MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2025-06-11 13:32:22+00:00
> And yet, at the time (and still now!) the vast majority of government and health officials stated that developing conditions and side-effects from the vaccine was either impossible, or so rare it wasn't worth mentioning.

I don't doubt some politicians give black-and-white assessments as they are prone to do, but from Fauci on downwards the scientific/medical folks were always quite honest about this. Everything has side effects; I distinctly recall them being discussed at Trump press conferences. They were (and remain) rare. We've given billions of doses of the COVID vaccines, with a good safety record.

> Where anecdotally, I know more people in my own personal life (including myself) that developed far worse conditions from the vaccine (granted, usually Pfizer and Moderna, though other offerings don't appear to have fared much better) than what they ever received from a COVID infection.

That's the entire point of a vaccine, yes. You feel shitty for a few days instead of dying.
by rurban | 2025-06-11 13:32:55+00:00
using it like gperf is certainly not a special case. if your keys are fixed and known at compile-time, you can also pre-compile the hash function with its data structures, and not being forced to deserialize it at startup.

when comparing those MPFH query times the startup-time, the deserialization from disk, is 1000x higher than the actual query time. when you compile those data structures, the load time is instant. also memory usage is twice as low.
by EGreg | 2025-06-11 13:34:35+00:00
The cost and externality are:

1) Lesser cost: people start to not want each other for anything, and therefore lose income of any kind, and are gradually bred out of existence like with horses and oxen in the 20th century

2) Greater cost: bot swarms separate people and can bring about any sort of effect at scale, with people powerless to stop it — eg destroy reputations, bring about support for wars, take over control, or really anything
by shagie | 2025-06-11 13:34:37+00:00
I'm going to preface this with "I'm not sure if the culture is still there, nor do I develop JavaScript" ... so I'm writing about something I remember reading.

People are after the "number of downloads" metric on npm for various reasons. Left-pad has 1.4 million weekly downloads https://www.npmjs.com/package/left-pad Is-even has 160k weekly downloads https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even

Sometimes people will include it as a dependency as a joke in their useful library. Other times the people who write these put it in useful libraries that they contribute to so that use of the useful boosts their numbers. I'm forgetting where it is now, but it was one of the big foundational libraries in React that used one of those and there was resistance to replacing (I believe) an include and use of is-even because they were a very strict adherent to the "never write code you can include" which meant that everything using it included it.

One such story: Why has there been nearly 3 million installs of is-odd - npm in the last 7 days? - https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/886zji/why_has...
by blensor | 2025-06-11 13:35:03+00:00
I have to look into that, thanks.

I've been thinking about combining it with our work on the reverse engineered HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker stuff here https://youtube.com/shorts/U4vhEPQw-Uo to get 6DOF

But realistically I ( and nobody else ) won't strap the tracker to my head all the time
by nindalf | 2025-06-11 13:35:08+00:00
The author made an implicit assumption, and you're making the same one, that they're filled with wisdom received straight from al-Ghazali. Firstly, only wankers act like they're wise and their audience isn't. Secondly, they said "haven't read al-Ghazali yet", implying that it's only a matter of time before everyone reads him.

Lastly, it's fine to quote someone but you need to explain how it's relevant to the conversation. The author could have summarised al-Ghazali's idea about free will or whatever and it would have been fine. But he didn't even bother, as if the ideas so basic and well known that it's not even worth doing.

I'm pretty comfortable with the way I've poked fun at the author's pompousness. If you need further explanation it's because you haven't read Chanakya yet.
by mikesabat | 2025-06-11 13:35:14+00:00
My current 'favorite idea I probably won't build' is an sms chat bot that does exactly this for guys in their 30s & 40s. The hard part is actually organizing the group of friends to pick a weekend and location. So a bot that can help with all of that first, is really compelling for me.

