MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by apolloartemis | 2025-07-09 19:06:59+00:00
Whether or not earthworms feel pain is still up for debate. Some studies suggest they react to stimuli but don't process pain in the same way as animals with more complex nervous systems.

If you're looking to minimize harm to earthworms, here are some ideas:

* Avoid tilling: Tilling can physically injure earthworms. * Use natural fertilizers: Chemical fertilizers can be harmful to earthworms. * Maintain healthy soil: Healthy soil provides a good environment for earthworms to thrive.
by raddan | 2025-07-09 19:07:12+00:00
Try doing a calculus problem. E.g., integration. Even if you do it on paper, your approach is probably wildly different than a computer integration algorithm. An algorithm that does it symbolically, ala Mathematica, is a pretty difficult thing to write for an arbitrary mathematical expression. People solve those problems largely through intuition, with a sprinkling of procedures that they remember.
by deep_thinker26 | 2025-07-09 19:07:24+00:00
Thanks for the thoughtful reply — really appreciate it.

I actually stumbled upon the vulnerability without any prior request. They don’t have an active bug bounty program, and the Head of IT Security I’m in touch with mentioned they don’t have dedicated funds for security researchers — which is hard to believe for a company with a £200M+ market cap.

I’ll definitely dig a bit deeper into the legal side.

Based on all the suggestions here, I’m leaning toward quoting them a fair amount considering the impact. If they don’t agree, I’ll likely reject the NDA and do a public write-up after a reasonable disclosure window.

One thing I forgot to mention earlier as of today — the vulnerability is fixed (I reported it around 3 weeks ago), not sure if that changes anything leverage wise.
by jerf | 2025-07-09 19:07:29+00:00
I'd agree with your great-grandparent post... people get stuff done because of that.

There has been no lack of heavyweight, pre-declare everything, code-generating, highly structured, prescriptive standards that sloppyREST has casually dispatched (pun fully intended) in the real world. After some 30+ years of highly prescriptive RPC mechanisms, at some point it becomes time to stop waiting for those things to unseat "sloppy" mechanisms and it's time to simply take it as a brute fact and start examining why that's the case.

Fortunately, in 2025, if you have a use case for such a system, and there are many many such valid use cases, you have a number of solid options to choose from. Fortunately sloppyREST hasn't truly killed them. But the fact that it empirically dominates it in the wild even so is now a fact older than many people reading this, and bears examination in that light rather than casual dismissals. It's easy to list the negatives, but there must be some positives that make it so popular with so many.
by AlienRobot | 2025-07-09 19:07:59+00:00
I'm pretty sure that the real reason is spam. Nobody is composing e-mail with complex designs to send their colleagues.

I feel like the major problem with almost everything that has a feed these days is the feed. Real state is a finite resource victim of the tragedy of commons: to be visible, you must post, but if others post, you are less visible, so to be even more visible, you post more, which prompts others to post even more, and anyone who doesn't play this game loses.

This happens with all feeds: chronological feeds on Tumblr, e-mail, RSS, etc.

One project I've seen that has tried a novel approach to this was https://fraidyc.at/ Essentially instead of putting all posts in a line, it's an RSS client that just tells you who has posted recently but not what they have posted.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-09 19:08:05+00:00
In this case their Retrieval stage is "SELECT *", basically, so sure I'm being loose with the terminology, but otherwise it's just a non-selective RAG. Okay ..AG.

RAG is selecting pertinent information to supply to the LLM with your query. In this case they decided that everything was pertinent, and the net result is just reduced efficiency. But if it works for them, eh.
by throwup238 | 2025-07-09 19:08:13+00:00
Remember these are archaeologists using the word "civilization" as a term of art within their field. There's no universally agreed upon definition but in general people use the scale model [1] (you can see the scales that different authors have developed at the link).

It's not like we don't know about a bunch of different peoples that existed even earlier (i.e. Toca da Tira Peia is ~22 kYa), but the evidence we have of them is basically a few burial mounds and maybe some domestic structures, and that does not rise to the threshold of a civilization for the intents and purposes of archaeology.

