MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ehnto | 2025-07-29 05:33:16+00:00
I don't think you should be getting mental health advice from LLMs, it has been shown that their sycophantic nature reinforces your own diagnoses not that of a professionals. Using an LLM in a field you're knowledgeable in would make you think twice about their accuracy in fields you are unable to know the correctness of personally. It will all sound very convincing, but may be a fundamentally flawed diagnoses.

Another way of thinking about, a non-trivial amount of training data is internet comments and blogs, which have an alarming amount of self diagnoses, non-professional diagnoses, and totally fabricated facts about mental illness.
by anthonyko | 2025-07-29 05:33:20+00:00
Also a big fan of the Uniball, perviously was using Signo DXs, but have switched over to the Uniball One. I think that slightly thicker barrel helps with my handwriting. Also love the wire pocket clip.

https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-ball-One-F-Gel-Pen-0.5-mm-Faded-...

I do like the Rotring pencils over the pens, but still prefer Uni as I feel less bad about losing a Uni Kuru as it is cheaper and still has knurled grip. Also has a fun rotating lead.

https://www.jetpens.com/Uni-Kuru-Toga-Roulette-Mechanical-Pe...
by zoratu | 2025-07-29 05:33:25+00:00
Not irrelevant at all. There have been two periods of right to return, and they've both been causal in the current Israeli Muslim and Israeli Arab populations in Israel. If right to return includes voting rights, then it's likely that the voting population would ultimately legislate Israel to not be a Jewish state, and fundamentally shift the laws away from democracy and away from equal rights of Israelis. There are 50 Muslim majority countries and countless data points to reach such a conclusion, and this is fundamentally why an unconditional right to return will never happen.

tmnvix was advocating for the collapse of the only democracy in the region--tantamount to advocating for worse outcomes for more people (and likely to an actual genocide of the Jewish people, who evacuated predominately Muslim countries and populated Israel at its re-formation). There are still 50 hostages in Gaza that have been held for 514 days and counting.

In Yemen 39.5% of the population is undernourished and 48.5% of children under five are stunted. Nearby, in East Africa, the South Sudan death toll and starvation numbers also dwarf this conflict. Mysteriously, and predictably, the world is silent. But, an opportunity to put down Israel, it seems is unfortunately very popular.
by ISL | 2025-07-29 05:34:41+00:00
As a scientist (physics, not polar ice), scientists alone are too few to advocate for science alone -- we literally cannot do it.

If you want scientific research as you know it to persist in the United States, please take a moment to help support for science in Congress go viral in your community.

Empirical science is non-partisan. It is good and helpful to know what's true.

If your friends are devout readers of the bible, point 'em toward Philippians 4:8. While I'm not religious, that passage has resonated for me my entire life.

Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
by imaka | 2025-07-29 05:35:33+00:00
Jarvis: A native voice command layer for your desktop

I’ve been hacking away at Jarvis on nights and weekends for the past few months. I found myself increasingly frustrated with the constant context-switching involved in using ChatGPT through a browser for quick AI tasks. So, I decided to build a native voice-command layer that works seamlessly within any app you’re currently using.

It’s still pretty early, but I set up a frictionless web demo at jarvis.ceo/demo, where you can test it instantly without installation or sign-up. I’d love your feedback!
by ranger207 | 2025-07-29 05:36:17+00:00
NFTs are ownership (by some definition of "ownership") of assets on the blockchain. The blockchain is a database that's good for trustless transactions between a sufficient number of competing parties. Video game item transfer's problems have nothing to do with the problems blockchains purport to solve. The problems faced by developers wanting to allow transferring items between different games are primarily IP licensing agreements so that developers of one game have a license to use the assets from the other game, followed by actually finding a use for items in two different games. Since the two developers need to have agreements already in place, that obviates the need for a trustless database. The most likely scenario for one item to be useful across two different games is that both games are the same genre (ie, shooter, RTS game, etc), which reduces the likelihood of developers being open to licensing agreements because their games would be competitors. NFT item transfer has never made sense for these reasons
by SlowTao | 2025-07-29 05:37:47+00:00
Not only startups, when OneDrive (was still SkyDrive at that point) started to offer unlimited online storage, from memory they said there was about 70 users that had over a petabyte of data each on the system.

Essentially people had all their security cameras and PVR units uploading endlessly to the cloud and Microsoft was footing the bill.

Then the 1TB limit came in to stop that.
by YZF | 2025-07-29 05:39:02+00:00
There was a ton of money thrown into Gaza: "agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza, including $600 million in 2020 alone. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, aid to Palestinians totaled over $40 billion between 1994 and 2020." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid_to_Palestini...

