MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by illiac786 | 2025-06-10 18:44:07+00:00
You sound like someone who was lucky enough to only meet good doctors.

Bad doctors, that really don’t give a shit, exist and are doing well, at least where I live, because there simply isn’t enough doctors.

The ratio good to bad doctors is the same as good to bad contractors in my experience.

I fully understand how annoying it is to be challenged by a patient as a doctor but why would the doctor do that with his contractor and not accept that from the patient? Because he’s more of an expert? I’d argue he’s less of an expert actually, because medicine is so insanely complex and we know so incredibly little of it.
by vel0city | 2025-06-10 18:44:17+00:00
> So you have all these white public housing advocates, talking about how great public housing is in Singapore, but they leave out that you have to have PR or citizenship to get it

I find such things to be incredibly backwards and abhorrent. To think if you lucked out in some genomic lottery to be allowed to have extreme privilege in society, this sounds like a fucking nightmare

There are a lot of cool and neat things about Singapore but damn do a lot of things feel like the kind of things that keep me up at night.

But honestly, the modern GOP is closer to enforcing such requirements than any opposing party.
by nullc | 2025-06-10 18:44:22+00:00
Better advice would cover exactly what's needed to maximize that odds of that determination. For example, commingling the 'research' with activity that is the subject of the ligation may make your life much harder (or at least more expensive) because your opponent is absolutely entitled to that other material at the very least.

It also doesn't help when your opponent hit the provider ex parte with a subpoena and they just served it up which I can speak from experience many providers are pretty eager to do. Maybe after the fact you get an order for your opponent to destroy and not use the material but if you're dealing with a party that was dishonest enough to bring a frivolous claim in the first place that may not be that comforting.
by dogleash | 2025-06-10 18:44:30+00:00
> I don’t think these humans have no soul

They're sellouts and traitors.

Then there are people who will take to pondering what it means to be a sellout in a disingenuous manner. They act like it takes a haughty philosophy club to stroke their beards, reinvent paid labor from first principals and through motivated reasoning discovered "sellout" isn't that all that bad. And it turns out everyone sells out one way or another, so it's a wash what line of work you go into anyway.

Now those are the people who have no souls.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-10 18:44:34+00:00
Yes.

Anecdotally, the owner of the SV Seeker Youtube channel had their Youtube account terminated and lost all of their videos because they had uploaded some...adult content for a single viewer as a private video, which Youtube scanned and detected. "Private" just means "not discoverable."

TLDR Don't use Google storage in any capacity as a source of truth or sole copy, and encrypt if you don't want the data scanned, inspected, etc.

Google Drive scans files for copyright infringement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41049799 - July 2024

Google Gemini scans files on Google Drive without permission – can't be disabled - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40962418 - July 2024

Google Drive adding spam folder, dark web scans for Gmail, more - https://9to5google.com/2023/05/10/google-drive-spam-view/ - May 10th, 2023

Google Scans Gmail and Drive for Cartoons of Child Sexual Abuse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29638263 - December 2021
by umbra07 | 2025-06-10 18:45:18+00:00
> Realistically Apple's connector adds no value

Like I said, usb-c is a regression from lightning in multiple ways.

* Lightning is easier to plug in.

* Lightning is a physically smaller connector.

* USB-C is a much more mechanically complex port. Instead of a boss in a slot, you have a boss with a slot plugging into a slot in a boss.

There was so much buzz around Apple no longer including a wall wort with its phones, which meant an added cost for the consumer, and potentially an increased environmental impact if enough people were going to say, order a wall wort online and shipped to them. The same logic applies to Apple forced to switch to USB, except that the costs are now multiplied.
by xg15 | 2025-06-10 18:45:29+00:00
Also adding that software only being inflexible due to being mass-produced is the state of the pre-Enshittification era that we already left behind.

Since the last decade or so at the latest, software is often designed as an explicit means of power over users and applications are made deliberately inflexible to, e.g. corece users to watch ads, purchase goods or services or simply stay at the screen for longer than intended.

