MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ericmay | 2025-07-17 20:34:31+00:00
One of the coolest perfumes I’ve come across is Relique d’Amour by Oriza Legrand https://www.orizaparfums.com/en/eaux-de-parfums/20-relique-d...

Here’s the description:

The abandoned chapel of a Cistercian abbey. Cold stonewalls, covered in Moss. The scent of waxen wood, of the tabernacle and ornate pews. The linseed oil of the unfinished painting. Myrrh and Frankincense still linger in the air, When a peppery whiff catches you, unawares: That of white lilies, still fresh and yet so spicy. The subtle scent of golden pollen mingles with that of solemn green leaves. A beam of light breaks through the stained glass windows illuminating this olfactory tumult of feelings, shifting from humility to jubilation. A divine call.

When I visited the site in Paris, which was a lovely experience, we did sample this perfume among others and were quite impressed. Something weird happened in America, maybe the Axe Body Spray takeover, where at least those with a working class upbringing thumbed our noses at such frivolous things but now I have come to appreciate fragrance a bit more.

Funny enough, we actually randomly had dinner with the founder of a perfume shop who was visiting Paris with his wife and it was fascinating to learn a bit about the industry.
by wonderwonder | 2025-07-17 20:34:38+00:00
I worked out half seriously for years and then fell off the first 10 years of having kids. I just couldn’t figure out how to balance it and being a dad. About 3 years ago I got back into it.

I was 245lbs at 6’1. Big frame but fat. My gym was near a college so just packed with people in their prime. I was able to get back to benching 315lb in the first year back. Set a goal of 405lbs and just been trudging on day by day for ~2 years. Hit it last month at 46 years old and 211lbs.

Just takes time.

In most gyms people start watching when someone unracks 315lb. I tried and failed at 405 4 times over 3 months before I got it. There is something odd feeling about failure in such a public setting. I can only imagine how a professional athlete feels and soldiers on.

For honesty, im also on steroids ;)
by colechristensen | 2025-07-17 20:34:51+00:00
If you were a grad student with RP, you could replicate the LUMEOS study drug for $400 + your time for a garage level safety self treatment. I can certainly see someone being willing to take that risk themselves for a 40% chance of improvement to reverse or prevent their own blindness. There are many guardrails for safety which are quite expensive but the actual materials are absolutely not expensive at all.
by ezst | 2025-07-17 20:34:56+00:00
As I understand it, in the new scheme, ultimate subscription is essentially about turning on proprietary addons for as long as the subscription lasts. That uncouples the features from a specific build and release carrying them.

How does this bode with the older promise that "you forever own what you paid for", which was distinctive (and appreciated) of the old scheme? Can you still choose to keep your addons with an ancient version of the IDE?
by const_cast | 2025-07-17 20:35:35+00:00
It's because economists don't understand politics or that politics matters.

If you do something unpopular, you lose, and then the economic outcome is worse. Economists do not understand this. They say, "why do politicians do things bad for the economy?"

Because the stakes are high. People might die, people WILL protest. Hard to have a good economy when nobody is working, huh?

Look, there's a lot we can do, right now, to "save" our national debt. Get rid of the military. Get rid of medicaid and SS. Matter of fact, just dissolve SS and pocket all the money.

But when bodies start piling up in the streets because we have nothing for old people, and I can't drive to work because there's too many rotting corpses on I-90, we might have some more economic issues.

Economists, in their supreme naivety, believe costs get removed. No, they get moved. What happens if you move them somewhere where they can't be paid?
by TehShrike | 2025-07-17 20:35:42+00:00
I had the same reaction – his list includes washingtonpost.com, amazon.com, alternativeto.net, medium.com, twitter.com, msn.com, etc.

He dumped his entire blocklist, which must include a bunch of sites that he finds personally annoying.

