MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grafmax | 2025-07-04 14:08:29+00:00
> “Verbally they said it was because of extremist propaganda and narcotic paraphernalia," with "extremist propaganda" referring to the alleged meme

With the “narcotic paraphernalia” referring to “a photo of the traveler with a homemade wooden pipe” according to Mikkelson.

The official document for his rejection stated this reason:

> it appears you are attempting to engage in unauthorized employment without authorization and proper documentation

With all these conflicting accounts in mind, perhaps it is plausible that he was denied entry because of his admitted legal cannabis use on two prior occasions. Or perhaps Homeland Security indeed retaliated against a someone for possessing a JD Vance meme, then decided to lie about it.
by astrobe_ | 2025-07-04 14:08:35+00:00
There's "micro" and "micro". The microcontroller operating a simple coffee machine, or a simple washing-machine is probably 8 or 16 bits. This is what I would call "bare metal", as they don't run an OS, only off-the-shelf frameworks at best.

For "bigger" devices, it's usually a Cortex inside a system-on-chip or system-on-module, 32 bits single core and a few Mb of RAM for low-end (enough to run regular Linux distro instead of uClinux for instance), 64 bits multicore for high-end devices that deal with audio/video. That kind of business is often resource-hungry in every way.

I work with that kind of stuff, and to me these "microcontrollers" are just monsters that I hesitate to call "micro" when some of my coworkers work on much smaller chips with only a few K of RAM available.
by cardanome | 2025-07-04 14:08:56+00:00
Here in Germany you are currently only allowed to work 48hours per week. Also there are strict laws for companies to actually track work time.

So it is absolutely impossible for someone here to have two full time jobs without committing working time fraud.

But even if you could, it would make literally no sense two have jobs as you earn vastly more with freelancing anyway. You would scam yourself.

The most optimal move is to have one regular job so you get health care and social security and do freelancing on the side. If you work contract allows that, of course.
by xgb84j | 2025-07-04 14:09:14+00:00
Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I have the _exact_ same issue as you since 2 years. It was much worse than what you described 2 years ago. Now it's just very annoying.

The diagnosis I got from my therapist is PTSD from my chikdhood due to the strong connection between stress and body.

The only thing I found that alleviates my symptoms short term is lots of Buddhist meditation (1-2 hours per day).

I wish you all the best and thank you so much for sharing.
by jonhohle | 2025-07-04 14:09:35+00:00
I work in decompiling and reverse engineering. One of the important aspects from a legal liability perspective I that anything I produce and share should be a new creative work and not merely a mechanical transformation. I’ve avoided anything with LLMs related to those projects.

I have asked for help on some other projects where I got stuck and thought I’d give it a try. The LLM hallucinated and answer, but then admitted it was wrong when i pointed out the mistake and didn’t help me get any further.
by scotty79 | 2025-07-04 14:09:36+00:00
Bulk of it is that, but some of it is that larger economy needs more money to run. So while there was 4 food money supply increase the legitimate demand also increased somewhat. Exact numbers might be hard to pinpoint because we tend to measure economy in dollars but still it wouldn't be $4 even if the rich didn't get disproportionately wealthy from this supply.
by pbronez | 2025-07-04 14:10:11+00:00
Another option for this is Bearable. I used it for headaches a while ago and it worked well:

https://bearable.app/

Here’s an actual peer reviewed study evaluating a pile (over 1000!) symptom tracking apps, including Bearable.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245210942...
by s-macke | 2025-07-04 14:11:08+00:00
The answer to the paper's question is likely yes—especially if context is used effectively and memory and summaries are incorporated. In that case, chatbots can complete even more complex games, such as Pokémon role-playing games [0].

The challenge with benchmarking text adventures lies in their trial-and-error nature. It’s easy to get stuck for hundreds of moves on a minor detail before eventually giving up and trying a different approach.

