MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zo1 | 2025-07-26 13:08:41+00:00
Wow really I had no idea. This rabbit hole goes deeper then I expected!

In 2022, the project evolved into a commercial entity called Pydantic Services Inc., founded by Samuel Colvin and Adrian Garcia Badaracco, to build products around the open-source library. The company raised $4.7 million in seed funding in February 2023, led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Partech, Irregular Expressions, and other investors. This was followed by a $12.5 million Series A round in October 2024, again led by Sequoia Capital and including Partech Partners, bringing the total funding to approximately $17.2 million across rounds. The Series A funding coincided with the launch of Pydantic Logfire, a commercial observability platform for backend applications, aimed at expanding beyond the core open-source validation framework. As of mid-2025, no additional funding rounds have been publicly reported.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/16/sequoia-backs-open-source-...
by K0balt | 2025-07-26 13:09:39+00:00
It’s not just that, the economics of diamonds is completely fabricated. Idk about these days, but debeers used to buy up the vast majority of mined diamond, not to sell but to hoard or destroy them to maintain scarcity.

I’m not even sure that all of these recent stories about lab created diamonds to come out aren’t actually a PR pitch to advertise “natural” diamonds, an effort to emphasise the difference in the public psyche.

Anything public facing that positions diamonds as expensive, desirable, or valuable can usually be traced back to the cartel. It’s super common in movies and other media.
by motorest | 2025-07-26 13:10:52+00:00
> You miss the whole point and the author is correct about this:

your comment is funny, because you are so wrong you aren't even aware how and why you are wrong. It's in "not even wrong" territory. I'll explain you why.

> Modern CSS is powerful, and HTML is the way to deliver web content.

Irrelevant. That's not why the world uses JavaScript frameworks. It seems you aren't even aware of the most basic reasons why the world migrated to SPAs. The most basic reasons are performance (and perceived performance), not only because the require less data to be moved around the internet but also every flow doesn't require full page reloads.

Also, classic old timey server-side rendered WebApps end up being far more complex to develop and maintain as you mix everything together and you are unable to have separation of concerns regarding how your platform is deployed and ran and how your frontend works. SPAs even allow your frontend team to go to the extent of handing your backend as if it was a third-party service, and some SPAs are even just that. There are plenty of CMSs out there which eliminate the need for a backend by providing all content needs through their commercial APIs. This makes webapppp projects greatly cheaper and simpler to finance and support as you can simply bother about developing and maintaining your SPA.

Lastly, those JavaScript frameworks you're trying to criticize also use CSS and HTML, by the way. So as you may understand your point is moot.

> Every web framework is _literally_ a hack to make the web something it isn’t.

You are clearly talking about things you have no understanding over. It matters nothing if you specify a DOM with a static file or procedurally. Updating only specific elements or branches of a DOM is a very basic usecases. In fact if you had any frontend experience at all you'd be aware that all mainstream GUI frameworks, including desktop, represent their UIs with a DOM.

So here you are trying to argue that frontend development is not frontend development just because you have an irrational axe to grind regarding a specific class of web development technologies?

> For thise JavaScript people, I recommend trying Laravel or Ruby/Rails.

If you hadn't already proven you are completely ignorant and detached from reality, this argument alone would leave no room for doubt.
by louthy | 2025-07-26 13:11:49+00:00
This is far right fear-mongering rhetoric. It’s the standard hatred of ethnic minorities whipped up by bigots. The UK is not on a “dark path”, that’s absolute nonsense. Nor do people live in fear. I assume you don’t actually live in the UK. Because none of your description is the UK I live in.

> “People are scared of what's going on. Both criminality and religious extremism are rising at a more than alarming rate.”

Crime is down and has been going down for 10 years. For “religious extremism” I’ll just read “I don’t like brown people”, because extremism is only really growing due to white supremacy groups.

> “they're going after those denouncing the crimes.”

No, they are not, they are going after those fomenting violence (literal riots). In one case leading to white supremacists trying to burn down a hotel with refugees in it.

