MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-07-07 20:30:39+00:00
There's really two components to gender identity: the socially constructed stuff, which is most of it, and the biological stuff. Usually changing the biological stuff just lends itself to better socially constructed stuff.

Most trans people I know, for example, have no desire to change their genitals. Probably, I'm guessing, because nobody sees that. So their genitals have pretty much no relation to their gender identity. Which makes sense when you think about it. I mean, I gender everyone in my life, including people I see only for a few seconds. But I see very, very little genitals. I'm really just guessing, and everyone is.

It's very complicated. Of course men can wear dressed and makeup and such, but that is a very high-friction activity, borderline dangerous. Women can do that, however. So then I question if there are transwomen out there who would be satisfied in a world where anyone can wear anything. Such a world does not exist, so we don't know.
by lmxyy | 2025-07-07 20:31:10+00:00
Introduce Radial Attention — a static sparse attention mechanism with O(nlogn) complexity for long video generation! Here are some key features: * Plug-and-play: works with pretrained models like Wan, HunyuanVideo, Mochi * Speeds up both training&inference by 2–4×, without quality loss * Compatible with pre-trained LoRAs. When applied to 8-step FusionX LoRA, Radial Attention further delivers a 1.6× speedup
by dylan604 | 2025-07-07 20:32:09+00:00
Did the Streisand Effect kick in making you (and/or other students) unable to forget it? "Whoa, teacher says to forget it, so I'm really going to remember it now!"

Come to think of it, if a teacher said to remember something because it will be on a test versus forget something because religious types are upset, I know I'd remember the thing I was just told to forget knowing it now would not be on a test. Then again, as a teen, I was really starting to question the religious part of my upbringing in light of science.
by conductr | 2025-07-07 20:32:13+00:00
My son is a dinosaur enthusiast to say the least.

At some point, well into his accumulation of Dino facts we read an old book I had as a kid (mid 80s) and the book says all kinds of weird stuff I forget but abruptly ends with “they went extinct and we may never know how” and my son (age 4 at the time) is at a loss for words, “it was a asteroid dad, what dummy wrote this book?” For weeks he’d randomly look at me, “hey dad, remember that book that didn’t even know how dinosaurs went extinct? Sigh with disappointment.”

I hadn’t realized this was such a contemporary discovery that it wasn’t even part of my own initial understanding and education on the topic.
by ionlyusegoogle | 2025-07-07 20:32:26+00:00
Hi guys, my first ever "product".

Day 1: Coded my idea in to a working local frontend Day 2: Created the backend, database + integration with everything incl payments with Stripe Day 3: Everything on Git and deployed to Vercel Day 4: Bit of finetuning!

What do you guys think? Its made for travel blogs, a nice rain season tracker for travelers to plan their trip.

My super advanced tech stack; NextJS, React, Daisyui, TailwindCSS, MongoDB, Stripe, Vercel.

As a world-traveler, I was tired of all those websites which include satellite images, huricane trackers, windspeeds and wave accumilations... I just want to book my next trip and know when and where rainy season is. Now! :)

It's just me, by myself who created this. And proud to say, this is my first ever project!
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-07 20:32:44+00:00
Heh. As a [former][0] artist (and musician), and an engineer, I can confirm that the Venn diagrams overlap, quite a bit.

Pigment color is a real heavy-duty field. There's a guy named Michael Wilcox[1] that is famous for his work on pigment color.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886

[1] https://michaelwilcoxschoolofcolour.com/about-michael-wilcox... (Has an annoying popup on every page).
by Apocryphon | 2025-07-07 20:33:08+00:00
They're going to hit diminishing returns through outsourcing eventually, whether code quality, language/cultural differences, or the difficulty in wrangling timezones. Though I've heard that there's been more offshoring to Latin America these days so perhaps that addresses some of the issue.

And maybe if programmers organized they could try to lobby for some of the protections that those other professions enjoy. As it stands now there's absolutely nothing pushing for the profession in any capacity, besides like IEEE/ACM op-eds.
by flysand7 | 2025-07-07 20:33:17+00:00
The biggest thing I'd want from a calculator -- having to calculate numeric expressions involving units, and getting the result in a specific unit. This is something I've used the google search prompt for because it can do these things to some degree, but google isn't a calculator and it will refuse to give you an answer right away if it doesn't think you entered a valid numeric expression.

Most of the time I'm looking for an answer in questions like:

4 weeks + 59*3 hours in days 1/2 * 36g * (900 m/s)^2 in joules

Other times when I'm working with memory and want to get a specific finite representation in hexadecimal:

1 megabyte as hex

This might be off-topic because you're building a suite of calculators that I'd have to switch between to perform these tasks, rather than a single calculator that can do all / most of these things, but this kinda raises a point - if you want to switch between the calculators, maybe the UI should allow going from one to the other without performing the navigation, I'm thinking something like a sidebar that you can click on to switch to a different calculator.

