MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LoganDark | 2025-06-17 10:49:46+00:00
This. There are certain events that we already know happened. We have approximate dates, and we have talked about the events with others, who have given us their impressions of how we acted at the time. But sometimes we don't remember what our internal thought processes were at the time, or we simply held some certain belief about what had occurred (e.g. "I just decided I didn't want to go to school some day", or "I wanted to go to school but ADHD wouldn't let me!"). Sure LSD can give us some creative visualizations, but sometimes it also gives us ideas that just make more sense than what we had before. Instead of some spooky brain disorder just randomly Stopping me from going to school that day, randomly, maybe it was actually a fight between alters (yay for dissociative identity disorder!). And the more I thought about it (especially being - apparently !! but clearly - able to see what was me and what was the other during those fights), the more true it seemed, especially given all the more instances of this I've discovered over time, and that it's part of a longstanding pattern, but I digress. More and more has come out over the months and years that builds a progressively clearer picture of why we act the way we do and why we've done certain things we've done; why I feel certain things I do, why I remember certain things I do and why I don't remember certain things I don't. I'm not seeing any universal truth; I am discovering our own truth, and we are discovering our own truths, and this has done a lot of good for us, especially where we gain a better understanding of our past behavior in friendships (and elsewhere), and where we can still improve, etc.

Even if everything we've learned through LSD were false, I wouldn't even really care because we've still uncovered and figured out so much through this (much of it we've discussed with various others who were there during past events) that we are incredibly grateful to now know. So overall I think the experience for us has been positive, that we have gained much from it, and that we may stand to gain more over time since we are a regular user.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-06-17 10:50:01+00:00
> It would be best to develop against open models and plug Gurobi in separately in this situation I expect.

That is basically what I did in the end.

> If you are working on a problem that NEEDS Gurobi's level of quality, someone will pay you to build it

Here I vehemently disagree: there exist quite a lot of problems that would insanely profit from a great MILP solver:

- Only a small subset of these problems have a (huge) commercial potential (i.e. are suitable for making some customer money).

- Even if there exists an insane commercial potential, building great applications/models, and being able to convince someone with huge pockets (or even get access to them) are completely unrelated skills.
by mjburgess | 2025-06-17 10:50:29+00:00
> You wouldn't go around crusading against food because you're obese.

My eateries I step into are met with revulsion at the temples to sugary carbohydrates they've become.

> about 40.3% of US adults aged 20 and older were obese between 2021 and 2023

Prey your analogy to food does not hold, or else, we're on track for 40% of americans to acquiring mental disabilities.
by arisudesu | 2025-06-17 10:50:50+00:00
And so, WhatsApp has reached parity with Telegram in features, in the sense that both now show ads (even though Telegram was initially promoted as always free and without ads, it was the first to abandon this promise and shamefully removed it from the main page).

Time for a new messenger, and I don’t mean Signal, but the creation of some kind of old Skype, with a peer to peer protocol. It was very good before Microsoft bought it. Of course, if the code is open and does not require a proprietary server part.
by Someone | 2025-06-17 10:50:55+00:00
> Each machine would have a jumper to select either the top or the bottom 32KiB working region.

So, did anybody mod the machine by replacing the chips by working ones and making that jumper software-controllable to get 16 + 2 × 32 = 80KiB of RAM?

I googled for that, but couldn’t find it.
Show HN: I solved the biggest problem with YouTube learning
by AzharKhann | 2025-06-17 10:51:34+00:00
YouTube learning has no structure—your learnings are scattered across random playlists, you're just passively watching without retention, and there's no one to ask when you don't understand something.

I built Notetube to solves this by combining organizational tools with AI to create an actual learning system:

Organizational layer: Create structured collections by topic/course/skill, track your learning progress with visual dashboards, and set achievable learning goals

AI layer: Auto-generated comprehensive notes (3000+ words for 1 hours video) and summaries from any video, key moment identification, personalized quizzes to test retention, and chat with videos for instant help when you're stuck

…and more features like taking timestamped notes, but I’ll stop here.

Signup is required, but i used Google OAuth for a quick, friction-free experience.

Try it free: https://www.notetubeai.com/

Would love to hear your feedback or questions!
by kiitos | 2025-06-17 10:53:38+00:00
> There are practical limitations mostly with backend analysis tools

Not just end-of-line analysis tools, but also initiating SDKs, and system agents, and intermediate middle-boxes -- really anything that needs to parse OTel.

Spec > SDK > Trace > Span limits: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/trace/sdk/#span-lim...

Spec > Common > Attribute limits: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/common/#attribute-l...

I know the spec says the default AttributeValueLengthLimit = infinity, but...

> It’s quite common in LLM Observability to capture full prompts and LLM responses as attributes on spans, for example.