This is not a problem that has a money solution. At least not at this point. One big misunderstanding of the "west" is that everyone wants the things that "they" do. Like a nice car, house, money, Costco, Walmart. Doesn't work like that.

Oddly enough the Palestinian Authority is siding with Israel in that Hamas can not control Gaza after the war. They just made a statement to that effect. The PA depends on Israel, Israel supports the PA, the Palestinians don't always like the PA. The PA is arguably happy with the IDF going after Hamas and PIJ in the West Bank in places like Jenin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenin_Brigades ) because Hamas wants to overthrow the PA just like it did in Gaza. The Israeli government makes a bit of a show of being against the PA while actually knowing very well it needs the PA and collaborating with the PA on security. OTOH the current government does not want the PA to get control of Gaza.

The "west bank" problem right now is that the extremists amongst the west bank settlers have more or less free reign by the government to attack Palestinians (and sometimes other Israelis). This is a result of Netanyahu's brittle coalition and the war. The Israeli right wing has always wanted to make sure there can not be a two state solution. What they still haven't quite wrapped their heads around is that they will instead have a one state solution. Really that would appear to be the only solution of sorts. Oddly enough the international community is still stuck in this "two state solution" despite it being completely unacceptable to both sides in this conflict and having proven to not work.
by atoav | 2025-07-29 05:40:12+00:00
We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Cane and stick. Politician who come over to your site get the cane, those who continue to support Netanyahu get the stick. Always give cornered animals a way out unless you want to have them put up more fight than you want.

This is the smart thing to do if your goal is to build a broad movement that achieves effective change in the real world. When serving emotions and looking edgy to your viewers online is more important than stopping the genozide then you should go the vindictive route and purity-test each person joining your side. Pragmatism is not selling well online, the crowd wants to see blood.

That means usually ot serves well to take such unappologetic stances with a grain of salt, while they sound strong, they are not usually effective positions for a broad societal movement. That btw. doesn't mean you have to forget any politicians positions earlier in this conflict. That's what I meant with "We can walk and chew gum at the same time". Makw the movement broad and keep track who was on your side early on.
by tomhow | 2025-07-29 05:40:16+00:00
> Now I'm not saying you're like secret police. You do however have a similar working model. You're not accountable to the community...

We're nothing at all if not accountable to the community; our number one guiding principle in moderation decisions is to keep earning the trust of the HN community.

Things like this can be blown up to seem as sinister as someone wants, including invoking imagery of "secret police" operating covertly.

That's never how we've operated. Right from the time he took over HN, dang has gone to great lengths to explain moderation decisions and actions, and I follow his lead on that. There was a case a few weeks ago where I engaged publicly in conversation with the author and other community members about the perception that a post was LLM-generated, and other cases where I've commented in response to clearly-LLM-generated comments, and we'll continue doing that.

All we're talking about right now is community members taking it upon themselves to publicly accuse a commenter of LLM-generated comments before we've had a chance to investigate.

It falls into the same category as accusing users of "astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like" – which is explicitly against the guidelines. As I said in my previous comment, the harm caused by false allegations outweighs the benefit of valid allgations, and the established processes are perfectly adequate to deal with valid cases.
by jmaker | 2025-07-29 05:40:18+00:00
There are things it’s great at and things it deceives you with. In many things I needed it to check something for me I knew was a problem, o3 kept insisting it were possible due to reasons a,b,c, and thankfully gave me links. I knew it used to be a problem so surprised I followed the links only to read black on white it still wasn’t. So I explained to o3 that it’s wrong. Two messages later we were back at square one. One week later it didn’t update its knowledge. Months later it’s still the same.

But at things I have no idea about like medicine it feels very convincing. Am I in hazard?

People don’t understand Dunning-Kruger. People are prone to biases and fallacies. Likely all LLMs are inept at objectivity.

My instructions to LLMs are always strictness, no false claims, Bayesian likelihoods on every claim. Some modes ignore the instructions voluntarily, while others stick strictly to them. In the end it doesn’t matter when they insist on 99% confidence on refuted fantasies.
by Prunkton | 2025-07-29 05:42:07+00:00
so much japing, so little substance and to make a point LETS JUST SWITCH TO CAPS and round it off with a reddit comment - this is capitalism baby!

Also, what is this headline even about? Why the bashing on fintech? I worked for 4 fintechs and communicated with many more, not a single one was blockchain related.

Why is this even on hn?

If you want to read proper criticism of blockchain, read Molly White's essays instead

https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/
Show HN: I made an AI tool to erase anything from a photo
by Catay | 2025-07-29 05:42:51+00:00
Hi HN,

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by csomar | 2025-07-29 05:43:03+00:00
I agree with the premise that on a tech basis, a centralized ledger is just as good, if not better, than a decentralized one.

