MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grapesodaaaaa | 2025-07-31 02:36:12+00:00
Agreed. I do still worry that this will upend the status quo. As with any ecosystem: slow changes are fine, but fast changes can be catastrophic.

I’ve worked with many people over the years who are good enough at their job, but will be replaced by AI (management’s choice, not mine). I’m probably one of those people as a mediocre engineer who prioritized family over career.

I have some backup plans, but it’s still tough and going to affect lots of people.
by yupyupyups | 2025-07-31 02:37:13+00:00
>I checked GoG and saw no porn games on the front page.

Well, they did. They do rotate games from time to time.

https://i.postimg.cc/rmx7Tyz5/GOG-selling-porn-2024-10-19-21...

This was taken in October last year.

It's getting quite overt.
by fnordlord | 2025-07-31 02:38:52+00:00
I've been using AnythingLLM for a couple months now and really like it. You can organize different "Workspaces" which are models + specific prompts and it supports Ollama along with the major LLM providers. I have it running in a docker container on a raspberry pi and then I use Tailscale to make it accessible anywhere. It looks good on mobile too so it's pretty seamless. I use that and Raycast's Claude extension for random questions and that's pretty much does everything I want.
by rigrassm | 2025-07-31 02:41:03+00:00
> "Reuters found that nearly 50% of state prisons across 29 states have partial or no air conditioning in housing units."

Immediate red flag in my mind reading this line. The only reason I can imagine to phrase it this way is to artificially make the numbers look "bigger" to the reader without outright lying.

That summary is disingenuous at best. Partial/NoAC are 2 distinct categories and Partial doesn't even have a set definition.

There's a pretty big difference between "A single housing units AC at the prison is broken", "AC isn't installed on half our units", and "No AC at all".

> "The Texas Department of Criminal Justice reported that 51 of its 58 facilities fall into this category—the highest number among all states that responded to Reuters"

I'm having trouble reconciling this statement with the data they published to GitHub. I viewed the document on my phone so maybe I missed something while reading it but I can't figure out a way for the numbers on that sheet to match what they wrote here. I thought maybe the data was just updated since the article ran but the source is a PDF document dated 2023 so I doubt that's what's happening here.

https://github.com/reuters-graphics/prison-heat-records/blob...
by citizenpaul | 2025-07-31 02:41:04+00:00
I'm decent at that kind of stuff. However thats not really what I'm talking about. For instance today I needed two logic flows. One for data flowing in one direction. Then a basically but not quite reversed version of the same logic for when the data comes back. I was able to write the first version then tell the LLM

"Now duplicate this code but invert the logic for data flowing in the opposite direction."

I'm simplifying this whole example obviously but that was the basic task I was working on. It was able to spit out in a few seconds what would have taken me probably more than an hour and at least one tedium headache break. I'm not aware of any pre LLM way to do something like that.

Or a little while back I was implementing a basic login/auth for a website. I was experimenting with high output token LLM's (i'm not sure that's the technical term) and asked it to make a very comprehensive login handler. I had to stop it somewhere in the triple digits of cases and functions. Perhaps not a great "pro" example of LLM but even though it was a hilariously over complex setup it did give me some ideas I hadn't thought about. I didn't use any of the code though.

Its far from the magic LLM sellers want us to believe but it can save time same as various emac/vim tricks can to devs that want to learn them.
by general1726 | 2025-07-31 02:42:17+00:00
So Pizza Index is up because that 8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka has been right next to strategic Russian naval base, where nuclear submarines and nuclear warheads are stationed?

Earthquake to tsunami hitting that base is around 10 minutes, so essentially Russians would have no time to get out.

I don't think that tsunami would destroy that base, but let's say if submarine or some lighter ship has been moored on a pier it could very well damage it, maybe beyond repair considering current Russian situation.

https://www.twz.com/sea/questions-swirl-around-status-of-rus...
by mortenjorck | 2025-07-31 02:43:16+00:00
I randomly came across an app called Lunacy the other day, from stock vector and image marketplace Icons8.

