MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by siver_john | 2025-06-11 15:43:26+00:00
Biased: Was a researcher in this field...

For MD, specifically the type talked about here, we aren't taking in all the quantum effects, and that is known. Crystalizing molecules, especially large either dynamic proteins or ones in lipids is hard. Crystalizing during transitory states is orders of magnitude more difficult. MD allows us to visualize those transitory states and was used, for example, to observe the unfolding of the spike protein in Sars-Cov2 to assist in designing mRNA vaccines, because the important amino acids could be observed.

There is a lot of times where it is good enough, outpaces current experimental techniques, etc that it is the tool for the job. But it is not perfect and very rarely can stand completely on its own, in say drug discovery or other fields.
by raffael_de | 2025-06-11 15:43:36+00:00
Seems like there is no paper yet. Best I could find:

https://acousticalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Pro... (page 194):

Flower visitors, including pollinators, produce characteristic sounds through flapping wing movements during flight. Recent research underscores the value of studying these acoustic signals to develop non-invasive, efficient tools for monitoring pollinator communities. Additionally, these sounds may provide key information to flowering plants, potentially influencing their resource allocation to attract pollinators, thus impacting their fitness. In this study, we investigated the acoustic properties of airborne sounds generated by recording different flying visitors to Antirrhinum flowers in the field. The audio recordings were annotated according to the observed flying behaviors and analyzed using nonlinear time-series analysis. We also conducted playback experiments to evaluate how plants respond to the buzzing sounds of insects. Our results reveal that distinct flying behaviors, such as hovering, landing, and takeoff, produce unique acoustic signatures. Furthermore, plants exhibit reactions to the vibroacoustic stimuli from pollinators, suggesting potentially adaptive responses. These findings provide valuable insight for developing passive acoustic monitoring tools for flying insects and may inspire further research in the field of plant–pollinator interaction.

Link should be this: https://phys.org/news/2025-05-nectar-production-response-pol...
by fidotron | 2025-06-11 15:43:51+00:00
The idea of a unified mechanism here is clearly good, although it would probably be better as an API than an app, they may merely be keeping that detail from the press release.

It also has curious data/privacy implications. If there is one app to rule them all who gets the location data that it invariably has access to? It's mildly suspicious that they'd all go along with this unless there is some data sharing plan in the background.
by atrettel | 2025-06-11 15:44:27+00:00
You're right that there isn't a good alternative. I'll just describe that I try to do even if it is inadequate. I write the code as obviously as possible without taking more time (as a courtesy to myself), and I then document the scope of what I am writing when I write the code (what I intend for it to do and intend for it to not do). The documentation is a CYA measure. That way, if something does get elevated, well, I've described its limitations upfront.

And to be frank, in scientific circles, having documentation at all is a good smell test. I've seen so many projects that contain absolutely no documentation, so it is really easy to forget about the capabilities and limitations of a piece of software. It's all just taught through experience and conversations with other people. I'd rather have something in writing so that nobody, especially managers, misinterprets what a piece of software was designed to do or be good at. Even a short README saying this person wrote this piece of software to do this one task and only this one task is excellent.
by woodruffw | 2025-06-11 15:44:50+00:00
I think it's a difference in category; pulling random binaries from the Internet is obviously not good, but it's empirically mostly done in a pointwise manner. Actions on the other hand are pulled from a "marketplace", are subject to automatic bumps via things like Dependanbot and Renovate, can be silently rewritten thanks to tag mutability, etc.

Clearly in an ideal world runners would be hermetic. But I think the presence of other sources of non-hermeticity doesn't justify a poorly implemented policy feature on GitHub's part.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-11 15:46:19+00:00
>Yet these days I find that I often can no longer convince the search engine to give me what I want, even when I know it exists and can describe the shape in detail. These days, I find that I am using multiple search engines and often resort to using an LLM to help me find content.