OP, let me know if you want to do a user group trying to help us organize a trip.
by juliangmp | 2025-06-11 13:35:16+00:00
I dont think we should fine any of the people that worked on it. In the end the decision makers are the ones being paid to be responsible so they should be held responsible.

However, there is a conversation to be had about engineers writing code that they fully know is illegal. Imo there should be a punishment for staying complicit and not reporting it to the authorities. Like that time Volkswagen components detected when they were under test and performed differently.
by gjvc | 2025-06-11 13:35:22+00:00
""" Right after first journalists began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder's gitlab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc, and so fired the shot that the whole world heared.(sic) """

tone-deaf attitude by IBM / RedHat
by bayindirh | 2025-06-11 13:35:26+00:00
Let's consider an example about a tangible phenomena: Gaussian Integration, Quantum Entanglement, Crystalline Structure Formation in Alloyed Metals with Heat Treatment, Combustion Dynamics in a Gasoline Engine, etc.

Let's put the same sentence:

"I'd love to explain to you, but if you haven't read $SOURCE_MATERIAL, you wouldn't understand it anyway".

Does it sound pompous and insufferable?
by ItsBob | 2025-06-11 13:35:28+00:00
> Curious what other folks are feeling. A lot of these tools seem like useless frivolity.

Something I have long said when talking about operating systems is that I consider them tool boxes. The same kind of tool box a carpenter would have.

I don't "use" the OS per se. I use the OS to hold my tools in a manner that makes it easy for me to access them.

So, it's like a carpenter's toolbox where he carries around his saw, hammer etc. and can easily grab them when he needs them. He doesn't need to hear about Hammer v2.0 AI-edition or any of that shit!

I don't need my toolbox doing anything other than holding my tools and fucking right off out of my way!
by eqvinox | 2025-06-11 13:35:31+00:00
> 1. The user opens the native Facebook or Instagram app, […]

I'm not going full "it's your own fault for having those apps installed" — it really isn't — but people need to learn they shouldn't trust apps made by these giant adzillas. (Which to be fair you could also argue for Android as a whole, and Chrome).

If Facebook and Instagram are "dominating the market" as the EU likes to say, maybe it's time to force allowing 3rd party frontend apps?
Show HN: Ish – Grep-like text search with optimal alignment, built with Mojo
by totalperspectiv | 2025-06-11 13:35:32+00:00
ish is a CLI tool for searching records using alignment methods. It’s record-type aware and supports lines, FASTA, and FASTQ. I was really pleased with the dev experience using Mojo. It’s still pre-1.0 and missing a few things, but overall it came together smoothly. Performance-wise, Mojo held up well. There's no direct apples-to-apples comparison for ish as a whole, but the core alignment algorithms are on par with the C++ reference (faster in one case, see preprint linked above). Writing and shipping a GPU kernel as part of a CLI was especially cool. This was my first time with GPU programming, and Mojo made it feel first-class, though I don't have much CUDA experience to compare. Excited to see where Mojo goes. Once the compiler is open-sourced, the possibilities look wide open.

Preprint can be found here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657890v1

Code can be found here: https://github.com/BioRadOpenSource/ish
by LonelyWolfe | 2025-06-11 13:35:43+00:00
Just venting and ranting about AR glasses here:

One thing about AR glasses that I don't get so far: Why do ALL of the AR glasses use only 1080p displays per eye whereas all the other VR solutions that also have a display right in front of your eye have even bigger resolutions?

I really do want AR glasses that can act as an alternative to a physical display. But they're always 1080p for some reason. The companies I've seen making them appear to me to keep fixing important issues and adding really useful features - but seem to avoid touching anything that would improve the resolution.

Edit : There's a part of me that believes the situation here is a lot like how Linus Tech Tips described the Dashcam situation.
by gorgoiler | 2025-06-11 13:36:18+00:00
Breadboard ends were always confusing to me because they are trotted out as a solution for movement yet they solve two quite different problems.

