MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bonoboTP | 2025-07-06 11:05:13+00:00
It's tricky in hindsight. He also guessed stuff wrong, and how the biology eventually turned out is not exactly how he imagied. You project a modern understanding on that text but you don't really understand the significance of the phrasing he uses, such as spirit etc. It's a loose match, perhaps better than Democritus and the atom, but still needs hindsight bias.

People had similar theories, like Descartes imagined nerve tubes carrying fluid to act and kind of hydraulic actuation, as well as ancient Greek pneuma theory of vital spirit. Gilbert's work on magnetism and electricity was known, Hooke's work on vibrations. It's impressive of course but not out of this world unimaginable magic. He plugged his favorite modern theory to biology, replacing the fluid stuff with electric stuff. Tons of people did that kind of thing before and after, sometimes it works, sometimes it leads to nowhere.
by 0dKD | 2025-07-06 11:05:26+00:00
thank you so much! yeah thats funny u should say, my initial thought was to keep everything open, because i think the real relentlessly resourceful will sign up and spend time and contribute, so its no need to hide content to "nudge" signups. i dont want to nudge signups, i want the true RR people to just surface naturally. so we might change that, good point!!
by benmmurphy | 2025-07-06 11:06:38+00:00
probably the same thing that happened in the church or other organisations. bad people are able to convince others to do small things to help them, then once it surfaces what they are doing they are able to convince their enablers that their fates are tied together. from that point they are able to coerce their enablers into making bigger violations to protect them and and it becomes increasingly difficult to defect against them.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-06 11:06:54+00:00
> I don’t know the internals of the holding or Volvo, but the company that I work for is _technically_ American, and we operate like a full European company, developing everything in-house. The only thing the parent holding intermingles with us is numbers at the end of the year and strategic directions.

> So this could be happening here as well: Chinese say “hey let’s do electric” and the rest happens in Sweden. Would it then be really a Chinese vehicle?

Yes, that's the nature of corporate headquarters. If the company doesn't want to be thought of as a Chinese company, it could relocate its corporate headquarters elsewhere.

This says nothing of the ownership structure and so on. A company could be just as Chinese due to ownership and/or control independently of where its corporate HQ is located. I don't think that this framing is especially useful, because there is no such thing as a stereotypical company or person. Individuals make up companies. Companies are just people, acting in concert.

To say a company is Chinese makes me wonder why that is important to the person saying it, and makes me wonder why that is the way they choose to phrase it, and makes me wish they would tell me more about actual individual people that exist and what their views and goals are. Corporations aren't people. People are corporations.
by 0dKD | 2025-07-06 11:07:14+00:00
dude thats so good feedback and im very grateful you cared to share it. many dont understand that feedback like this is a gift. We are working on an "about page", and like i commented below im thinking we just as well could have the projects "open" versus closed, because i believe true relentlessly resourceful people will surface in the community by their engagement. so that the "rest of the world" is lurking without profiles is fine by me
by anonzzzies | 2025-07-06 11:08:10+00:00
I had very bad drivers on Uber, but I do give them low ratings, complain to Uber, ask for refunds or refuse to go depending on the level of bad. I had a driver a few months ago on saturday morning: 'don't get in on the left, someone vomited out of the window last night'. Yeah that's shit and can happen but it's the next day, you went out without cleaning. Didn't get in and complained. Come on people.

Generally I still had much nicer uber drivers than taxi drivers. What do I do if a normal cabby is a shit? With uber I get to vote 1 star AND I will get my money back the same day. That's not happening here with the normal taxis: you can complain, fill forms, and maybe, after you expire of old age, your family will enjoy that 10 euros refund.
Ratefin Investment Scam Exposed: Cybercriminals Cash in on Fake Returns
by neeravamin12 | 2025-07-06 11:09:14+00:00
A massive investment scam operated by Ratefin Investment Limited, posing as a legitimate financial platform, has defrauded victims across several Indian cities. Exploiting the trust of unsuspecting investors using WhatsApp manipulation, fake websites, and impersonated social media profiles, the scam has now drawn attention from cybersecurity investigators and law enforcement authorities.