Ideally when you switch and switch back the state should be saved because you might need to copy multiple values between calculators. EDIT: I forgot browsers have tabs, but still.

But really for me personally, nothing would beat a single thing that can do units and bases
by no_wizard | 2025-07-07 20:33:21+00:00
>These are complaints about the designer you are working with and the deliverables they're choosing to give you, are they not?

It is, to some degree, but the tools don't help any related party enforce consistency that will translate to the broader output of that work, that doesn't help matters very much.

In addition, designers themselves by and large don't seem to care enough about consistency like this. Engineers have design systems (ideally) that they pull from, but I'm still shocked in 2025 there is no good 1-1 communication of imposing the constraints of a design system in the designer <> engineer workflow.

Not to mention, for every designer I know that does adopt features of the tool that make this easier, like auto layout, there's a much greater number of designers that refuse to use them.

Seemingly, engineers hold themselves to a higher standard of consistency than designers do. I've seen this pattern too many times and its the only reasonable conclusion I've been able to draw. I was even hired to help streamline engineering and design work together and share as much as possible to get a corporate design system adopted, and I always had a hell of alot more resistance and argument with the design side of that equation on this.

edit: after seeing someone from Figma comment, I feel its unlikely it will ever have any of these types of features, which is a shame
by bigbadfeline | 2025-07-07 20:33:27+00:00
> It will have to be displaced and reset by a nonviolent popular uprising.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. What do you think the newest pet project of Musk is about? I'm talking of his America's Party initiative - an obvious attempt to direct any popular uprising, be it nonviolent or otherwise, into he same old river bed.

When you say "popular" you have to take into account who decides what's popular these days and why billionaires are tripping all over themselves to get equipped with "social" media of their own.
by Izkata | 2025-07-07 20:33:48+00:00
> For whatever reason, most proficient readers I know have an intuition about the correct pronunciation of a word even if they’ve never heard it spoken before.

Because pronunciation rules exist, they're just never explicitly taught and instead learned through exposure. For example, here's someone reconstructing as many of the rules as they can: https://www.zompist.com/spell.html
by rippeltippel | 2025-07-07 20:34:00+00:00
Aging well requires a both biological and lifestyle interventions. One company called Nuraxi [1] is geared precisely to support that, They aim at studying the super-agers in the Sardinia "blue zone", and build digital twins (for the rest of us) on which simulate all-round interventions based on the insights from super-agers. Sounds like a promising way to get personalised longevity recipes.

[1] https://www.nuraxi.ai
by danielvaughn | 2025-07-07 20:34:07+00:00
Thanks, I can’t wait to showcase it on here. It’s frustrating because I can only work on it on nights and weekends, and my 15 month old daughter doesn’t make that any easier.

I’m incredibly pumped for it, though. It’s almost entirely keyboard driven, kinda like Vim. I’m building this rich set of mnemonic commands to build/design UI components. It’s like Vim + Storybook + WebFlow.
by eesmith | 2025-07-07 20:34:57+00:00
When is something a dialect in France and when is it a language in France?

> It seemed to me that you were overestimating how prevalent or significant these languages were.

I said I was in sixth grade, a kid living in the US.

I didn't even know then there was more than one Romance language in Italy - as I alluded to in my original comment.

Yes, I now, decades later, know more. But I was sharing my childhood misapprehension and how I learned the world was more complicated than 11 year old me thought as something meant for others to smile at and enjoy, not to be nitpicked as if my comment was any profound statement about all of France.

My interpretation was not "questionable" - the story clearly was supposed to take place in a part of France where many of those in the countryside still learned a Romance language other than French as their mother tongue. That matches the real history for that supposed area that the author drew from. Yes, it's certainly something that's a lot less common now, some 50 years later. But then just say that things have changed.
by SirHumphrey | 2025-07-07 20:34:59+00:00
While code may no be the leanest human-readable representation, scripting languages are a quite deep local minimum. There is a difference between hiding complexity and blocking you off from complexity. Scripting languages work because when you encounter a problem your library / framework can't fix, there is at least a basic procedural Turing complete language to fall back on.
by vel0city | 2025-07-07 20:35:03+00:00
> Sleep pretty much never works correctly on Windows laptops

Sleep has worked pretty much fine on the vast majority of the Windows computers I've owned/managed, outside of a few troublesome devices such as this Legion Go and some network cards that would wake on any activity.