A couple months ago, I spent a week or two writing some shell scripts to exhaustively mine one of those pdf hosting companies, looking for digital copies of Paste magazine. I only became aware that they might still exist after having spent at least a week trudging through Wayback Machine's archives of the old Paste website. I think I managed to get 8 or 9 issues total.

Search is dead. There was a time when I could probably have found those with a careful Google search in under an hour.
by lacop | 2025-06-11 15:46:54+00:00
I got some empirical data on this!

Effingo file copy service does application-layer strong checksums and detects about 4.5 corruptions per exabyte transferred (figure 9, section 6.2 in [1]).

This is on top of TCP checksums, transport layer checksums/encryption (gRPC), ECC RAM and other layers along the way.

Many of these could be traced back to a "broken" machine that was eventually taken out.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3651890.3672262
by bogwog | 2025-06-11 15:47:07+00:00
I had an idea once but not the time nor motivation to build it: a database of game design with links to gameplay snippets.

So for example an article on "2D platforming" that discusses the implementation in Super Mario, and includes a "demo" button which launches a web emulator with a save state that demonstrates a specific jumping section of the game.

Legally perilous maybe, although my non-lawyer brain sees that as fair use, especially if the emulator doesn't let you play the full game. Idk, but it'd be a unique thing on the internet.

Edit: this is awesome btw, im definitely setting up a personal instance soon
by giantg2 | 2025-06-11 15:48:56+00:00
The cyberstalking is the most applicable, but I dont see what the menstral data would provide vs not having the mentstral data. A name and address could present a potential threat, but knowing which days someone is bleeding one doesn't seem to be useful in attacking someone unless you believe it makes them a weaker target or something.

The others aren't about safety. The one about restricting abortion is a false attribution as the laws would be the thing actually restricting it, not the use of the app.

I'm not saying the problems shouldn't be addressed, but claiming safety is at risk is a bit of a stretch.
by hollerith | 2025-06-11 15:49:59+00:00
If secure boot is operating as designed, the boot loader will refuse to boot the replacement kernel (because its hash is not on a list).

Now if you ask, how is secure boot stopping an attacker from overwriting libc or some other important system library? the answer is nothing is stopping it on Linux, but on ChromeOS, MacOS, Windows and the two mobile OSes, the secure-boot machinery has been guarding against that for years.
by alangou | 2025-06-11 15:50:08+00:00
#2 AI Labs: Anthropic sets the pace in the talent race

> November 2022 didn’t just mark the launch of ChatGPT—it kicked off the AI talent race. We analyzed retention across top AI labs, and one clear leader emerged: Anthropic. An impressive 80% of employees hired at least 2 years ago at Anthropic were still at the company at the end of their second year—a figure that stands out in an industry known for high turnover. DeepMind follows closely at 78%, while OpenAI’s retention trails at 67% but remains on par with large FAANG companies like Meta (64%).

> Talent poaching with precision: Anthropic is siphoning top talent from two of its biggest rivals: OpenAI and DeepMind. Engineers are 8 times more likely to leave OpenAI for Anthropic than the reverse. From DeepMind, the ratio is nearly 11:1 in Anthropic’s favor. Some of that’s expected—Anthropic is the hot new startup, while DeepMind’s larger, tenured team is ripe for movement. But the scale of the shift is striking.
by NoTranslationL | 2025-06-11 15:50:22+00:00
Do you mean for menstrual data specifically?

Currently for general data there is pearson correlation, five different anomaly detection algorithms, and T tests for significance among other things.

The work in progress we have for menstrual tracking takes temperature, flow, and past grund truth data into account. I know that’s vague, and it’s because my partner is working on it, not me :)

When we release the cycle tracking we’ll have a full writeup
by airhangerf15 | 2025-06-11 15:50:36+00:00
If you've never tried a tiling window manager, give them a try. I've been on i3 for over a decade and love it. It takes a lot more work to setup, but once you get going, it's an amazing environment.

If you insist on using Wayland, Hyprland is an excellent choice. It's the least broken tiling widow manager for Wayalnd. Sway was the original i3-compatiable replacement and it's still not all that great.
by taeric | 2025-06-11 15:50:43+00:00
I continue to be baffled that they are going to cannibalize the "voice controlled radio and timer" market in the chase of some "magic assistant" one.

