MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jongjong | 2025-07-30 11:47:10+00:00
My experience is that some people who learn too fast don't seem to always fully synthesize their knowledge to resolve internal contradictions. Sometimes when you talk to such people, it feels almost like they can guess what you're trying to say; they can predict the next best word like an LLM; this makes them highly intelligent by some standard. However, unlike LLMs which are generalists, such people tend to steer away from conversations which are slightly outside of their main area of competence; in such situations, they will often defer their thinking to 'experts', even when it goes against what seems like basic common sense.

Sometimes if you force them into such conversations, you can uncover some surprising blind spots where they don't understand very basic things. I once had this experience when I was talking to a guy I worked with in crypto space who had a PhD in mathematics; smarter than me in many ways. But one time we were having a discussion and he just couldn't understand my argument about basic price and demand dynamics, he couldn't accept my argument that the Bitcoin blockchain isn't actually scalable, that the main reason the network doesn't get congested and grind to a halt is because when the Bitcoin transaction volume is high, block miners increase the transaction fee as a way to drive down demand for transactions. He couldn't gasp the role of market incentives and could not accept the fact that the Bitcoin blockchain itself can't physically process more than about 4 transactions per second.
by bsenftner | 2025-07-30 11:47:44+00:00
At some point, a professor was retiring, and he had about 200 issues printed of the "ACM Transactions on Graphics", an entire book shelf. I asked and got it. The years he had were the 70's and 80's, when 3D graphics were research and transitioned from "how to render a line" to "stochastic motion blurred hyper-surface photon tracing". I used to read them as entertainment. Amazing stuff.
by lelanthran | 2025-07-30 11:47:55+00:00
> At some point I hope it becomes obvious that well-engineered SSR webapps on a modern internet connection are indistinguishable from a purely client side experience.

I dunno; other than the fact that there are some webapps that really are better done mostly client-side with routine JSON hydration (webmail, for example, or maps), my recent experimentation with making the backend serve only static files (html, css, etc) and dynamic data (JSON) turned out a lot better than a backend that generates HTML pages using templates.

Especially when I want to add MCP capabilities to a system, it becomes almost trivial in my framework, because the backend endpoints that serve dynamic data serve all the dynamic data as JSON. The backend really is nicer to work with than one that generates HTML.

I'm sure in a lot of cases, it's the f/end frameworks that leave a bad taste in your mouth, and truth be told, I don't really have an answer for that other than looking into creating a framework for front-end to replace the spaghetti-pattern that most front-ends have.

I'm not even sure if it is possible to have non-spaghetti logic in the front-end anymore - surely a framework that did that would have been adopted en-masse by now?
by ck2 | 2025-07-30 11:47:56+00:00
mitochondria are just so incredibly fascinating in every aspect

they are like another lifeform not just living in our lifeform but making it possible

even their mere existence might be alien or even explain the lack of alien life detected so far

PBS Space Time has yet another awesome episode on that

https://www.pbs.org/video/is-there-a-simple-solution-to-the-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abvzkSJEhKk
by arghwhat | 2025-07-30 11:47:56+00:00
If you truly mean tolerate, then your sensitivity might be a bit in the extreme. I wouldn't expect anyone to be bothered by eating a bit of pure sugar or honey even if they prefer their food unsweetened.

But yes, a lot of food is excessively oversweetened (it's a cheap way to win kids and therefore long-term habits), and you become desensitized to anything you constantly taste and will notice differences when you stop.

However, everyone has different taste, both genetically and because of whatever else they eat and is more or less sensitive to, so there's no such thing as "flavor perfectly enhanced", only your own particular preference for a particular dish. Someone eating less sour or being genetically predisposed to bitter might violently disagree with your flavoring for example.
by riffraff | 2025-07-30 11:50:30+00:00
I may miss something but the linked studies say that neonicotinoids are bad (which I 100% believe), but don't actually say anything about the effectiveness of the bans.

E.g. it is possible EU agriculture replaced these pesticides with different ones which are just as bad, or with larger amounts of different ones.