[1] https://www.sociostudies.org/journal/articles/140526/
by DaiPlusPlus | 2025-07-09 19:08:47+00:00
> Adjustments that LLMs don't have the training data for.

Methinks if you want job-security in a post—LLM-zero-shot-app-generator world, get into Lisp or Haskell; People that know only Node+React from YouTube learn-2-code tutorials are going to be slaughtered.

I just had an idea: an app/GUI/backend framework for Lisp or Haskell (with an S-expression lib) where everything is structurally inverted so it must be manually run through foldr - behold: an LLM-resistant (if not LLM-proof?) dev environment!
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-09 19:09:09+00:00
Of course this is about cancellation fees. There are so many companies which specialize in hiring leopard tamers to go down into those very basements, photocopy those very forms, and sell them at the front door for a nominal fee. They're like 20% of all my YouTube ads.

You're always paying a fee somewhere to hedge against cancellation risk somewhere in the system. There is no free lunch. It's either going to be in the asking price or at the tail end. You can force everyone to raise their asking price and hence price millions of people out of Netflix for every $1/month you go up, or you can let people self-select.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-07-09 19:09:31+00:00
DJT's use of Twitter in 2016 allowed him to operate within his opponents' OODA loops.

DJT and his supporters could craft narratives directly, rather than going through traditional media.

DJT's information flow: DJT -> Twitter-based Supporters -> News Orgs -> Electorate

Other Candidate's info flows: Candidate -> News Orgs -> Electorate

So not only could DJT move faster, but he also didn't need permission/buy-in from Editors/Owners of news orgs.
by joshstrange | 2025-07-09 19:09:40+00:00
> I don't understand this. Developer time is so much more expensive than machine time. Do companies not just double their CI workers after hearing people complain?

They don’t, and it’s annoying. Oh some do for sure but it’s the same with developer hardware. I’ve worked places where developers are waiting 4+ minutes for a build to complete when that could be halved or more by better developer hardware but companies are sometimes incredibly “penny wise and pound foolish”.
by an0malous | 2025-07-09 19:10:05+00:00
Here is the breast plate depicting a tridactyl being from the “random Reddit user”:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colombia,_quimbaya,_...

Here is a website with the carbon dating reports from multiple reputable paleo labs, it includes the PDFs from the labs themselves with their names and letterhead: https://www.the-alien-project.com/en/results-analysis-nasca-...

Here is a 2023 hearing where dozens of South American scientists across various relevant specialties present their findings and argue for the bodies’ authenticity: https://youtu.be/MwZkXwuMdsw

Here is the first 2018 hearing conducted by the Peruvian Congress where their scientists concluded the bodies are authentic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2xN41immWE
by fzysingularity | 2025-07-09 19:11:43+00:00
We built a tool that lets you augment LLM agents with visual capabilities — like OCR, object detection, and video editing — using just plain English. No need to write computer vision code.

Examples:

> “Blur all faces in this image and preview it.”

> “Extract the invoice ID, email, and totals from this invoice and overlay their locations.”

> "Redact all the sensitive data in this image, and preview the result."

> “Trim this video from 0:30 to 1:10 and add captions.”

It works with any MCP-compatible agent (Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, etc.), and turns natural language into visual AI workflows. No Python. No brittle CV pipelines. Just describe what you want, and your agent handles the rest.

Here's the full showcase / our docs:

[1] Colab showcase: https://colab.research.google.com/github/vlm-run/vlmrun-cook...

[2] MCP Intro / Docs: https://docs.vlm.run/mcp/introduction

We’d love feedback — especially from devs building LLM tools, agentic frameworks, or anything that needs visual understanding.
Google fails to dismiss wiretapping claims on SJ, settles with app users
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-09 19:11:46+00:00
https://www.bloomberglaw.com/api/v1/public/download/X7QEMPLP9PM8MTA9A06HJHGH0V8/11?public_link=FrascovFloHealthIncDocketNo321cv00757NDCalJan292021CourtDocket
Show HN: EgoExo Forge: Data and Utilities Needed for Ego and Exo Human Data
by pablovelagomez | 2025-07-09 19:11:58+00:00
Introducing EgoExo Forge - built on top of Rerun, Gradio and Huggingface Hub (I’ll be in San Francisco July 21–29 — if you’re into robotics, egocentric AI, large-scale data collection, or just want to chat, email me at pablovela5620@gmail.com!)