Here is the list of domains owned by the 16 companies discussed in the post that he linked to: https://codeberg.org/bbbhltz/16CompaniesFilters/src/branch/m...
by taeric | 2025-07-17 20:35:46+00:00
I want to give kudos to the OP for seeing that infrastructure matters. The fanciest syphon system in the world doesn't matter if you don't have a way to get water to and from it. (For the toilette example.)

I'm seeing similar with so many people hyping solar power. People are fawning at how useful today's panels are. And they really are. But, that is largely only true if you have all of the other technology that we have to use the power it can generate. And this cuts in multiple amusing ways. Without electric lights, a lot of the power you'd have at home would be wasted. And, without modern electric lights, far more of it is lost in non-light generation than what we see today. (Lights are particularly interesting to look at. The amount of energy used by lights had such an extreme drop off that it is almost hard to really grapple with.)

Directly to your post, fashion and language may seem more subjective, but I question that. Obviously parts of it are driven less by utility and more from some other factors. But that is almost certainly true for technology, as well. Is why many places hold out from technology for longer than others, as an easy example.
by jauco | 2025-07-17 20:36:53+00:00
Newer versions of node can run typescript directly[1]. The one where types are simply stripped is considered stable[2] (but you can’t use syntax that node doesn’t understand, such as enums).

They’re working on making features work that require some transpilation as well

[1]: https://nodejs.org/en/learn/typescript/run-natively [2]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/58643
by ardit33 | 2025-07-17 20:36:57+00:00
1.So far, it is great if you know what you want, and tell it exactly how you want it, and AI can help you on that (basically intern level work).

2. When you are in a new area, but you don't want to dive deep and just want something quick and it is not core of the app/service.

But, if you are experienced, you can see how AI can mess things up pretty quickly, hence for me it has been best used to 'fill in clear and well defined functionality' at peacemeal. Basically it is best for small bites, then large chunks.
by olddustytrail | 2025-07-17 20:37:14+00:00
I have no idea why you think this is a thing, but just in case I subconsciously tend to do this, I set a timer for 2 minutes without touching my face.

It was effortless.

Edit: wait, I've been in an MRI machine for over an hour where I can't move my arms from my side. How can you think one minute is anything?
by econ | 2025-07-17 20:37:24+00:00
I've talked a lot with all kinds of people about new inventions and things people /we could do if we put our back under it.

The responses are very cultural and nothing like what would be required to accomplish anything large.

To give an example. We could make tubes with hot and/or cold water running from Siberia to the Sahara. There are plenty of design challenges in such project. The correct mindset is to take a broad outline calculating ROI so that you have an idea how much the state of the art needs to improve for it to be viable. Then you take the largest expenses or technical hurdles and ponder what could be done to ease the pain point. You can ponder the diameter vs the temperature vs the flow rate or pressure, the distance between the pumps etc etc, not to build anything but to train the brain noodle.

If it wasn't a stupid idea people would be doing it already.

Many countries, if not all, had a period where great things were done. After that comes defeatism nihilism and a preference for talking about tarifs, Epstein, 911, etc

With tiny improvements everything shifts around. The steam engine had many challenges that have been solved long ago. Imagine that the 100 mph carburator didn't happen because you lose much of the throttle control. How silly this excuse is in the age of hybrids? It's pretty much a non-argument.
by rickdeckard | 2025-07-17 20:37:41+00:00
It cost more but didn't create more sales. It's like creating a car with an additional wheelbase.

What should be much more annoying is this: There is roughly half of the entire Smartphone ecosystem systematically isolated from free market-forces by a single brand, with the other half isolated by an OS. So even if a company would come along with a compelling compact phone, if it cannot instantly replace everything Apple offers, that company can only address HALF of its potential market, and ONLY if it's based on Android then.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-07-17 20:38:09+00:00
Okay, I love this paper a lot. Mostly because it does an excellent job of teaching while being cheeky, but it also points out the many ways that people who choose to create perceptions that aren't particularly accurate. The pressure to be "the next big thing" is strong and all of my career I've chuckled at people who present business concepts in grandiose terms the bely the actual thing. Scientists do that too.
by AkshatM | 2025-07-17 20:38:19+00:00
> Need an example? Good. Coding.

