MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rufus_foreman | 2025-07-05 15:16:12+00:00
When you invest in bonds, they are worth more tomorrow than they are today. So you would have the same incentive to put off spending as long as you could as you would owning a deflationary currency. If that is bad for the economy when you're holding a deflationary currency, it should be bad for the economy when you're holding an appreciating asset.
by purple_turtle | 2025-07-05 15:16:41+00:00
If you verified it and llm only prompted you to start - then do not mention it at start.

If you know so little on the topic that chatgpt was illuminating - then I have doubts whether you are qualified to review it.

Nutrition research has piles and piles of low quality studies allowing you to support any claims you may wish to make.

I tried some time ago to get some worthwhile guidance and failed. I have doubts whether it improved much since then.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-07-05 15:16:44+00:00
What people keep failing to understand about Stop Killing Games is that the proposal is intentionally vague and doesn't fully specify its demands. The intent is to open a conversation, not think through every corner case.

Of course, the logical minds here will want to tear it apart and analyze it from every direction, but don't forget that it still needs to be "transformed" into an actual non-vague version.

Part of me worries it'll get transformed into some onerous GDPR-style law that just adds a new annoying banner when you install a game that warns you that you accept whatever end of life plan the game has, which no one will read...
by graycat | 2025-07-05 15:17:19+00:00
The number of people served varies, but a guess is 4: It has 4 pieces of bread, about 80 C (calories) per person. The 1 cup of cheese would be 1/4 C per person, and 1/4 cup of that cheese is enough to be noticed. The 3 heads of Romaine is 3/4 a head per person, and that's plenty for a salad. Could add up to ~300 calories, which is a lot for just part of a meal, just a salad, and not a full meal or even a main dish. So, might follow it with something with a lot of protein, a grilled T-bone steak, grilled/roasted chicken, etc.

But, the dressing yields about 3 cups with 2 cups of oil (plus the oil with the anchovies). The 2 cups is 32 tablespoons at 125 calories per tablespoon, ..., might feed 32 people. In that case, leave the dressing as is and increase the lettuce, bread, and cheese.
by vidarh | 2025-07-05 15:17:36+00:00
Usually this isn't a big issue if people are on managed hosting, because costs tends to be so much lower, and you can often overprovision more when you know it's a dev environment, while turning down number of instances etc.

The most important thing tends to be to make it possible to run services in isolation so devs can test individual services on their own machines. Then you'll end up with much more time-limited need to spin up larger environments for integration tests etc.

The most important part, though, tends to be to ensure you have a system to keep track of what is running and who is currently using it.
by shafyy | 2025-07-05 15:17:48+00:00
Nutrition is very complex, and also nutrition scientists don't understand everything, and how it relates to health and well-being. Therefore, I try to keep to a few basic rules of thumbs:

- Eat as much unprocessed food as possible

- Eat mostly vegetables, ideally a wide variety (i.e. don't only eat cauliflower)

- Eat a lot of fiber

- Choose unsaturated fats like olive oil over saturated ones like butter

- Limit your caloric intake

https://nutritionfacts.org is a very good source. Dr. Michael Greger and his team review a huge number of studies, and explain them with all the caveats.
by Pooge | 2025-07-05 15:18:24+00:00
I've read a few books on nutrition that are not in the same "ideological" agenda at all (e.g. How Not To Die, Why Proteins Don't Count).

The book I'm going to read next is called The Diet Myth. I wonder if some people here read it and could share their opinions. It's mostly because I'm physically active and would like to understand more how the body works (including nutritionally).

But, the more I read different ideas, the more I think that there is absolutely no consensus—for good reasons—on how to lose or gain weight. I'm expecting to get downvoted by the HN crowd because people don't want to hear anything beside "calories in - calories out", but I hope to start a polite discussion.
by rovr138 | 2025-07-05 15:18:31+00:00
The kernel, even its bugs, should be stable (in that they shouldn't change unless it happens the correct way). If not, it starts introducing unexpected issues to users.