(Even that was already the case in niches, especially "shareware". But in a sense, all commercial software is shareware now)
by reaperducer | 2025-06-10 18:45:58+00:00
You might want to look at the new design language that Android is going for:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975352

Feels very much like a fruit-colored version of late 1960's early 1970's pop culture design.

Change it to browns and oranges and golds, and it'll be perfectly groovy.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-10 18:46:11+00:00
I'll address the third point since it is the only one I don't see as a fundamentally irreconcilable difference in subjective opinion that cannot be proven factually.

The ethnic discrimination laws in America Samoa, and to a lesser extent Saipan (I think for them more about control, they have no problem with Chinese running roughshod operating all kinds of shady and illegal business, it is probably the most corrupt place in the US) are aimed towards stopping cultural elimination. The case is compelling for Samoa, the others are just naked racial discrimination as the local populace seems to have settled on the fact their culture has pretty much been eliminated as anything beyond a footnote and they're going to cash grab all they can out of the remains which I guess is just the usual American dream.

(Hawaii used to go even further, and racially discriminate in voting, but racial discrimination in voting was struck circa 2000 with dissent written by the now deceased racist Ruth Ginsburg in Rice v Cayetano. Not long after that 'non-'Hawaiians also finally got the right to equally run for office).

American Samoa is particularly aggressive about it, their government and IIRC even the feds strongly imply or command you can enter for 30 days as a tourist without further authorization, despite the fact that established case law and the American Samoa Bar training to internal lawyers teach that US citizens have the right to permanently settle and work in American Samoa. I did some research and could not find any case of a US citizen being 'deported' from the territory unless they were wanted for crimes elsewhere but they do their damnedest to make it sound like you can be.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-06-10 18:46:42+00:00
That's about 6.5% of the equivalent daily defense budget of the USA. I.e., a rounding error.

This is not a comment on whether this is "right" or "wrong", but rather a comment on the gigantic mountain of money the US spend on defense anyway. In addition, I suspect that this is just an accounting cost as most costs would have been incurred anyway to maintain the equipments and human resources.
by herval | 2025-06-10 18:46:45+00:00
there's definitely measurements (eg https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/y95zitmz/release/2 ) but I imagine they're rare because those benchmarks are expensive, so nobody keeps running them all the time?

Anecdotally, it's quite clear that some models are throttled during the day (eg Claude sometimes falls back to "concise mode" - with and without a warning on the app).

You can tell if you're using Windsurf/Cursor too - there are times of the day where the models constantly fail to do tool calling, and other times they "just work" (for the same query).

Finally, there's cases where it was confirmed by the company, like Gpt-4o's sycopanth tirade that very clearly impacted its output (https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/)
Ask HN: Best modern resources for mastering React best practices in 2025?
by Varelion | 2025-06-10 18:46:46+00:00
I've been working with React for a while but mostly on legacy class-based codebases. I'm transitioning into more modern React (hooks, server components, concurrent rendering, etc.) and want to level up my understanding.

There are so many tutorials and courses out there, but many seem outdated or contradict each other—I am specially weary of Udemy, where it seems to me courses are given trivial 'updates' to rank highly on their algorithm, but the bulk of content remains dated. I'm looking for resources (articles, courses, repos, or even books) that focus on:

- Idiomatic use of hooks - Component architecture and maintainability - Performance best practices - Patterns used in production-scale apps - What's considered "good style" in the React community in 2025

Bonus points for resources that come from experienced engineers or teams using React at scale.

What do you recommend?
by runako | 2025-06-10 18:46:57+00:00
> Now cheaper than gpt-4o and same price as gpt-4.1 (!).

