MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by deltarholamda | 2025-07-29 13:21:45+00:00
Perhaps a silly question, but would something like a Mahl stick help with left-handed writing? Painters and old-school draftsmen use them to keep their grubby mitts off the surface.

I suppose in today's public school you wouldn't be allowed one because it could conceivably be used as a weapon, but it would seem to be helpful.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-07-29 13:22:18+00:00
It all sounds very unpleasant, but most of the nasty stuff described in TFA is the result of living in zero gravity. That is a solved problem: build a rotating space station to create artificial gravity. It probably “just” requires a trillion dollars. But if we collectively wanted it, we could have it.

The two problems called out here that wouldn’t be solved with that are the smell (not dangerous, live with it) and the radiation (very nasty indeed).
by bjoli | 2025-07-29 13:22:39+00:00
I can name four high ranking Hamas officials that were assassinated by Israel after proposing truces where they accept Israel as a nation.

Yassin. Jabari. al-Rantisi. The latest one is Haniyeh who opened up for a long term truce with Israel AND recognizing Israel as a state.

These are just the people from the top of my head. They were all killed within months of proposing long term truces with Israel.

Not nice people, but still people with power to make a change. Israel has shown again and again that negotiation should be done by force.
by williamdclt | 2025-07-29 13:22:54+00:00
I generally avoid DSLs as they don't bring much... except for this exact use-case. Dynamic queries is pretty much what a query builder is for: you can avoid a dependency by rolling your own, but well it's not trivial and people out there have built some decent ones.

So, if I have this use-case I'd reach for a query builder library. To answer the question of "how to do dynamic queries without a query builder library", I don't think there's any other answer than "make your own query builder"
by porridgeraisin | 2025-07-29 13:23:11+00:00
We have this "Nataraj Glow" ballpoint pen in India that you can get for 1 INR a pop. I bought a whole lot of them (100s) during school many years back and still use them. I lost pens regularly but it really didn't matter since I'd go back home to 99 more. Since school my pen usage has dropped significantly, but I still find them lying around the house strewn about here and there for when I need them. Love them, never needed anything else personally. The best thing about them is that they don't dry out or break or leak easily, so you can treat your pens with neglect, disrespect and be generally forgetful, e.g, losing the cap, putting it in the washing machine, etc, without paying for it in any way.

They are thrice as expensive (3 INR) now, but that's still throwaway money: https://www.amazon.in/Nataraj-Glow-Ball-Blue-Pack/dp/B0DF7YC...
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-29 13:23:15+00:00
Screw anonymous attestation. We don't need to be controlled at every frigging second by people who are time and time again proven to be corrupt and working for their own interests. *Oh, I just received this thousands in gifts but it doesn't affect my decisions".

The only thing to do is denounce every bit of bullshit and not try and "find a way to make it work". Just stand for freedom for once instead of bending the knee or pushing for authoritarianism like most people do with every invasion for oil, during covid, when there's an accusation of some -ism or whatever the next label is.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-29 13:23:23+00:00
It is inevitable that the "World" in World-Wide-Web will disappear and each major economy will have its own local "government approved" version of the internet with interconnects between the other local internets of the world to access only curated content from abroad.

This genie is not going back in the bottle unless future generations will get fed up with all the safetyism propaganda at the core of internet censorship and unanimously vote against this.

I'm glad I was young enough to see and experience the uncensored and unrestricted version of the internet. God speed for the future generation being subject to this nonsense.
by 0x_rs | 2025-07-29 13:23:28+00:00
There's no mention of this in the article, so be aware there's multiple posts online about QC issues. Rotring quality has been going down over the years, or their name outgrew the actual quality of the product. Current generation of 600s especially suffer from: cracking of the body (0, 1); but most importantly for pens, the joint part that screws into the bottom and upper part of the pen is extremely susceptible to wearing out the thin and fragile upper part's threads, as they are two different metals. So you should be prepared to exercise your warranty if you purchase one.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1fzacf9/...

