working on improving how our search works by not just searching by the name, but by getting information about brand, the product, and possible serving options as well. These would better inform the search and allow us to, say, fallback without a brand if we can't find the brand.

The other problem has to do with variant detection. I can say "kirkland sous vide egg bites" but there are 3-4 variants of them. And right now most databases are just "here is the item you requested" without looking at possible variants, which is a problem that we are going to end up solving ourselves.

It's been interesting because we've learned a lot about how people "think" it should work vs. how it actually works.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-06-09 14:45:18+00:00
The App Store does great business, but its customers aren't the people downloading the apps, their real customers are the developers.

It's incidental that the largest businesses in the world have apps on the Apple App Store, but it's not because the App Store is a great platform.

If no one is selling annual $100/yr apps, but Apple is charging you that much, you're the customer.

There is absolutely no world where polished software that you can own is $2.99, sorry folks. Coffee costs more.
Ask HN: Is anybody working on AI-powered terminal emulators?
by bitstreamshaman | 2025-06-09 14:46:00+00:00
Hey guys! I’ve been playing with Warp and Wave, but I must admit there’s still much that could be improved with these kinds of apps.

Of course, Warp is the best app so far, but it’s also closed-source.

Wave is the next-best alternative, yet it has a terrible UX and very little AI integration in the workflow.

I still prefer Wave because it’s FOSS, but I wouldn’t mind seeing more in this space—things like true environment awareness. Not just next-command prediction or AI agents that can teach me how to write regex (which, admittedly, is already very useful).

What do you think? Is anyone working on this? Should I build it myself? What features would supercharge your workflow 100×?
by 827a | 2025-06-09 14:46:04+00:00
> I cant see how this doesn't describe, abstractly, human cognition. now, maybe llms are not fully capable of the breadth of human cognition

But, I can fire back with: You're making the same fallacy you correctly assert the article as making. When I see how a CPU's ALU adds two numbers together, it looks strikingly similar to how I add two numbers together in my head. I can't see how the ALU's internal logic doesn't describe, abstractly, human cognition. Now, maybe the ALU isn't fully capable of the breadth of human cognition...

It turns out, the gaps expressed in the "fully capable of the breadth of human cognition" part really, really, really matter. Like, when it comes to ALUs, they overwhelm any impact that the parts which look similar cover. The question should be: How significant are the gaps in how LLMs mirror human cognition? I'm not sure we know, but I suspect they're significant enough to not write away as trivial.
by belorn | 2025-06-09 14:47:43+00:00
It is still an ongoing research topic if wearing masks against an airborne virus that primarily spread through aerosols does anything beyond a psychological effect of getting people to distance themselves and reducing spread that way. Airborne virus are notarial at spreading in places like planes, trains, busses, subway and buildings that recycle air. Meta studies looking at the effectiveness of early measures against covid pandemic points strongly towards shutdowns of mass transportation and borders, rather than masks, as being effective. Airports being particular problematic since travelers sits closely packed in a metal tube for hours.
by eps | 2025-06-09 14:47:59+00:00
Excellent deduction, but somewhat rushed at the end. Almost sloppy. If Mendez is flying to meet up with a friend at a hotel, it's clearly necassary to check if there are any hotels on that island to begin with.

We can, of course, assume that if there's an airport, there's a hotel, but being a Russian territory even the most benign assumption may prove false, so it's still prudent to check.

The good news is that there is not one, but two hotels on Iturup, both with impressive ratings (even if across a dozen reviews each). With this in place, I trust, we can put the final dot to the story of finding Shawn Mendez and his views on the annexation of the Kurils.
by stevage | 2025-06-09 14:48:24+00:00
I guess we're all trying to figure out where we sit along the continuum from anti-AI Luddite to all-in.

My main issue with vibe coding etc is I simply don't enjoy it. Having a conversation with a computer to generate code that I don't entirely understand and then have to try to review is just not fun. It doesn't give me any of the same kind of intellectual satisfaction that I get out of actually writing code.

I'm happy to use Copilot to auto-complete, and ask a few questions of ChatGPT to solve a pointy TypeScript issue or debug something, but stepping back and letting Claude or something write whole modules for me just feels sloppy and unpleasant.
by bunderbunder | 2025-06-09 14:49:03+00:00
Spin, like you illustrate in your comment, has connotations of distorting the truth.

Simply denying the allegations isn't really spinning anything; it's just denying the allegations. And The thing I dislike about characterizing something like this as spin is that it defangs the term by removing all those connotations and instead turning it into just a buzzwordy way of saying, "I disagree with what this person said."
by mock-possum | 2025-06-09 14:49:06+00:00
And in turn, from the css2 spec:

> auto | crosshair | default | pointer | move | e-resize | ne-resize | nw-resize | n-resize | se-resize | sw-resize | s-resize | w-resize| text | wait | help | <url>

https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-CSS2-971104/ui.html