This is where the naming choices get confusing. "Should" o3 cost more or less than GPT-4.1? Which is more capable? A generation 3 of tech intuitively feels less advanced than a 4.1 of a (similar) tech.
by kamranjon | 2025-06-10 18:47:02+00:00
I sort of agree with this, having read the recent Apple paper - but it does show a significant improvement at a certain level of complexity - it's just that it requires quite a few more tokens to achieve that. It could probably be described as a sort of "context" hack because it's basically having a conversation with itself to arrive at a better solution. You're trading performance/time for a bit better quality.
by zackmorris | 2025-06-10 18:47:20+00:00
I wish that the first semester of programming class deliberately left code out of the material. IMHO students should start with something like this short list:

FileMaker/Microsoft Access/HyperCard (no longer exists) Macromedia Flash (no longer exists) Spreadsheets (like Microsoft Excel, unfortunately Airtable isn't there yet?) Wix (maybe? surely there are better alternatives) Zapier (or an open source version)

Then move on to what programming could/should be:

htmx Firebase/RethinkDB (no longer maintained?) Erlang/Go GNU Octave/MATLAB Lisp/Scheme/PostScript/Clojure

Only then, after having full exposure to what computers are capable of and how fast they really are, should students begin studying the antipatterns that have come to dominate tech:

React Ruby on Rails Javascript (warts of the modern version with classes and async/await, not the original) C#/Java/C++/Rust (the dangers of references/pointers and imperative programming) iOS/Android (Swift vs Objective-C, Kotlin vs Java, ill-conceived APIs, etc)

I realize this last list is contentious, but I could go into the downsides of each paradigm at length. I'm choosing not to.

Since we can't fix the market domination of multibillion companies who don't care about this stuff on any reasonable timescale, maybe we can pull the wool off the children's eyes and give them the tools to tear down the status quo.

I suspect that AI and geopolitical forces may take this decision away from us though. It may already be too late. In that case, we could start with spiritual teachings around philosophy, metaphysics and wisdom to give them the tools needed to work with nonobjective and nondeterministic tech that's indistinguishable from magic.
by ris | 2025-06-10 18:47:33+00:00
> I'm not as allergic to AI content as some

I suspect it's less about phobia, more about avoiding training AI on its own output.

This is actually something I'd been discussing with colleagues recently. Pre-AI content is only ever going to become more precious because it's one thing we can never make more of.

Ideally we'd have been cryptographically timestamping all data available in ~2015, but we are where we are now.
by rayiner | 2025-06-10 18:47:40+00:00
Repair and maintenance costs can be either operational expenses or capital expenses: https://www.nashadvisory.com.au/resource-centre/repairs-and-...

For example, if you pay for someone to maintain the brewery plant to keep it working in its current condition, that’s an operational expense that could immediately be deducted. But if the work is on upgrades and improvements, that’s ordinarily would be a capital expense that must be capitalized and depreciated. A bookkeeping strategy isn’t.

Your other examples are off the mark, because the question is whether the investment produces an income-producing asset. Software generally is such an asset. The question of what’s an operational expense versus what’s a capital expense isn’t always clear cut, and is the kind of thing where accountants and tax lawyers have to make judgment calls.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-06-10 18:48:24+00:00
Tech-oriented people love software malleability and also can handle the responsibility - e.g. understanding something that's broken + customized by you could have been broken by you.

Non tech-oriented people, the masses, absolutely love customizability and malleability--but aren't willing to handle the responsibility. They will reach out to tech support who can't possibly know every customization option of every application and its effects, and complain when they tell them to reset/reinstall.

And in a corporate environment where the company provides the PC, the company would rather not deal with it. Office dominates at the workplace, is mostly making money from corporate users, and users want it to behave the same way it does in the workplace. So any backlash by users is simply not going to matter unless it might cause companies to not renew their licenses.

A company I work for is moving to Office-on-the-web for PCs that are used by people who don't really use Office that much except possibly to read Word docs, in order to save on licensing costs I presume. It's even less customizable than any desktop version. So the trend is going to continue.
by kstrauser | 2025-06-10 18:49:32+00:00
Imagine how long a caravan with an extra 8 million people would be. I mean, I’ve been to a Huskers football game and seen what the exit looked like, and this would be 100x more.