I decided to give it a try. It’s pitched as a Figma alternative, but as essentially an expensive advertisement for Icons8 (the stock marketplace is built into the app), I didn’t have very high expectations.

Honestly, I was blown away. As a product designer who relies on a lot of advanced Figma functionality, I wouldn’t rely on it as my daily driver, but for a side project? I would choose it over Sketch. It covers all the basics of a modern UI design application, and even a few of the more recent additions to Figma like color variables. I’m surprised I haven’t seen more coverage of it.
by chrisg23 | 2025-07-31 02:43:18+00:00
It’s not cool anymore.

To add to that, I was shopping for a car last fall and did research to compare small suv type cars and I found Tesla’s to be surprisingly affordable - or another way to put it I was shocked by how expensive new cars are today in general. I was going to get a conventional vehicle but it wouldn’t have been that much less. With notably inferior performance and lacking the tech, some of which I find really useful.

I looked at other ev manufacturers in the USA and saw no one is competitive with Tesla on price and performance and ended up getting a model y. If I was someone that lived my life attempting to align my purchasing choices with my political identity I see how I could be discouraged from buying any ev in the USA at the present time.

I gotta add that when I bought the Tesla the price of BYD’s cheapest model, the seagull, was 12,500 at the lot in South American countries. If that model was available in the USA (thanks, auto industry lobbyists) I would have just bought that as a beater instead. But it isn’t. So I got the expensive but hopefully long term reliable more expensive thing.
by bawolff | 2025-07-31 02:43:32+00:00
In fairness here, germany and france have been at peace for something like 80 years, most of that a fairly friendly peace. The people who remember a time when Germany was the enemy are basically dead by now. 80 years buys a lot of by-gones

Hell, maybe Germany and Israel make a good comparison here. The jews who lived in mandatory palestine during WW2 were certainly afraid of Germany (and rightfully so), but i don't think Israel loses much sleep over the modern state of Germany.
by jmye | 2025-07-31 02:44:53+00:00
I read stories like this, and while I’m sympathetic to the fact that shit is expensive and that really sucks for some people, I can’t help but see “I’m allergic to toxic workplaces [and all workplaces are toxic]” as a huge, neon sign, pointing at the biggest issue.

Sorry, if every single place you ever work is “toxic”, it’s not likely the workplaces. It’s a serious personal issue. If you don’t want to deal with that, that’s fine, but you’re going to end up on the fringes, whether you think that’s right/wrong/fair/unfair.

At some point, it seems like you should face the fact that this is your life because you chose it.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-07-31 02:45:07+00:00
well.. straight from the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%932019_Gaza_border_...

```

At least 189 Palestinians were killed between 30 March and 31 December 2018.[28]: 6 [29][30] An independent United Nations commission said that at least 29 out of the 189 killed were militants.[5] Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and live ammunition.[31] According to Robert Mardini, head of Middle East for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), more than 13,000 Palestinians were wounded as of 19 June 2018. The majority were wounded severely, with some 1,400 struck by three to five bullets.[32] No Israelis were physically harmed from 30 March to 12 May, until one Israeli soldier was reported as slightly wounded on 14 May,[9] the day the protests peaked. The same day, 59 or 60 Palestinians were shot dead at twelve clash points along the border fence.[33]

```

yea, seems like it was the israelis who weren't peaceful. sorry if we're all starting to see a pattern.

edit: yes, 29 militants out of 189 killed and 130000 wounded. even at the most sympathetic take, Israelis come out looking like a bunch of sociopaths.
by reactordev | 2025-07-31 02:45:51+00:00
The only reason is name mangling. You can disable this or export declspec it and keep the C-like signature. Painstakingly recreate the API in C#, using P/Invoke, and hope for the best. It wasn’t until late 2015 that we got codegen to “automate” this, or roll your own.

