MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DanielleMolloy | 2025-07-21 20:00:26+00:00
„In the description of the fundraiser, which had raised more than $3,300 by Monday morning, Bodden said her mother and the technician “tried for several minutes to release him” before calling the authorities.“ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mri-machin...

Is there information on why they didn’t quench?

They teach anyone operating MRI or even sitting by - in the first instruction lesson - that if life is at danger in relation to the magnet, you quench (=release the helium to stop the magnet).
by maratc | 2025-07-21 20:00:59+00:00
> That’s a tiny percentage: about 0.02% of your genome. So no, they don’t have your genome, but they do have a small sample of it.

IIRC, 99 percent of the rest is shared by all humans, 95 precent is shared by humans and apes, and some 80 (?) percent is shared by humans and drosophila flies? That's likely the important 0.02%.
by dweinus | 2025-07-21 20:01:33+00:00
Most of the cost of power is not the cost of the electrons. You have to account for the transmission and distribution infrastructure, the operation of the grid, the safety programs, customer service, etc. Retail rates bake that all in. When you run local solar, they are still providing all of that for you when you need it, plus the distribution of the power you sell back to them. What would be "fair" would be to net meter at the value of the power, minus the cost of the grid and backup generation. The cold truth is that this would still be a negative number, i.e. what would truly be fair is for the homeowner to pay a fee to the power company even when they are running off of their own solar 24/7.
by ian-g | 2025-07-21 20:01:39+00:00
This has all been a very personal thread

My two cents are that I have hobbies and obsessions that fulfill me and can make me money. I’m keeping the work-life balance and slowly getting better at my hobbies.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to retire early from tech and finish out my time doing something else part time. I started out working on bicycles, I’d like to close things out similarly in a few decades.
by emanuer | 2025-07-21 20:02:12+00:00
Could someone please help me understand how a multi-modal RAG does not already solve this issue?[1]

What am I missing?

Flash 2.5, Sonnet 3.7, etc. always provided me with very satisfactory image analysis. And, I might be making this up, but to me it feels like some models provide better responses when I give them the text as an image, instead of feeding "just" the text.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7yRLIj9IyQ
by Workaccount2 | 2025-07-21 20:02:36+00:00
ABP, the original uBlock Origin, saw the writing on the wall a decade ago or whenever and tried to mediate a truce between users and advertisers.

ABP would allow through ads that weren't egregious, and users could provide compensation for content they consumed.

People however either can't read or can't comprehend the writing on the wall, so instead they rioted against ABP and moved to uBlock Origin.

I know there are so many bad and greedy things that companies do. And we also talk about them a lot.

But we almost never talk about how greedy the end users are. And you cannot solve problems without understanding the full problem.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-21 20:03:08+00:00
On top of it these people are deluded.

We've seen this complaint circulating since the ChatGPT age. People who initially thought they were getting good results: part of it was that they got lucky and experienced reversion to the mean, part of it was that they got seduced. I mean, coding agents do have some value, but they screw up a lot.
by anthk | 2025-07-21 20:03:14+00:00
Yes... and no.

By the mid 90's there were tools (even fancy 'skins' to XT such as Xaw3D) and WM's which reduced the CPU usage a lot. Today Electron it's more bloated with every release.

If any, by 2025 Gnome would kill any GJS usage to parts of Mutter would be reimplemented in either Vala or Rust getting a big performance boost. BcacheFS would be a stable thing making EXT4 something to be legacied in years. Even the open release of JFS was incredible; a journaling FS being much better for old CPU's than EXT3...

Today we are seeing the opposite trend.
by jact | 2025-07-21 20:03:21+00:00
They don’t have arbitrary power - power is never exercised unilaterally. I can’t imagine they would succeed for very long at say, shutting down all the grocery stores in the world. They wouldn’t even dare try from the hell they would have to pay.