If such a thing were being reported by multiple reputable sources, I’d be less inclined to roll my eyes at the preposterous idea.
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-10 18:49:58+00:00
First thanks for the original article and it is great to know a team is going deep on this.

I am a bit fed up with software less because of malleablity but because of the cloud walled gardens. I can't open my Google doc in something else like I can a pdf in different programs. Not without exporting it.

This for me interested and I found remotestorage.io which looks very promising. I like the idea that I buy my 100gb of could storage from wherever then compose the apps I want to use around it.

I hadn't thought of malleable software... that's a whole other dimension! Thanks for introducing this as a concept worth talking about. Of course I have heard of elisp and used excel but haven't thought of it front and centre.

In terms of cooking ... I feel like cooking is easier potentially as for the most part (some exceptions) if I know the food hygiene and how to cook stuff then it is an additive process. Chicken plus curry plus rice. Software is like this too until it isn't. The excel docs do a great simple budget but not a full accounting suite. With the latter you get bogged down in fixing bugs in the sheet as you try to use it.

I think it is good you are researching as these could be solvable problems probably for many cases.

Something I have always thought about is sometimes it matter less if the software is open source than if the file format is. Then people can extend by building more around the file format. A tool might work on part of the format where an app works on all of it. I use free tools to sign PDFs for example.
by phkahler | 2025-06-10 18:50:05+00:00
>> Would love to read more about how these types of geometric problems are best approached.

Probably the most accessible NURBS kernel to learn from is the one in Solvespace. The entire source for the core NURBS is about 6KLoC:

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/tree/master/src/srf

My favorite file in there is ratpoly.cpp

It doesn't handle higher order NURBS or use knots. It's just the basics, but there are a lot of geometric algorithms in there. We're still trying to get the bugs out of NURBS booleans, but the high level algorithm is sound.

BTW it can also be compiled for web but that is incomplete.
Top Agents – A public directory for discovering and reviewing AI agents
by vishwastams | 2025-06-10 18:50:55+00:00
Hey HN,

Vibe coded this during my office commute on @replit while stuck in Bangalore traffic: Top Agents — a minimal directory to search, add, and review public AI agents (GPTs, Assistants, tools, etc).

Why? Lots of new agents coming up every day, but discovery and validation are fragmented. This app helps surface what’s useful through community feedback—no rankings, no algorithm.

It’s fully open and editable—more like a Notion-meets-Product-Hunt for AI agents.

Would love thoughts on: • What would make this more useful? • Any open agents you think should be listed?

Thanks, Vishwastam
by forgotpwagain | 2025-06-10 18:51:14+00:00
Very cool. There are also methods that allow you to extract some notion of motion from variability in CryoEM data, e.g. CryoDRGN-ET [1].

I'm curious if you've worked with any of those models and how they relate to NMR data and MD simulations.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02340-4
by reify | 2025-06-10 18:51:18+00:00
I can tell you from many years of experience.

You start handing out the disco biscuits (MDMA) at your hard house or trance club to the local narcissist. I can confidently assure you, he will be as loved up as the next man.

He will get in touch with the empathy and love he thought he never had.

he will most likely be snogging his mate, the local Borderline or Histrionic as soon as his eyes start rolling.

I'm pro MDMA for use in therapy. After all it was originally used in therapy for couples.
by steine65 | 2025-06-10 18:51:19+00:00
I stand corrected. I've not seen GAAP vs IRS differ so much in my experience. Thanks for referencing IRS section 174 which clears things up. It appears to be quite strict on the 5/15 year amortization of software development expenses, and I now agree with OP that the change to section 174 as part of the TCJA is some bullshit.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-06-10 18:51:22+00:00
I mean sure, it's very promising if OpenAI's future is your only metric. It gets notably darker if you look at the broader picture of ChatGPT (and company)'s impact on our society.