On flush, jointed boards, they are a permanent jig to hold the ends in vertical alignment. Imagine taping your fingers together to keep your fingers flat. Lateral movement is impossible because the boards are glued tightly together.

If you’re concerned about lateral movement then the more important concern is to have gaps between the boards. The bread board end is now a rail in which your boards can slide like wobbly carriages on a train track: aligned in one direction (up/down for a table) but with the ability to move independently in another (across the width of the table.)
by JohnBooty | 2025-06-11 13:36:21+00:00
For those wondering why this is a safety issue, in many American states abortion or "fetal harm" is considered murder. You can be imprisoned, theoretically for life. This is of course a rapidly evolving area of law since the fall of Roe v. Wade. Having one's menstrual data available for subpoena is therefore quite a literal safety risk.

"At least 38 states authorize homicide charges for causing pregnancy loss"

https://www.law.cuny.edu/academics/clinical-programs/hrgj/pr...
by doix | 2025-06-11 13:36:41+00:00
This is going to be quite negative(sorry), but I don't really see the value here. Perhaps I don't really "get it", but I don't see how this helps you plan. It just lets you visualize the plan after you've created it.

I travel "full time" with my girlfriend, and she does most/all of the planning. The hard part isn't writing down what needs to be done, it's coming up with the plan in the first place.

First you pick a location, then you pick points of interest. Then you need to devise a route that makes sense that lets you see all those points and how you're going to get between them. Trains/buses/taxis, the timetable for those modes of transportation, the backup for when you're inevitably late, the "point of no return" where it's time to give up on that attraction.

For some places, reminders when tickets go on sale for the thing you want to do if it's extremely popular. Where it makes sense to do things as day trips and where it makes sense to just move to a more rural location/camp to see things. What to do with your luggage and how to move it from place to place.

Admittedly, I haven't signed up, I just looked at the free example and showed it to my girlfriend. She uses excel + google maps for visualizing the plan and we're not sure what this gives ontop of that. We're also always together in person, I could see how if you were far apart, perhaps the commenting and stuff could be useful?
by econ | 2025-06-11 13:37:00+00:00
You can force minimal exercise by doing periodic checks the way we do with disease or addiction. If your score is below some point you require a different kind of healthcare with a different price tag. If stats don't improve there should be special hospitals (with public funding)

Rather than have the stores and restaurants pay for changes they can be required and tax funded. Do it gradually.

The economy will thank you later.
by minaguib | 2025-06-11 13:37:47+00:00
No it's intentional. The highlight is what I call a "known prefix"

It's a hint to tell you the word starts with "s", but since you didn't narrow it down to "su..." or "sv..." it's not giving you more hints.

Once you narrow it down further, say, "sub..." and "sun..." it'll highlight the known prefix "su"
by greatgib | 2025-06-11 13:37:56+00:00
Systemd is crap. Works in the main use case, mess up otherwise. It is the windows kernel of linux distributions.

Here for example, suddenly systemd will be mandatory despite systemd not caring for multiple session of a single user. Not only not yet implemented but totally that don't need it personally so no one can want to have it. And so again the capability of our linux based distribution will be restricted for something that was just working for decades.

Again, we can also notice how systemd people try to force systemd usage down or throats by making it mandatory for core parts like the login. Where it is not the responsibility of the initsystem to deal with that (except in windows) and if the thing was not a damned crap, it would be easy to switch to alternatives with clear interfaces.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-11 13:38:23+00:00
I'll read Chanakya, but I don't see how he's supposed to appease to your taste and style of writing.

I don't think that you're pompous because you cited somebody I don't know that existed. I'm not a god. People show me things I don't know, I take note of them.

Maybe I won't agree with the direction you show me, but at least I have a new direction to discover.

This is the difference.
by riskable | 2025-06-11 13:40:53+00:00
> AI-generated slop

This phrase is kind of interesting to me because it implies that everything AI-generated is "slop". What happens when the AI is generating decent content?