And the payment processors aren’t “book burners.” They’re acting to restrict an unsavory market that potentially hurts their business. They have no agenda or incentive to promote censorship as such.
by OutOfHere | 2025-07-21 20:03:46+00:00
The article notes:

> if a person is found to be in possession or control of any books of account, or other documents and information maintained digitally, on computer systems, or stored electronically, then they must provide the designated income tax officer “reasonable technical and other assistance (including access code, by whatever name called) as may be necessary” to enable the officer to inspect “any information, electronic records and communication or data contained in or available on such computer systems”.

> “In most of the cases of search operation the taxpayers do not share the password/login credential of online forums/portals/e-mail accounts, etc.

The article does not note what will happen when the defendant does not share the info. It is the best interest of the defendant to not share the info. It is very possible that the defendant will incur a small fine for non-compliance instead of a big fine for tax evasion, so it's still a favorable outcome.
by alistairSH | 2025-07-21 20:03:52+00:00
Is he really claiming that BRCA1/2 variants don’t increase risk of breast cancer...

Even worse, if insurance companies had their way, they'd use the family matriarch's BRCA1/2 variant to set the rates for all her descendants. Massive DNA profiling doesn't just impact the "owner" of the DNA - it impacts anybody in their family tree who might have similar genes.
by wolfi1 | 2025-07-21 20:04:22+00:00
here in Central Europe batteries in the trash can are the cause for massive dumpster fires and explosions (not that often, but there was one just last month, took several days to extinguish the fire [0])

[0]: https://www.theinternational.at/nusdorf%E2%80%90debant-500-f...
by conradev | 2025-07-21 20:04:50+00:00
I largely agree. The other thing that happened is that phones got faster: it just doesn't matter as much anymore. A slow disk cache is fine, but if it does anything on the main thread: straight to jail.

The article is about memory efficiency, though! In order to get equivalent memory behavior the buffers would need to be marked as purgeable (from the article) so that kernel can empty the cache if needed. Not sure if any of these libraries do that.

The main situation where cache speed is tested is app launch: load every image for the current viewport simultaneously. It can take some time if your images are slow to decode.
Show HN: I built a mobile app to help you read in a foreign language with LLMs
by canergly | 2025-07-21 20:05:45+00:00
It is released in IOS for now.

Android will be released in a couple of weeks.

Feel free to join to waitlist for Android;

https://www.waitlistr.com/lists/edb86ee6/contextcat-android-...
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-21 20:05:56+00:00
I run my genome twice through 23 and me, the V4 and V5 chip.

They’re doing this I found a mutation parentheses (not a polymorphism) in my CVS enzyme that was causing my family to have heart attacks before they were 50.

And I currently diagnosed two people just looking at their genetics one with celiac and the other one with 21 hydroxy deficiency. Just let them impress your doctor for test in proving it was right.

What makes me sad about this is that it’s such a valuable resource that no one’s going to have access to because of corporations and greed. Personalized medicine is the only way to cure diseases and the only way to find out what’s going on in your body.
by rscho | 2025-07-21 20:05:59+00:00
> To me it reads like anesthesia in the MRI shouldn't be allowed or needs better supervision.

It must certainly be allowed, as it greatly benefits some patients. Believe me, I'd be most happy if I was forbidden to enter MRI rooms.

> I think they were saying theres literally no one there to help.

This might happen quite infrequently, and usually just for a very short time. Problem is that others have their own jobs to do, and sometimes you get unlucky at just the worst time. It's certainly not common that no one's there, and theres almost always someone near. But since you can't leave the patient, it might be that you have to yell for 20-30s before someone notices you're in trouble.

> Emblematic of the broken US healthcare system. The guideline creates an easily preventable scenario where the patient is highly likely to die for no real reason.

I'm not currently practicing in the US. I don't think that's a fair assessment. Guidelines are born in patient blood, and although adaptation is a must deviating from guidelines still remains a bad idea most of the time.
by nickpinkston | 2025-07-21 20:06:36+00:00
This actually does happen for certain crimes in racketeering cases, and SEC/DOJ often run closer to the latter (ie small token fines, which are just the cost of doing business).

The difference being that SEC/DOJ are more worried that more than token fines to big corporations would cause political blowback for the agency and their careers.

