MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teeray | 2025-07-29 17:42:03+00:00
> or proofs that were so hard that we would form groups after class just to copy whoever could divine the solutions.

These groups were some of the most valuable parts of the university experience for me. We'd get take-out, invade some conference room, and slam our heads against these questions well into the night. By the end of it, sure... our answers looked superficially similar, but it was because we had built a mutual, deep understanding of the answer—not just copying the answers.

Even if you had only a rough understanding, the act of trying to teach it again to others in the group made you both understand it better.
by schwartzworld | 2025-07-29 17:42:07+00:00
> but the language, API or framework does not make it conducive to easily writing correct code

The language is sort of settled. The browser runs JS, so for most projects, it's the right choice.

> If your large, complex, react app is slow - what is easier? Fixing the data architecture or adding a useMemo?

It might be easy to add useMemo, but it doesn't work. People using a tool for the wrong thing because they don't understand it isn't a problem with the tool. It's unfortunate that a tool with a steep learning curve is the "default" for many devs now, but again that isn't a problem with the tool. I don't have any guardrails keeping me from using my saw as a hammer, it just doesn't work.

> because something about language/framework/api makes doing the proper thing hard or unclear.

It's unclear because it was built on functional programming concepts and most devs aren't taught that way. If you are familiar with those concepts, the whole thing is quite simple.
by pitpatagain | 2025-07-29 17:42:15+00:00
I want to emphasize that the parent comment of all this is straight up incorrect on the mechanism of action of this drug class.

"This means that before it can work the virus has already infected the cell and added its RNA to the host cells DNA permanently." is not correct, capsid inhibitors interfere before both reverse transcription and nuclear import.

Both of the drugs in Truvada, which was has had 13 years of use in the wild since approval and is very successful, are NRTIs, they work at the reverse transcription step, they are literally later in the cycle than the new drug (but before nuclear import also) and work just fine as prep.

So the whole premise for why this drug in particular shouldn't work in theory is flawed.

To your questions about how the lenacapavir trials were run and why they rule out occult infection (which is the term for what you're describing): I'd like to find more details on the study honestly. But do I think the multiple studies that convinced the FDA to give approval just completely overlook this well known concept/possibility? Not really?
by avn2109 | 2025-07-29 17:42:51+00:00
LLM's are useful because they can recommend several famous/well-known books (or even chapters of books) that are relevant to a particular topic. Then you can also use the LLM to illuminate the inevitable points of confusion and shortcomings in those books while you're reading and synthesizing them.

Pre-LLM, even finding the ~5 textbooks with ~3 chapters each that decently covered the material I want was itself a nontrivial problem. Now that problem is greatly eased.
by 9rx | 2025-07-29 17:43:08+00:00
> No reasonable person would be confused whether Simon is trying to pass this creation off as a genuine Space Invaders product.

There may be no reasonable confusion, but trademark holders also have to protect against dilution of their brand, if they want to retain their trademark. With use like this, people might come to think of Space Invaders as a generic term for all games of this type, not the brand of a specific game.

(there is a strong case to be made that they already do, granted)
by deredede | 2025-07-29 17:43:18+00:00
The article starts with this description of 2FA:

> an electronic authentication method in which a user is granted access to a website or application only after successfully presenting two or more distinct types of evidence (or factors) to an authentication mechanism.

and concludes with (emphasis mine):

> For the average user, the smartphone has become a single point of failure, where the theft of one device and one piece of knowledge (the passcode) can lead to total financial compromise.

Looks like 2FA to me, not 1FA.
by abtinf | 2025-07-29 17:43:46+00:00
I forbid this kind of meeting on my teams.

Either everyone is in the same physical room, or everyone is remote.

The quality of communication plummets in the hybrid case:

* The physical participants have much higher bandwidth communication than those who are remote — they share private expressions and gestures to the detriment of remote.

* The physical participants have massively lower latency communications. In all-online meetings, everyone an adjust and accommodate the small delays; in hybrid meetings it often locks out remote participants who are always just a little behind or have less time to respond.

* The audio quality of remote is significantly worse, which I have seen result in their comments being treated as leas credible.

* Remote participants usually get horrible audio quality from those sharing a mic in the room. No one ever acknowledges this, but it dramatically impacts ability to communicate.
by graemep | 2025-07-29 17:43:58+00:00
I think the impact is a lot worse than that. There are still compliance costs especially for volunteer run sites. Ofcom says these are negligible, because they its unlikely to be more than "a few thousand pounds". Then there are the risks if something goes wrong if you have not incorporated.

HN has already has discussed things like the cycling forum that hit down. lobste.rs considered blocking UK IPs. I was considering setting up a forum to replace/complement FB groups I help admin (home education related). This is enough to put me off as I do not want the hassle and risk of dealing with it.