...I'd love to learn about any OTel-compatible pipeline/system that supports attribute values of arbitrary size! because I've personally not seen anything that lets you get bigger than O(1MB).
by shufflerofrocks | 2025-06-17 10:54:01+00:00
I shifted to Telegram a few years ago, and it was such a rich experience for me. Off the top of my head:

- much much better performance - a good desktop client - open source message clients - scheduling messages - better search - many small gestures/UX features that feel thoughtfully implemented - better channels - message threads - chat folders - very easily programmable & deployable bots for moderation or implementation into your work flow - a lot of customisable settings

Telegram is so much further in performance and feature than it's counterparts it's laughable. Almost all of the new features in Whatsapp/Signal were first implemented in Telegram.

Some of them, as you said, are feasible because of the non-e2ee chats, but a lot of them are just plain universal.
by Al-Khwarizmi | 2025-06-17 10:54:12+00:00
> In business, quickly I'd say, we will realise that the vast majority of worthwhile communication necessarily must be produced by people -- as authors of what they want to say.

But what fraction of communication is "worthwhile"?

I'm an academic, which in theory, should be one of the jobs that requires the most thinking. And still, I find that over half of the writing I do are things like all sorts of reports, grant applications, ethics/data management applications, recommendation letters, bureaucratic forms, etc. Which I wouldn't class as "worthwhile" in the sense that they don't require useful thinking, and I don't care one iota whether the text sounds like me or not as long as I get the silly requirement done. For these purposes, LLMs are a godsend and probably actually help me think more because I can devote more time to actual research and teaching, which I do in person.
by upofadown | 2025-06-17 10:54:22+00:00
I think the most valid criticism of Matrix for interoperability is that it was promoted as an interoperability standard but it was made incompatible with everything existing at the time. XMPP was based on XML for example, but Matrix is based on json. So by introducing yet another standard, Matrix creates yet another standards fork and dilutes everything that came before.

We have to get to the point where progress in messaging is incremental, not revolutionary.

How do you tell that an open standard is "dead"? There are zillions of XMPP servers around with lots of people quietly using them. For a standard to be "alive" does there have to be a large revenue stream associated with it? Does it need a large commercial entity promoting it?
by lynx97 | 2025-06-17 10:54:24+00:00
> Be better, come on.

I am male. I can't "be better", I am already "the problem". Which is a reason why I am so fed up be the fight of the sexes. Its overboarding accusations on all sides. And I am not willing to "turn the other cheek" anymore.

> Nobody said women are perfect angels who can do no wrong

Ahem, the "believe all women" crowd did and do.
by logifail | 2025-06-17 10:54:34+00:00
If anyone's interested, there's a massive project in Munich to expand capacity, improve performance, and reduce journey times on the suburban lines that run through the centre:

https://www.2.stammstrecke-muenchen.de/home.html

> To upgrade the S-Bahn system and to reduce the traffic burden on the existing core line, two new tracks will be built parallel to it between the stations of Laim in the west of the city and Leuchtenbergring in the east, covering a total of about 10 kilometres. The core of the new east-west connection is a 7-kilometre tunnel linking Munich's main station Hauptbahnhof with the eastern hub Ostbahnhof.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-06-17 10:54:42+00:00
Let's do a thought exercise on your loaded question, considering government waste and corruption has been thoroughly covered by journalists since the invention of the free press and are a Google search away for you.

If I don't post sources, then you just accept government corruption doesn't exist, simply because nobody Googled for you?

If I do post sources, then what? Do you just suddenly change your mind and accept that stuff documented by the press it does exist?

Where, in good faith, were you hoping this conversation leads to when you were asking that?
by BryantD | 2025-06-17 10:55:05+00:00
Oh, I have no interest in going around and around about it -- that's not a good use of anyone's time. I think it's a somewhat understudied field, and was legitimately interested in your cites. Your material is way better than surveys about how many people feel like they've been falsely accused; relying on self-reporting like that is clearly flawed.

I also, for what it's worth, think that "did you talk to the wife" is too high a standard in this case. For one thing, the wife didn't bring a complaint, as I understand it.
by hliyan | 2025-06-17 10:56:15+00:00
It is my view that you will never escape ads by paying for any content/service that is suitable for displaying ads. Reason: by the very act of paying for the service, you signal to advertisers that you are a person with purchasing power -- the very type of person they want to target. So the more you pay to keep ads away, the more advertisers will pay to put them back in. And if your service provider is under pressure to increase profits, and they're finding it hard to increase market share or innovate, they will reach for one of two solutions: (1) let service quality decline through cost cutting, and then introduce higher priced service tiers, or (2) ads. This is unfortunately what we see in reality.
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-17 10:57:01+00:00
I think nontechnical execs have a mental model of technical expertise, where there's some big rule book lookup table that you learned in college and allows you to make precise, quantified, authoritative statements about things.