In my opinion, large-scale, diverse, and high-quality data is still the largest bottleneck for generalized robotics deployment. I believe that some version of imitation learning from human examples will be the most scalable + clean way to train humanoid robots (similar to what Tesla did for Full Self driving). Teleop is too expensive to collect a large enough dataset in a reasonable manner, so passive collection via egocentric (and in certain cases, exocentric) views feels like the right bet.

Over the past few months, I've been trying to build out the scaffolding for this and using Rerun as my underlying infrastructure. Data being collected needs to be easily inspectable + time series and rerun provides the right tooling for this.

My goal is to first build out a ground truth representative dataset from already existing open source data, generate some reasonable baselines, and then go out and collect my own data that adheres to the defined schema.

Starting with open-source datasets

1. EgoDex from Apple 2. HOCap from Nvidia and the University of Texas at Dallas 3. Assembly101 from Meta

All these different datasets have different sensor configurations + annotations, so my goal with egoexo-forge is to have one consistent labeling scheme + data layout. I built a data pipeline that aligns all of the different datasets in one general schema assuming the COCO133 keypoint layout that allows for exo+ego, ego only, or exo only

Since the scaffolding is already there, it becomes MUCH easier to add other datasets. So the next ones that I'll be including are HD-EPIC kitchens dataset, HOT3D, and finally my own personal iPhone + insta360 go collection method.

Once I have a diverse variety of datasets, I'll double down on what I believe to be the key algorithms required to make useful data for imitation learning

1. Camera Pose estimation via SLAM/SFM for ego perspective (and automatic calibration for exo) 2. Human pose estimation for both egocentric + exocentric views 3. Metric 3D reconstruction + object tracking

I'll be setting up reasonable open-source baselines for each of these to validate that these datasets work, and then finally try to use the generated datasets for some imitation learning via the pi0-lerobot repo I've been working on.

I plan on making a blog post + providing more info on all of this in the near future so stay tuned
by unmotivated-hmn | 2025-07-09 19:12:01+00:00
Yes! Finally, AI is taking on the most difficult task I had to do every day: browsing the internet and sending emails.

But seriously though, is everyone else on drugs? How is adding a middle man for clicking buttons the next frontier? The user is supposed to type what they're trying to do instead of you know, the "traditional" way of just doing it? Don't even get me started on the levels of abstraction involved in having perplexity place your instacart order... Where are we going?
by icedrop | 2025-07-09 19:12:05+00:00
I think you bring up an interesting tangential point that I might agree with--that the people doing the misalignment are how architecture astronauts remain employed.

But the core of Joel Spolsky's three posts on Architecture Astronauts is his expression of frustration at engineers who don't focus on delivering product value. These "Architecture Astronauts" are building layer on layer of abstraction so high that what results is a "worldchanging" yet extremely convoluted system that no real product would use.

A couple choice quotes from https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/05/01/architecture-astro...:

> "What is it going to take for you to get the message that customers don’t want the things that architecture astronauts just love to build."

> "this so called synchronization problem is just not an actual problem, it’s a fun programming exercise that you’re doing because it’s just hard enough to be interesting but not so hard that you can’t figure it out."
by scubakid | 2025-07-09 19:12:57+00:00
one of the nice things about being lean and bootstrapped is there's less pressure to chase the mass market.

so we need to worry less than a venture-backed company probably would about just how far outside of the FIRE community this has a lot of appeal.

that being said, there are certainly a lot of people who would benefit from having a long-term financial plan. here's to hoping your ynab comparison turns out to be apt!
by royal__ | 2025-07-09 19:13:02+00:00
The sales are definitely a huge draw. I don't know of any other product that can get marked down over 50% semi-regularly like video games can. It makes it feel like an incredible value, in comparison to everything else we spend money on. Not to mention, there are many games that will get marked down to less than 5 dollars that you could easily spend hundreds of hours in. Terraria is a good example.
by jiveturkey | 2025-07-09 19:13:39+00:00
I don't like this article one bit, starting from the title "Missed" the Future.

