MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by warmedcookie | 2025-07-12 01:25:11+00:00
Are they?

Cursor's Accept / Reject feature for each change it makes in each file is nice whereas I have to use a diff tool to review the changes in Claude Code.

Also, if I go down a prompt alley that's a dead end, Cursor has the Restore Checkpoint feature to get back to the original prompt and try a different path. With Claude Code, you had better have committed the code to git, otherwise you end up with a mess you didn't want.

My company pays for both, but I mostly use Cursor unless I know I am doing a new project or some proof of concept, which Claude Code might have an edge on with a more mature TODO list feature.
by le-mark | 2025-07-12 01:25:14+00:00
My theory is they store payment information on the mobile app. The app connects to the store wifi automatically, even when going through the drive thru. And processes the payment then. I theorized it so they don’t store credit card info on their servers, simplifying their PCI audits. Presumably they think all that is better than preventing the app from running on rooted phones.
by stetrain | 2025-07-12 01:25:49+00:00
It did glide briefly, the glide path took it directly into a school building.

Right after takeoff at low altitude is basically the worst place for this to happen. Speed and altitude are low so gliding is going to be a short distance and happen quickly.

If there had been a perfect empty long flat grass field in that location it may have been salvageable, but also right after takeoff the plane usually has a heavy fuel load which makes for a much riskier landing.

Edit: This article has a map showing the glide path:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/12/air-india-flig...
by kragen | 2025-07-12 01:26:18+00:00
I agree that hand-held XRF guns should be able to detect such lead levels, and I believe that was in fact what the police used when they did the publicity stunt in the Bangladesh market. At any rate, it sounds like you know a lot more about the question than I do. I was only disputing pfdietz's comment, "The concentrations of lead being discussed here are as much as 1000 ppm or even higher."
by Lunalin | 2025-07-12 01:26:32+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm not a programmer by training, but someone who's worked in a totally different field for years. A while ago I stumbled into the world of coding, and it honestly felt like discovering magic.

Before, whenever I needed a tool or website, I had to search everywhere and rely on others. But now, even with very limited technical knowledge, I can build small things by myself. It's an amazing feeling. Every time something actually works, I feel pure joy.

One of my favorite recent side projects is [randomweb.click](https://randomweb.click), a tiny "random website generator". You just click a button and land on a weird or delightful little site – sometimes it's a game, sometimes an interactive artwork, or just something absurd. It's inspired by the spirit of The Useless Web and my love of exploring strange corners of the internet.

I hand-curate every link, and it's all super minimal – just playful randomness. It’s still desktop-only for now, but I’m working on mobile support and new features.

If you have any fun or obscure websites to suggest, I’d love to include them!

Would be happy to hear your thoughts – on the idea, the execution, or how I can improve as a beginner making stuff.

Thanks for reading! :)
by kurthr | 2025-07-12 01:27:40+00:00
I'm from the US, but I at least vaguely follow food safety. The idea that this poisoning was a surprise is bizarre. It was the absolute first thing I thought of. It is the most common form of corruption. Similar thing just exploded in china with a red dye for children's school food. Like EV olive oil, salmon, and honey a majority of the food is adulterated. You just hope that it's non-toxic.

The real issue is a complete lack of testing or regulation, and I fear soon a loss of "rule of law" in the US. I mean if you bought the right person and airplane or some meme-coin, I'm pretty sure you could sell melamine in baby formula or lead paint in junk food, and it would be blamed on "those damn furriners"!
by nickjj | 2025-07-12 01:28:35+00:00
It's about the principle of the matter. A 2 trillion dollar company rendered my perfectly working phone close to unusable and every visit to their official repair center broke it even further.

I picked the 4a because I liked its small size, wired headphone jack and the camera is great. It was 100% fine before all of this started and probably would have lasted until the hardware naturally died. It ran everything I wanted super smoothly.