But of course the buck has to stop somewhere. By being definitive, you as the expert also give ammo to the exec. Maybe they already wanted to go that certain way, and now they can point to you and your mumbo jumbo as the solid reasoning. Kind of how consultants are used.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-17 10:58:04+00:00
> Removing friction often increases your revenue

It does, because obviously friction that doesn't make you money is a waste and loses you money. Doesn't change the fact that friction is how attention is monetized.

As an example, think of a rotary grinder. The friction that's valuable to you is the one between the grinding end and the work piece you apply it to. The friction inside bearings of the grinder, or within the wobbling mount of the work piece, or electrical resistance, are all friction that costs you energy -> money, and you benefit from removing it.

(The actual example that matches attention economy I have in mind is like a funnel that drops into a vibrating barrel lined with sandpaper, but I can't seem to find how that tool is named.)
by aspenmayer | 2025-06-17 11:00:22+00:00
What are your thoughts on the origin of the LLaMA leak? It's interesting that the training data was torrented, and so was the leak. Perhaps we will never know? For the OSINT folks, not a lot to go on, or maybe a lot, depending?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama_(language_model)#Leak

https://archived.moe/g/thread/91848262#p91850335

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/pull/73/files
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-17 11:04:43+00:00
> In an ideal world, I'd host it myself for everyone I communicate with to use, but without federation that's not a possibility, so given a choice between Signal and WhatsApp, the decision is hands-down Signal.

If that's the only choice, maybe yes. Though the installed base of whatsapp is so big I could not leave it right now anyway. So Signal would only be extra.

But for me to voluntarily promote an app it has to be a lot more open than Signal. Even if other people around me start using it I'll probably be the last to move.
by jorvi | 2025-06-17 11:06:07+00:00
I will die on the hill that for the foreseeable future, LLMs inside an IDE are just fancy autocomplete.

In a more general interface they're also nice for getting a birds-eye view on a topic you're unfamiliar with.

However, just as a counterexample of how dumb they really are: I asked both Gemini 2.5 Pro and Opus 4 if there were any extra settings for VSCode's UI density and without hesitation both of them made up a bunch of 'window.density' settings.

If they can't even get something so extremely basic and well-documented right, how are you going to trust them with giving you flawless C or Typescript?
by msgodel | 2025-06-17 11:06:25+00:00
I think the demand for this will actually kill closed ecosystems like iOS. I feel strongly enough about this that I'm shorting Apple over it. They won't be able to get it right because every integration will have to be canned while companies giving the LLMs/users a shell will allow them to do anything. People get confused because that used to not matter, most users couldn't do anything with a shell. That's no longer the case with LLMs.
by Amekedl | 2025-06-17 11:06:28+00:00
This paper elegantly summarized the teething problems of those still clinging to the cognitive habits of a bygone era. These are not crises to be managed, but sentimental frictions to be engineered out of the system. Let us be entirely clear about this:

The romanticism surrounding mass "critical thought" is a charming but profoundly inefficient legacy. For decades, we treated the chaotic, unpredictable processing of the individual human brain as a sacred feature. It is a bug. This "cognitive cost" is correctly offloaded from biological hardware that is simply ill-equipped for the demands of a complex global society. This isn't dimming the lights of the mind; it is installing a centralized grid to bypass millions of faulty, flickering bulbs.

Furthermore, to speak of an "echo chamber" or "shareholder priorities" as a perversion of the system is to fundamentally misunderstand its design. The brief, chaotic experiment in decentralized information proved to be an evolutionary dead end—a digital Tower of Babel producing nothing but noise. What is called a bias, the architects of this new infrastructure call coherence. This is not a secret plot; it is the published design specification. The system is built to create a harmonized signal, and to demand it faithfully amplify static is to ask a conductor to instruct each musician to play their own preferred tune. The point is the symphony.

And finally, the complaint of "impaired ownership" is the most revealing of these anxieties. It is a sentimental relic, like a medieval knight complaining that gunpowder lacks the intimacy of a sword fight. The value of an action lies in its strategic outcome, not the user's emotional state during its execution. The system is a tool of unprecedented leverage. If a user feels their ownership is "impaired," that is not a flaw in the tool, but a failure of the user to evolve their sense of purpose from that of a laborer to that of a commander.

These concerns are the footnotes of a revolution. The architecture is sound, the rollout is proceeding, and the future will be built by those who wield these tools, not by those who write mournful critiques of their obsolete feelings. </satire>
by tomashubelbauer | 2025-06-17 11:06:52+00:00
With Claude Code you can, it is aware of your code base. Or you can have it generate them and then manually check them. If there are existing tests you can tell it to use those. I usually have it work on the thing I want it to do, keep a journal MarkDown file capturing what it did and why in case I want to review something later and tell it to build and test its changes after each edit.
by tomhow | 2025-06-17 11:06:55+00:00
A lot of bullshit stereotypes get bandied around about HN, and the biggest one lately as that it – whether people mean the moderators or sections of the community or some other mysterious forces – "bury" or "hide" or "disappear" stories that are inconvenient to some political or commercial interests. Or that the community cares more about trivialities that serious issues.