I think what you are missing is that this does not just cover things like porn videos and photos. That is what has been emphasised by the media, but it covers a lot of harmful content: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/62

It took a fair amount of legal analysis to establish blog comments are OK (and its not clear whether off topic ones are). Links to that and other things here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/06/uk_online_safety_act_...
by sejje | 2025-07-29 17:44:00+00:00
I learned how to code using the library in the 90s.

I think it's accurate to say that if I had to do that again, I'm basically screwed.

Asking the LLM is a vastly superior experience.

I had to learn what my local library had, not what I wanted. And it was an incredible slog.

IRC groups is another example--I've been there. One or two topics have great IRC channels. The rest have idle bots and hostile gatekeepers.

The LLM makes a happy path to most topics, not just a couple.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-29 17:44:00+00:00
Machine learning algorithms is not a “new craze”, using computers to predict outcomes was a thing when I was in grad school in 2001.

You explicitly mentioned pure math and macroeconomics. Those are definitely helpful in a career. I was a math double major and I just recently started studying the latest in ML (not just gen AI) and my math background definitely helped.

And does history and philology make you “smarter”? Maybe at cocktail parties but it doesn’t help me better at exchanging labor for money to support my addiction to food and shelter and I definitely didn’t need to pay thousands of dollars for it.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-29 17:44:20+00:00
I'll repeat what the other comment said, since it seems like you were sick for most of your macroeconomics class; you are currently living through the consequences of fictionalization. We did try what you're suggesting, both in America and the UK, and the post-industrial financier economics has the exact same consequences every time.

America is a precise model for what the UK will look like if it shirks liberalization. Here in the US, we've lost almost all of our postwar industrial capacity. We can't ship cost-competitive smartphones or electric vehicles without importing parts from China. We can't mass-produce the things we consume or even export enough to keep out of a trade deficit. Our biggest exports are software services reviled the world over for being surveillance systems installed and moderated by America's government. Our businesses are no longer seen as stable blue-chip stocks, but moonshots and gambling opportunities.

If you actually knew the consequences of a financier economy then you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy.
by Alupis | 2025-07-29 17:44:20+00:00
Ever buy yourself something nice that you use often? A nice belt, a nice comb, or a nice razor? A nice kitchen knife arguably does the same job as a cheap Walmart special.

Sometimes it's nice to splurge on high quality items - especially when you use them every day, like a pen. It's a little thing, but it brings pleasure every time you use it.

Not everything is about cost efficiency. You'll never regret buying quality.
by nicoburns | 2025-07-29 17:44:47+00:00
Perhaps in the US, but nobody is getting paid that in most public European systems. A quick google suggests that the absolute highest pay band for a doctor in the UK is ~£142k (~$190k USD). And there won't be many making that.

See: https://www.worktheworld.co.uk/blog/highest-paying-medical-j...
by xg15 | 2025-07-29 17:44:53+00:00
UNRWA being infiltrated would at least be theoretically plausible (even though Israel is lacking evidence even for that, apart from a small number of workers).

But this argument falls flat when essentially EVERY aid and human rights organization that operates in the strip is saying the same thing. (With the notable exception of one: The GHF)

Claiming that the ENTIRE global human rights system is engaged in a coordinated misinformation campaign against Israel is conspiracy theory levels of delusional.
by morsch | 2025-07-29 17:45:02+00:00
Well, I set it up, but I had to refer to the manual and it still took me like five to ten minutes.

https://osmand.net/de/docs/user/navigation/routing/brouter/

Novice users wouldn't stand a chance; though admittedly they'd be totally lost with osmand anyway.

It is amazingly fast, gotta be said.
by visch | 2025-07-29 17:45:06+00:00
> We're nerds. We understand the nuance, we understand the way these tools work and where the limits lie. We understand that there is web enabled and not web enabled. Regular people do not understand any of this. Regular people type into a textarea and consume the response.

The exact opposite is true. I'd word it as

"We're nerds, we don't understand nuance, we understand the way these tools work and where the limits lie. We understand that there is web enabled and not web enabled. Regular people are not nerds

> ChatGPT says "I read your article" they trust it, they do not think, "ah well this model doesn't support browsing the web so ChatGPT must be hallucinating". That's technobabble.

No, that's humans. Happens literally every day at every workplace I've ever been in
by xeonmc | 2025-07-29 17:45:21+00:00
Is it actually lasing or is it just fluorescence filtered by the microstructure? Definition of lasing entails nonlinear processes, the article seems to only indicate monochromaticity which can be achieved via linear filtering alone?