The current collusion of this gov't with wealthy crypto interests seems like both of these: political blowback and direct insider kickbacks (TrumpCoin, TACO trade, etc.)
by panick21_ | 2025-07-21 20:06:57+00:00
That's likely because you are looking at the US and not globally. And it also depends of you are evaluating the total number or the total number that control say 50% of the market.

And when people think of large industries the look at the large players and ignore the much larger market behind that. And industries that are very distributed, generally are not perceived as large industries, despite them being very large, like hotels or food.

Also Blackrock for example is 170 billion, that's about half a % of US GDP and like 0.1% of global GDP. so if after 200 years Blackrock is the best example you can come up with, I'm not convinced.

And the companies Blackrock are owning a stake in, are still competing with each other, because companies like Blackrock can't control all those companies.
by latchkey | 2025-07-21 20:07:12+00:00
Coinbase is the counter party. It isn't really "ties to circle", it is that both of them are the CENTRE Consortium.

The implied "problem" with USDC isn't depeg, it is this (and who controls it):

https://gist.github.com/chappjc/350aafb9031f7a66986967bf8ab6...
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-21 20:07:30+00:00
I feel like the real reason behind this fatigue, which is an issue most people skirt around a lot, is that AI takes the joy out of intellectual tasks. Modern global capitalism only emphasizes efficiency, so everyone asks: does it make programmers more efficient? Does it make this or that company more efficient?

But it's quite clear to me that aside from the initial amusement over AI's capabilities, it takes the joy out of what humans once did with their own minds. I'll come straight out and say it: if you make something with your own mind, like the solution to a tricky puzzle or a new App, I'd respect it. But if you do it with AI, I don't respect it.

Fundamentally, people NEED to admire human creation, as it's how our society has always operated, even with the growing automation of rote tasks. But for the first time, we are automating away our precious resource of inspiration through the act of experiencing the creation of others.

A darn shame if you ask me. Of course, others will just ignore me and grab at the convenience, because it's what we've been taught to do for the past few hundred years.
by subjectsigma | 2025-07-21 20:07:41+00:00
> For the sake of HN's guidelines (to assume good faith) I am assuming this was just you being curious and oblivious to the unintended undertones of your comment, but I'll humbly suggest going over it again.

Part of why I love Hacker News is exploring all the millions of ways people can sound like assholes without actually saying any bad words, or anything negative at all. It’s truly incredible to me and I never get tired of it.
by consumer451 | 2025-07-21 20:09:45+00:00
I am aware of the "your LLM is terrible now" trope, and have called it out many times myself. It's an interesting phenomenon.

However, I posted this link for selfish reasons. I wanted to see if this experienced dev team's complaints rang true to other Claude Code users as well. I have been considering CC, but thought maybe I had missed the initial good times.

Is this not at all your experience with CC?
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-21 20:09:46+00:00
This is a straw man. Consider that from my perspective, each of your points amount to saying "code can be correct, but incorrect" (take a look at number 5) and you may realize that your argument does not make any sense:

1. If code is "correct" but non-performant when it needs to be performant, then it's not correct.

2. If code is "correct" but unmaintainable when it needs to be maintainable, then it's not correct.

3. If code is "correct" but does not fit standards when it needs to fit standards, then it's not correct.

4. If code is "correct" but not secure when it needs to be secure, then it's not correct.

5. If code is "correct" but not correct when it needs to be correct, then it's not correct.

6. If code is "correct" but legally risky when it needs to be legally not risky, then it's not correct.

7. If code is "correct" but people think it's incorrect when they need to think it's correct, then it's not correct.

The person who submits the code for code review is effectively asserting that the code meets the quality standards of the project to which they are submitting the code. If it doesn't meet those standards, then it's not correct.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-21 20:10:22+00:00
Websites, websites, websites. Of course instant responsiveness is going to be annoying when you have a >30ms network call with P99 an order of magnitude above that in the mix. If you want real, deep breathing instant responsiveness, you gotta commit to the bit. Go local or go home and denounce, for everyone's own sanity.

