MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 06:13:00+00:00
> Most people are moderate on most issues. That's just statistics...and it's actually backed up by all sorts of polling.

Moderate-ness is, more or less, a fallacy. People believe that since we have A and B that the correct answer must be somewhere in the middle - intuitively, you would think, somewhere really in the middle. Like if I want fried chicken, but my friend wants to eat-in to get something healthy, then the right answer is getting something out to eat that's somewhat healthy.

So, people who are unaware on issues are "naturally" moderate, because intuitively it seems to make a lot of sense.

But, not actually. If we just look at history, choose virtually any point, when are the moderates right? Almost never. The 3/5ths compromise was shit, for instance. Civil Unions? Remember those? Yeah, that was stupid and we should've just given homosexuals marriage. I mean, what were moderates saying during the Civil Rights movement in the 60s? I'll give you a hint... it was not good. Yeah, that aged like milk too.

You would think, given the history of failure that is moderate policy, people might be a tad hesitant to be moderate on an issue. You would think, they might dig deeper.

But no. We all have this idea that this point in time, and in this particular place, is unique. Our politics, now, are much different. No no, you see, it's not the same. This time we are right.

Of course, this is slightly better than social conservatism, which has a track record of always being bad. Forever. In every culture. Across the entire globe. But no guys, this time it's right! Never mind Confucianism or whatever, this is different!
by barry-cotter | 2025-07-14 06:13:04+00:00
Different people react differently to flu and different strains are different. I remember when I was 30 I got the flu and I had enough energy to walk to the nearest convenience store to get lunch and enough energy to do an hour of driving practice a day and the rest of the time I lay in bed. I did not have the energy to read a book. I didn’t have the motivation to turn on the radio. It was awful. Glad I haven’t had the flu since.
by zkmon | 2025-07-14 06:14:18+00:00
I envy all runners. I tried running many times, on consecutive days as well. After running for a minute or so, I start getting a burning sensation in the chest and I gasp for breath. I must stop and sit. After resting for a few minutes, I can repeat the same. However I can do fast walking for an hour. I suspect this is some condition that I have, rather than lack of practice. So I don't push it. Anyone thinks this is normal? Also I'm not sure if running for longer time is so much needed if I do walking.
by blincoln | 2025-07-14 06:15:24+00:00
Peter Watts' Blindsight and Echopraxia are the 21st-century evolution of cyberpunk, IMO.[1] It's really too bad he seems to have decided not to continue writing in that fictional world.

[1] They're almost literally Bruce Sterling's corporations-would-turn-Frankenstein's-monster-into-a-product.
by boredhedgehog | 2025-07-14 06:16:02+00:00
Are you asking why a filter doesn't suffice, or why uBO doesn't automatically load the userscript?

The answer to the former is that the script swaps in a low-res replacement stream while the ad is running, which I don't think a filter can do. As to the latter, an extension automatically executing arbitrary remote userscripts supplied by third parties would be a nightmare for security.
by hammyhavoc | 2025-07-14 06:16:55+00:00
UptimeFlare looks promising—runs in a Cloudflare Worker: https://github.com/lyc8503/UptimeFlare

If anybody wants to be a clever clogs, combining both this and Uptime Kuma would be genius. What I want is redundancy. E.g., if something can't be reached, check on the other, likewise if one service takes a crap, continue monitoring via the other and sync up the histories once they're both back online.

This "local or cloud" false dichotomy makes no sense to me—a hybrid approach would be brilliant.

If anyone manages this, email me: me@hammyhavoc.com. I would love to hear about it.
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-14 06:18:20+00:00
Take a much more gradual increase in intensity. Start walking for 5 minutes, then speed walking for 5 minutes, then light jogging, etc.

Alternatively, try cadio exercise on a machine. Personally I like the elliptical machine way more than running. Mostly since I can watch Netflix and other videos while I do it. But it also lets you regulate and monitor intensity more effectively than running.
by hereme888 | 2025-07-14 06:18:48+00:00
All forms of medicine, new or ancient, should undergo validation and integrated into "mainstream" medicine. If wormwood worked but only when using cold water, study that extract, isolate the compound to promote reproducibility of benefits and minimize side-effects from unnecessary compounds, and attempt mass production at cheap prices for public benefit without destroying the environment.