Additionally, nonlinear processes don’t immediately imply lasing either. It could be anharmonicity causing high order harmonics, which many biological materials will exhibit in response to intense laser sources[0]. In order to actually qualify as lasing you need to have evidence of coherent amplification.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon_excitation_microsco...
by wallacedev | 2025-07-29 17:47:12+00:00
Over the past few months, we've been developing SnapBlend, a photo editing app focused on creativity and visual aesthetics. The main innovation: allowing users to place text behind objects in the photo itself—a depth effect that normally requires complex editing, but here happens instantly on a phone.

In addition, I created vintage filters, Polaroid-style frames, retro effects (VHS, grainy, soft blur), and social media-ready templates.

When I started promoting the app, I didn't really know what to expect. To my surprise, by sharing the story and the creation process, I got 4,000 to 5,000 views in just 5 days. This completely changed the trajectory of the project.
by pessimizer | 2025-07-29 17:47:14+00:00
Nobody in this thread accused LLM of writing the OP. Instead, they are saying that it is dumb and easy in the way a lot of LLM writing is, and that LLMs wouldn't have any problem writing it. This author is being disliked in the traditional way, but with a LLM-assisted proof that actually shows that LLMs can write this crap, and write it well.

The real proposal should be that slate dot com type "Is Food Really Good For You?" or "Hands Are A Completely Unnecessary Part Of The Arm" article authors should be replaced by LLM.

I like the proliferation of LLM slop, because it involuntarily reveals the emptiness of an enormous proportion of actual human writing. You can't help but see it, even if you don't want to. You end up forced to talk about the author's resume in defense.
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by samwillis | 2025-07-29 17:48:24+00:00
Hi HN, Kyle, Sam and the TanStack team here.

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TanStack DB works with REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, and shines with sync engines like ElectricSQL or Firebase, letting you load large, normalized collections once and stream real-time changes into the client without manual bookkeeping. It sits on top of queryClient so you can adopt it incrementally, one route at a time.

- Intro post: https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-db-0.1-the-embedded-clien...

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Try it out and let us know what you think!
by crims0n | 2025-07-29 17:48:47+00:00
I agree... spent last weekend chatting with an LLM, filling in knowledge gaps I had on the electromagnetic spectrum. It does an amazing job educating you on known unknowns, but I think being able to know how to ask the right questions is key. I don't know how it would do with unknown unknowns, which is where I think books really shine and are still a preferable learning method.
by sejje | 2025-07-29 17:49:00+00:00
Cliff notes with a near-infinite zoom feature.

The criticism of cliff's notes is generally that it's a superficial glance. It can't go deeper, it's basically a summary.

The LLM is not that. It can zoom in and out of a topic.

I think it's a poor criticism.

I don't think it's a silver bullet for learning, but it's a unified, consistent interface across topics and courses.
by Rooster61 | 2025-07-29 17:49:06+00:00
On IRC> Newb: I need help with <thing>. Does anyone have any experience with this?

J. Random Hacker: Why are you doing it like that?

Newb: I have <xyz> constraint in my case that necessitates this.

J. Random Hacker: This is a stupid way to do it. I'm not going to help you.
by zamadatix | 2025-07-29 17:49:14+00:00
Sharing some in my all-time top ratings which are not in the list (would be cool if other folks shared some of theirs as well):

- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022): Newer than the cutoff date of the list.

- Your Name (2016): I'm not usually a fan of Anime but this newer film hit different.

- Sunshine (2007): This one I know I consider far better than most do, but it's one of my favorite variants on this kind of story for some reason. Also Cillian Murphy is my favorite actor in the modern era.

All 3 of these happen to be from after the original 2003 book from Steven Jay Schneider as well (though they aren't in the newer list either). I find he did a really good job of covering the classics, but I'm sure if I dug through my top 100 I'd hit something older I liked a lot that didn't make the cut. I'm just too lazy to :D
by imzadi | 2025-07-29 17:49:18+00:00
I think this would be true if the irrelevant information was within the question, but in this case it is tacked on to the end. Usually when irrelevant information trips up students, it is because it seems like part of the problem. When it's stuck on the end and preceded by "Random fact," as in this study, I don't think it would trip up the students. The only case where it might is if the student is reading the problem in a language other than their native language.
by ben_w | 2025-07-29 17:49:20+00:00
I remember when I was a kid, people asking a teacher how to spell a word, and the answer was generally "look it up in a dictionary"… which you can only do if you already have shortlist of possible spellings.

*nix man pages are the same: if you already know which tool can solve your problem, they're easy to use. But you have to already have a shortlist of tools that can solve your problem, before you even know which man pages to read.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-07-29 17:49:39+00:00
Look at it as a blessing. You have the time to learn anything you want. Instead, train for the job you want, on the company's dime. Prepare.

For example, many businesses need a multi-tenant database. Learn all about that. Or user interfaces perhaps. Learn marketing, or double-entry bookkeeping? Whatever floats your boat, or learn them all. They'll be useful when you move on, or start a business.