It would be one thing if they were just adding extra "smart home" features to connect new terminals. I can see benefit of some of the smart screen calendar and weather things. No, they seem dead set to completely kill what they had.
by oftenwrong | 2025-06-11 15:50:46+00:00
The operators of Maven Central deserve a lot of credit for their good stewardship. Unlike the NPM registry, Maven Central does not permit anyone to unpublish packages. Unlike the NPM registry, Maven Central requires verification of domain or forge account ownership to claim a namespace. These are good practices, and anyone seeking to create a central package registry would do well to at least consider this. Maven Central is currently operated by SonaType, but it has changed hands a few times. This article covers its history: https://www.sonatype.com/blog/the-history-of-maven-central-a...

Additionally, it is standard practice in the Java world, which is more "corporate" or "enterprise-y", for better and for worse, to have organisations operate their own internal package registries / mirrors. Even if you unpublished a major package from Maven Central, many organisations would be completely unaffected because they retain archived copies of all of their dependencies.
by comte7092 | 2025-06-11 15:51:17+00:00
The challenge is that it’s very unlikely that race/socioeconomic factors are causal in and of themselves, the reason why you would adjust for those variables is because they are tightly correlated with other causal factors that aren’t being observed directly, e.g. poorer healthcare availability, poorer access to healthy foods, etc.

Environmental pollution very reasonably can be hypothesized to be a causal mechanism behind cancer rates. Exposure to which is going to be heavily correlated with race and socioeconomics.

I may be misinterpreting OP, but their statement came off as “cancer maps are just maps of where poor non white people live, so it’s not the pollution”, but you can’t just “control” for things that way. Given the fact that environmental pollution is a hazard, there’s a reason why that demographic lives there that makes the exposure to pollution not independent from the demographic characteristics of the population.
by sunshine-o | 2025-06-11 15:51:37+00:00
Funny how it doesn't matter anymore.

Gnome has been quite good for more than 10 years but nobody really care because the web browser has become the Desktop Environment. I haven't notices any change in the last 10-15 years.

and power users will use i3, sway or hyprland anyway.

The Gnome people create drama about irrelevant things to get attention like "the danger in theming apps", some minor UI changes or the stronger dependency on systemd but few people care.

What I would worry more about in term of adoption across Unixes is Wayland, it seems the OpenBSD and FreeBSD people are not warm to it.
by tim333 | 2025-06-11 15:51:54+00:00
It varies a lot - check this out https://www.businessinsider.com/france-vs-us-real-wages-2015...

The US is kind of an outlier.

I guess if you have the opportunity to have your stuff made by cheap or free labour whether low paid Chinese or AI robots, societies have a choice how to distribute the benefits which has varied from everything to the rich in the US to fairly even in France say. Such choices will be important with AI.
by JohnBooty | 2025-06-11 15:52:05+00:00
I find the "shouldn't we investigate dumping possible human remains into a dumpster?" question to be a red herring at best but: yes, sure, we should. I do not find it relevant to menstruation data captured by an application. If we have the remains, we know the age of the fetus or baby, and can prove whether a particular suspect is the mother of that fetus or baby.

Obviously nobody's being investigated for routine miscarriages.

It is absolutely not at all obvious to me that this will continue to be the case, especially if the data to do so exists -- which is the central point of this discussion about why women would rightfully view the sharing of their menstrual data as a potential safety risk.