[0] https://www.twitch.tv/gpt_plays_pokemon
by sfn42 | 2025-07-04 14:12:10+00:00
If you live in a dead town with no opportunities then you either make your own opportunities or you move to a place with opportunities.

If you just sit on your hands complaining about the lack of opportunities then you won't get any sympathy from me. People aren't entitled to live wherever they want, humanity's entire thing is adaptability. So adapt. Life is what you make it.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-07-04 14:12:13+00:00
And let me continue my rant: pricing these things suck. You can charge $20-25 monthly for a general AI service like ChatGPT that has a bunch of features like image generation and is very versatile. You can’t cram a shitty feature into your single-application software and charge the same amount. If a PM thinks this is appropriate pricing they are insane.

Additionally, I said previously that I want to be able to ignore the features I don’t use. If you only have one premium tier, and the price went from $5/month to $20+ monthly because you added AI, then I’m probably cancelling because I have to now decide if the features I do actually use are worth the extra money. Plus, companies that do AI this way will inevitably restrict my usage if I do fine the feature useful.

So I guess if I had the choice, I would prefer a company keep a lower premium tier even if I have no access to AI features. But what I would really like is an option to enable whatever AI you’ve developed and bring my own API key, and don’t change your premium tier pricing (or minimally change). But clearly there are enough people out there that are shelling out for the shitty $20+ monthly subscriptions (or getting their company to pay for it) that my opinion doesn’t matter.
by codelikeawolf | 2025-07-04 14:12:13+00:00
When you're dealing with objects as small as this, their weight and size is essentially mathematically irrelevant. It doesn't have any type of propulsion, so we know that unless it collides with something along its trajectory, it will keep following the same course. We know the mass and diameter of the celestial bodies that the object will be traveling near, so we can calculate how those bodies will affect its trajectory. As one of the top comments said: it has a very high eccentricity, which means it's traveling along a path that forms a very elongated, open hyperbole, so it won't come close enough to the sun to be affected by its gravitational pull if it continues to follow its current trajectory.
by tomp | 2025-07-04 14:12:24+00:00
> If he's that competent, he could hire/mentor juniors and just use his skills to run a contracting business and keep making big bucks while not having to lie all the time?

Much much easier said than done.

99% of companies that want to hire employees won't hire a contractor/consultant instead for that job.

How do I know? 15 years experience, top candidate in many interviews, great salary / employment. Yet every time I've tried to get a consulting arrangement set up it's been extremely hard and ultimately unprofitable (i.e. pays significantly less than full-time job, on average).
by mistersquid | 2025-07-04 14:12:38+00:00
> Fei-Fei Li is known for the creation of ImageNet[…] But to claim she's the most brilliant mind in an entire room is a stretch.

You reduce Professor Li’s massive intellect to her leading the ImageNet project. You also misrepresent my observation that “Professor Li likely was one of the strongest minds in any room she found herself in [....]”.

That’s intellectually dishonest.

Watch the video linked in the OP, listen to her assessments of the direction of artificial intelligence, the state and future of the computing industry, the ways one might make a strong impact as a scholarly researcher, etc.

To do so is to recognize Professor Li is not only one of the most brilliant minds in that particular room, but also one of the sharpest minds in the history of Silicon Valley.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-04 14:13:13+00:00
I’d been a staunch supporter of RPi nodes for homelab work for a decade (and don’t get me wrong, I still love ‘em), but the various N100 miniPCs have been a pleasant little game changer. Got two for $130 each fully loaded (N00/16GB RAM/512GB SSD), slapped a 1TB SATA 2.5” SSD inside, threw Proxmox on them and voila, I have a highly efficient homelab that hosts my Plex server.

That said, there’s three reasons I got them versus a RPi5:

* Built-in RTC with battery (no more post-power outage downtime)

* iGPU with video acceleration (for Plex/Jellyfin transcoding)

* PRICE (seriously, a comparably outfitted RPi5 would be twice the price of these things!)