Crime happens. It doesn’t mean one crime is a symptom of a wider problem. And breaking news: crime is committed by white people too. RE: the Rolex watch crime — I walk through East London with a Patek Philippe on my arm and have zero concerns, I’m not scared, nor do I live in fear. Nobody I know in the UK is scared or living in fear — that’s just agenda driven rhetoric.

Maybe get off twitter and/or the far-right manosphere and try changing your news sources for something more balanced.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-26 13:12:29+00:00
Yet TFA shows the character used to beat the verification is a game character based on the likeness of an actor famous for the role he pays the game character is based. So you’re saying what, that the system isn’t aware it was trained on this person, the training isn’t looking that person is known to the training, or the system just doesn’t work as advertised?
by TXTOS | 2025-07-26 13:12:42+00:00
Just chiming in — been down this exact rabbit hole for months (same pain: useful != demo).

I ended up ditching the usual RAG+embedding route and built a local semantic engine that uses ΔS as a resonance constraint (yeah it sounds crazy, but hear me out).

Still uses local models (Ollama + gguf)

But instead of just vector search, it enforces semantic logic trees + memory drift tracking

Main gain: reduced hallucination in summarization + actual retention of reasoning across files

Weirdly, the thing that made it viable was getting a public endorsement from the guy who wrote tesseract.js (OCR legend). He called the engine’s reasoning “shockingly human-like” — not in benchmark terms, but in sustained thought flow.

Still polishing a few parts, but if you’ve ever hit the wall of “why is my LLM helpful but forgetful?”, this might be a route worth peeking into.

(Also happy to share the GitHub PDF if you’re curious — it’s more logic notes than launch page.)
by probably_wrong | 2025-07-26 13:13:04+00:00
I'm all in for finding beauty in our daily lives, but I'm not sure diamonds are more special than other things we take for granted. Oil and helium have also taken millions of years to form, and yet no one spends a second before buying a plastic duck or inflating a balloon. And if the point is that diamonds are shiny and pretty (which is a fair reason for liking them) there are other types of stones around just as good.
by dom96 | 2025-07-26 13:13:05+00:00
This really deserves a digital solution. Let me get a government account and generate tokens that websites can ingest to confirm I'm an adult (and other optional details about me).

Having to use passports or poor solutions like face scanning isn't good enough. I guess the reason they don't do this is because they fear the cost, anything governments price up these days seems to be in the billion range. So the politicians who don't understand how cheap it is to build software assume it's way out of their price range.
by cubefox | 2025-07-26 13:13:26+00:00
Yes. I think it comes down to the following property of the tone mapping curve: if there is high brightness contrast, the colors of the bright parts should become desaturated. It's probably why this screenshot looks so realistic:

https://ventspace.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/i...

The contrast is very high, but the colors of the bright part has appropriately low color saturation. Which seems to match how our eyes, and cameras, perceive things when there are large differences in brightness (which a display can't directly reproduce, which is why tone mapping is necessary in the first place).

Most engines in the past apparently did this wrong, they kept the color saturation the same irrespective of brightness.
by ccvannorman | 2025-07-26 13:13:51+00:00
Some things never change.

Yes, technology is the way we circumvent effort to deliver results (e.g. to live longer, healthier, and with less pain/fear.)

Yes, our civilization rewards and encourages short circuiting effort, depriving us of the basic positive feedback loop of effort to reward.

It's been like this since the invention of the wheel and fire. It's up to us to find and/or create meaningful (and effortful) lives, and it is more sustainable to focus on the path than the destination; every zen text teaches this.

This article started off strong but ended up quippy, spiteful and shallow. Still, I appreciate the effort ;-]
by Jedd | 2025-07-26 13:14:04+00:00
This story - Diamonds are Bullshit - comes up regularly, and I bookmarked it back in 2013 because it's so good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5403988

There is nothing to miss about the impending death of the 'diamond industry'.