How else can we foster trust that medicines are reliable?

Modern medicine was born by consolidating and empirically scrutinizing thousands of years of all sorts of medicine.
by Barbing | 2025-07-14 06:19:11+00:00
Oh very interesting thank you!

Uhg making reasonable-cost investments to protect my privacy before it costs me more in other ways, what a drag. (I know myself here… need to motivate myself to at least try to do better than a cheap VPN and a private tab… will come back to this sometime)

—

Also did you see the post about North Korean IT workers? Mini KVMs cited in the thread, shown in “The first time I was visited by the FBI” by ‘Level 2 Jeff’ on YT. May severely hamper my efforts to find takers on who’ll put spare laptops behind their residential IPs “but just so I can meme more privately I swear!”
by cgibson2025 | 2025-07-14 06:19:27+00:00
Just Updated ChatInterface with the basic AI chat features. We are working on adding persistent Session memory for all agents. This is a little bit more difficult then a basic single LLM chat model so handling memory is tricky. We don't want The Wellness coach referencing something from the Cooking agents memory. When we get it working, you'll be the first to know. This is gonna be great for anyone to use. I envision 1000's of agents in the AI Agent Marketplace. It's a work in progress. Thanks for all the traffic and feedback.
by shekharupadhaya | 2025-07-14 06:21:27+00:00
Hey HN,

Two months ago I spent a weekend fighting "Google My Maps" just to share a “Casino Royale filming locations” with friends. It took hours. So I scratched the itch and built MapScroll.

What it does • Type one sentence (“Marco polo silk road journey” or "Ancient mayan ruins in Mexico") → it geocodes, gathers images/articles, and plots a map ready to share with a link. Each marker includes a photo gallery and contextually relevant sources. • Refine, Edit pins and reorder stops, and share to view on web or mobile.

Under the hood MapBox + Geocoding API; GPT-4.1 mini; Next JS; Serp for Websearch Agent; Vercel for deployment.

Traction so far ~3000 maps made since last shared in r/MapPorn; history teachers and travel bloggers are the heaviest users.

Why I’m here I’d love blunt feedback on UX and ranking logic. No signup needed, give it a try: https://mapscroll.ai/

Popular Examples by some Users: 30 days Japan Itinerary: https://www.mapscroll.ai/post?queryId=iP7i2n4SDeQGB6wZUglv Active Volcanoes in Iceland: https://www.mapscroll.ai/post?queryId=s0qscaLHkRm53oxngIBS Casino Royale Film locations: https://www.mapscroll.ai/post?queryId=mswdiyxJRGYtRKGiPHVR

-Shekhar
by WalterBright | 2025-07-14 06:22:05+00:00
> Either you have not "become wealthy", as you "traded a million dollar painting for a million bucks" or the effectual value of money exceeds the purchase value of the "million dollar painting". Both cannot be true.

I became wealthy by creating wealth, not concentrating it. Concentrating it requires it be taken from somewhere else. There is no taking going on, there is creation and exchange.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-14 06:22:17+00:00
> the whole point of this is to claim “hey, C does too have typesafety” —if you use a modern language with actual typesafety,

I'm afraid the point was not some childish and immature comparison of C with modern languages.

The point was to demonstrate what type safety there is, and how to use it. The advantages of modern languages are even acknowledged:

> Much to the surprise of, well, everybody, C actually has type safety. Sure, it isn’t as enforceable as (for example) Rust… and, sure, if you are willing to do extra work you can bypass it,

The entire point of TFA is actually in TFA:

> The problem isn’t that C lacks type safety (it clearly enforces most types in most expressions), it’s that raw pointers do not encode semantics (e.g., a char * doesn’t tell you if it’s an email, a name, or a filename).
by kilpikaarna | 2025-07-14 06:22:45+00:00
They know how to train the models because they were part of a team that did it once at a competitor already. They bring with them very domain specific knowledge and experience. It's not something you can learn at college or hacking away in your spare time.