I've recently been polishing up [1] for commercial release. It's a product that serves a real need for a niche community, and it's one that I built and use every day based on my own experiences for what I need as a member of that community, so I have even more reason than usual up get it right.

Truly instant responsiveness means putting the data as close and as hot to the end user as physically possible, to the point I wrote and tweaked my own trie implementation to get it just right. And even there with some of the new commercial features I'm starting to run up against ever so slightly noticeable input lag, and it really makes the whole experience feel clunkier than it should. Considering adding a 50ms denounce just to hide my shame...

[1]: https://github.com/hiandrewquinn/tsk
by cuuupid | 2025-07-21 20:10:43+00:00
Until 2004 directly via DCI, since then via embedding officers in leadership across the rest of the IC.

Today, NSA SIGINT still flows directly to the CIA. They are also the only agency without an independent mission, and must rely on the CIA or CYBERCOM to actually do anything with SIGINT (they are only allowed to gather)

Also an open secret that the FBI and CIA often collude and any operation that they can’t get a warrant for just gets performed by the CIA. The FBI’s threat matrix is coordinated by the CIA and despite the Church probes their collusion has only incentivized and even been codified (eg NCTC)
by harimau777 | 2025-07-21 20:11:48+00:00
Two other fun details:

In some cases they could be used to get things that were in the game "legitimately" but which you might not have access to. E.g. getting Mew in Pokemon Blue/Red or Surfing Pikachu in Pokemon Yellow.

Sometimes the codes would break in interesting ways. For example, an invincibility code might cause problems if it was on during a battle that you are scripted to lose. Or the "invincibility" code might actually work by instantly healing you; so you might find out that you are vulnerable if an enemy is strong enough to take all of your health with a single hit.

Like the parent post said, there was a lot of experimentation even when everything was working "correctly".
by xorcist | 2025-07-21 20:12:02+00:00
That's not a revenue stream at any cell phone carrier I've seen. They do what they are legally obliged to do, and while they do get paid for it, it's a fraction of the actual cost of providing the data. The state tends to drive the hell of a bargain. The service providers, such as Facebook, Google and Apple though, that's entirely different.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-21 20:12:12+00:00
It is because it is a direct attack against human creativity. It separates people into two very disparate classes: those who want to use and develop it to become more efficient and rich, and those who hate it with a passion because for them, it takes away the beauty of humanity at the forefront of creativity.

Unlike blockchain, the philosophy and morality of these two classes, one represented by efficiency and one represented by human passion, are diametrically opposed in every respect.
by sprash | 2025-07-21 20:12:35+00:00
> I think MGR has the greatest potential for a comeback because of its unique architecture

I think so too. But this time with modern drawing primitives. Instead of lines an circles we need shaders and textures.

In the end, even the most modern UI is nothing more than a terminal: Low bandwidth input from keyboard and mouse events and low bandwidth output (like draw checkbox at x,y). The rest is done by some drawing or blit routine which can be entirely managed on the GPU.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-07-21 20:12:35+00:00
> How many of those 30 were for "online posts" (and of which nature - Lucy Connolly is a favourite example cited by the likes of Vance, but she was arrested for trying to stir up racial tension when there were already race riots going on)? Who can tell, because the article didn't seem to bother asking.

I googled Lucy Connolly out of curiosity. It indeed appears that she got 31 month of jail for a single tweet? You don't think this counts as "arrested for online posts"?
by jennyholzer | 2025-07-21 20:12:55+00:00
Spotify is actively hostile to artists who intend to use it for income.

Spotify allocates a finite pool of funds to be paid out to artists. Spotify pays the artists whose work they host in proportion to the percentage of the platform's streams which that work generates.

E.G., say Spotify's users streamed 10B songs in 2024. If Taylor Swift is responsible for 1B (10%) of those streams, she would be paid 10% of Spotify's artist fund for 2024.