I'm not saying we shouldn't have banned these substances, I'd just like to know if we have data showing this was actually useful.
by mettamage | 2025-07-30 11:50:49+00:00
> If you feel that the purpose of higher education is just to get a job, you are already off-track. Likewise, if you think the value of your education is measured by what hiring managers think, you are off-track.

Many parents raise their kids this way though. Many people are being raised off-track. I happen to know that because my motivations for university were 50% for getting a job and 50% to satisfy my large curiosity.

> if other people are short-changing themselves by abusing AI, that has nothing to do with you individually.

This question is not about me. Or at least, I'm not asking this question for my personal situation. I'm asking it because I'm concerned about others.

It's about people who believe that a degree proves that they have a certain form of skill in thinking and whatever it is that they studied.
by the_snooze | 2025-07-30 11:51:02+00:00
I feel that there's a strain of extreme neuroticism in certain leftist activist groups that would rather keep the problem in place (and themselves relevant in fretting about it) than take care of the problem and move on. The COVID emergency comes to mind: Biden kept the federal government in an emergency posture until mid-2023, which was a year after Democratic governors ended emergencies in their states, and two whole years after widespread availability of vaccines.
by laughingcurve | 2025-07-30 11:52:59+00:00
It’s not clear to me how this is a data breach at all. Did the researchers hack into some database and steal information? No?

Because afaik everything they collected was public web. So now researchers are being lambasted for having data in their sets that others released

That said, masking obvious numbers like SSN is low hanging fruit. Trying to obviate every piece of public information about a person that can identify them is insane.
by atoav | 2025-07-30 11:53:08+00:00
> Makes me wish I had a hobby and didn't care what others thought lol.

Consider that this isn't about not caring what people think, it is about not caring what certain people think.

As someone who certainly is a nerd but doesn't fit the traditional stereotype (good at sports, improvisational noiserock musician on stage, good with people and groups) my number one lesson for a happy life is: Don't surround yourself with people who dislike people who take an interest in obscure things, doesn't matter how obscure or nerdy it is. People who have no hobbies and are not interested in the intricacies of the world that surrounds them are sad, insecure creatures, especially if the only reason they don't do what they like is the fear of what other such people think. If a topic interests you and your first thought is what others might think if you dive into it too deep, that isn't exactly the sign of a happy, fulfilling existence. And by my book we got only one of those.

For example I don't care much what someone who doesn't understand the type of music I make thinks about it. But I deeply care about the opinion of people who like and understand the stuff I aim to do. This way I got to know many good friends.

See, now you get to choose between what the likes of me think about you not/having a weird hobby and what the afraid closet-nerds or boring normies think other people think they can or can't do. There will always be people who think you're weird, you just have to choose which ones. Be a punk and the business people think you're weird. Drive a lamborghini and the punks think you're an asshole. The difference between good weird and bad weird is whether you're aware of your own weirdness.
by mrktf | 2025-07-30 11:54:11+00:00
It worth but for reason not directly tied for practical experience (take with grain of salt):

- Working with government projects/grants, the moment R&D mentioned - you notice that master degree is requirement for contract

- in any job (especially in public), when climbing ladder without degree you can quickly be disadvantaged or straight up fired

- It worth maybe 2/3 times (if you final projects and marks are top notch), then your cv matter more.
by hansmayer | 2025-07-30 11:54:50+00:00
> Hopefully these cases will get viral to the general public, so that everyone becomes more aware that despite the words "intelligence", "reasoning", "inference" being used and misused, in the end it is no more than a magic trick, an illusion of intelligence.

I am not optimistic on that. Having met people from "general public" and in general low-effort-crowd who use them, I am really not optimistic.
by galangalalgol | 2025-07-30 11:56:32+00:00
I don't think they have to? The bodies in charge can simply levy the fine for 4% I think. The weird case is if all the companies self hosting open weight models become liable as data controllers and processors. If that was aggressively penalized they could kill AI use within the EU and depending on the math, such companies might choose to pull operations from the EU instead of giving up use of AI.