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1439ru7/...
by hinkley | 2025-07-29 13:23:41+00:00
More seriously though, rotating habs are more difficult to spin properly than Clarke knew. The Russians discovered this and kept it to themselves.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfZ_XzisU

I personally like the idea of spinning up large asteroids but the Dzhanibekov Effect will cause a lot of sloshing. If I understand it right, you have to spin them along the long axis, not like O’Neill cylinders. Two separate habitats at opposite ends of an air shaft. Clarke rings have to be careful about docking platforms. In fact they might need an inertially separate structure floating near them to handle loading and unloading of cargo, and then ferry materials back and forth across the “air gap” using very small vessels or robotic arms.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-29 13:23:52+00:00
You’re fully right and I’ve seen it play out at a startup. It’s unreal to see how that 0.1% userbase can find insane ways to use your service. For some people, it becomes a game to discover your rate limits and develop a service that goes just under the rate limit 24/7

In some cases, people discover creative ways to resell the service. Anthropic mentioned they suspect this was happening.

The weirdest part about this whole internet uproar, though, is that Anthropic never offered unlimited usage. It was always advertised as higher limits.

Yet all the comment threads about it are convinced it was unlimited and now it’s not. It’s weird how the internet will wrap a narrative around a story like this.
by isaacremuant | 2025-07-29 13:25:00+00:00
Hahahahah. The new Normal was always meant to be temporal? You know some of us absolutely paid attention, right? You know many things absolutely remained, right?

Also, anti constitutional and anti human rights is wrong no matter if it's temporal or not.

But hey, you supported it, now deal with the fallout. Temporary like the war on terror. Give me a break.
by mwigdahl | 2025-07-29 13:25:04+00:00
To quote the movie Zoolander: "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"

Anthropic never sold Max plans as unlimited. There are two tiers, explicitly labeled "5x" and "20x", both referring to the increased usage over what you get with Pro. Did all the people complaining that Anthropic reneged on their "promise" of unlimited usage not read anything about what they were signing up to pay $100 or $200/month for? Or are they not even customers?
by yohamta | 2025-07-29 13:25:06+00:00
Hey HN! I'm excited to share Dagu v1.18, a major release of our lightweight workflow orchestration engine that works on shared filesystem.

Dagu is designed for teams that find Airflow overkill but need more than cron. It's a single binary with zero dependencies that runs anywhere - from Raspberry Pi to cloud clusters.

What's new in v1.18:

- Distributed execution - Run workflow steps across multiple machines - OIDC authentication - Enterprise-ready auth for the Web UI - High availability - Redundant schedulers with automatic failover

Example workflow: ``` steps: - name: fetch data command: curl https://api.example.com/data output: DATA