Recently, Spotify has attracted attention for promoting "ghost music" created en masse by in-house producers. this is done with particular intensity in non-vocal music styles, like ambient and jazz. See [The Ghosts in the Machine by Liz Pelly for Harper's Magazine](https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...) for more details on this.

Spotify stuffs their promoted playlists with this music, and tunes their automated recommendation features to prioritize this music.

This has the dual effect of (1) inflating the number of streams on the platform, and (2) algorithmically crushing the possibility of discovery. This means Spotify cannot be used effectively for promotion (obviously excluding the top .01% most popular artists), and whatever traffic an artist is able to drive to Spotify is devalued.
by randallsquared | 2025-07-21 20:13:18+00:00
Well, I said “medium” term. But ultimately if we stayed on the curve (that is, longer term), humanity would be using the entire output of the sun in less than 2000 years, requiring a Dyson sphere or something. Solar power can’t keep up with human flourishing. We’ll have to have something that is denser and more distributed. :)
by jplusequalt | 2025-07-21 20:13:26+00:00
I think for many people, the real debate taking place has nothing to do with the specific technology, and instead has everything to do with labor.

Depending on who you speak to, AI presents itself as the biggest automation risk to the largest number of workers in human history. This has spurred a new wave of conscious thought about labor among many people, particularly young workers trying to enter the workforce, and creatives who are seeing their art turned against them.

This is a big moment in the west, as for the last 50+ years, the powers that be have done everything in their power to suppress labor movements and erode class consciousness among their populations. Therefor, many people are not used to dealing with the fact that we're all expendable, that the American Dream never existed, etc., and it's a raw topic that makes certain people (understandably) frustrated to grapple with.
by earthicus | 2025-07-21 20:13:49+00:00
I don't think that characterization is fair at all. It's certainly true that you, me, and most humans can't solve these problems with any amount of time or energy. But the problems are specifically written to be at the limit of what the actual high school students who participate can solve in four hours. Letting the actual students taking the test have four days instead of four hours would make a massive difference in their ability to solve them.

Said differently, the students, difficulty of the problems, and time limit are specifically coordinated together, so the amount of joules of energy used to produce a solution is not arbitrary. In the grand scheme of how the tech will improve over time, it seems likely that doesn't matter and the computers will win by any metric soon enough, but Tao is completely correct to point out that you haven't accurately told us what the machines can do today, in July 2025, without telling us ahead of time exactly what rules you are modifying.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-21 20:13:49+00:00
An AI judge is not what I'm talking about and I think that would be a terrible idea. The only thing I'm expecting an AI lawyer to do is generate text that may or may not read as a coherent legal argument. It is the human lawyer's responsibility to present the argument to the court and it does not matter whether the argument came from their head or from a computer; they are responsible for it similar to how a programmer is responsible for the code they include in a pull request.
by fortran77 | 2025-07-21 20:14:15+00:00
The problem is if you are also a user of these services you can't mark as junk because you'll stop geting paypal, bank, airline, car rental emails, etc.

I have the same issue. My gmail is {{my last name}}@gmail.com Just my last name. It's not that common, but there are about 500 people with it according to US Census data.
by martin-t | 2025-07-21 20:14:20+00:00
If it's LLM generated, technically most of humanity is in it because LLMs are trained on stolen code and data.

But I feel the same. We already had more "content" than anybody could consume but at lest there was a change of better stuff rising to the top. Now we'll drown in mediocre stuff and it'll be impossible for the good stuff to be noticed.
by skissane | 2025-07-21 20:14:25+00:00
I remember installing MGR (or at least trying to), but I couldn’t really work it out. I was only a teenager, probably my early teens.

I remember exactly where I got it from - InfoMagic’s 1994 Linux Annual 4 volume CD-ROM set. Although that did contain Slackware, I’m not sure if it actually was a Slackware package. The CD-ROM set included dumps of Sunsite and TSX-11, and I think maybe it was from one of those.

This CD-ROM set went through a few different editions, and Internet Archive has some of them, but not sure if it has the exact one I had - which I still have somewhere, I should probably try imaging it (assuming it is still readable decades later)