The problem stablecoins are solving are self-inflicted: KYC to open a bank account, restricted nationalities, account freezes, capital controls, taxation over-reach, etc.

At some point someone figured out that if they start over, there is a lot of “value” to be unlocked out there; and paid/lobbied/sponsored the right person to execute on that.
by nytesky | 2025-07-29 05:43:21+00:00
Yeah who in this world has never had to reset a password? That’s what this means. That laser inscribed metal fob with you keys on it may as well be made of platinum.

And I’ve never felt clear on how people trust wallet, hot or cold — at some point they connect to the internet for transactions, and all the vendors seem suspect. I really doubt most users are building their wallet from code reviewed cryptographically signed source… but maybe I’m wrong?
by xfhfgh | 2025-07-29 05:46:42+00:00
Hey HN! I’m a software engineer who likes to play sports and lift. During COVID, I picked up a bad habit of laying around all day — and when things opened up again in 2022, I got injured. A lot.

Over the past two years, I’ve been in the gym trying to rehab, get stronger, look better, build flexibility and mobility, work on cardio, and do sport-specific training (basketball, football, etc). But I couldn’t find a single app that let me plan, organize, and track all of these goals in a unified way.

And honestly… most physiotherapists didn’t help much either — either gimmicks or vague advice like “just lift weights.”

So I started treating myself through YouTube and organizing everything in Apple Notes. That worked for a bit — I even built a system — but it wasn’t sustainable. So I did what any developer would do: I built a web app.

It’s called Superphysio, and I use it literally every day now. Even if nobody else does, it’s already made a huge difference for me — but I know other people will find value in it too. This is just the MVP (launched 2 days ago), and I have tons of features planned.

Would love if you checked it out and shared any feedback. Thanks!

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by palmfacehn | 2025-07-29 05:46:49+00:00
Whether proponents of government directed Science, agree or disagree, your comment presents a well reasoned argument. At the moment it is the most substantive comment on the page. Moreover, it is a direct, good faith response to the parent commenter's question. Yet for all of this, I see that the comment has been downvoted into grey. At the time of posting, no substantive rebuttals have been offered.

This typifies the quality of discourse around defunding of "The Science" at HN.
by atoav | 2025-07-29 05:46:55+00:00
If there is one horror I have it is one of the really mentally unwell people I knew when growing up pairing up with an LLM that feeds into everything they say. LLMs are great for truth seekers, who know how to deal with the yes-sayer-mentality of the chatbot. If there is one type of person I am 100% sure cannot deal with that it would be mental health patients.

That doesn't mean I don't think LLMs couldn't be used for therapy with great success. Just not general purpose models without a lot of tweaking.
by rixed | 2025-07-29 05:47:04+00:00
How do you get the hostages back with the bombing?

Oh, you are going to say, "that's to prevent future fighters from capturing future hostages", I guess?

But wait, we know that today's bombings are making future fighters, so, really, what's the plan??

You know, the evening of the 9/11 I remember spending the whole night depressing, thinking "omg, now the US are going to wage war all around the globe, my son will grow up in a terrible place". Because how could the military behemoth answer in any other way? And sure enough, that's what happened.

After the 7th of October, I had similar thoughts: "omg, now Israel is going to act stupid and make Jews hated again".

I've lost friends who had to leave my country because of antisemitism. I've also had my life threatened by right wing extremist zionists. So at least take my words on this: The first and most natural answer to violence and hated is more violence and hatred, universally. If that's not what you want for the next generation make the first move to stop it.
by nenxk | 2025-07-29 05:47:48+00:00
I wish steam didn’t fold if they were to say no not doing that and payment processors removed their services the outrage from consumers would have been 100x worse and I’m confident visa or Mastercard would have backed down steam could have released a statement just saying they aren’t gonna allow someone else to dictate what they do with their platform and it would have been a massive PR win for them
by spotlw | 2025-07-29 05:48:04+00:00
He made a video on this (https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZlnRlYvPvbs) where he explains he is a research scientist at MIT, but was only active from 2015 to 2020 when he switched focus to his podcast.

He published 15 first author papers during that time period: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=wZH_N7cAAAAJ

His research group at MIT: https://lids.mit.edu/people/research-staff
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-29 05:48:07+00:00
I don't think it's really worth going into the fine details here, because I'm sure we've both done our respective research on this, but I do again appreciate that you keep presenting reasonable responses on a charged topic.

$40 billion over 26 years does certainly sound like a lot of aid money, but it works out to just around $300 per Palestinian per year, which is, I think, not even enough to counterbalance the economic damage that Israel imposes on Palestine (and especially Gaza) through movement restrictions and trade barriers and blockades. It certainly pales in comparison to the budget of the Israeli military (which, admittedly, obviously has more on its plate than just Palestine, and couldn't be entirely repurposed towards aid). At any rate it's not in the realm of what I contemplate as a Marshall plan approach.