* We have people uploading tons of zero-effort slop pieces to all manner of online storefronts, and making people less likely to buy overall because they assume everything is AI now

* We have an uncomfortable community of, to be blunt, actual cultists emerging around ChatGPT, doing all kinds of shit from annoying their friends and family all the way up to divorcing their spouses

* Education is struggling in all kinds of ways due to students using (and abusing) the tech, with already strained administrations struggling to figure out how to navigate it

Like yeah if your only metric is OpenAI's particular line going up, it's looking alright. And much like Uber, it's success seems to be corrosive to the society in which it operates. Is this supposed to be good news?
by robocat | 2025-06-10 18:51:25+00:00
I disagree with your sweeping statements. Tradies fear crappy clients, but if you're pleasant to work with and you pay them fairly and you don't shit on them then you can find good tradies that will work closely with you.

Pick your tradie, to suit your requirements, and be a great PM and pay for quality work. I've been the Purchaser, Project Manager and often the apprentice/gofer too (saving myself many many billable hours of cost on each job).

The last three multi-thousand tradie jobs (builder, plumber, electrician) I've had deep interaction with the tradie and I am a repeated client with significant different jobs with each.

Properly respect the person, be ultra-polite if you want to question how anything is done. Never micro-manage or be an overdemanding perfectionist and accept normal mistakes. They are the experts but they sometimes get things wrong.

You are an apprentice trying to learn, but you can be firm with requirements and watch for gross mistakes.

I often get involved with other tradies or professionals too (recently car electrical, car mechanical, medical specialists, fencer). Sometimes to save money, sometimes to get job done better.

If you want to be OCD about a job, then pick an OCD tradie and be prepared to pay for your perfectionism. I'm usually more cowboy. One friend is a tiler, and he likes delivering amazing jobs (but he costs somewhat more per hour than average).

> and you just want them to install this OEM fuel pump which you've already purchased

Recently just done similar with my mechanic (supplied wheel studs and they've told me where to get replacement handbrake cable which they'll fit), and I did this with my electrician (used my own reels of cable) and I wish I did this with my plumber (because I would have made a better choice of fitting than they did). For cheaper jobs perhaps pay them for the lost income (trade discount or trade markups are usually known, or you can just ask). Actually did this with a fuel pump with the second hand car dealer when they had to fix under warrantee (helped simplify things to get their mechanic to fix car while I waited).

Context: I'm in New Zealand and I'm in my 50s.

On-topic: when you're a founder you need to hone the skill of working with professionals (e.g. lawyers) and getting them to do work right. My take on being a founder is that you are ignorant about everything but you have to get it done anyway: you often have to become your own expert and just do it (your meta-skills are most relevant). Advisors/mentors often lack context or have their own agendas, so you just gotta get ahead regardless of your ignorance. Learning how to listen to advice, pick the value out, and throw away the dross is just hard. Being submissive or falling for status plays is ruinous.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-06-10 18:51:42+00:00
The bigger challenge will be food production. Even with fewer people, less Americans are willing to work in the fields 10 hours a day under a hot sun. With the immigration crackdown and low birth rates and aging population, who will pick the strawberries? Compound this with food production is a major export, our internal consumption will require more and more of the produced food, lowering exports and GDP. This will make food scarce and expensive, further lowering fertility.

Low fertility and no immigration is a recipe for disaster.
by Tangurena2 | 2025-06-10 18:51:57+00:00
My absolute favorite "magician" was a card manipulator who demonstrated how several of the standard card tricks worked. Even showing the trick from the side and also from behind (his back to the audience so you see how he's doing it) the technical skill was amazing. It motivated me to learn prestidigitation. It turns out that my fingers are too short to do card tricks with standard playing cards (also too short for the fretboard of a classical guitar - I have to stick to acoustics & electrics).