(Oh, the link is broken on the HN 2013 story -- try this one: https://priceonomics.com/diamonds-are-bullshit/ )
by sorenjan | 2025-07-26 13:16:03+00:00
Apparently there's a big issue in Antwerp now that they're not allowed to import diamonds from Russia. Maybe they should stop fighting the synthetic diamonds and embrace them instead, as something guaranteed free of human suffering and war profiteering. But the whole industry hinges on manufactured demand, so they'd rather see the trade move to other countries I guess.

https://eutoday.net/antwerps-diamond-industry-facing-an-exis...
by jmg421 | 2025-07-26 13:16:17+00:00
UPDATE: I've added a quick demo page for mobile at https://nodes.bio/mobile/ . The mobile page now showcases three major network visualizations:

TBI Nasal Spray Mechanism - Shows molecular pathways and drug delivery mechanisms for traumatic brain injury treatment.

Biological Network Introduction - Demonstrates protein-protein interactions, signaling pathways, and cellular communication systems.

Innovation Pipeline Network - Visualizes the research-to-commercialization pipeline, mapping connections from scientific discoveries to market applications.

The full interactive experience is available on desktop for advanced features and larger networks.

Thanks everyone for the feedback about adding compelling demo screenshots - this gives mobile visitors a clear sense of what the tool can visualize across different biological domains.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-07-26 13:16:25+00:00
The way I think of it is that consciousness is a side effect that arises from the complex circuitry of our brains

I also don't want to be too confident, I'm not an expert on this. But I don't think consciousness is tied to any one physical component of our brains, it is something that only happens when the whole system is assembled

This is why I don't think you can move consciousness. You can create a new identical brain, but that create a new consciousness. How do you transplant a side effect?

It would be like saying "we can move the heat that this circuit is generating to this other circuit". Clearly you can't really
by jxntb73 | 2025-07-26 13:17:44+00:00
I'm not excusing nor rationalizing prices and the economics, obviously they hoard and manupulate the rates. Can't argue with how dark that crap must be. All I'm saying is real diamonds are 'better' and everyone knows it. Humans are emotional and that's a good thing. The manipulation of it is the bad thing. Trying to deny yourself of your emotions like a monk and yet still wishing for the iconic symbolic significance having 3month salary storybook ring, what are we doing here. Pay more for the real thing because life is real.
by ath3nd | 2025-07-26 13:18:13+00:00
The other side is not even 0.0001% of the population. Cops, military, firemen, they are all working class, like us. The veil drops when you realize we are ALL working class: the police, military, software engineers, firemen, nurses, doctors, lawyers, miners, farmers, teachers.

The other side has nothing. We operate the farms, the weapons, the hospitals, the IT infrastructure, the surveillance, the army, the transportation, the bullets, the drones and the incarceration facilities. The other side contributes nothing, does nothing, and if they continue on their current path, history has shown again and again that they will be reduced to nothing.
by hxtk | 2025-07-26 13:19:06+00:00
The main “why” that I find is that it allows you to intentionally design your API types and know when a change is touching them.

I worked on a project with a codebase on the order of millions of lines, and many times a response was made by taking an ORM object or an app internal data structure and JSON serializing it. We had a frequent problem where we’d make some change to how we process a data structure internally and oops, breaking API change. Or worse yet, sensitive data gets added to a structure typically processed with that data, not realizing it gets serialized by a response handler.

It was hard to catch this in code review because it was hard to even know when a type might be involved in generating a response elsewhere in the code base.

Switching to a schema-first API design meant that if you were making a change to a response data type, you knew it. And the CODEOWNERS file also knew it, and would bring the relevant parties into the code review. Suddenly those classes of problems went away.
by joenot443 | 2025-07-26 13:20:17+00:00
> The manufactured perception of the general public then became that web apps are not "real apps" despite offering the exact same features

But they're not real apps, they're webpages. They are two different things, both very useful, but both very different.