It implies that not jumping on the latest disruptive technology, at the early stage where the tech hasn't taken hold yet and it's not known if it will (see: disruptive tech graveyard), reducing or pivoting from your established business, is a bad thing, or a failure.

It's also ok to go out of business. Really disruptive technology often (usually?) spurs growth and jobs shift, so there's no loss in aggregate. Of course a few people that can't retrain will be left behind. For his specific example of carriage to car, there were 4000 carriage makers because they were fairly small businesses, with shallow supply chains. Just a couple of car makers (and the full supply chain) dwarf the total employment required for all those 4000 carriage makers.

This article is simply written with the benefit of hindsight.
by BlueTemplar | 2025-07-09 19:14:19+00:00
Charles Stross' Accelerando's 3rd chapter (2002) has a fascinating take on it by exploring what happens when someone's 'exocortex' is stolen :

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

Also to the thief that tries to wear it.

Set a few years from now.
by Arnavion | 2025-07-09 19:14:32+00:00
>It's not great, but you can't expect people to fix everything, especially for fairly minor issues like this.

1. It's not a minor issue that a privacy feature doesn't work.

2. OP clearly stated ( https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/3095#note_... ) that they know the fixes are not trivial, so at the very least they want the application and website to make it clear that the privacy feature doesn't work, so that users are not misled.
by watwut | 2025-07-09 19:14:51+00:00
> found the median player on there has 51.5% of their collection unplayed

That is nor actually all that bad for something that does not take any physical space and was frequently bought for, like, 4 euro. Or in pack of three for price of, roughly, one.

But, the moralization of the article reminds me what I dont like about gaming culture. It just needs to go out of its way to make big deal about nothing with a cringy rhetorics.
by splice-cad | 2025-07-09 19:15:08+00:00
Hi all -

Nate, thanks for sharing this - I actually posted this over here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44417587) a few days ago.

Regarding pricing, etc. - right now we're limiting users to 50 harnesses per account. There are no plans to charge for usage below this amount with the current features. I'm hoping people find the tool useful and we can use the feedback to improve it.

You can can get in touch here: info@splice-cad.com

Re mate vs wire side, that's just my preference - no ambiguity in orientation!
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-09 19:15:12+00:00
Hence the idiocy of downvoting.

What's disconnected from reality in what I said? As for Grok, so? It's an LLM and all of them are prone to saying all kinds of invented bullshit. Are you seriously going to get morally scandalized by an LLM parrot, with no self-awareness, saying some racist nonsense? It would be better to know how it was prompted into this, and by whom, then blame them more specifically.

Also note that I was referring to X having the potential to be a valuable asset to Musk, and a business asset that grows back in value in a financial/user sense. I didn't mention any moral considerations. That aside, even if it's loaded with racism, do you think other social media platforms aren't? Or in other cases, aren't loaded with their own brand of intolerant fanaticism?

To call a social network deploraable is fine, but at least should be done with a bit of perspective for your own personal biases in favor of or against anything, and of course, it's useful to remember that something being morally deplorable to a bunch of people doesn't translate to it being a bad business, or a failure in that sense for its owner.

Either way, Musk is definitely a narcissist and almost certainly strays off into derangement at times, but a stupid man, no, and even with X it's shortsighted to say anything about failure.
by larve | 2025-07-09 19:15:15+00:00
maybe the article should reflect that? This just seems like "I found an app that has a security hole and I'm being a dick about it". Sure, feel free to do it, I don't think it's productive, and actually toxic. This is not a new situation, this is a pattern that we have observed since the internet existed, vibe coding or not. However, compared to 30 years ago, we now have better investigation and disclosure procedures, as well as a much better understanding of how to build secure applications and teaching people about them. It's not about this guy Christian, it's about a whole generation of new developers that are joining us more senior developers. I think that is fantastic.
by motorest | 2025-07-09 19:16:32+00:00
> (...) and part of the reason for this is just that defining media types is not something people do (...)