> You must be paying your software engineers around $100,000 yearly.

> Now that vibecoding is out there, when was the last time you committed to pay $100,000 to Lovable or Replit or Claude?

I think the author is attacking a bit of a strawman. Yes, people won't pay human prices for AI services.

But the opportunity is in democratization - becoming the dominant platform - and bundling - taking over more and more of the lifecycle.

Your customers individually spend less, but you get more customers, and each customer spends a little extra for better results.

To respond to the analogy: not everyone had $100,000 to build their SaaS before. Now everyone who has a $100 budget can buy Lovable, Replit and Claude subbscriptions. You only need 1,000 customers to match what you made before.
by paulpauper | 2025-07-17 20:39:08+00:00
These giveaway scams are so lucrative due to the right-end of the tail of the handful of victims who lose a lot. This is called the whale model, compared to typical email spam, e.g. pharma, where there is less variance and smaller but more numerous payouts . The whale payouts are so much bigger than the others even combined, so much more profitable.

Also, it scales much better due to the popularity of crypto and irreversible payouts, compared to pills ,which are heavily regulated and have lower profit margins (due to shipments, SEO, and creating a storefront) and payment problems. This can explain the enduring popularity of giveaway scams despite efforts to stop it.
by yakz | 2025-07-17 20:39:14+00:00
I second this and would add that you really need an automated way to do it. For coding, automated test suites go a long way toward catching boneheaded edits. It will understand the error messages from the failed tests and fix the mistakes more or less by itself.

But for other tasks like generating reports, I ask it to write little tools to reformat data with a schema definition, perform calculations, or do other things that are fairly easy to then double-check with tests that produce errors that it can work with. Having it "do math in its head" is just begging for disaster. But, it can easily write a tool to do it correctly.
by slg | 2025-07-17 20:39:28+00:00
The proper use of these systems is to treat them like an intern or new grad hire. You can give them the work that none of the mid-tier or senior people want to do, thereby speeding up the team. But you will have to review their work thoroughly because there is a good chance they have no idea what they are actually doing. If you give them mission-critical work that demands accuracy or just let them have free rein without keeping an eye on them, there is a good chance you are going to regret it.
by bluetidepro | 2025-07-17 20:39:31+00:00
How are people using this without getting rate limited non stop? I pay for Claude Pro and I sometimes can’t go more than 5 prompts in an hour without it saying I need to wait 4 hours for a cooldown. I feel like I’m using it wrong or something, it’s such a frustrating experience. How do you give it any real code context without using all your tokens so quickly?
by Xcelerate | 2025-07-17 20:40:11+00:00
Edit: I wrote my comment a bit too early before finishing the whole article. I'll leave my comment below, but it's actually not very closely related to the topic at hand or the author's paper.

I agree with the gist of the article (which IMO is basically that universal computation is universal regardless of how you perform it), but there are two big issues that prevent this observation from helping us in a practical sense:

1. Not all models are equally efficient. We already have many methods to perform universal search (e.g., Levin's, Hutter's, and Schmidhuber's versions), but they are painfully slow despite being optimal in a narrow sense that doesn't extrapolate well to real world performance.

2. Solomonoff induction is only optimal for infinite data (i.e., it can be used to create a predictor that asymptotically dominates any other algorithmic predictor). As far as I can tell, the problem remains totally unsolved for finite data, due to the additive constant that results from the question: which universal model of computation should be applied to finite data? You can easily construct a Turing machine that is universal and perfectly reproduces the training data, yet nevertheless dramatically fails to generalize. No one has made a strong case for any specific natural prior over universal Turing machines (and if you try to define some measure to quantify the "size" of a Turing machine you realize this method starts to fail once the number of transition tables becomes large enough to start exhibiting redundancy).
by bnjms | 2025-07-17 20:40:32+00:00
Sure. That’s not what I mean though. I mean that every time I go to my page it’s roughly the same and only changes based on what’s new that they’ve decided I’ll like. Years ago when they were doing the long tail business model they had an idea what I like. The t feels like they now have an idea of what they’d like me to like.