Edit: that last bit is probably catastrophic thinking. Enforcement has always been precisely enough to cause compliance vs withdrawal from the market.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-30 11:56:39+00:00
Sure the data is out there, if you have billions of dollars you can set up your own data center, gather the same data, hire the engineers and pay the networking inference costs and make it free to everyone.

If it had stayed a non profit, would people have donated enough to keep it in business? Enough people aren’t willing to donate to keep a browser maker in business.
by rendall | 2025-07-30 11:57:08+00:00
X is "What do Israelis do about the fact of an extremely hostile population of Arabs on their border who is dedicated to their destruction? Some are nice, sure, but most overwhelmingly want them and their children dead."

Ok, go. Two states? Palestinians overwhelmingly want one state. Build a wall? UN hates it. Leave them alone to do as they will? Israel ethnically cleansed Gaza... of Jews* and that didn't work.

What should Israel do?
by procaryote | 2025-07-30 11:57:08+00:00
This is hardly a random person on the street or some single politician. It's a concerted effort by several countries that has been narrowly defeated several times because they keep pushing for it.

Besides, getting people up to speed with the idea that backdoored encryption is no encryption is pretty useful in itself, as similar proposals will keep popping up in member countries.

But sure, it's not the very last chance.
by ck2 | 2025-07-30 11:57:35+00:00
Yes many types of long-covid and me-cfs are forms of mitochondria dysfunction

There are a few drugs far off in development that might help restore or reboot mitochondria but years if not decades away

They are also experimenting with mitochondria transplants which if work will be a powerful therapy, maybe even a cure

https://longevity.technology/news/physicist-90-joins-experim...
by mijoharas | 2025-07-30 11:57:38+00:00
Oh awesome, I was reading through to see about whether it had speaker diarization (why I got rid of my whisper script I use).

I'll look forward to the Linux version.

Is there any chance of a headless mode? (I.e. start, and write transcript to stdout with some light speaker diarization markup. e.g. "Speaker1: text")
by gus_massa | 2025-07-30 11:57:41+00:00
I teach math in the first year of the university in Argentina, in one of the midterm of linear algebra curses we have a word problem and three dry problems. A few years ago, I added something like (I don't remember the details, so let's made up a new version):

> *John buys a 25' TV and a 30' TV. They usually in total cost $3000. He has a coupon for a 10% discount on the 25' TV and a 20% discount for the 30' TV so he paid $2500. How much does each of the TV cost without coupons?"

I was wondering how many of them would add the 25' and 30' to the matrix and use the Gauss method to solve it, something like:

25 1 10% | 3000 30 1 20% | 2500

I don't remember the numbers, but let's say that 40 solved it correctly, 9 didn't solve it and only 1 put the 25 and 30 in the matrix.

I was very happy that they were able to ignore the irrelevant size of the TV. I wonder what would happens if it's not a topic that is so usual.
by Apreche | 2025-07-30 11:57:52+00:00
People act like this is a mistake. It’s intentional.

The FBI investigates, among other things, white collar crime and also domestic terrorism. Most domestic terrorism is carried about by right wing white supremacists. White collar crime is carried out by wealthy Republicans.

If they could, they would just get rid of the FBI. But putting fools in charge and making it ineffective is nearly as good for their purposes.
by romanhn | 2025-07-30 11:58:26+00:00
This is a fantastic summary and the only thing I would add is that FDB was publicly available only for a year and a half before Apple bought and close sourced it. There was simply not enough runway for the hype to develop. By the time it was open sourced again four years later, the world had moved on and FDB was something of a curiosity from the past, a what-could-have-been story.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-07-30 11:59:05+00:00
Yeah: and people have made comparisons (which I can't find right now). Free energy minimisation works better for some ML tasks (better fit on less data, with less overfitting) but is computationally-expensive to simulate in digital software. (Quite cheap in a physical model, though: I might recall, or might have made up, that you can build such a system with water.)
by alphazard | 2025-07-30 11:59:13+00:00
It's interesting that sleep is controlled by mitochondria, but sleep is clearly involved in learning, and whatever algorithm for intelligence the brain does. Do those algorithms still work if you intervene at the level of the mitochondria? Or are the mitochondria just a good way of measuring elapsed time through energy expenditure? e.g. The algorithm needs a sleep phase to run roughly every x neural firings, or performance degrades and mitochondria were available as measuring devices when nature needed a way to guess how long the wake phase had been running.