Intel has a little sleeper hit here, if they can get out of their own way on pricing and marketing it. At sub-$150 versus a RPi5, it’s a no-brainer if you don’t need GPIO support.
by aspbee555 | 2025-07-04 14:13:49+00:00
I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that

I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of everyone else around me doing exactly what they were informed would cause problems instead of having discussions with people that actually knew how shit worked. I was endlessly picking up everyone elses mess and treated worse than a pile of shit all because people were incapable of having a speck of respect for other people since all their hatred for computers fell on me

I GTFO of the career of misery and took half a decade to finally start feeling better

I have now spent years and countless hours working on software and I greatly enjoy doing this work again and find I get even more done than I used to simply by doing life the way I need to instead of how some backwards/abusive control freak "needs it done"
by glasscannon | 2025-07-04 14:13:55+00:00
On your first point, the moving of symptoms is not uncommon in patients with chronic pain - and yes definitely a sign something not normal is going on!

On the second, I've mentioned it elsewhere in this thread (on a different comment) that it's critical to determine if a structural cause is at play (i.e. tissue/nerve damage or something else causing inflammation). It is unfortunate however that many doctors are not familiar with modern pain science so I'm hoping spreading awareness via patients (and some practitioners) will change this.

In the next few blog posts this very thing will be discussed (i.e. exploring when it's likely something is mind related vs the body [though I will focus primarily on the former in this series] - as you're 100% correct sometimes it's the body and sometimes it's the mind, and sometimes it's both!).
by ximu | 2025-07-04 14:14:04+00:00
Hi HN, I’m a solo designer/developer trying to solve a small personal itch that turned into a project.

Over the past year, I got frustrated constantly searching for useful AI tools — too many lists, tools disappearing, unclear pricing, or not knowing which ones are actually still active. So I made HaloTool — a curated AI tool directory that focuses on practical use, language support (EN/JP/ZH/KR), and popularity data (like traffic stats, bounce rates, etc.).

It's not another tool list — I wanted it to be clean, searchable, and actually helpful for creators, devs, or just curious users.

Just launched on Product Hunt today, if you're interested, would love to hear your thoughts there: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/halotool

Feedback, criticism, and suggestions all welcome This is still early, and I hope to improve it based on what the community really needs.
by konovalov-nk | 2025-07-04 14:14:06+00:00
Code is a technical specification and could be any programming language, markup, terraform files, configuration, whatever.

Product Spec is written in English and in a such way that everybody can understand it without technical knowledge. Because it doesn't operate in C arrays and nuances of how queues work -- just common sense and real-life objects/entities! Then the actual code is an abstraction that takes the spec and implements it for certain architecture / scalability requirements and so on.

For example you can ask to make to-do list app. You can build it on:

- As a CLI tool

- As a UI web interface

- As an AI agent that operates entirely on voice recognition and text-to-speech as interface

A product spec can omit this "tiny" detail, code -- cannot.

Even if you specify this is Web UI to-do app in product spec, there are still tons of things to choose for developer:

- Programming language

- Cloud/Self-hosted

- Architecture (monolith/microservices/modular monolith/SOA/event-driven)

You wouldn't specify in a Product spec that to-do items has to go to an SQS queue that lambda picks up and adds them to a DB, would you? That has to be a separate technical spec document, which is simply called documentation (+actual code in the repositories).
by helsinkiandrew | 2025-07-04 14:14:54+00:00
This compilation video of him chasing a Fox, killing a pidgeon, and fighting with (recently retired) admiralty cat Palmerston is worth a watch (1min 21 sec)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnypWoeopNg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_(cat)
by willvarfar | 2025-07-04 14:15:21+00:00
It's been a background thought of mine for a while:

* create a basic text adventure (or MUD) with a very spartan api-like representation

* use an LLM to embellish the description served to the user etc. With recent history in context the LLM might even kinda reference things the user asked previously etc.

* have NPCs implemented as own LLMs that are trying to 'play the game'. These might be using the spartan API directly like they are agents.