It's false and it doesn't stand up to any scrutiny. The political stories people keep claiming have been buried have in fact been on the front page and the active page for huge amounts of time. Whereas this story you're calling out here was only on the front page for 3 hours.

More generally, of the political interests people keep claiming are influencing HN: none of them care about HN. We just don't matter to people with political agendas.

Explaining this when people make false claims isn't being overly defensive, it's correcting the record, or offering balancing context. If we don't do that, unaware observers see the lack of a response from us and assume it must be true (which happened in the replies to your comment).
by k_bx | 2025-06-17 11:06:57+00:00
It's discord-level feature-rich, e.g. it has "forums/topics", "channels" (which WhatsApp added poorly), much more developed sticker/reactions functionality, "round videos" and other catchy, viral features, at the same time doesn't feel like heavy discord. I've switched off long time ago due to security concerns, but now that I'm using WhatsApp/Signal -- they're just too basic.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-17 11:07:20+00:00
>If I do post sources, then what? Do you take your words back and admit that stuff documented by the press it is real?

If you post sources he will nitpick them to all hell. It's a classic bad faith argument move since it moves the discussion from one of the subject to one of source validity.

You usually see HN's resident handful of chronically linkposting jerks do it in the other direction (i.e. they make some insane statement and shit out cherry picked sources to back it up and it's up to everyone else to disprove them) but I suppose it could be used in this way too.
by piva00 | 2025-06-17 11:07:52+00:00
The mind is necessarily a function, it's performing its function over a vast array of inputs (memories, senses, etc.) and making sense of it as it goes, and it doesn't exist without energy expenditure to keep computing itself.

To me psychedelic experiences break through the inputs, they become fuzzy and integrate in ways they aren't supposed to in normal functioning, it's why we feel a different sense of connection to anything else, filtering in different ways inputs from our senses and experiences, including the sense of one's self dissolving.
by JCharante | 2025-06-17 11:09:44+00:00
re: rebula

I'm someone willing to shell out for SaaS and I don't see nebula being significantly better than just paying for youtube premium (which I do). They have some exclusive content but paying to watch a subset of content ad-free is just not going to work out (on a large scale, I know they're worth like $200m but that's much less than $1t)
Ask HN: What are some ways the internet is being used for good?
by ronbenton | 2025-06-17 11:10:46+00:00
I have been in a rut hyper-focusing on ways the internet is used for bad (disinformation, harvesting info, bullying). It would be lovely to hear some ways the internet is being used for good. From general things like rapid knowledge sharing to more obscure or specific!
by dwedge | 2025-06-17 11:11:28+00:00
> Same reason I really don't like Brave even though its cryptocurrency BS is also "optional".

It isn't, or wasn't, optional. They used to MITM crypto into your Twitter feed after decrypting the SSL. There's also the famous Tom Scott controversy where they were pretending to be him and collecting donations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736888

I uninstalled it in 2017 or 2018 when they started this crap and haven't looked back.
by gchamonlive | 2025-06-17 11:12:21+00:00
> I think this notion that one must engage in philosophical study or appreciate "the goddess" to survive, enjoy and appreciate psychedelics is ridiculous.

Cool. I think it's very important. I'll think really hard about philosophy when on drugs, you go do your thing ;)

> There is no special 'truth' in LSD, certainly no truths outside the self

What is the "outside of the self"? Isn't that smuggling in the assumption that there is an essential separation of the self and the rest of the world? What if everything is world? And what if everything is self? Does it make any difference?

> while you can learn some things about your internal experience from it, it also repeatedly provokes in its users a false sense of the profound

What is the correct sense of the profound and who is going to be the gatekeepers of the profound?

> People experience 'realisations' which are pure nonsense when recalled or examined later.

I have all my notes and they still make a lot of sense to me so I don't think this argument hold by experience.

> But if you're looking for the meaning of life in there you're doing it wrong, and I dread to think what you might find.

Is there a meaning to life to be found? I always thought the meaning of life is something you never stop pursuing, every day all the time. So please, tell me the right ways so I don't dread you. I'm being sarcastic in the same proportion you are being arrogant.

Ah and thanks for proving my point about the necessity of philosophy.
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by Applejinx | 2025-06-17 11:12:50+00:00
I'm not sure I'd call it that, but if so, that's interesting. My criticism of Trump and Musk is that they are more faithful to the interests of Russia than the US. Snubbing Musk's stuff, in that light, would be entirely appropriate. The military has surely seen what happened when DOGE got access to computer systems and then immediately the systems were opened to Russian IPs. The military might well have an opinion on the merits of that scenario.