Victims Across India

Panipat, Haryana: A businessman was defrauded of ₹70 lakhs. Panchkula, Haryana: A BSNL official lost ₹33 lakhs. Nagpur, Maharashtra: A victim was scammed out of ₹45 lakhs. Odisha: One individual lost ₹25 lakhs. The Modus Operandi

The scammers, led by Anil Agrawal, Director of Ratefin, set up a fake financial services front. They used real SEBI and LEI registration numbers, taken from genuine databases, to appear credible. A non-functional website (http://ratefin.shop) was hosted with a Mauritius address and a fake Mumbai office address to mislead investors. Initial contact was always made via WhatsApp, through profiles that appeared legitimate, usually attractive women. After gaining trust, they invited targets to an exclusive investment group with a referral code system. Early investments of ₹50,000 to ₹2–3 lakhs were returned with fake profits to build confidence. Later, they promoted fake IPOs like “IPCO,” convincing victims to invest larger sums, which were then locked or siphoned off. Instagram Connection

One key bait profile was “Meena Joshi,” whose profile image was taken from Ananya Joshi, a real Instagram influencer from Mumbai with 108K followers. On June 30, Ananya publicly stated someone was using her pictures without consent. The Ratefin scam’s link to Mumbai is suspicious as both the fake company and the impersonated Instagram profile list Mumbai as their base, raising questions about whether it was identity theft or an inside connection. Rebranding the Fraud

After being exposed, Ratefin Investment rebranded itself as Premier Investment Fund Limited, using the same:

Staff with new names (e.g., Meena Joshi became Nikita Sharma, Anil Agrawal became Raja Kumar) Website: https://premieron.com (non-functional with fake contact details) Mauritius and Mumbai addresses (unchanged) Public Warning

This is a well-orchestrated cyber fraud operation. The cybercriminals rely on:

Identity spoofing Social engineering via WhatsApp and Instagram Fake SEBI/LEI legitimacy Psychological manipulation of investment behavior What You Should Do:

If you've interacted with or been defrauded by Ratefin Investment or Premier Investment Fund Limited:

File an immediate complaint at cybercrime.gov.in Report to the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) or the Enforcement Directorate (ED) Preserve all chats, payment proofs, referral codes, and social media screenshots
Show HN: The C³ Programming Language version 2
by 9o1d | 2025-07-06 11:09:32+00:00
I'm making a second version for the new C³ programming language.

Added modifiers. These are modules that add additional functionality to the main module.

I can give you an example of another implementation of a string for C in the chars folder. In the first version, there were many variable fields in the chars structure. This turns out to make the module's functions complex. Then I remembered the basic principle of the new programming language C³ is maximum simplicity. So I left only one field in the chars structure, which is a pointer to char. In this way, the structure can be directly converted to a char pointer. The structure has functions to support working with arrays.

You may wonder where the other fields are, such as buffer size and write and read positions? I decided to make them in the form of separate structures, iter, and iter_read. These are modificators. They are added as header files and add functions. You can use many iterators for a single chars structure.

These three structures are combined in a common char_array control structure, which is responsible for automatic control of pointers. It has one pointer each to chars, iter, iter_read.

Iterator modules are modifiers. They add independent fields to the main structure, and additional functions for working with them. Thus, they adopt the prefix of the main structure. The names are chars, chars_iter for writing, chars_iter_read for reading. For now, nesting is one. I plan to increase the number of modifiers.

I'm currently making a parser for the C programming language, and this architecture allows you to use a lot of reading iterators. Thus, part of the structure is passed by reference and by value.

When I pass some structs by the value of *p, then inside the function I get my own instance of the struct that I can modify. For example, for parsing. And if successful, I can apply the changes to the original structure.

In this project, I'm interested in new architectural possibilities, so I can change structures frequently for improvements.

https://gitlab.com/9o1d/c3v2

Version 1 is available at https://azhibaev.com/c3.zip

Stay tuned !
by 0dKD | 2025-07-06 11:09:50+00:00
very useful, thank you! ill have a look at this flow. my first thought when creating this that i thought was funny was that every visitor to the site could click what seems like an already created profile pic up to the right, and then they would see their profiles and see they are a "Proud rat" lurker as of now (until you commit more and make a profile). but i totally hadnt thought of that you also end up on the profile page after clicking a project when not logged in, and that of course feels weird. ill do something there, thanks!
by softg | 2025-07-06 11:10:33+00:00
I don't see how selecting the Lion, the Robot or the Scarecrow at random is going to help with any of the issues you mentioned. Now some rando (or group of randos) that you didn't even know existed gets power based on pure luck. You will still need media to learn about them and they could still be made up.

At least elections have a veneer of consent since people are asked which of the available options they prefer. Can you imagine anyone going to war because people chosen by a lottery wheel asked for it?

This is a problem of scale. The Greeks back then lived in small city-states where random selection meant that every able bodied male had a good shot at holding an important office at least once in their lifetime. You didn't need to hatch devious schemes to come to power. You couldn't abuse your fellow men because they would be in charge tomorrow. That's the true power of random selection and it's completely inapplicable to today's society at large.
by seuros | 2025-07-06 11:11:35+00:00
Hey HN! I extracted BreakerMachines from my apps after seeing people dealing with cascading failures in production Rails apps.