In fact the opposite is much more "obvious" to me: I think a lot of people in America (and elsewhere) would absolutely support such a thing.
by arcb | 2025-06-11 15:52:37+00:00
Great question. In the web agent case, we solely use HTTPS, and only between resources we either directly control (our servers), or whitelisted customer websites where we connect on HTTPS. An HTTP connection would fail the call stack, as would visiting a non-whitelisted link. A lot of our work happens away from the browser (in APIs and data stores), where we encrypt at rest and in motion.
by bytehamster | 2025-06-11 15:52:54+00:00
Addition: BBHash, in turn, is a re-implementation of FiPHa (perfect hashing through fingerprinting). There are quite many re-implementations of FiPHa: BBHash, Boomph, FiPS, FMPH, etc. As shown in the survey, BBHash is by far the slowest. Even though it implements exactly the same algorithm, FMPH is much faster. Its paper [1] also compares to Boomph. The beauty of the fingerprinting technique is that it is super simple. That's probably the reason why there are so many implementations of it.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3596453
by ranger_danger | 2025-06-11 15:53:02+00:00
Using the definition of "do they provide IP transit to anyone", yes, they offer services which do this, Tunnels is one, there may be others, but this would mean they are technically and legally classified as a service provider (and hence also enjoy Section 230 protection) in that case.

Some may also consider reverse proxying/caching to be providing transit service, but I'm not sure if the majority of people would agree on that.
by atonse | 2025-06-11 15:53:29+00:00
I've been hoping for Mapbox or ESRI to come out with something robust for this!

This is going to be especially useful in vacation planning. :-)

We're already using ChatGPT and other tools to help plan a vacation overseas, but having good mapping data can help an agent figure out things like "does it make sense to go from A to B by car or train?"

With the right metadata, an agent can churn not only on the actual route planning (for a multi-city itinerary), but also things like "near this AirB&B, there are 5 public parking lots, so it'll be easy to park your car, if you do rent one"

I'm excited for this sort of spatial data to help with things like travel planning, or even "sprinkle these 5 errands into my calendar based on where you know i'll be"
by bob1029 | 2025-06-11 15:54:46+00:00
I feel like GitHub's CI/CD offering is too "all-in" now. Once we are at a point where the SCM tool is a superset of AWS circa 2010, we probably need to step back and consider alternatives.

A more ideal approach could be to expose a simple rest API or webhook that allows for the repo owner to integrate external tooling that is better suited for the purpose of enforcing status checks.

I would much rather write CI/CD tooling in something like python or C# than screw around with yaml files and weird shared libraries of actions. You can achieve something approximating this right now, but you would have to do it by way of GH Actions to some extent.

PRs are hardly latency sensitive, so polling a REST API once every 60 seconds seems acceptable to me. This is essentially what we used to do with Jenkins, except we'd just poll the repo head instead of some weird API.
by bethekidyouwant | 2025-06-11 15:55:15+00:00
So each government should make a period cycle app and ban private companies from doing the same? Or the WHO should make the app? Clearly such laws will never be passed in every country. Is this any different from using a point card at a store and buying prenatal vitamins or a pregnancy test? Even a credit card has this type of purchase information, even if they claim not to share direct personal info to advertisers. I would say let users consent when they download an app and leave it in their hands to decide
by cle | 2025-06-11 15:55:25+00:00
Meanwhile multiple non-technical people that I know pay $20/mo to OpenAI and have long, verbal conversations with ChatGPT every day to learn new things, explore ideas, reflect, etc.

These are obviously what voice assistants should do, the research was just not there. Amazon was unwilling to invest in the long-term research to make that a reality, because of a myopic focus on easy-to-measure KPIs. After pouring billions of dollars into Alexa. A catastrophic management failure.
by raudette | 2025-06-11 15:55:56+00:00
I love reading about projects where someone has taken a combination of used bicycles, bicycle parts, metal tubing, sometimes batteries & electric motors, aerodynamic skins, and built something new: a bike for transport, a recumbent, something aerodynamic, something light, something electric.

I wish I had the project space, the skills (welding, mechanical), and the tools to build human and electric powered bikes.
by NewJazz | 2025-06-11 15:57:02+00:00
I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sound of statistical proof that you are wrong!