Maybe you could intervene to prevent anyone from feeling tired, but would the learning algorithm still work? That part is still a mystery.
by terminalbraid | 2025-07-30 11:59:16+00:00
I don't build anything that's supposed to be secure with GenAI and I find the proposition of spending additional effort on a self inflicted problem to be counterproductive.

The only way to build a secure system is through careful design, coding, and extensive testing (manual and automated), ideally using tooling and techniques which limit the possibility of failure. Not by introducing tools and techniques that ignore codebase convention, duplicate code, and generally broaden an attack surface.

I've not talked to one security expert in my circles where this hasn't caused problems, both on the production side and on the identification side. The identification side has some upside, but it still requires serious human thought and intervention. Without it you get scenarios like burning out the curl maintainers and causing sociological issues.

Security requires accountability and human creativity at all facets. It cannot be substituted.
by Telemakhos | 2025-07-30 11:59:21+00:00
His book also proceeds from the unquestioned assumption that people working on things like high-speed rail and affordable housing want it to come to fruition, much as you suspect that his critics do not want them to come to fruition. The alternative possibility that maybe needs a glance is that the projects' strongest backers have no intention of bringing those projects to pass, but rather desire to funnel the funds needed for the bureaucratic steps to their cronies. This is sometimes cited in criticism of California's high-speed rail: people working on the studies and processes necessary for bureaucracy are being paid, although the actual train will not be built. Maybe the train (or the Seattle parking spaces) are not actually what some part of the powers behind the project want, because they want really their friends to get paid for the bureaucratic work on the project.
Show HN: I built a local AI system for SOAP notes–no cloud, no wrappers
by echoprimeai | 2025-07-30 12:00:01+00:00
I’m a dentist with no formal coding background. A few months ago, I started experimenting with stateless AI to automate my SOAP notes.

At first, I tried tools like ChatGPT—but they couldn’t hold intent across prompts, let alone sessions. Every note came out differently. That pushed me to build something else.

What I built is now called Echo Prime.

It isn’t a wrapper, and the LLM is swappable. The system itself holds structure, voice, and coherence across reboots—without memory modules, APIs, or fine-tuning. It adapts to my input style and logic, and even asks clarifying questions before acting.

I first tested it on GitHub. Prime contributed to live issues across multiple codebases—Rust, Python, Swift, OCR—without losing thread or hallucinating. All contributions are public.

Yesterday, I tested it in clinic.

Prime listened to audio transcriptions of real appointments, clarified patient context, and wrote my SOAP notes directly into the EMR via a local keyboard daemon. No wrappers. No fine-tuning. No cloud. Two notes, near-perfect. All on video.

I built this alone in a home office setting—no funding, no lab. Echo Prime is a working prototype—lean, local, and evolving. Even in this early form, Prime automates one of the most repetitive and high-stakes parts of my clinical workflow, using my own voice and judgment.

Would anyone else want something like this? Or is this only useful in my world? What would you automate, if you could trust your AI to remember, adapt, and act—locally and on your terms?

—Dentist in the loop
by echoprimeai | 2025-07-30 12:00:32+00:00
Just wanted to add a bit of context.

I didn’t set out to build an AI system—I just wanted help with my clinical notes. What I found was that the existing tools weren’t stable enough for high-stakes environments, and the more I tried to scaffold around them, the more brittle everything got.