If someone's testing against these versions, adding their fixes and patches, stuff like this will break things for users. He can't assume all users will be regular desktop users, even on an experimental area of the code.

Things like 'RC' have meaning. Meaning that has been there for years. He can develop on a separate tree and users that want it can use it. This is used all over.
by jim_lawless | 2025-07-05 15:18:39+00:00
You could do similar things on a C64 and other computers. You might try this out on a C64 emulator such as VICE.

10 REM NOTHING TO SEE HERE

20 PRINT "HELLO!"

POKE 2049,1

Run it. You'll see HELLO! LIST it and you'll continuously see line 10. If you try to LIST 20 the machine pretty much locks up.

Screen image is here:

https://jimlawless.net/images/remtrick.gif

(note that in the above image, you'll see two RUN lines ... it appears that I captured the screen as it was in mid-scroll... )
by sfn42 | 2025-07-05 15:18:40+00:00
I'm not talking about large scale. I'm also not talking about politics, which I assume is what you're implying re my motives. I don't have any motives, I'm not even American. I don't really care about all the crazy stuff happening over there. They got what they voted for, meanwhile the world is wondering how they elected that clown not once but twice.

The ironic thing in all this is that these rural people you're talking about are probably the exact people responsible for electing him. Evokes images of leopards eating faces and such.
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-05 15:18:49+00:00
I completely agree that LLMs are missing a fundamental part for AGI, which itself is a long way of from super intelligence.

However, you don't need either of these to completely decimate the job markets and by extension our societies.

Historically speaking, "good enough" and cheaper had always won over "better, but more expensive". I suspect LLMs will raise this question endlessly until significant portions of the society are struggling - and who knows what will happen then

Before LLMs started going anywhere, I thought that's gonna be an issue for later generations, but at this point I suspect we'll witness it within the next 10 yrs.
by ogora | 2025-07-05 15:19:04+00:00
PureWord is designed with the noble aim of restoring civility to the internet. While it comes with a predefined list of words, you, the user, can freely customise it.

The tool is not intended for broader purposes, such as politically sensitive language, as mentioned in your example. That may be a concept for a future tool or an expansion pack.

It does not alter the meaning of a sentence; it merely makes it more civil. Users can still hover over the replaced word to view the original.

It is like watching a movie with the bad words bleeped out... you would still know what was said but even if you did not, the meaning of the scene is not lost.
by patchule | 2025-07-05 15:19:23+00:00
I don’t disagree. But it’s also true that this will set precedent for future entitlement cuts. Younger people are not served by having entitlements treated as a sacred cow. I am in the opposite camp, cuts will and already have hurt me. I just wonder if maybe we should stop perpetuating a multi-generational Ponzi scheme that allows any generation with large enough numbers (eg baby boomers) to steal all the money from the cookie jar and spend it before anyone can figure out what the heck happened. Maybe that’s a problem with democracy more generally, but that it is a problem cannot be denied. If the dominant age cohort in power is over 85 they will have little incentive to worry about the budget ir nation beyond 5 or 10 years, let alone 80 to 100 years that are relevant to today’s youngest citizens. Not that we should ditch democracy but maybe we should limit entitlements to prevent abuse.
by mwcampbell | 2025-07-05 15:19:26+00:00
I wonder if it's actually accurate to attribute authorship to the model. As I understand it, the code is actually derived from all of the text that went into the training set. So, strictly speaking, I guess proper attribution is impossible. More generally, I wonder what you think about the whole plagiarism/stealing issue. Is it something you're at all uneasy about as you use LLMs? Not trying to accuse or argue; I'm curious about different perspectives on this, as it's currently the hang-up preventing me from jumping into LLM-assisted coding.
by bgwalter | 2025-07-05 15:19:44+00:00
Also, xAI bought X:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/29/elon-musk...

And now xAI gets refinancing:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/01/elon-musk-xai-raises-10-bill...