It's a very good thing for a user to be aware that there's a real and important difference between a signed binary from the App Store which lives on their device and a blob of minified JS coming down from quite literally anywhere.

And they're correct to feel that way! Apps, when made correctly, feel way better to use! It's a bit surprising to me you attribute this preference for ""native"" apps to "whatever reason". I've always felt the difference was extremely stark and obvious, I couldn't imagine getting them confused. It seems you're a little misinformed with how most native apps are built; it's just not true that any meaningful number of apps you interact with regularly with "simply wrap their web app in a WebView." In fact, if you try to ship an app which does solely this (webpage in a WebView), Apple will reject it. Have you built any mobile apps, kelthuzad?

I encourage you to try Google Docs or Youtube from a mobile browser and observe whether you find differences between that and the native experience. I think you'll be surprised :)
by jeremyjh | 2025-07-26 13:20:22+00:00
Yes, every company that operates in the US and many that only import have US subsidiaries. This is true of all companies pretty much everywhere in the world. The government must have an entity it can tax, and a throat it can choke, but the subsidiary is answering to a parent and that is I think what would change if TSMC could no longer operate in Taiwan or was taken over by the party.
by uxhacker | 2025-07-26 13:20:26+00:00
Does using AI kill the dopamine loop?

I don’t think so.

I still spend the hours — because it needs to sound original. It needs to feel authentic. I have to add my own personal parts to the story.

I still struggle writing it.

The AI helps, but it doesn’t replace the work. The dopamine’s still there — because I’m still in the loop.
by jfengel | 2025-07-26 13:20:32+00:00
I don't know what you mean by "Zionists". The term is routinely applied to anyone who isn't actively seeking the destruction of Israel.

To me, the term only applies to the people who sought to establish the state of Israel. That happened in 1947, and all of the people are dead. By that understanding there are no Zionists.

If you're defining Zionists as people with no morals who seek to destroy babies because they like killing babies, I'm sure they exist. Probably dozens of them. But that does not contribute to an understanding of the situation in Israel and Palestine, because not even Netanyahou falls into that category. (And he is undoubtedly a monster and war criminal.)
by simoncion | 2025-07-26 13:20:43+00:00
I'm not a downvoter, but I have a few minutes to kill, so sure, I'll bite.

> Why do you then tell others how to live their lives?

In all reasonably-free societies, the default stance is "Mind your damn business, and everyone else will mind theirs.". Deviations from that default veer into "telling other people how to live their lives" territory. Sometimes it's right and proper to actively interfere in the lives of others. It is occasionally even extremely important to do this. But -the majority of the time- the folks doing this are nothing more than busybodies sticking their noses in other people's business.

You might think that US-based businesses should not be permitted to accept payments tendered by the two major credit and debit card processors for the sale of more-extreme pornographic content. I think it's none of those processors' business what legal goods consenting adults purchase using their systems.

Given Visa and MasterCard's enormous size, I think it's absolutely essential that they not be permitted to refuse any legal purchase for any reason other than credible suspicion of fraud. You may feel differently. You're totally entitled to that opinion.
by danaris | 2025-07-26 13:21:06+00:00
> a superintelligence that is smarter than any human and can continuously improve itself. At that stage, it will always allocate resources more efficiently than any individual or corporation.

This kind of magical thinking still baffles me.

This is sci-fi. There is absolutely zero evidence that such a thing is actually possible to create. Even if we stipulated that LLMs are AGIs, or can become them if we just cram in a few billion more parameters, it's painfully clear that they are not superintelligent, they cannot improve themselves, and there is no credible pathway to them becoming anything of the sort—not to mention they're already guzzling absurd amounts of energy, and taking up massive amounts of hardware, just to do the bad job they do now.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-07-26 13:21:14+00:00
I also thought that, but then I scrolled down to the Breath of the Wild shot and got (part of) it: BotW has an awesomely rendered sky, whereas the CoD and to a lesser extent HZD ones have a desaturated, largely overexposed mess (despite all my affection for HZD). The Smaug shot is flawed in a similar manner.