- name: process command: python process.py env: - INPUT: ${DATA} retryPolicy: limit: 3 intervalSec: 30 backoff: 2.0

```

No need for a database or complex setup. Just write your YAML workflow and run it with `dagu start my_workflow.yaml`.

Would love to hear your feedback!
by joshvm | 2025-07-29 13:25:23+00:00
What's the timeline for this? My undergrad notes from ~15 years ago have held up without obvious degradation. Those are mostly Jetstream inks on generic paper (some Oxford notebook). I swapped to fountain pens at some point when I discovered Noodler's. Bernanke Blue dries extremely fast. Though my TWSBIs from the time haven't held up well. They were fine when constantly used but they cracked in storage.
by flyinglizard | 2025-07-29 13:25:25+00:00
That's not what happened, though.

1) Jews were always a part of historical Palestine. Sometimes more and sometimes less but were always present. Around 1900, 50 years before the formation of Israel, there were about 50k Jews (about 10% of the population). You can see it especially in cities like Safed, Tiberias and Jerusalem which were Jewish centers.

2) Jews that came later largely bought their way in, rather than forced Arabs out. There were violent clashes but usually it was friction between the populations, and not outright conquest.

3) The forceful expulsion of population came as the result of the 1948 war which was opened by Arabs and not by Israel.

So to correct your analogy, the Arabs here are like a violent HOA which doesn't like the new group of residents who bought their way in. They fight and they lose. Tough luck, right?
by DaveZale | 2025-07-29 13:25:29+00:00
so, let the infected countries responsibly set up a program to vaccinate and treat affected citizens. I am 100% certain that "western" countries would be happy to provide the expertise.

But free handouts? Good luck. We in the "western world" are broke, worse than broke. Deeply and irreversibly in debt, in fact.

TB is also widespread in the natural world. That won't change anytime soon.
by Seb-C | 2025-07-29 13:25:44+00:00
I don't think that anyone is dismissing machine learning itself. This bubble is more about generative AI, and especially language models.

Machine learning has been there for quite a while and is a useful tool. But it's only a tool among many other ones, like programming languages and libraries. It's not a product. At most it can be the engine of a specific feature.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-29 13:26:37+00:00
> - note: "unlimited" does not mean free.

Repairs have always come with deductibles.

This is standard in virtually every insurance program. There are a lot of studies showing that even the tiniest amount of cost sharing completely changes how people use a service.

When something is unlimited and free, it enticed people to abuse it in absurd ways. With hardware, you would get people intentionally damaging their gear to get new versions for free because they know it costs them nothing.
by zanecodes | 2025-07-29 13:27:23+00:00
Among many others:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/10/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/06/...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-ftc-accuses-intuit-decep...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/06/...

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/08/...
by cmrx64 | 2025-07-29 13:27:52+00:00
Displeased with this trend of LLM-assisted “research”. The central claims are false, the examples of floating point are false and off by a factor of 1e11, the latency numbers are complete WTF and disconnected from reality (‘cycles’ of what).

Fixed point arithmetic with a dynamic scale is presented along the way motivating floating point in probably every computer architecture class. It’s a floating point.

This guy needs to open a book. I recommend Nick Higham’s _Accuracy and Stability of Numerical Algorithms_.
by clbrmbr | 2025-07-29 13:27:54+00:00
Anthropic has been incredibly generous. I use regularly ~750 USD worth of opus tokens per month, which is a great deal for 200 USD. I’ve never hit a limit on the Max 20x plan, but the Max 5x plan was laughably limited. The impression I got was that there was basically no limiting at all, and Anthropic was just watching the usage patterns.

It’s an all you can eat buffet, you’re just not allowed takeout!
by germandiago | 2025-07-29 13:28:10+00:00
I am not much into Rust ATM. I am quite comfortable with C++. So here it goes my question:

I use sqlpp11 in C++.

I generate code and I can use it with strong typing by including some headers. This Rust crate seems to provide compile-time checking.

But it will give me code-completion? It is very nice that by pressing '.' you know what you potentially have.
by daveguy | 2025-07-29 13:28:10+00:00
Would anthropic be considered a "major company"? Paper value is not the same thing as being a Microsoft, Google, or even OpenAI. An example company that would set precedent and get the "major companies" to stop stealing from creators might be allowed. Not saying they'll allow a bankrupting judgement, but I don't think it will be dropped to slap-on-the-wrist level either.
by adregan | 2025-07-29 13:28:42+00:00
This is an interesting analogy as I have found that unless you are regularly in contact with hand made furniture, you have little feel for what is different about mass produced furniture and why anything else is desirable.