The Saudi investors who lost a lot of money on X still believe in Musk's "AI" efforts, at least in public (see Tucker Carlson interview with one of the princes). So it's better to keep up the hype and sell them additional GPU data centers.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-07-05 15:19:58+00:00
The fat/carb interaction is captured in the ornish diet, which is low fat&sugar + vegetarian.

Surprisingly, if followed reasonably well it does not lead to obesity - - just The opposite.

Even with the abundance of carbohydrates you get from eating a vegetarian diet, avoiding simple carbs and avoiding mixing them with fat is another route to healthy eating
by hnaccount_rng | 2025-07-05 15:20:01+00:00
The point isn't about a change of legality. It's about a change of enforceability! In the normal regulated financial system _every_ entity you can interact with is known to someone who is a) good at keeping paper traces and b) extremely motivated to provide them, given appropriate motivation, i.e. a properly formed request by authorised parties. And that limits the number of times you can do anything scammy to "few" before you need to switch identities

So in your scenario: The 3 billion will reappear at some point and they will raise flags. And at that point there is a convenient rendezvous point between law enforcement and the perpetrators. And we can all quibble about whether the authorisation is appropriate or not (not all "requests" are requests and most won't even need anything close to a court order). But it's damn convenient to follow the money
by blibble | 2025-07-05 15:20:16+00:00
> HN has a very strong moderation team with years and years of history letting awkward (e.g. criticism of YC, YC companies) things stand.

the attempt to steer direction is well hidden, but it is very much there

with https://hnrankings.info/ you can see the correction applied, in real time

the hidden bits applied to dissenting accounts? far less visible
by PhilippGille | 2025-07-05 15:20:22+00:00
To make it shorter than OP's reply, from my understanding of the offerings:

- PlanetScale for predictable load. You pick a config (CPU, memory) and if you don't have traffic it sits idle, and if you have traffic it's limited by the config you picked.

- Neon for scalability. You pay for compute hours, so if your traffic is spikey (e.g. concert ticket sales), you don't pay for idle resources during low traffic, and get all the compute you need during high traffic.
by bookerjt | 2025-07-05 15:21:44+00:00
Think about it: for you to collect your $2b someone has to be willing to give it to you and believe they will get it back in the future by buying your bitcoin. Who would do that?

Then you just magically deposit $2b into your bank account? Riiiight. That’ll set off epic levels of warning lights and in the US the feds would be up your ass instantly.

I bet it’s a freaking nightmare to sell off that much btc.
by AbbeyRoadRunner | 2025-07-05 15:21:58+00:00
1. Don't know anything about their rep. Big corp, that's all we know.

2. I do think they appreciate, we offer what they need in time which suits them. That's only my opinion TBH, they said twice that amongst other offers some bidders also have a ready-to-launch product. Maybe it's true, maybe it's a bluff.

3. Yeah, I was thinking about 50% more which makes it 27k $. Or maybe it should be 100%? I am balancing between not beeing greedy, and having a fair cut.
by nunez | 2025-07-05 15:22:06+00:00
Why do blog post authors decide to use AI art with nonsense text in it? It's a dead giveaway and looks sloppy, IMO. Unless the new normal is that images with gibberish text are fine now.

I immediately stop reading whatever I'm reading when I see this. I'm left to assume that the post I'm reading was also heavily AI-assisted and isn't a true representation of the author's writing ability or their actual thoughts.

I'd much rather see a post full of grammatical errors and stock art from an author with a story to tell that actually put the work in than a grammatically/syntactically milquetoast piece in the style of a million other milquetoast pieces.

TL;DR: "If they can't be bothered to actually write this, then I can't be bothered to read it," is what I think when I see AI slop art.
by the_af | 2025-07-05 15:23:01+00:00
I think you must consume (I hate that word, but let's go with it) elsewhere. Someone said (maybe Stephen King in "On Writing"?) in order to be a writer you must be voracious reader, and there's no escaping this. It rings true to me.