A more modern phone that's heavier, larger and requires babysitting bluetooth earbuds is a downgrade in my book.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-12 01:28:55+00:00
> Drones are the modern equivalent of chemical and biological weapons

We didn’t ban these because they’re an extinction threat. (They’re not.)

We banned them because they’re only useful asymmetrically. Drones, on the other hand, are useful for everyone. So no bans. (I’m putting aside that we’re moving away from global arms control agreements.)
by gpm | 2025-07-12 01:29:41+00:00
I can install apps that Google doesn't approve, and app stores other than Google's on my pixel.

I can get root access to my pixel.

I can replace the operating with an open source fork on my pixel.

Google is not using its monopoly on the hardware to get a monopoly on the software - they're competing on software primarily on its own merits and the convenience of being the default.

No other phone company that I know of even develops their own operating system.

Apple really is unique in their attempt to control the software that runs on the mass market general purpose computing devices that they sell.
Show HN: I built an AI to answer health, diet, and fitness questions
by GainTrains | 2025-07-12 01:31:23+00:00
Hey HN, I built HealthBuddy because I was overwhelmed by conflicting advice on how to lose weight and get healthy. Between influencers, TikToks, and Reddit threads, it felt like more noise than clarity.

So I created an AI-powered site where you can ask questions like:

“How do I actually lose fat sustainably?”

“What’s a beginner gym plan?”

“What’s a decent meal plan for bulking?”

“How do I stop late-night snacking?”

“How much sleep do I need if I’m training?”

It's built using GPT-4 with prompts tuned specifically for health, nutrition, fitness, and sleep. Answers are structured to be clear, science-backed, and actionable — no fluff or one-size-fits-all replies.

A few extra features:

Search bar for common health topics (e.g. bulking, meal timing, hydration)

Saved chat history (after first use)

Lightweight UI, mobile-friendly

No login required

Would love any feedback from you all, especially around UI, accuracy, and feature ideas. Try it here: https://healthpalai.netlify.app

Thanks for reading!
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-12 01:31:54+00:00
Another commentator has pointed out that the flight data recorder records two signals - one for the switch itself, and one for the actual valve movement.

I take your point that we should always be suspicious of complicated, digital buses, and this is not the final report, so there’s still plenty of time to uncover weirdness. However, if the flight date reporter shows the switch being thrown, and then a few milliseconds later, shows the valve starting to close, and the same sequence happening shortly there after on the second switch and valve, I feel this would really limit the likelihood of any digital shenanigans.
by noahjk | 2025-07-12 01:32:34+00:00
Dr. Becky on Andrew Huberman this year said something like:

The first thing you should do when your kid is feeling something is to just say, "I believe you."

Don't tell her that she really is skinny, or that she really is beautiful, or that she's not thinking right. Don't tell her those things because what you're really saying is, "I know you better than you know yourself." That, unintuitively maybe, damages self confidence - where self confidence is really just "believing oneself."

If you plant a seed of doubt that she doesn't know herself and that others know more about her than she does...

(Obviously this is about validating her feelings and not validating self harm, which is nuanced and could probably use some professional direction or deep thought about how to approach this in a way which doesn't encourage deeper affirmation of the self image)

Anyway, I wish you luck. That sounds gut-wrenching and terrible. I hope you and your family can safely pull through on the other side.
by jszymborski | 2025-07-12 01:33:40+00:00
Ok, this is probably a stupid, very bad, no good idea considering I've not heard of people doing this, but can't you retain many of the benefits of numerical IDs but also the secrecy of UUIDs by using an HMAC ?

With HMAC, you can still ask for some sequential IDs

SipHash128(0, KEY) = k_0

SipHash128(1, KEY) = k_1

You get the same number of bits as a UUID.