My perspective is from a first adopter, not an insider, 24 years ago, so I can’t speak to motive but as a customer, it felt exactly as I described. The documentation around P/Invoke was lax, you were shoved “Managed C++” down your throat by your rep, and any dream of going cross platform died in that meeting room until Miguel De Icaza did something about it.
by hxtk | 2025-07-31 02:46:07+00:00
A Markov process is any process where if you have perfect information on the current state, you cannot gain more information about the next state by looking at any previous state.

Physics models of closed systems moving under classical mechanics are deterministic, continuous Markov processes. Random walks on a graph are non deterministic, discrete Markov processes.

You may further generalize that if a process has state X, and the prior N states contribute to predicting the next state, you can make a new process whose state is an N-vector of Xs, and the graph connecting those states reduces the evolution of the system to a random walk on a graph, and thus a Markov process.

Thus any system where the best possible model of its evolution requires you to examine at most finitely many consecutive states immediately preceding the current state is a Markov process.

For example, an LLM that will process a finite context window of tokens and then emit a weighted random token is most definitely a Markov process.
by trhway | 2025-07-31 02:46:45+00:00
When driving on highway, the wheels of other cars looks smudged. If i flicker my eyelids i see a snapshot of an other car's wheel like if it were not rotating, i.e. a strobe light like effect. That is ~1500rpm for human eye (and for us it is about 30ms for the signal to pass through the first stages of the visual cortex). Birds are several times faster (even if just for the much shorter physical path from eyes to the rest of the brain and of the related paths inside the brain).
by aryan_shah1 | 2025-07-31 02:47:29+00:00
Hey all, we just released an open-source MCP routing and streaming layer + web based client. Check it out, play around with the client and leave some reviews :) This gets around the 40 tool limit and adds the MCP tool that works the best. This is a weekend project that we wanted to open source for fun & for others to build on top of!
by Aurornis | 2025-07-31 02:48:14+00:00
> A couple months ago, I saw people everywhere online (including HN) saying they love the idea of social media bans for kids.

The common theme in these statements is that people see “social media” as something that other people consume.

All of these calls for extreme regulations share the same theme: The people calling for them assume they won’t be impacted. They think only other people consuming other content on other sites will be restricted or inconvenienced, so they don’t care about the details.

Consider how often people on Hacker News object when you explain that Hacker News is a social media site. Many people come up with their own definition of social media that excludes their preferred social sites and only includes sites they don’t use.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-31 02:49:11+00:00
Idiocy beyond reason. The Australian population seems to have fallen to the same mental illness of their UK cousins, of letting the nannying state pry into every facet to their lives and treat them like stupid little children, even in very basic elements of giving teenagers and kids some modicum of autonomy (with a nice mass potential surveillance cherry on top).

For one thing, among all its garbage content, like the rest of the internet, YouTube is also full of absolutely excellent videos for children of all ages, which can range from outright entertaining to deeply educative to a standard that you'll be hard-pressed to find elsewhere.

That any rational, mentally functional human being believes the state should have a hand in controlling all of this because of some nebulous bullshit about "misinformation" and other moronic scare words is incredible. Controls of this sort are too stupid for rational support even on a practical level, never mind the poisonous philosophy of state control over expression and opinions that underlies them.
by tonyhart7 | 2025-07-31 02:49:37+00:00
"but if the tool everyone uses to mock things up gains coding abilities"

adobe tried this 10 years ago (Adobe dream weaver) and failed

I literally can drag and drop design photos from drawing board to claude or open ai chat and they recreate it themselves instead of needing figma

not sure where you know that "we are cooked" its for them not us
by Footprint0521 | 2025-07-31 02:49:48+00:00
Yeah maybe if you stay in the default camera app and point and shoot? But I’ve been on cloud 10 editing exported RAW ProMax photos and that’s 90% of his complaints. And the last 10% of the jaw complaint was just the kid moving his mouth

Like yeah, there’s differences, but not to a novice photographer. And they’re not the end of the world to professionals? Idk
by moozilla | 2025-07-31 02:50:18+00:00
If anyone is curious on the context:

https://x.com/thdxr/status/1933561254481666466 https://x.com/meowgorithm/status/1933593074820891062 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCJBbVJ_wP0

Gemini summary of the above:

- Kujtim Hoxha creates a project named TermAI using open-source libraries from the company Charm.