Like, what if we develop AI to the point where the most insightful, funny, or downright useful content is AI-generated? Will we still be calling it, "AI-generated slop"?
by bArray | 2025-06-11 13:41:01+00:00
Combine this with the Meta Pixel illegal localhost tracking that bypasses privacy measures [1] [2] and the privacy leaking could be off the scale.

I think this goes for all things - medical data such as heart rate, blood sugar, steps, weight, VO2 max, etc, could all be seriously misused.

Personally I try to use apps that are not cloud-based, or make my own, but this isn't an option for everybody.

[1] https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44235467
by vmg12 | 2025-06-11 13:41:06+00:00
Here are the cases where it helps me (I promise this isn't ai generated even though im using a list...)

- Formulaic code. It basically obviates the need for macros / code gen. The downside is that they are slower and you can't just update the macro and re-generate. The upside is it works for code that is slightly formulaic but has some slight differences across implementations that make macros impossible to use.

- Using apis I am familiar with but don't have memorized. It saves me the effort of doing the google search and scouring the docs. I use typed languages so if it hallucinates the type checker will catch it and I'll need to manually test and set up automated tests anyway so there are plenty of steps where I can catch it if it's doing something really wrong.

- Planning: I think this is actually a very under rated part of llms. If I need to make changes across 10+ files, it really helps to have the llm go through all the files and plan out the changes I'll need to make in a markdown doc. Sometimes the plan is good enough that with a few small tweaks I can tell the llm to just do it but even when it gets some things wrong it's useful for me to follow it partially while tweaking what it got wrong.

Edit: Also, one thing I really like about llm generated code is that it maintains the style / naming conventions of the code in the project. When I'm tired I often stop caring about that kind of thing.
by nathan_compton | 2025-06-11 13:41:15+00:00
Maybe so, but I think asking the leadership class to be anything but mostly selfish and mercenary is really moving the goalposts. I think its genuinely true that at any given moment in human history, from the medieval european "universal" catholic church to the Tibetan Buddhism, its people in charge are, according to the purported moral standards of the time, mostly out for themselves, but happy to use moral or mystical language to justify their position in the hierarchy. Given that, the current moment seems pretty much like any other with respect to the culture producing/running entities.

Maybe you just think that the decrease in the power of like evangelical Christianity or conservative Catholicism constitutes a turn towards materialism? I just don't see it. Unjustifiable metaphysical beliefs are rife in society and the decline of purely Christian hegemony (if it is happening at all, given that we have had a series of pure wins for Christians at the highest levels in this country recently) is a separate thing.
Show HN: Privacy and Accessibility Score
by Vikasagrawal | 2025-06-11 13:41:59+00:00
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by mrmlz | 2025-06-11 13:41:59+00:00
As someone who has travelled in India, Indonesia etc. the plastic straw BAN in Sweden is just absolutely laughable, add to that the new EU-innovation with retard-plastic-lids on every bottle.

I mean - I'm all for reducing the need for oil and the amount of waste.. But jesus christ get a grip on what's useful and what's borderline contra-productive.
by qsort | 2025-06-11 13:42:05+00:00
I have to flip the question, what is it that people like about it? I certainly don't enjoy writing code for problems that have already been solved a thousand times. We reach for a dictionary, we don't write a hash table from scratch every time, that's only fun the first time you do it.

If I could go "give me a working compiler for this language" or "solve this problem using a depth-first search" I wouldn't enjoy programming any less.