If I scroll down far enough I’ll loop around and if I scroll through the categories given they’ll overlap. But if I go to someone with different enough taste I’ll see there are things I’d like to be aware of which I don’t k ow how to engage without already knowing about them. We expect this for languages foreign to us but why is it also true for anything the least bit challenging to one’s usual taste?
by extr0pian | 2025-07-17 20:40:34+00:00
Wallabag. I switched from Pocket to Wallabag years ago because I didn't like sponsored content and ads in Pocket. I originally started paying for it as a subscription directly from wallabag.it, but then I started self-hosting it. Wallabag has an option to import all of your articles from Pocket too. It's a fantastic service.
by floundy | 2025-07-17 20:40:54+00:00
I switched to Wallabag. 14 day free trial (an actual free trial that doesn't require CC info). There's a Pocket import function. I found it useful to filter the .csv that Pocket downloaded me into two .csv's, one for unread articles and one for archived articles, that I respectively imported into Wallabag as the import feature allowed for "mark as read" on imports.

About 10% of the articles I had didn't download due to Captcha requirements or paywalls that had been added since I had archived the article in Pocket. Once my articles imported to Wallabag, I filtered the unread list from 0 to 3 minutes which showed me all the ones that were paywalled or only saved snippets. I fixed them with the Wallabag browser extension, which has an option to save content direct from browser.

I now have Wallabag on my Android phone, Boox ereader (runs Android), and Kobo ereader (via KOReader). No issues and I'm liking it better than Pocket.
by somat | 2025-07-17 20:40:57+00:00
Apprentice projects are still a thing where the apprentice system is still in place. It varies depending on industry but you will be given a low level mostly pointless high tolerance task you must complete(make a perfect(we will verify it with a micrometer) cube out of steel using only a hand file), this mainly proves you have the correct mindset to work in that industry.

Having said that, these dodecahedrons are complex enough, they would probably a journeyman level project at minimum.

Personally, I like the theory they are surveying/measuring instruments, probably coupled with enough mysticism and numerology that decorative versions were made to satisfy the non-professional market. think something like masonic emblems. Noting that the guilds for these sort of things were full of trade secrets and obscure rituals.
by dang | 2025-07-17 20:41:08+00:00
Related. Others?

Game of Trees - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43438659 - March 2025 (6 comments)

OpenBSD – Game of Trees 0.102 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41250257 - Aug 2024 (2 comments)

OpenBSD – Game of Trees 0.99 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40271467 - May 2024 (1 comment)

Comparison of Game of Trees to other version control systems - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800541 - July 2023 (1 comment)

OpenBSD: Game of Trees 0.90 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456887 - June 2023 (15 comments)

Game of Trees (Got): A Version Control System for OpenBSD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20665787 - Aug 2019 (2 comments)

Game of Trees: A Version Control System for OpenBSD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20657650 - Aug 2019 (40 comments)
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-07-17 20:41:21+00:00
Nobody said that. If you tell your software on your machine to leak your credentials, then yes it should. And since it's your data and you're the one telling it to do it, I'm reasonably confident that gdpr says that's completely above board. (Like, I'm no lawyer so take with appropriate grain of salt, but it's generally described as saying that you have to have user permission to do things with data, which the user agent acting on your orders very much does have.)
by patrickscoleman | 2025-07-17 20:41:39+00:00
Ads are coming to ChatGPT too at some point [1]. Agree that ChatGPT has less spam than Google for now, but this won't always be the case.

There are ChatGPT alternatives too (including Kagi's), so AI may end up taking a lot of search market share, but I still find myself searching most of the time. I've had enough hallucinations to still prefer searching for and reading primary sources. As always I keep monitoring and trying new things.