- Two other developers, Dax (a well-known internet personality and developer) and Adam (a developer and co-founder of Chef, known for his work on open-source and developer tools), join the project.

- They rebrand it to OpenCode, with Dax buying the domain and both heavily promoting it and improving the UI/UX.

- The project rapidly gains popularity and GitHub stars, largely due to Dax and Adam's influence and contributions.

- Charm, the company behind the original libraries, offers Kujtim a full-time role to continue working on the project, effectively acqui-hiring him.

- Kujtim accepts the offer. As the original owner of the GitHub repository, he moves the project and its stars to Charm's organization. Dax and Adam object, not wanting the community project to be owned by a VC-backed company.

- Allegations surface that Charm rewrote git history to remove Dax's commits, banned Adam from the repo, and deleted comments that were critical of the move.

- Dax and Adam, who own the opencode.ai domain and claim ownership of the brand they created, fork the original repo and launch their own version under the OpenCode name.

- For a time, two competing projects named OpenCode exist, causing significant community confusion.

- Following the public backlash, Charm eventually renames its version to Crush, ceding the OpenCode name to the project now maintained by Dax and Adam.
by exasperaited | 2025-07-31 02:50:22+00:00
People are literally born into that misunderstanding all the time (because it’s not obvious). It’s an evergreen problem.

So you are basically saying you have no sympathy for young people who happen to have not been taught about this, or been guided by someone highly articulate in explaining it.

Is it taught in schools yet? If it’s not, then why assume everyone should have a good working understanding of this (actually nuanced) topic?

For example I encounter people who believe that Google literally sells databases, lists of user data, when the actual situation (that they sell gated access to targeted eyeballs at a given moment and that this sort of slowly leaks identifying information) is more nuanced and complicated.
by tomhow | 2025-07-31 02:51:24+00:00
Could you please stop posting inflammatory/abusive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by tombert | 2025-07-31 02:52:15+00:00
That's basically my lifelong addiction.

I have dozens of projects that I will obsess over for a few weeks. When I was younger I would convince myself that what I was doing would change the world and I was going to make billions of dollars, but eventually I became more honest with myself: I do these projects because I want to learn about <<subject X>>.

I built a Icecast server recently because I wanted to learn more about audio encoding and streaming protocols. I built a clone of fzf because I wanted to learn more about Rust and diffing algorithms. I wrote a custom async scheduling framework for my Swaybar because I wanted to learn more about how async scheduling works. I started trying to prove the Collatz conjecture because I wanted to learn more about Isabelle.

I am ok with this being part of my life; I like learning new bits of math and technology, and the easiest way to actually learn a new concept (instead of nodding along in a book) is to try and do something with that knowledge. I think "learning for fun" is far from the worst hobbies one could have.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-31 02:53:01+00:00
> so the trivial solution here is: give out anonymous time-limited tokens from the gov site, with no logging. Essentially a signed timestamp + random number

The trivial workaround is for people to create ad supported websites to hand out those tokens.

If there’s no logging then they can’t determine who’s abusing it or if they’ve even generated a different token recently, so people can generate and hand out all the tokens they want.

So then the goalposts move again, and now there’s some logging in this hypothetical solution to prevent abuse, but of course this means we’ve arrived at the situation where accessing any website first requires everyone to do a nice little logged handshake with the government to determine if they have permission. What could go wrong?