About the natural language and also in response to the sibling comment, I agree, natural language is a very poor tool to describe computational processes. It's like doing math in plain English, fine for toy examples, but at a certain level of sophistication it's way too easy to say imprecise or even completely contradictory things. But nobody here advocates using LLMs "blind"! You're still responsible for your own output, whether it was generated or not.
by divan | 2025-06-11 13:42:09+00:00
On one codebase I work with, there are often tasks that involve changing multiple files in a relatively predictable way. Like there is little creativity/challenge, but a lot of typing in multiple parts/files. Tasks like these used to take 3-4 hours complete before just because I had to physically open all these files, find right places to modify, type the code etc. With AI agent I just describe the task, and it does the job 99% correct, reducing the time from 3-4 hours to 3-4 minutes.
by afavour | 2025-06-11 13:42:18+00:00
I have no insider knowledge but from my perspective the reason Firefox OS failed is the same reason WebOS failed and the same reason Windows Phone failed: apps. If you didn't have the apps users wanted they wouldn't buy into your platform, it really was as simple as that.

That said I think Mozilla were right to try. The phone ecosystem we live in today is locked down and tightly controlled by tech giants. Leveraging web tech to bridge that gap made sense, even if it had drawbacks. But it was a competitive environment where they needed to nail absolutely everything first time and just couldn't pull it off.
by sandinmyjoints | 2025-06-11 13:42:19+00:00
I really appreciated his work on setting up governance for Node (in addition to his work on request and other stuff as other people have mentioned). It is probably largely forgotten now, but at the time it seemed like a big risk to Node being able to move forward technically and generally. I remember that the day Joyent agreed to let go of Node, he posted somewhere about celebrating at a bar in Oakland, where I lived at the time, but I was tired and didn't feel like being social so didn't attend, which I have always regretted since it would have been great to meet him in person and celebrate the victory.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-06-11 13:42:27+00:00
They revealed the price points for running those evaluations. IIRC the "high" level of reasoning cost tens of thousands of dollars if not more. I don't think they really inflated expectations. In fact a lot of what we learned is that ARC-AGI probably isn't a very good AGI evaluation (it claims to not be one, but the name suggests otherwise).
by canucker2016 | 2025-06-11 13:42:33+00:00
Link to a recurrence article, 2025 March 10: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-10/richard-scolyer-poor-...

more recent update from 2025 June 11: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14800467/Professor-...
by like_any_other | 2025-06-11 13:42:42+00:00
> Glean said the changes will prevent customers from adding Slack data to their Glean search index or knowledge graph, thereby "hampering your ability to use your data with your chosen enterprise AI platform," according to the report, which cited an email intended for Glean customers.

So a more accurate headline would be "Salesforce blocks Slack users from using AI on their own data". It is as much an overreach as if Microsoft prevented Windows users from opening .txt files in anything but notepad.
by riskable | 2025-06-11 13:43:25+00:00
> Also, not sure how you can judge a style to be clearly better than another.

This one is actually easy: The writing style used for a horror is different than what you'd use for a romance novel. Example: If you give it a prompt that asks the AI to generate something in the style of a romance author but the rest of the prompt is describing a horror or sci-fi story you'll end up with something that most people would objectively decide, "ain't right."
by detourdog | 2025-06-11 13:45:12+00:00
My first tenant which has been here over 3 years started at a discounted rate and is paying 20% less than my last tenant to move in. I have never raised there rent. The first tenant has not experienced a rent increase.

These units are available for at will tenancy(no lease). My plan is to raise the rent on turn over rather than nickel and dime the existing tenants.
by stavros | 2025-06-11 13:45:34+00:00
Hm, no, I much prefer the Xreal to the laptop's screen (except for the blurry edges). I don't care about the monitor size, only the resolution, but I'd rather have the monitor always be straight ahead in my vision (no matter how my head is tilted), and I really like the Xreal for that.

As I said, though, I always only use a single monitor anyway, so YMMV.
by ls612 | 2025-06-11 13:45:45+00:00
The two main things that people jailbreak consoles for are dumping games to emulate on PC and running homebrew. Microsoft explicitly supports the latter use case with Dev mode and for all but a couple games (only Halo 5 nowadays?) explicitly supports the former use case by releasing their games on Steam and skipping the emulation bits. So there is little interest in hacking the Xbox consoles now. Yet I think someone still has managed in the past year to get decrypted game dumps from both XOne and Series X.