[1] https://mashable.com/article/openai-ceo-sam-altman-open-to-a...
by nick__m | 2025-07-17 20:42:00+00:00
I belong to the ban perfume group. I am allergic to most of them, it feels like someone is hitting me from inside my sinuses. And it is not because someone wears to much or smell to intensely either. Sometimes I barely smell it but it feels equally violently bad.

I wish I knew what is so irritating in so many perfume so I could militate to have that substance banned instead of being in the no perfume militia!
by __jonas | 2025-07-17 20:42:11+00:00
Do you use Anytype productively?

I have it installed but I find it kind of daunting compared to Notion for organizing my notes, it seems to want to be a more abstract kind of 'knowledge management system'.

I just opened it again and it popped up a 'What's New' with phrases like 'Relations are now properties' and something about 'types', 'templates', 'sets' and 'queries', I really just want to take notes and organize them in a straightforward hierarchy.
by input_sh | 2025-07-17 20:42:16+00:00
It's not one or the other, it's both. They both do original reporting on their own and act as a loose network of smaller investigative journalism organizations. It truly depends on the task at hand, but it's usually very useful to get some of the local investigative journalists involved, as they're the ones that both understand the language and are able to put the leaked data into context. Usually ICIJ is the one that publishes the English version of the story and their local partner(s) publish the same thing in the local language.

Actually, I'd say there's three such networks: ICIJ, GIJN and OCCRP. They're not really competitors, each serving slightly different purposes, and there's plenty of collaboration and overlap between their members.

Source: I'm not in that world anymore, but I knew about Panama Papers long before it was public and have my name in the credits in some of the collaborations with ICIJ.
by tomjen3 | 2025-07-17 20:42:22+00:00
I am not sure I see most of this as a problem. For an agent you would want to write some longer instructions than just "book me an aniversery dinner with my wife".

You would want to write a couple paragraphs outlining what you were hoping to get (maybe the waterfront view was the important thing? Maybe the specific place?)

As for booking a babysitter - if you don't already have a specific person in mind (I don't have kids), then that is likely a separate search. If you do, then their availability is a limiting factor, in just the same way your calendar was and no one, not you, not an agent, not a secretary, can confirm the restaurant unless/until you hear back from them.

As an inspiration for the query, here is one I used with Chat GPT earlier:

>I live in <redacted>. I need a place to get a good quality haircut close to where I live. Its important that the place has opening hours outside my 8:00 to 16:00 mon-fri job and good reviews. > >I am not sensitive to the price. Go online and find places near my home. Find recent reviews and list the places, their names, a summary of the reviews and their opening hours. > >Thank you
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-17 20:42:48+00:00
> You have to start from how the reality works and then derive your work.

Every philosopher eventually came to the same realization: We don't have access to the world as it is. We have access to a model of the world as it predicts and is predicted by our senses. In so far as there is a correlation between the two in whatever fidelity we can muster, we are fated to direct access to a simulacrum.

For the most part they agree, but we have a serious flaw - our model inevitably influences our interpretation of our senses. This sometimes gets us into trouble when aspects of our model become self-reinforcing by framing sense input in ways that amplify the part of the model that confers the frame. For example, you live in a very different world if you search for and find confirmation for cynicism.

Arguing over metaphysical ontology is exemplified by kids fighting about which food (their favorite) is the best. It confuses subjectivity and objectivity. It might appear radical, but all frames are subjective even ones shared by the majority of others.

Sure, Schopenhauer's philosophy is the mirror of his own nature, but there is no escape hatch. There is no externality - no objective perch to rest on, even ones shared by others. That's not to say that all subjectivities are equally useful for navigating the world. Some models work better than others for prediction, control, and survival. But we should be clear that useful does not equate with truth, as all models are wrong, some are useful.

JC, I read the rest. The author doesn’t seem to grasp how profit actually works. Price and value are not welded together: you can sell something for more or less than the value it generates. Using his own example, if the AI and the human salesperson do the same work, their value is identical, independent of what each costs or commands in the market.

He seems wedded to a kind of market value realism, and from this shaky premise, he arrives at some bizarre conclusions.