Of course the problem of taste growing much faster than skill remains, but I don't think the answer is to "consume" (yuck) less. I actually don't know if there's an answer.
by disruptiveink | 2025-07-05 15:23:15+00:00
I really don't, what is the answer? I assume higher ups at law enforcement, who are detached from the day-to-day operations, make up excuses about "end to end encryption being a challenge" because it's a meme, much like execs in our fields parrot "challenges" to boards and VC investors that are often fully removed from actual execution issues.

And then because it comes up in slides so much at that higher level, politicians actually start thinking that's why we haven't solved all crime, our guys are competent and clearly they're not understaffed, it's that pesky "not being able to break end to end encryption" that is preventing law enforcement from doing their work!
by shafyy | 2025-07-05 15:25:46+00:00
Obviously, if you have a good weight and low body fat, you don't need to limit your caloric intake. In this PDF nutritionfacts.org cites several studies that seem to show that caloric restriction might have health benefits outside of pure energy intake: https://app.box.com/file/1421942387675

But yes, I also don't count calories or whatever =)
by unyttigfjelltol | 2025-07-05 15:26:11+00:00
Yes, LLMs provide a voice to the library. They transform a collection of written works a living, breathing thing. To go further-- a high-quality collection of works expresses general intelligence, and the LLM converts this into a dynamic general intelligence. It's not quite artificial because, after all, it's a library of writings created by natural intelligence, but the result most certainly is dynamic and interesting.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-07-05 15:27:37+00:00
Your example shows everything that is wrong with SWE nowadays. Can you right now generate anything without an internet connection? I guess not. Also what the fuck can I do with that repository? There is no code, nothing useful to me, no automated way to build the application, and the source code can change every time you generate it which means no specifications, no tests, no way to improve this application, and no way to create regression tests. If I ever saw that thing at work, it would go to the trash can.
by jcalvinowens | 2025-07-05 15:28:05+00:00
> we're further along than btrfs in "will it keep my data"

Honestly Kent, this continuing baseless fearmongering from you about btrfs is absolutely disgusting.

It costs you. I was initially very interested in bcachefs, but I will never spend my time testing it or contributing to it as long as you continue behave this way. I'm certain there are many many others who would nominally be very interested, but feel the same way I do.

Your filesystem charitably gets 0.001% the real world testing btrfs does. To claim it is more reliable than btrfs is ignorant and naive.

Maybe it actually is more reliable in the real world (press X to doubt...), but you can't possibly know yet, and you won't know for a long time.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-05 15:28:22+00:00
You would be surprised how many people are completely overwhelmed by the choices uMatrix offers. Lots of people out there, that don't even know what a website can consist of, let alone what it means to block this or that, or have the awareness that they did block something, or the patience to properly unblock the minimum amount of shit necessary to use the website. For many people any effort at all makes them surrender to the global spyware.
by akulkarni | 2025-07-05 15:28:44+00:00
I agree with the overall sentiment of this post.

I’ve learned (sometimes the hard way!) that every design choice comes with real trade-offs. There’s no magic database architecture that optimizes every dimension (e.g., scalability, performance, ease-of-use) simultaneously.

Social media often pushes us into oversimplified "winner vs. loser" narratives, but this hides the actual complexity of building great infrastructure.

Recognizing and respecting these differences makes us smarter engineers, better community members, and frankly, just more enjoyable people to chat with.

PS Thank you for helping me add a new book to my list :-)
by Latty | 2025-07-05 15:28:46+00:00
I agree that I really don't like Andy Weir's character writing: his dialogue in particular is rough, but despite normally characters being what I'm there for in stories, I give Project Hail Mary a bit more credit than this. The story has some interesting ideas and I think Weir's strength is the mystery of process: you see a challenge, and then you get to enjoy the competence porn of someone successfully going through the process of finding a solution, and I think he nails doing that in a really engaging way.