You can't, however, sort by IDs to get their insertion sequence, however. For that you'd need something like symmetric encryption but this is already a bad idea, no reason to make it worse.
by fivestones | 2025-07-12 01:34:24+00:00
So, other than owebmaster’s message about how this was vibe coded and AIs are replying, there is a single real comment here so far, from sagasu077, maybe. All the rest of the comments have a feel of being written by an LLM and the users making the comments were either created today this morning or were created last year and have made a single comment otherwise. Maybe they are all Sharon_Q; maybe they are his/her friends’; it doesn’t really make much difference.

Sharon_Q: if you are going to try to go viral on HN you should take the time to make your usernames at different times, spread them out, and then use them to make real posts on a bunch of unrelated topics. No one who you want as a real customer from HN is likely to just jump in and make a subscription without doing some investigation, and it only takes a few clicks to realize that there is almost no real discussion going on here at all.

I think HN at this point is going to be a hard sell on anything new that is LLM generated. It’s not an impossible sell, but we’ve all seen so much already, you’re going to have to have something that stands out, and that’s hard to do at this point, especially as a 3rd party LLM software. But for sure trying to generate interest by deception is a really tough road to reach success.
by Smoosh | 2025-07-12 01:36:35+00:00
“England transported an estimated 50,000 to 120,000 convicts and political prisoners, as well as prisoners of war from Scotland and Ireland, to its overseas colonies in the Americas from the 1610s until early in the American Revolution in 1776, when transportation to America was temporarily suspended…”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation?wprov=sft...
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-12 01:37:24+00:00
They only ever got a few hundred feet off the ground.

Yes of course the plane glided once the engines stopped, producing thrust, just like all planes do. But just like all planes, and all gliders, gliding means trading altitude for velocity - giving up precious height every second in order to maintain flight. At that stage in the flight, they just didn’t have enough to give. If the same thing had happened at 30,000 feet, it would be a non-event. They would glide down a few thousand feet as the engines spool back up and once they return to full power, everything will be back to normal. Or if for some reason, the engines were permanently cooked, you’d have maybe 20 to 30 minutes of glide time so you’ve got a lot of time to look around and find a flat spot. But you just don’t have enough time for all that to happen When you’re a few hundred feet off the ground.
by derefr | 2025-07-12 01:37:27+00:00
Eh. To me, a bot is something users don't know they're running, and would shut off if they knew it was there.

Proxyware is more like a crypto miner — the original kind, from back when crypto-mining was something a regular computer could feasibly do with pure CPU power. It's something users intentionally install and run and even maintain, because they see it as providing them some potential amount of value. Not a bot; just a P2P network client.

Compare/contrast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_(P2P) / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Dark_(P2P) — pieces of software which offer users a similar devil's bargain, but instead of "you get a VPN; we get to use your computer as a VPN", it's "you get to pirate things; we get to use your hard drive as a cache node in our distributed, encrypted-and-striped pirated media cache."

(And both of these are different still to something like BitTorrent, where the user only ever seeds what they themselves have previously leeched — which is much less questionable in terms of what sort of activity you're agreeing to play host to.)
by eldaisfish | 2025-07-12 01:37:29+00:00
30% more is just wrong.

Canada needs between double and triple the electricity generation of today. Canada may not be the best example but there is a lot of uncertainty, especially around climate. it is not unreasonable to expect that places like Europe and India will increasingly add air conditioning, pushing the required grid capacity to double today's.

What are the caveats of your 30% figure?

https://natural-resources.canada.ca/energy-sources/powering-...
by cloverpari8 | 2025-07-12 01:39:44+00:00
More importantly, the site looks pristine, with soft, artsy, techie, nature images with calming, strong, and welcoming colors and vibes, and and follows what at least used to be good SEO practices with a blog that is kept up to date frequently enough, etc.

If you don’t know a good site, you’ll never be able to develop one or pay for one without using a ok template.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-12 01:39:47+00:00
> There used to be a contest to fit a good web page into 5kB ...