There may very well be a texture to “hand crafted” software that will be totally lost on users. But I kind of doubt the difference will be anything like the difference in furniture.
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-07-29 13:29:00+00:00
It already is; the author is trying to sell a solution to a problem that is known, well-understood and worked around, often with programming language types like `Money` or numerical calculation libraries. The "30 year compound interest inaccuracy" problem was solved 50+ years ago.

I'm really not sure what the angle of the author and their "organization" is, which was only created this month. The library and idea is cool and all, but it strongly implies the author didn't actually do any research before building a solution, one that probably (but I'm not qualified to say) has some issues they overlooked. See e.g. https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/master:src/math/big/flo... for a modern implementation of big accurate floating point numbers.

fake edit: reading that this was AI generated, my time and attention was wasted on this.
by drw85 | 2025-07-29 13:30:02+00:00
I think this is a somewhat short sighted perspective. It's not really augmenting, but replacing cognition.

I see people starting to unlearn working by themselves rapidly and becoming dependant on GPT, making themselves quite useless in the process. They no longer understand what they're working with and need the help from the tool to work. They're also entirely helpless when whatever 'AI' tool they use can't fix their problem.

This makes them both more replaceable and less marketable than before.

It will have and already has a huge impact. But it's kinda like the offshoring hype from a decade ago. Everyone moved their dev departments to a cheaper country, only to later realize that maybe cheap does not always mean better or even good. And it comes with a short term gain and a long term loss.
by comrade1234 | 2025-07-29 13:30:10+00:00
Why is it fair use (hashed out in court already) for google to copy every book they can get a hold of and store the full pages and use them to create their n-grams data and presumably to train their ai, but not for this company?

If they had bought each book themselves would it be fair use? So this is only about the piracy?
by anorwell | 2025-07-29 13:30:10+00:00
Some of the comments so far seem to be misunderstanding this submission. As I understand it:

1. Custom scaffolding (system prompt and tools) using Qwen3-32B achieved 13.75% on Terminal-Bench. No training was involved.

2. The author has built an RL system, but it has not been used for anything due to cost limitations.

So there's actually no result related to training here. It well known that the scaffolding used can have a large impact on benchmark outcomes (the Terminal bench leaderboard also demonstrates this [1]).

[1] https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard
by muzani | 2025-07-29 13:30:45+00:00
I hit the 5 hour limit almost every work day (pro, not max).

It has become a kind of goal to hit it twice a day. It means I've had a productive day and can go on and eat food, touch grass, troll HN, read books.

I'm on Claude Code after hitting Cursor Pro for the month. It makes more sense to subscribe to a bunch of different tools at $20/month than $100/month on one tool that throws overloaded errors. We'll probably get more uptime with the weekly restriction.
by stefs | 2025-07-29 13:30:59+00:00
i'm unconvinced. EPO was undetectable, but not anymore. new undetectable substance would run the risk of being detectable in a few years. who would ignore whistleblowers today? and the USADA did bring the hammer down on LA at some point.

sure, they pay off is high, but the risk - at least in cycling - is even higher, exactly because they've been caught once and now all eyes are on them. if pog gets popped, nobody will trust cycling to be clean ever again; it's hard enough today, as this thread proves.
by tsergiu | 2025-07-29 13:31:00+00:00
By "internal feedback" do you mean feedback when a user is logged into an account?

We allow you to do fine-grained censoring of any DOM element by adding class="do-not-track". So if there's a field, or an entire page, that you do not want captured, you can easily mask all of it.

Passwords fields are always censored, and there's no way to disable that.

We also have limited session lengths (up to 30 days), unless a user leaves feedback or a member of the team explicitly saves a moment.

You can learn more here: https://moment.help.guide/v1/user-manual/time-travel/privacy
by Aurornis | 2025-07-29 13:31:18+00:00
> When companies sell unlimited plans,

Anthropic never sold an unlimited plan

It’s amazing that so many people think there was an unlimited plan. There was not an unlimited plan.

> These people “abusing” the plan are well within their right to use the API as much as they want. It just didn’t fall into the parameters Anthropic had expected.

Correct! And they did. And now Anthropic is changing those limits in a month.

> LLM subscriptions need to go away, why can’t we just pay as we go? It’s the fairest way for everyone.

This exists. You use the API. It has always been an option. Again, I’m confused about why there’s so much anger about something that already exists.