Meanwhile about half of my Linux machines over the years routinely fail to wake from sleep. Even today I still get issues on a modern-ish Thinkpad that fails to resume from time to time but which slept perfectly fine in Windows 10 and Windows 11 every time.

> It's not uncommon to have some slowdown, open up Task Manager and seeing some process I-don't-know-what-it-does pinned at 99% CPU usage

Yes, and I'm sure if an average user used ps aux on Linux they'd know what everything in that list is doing.
by cmiles74 | 2025-07-07 20:35:04+00:00
Take a look at the judge’s ruling in this Anthropic case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488331

Here’s a quote from the ruling:

“First, Authors argue that using works to train Claude’s underlying LLMs was like using works to train any person to read and write, so Authors should be able to exclude Anthropic from this use (Opp. 16). But Authors cannot rightly exclude anyone from using their works for training or learning as such. Everyone reads texts, too, then writes new texts. They may need to pay for getting their hands on a text in the first instance. But to make anyone pay specifically for the use of a book each time they read it, each time they recall it from memory, each time they later draw upon it when writing new things in new ways would be unthinkable. For centuries, we have read and re-read books. We have admired, memorized, and internalized their sweeping themes, their substantive points, and their stylistic solutions to recurring writing problems.”

They literally compare an LLM learning to a person learning and conflate the two. Anthropic will likely win this case because of this anthropomorphisization.
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-07 20:35:43+00:00
I think it is also interesting to think about how many things we learned about dinosaurs directly because of Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park spiked a huge amount of interest in the science. It's said that the 3D modeling of dinosaur skeleton kinematics for animating them in Jurassic Park was one of the biggest spurs into reevaluating the avian relationship with dinosaurs ("oh, yeah this skeleton would have to walk like a big chicken") and that in turn spurned deeper research into how many of them may have been feathered rather than scaled.

We can see all the faults in the original Jurassic Park from everything that we've learned since Jurassic Park, but we still sort of owe a debt to JP for bringing a lot of those ideas into public consciousness in a fun way and throwing a lot of money at some of the earliest 3D studies of dinosaur motion.
by nicbars | 2025-07-07 20:36:12+00:00
I just launched a free tool that I wish existed when I was spending hours manually copying YouTube transcripts for my research projects.

What it does:

1. Extracts full YouTube transcripts instantly

2. Adds clickable timestamps that jump to specific video moments

3. Exports in multiple formats (TXT, TXT with timestamps, SRT subtitles)

4. Works with any YouTube video that has captions

5. Completely free to use

Let me know your feedback :)
by no_wizard | 2025-07-07 20:36:24+00:00
>allow here is the key word, not enforce

Is there any way you can get a global toggle to change that? Because enforce is what is often desired but its not possible to put sufficient guard rails in place to do so. Engineers have tests and linters, there's no allegory to that in the design world, and it desperately needs one

>The most important thing though is you can always detach from them. One of the top requests we've had from Design Systems authors for a while now is to prevent detaches, but it something we've never implemented, mainly because we always want a way to allow the designer to fully go back to that freeform design mentality. You can always remove an autolayout, you can always detach an instance, you can always break a variable. They're optional features, not handcuffs that bind you. If you want to go a step further, there are plenty of plugins out there that fully detach all restrictive elements on a selection, making all colors a hex code, all autolayouts removed, and everything absolutely positioned so you can just drag things around. We don't provide a native feature to do this (since it's a fairly extreme measure that removes a lot of helpful metadata), but we also don't prevent actions like this if people really want to go to the creative extremes.

Its not always useful to be able to let people do this though, if you're implementing a feature in applications design side, and it needs to best represent the constraints of the team who will need to implement it on the engineering side, shared constraints would be amazing so they don't diverge too much, and you can get actual consistency.

What you're basically saying is: fuck consistency, this tool doesn't care about an organizations need to enforce that on a tool level
by shitpostbot | 2025-07-07 20:36:25+00:00
This is currently a huge source of inefficiency in modern chip design.

I've worked on some of the current highest profile chip projects doing "frontend" RTL design, and at every major chip company I've worked at, and from talking with coworkers about their past experiences at other companies, the handoff-wall between RTL and PD is leaving a substantial amount of perf per power/area on the table. (like 30% I'm general)

RTL designers generally have no visibility into how their designs are getting laid out, and generally don't want to have to care. PD engineers have no visibility into the uArch and low level code details, and maybe they want to care but everything is too obfuscated in general.

So when your pins are misplaced during an early iteration, RTL will blindly add retiming to resolve timing issues and make PD happy but never check if it's actually needed. PD will slave away trying to make busted RTL work with placement and recipe adjustments rather than asking RTL for a trivial fix, etc etc.