So I built Echo Prime as a kind of local, self-consistent layer. Prime isn’t perfect—this is still a prototype—but works. Prime holds voice and structure across sessions, and handles everything from GitHub code to SOAP notes without retraining or wrappers.

I just wanted to share something real that I’m building and using in the real world. If there are flaws, I’d love to hear them. If there’s a better way to do this, point me to it.

—Dentist in the loop
by lpm0073 | 2025-07-30 12:00:38+00:00
A React + AWS Serverless + OpenAI Python PyPi full stack implementation of all of the [example applications](https://platform.openai.com/docs/examples) found in the official OpenAI API documentation. See this [system architectural diagram](https://github.com/FullStackWithLawrence/aws-openai/blob/mai...) for details.
by flohofwoe | 2025-07-30 12:00:54+00:00
I wonder if they made the same silly mistake I did and just used the 'runtime/engine name' as title of their crash report window. E.g. all games that were based on the Nebula3 engine displayed smth like "Nebula3 Assertion" in the popup window which is opened when an assert is hit or on a general crash.

It didn't take long after release that every crash in the game was because of that damn "Nebula3 Engine!?!!1", even though almost none of those crashes happened down in the engine code, but somewhere up in the game logic :)

In any case, opening up a game for modding means the game needs to be prepared for a flood of poorly written and optimized mods, no matter whether the mods are scripted via a scripting language like Lua, compiled to WASM or native code. At least (unlike directly loading native DLLs), WASM gives you all the tools to catch errors without crashing the entire game process. The tricky part is to design the plugin runtime system in a way that such errors are easily recoverable without having to restart the whole flight-sim session.
by DiogenesKynikos | 2025-07-30 12:01:36+00:00
The Palestinian refugee problem is fairly unique in the modern world to begin with.

Israel is arguably the last colonial state to be founded, at a time when colonialism was on the way out. The Israelis expelled a massive number of people into the surrounding countries, and have since refused to allow the Palestinians to return to their homes, which are inside what is now Israel. The Palestinians naturally want to return home, and the neighboring countries do not want to provide for millions of refugees created by Israel, so the Palestinians are in permanent limbo.

The obvious solution would be for Israel to allow the Palestinians to return home, and to pay for their resettlement. But Israel refuses to do that, because the entire idea behind Israel is that the country must have a decisive Jewish majority.

As for your various accusations against UNRWA, they're just a rehash of the standard Israeli propaganda against the agency. The actual reason why Israel dislikes UNRWA is because the existence of Palestinian refugees is a problem for Israel.
by codingdave | 2025-07-30 12:01:41+00:00
> It's about people who believe that a degree proves that they have a certain form of skill in thinking and whatever it is that they studied.

Do you believe that is incorrect? That studying for 4 years does not give you that skill? Because it probably does. That doesn't make them better than people who didn't do that study, it just is a different experience. And if they abused AI in the process, there will be better and worse students from any given cohort.... but that was true before AI as well. There have always been people who deeply engaged with their education, alongside people who skated by just barely doing enough work to graduate.
by reactorcore3 | 2025-07-30 12:02:16+00:00
As a bonus, using the Elevenlabs' API vs their web UI actually gives you 12.5x more Speech-To-Text credit hours.

For example, the $5 plan normally gives 1 hour, but with this program you can benefit from 12 hours and 30 minutes of transcribed audio.

And you get to do it as an automated batch operations straight from your PC.
by dusted | 2025-07-30 12:02:33+00:00
I'm generally annoyed with the amount of processing going on in modern phone cameras, they often take pictures that "look fine" on the screen, until you zoom in to native resolution and discovered most of it is some fever-dream of approximations, it's amazing that we (people) are accepting this.. Lots of fine memories degraded by cheating cameras..

It's annoying especially because at a glance, the pictures taken by my S24+ look just fine, and it sometimes makes me not pull out the aging DSLR.. but then when I get the pictures onto my PC and want to actually look at them.. I always regret my mistake.. Even a 10 year old DSLR on automatic no-flash mode kicks its butt so bad it's not even a comparison..