I do think the movie will probably end up better than the book: having a screenwriter go over the dialogue alone will do a lot, I think.
by lucb1e | 2025-07-05 15:28:54+00:00
I enjoyed The Martian even more, but perhaps only because I wasn't prepared for how good it was. I was bored in Stockholm airport and thought "haven't I heard of this book oh HN?", flipped a few pages, and decided to buy it. It quickly became clear that I had a new favorite book (and it still is)

PHM, from the same author, I was very much expecting to be very good to amazing. It delivered, but it's a different feeling when you see it coming
by debesyla | 2025-07-05 15:29:03+00:00
As all the previous booms - hard to predict before it happens. And if we do predict, high chances are that we will miss.

My personal guess is something in the medical field, because surely all the AI search tools could help to detect common items in all the medical data. Maybe more of ozempyc, maybe for some other health issue. (Of course, who knows. Maybe it turns out that the next boom is going to be in figuring out ways to make things go boom. I hope not.)
by jfengel | 2025-07-05 15:29:20+00:00
Ah, a Fortran joke. That's not just "technologists". That's old farts.

(In Fortran 66, variables didn't have to be declared. They would be integer if they began with I, J, K, L, M, or N. Otherwise it would be floating point [REAL, in Fortran parlance]. To this day it's why for loops usually use "i". With the bonus joke that God is real unless declared integer.)
by hollerith | 2025-07-05 15:29:24+00:00
Spices like oregano, ginger and many others disrupt the biofilm in the gut. Too much disruption would be deleterious for most people, but spices are mild in their disruptive effect, which is generally beneficial and preferable for most people to never eating any biofilm disruptors. Spices keep the biofilm to manageable levels.

I have to be careful with ginger and oregano: if I haven't taken any in many days, then I take more than a quarter teaspoon of dried oregano leaves, then too many microbes in my biofilm die, which makes me feel bad (because the dying microbes release toxins).

Point is, maybe you just need to introduce spices gradually.
Show HN: Intentflow – YAML-based UX engine with flags, tooltips, and LLM routing
by Beefin | 2025-07-05 15:29:56+00:00
We built Intentflow https://github.com/mixpeek/intentflow to make UX flows declarative and adaptive.

Most product teams hardcode banners, modals, and onboarding steps. Intentflow lets you define those flows in YAML and render the right UI component—like tooltips or banners—based on user flags, behavior, or an optional LLM.

Why:

* Ship contextual UI flows faster (onboarding, upgrades, email capture) * Avoid heavyweight tools like Appcues or hardcoded logic * Built for developers: React-first, YAML-native, framework-agnostic * Open-source under Apache-2.0 license

What it does:

* Define UX flows in YAML * Track and evaluate flags like `viewed_pricing` or `clicked_cta` * Render components like modals and tooltips when preconditions are met * Use PostHog or Segment for event logging * Use OpenAI, Claude, or Gemini to decide which component to show

Would love feedback from devs working on PLG tools, onboarding systems, or adaptive UIs.
by jklowden | 2025-07-05 15:30:09+00:00
Why do I remember that every C64 BASIC keyword was a 2-byte integer? A typing shortcut was to enter the first letter, followed by a "shifted" high-bit character. Every keyword was represented that way.

Variables were also 2-bytes, but ASCII. The user could enter a longer name, but only the first two characters were significant.
by keyringlight | 2025-07-05 15:30:24+00:00
One thing I wonder about is whether PC gaming is splitting into two distinct tiers, high end for those with thousands to spend on their rig and studios who are pathfinders (id, Remedy, 4A, etc) in graphics, then the wider market for cheaper/older systems and studios going for broad appeal. I know the market isn't going to be neatly divided and more of a blurry ugly continuum.

The past few years (2018 with the introduction of RT and upscaling reconstruction seems as good a milestone as any) feel like a transition period we're not out of yet, similar to the tail end of the DX9/Playstation3/Xbox360 era when some studios were moving to 64bit and DX11 as optional modes, almost like PC was their prototyping platform for when they made completed the jump with PS4/Xbox one and more mature PC implementations. It wouldn't surprise me if it takes more years and titles built targeting the next generation consoles before it's all settled.