Don't worry much about the contract, unless you are thinking of creating a business related to the current one. In which case you should be more careful. Keep important research on your own computer at home, and never access it at work. Wait a full six months post employment before debuting anything publicly. Doing a forced reset on any code repos to eliminate previous dates might help, though it's very unlikely to come to that.
by RUnconcerned | 2025-07-29 17:49:44+00:00
As an european, the US doesn't appear to be very friendly to me, or rather, their friendliness is conditional on the EU acting like a vassal state (or vassal federation). The current US administration doesn't even pretend like that's not the case, but past administrations acted like this as well.

China seems very much like a more straightforward and predictable trading partner.
by Alupis | 2025-07-29 17:49:51+00:00
> Not a pro but not a n00b either.

Unfortunately the 2A community is filled with fud and hollywood-esque beliefs. Those who have little training or practical experience often fall victim to believing these fantastical "what-if" scenarios.

The amount of times a firearm has been taken out of someone's duty holster and used against them is a statistical rounding error. Most LEO departments require Level 3 Retention holsters, making this scenario nearly an impossibility. Additionally, a safety isn't going to save someone's life if the "bad guy" has wrestled control of the firearm away from the owner.

This entire scenario is fiction. Manual safeties often do more harm than good - which is why just about all modern handguns have no manual safety (outside of the few States which, out of ignorance, require them by law).
by scarmig | 2025-07-29 17:49:56+00:00
I've found it excels at some things:

1) The broad overview of a topic

2) When I have a vague idea, it helps me narrow down the correct terminology for it

3) Providing examples of a particular category ("are there any examples of where v1 in the visual cortex develops in a disordered way?")

4) "Tell me the canonical textbooks in field X"

5) Posing math exercises

6) Free form branching--while talking about one topic, I want to shift to another that is distinct but related.

I agree they leave a lot to be desired when digging very deeply into a topic. And my biggest pet peeve is when they hallucinate fake references ("tell me papers that investigate this topic" will, for any sufficiently obscure topic, result in a bunch of very promising paper titles that are wholely invented).
by switchbak | 2025-07-29 17:50:20+00:00
This is what I find fascinating. What hidden capabilities exist, and how far could it be exploited? Especially on exotic or novel hardware.

I think much of our progress is limited by the capacity of the human brain, and we mostly proceed via abstraction which allows people to focus on narrow slices. That abstraction has a cost, sometimes a high one, and it’s interesting to think about what the full potential could be without those limitations.
by no_wizard | 2025-07-29 17:50:57+00:00
>Asking the LLM is a vastly superior experience.

Not to be overly argumentative, but I disagree, if you're looking for a deep and ongoing process, LLMs fall down, because they can't remember anything and can't build upon itself in that way. You end up having to repeat alot of stuff. They also don't have good course correction (that is, if you're going down the wrong path, it doesn't alert you, as I've experienced)

It also can give you really bad content depending on what you're trying to learn.

I think for things that represent themselves as a form of highly structured data, like programming languages, there's good attunement there, but you start talking about trying to dig around about advanced finance, political topics, economics, or complex medical conditions the quality falls off fast, if its there at all
by flyinglizard | 2025-07-29 17:51:49+00:00
The Palestinians are largely looking for the destruction of Israel, not "civil rights". The "right of return" (meaning the inflow of millions of third, fourth and fifth Palestinian descendants from neighbour Arab countries) is their - and the Arab's world - tool to dismantle Israel (there's a reason Arab countries don't grant citizenship to those Palestinians despite residing there for over 50-70 years).

There are no civil rights in Gaza, but that's not because of Israel - that's because Hamas is a fundamental, radical and totalitarian Muslim organization which is right next to ISIS in their methods and beliefs.

The suggestion that Jews admit defeat, hand their heads to Hamas and the likes and ask for forgiveness does not resonate as sane. It's like suggesting a rape victim to move in with the family of the perpetrator and look for reconciliation. The Palestinian and Jewish populations are not compatible with each other and I see no path to coexistence under the same governing body. These populations are too far apart on any conceivable metric.

Luckily Israel took the opportunity to do just about the opposite of what you suggested and aggressively dismantled the Iranian ring of fire that surrounded it. Lebanon and Syria have been transformed, Iran caught a massive blow and any dreams of breaking Israel by force must be a distant past now. The Middle East will have to accept Israel, and by the looks of things this is where it's going. If you haven't been to the region you'll never understand the collective Middle Eastern mentality that despises weakness and worships victors.
by paxys | 2025-07-29 17:51:54+00:00
This is born out of necessity. I have seen some of the coding interview "cheating" tools in the market today and it is ridiculous just how good they are at helping a candidate fake not just the answer but their entire thought process. Leetcode style interviewing is basically dead, at least if done remotely.

The only way to fight this from the employer side is to embrace these tools and change your evaluation criteria.