Its a fun thought experiment!

(An aside: I found that the graphical text adventure that I made for Ludum Dare 23 is still online! Although it doesn't render quite right in modern browsers.. things shouldn't have broken! But anyway https://williame.github.io/ludum_dare_23_tiny_world/)
by Nursie | 2025-07-04 14:15:25+00:00
> writing emails or whatever, I want it to be my voice

Right?!

One of the ads I saw for AI assisted comms recently was an example of making copy for a newsletter for a cupcake shop, who have a new flavour. You tell it that and it spins a whole newsletter for you.

All this tells me is that the information content of your letter is utterly trivial. I don’t want that newsletter.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-07-04 14:15:36+00:00
Currently on holiday and browsing on a Chuwi MinibookX N150 model. Comes with Windows 11, but I quickly set it up to dual-boot Ubuntu 25.04. There were a couple of tweaks needed to rotate the display properly (except for GRUB which doesn't seem possible) and get the orientation sensor to work, but otherwise I'm very impressed with it.
by Attrecomet | 2025-07-04 14:15:47+00:00
>Perhaps you do not understand it, but many software engineers do understand.

No, they do not. LLMs are by nature a black box problem solving system. This is not true about all the other machines we have, which may be difficult to understand for specific or even most humans, but allow specialists to understand WHY something is happening. This question is unanswerable for an LLM, no matter how good you are at Python or the math behind neural networks.
by skydhash | 2025-07-04 14:16:07+00:00
I think it's going to be personal. Because people define values in different ways, and the definition depends on the current context. I've used LLMs for things like shellscript, plotting with pyplot, explanations,... But always taking the output with a huge grain of salt. What I'm looking for is not the output itself, but the direction it can give me. But the only value is when I'm pressed for time and can't use a more objective and complete approach.

When you read the manual page for a program, or the documentation for a library, the things described always (99.99999...%) exist. So I can take it as objective truth. The description may be lacking, so I don't have a complete picture, but it's not pure fantasy. And if it turns out that it is, the solution is to drop it and turn back.

So when I act upon it, and the result comes back, I question my approach, not the information. And often I find the flaw quickly. It's slower initially, but the final result is something I have good confidence in.
by pfdietz | 2025-07-04 14:16:13+00:00
How do ocean currents keep NYC cool? I thought it was perturbation of atmospheric circulation by the Rocky Mountains, which causes higher latitude air to sweep down over eastern North America.

For that matter, the subsequent northward return of the air also causes some warming in Europe, not just warming from the Gulf Stream.

The Gulf Stream actually warms the eastern US, btw.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-euro...
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-07-04 14:16:17+00:00
> Did you not understand what YC was? They're essentially an investment bank that doesn't accept new clients.

They rather sell themselves as early-stage startup incubator.

See https://www.ycombinator.com/

"We help founders at their earliest stages regardless of their age."

"We improve the success rate of our startups."

"We give startups a huge fundraising advantage."

and https://www.ycombinator.com/about

"The overall goal of YC is to help startups really take off. They arrive at YC at all different stages. Some haven’t even started working yet, and others have been launched for a year or more. But whatever stage a startup is at when they arrive, our goal is to help them to be in dramatically better shape 3 months later."
by hn_acker | 2025-07-04 14:16:37+00:00
Take the author's interpretations and normative suggestions with a grain of salt. Cremieux personally promotes scientific racism (like in an article called "Elites are genetically different" [1]), defends discredited data from eugenicist Richard Lynn [2][3], and co-wrote a paper called "Global Ancestry and Cognitive Ability" with Bryan Pesta [4], Emil Kirkegaard ("Eugenics or Western civilization dies" [5]), and John Fuerst ("all major Jewish organizations... favor the dissolution of their host nations through massive non-White immigration" [6]).