People do not define media types because it's useless and serves no purpose. They define endpoints that return specific resource types, and clients send requests to those endpoints expecting those resource types. When a breaking change is introduced, backend developers simply provide a new version of the API where a new endpoint is added to serve the new resource.

In theory, media types would allow the same endpoint to support multiple resource types. Services would sent specific resource types to clients if they asked for them by passing the media type in the accept header. That is all fine and dandy, except this forces endpoints to support an ever more complex content negotiation scheme that no backend framework comes close to support, and this brings absolutely no improvement in the way clients are developed.

So why bother?
by kevinventullo | 2025-07-09 19:16:53+00:00
I don’t think we can say for sure whether it’s doing worse businesswise since the numbers aren’t public. But consider e.g. https://www.adweek.com/media/advertisers-returning-to-x/

“From January to September 2024, marketing intelligence platform MediaRadar found that (X’s former top advertisers including Comcast, IBM, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lionsgate Entertainment) collectively spent less than $3.3 million on X. This is a 98% year-over-year drop from the $170 million spent during the same period in 2023.”
by johnklos | 2025-07-09 19:16:55+00:00
You forget about targetted tracking, stalkers, and the very simple reality that this is a certain way to see if people looked at the email.

Handwaving this away because "nobody will do this" is in the same family of issues as "I have nothing to hide" or "what can they really do with my data?"

> you can't expect people to fix everything, especially for fairly minor issues like this.

The feature is called "Load Remote Content". Turning that off should have predictable consequences. The fact that it doesn't do what people would rightly assume it should do is not a "fairly minor issue".

People who blindly accept problems, who accept a lack of concern about privacy, both as a right and as a preference, who handwave away poor behavior aren't helping anyone. Tech companies rarely DTRT on their own, so people need to hold their feet to the fire. Those companies don't need apologists.
by niam | 2025-07-09 19:17:08+00:00
> ruling on what the "actual law is" is selective

US judges are not fact-checked and may rely on whatever selection of information presented in amicus briefs (as-filtered by 20-something year old law clerks trying their best) seems applicable.[1]

This seems relevant here because the mentioned figure seems to be "compliance costs" (cost to implement), not the cost on the bottom line of each org. It's very possible that that cost still exceeds $100,000,000, but it does leave more discretion in the hands of the judges than the GP would seem to imply, and more room for judges to listen to inflated estimates of cost.

Acknowledging that there's still something to be said about erring side of caution, but also that there's something to be said about what a ridiculous limit $100Mil is in 2025.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/supreme-court-errors-are-...
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-07-09 19:17:30+00:00
At that level, it would be infinitely clearer to say, "There is no such thing as a RESTful API, since the purpose of REST is to connect a system to a human user. There is only such a thing as a RESTful UI based on an underlying protocol (HTML/HTTP). But the implementation of this protocol (the web browser) is secondary to the actual purpose of the system, which is always a UI."
by an0malous | 2025-07-09 19:17:43+00:00
Jaime Maussan did not discover them, a Peruvian grave robber and French explorer did.

There is no conclusive peer reviewed paper, but just because something that would be the greatest and most controversial discovery in the history of mankind hasn’t met the highest standard of evidence yet doesn’t mean it’s false. I’m arguing against the flippant dismissal of this story, I’m not against reasonable skepticism and further investigation.
by deep_thinker26 | 2025-07-09 19:17:44+00:00
Thanks for the reply — really appreciate it.

The company doesn’t deal with health or financial data, but yeah, user impersonation and access to private messages is still serious enough to expect some level of accountability.

I’m holding off on sharing more details for now since mentioning the domain + the vuln might make it too easy to identify the company.

I’m leaning toward a public write-up after giving them fair notice.

One more thing is that the vulnerability has already been fixed (I reported it 3 weeks ago), so not sure how much leverage that still gives.