In accordance with this philosophy, I worked on a project a couple years ago where the HTML home page uncompressed size was intentionally limited to 4k. The idea being a slow network connection (such as a mobile device using a limited cellular connection) would be able to render quickly and remaining content could load asynchronously.
by foolishgame | 2025-07-12 01:40:31+00:00
I am curious what kind of code development you are doing with so many subscriptions?

Are you doing front end backend full stack or model development itself?

Are you destilling models for training your own?

I have never heard someone using so much subscription?

Is this for your full time job or startup?

Why not use qwen or deep seek and host it yourself?

I am impressed with what you are doing.
by manquer | 2025-07-12 01:41:05+00:00
Everyone has a niche, Windsurf is the only large provider if you are a Jetbrains shop.

There are some alternatives like continue.dev or Jetbrains own AI offering but no Cursor or Claude Code ( Sonnet 3.7/4) you can get through Jetbrains plugin or others, but Anthropic does not provide support same with cursor.
by schiffern | 2025-07-12 01:41:07+00:00
Not possible it's an "I bumped it" type of accident, maybe.

It's quite possible it's a "performed the wrong muscle memory at the worst possible moment" type of accident. This is unlikely, but anyone who thinks such a mistake is impossible doesn't know anything about human factors.

Unlikely just means "low probability." There are thousands of flights per day, so it's only a matter of time.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-07-12 01:41:25+00:00
We're not seeing the forest for the trees here. There are a lot of smartphone manufacturers they could've bought from, they didn't have to buy from Apple, that's not a monopoly at that point in time. They knew the limitations when they bought the device and also the entire ecosystem was created with this in mind, so asking Apple to change over a decades of work in 3 months is not fair either.

Apple entered the smartphone market as an almost bankrupt company and replaced the giants of its day like Nokia and Blackberry. And some other company will replace them someday. The DMA discussions started really good, I had really high hopes of it, but it got almost hijacked with various companies to publicly negotiate contracts with Apple and not for the public good as a market regulation.
by wredcoll | 2025-07-12 01:42:22+00:00
I don't want to defend plex too hard, but I was super confused by what you were talking about:

> But suddenly one day your free mobile viewer app updates and requires payment to stream your own mp4 files

I have a plex server that a dozen of my friends and family use and none of them have to pay a cent to access it.

Then after thinking about it a bit longer, I remembered that plex was making some kind of distinction about "members of a household", apparently called Plex Home [1].

I'm not sure what benefits you get from using it, since I haven't bothered trying to see what it needs to work.

Long story short, however, is if you just have your family members sign up for their own plex account, then add them to your plex server as a separate user, things will continue to Just Work and do so for free.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-07-12 01:43:47+00:00
I think I disagree with "totally fine"... Even if that were true though, this case is definitely a point where you wouldn't want to give away information with a numeric ID. Giving away # of applications/growth of that over time is definitely business information that arguably should not be discernible.

The point is not that UUIDs are magically secure, it's that they mean nothing to whoever gains access except a single job app. The assumption is that they will get out (they're in a public URL), and that they will have no meaning when they do.

It's a defense-in-depth thing IMO -- cargo-culting this approach defends you even when you don't do the other things right. It's simple -- with a non-zero probability that the actual access control is faulty, do you want a default that protects you or doesn't. What's the intentional trade we're going for? More DB perf? Easier to type URLs? There are other ways to deal with those

> Can you tell I've been scarred by discussing designs with folks who focus on the "visible" problems without thinking about the fundamental question of "is this secure"?

Yes :(
by userbinator | 2025-07-12 01:44:22+00:00
No, lacking other evidence (e.g. CVR recording) it doesn't mean they have been moved. The wiring in between the switches and the engine+FDR could've also developed an intermittent fault.