There are a ton of small things where visibility into either side of the process would result in measurably better hardware, but the current team structures and responsibility boundaries encourage people not to care.
by int_19h | 2025-07-07 20:36:49+00:00
How would you spell that sound in a way that is consistently recognized?

"zh" is actually one of the more reasonable pinyin digraphs because it follows the same pattern as "sh". If "s" + "h" results in [ʃ], then logically "z" + "h" should result in [ʒ].

"c" is used the way pinyin uses it in many languages (e.g. pretty much all Slavic ones that use the Latin alphabet, for starters).

"x" and "q" are more questionable, but there's precedent for either in languages using Latin-based alphabets - "x" can be [ʃ] in Spanish, for example, and "q" is [c͡ç] in Albanian.
Ask HN: Does anyone use "AI" features in consumer products?
by andy99 | 2025-07-07 20:37:24+00:00
Chat assistants like GPT, code assistants, all seem to have good PMF and are broadly used. G-suite otoh has been nagging me to death to try some AI things that I don't want, I assume MS Office is the same, we've all seen "Summarize with AI" type buttons everywhere. My guess is that PMs really want people to use these and nobody wants them or they wouldn't be pushed so hard. But has anyone actually used them for anything? Are there any actually good AI features?
by armchairhacker | 2025-07-07 20:37:33+00:00
Real-world programs can be verified by formally proving properties on a small part of the code (called the kernel) in a way that transitively guarantees those for the remaining code.

For example, Rust's borrow checker guarantees* memory safety of any code written in Rust, even a 10M+ LOC project. Another example is sel4, a formally-verified micro-kernel (https://sel4.systems/About/seL4-whitepaper.pdf).

* Technically not; even if the code doesn't use `unsafe`, not only is Rust's borrow checker not formally verified, there are soundness holes (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen%20is%3A...). However, in theory it's possible to formally prove that a subset of Rust can only encode memory-safe programs, and in practice Rust's borrow checker is so effective that a 10M+ LOC project without unsafe still probably won't have memory issues.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-07 20:37:34+00:00
Red, in general, sucks.

Look at all the red-white-and-blue bumper stickers. They are usually white-and-blue.

Around here, we have school buses with a sticker on the back, announcing that they don't turn right on RED (with "RED" being in heavy letters, and colored red).

They frequently say that they don't turn right on.
by mullingitover | 2025-07-07 20:37:40+00:00
I think there's also the problem that the non-fiscal outcomes of red light cameras are mixed. There's this DOT research showing that red light cameras likely decreased right-angle collisions, but increased rear end collisions[1]. Studies weren't conclusive, but they seem to point to red light cameras not being a slam dunk that makes their deployment a no-brainer.

[1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/05049/
by iLoveOncall | 2025-07-07 20:37:41+00:00
Search "linux encrypt file as hard drive", the second result is a medium article which offers what you want: https://medium.com/@allypetitt/how-to-encrypt-a-drive-in-lin...

As I said, user issue.

> Nowhere is there a link to a manual for luks or similar.

Yes, thankfully. The man page for cryptsetup isn't exactly palatable.
by pvg | 2025-07-07 20:37:47+00:00
I doubt simonw would self-describe as a security researcher - his post was based on the original work here https://www.generalanalysis.com/blog/supabase-mcp-blog which is not 'the followup analysis'. This is really poor blogspam.

Edit: The first bit was silently fixed, the second wasn't - the fact you won't even acknowledge the mistake or the edit just makes it look more mercenary and blogspammy.
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by ezekg | 2025-07-07 20:38:10+00:00
No B2B customer really cares what technology underpins a business. They never have, and they never will. They care about two things: does it help them save money, or does it help them make money? And does it do either of those things better than the alternatives? Many GPT wrappers do it better than raw dogging GPT, or for cheaper -- especially when factoring in cost of time -- so it's easy to see the value, albeit technology-wise it's also easy to get caught up in the simplicity; but most buyers don't get caught up in such things.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-07 20:38:11+00:00
> Show me anything that supports this idea beyond your own immediate conjecture right now

It's inherent in the nature of the test. The most important fair use factor is the effect on the market for the work, so if the use would be uneconomical without fair use then the effect on the market is negligible because the alternative would be that the use doesn't happen rather than that the author gets paid for it.

> No, that's the transformative element of what a search engine provides. Search engines are not legal because they can't contact each licensor, they are legal because they are considered hugely transformative features.

To make a search engine you have to do two things. One is to download a copy of the whole internet, the other is to create a search index. I'm talking about the first one, you're talking about the second one.

> Okay, and? How many customers does Microsoft bill on a monthly basis?

Microsoft does this with an automated system. There is no single automated system where you can get every book ever written, and separately interfacing with all of the many systems needed in order to do it is the source of the overhead.