The real workaround is for people (including kids) to buy themselves a VPN subscription for a couple bucks per month and leave all of this behind while the old people are letting jumping through hoops.
by jemmyw | 2025-07-31 02:53:34+00:00
Yes but there are more nurses than doctors (2.5:1 oecd average, and it's probably higher in hospitals). The doctors are also working long hours and are under pressure. I've been in hospital more times than I'd like too. I remember one time a doctor in a non-english speaking country helped me in ER and then took me downstairs and bought me a sandwich and talked to me for a little while after a panic attack.
by pyuser583 | 2025-07-31 02:53:36+00:00
It’s funny how we are knee deep in the next “big thing” (AI), and still haven’t made the last “big thing” (cloud computing) generally accessible.

It should be trivial to create my own S3 bucket that’s stores data on my laptop.

I’m really glad folks like Oxide are moving in that direction.

But it seems when there’s enough money in something, openness goes out the window.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-31 02:53:55+00:00
You can get into a meditative zone when you're manipulating equations using techniques you've internalized.

In research you're doing a lot more of things like reading papers, putting your thoughts into words, trying to understand something the author of the paper barely understands, feeling lost and unsure where to look next. All of that can feel good too (or it cannot depending on the person) but it's a different feeling than playing a logic game.

As one example, Euclidia is a fun meditative game. But compare the difference in feeling between doing an exercise from Euclid and trying to prove the parallel postulate. It took centuries to realize you couldn't prove it, and then there was a lot of hard work trying to figure out what geometry was like if you get rid of it.
by tguvot | 2025-07-31 02:55:48+00:00
29 killed militants in peaceful march of return ? you seems to be contradicting yourself.

you also seems to skipped the beginning of article. for example, day 1 of peaceful march of return:

Hundreds of young Palestinians, however, ignored warnings by the organizers and the Israeli military to avoid the border zone.[74] Some began throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, to which Israel responded by declaring the Gaza border zone a closed military zone and opening fire at them.[55] The events of the day were some of the most violent in recent years.[75] In one incident, two Palestinian gunmen approached the fence, armed with AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades, and exchanged fire with IDF soldiers. They were killed and their bodies were recovered by the IDF.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-31 02:55:51+00:00
Boy did this get downvoted. Truly folks, if any of you really believe the modern Israeli state to be in any way comparable to Nazi Germany, I suggest you go read a fucking history book or two in detail. I'm not defending Israel here either. The Netenyahoo (and he is a murderous, corrupt yahoo indeed) government has long since crossed the lines of defensibility, even for someone who has generally been a strong proponent of Israel's right to national defense, and an opponent of giving the Palestinian political organizations way too many moral free passes.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-31 02:56:48+00:00
> Its a little bit of a stretch to call YouTube social media. There are tons of great instructional videos.

It’s clearly social media. It consists of user-generated content and has discussion features.

There’s a big problem with tech people coming up with their own definition of social media that exclusively includes sites they don’t use (TikTok, Facebook) but conveniently excludes sites they do like (YouTube, Discord, Hacker News). This makes them think extreme regulation and government intervention is a good thing because it will only impact the bad social media sites that they don’t want other people accessing. Then when the laws come out and they realize it impacts social media regardless of whether you like it or use it, they suddenly realize how bad of an idea it was to call for that regulation.
by nowittyusername | 2025-07-31 02:57:59+00:00
I wonder suppose you are not relying on any tricks or funky shenanigans. is it possible to just throw random stuff at Lean and find interesting observations based if it approves? like use an automated system or an llm that tries all types of wild proofs/theories? and sees if it works? maybe im asking wrong questions though or not stating it well.. this is above my understanding, i could barely get my head around prolog.
by bjackman | 2025-07-31 02:58:31+00:00
Yeah exactly. If I move elsewhere for like 30s I'll get bitten. Or my ankles will be exposed or something.

Same with incense-style repellents, I'm pretty convinced they reduce the number of mosquitoes but eventually one will be attracted to me via some path where the repellent isn't currently flowing and I'll get bitten regardless. (I think that smoke is also probably pretty bad for you if you use it a lot, too).

And since the difference between one bite and zero bites is a really big deal I usually just go for on-skin repellents.