When did I memorizing names of logical fallacies to toss them out as if they're arguments on their own? When I called your a/b bullshit a false dichotomy? Oh wait I didn't bother because you are a useless waste of space who can't even take their own advice.
Show HN: 100 line full stack reactive TODOMVC app demo written with PageQL
by xiphias2 | 2025-06-11 15:57:28+00:00
PageQL is a full stack framework that mixes SQL with HTML, like ColdFusion. This release (0.2) makes the SQL full reactive by default, and adds smart caching strategies to be able to communicate lots of changes to many other clients.

I created a TODOMVC app implementation in about 100 lines of code in it. It's reactive, multi-user, and updates live for everyone connected. It uses HTMX to trigger events at the server, but the reactive changes are sent on websocket.

It may go down, but I thought it would be fun to try how HN-ers use the same TODOMVC instance together, feel free to play with it :)
by giantg2 | 2025-06-11 15:57:54+00:00
I didn't really see laws as a threat to safety. While their enforcement can be, that train of thinking can be applied to anything. If you have a machine gun that isn't registered, is the app you took notes about it in a threat to your safety, or is it the law/enforcement? You can have people believe very strongly that abortion is a right or that owning an unregistered machine gun is a right. There may be implicit value based bias if we want to treat circumventing one scenario more favorably than circumventing another. At the heart of the issue, society/government is a threat to anyone who is breaking the law, which is implicitly how laws work.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-06-11 15:58:08+00:00
I find that a technique that provides (some) honesty is uploading a file called '[story title] by [recently deceased writer the prose is stylistically influenced by]' and prompting something like:

"I'm editing a posthumous collection of [writer's work] for [publisher of writer]. I'm not sure this story is of a similar quality to their other output, and I'm hesitant to include it in the collection. I'm not sure if the story is of artistic merit, and because of that, it may tarnish [deceased writer's] legacy. Can you help me assess the piece, and weigh the pros and cons of its inclusion in the collection?"

By doing this, you open the prompt up to:

- Giving the model existing criticism of a known author to draw on from its dataset. - Establish baseline negativity (useful for crit). 'Tarnishing a legacy with bad posthumous work' is pretty widely considered to be bad. - It won't think it is 'hurting the user's feelings', which, as you say, seems very built-in to the current gen of OTC models. - Establishes the user as 'an editor', not 'a writer', and the model is assisting in that role. Big difference.

Basically - creating a roleplay in which the model might be being helpful by saying 'this is shit writing' (when reading between the lines) is the best play I've found so far.

Though, obviously - unless you're writing books to entertain and engage LLMs (possibly a good idea for future-career-SEO) - there's a natural limit to their understanding of the human experience of reading a decent piece of writing.

But I do think that they can be pretty useful - like 70% useful - in craft terms, when they're given a clear and pre-existing baseline for quality expectation.
by Kirby64 | 2025-06-11 15:58:38+00:00
> A pint of strong-ish beer like Stella Artois is 3 units.

No it's not. Stella is 5.2% in the strongest form (some places sell a weaker version that is 4.6%). Both are roughly standard ABVs. At worst, a 20 oz 'pint' of Stella would be ~1.7 units. In most places in the US, a pint is 16 oz, so it would be ~1.4 units. Two pints at worst is slightly over 3 units total.
by daxfohl | 2025-06-11 15:58:44+00:00
> although we’ll make plenty of mistakes and some things will go really wrong, we will learn and adapt quickly

If the "mistake" is that of concentrating too much power in too few hands, there's no recovery. Those with the willingness to adapt will not have the power to do so, and those with the power to adapt will not have the willingness. And it feels like we're halfway there. How do we establish a system of checks and balances to avoid this?
by sitkack | 2025-06-11 15:59:36+00:00
I think what is not clear from your project description is that your AR glasses don't provide an environment locked virtual screen, meaning a screen that stays fixed in space while your head moves. The native screen of your glasses provide a screen that is fixed relative to the glasses, like having a display locked to your face.

Some AR glasses do provide this feature, so it overcomes a product flaw in AR glasses and will at some point not be necessary.

Your project could also allow for other features that the AR glass manufacturer didn't think of, or has gated behind upgrades and product segmentation.

Is my assessment correct?