The fact that your car's engine stops doesn't mean you turned the ignition switch off. Anyone who has had to troubleshoot a car with intermitent electrical faults knows that.
by brailsafe | 2025-07-12 01:45:06+00:00
I'm about halfway through the read so far, but wanted to vome back and say that these were/are some of most interesting challenges to overcome and constraints to work within, when I was coming up as a web person. Inspired by agencies like Clear Left, I'd seek out old af devices with comically bad browsers, tiny screens, and obtuse input methods. Unfortunately I never really found a financially rewarding enough path to continue pursuing that; the constraint on most projects that don't have these super tight requirements baked in, is money, time, and looking good, which meant that I could either accept that as a survival mechanism and throw JS at CSS problems, or I could lose my job. Although it's neat that over the years of my incredibly shaky career, I've moved from web designer/developer to f̵a̵k̵e̵ software engineer, I've never found UI programming to be quite as rewarding as making an incredibly fast and responsive and pretty and robust website.
by anarticle | 2025-07-12 01:45:53+00:00
Yes! I was a bouncer for a while here in Philadelphia, and our bar/dancefloor had a rule on St. Patricks day: If you're wearing any green, you can't come in.

Worked great, never had any problems on St. Patricks day.

"You can go to any other bar in the city, just not this one."
by wolfgang42 | 2025-07-12 01:45:54+00:00
The judge’s report[1] lists twenty-eight different classes of failure, including:

- Confusing and buggy UI causing clerks to duplicate or mis-enter transactions

- Inventory getting “stuck” in branches after the product was discontinued; the attempt to remove it hid the inventory but caused its value to reappear on the books again each accounting period

- Failing touch screens entering spurious purchases overnight

- Incomplete rollback of distributed transactions

- Byzantine failures during hardware replacement causing multiple transactions to be assigned the same ID and overwrite each other

- Fujitsu employees with unaudited write access to the production database making one-off modifications

- The point of sale system simply telling the clerk to give too much change back to the customer

There’s no “one bug” here; the main failure was that those responsible continued to dismiss any problems as users being either in error or outright malicious, despite massive amounts of evidence that the system had technical flaws. Better quality software would have reduced the problems, but no system is bug-free and in many cases very little effort was made to identify the root causes of problems, much less to prevent similar ones from happening again.

[1] https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bates-v-...
by fracus | 2025-07-12 01:46:00+00:00
For reasons I won't get into, I was forced to watch a youtube commercial that basically functioned as propaganda for investing in Tesla stock. It was set up as an interview and the man said Tesla made a huge breakthrough in AI and that was the future value of Tesla (presumably to distract investors from their failing car business). The whole thing was super cringe and smelled of desperation.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-12 01:46:22+00:00
> Unfortunate for any employees who aren't founders or researchers, as they don't get any payout or a nice new job from this exit structure. In fact they lose their whole time invested at the company.

Windsurf’s value didn’t go to $0 overnight. The company will continue and their equity is likely still worth a decent amount wherever the company ends up.

Obviously a disappointing outcome for the people who thought life changing money was right around the corner, but they didn’t lose everything.
by mystraline | 2025-07-12 01:46:44+00:00
To be completely and utterly fair, I trust Deepseek and Qwen (Alibaba) more than American AI companies.

American AI companies have shown they are money and compute eaters, and massively so at that. Billions later, and well, not much to show.

But Deepseek cost $5M to develop, and made multiple novel ways to train.

Oh, and their models and code are all FLOSS. The US companies are closed. Basically, the US ai companies are too busy treating each other as vultures.
by hardwaresofton | 2025-07-12 01:47:52+00:00
> One final thing, Paula Vennells was an ordained church minister. She was preaching while she was overseeing the destruction of so many innocent hardworking people. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Vennells > > I don't know why that makes this all worse but some how it does. Somehow it speaks to what the UK is or has become.

It makes it worse because most people are familiar with the tenets of christianity and know that this behavior is counter to that value system.

I think it's one of the most redeeming points of christianity/religion in general -- there is a standard to which people can be judged and agree to be judged. That's why it makes it worse, this person is not only doing terrible things, but doing terrible things while professing to believe a value system that would not condone it.