Fair enough, they're probably worth the money it takes to poach them. But trying to stretch the (arguably already tenous) "10x engineer" model to explain why is just ridiculous.
by ShinMatsura | 2025-07-14 06:22:54+00:00
I run Best AI Tool Finder, a directory site that collects and publishes in-depth reviews of top-rated AI tools. Each tool is thoroughly researched, ensuring our content is among the most detailed anywhere.

Recently, I realized that these reviews could serve as the most labor-intensive requirement definitions for Vibe coding—essentially, the groundwork for rapid AI-driven software creation. Of course, extremely complex AI tools might be out of reach for now, but for services that mainly connect APIs, just attaching the review article’s URL and a few rounds of conversation can extend existing services or even build new features quickly

If you use a Vibe coding service that can search the web and read a review article by URL, simply posting the link is enough. Otherwise, copying the full article text into the chat should work just as well.

So, if there’s a service you find interesting and you want to create something similar, I recommend searching for it on my site and giving it a try!

What do you think about this idea?
by stinos | 2025-07-14 06:23:24+00:00
it's not an embeddable runtime like Lua

While it's true you can't have multiple MicroPython interpreters running concurrently (or at least not easily; it's not that the design makes this impossible, it's just that all in all MicroPython is fairly young and development focus has been put elsewhere), it is possible to embed MicroPython. Not completely out of the box, needs some glue code etc. See for example https://github.com/micropython/micropython/tree/master/ports....
by victorbjorklund | 2025-07-14 06:23:48+00:00
I use Alfred which is similar. I can do a lot of things with just the launcher. From small things like typing uuid and getting a uuid to open a dev project and launching all the tools needed for it by just typing p [name] where name is autocompleted. Could I open the terminal and do it there instead? Sure. But that is slower than just getting an instant launcher
by safety1st | 2025-07-14 06:24:01+00:00
Carlin's actual view is a lot more nuanced than that. Big Tech (along with Walmart, Visa and more) have gotten to where they are by employing illegal business practices such as price discrimination and exclusive dealing. These tactics laid the groundwork for the mass mergers and rollups and the monopolies and oligopolies that dominate America today. The laws on the books which prohibit them, like Robinson-Patman and the Clayton Act, have gone largely unenforced since Reagan. Software sped up how quickly businesses can exploit these criminal tactics but this has become a problem across all sectors of the economy.

This shocking degree of negligence has required complicity from both political parties, but there's a deeper issue which is that this stuff is just too arcane to be linked meaningfully to a popular vote in today's democracy. We're talking about a nation where 1 in 5 people are now illiterate and that number is rising. There are two parties and a vanishingly small number of candidates presented to them every couple of years, meanwhile the media bombards them with a dozen supposed crises every day. This system is never going to produce a consensus that the most important priority is enforcing some law from 1914. Popular sentiment is more likely to be expressed through the rise of more guys like Luigi Mangione.
by nottorp | 2025-07-14 06:25:04+00:00
Ohh they hired a toxic marketer.

The way I read it, you need an account to see the source code but you don't need to pay unless you want the asset collections or whatever that is.

I may be wrong and I won't read further right now, but the screen IS designed to make you believe you need to pay.

Entshittification incoming?
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-07-14 06:25:49+00:00
What country and what models were they selling?

A UBS teardown estimated the BYD Seal’s (premium version) gross margin at roughly 16%. These cars are selling for $50k in Thailand. These data points suggest BYD is leveraging vertical integration, not selling the Seal at a loss.

I used to think the same way until this year on a trip to Asia. I was genuinely surprised by the range of new Chinese cars. Not just the low-cost models, but truly impressive, high-end vehicles with super innovative designs. I am very pro local manufacturing. But as a builder at heart, I have to admire the builder innovation energy coming out of Chinese auto companies. This wasn't just centrally planned... Its clear innovation.
by oefrha | 2025-07-14 06:26:05+00:00
The overlap between CapCut enthusiasts and GitHub users is not that big. Non-technical TikTok/Instagram influencers aren’t flocking to GitHub to star the project, not to mention it’s useless to them at this stage. This kind of project, if very successful, may amass 10k to 20k organic stars in a few years. (I say this as someone who has both served on the maintainer team of a huge, household-name-in-tech kind of project with ~50k stars, and had personal projects in the 1-10k star range.)