The subscriptions are nice for people who want a consistent fee and they get the advantage of a better deal for occasional heavy usage.
by greenavocado | 2025-07-29 13:31:25+00:00
You are 100% correct.

NGOs engage in money laundering ops in the UK to give illegals handouts using a multi-step process to steal taxpayer wealth from Britons.

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Primary Grantors:

UK government departments (DWP, Home Office, DLUHC)

EU Legacy Funds (2020-2023) via Shared Prosperity Fund

Lottery-funded charities (e.g., National Lottery Community Fund)

--

Key Recipient NGOs: Organizations registered with the Charity Commission targeting "migrant integration," "asylum support," or "poverty alleviation."

NGOs apply for high-value grants (e.g., £500k-£2M). Examples:

"Holistic Integration Project" (Home Office Fund)

"Urban Inclusion Programme" (DWP Social Mobility Grant) Documentation often includes inflated beneficiary counts and ghost project proposals.

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Fictitious Expenditure Fabrication

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Shell Vendor Creation:

NGO leadership registers dormant companies (e.g., "Community Outreach Solutions Ltd") as "service providers."

Invoices issued for fake deliverables:

"Cultural Sensitivity Training" (£120/hour)

"Temporary Shelter Management" (£2,500/week)

--

Fund Diversion:

Grants disbursed to shell vendors’ accounts → funds withdrawn as cash via "business expenses" loopholes.

Apparent spending: ~70% declared for "operational costs" despite <15% actual delivery.

Street-Level Handlers: Charitable workers / NGO affiliates directly distribute cash bundles (£50-£200/person).

Cover Mechanisms: Officially declared as "emergency subsistence stipends" (exploiting reporting gaps in small-sum transfers). Physical cash avoids AML scrutiny (<£10,000/transaction).

HMRC estimates £1.2 billion in fraudulent charity fraud annually (2023), with ~25% linked to migration sector schemes.

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Confirmed Cases:

Refugee Action Leeds (2021): £370k diverted via shell company "Unity Lifeline."

London Sanctuary Network (2022): £890k laundered for cash-in-hand construction workers.

Charity Commission ex post audits detect fraud only after fund exhaustion (~18-month lag).

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Trusteeship overlaps allow corrupt board members to approve fictitious vendor payments.

Underground Hawala Couriers: Shell vendors remit cash to illicit hawala brokers, who distribute to:

Landlords: Covering rent for illegals in overcrowded slums (£400/month cash).

Employment Fixers: Kickbacks to gangmasters employing illegals.

Direct Cash Distribution Points: Mosques/churches in African neighborhoods (e.g., Peckham, Birmingham) via coded vouchers.

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AML Evasion:

Cash withdrawals <£10,000/month avoid automated reporting under Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

Tax gaps: £500 "<essential expense>" cash allowances weekly to illegals bypasses PAYE.

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Non-existent grant audits through:

Front projects like "Go Green!" and "Ukraine Crisis Aid" masking London-Nigeria hawala flows.

Donation recycling: Public crowdsourced funds diverted into laundering flows.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-07-29 13:31:56+00:00
There are still races with much longer "stages" than 466km, but they are not part of the contemporary pro-cycling world. The classic brevet events, Paris-Brest-Paris and Boston-Montreal-Boston are 1200km ridden as a single stage. PBP is older than the TDF also, starting in 1891. The nature of brevet events means that they can essentially never be a spectator sport, hence the lack of any significant attention to them.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-07-29 13:31:57+00:00
We require people to verify their age in person to access pornography, it doesn't seem like that far a stretch to require it online. You can't even by a ticket to an R-rated movie without age verification. That seems reasonable to me. I see I'm in the minority here. I understand the slippery slope argument but if we succumb to that then nothing could be done anywhere ever. I understand this could be abused, but it's up to us to make sure it isn't. I think that's why people don't like it, it requires diligence and effort to keep things sane. Much easier to just allow children to view content they absolutely shouldn't then be politically active and make sure our laws are sensible and our representatives are held accountable.
by adam_hn | 2025-07-29 13:32:00+00:00
This is a widespread misunderstanding; there is no border anymore between Gaza and Egypt, as it was occupied by the IDF in the first year of this war. So unless Egypt went to war, there was nothing they could do.

And even before this war, the peace treaty gave Israel big control over the Rafa crossing. They have a camera and watch everything going in and out, and can ask for extra searches if they don't like what they see. And in all, it's just for individuals, not cargo. Whatever cargo goes through, there is just a limited amount that requires prior approval from Israel.

So Egypt really doesn't have any power over the situation unless they are willing to risk a war, which they can't win.