And the photography comparison does come to mind immediately, because that kind of thing is in fact what you’ll get from a DSLR on a sunny day if you don’t know what you’re doing, and to some extent from a film camera too (I’m speaking about the sky only—the HZD shot has much too large a dynamic range to capture on a real camera without compositing). Photographers have a huge bags of tricks to deal with the problem, from taking photos in early morning light to darkening parts of a shot with a graduated ND filter to underexposing and fixing it up in post (before digital, that meant chemistry).

I think it is fair to hold games to this standard. It’s not that they have to look like photos. It’s that they shouldn’t have flaws in their look that have been recognized and solved for photos for more than a century.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-26 13:21:31+00:00
>But as we should all know, it's not enough to press a button and deploy perfectly. You gotta fix all thr quirks, and that's where most of the budget for a dedicated team back in the day went. Not so much these days.

Have you ever worked on a project that targets both Android and iDevices? Close to none of them are just one magical code base that hits both devices. Overwhelmingly there is an enormous amount of custom code for each platform. You are propping up a myth to support this ridiculous contention.

>75% isn't enough when targeting 100% of the market.

Only garbage apps target "100%" of the market with one app. Again, I feel like I'm talking to people who have never, ever touched a mobile app.

>Straight from the horses' mouth

You literally linked to the app policies. That has zero relevance for PWAs.

The fact that my upper level comment got flagged, hilariously, betrays how utterly delusional, detached from reality, and just nonsensical almost all discussions on this are. It is always portrayed against a mythical strawman (the magic "only one app magically targets everyone, that no one is actually doing it").

PWAs fail because they're usually bad, and web development teams usually have horrifying attitudes towards users. It has nothing to do with Apple.
by swores | 2025-07-26 13:21:49+00:00
Worth pointing out that you're talking purely from a US point of view, and different countries treat slander and libel differently.

For example in the US, to sue for defamation you need to prove something is false, whereas in the UK the defendant has to prove that what they said or wrote (and are being sued for) is true.

(I've no idea whether this app had any non-US use, but thought worth adding this comment regardless since it's a general point about defamation law and being discussed on a site with a big international audience.)
by gonzalohm | 2025-07-26 13:21:57+00:00
One could argue that this is a flaw of evolution. There is a system that gives you a reward after you accomplish something and hence you associate the final result with the reward.

If I offer you a shortcut, your brain is going to take it, easier reward, right?

And yet this has probably been a problem for ages. Nomad hunters probably had a huge dopamine rush after hunting. Then agriculture was invented and for some people getting food was just spending hard earned money at the market. And I don't think they fucked their dopamine system

What I mean by all this is that evolution and our brains will find a way to evolve and change our reward system. We will find other things that feel rewarding
by kelthuzad | 2025-07-26 13:22:04+00:00
> There isn't just Apple, there's also Google which is a big promoter of PWA's, and in fact they popularized the term.

Google is the primary champion of PWAs, they have a vested interest in its success. The reason I focused on Apple is because its actions are one of a profit-maximizing gatekeeper actively defending its most lucrative business against an existential threat that is PWA. Every bug, every delayed feature, and every artificial limitation imposed on PWAs on iOS is a calculated strategic move in this defense of its walled garden that makes maximum taxation possible.

>PWA's just never took off.

That's just the lazy manufactured and false narrative that I've already thoroughly debunked. I'm not going to repeat it, since you would just ignore it again.
by andreasgl | 2025-07-26 13:22:18+00:00
> All European banks require you have the app to be able to do anything with your account. The is more of compliance/regulatory thing.

This is not true in Sweden. I use three different banks in Sweden, and they all offer equal or more functionality on their mobile version websites.

This wasn’t always the case, though. In the early 2010s, I remember a bank blocking mobile user agents and referring to their app instead, due to “security”. I’m glad there has been some progress in the right direction since then.