Compare this to openai/whisper, which was a huge release at the time by the hottest AI unicorn (1.7k points on HN for the release), immediately useful and with much better user alignment: https://www.star-history.com/#OpenCut-app/OpenCut&openai/whi... The star growth was no comparison to this one person early stage project.

So I agree with others, there’s basically no chance this is organic.
by astrolx | 2025-07-14 06:27:00+00:00
In French, I find that translations of Edgard Allan Poe by Baudelaire are really nice. I enjoy them as much as the original version. Sci-fi translations of US science fiction classics (Orwell, Bradbury etc..) are usually excellent too. I find myself re-reading these books in French and/or English according to mood.

On the other hans, I find that French translators usually utterly fail to capture the dry kind humor from British authors. From Jane Austen to Lord of the Rings, it reads so serious in French translations!!
by Animats | 2025-07-14 06:27:21+00:00
> Their own poor decisions resulted in China eating their lunch.

China's approach was interesting. There was no giant state automaker, but about 70 of them. At one point, each province had its own auto industry. About like the US auto industry in 1910. There's been steady consolidation, or elimination of the losers. Mergers of China auto companies seem to be rare.

Then came BYD. BYD won by sheer competence. They got good at batteries. They figured out how to make lithium iron phosphate batteries take up less volume and charge faster with their "blade battery". Now they could make safe electric cars with reasonable but not great range.

Somebody at BYD had an insight - the E-Axle. The motor is mounted to the axle and differential, like a railroad locomotive bogie. The power train for a basic car or truck consists of an E-Axle, a battery, an electronics power box that handles motor, battery, and charging inputs. The electronics box talks CANbus to the dashboard and controls. Using those standard, mass-produced components, a wide variety of cars and trucks can be built. That got costs way down. Then BYD did some good car designs and got good at production.

The main government incentive was help on the charging infrastructure side. Also, it's been hard for years to get a registration to drive an IC car in Beijing. There's a very limited quota.

US companies are still trying to build gas cars with an electric power train substituted. This works but does not bring costs down. Tesla is electric-first, but has other problems.

The "Made in China 2025" plan [1], adopted in 2015, is now mostly complete.[2] After 2019, the government of China stopped publicizing the "Made in China 2025" in foreign media, but the plan continued to be executed.

South China Morning Post (2024): "The analysis found that China has met over 86% of the 260 targets under MIC25, achieving or surpassing goals in sectors such as EVs, renewable energy, robotics, and biopharmaceuticals. However, key targets in advanced photolithography, intercontinental aircraft, and new materials were missed, with new materials having the lowest completion rate at 75%"

It's an impressive success of long-term planning.

> their own short sighted greed coffin

The $100,000 pickup truck comes to mind.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_in_China_2025

[2] https://rhg.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Was-MIC25-Success...
by whatevaa | 2025-07-14 06:28:03+00:00
I waited for Elden Ring to be on sale because I wasn't sure if I will like it, and 2 hours is not enough to try a game like this. No other reason.

Lot's of people buy on sale because it's too expensive for them otherwise. Factorios sales model does mean lost sales, they have just decided that it is okay for them. Game is DRM free, can be pirated with no problems if you can't afford it.
by lmm | 2025-07-14 06:28:15+00:00
> But if you're looking for something to prevent exploits, then no, this is not it, nor does it try to be.

> How would you want that implemented?

Any of the usual existing ways of managing memory lifetimes (i.e. garbage collection or Rust-style borrow checking) prevents that particular kind of exploitation (subject to various caveats) by ensuring you can't have a pointer to memory that has already been freed. So one would expect something that claims to solve the same problem to solve that problem.
by hedayet | 2025-07-14 06:28:16+00:00
you meant Exafunction? Nothing of Exafunction was discussed in OpenAI or Google deals.