Side note: In an article questioning why Zohran Mamdani of Indian descent born in Uganda would mark checkboxes for "Asian" and "Black or African American" among the limited options in a university application [7][8], The New York Times cited Cremieux without even hinting at his past writings, then edited the article to describe Cremieux as "an academic" who "writes often about I.Q. and race". As Marc Channick pointed out [9]:

> This is basically like describing a Pizzagate promoter as someone "who writes often about child safety"

[1] https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/how-do-elite-groups-form

[2] https://www.cremieux.xyz/p/national-iqs-are-valid

[3] https://www.splcenter.org/resources/extremist-files/richard-...

[4] https://www.amren.com/news/2022/10/racial-pseudoscience-on-t...

[5] https://archive.is/URqek - archived version of https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/100553908854652928...

[6] https://archive.is/ZQyQW - archived version of https://www.facebook.com/john.fuerst.12/posts/10153179914897...

[7] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/nyregion/mamdani-columbia...

[8] https://www.commondreams.org/news/zohran-mamdani-new-york-ti...

[9] https://bsky.app/profile/marcchannick.bsky.social/post/3lt3y...
by mamcx | 2025-07-04 14:16:41+00:00
Others said don't work, but mainly if you aim too high.

THIS is exactly how you survive as small/solo company/consultant.

In fact, all my customers wish I have more time to redo most of the tools that they use. (Tipical scenario: "Hey your app that make invoices is neat, why you don't just add a module for our industrial process and because we want to integrate all and you need to add email capabilities then just add a word processor that is like excel, but good")

The "just add" is not only being naive or greedy, sometimes people dream that the few ones they can actually rely could do all already...
by geodel | 2025-07-04 14:17:07+00:00
Indeed. Governments have to worry about 99.9% of cases covered with a law or regulation have punishment in term of fine or imprisonment.

Those remaining very likely have multiple advantages like advance technical knowledge, connection to powerful people in business / governments, money and legal support in case they end up on wrong side of law. There is very little benefit and lot of effort to catch these unless they are running some kind of criminal organization which adversely affects their government/regime.
by hnlmorg | 2025-07-04 14:17:18+00:00
This conversation is about the merits of rewriting in Rust due to memory safety.

My replies have been specifically about that those merits.

The only reason other arguments have been included is because people like to expand that scope. For example where you said (and I’m paraphrasing) that tmux isn’t free from bugs. Clearly I don’t believe that any software is 100% bug free. But that doesn’t mean that rewriting tmux in rust brings any pragmatic improvements to the table when weighed up against all the other options and concerns.
by tomhow | 2025-07-04 14:17:30+00:00
None of us knows exactly what this specific person did or what their motivation, intention or understanding of the situation was. We only know what was in the company’s code that was published, and we know what they’ve done since to try and address it.

“Roasting” is one word for something that can be described in far more serious terms. It’s against the HN guidelines and the guidelines still have to be upheld to some degree.

It’s also false that they will face no real consequences. They’ll never forget this experience and these sorts of things are often terminal for a company.
by Micanthus | 2025-07-04 14:17:41+00:00
FYI, The Body Keeps The Score is full of misinformation, and is alternately ignored and criticized by other psychiatrists

> The most consequential problem with BKS is its promotion of a large number of treatments, outside of EMDR, that have limited to no evidence (e.g., massage, acupuncture, yoga, community theater, and neurofeedback), according to the latest treatment guidelines by the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (Frank et al., 2020), while simultaneously ignoring or criticizing PE and CPT, the two treatments with the highest quality evidence (Sakaluk et al., 2019).

https://web.archive.org/web/20250120164320/https://journals....
by sfn42 | 2025-07-04 14:18:29+00:00
Yeah. If society no longer needs your job then you need to find something else to do. Doesn't have to be software, we mine other things than coal. We need builders, plumbers, electricians, lots of possibilities.

Software dev opportunities won't collapse any time soon, any half decent dev who's tried vibe coding will tell you that much. It's a tool developers can use, it's not a replacement.