And for it to work, that aid all has to come prominently stamped "courtesy of your friends in Israel". International aid from other sources can improve living standards but doesn't build much goodwill with the neighbours.

But I agree with you on the rest of what you say.
by jjani | 2025-07-29 05:48:13+00:00
Or go here: https://claude.ai/upgrade/max. What does it say on top, on the actual pricing page?

Max plan

5x more usage than Pro $100.00/month + tax

Save 50% 20x more usage than Pro $200.00/month + tax

Especially with the "save 50%", if they're not actually offering 4x that of 5x, that's easily illegal false advertising in half the territories Anthropic's customers are located in.
by dang | 2025-07-29 05:48:19+00:00
I agree that the parent comment was a bad HN comment. But it didn't clear the threshold for a mod reply. If we tried to reply to all bad (for HN) comments, we'd run into impossibilities: (1) we'd have to post an order of magnitude more replies, which we can't do; and (2) we'd run to a buzzsaw of "why do you reply to this bad thing and not that other bad thing over there".

What made the difference between that comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718039) and the one I replied to (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44718268) was the pejorative 'you', snark, and name-calling in "You Zionists are really not even putting any effort into your hasbara anymore." (this line has since been edited out by the GP commenter). That is a dividing line where we can post mod comments because (1) there aren't so many such posts, so it's feasible, and (2) attacks like that have a particularly bad effect on threads.

> Pro-Genocide ? Fine. No swipes and flamebaits tho!

I hear you, but these two things are on different levels. To explain what I mean, let's assume that I completely agree with you on this topic. Ok? We agree that genocide is wrong and bad—far more than somebody being snarky in an internet comment, right? So wtf is wrong with the mods if they penalize one and not the other? Is "pejorative 'you', snark, and name-calling" worse than genocide? Of course not; only a monster would say so.

The answer is that we're not trying to exclude wrongness and badness in the comments here. I know that sounds bad, but suppose I said "the mods' job is to decide what's true and good and then impose it on everyone else". You wouldn't want that, right? what if we disagreed? Certainly the community as a whole would not want that.

Rather it's your job (i.e. the commenters) to work that out through discussion and argument. The mods' job is to try to keep that discussion and argument respectful* between the players. When we see people crossing that line, we respond. Otherwise we don't respond, even when someone says something which we feel is both wrong and bad, because it's not our place to impose that on the community.

(Btw I posted a bit more on this theme here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44719138)

* For practical purposes "respectful" means in keeping with the guidelines - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-07-29 05:49:26+00:00
I agree that, even though the Uni Pens write well, they look a tad uglier than their counterparts. I like rOtring’s heavier feel. I write with a fountain pen at most times when I’m at my desk but I always carry much simpler gel/ball pens. My daughters and I have settled on all sorts of rOtring and we are loving it.
by fnordsensei | 2025-07-29 05:50:01+00:00
No, you've got it wrong. If US models are suddenly required to praise their monarch, or hide his past affiliations or whatever, that warrants them more critique.

Chinese models aren't don't become exempt "because the US is also bad", they both rightfully become targets of criticism.

Other than that, testing the boundaries of the model with a well-established case is very common when evaluating models, and not only with regards to censorship.
by robmao | 2025-07-29 05:50:41+00:00
Not a promo — just sharing our design rationale for ArcSphere and why we went with an AI HUD over a Copilot model.

I recently read the article “Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs,” and it resonated deeply with me. It perfectly echoes the design principles I’ve been exploring for months with ArcSphere, our AI-native browser.

https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-w...
by jrflowers | 2025-07-29 05:50:46+00:00
>Why do we need a framework for understanding their social implications?

I would guess that the argument for wanting a framework for understanding language models’ social implications would be the social implications of language models. Like a phenomenon existing is a valid argument for understanding it.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatg...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spi...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/urban-survival/20250...

>not everyone is chronically online

Do you have data to support this? What does “chronically” mean and why would its absence invalidate the idea of social media impacting how people act and vote?
by harundu | 2025-07-29 05:51:03+00:00
I am building Overcentric - a simple and affordable toolkit that combines web & product analytics, chat support, help center, session replays and frontend error reporting, all in one place.

Building, testing and improving based on feedback of several startups that integrated it. Also using Overcentric for Overcentric itself, so I always get ideas for improvement.

What's next: more tools that are useful for startups are on the roadmap and I am exploring how LLMs can be further utilised (apart from support, session replay summaries, aiding in writing help center articles, integration) and refining pricing.

Also working on an improved landing page, but you can check out the current one at: https://overcentric.com/