Windsurf did start as a rinky-dinky starup, just as a plugin (Codeium). And in its current state, it still has no moat.

The only reason big tech leaders are throwing money at this is - they need to show they are doing something to stay ahead. And right now they are going on a hiring frenzy as a show for their investors.

I have been there when shopping businesses were being bought for billions of dollars, and then they all got bundled up into a mess swapped under the rug silently. I don't think this is going to be any different.
by AlphaAndOmega0 | 2025-07-14 06:29:12+00:00
Sounds scary doesn't it? It's a shame that the magnitude of lean-muscle loss is entirely comparable to that of going on a strict diet or fasting:

Intermittent/time-restricted fasting

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...?

That's simply how the body reacts to a caloric deficit, without additional exercise. If you combine both IFT and resistance exercise, you find no muscle loss at all:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7468742/

That's an apple to oranges comparison, because there's nothing preventing someone from taking Ozempic from exercising on the side.

And in fact, other trials found that the overall ratio of fat:muscle lost was rather favorable, and that functional strength wasn't compromised:

https://dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dom.157...

>Based on contemporary evidence with the addition of magnetic resonance imaging-based studies, skeletal muscle changes with GLP-1RA treatments appear to be adaptive: *reductions in muscle volume seem to be commensurate with what is expected given ageing, disease status, and weight loss achieved, and the improvement in insulin sensitivity and muscle fat infiltration likely contributes to an adaptive process with improved muscle quality, lowering the probability for loss in strength and function*

Interpreting the risks and benefits of medication isn't a trivial exercise, if you're driven by a handful of studies or ignorant of the wider context, then it's easy to be mislead.
by maxglute | 2025-07-14 06:29:15+00:00
> playing the long game waiting for all local manufacturing to go bankrupt before they hike the prices.

This strange conspiracy theory considering PRC cars sell for 40-80%+ markup vs domestic market. Struggle to think of single sector where cheap Chinese entrants have hiked prices after eliminating competition. What has happened is they eliminate competitors and prices stays low because they're good at building things cheaply, while keeping things cheap also prevents new competitors. Like they've been exporting cheap / value goods for 20+ years now. When are they going to jack up the price?
by madaxe_again | 2025-07-14 06:30:15+00:00
You’re being downvoted for asking a reasonable question, sadly.

The numbers are staggering. The answer is mostly “Northrop Grumman”, “cost plus”, and “cover your ass”.

The sunk costs are >$10bn. Nobody wants to be the guy who cut the flight operations team from 200 people (!) and have the thing go offline and unrecoverable.

While the cuts are very much in the category of “closing the stable door after the horse has bolted”, if there’s a silver lining it’s that perhaps it will lead to a more cost-conscious approach for future missions - ie “how can we automate station keeping”, or “do we really need six people to watch a thermal map”, or “perhaps we should look at alternatives to DSN”.

It’s an artefact of a system evolved to never take risks, to shelter congressional pork, and to externalise liability onto padded contracts, born out of Cold War thinking - when JWST was conceived (1992), the Berlin Wall had only just fallen. It was meant to launch in 2005.
by const_cast | 2025-07-14 06:30:22+00:00
The thing I don't like is that US companies take it too far, to the point they're violating my privacy and making me uncomfortable.

Why do you need to do a hard credit check before you give me an offer? Why do you need to know exactly how much I owe on my credit cards, car, house, how much I'm paying per month, and how much I've made at every job for the past 7 years?

That feels... excessive. And weird. And kind of unfair. Now you know my paycheck, and the paycheck before that, and how desperate I am. Well, there goes negotiations.
by rhubarbtree | 2025-07-14 06:31:01+00:00
I agree with your sentiment and was also astonished about spending on delivery.

However, I don’t think food delivery is the reason they’re complaining about finances - it’s more likely it’s that every generation above them has been able to buy housing and they cannot.

No amount of penny pinching on everyday spending is going to close a doubling [1] in the cost of buying a house for Gen Z vs _Millennials_ (never mind boomers!). It’s incredibly unfair and Gen Z are absolutely right to complain and be angry about it.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gen-z-mortga...