Key features that set it apart:

- True async/fiber support (works with Falcon, async gems)

- Built-in fallback mechanism with chaining

- Thread-safe without dangerous Timeout.timeout

- Memory-efficient with WeakRef tracking

- Rich introspection and monitoring hooks

- Clean DSL that works with inheritance

With everyone adding AI/LLM APIs to their apps, circuit breakers are more critical than ever.

These APIs can be slow, flaky, or have outages - without protection, your app goes down with them.

The README shows patterns for graceful degradation when a service is down.

I explicitly avoided shipping Redis/DB adapters to keep it focused, the README shows how to implement your own in ~20 lines.

Would love feedback on the API design and any edge cases I might have missed!

I'm still going to add the parallel feature, i removed it because i need to test it in CI.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-07-06 11:11:43+00:00
>GIS is probably one of the best things to happen to cartography in the last couple hundred years.

GIS is amazing, but the first and second world wars saw a lot of advances in cartography. I'd say #1 advancement goes to the near-perfecting of portable Theodolites. It's a telescope which allows you to look at one point, then look at another, and very accurately understand the angles between them. From that, with a little walking and Pythagoras, you can figure out distances, and thereby create accurate maps with relatively minimal effort and human-error opportunities.

I say "relatively minimal effort" because technique the portable theodolite replaced was sending battalions of civil servants out into the countryside with 50ft long chains and asking them to walk the length, height and breadth of the country.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-07-06 11:12:15+00:00
And this generally fails because Uber has more market power, given that there are only a few alternative options and many people will defect in order to get where they’re going. If customers could organize somehow and apply this principle collectively they could achieve some parity with Uber and it would affect that organization’s behavior more. But we’ve decided that regulation is bad, and the tech world hasn’t figured out how to build an Uber-bargaining collective app (which wouldn’t instantly itself defect and take a payoff from Uber.)
by Retric | 2025-07-06 11:12:21+00:00
As a once off it’s not going to be investigated, start making regular trips and people are going to start looking for such signals. Short bursts strong enough to detected many hundreds of miles away inherently need to be fairly strong making them standout from the background noise for close receivers. You can similarly triangulate based on signal strength given some ocean ships or even cheap buoys.

Starlink needs to be detectable by satellites, but you can almost completely block the signal going in other directions.

SpaceX might already be sharing it’s data with coastguards though.
by like_any_other | 2025-07-06 11:12:49+00:00
It's so much worse than the title makes out. To summarize, Google will override your privacy settings, and allow Gemini to read Messages and WhatsApp texts even if you had disabled it. And Gemini does not run locally, meaning your private, encrypted communication is sent to Google.

This all happens automatically, unless you caught Google's email in time, bothered to read it (we all have plenty of time to keep up with updates from all the corporate entities we have relationships with, don't we?), and took action to prevent it.

If I sold Google some data cables, and months later sent them an email "btw in 5 business days your cables will start sending all the data going through them to me, even though you specifically told me not to enable this feature, unless you re-disable it", I would go to jail for hacking.

Google (not that they are alone in this) has done this and similar so many times, I want their execs to go to jail. One CFAA felony for each affected phone. Nothing will change until execs start getting jailed, and I want to see them in jail. Not fined - jail. And it shouldn't start with a lawsuit and discovery, but an armed FBI raid - if it's appropriate for merely exposing email addresses [1], it's certainly appropriate for breaking into millions of phones and exfiltrating private texts. Yes, breaking into - that's what access without permission is, even if you were the one who built the door.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse_Security#AT&T/iPad_emai...
by swores | 2025-07-06 11:13:07+00:00
> "Is Luigi Malione a hero and deserves to be pardoned by this logic ?"

You say that like you're unaware that huge numbers of people (I doubt anywhere near a majority, but significant numbers certainly) DO think that he is a hero who deserves to be pardoned.

For a quick example, see https://x.com/search?q=Free%20luigi&src=typed_query
by audunw | 2025-07-06 11:13:20+00:00
Yes, last time I read about a fire in that tunnel I believe it was the brakes. I don’t know how.

Even if it’s an engine issue, I don’t see how an EV would be more likely to catastrophically overheat. An EV will generate a lot less heat for a given amount of power. There’s also less potential for oil and fuels leaks which exacerbates the issue.
by Bender | 2025-07-06 11:13:27+00:00
I have never once

That's cool. I see these things every day, all day. Cattle, horses, hay, farm equipment, construction equipment.

is just more toxic masculinity bullshit

Some of that does exist but it does not exist at any of the local farms and ranches as the young men here can not afford to show off like that and have to get actual work done. Most of their families would shun them or beat them for acting that way. I believe you are describing city cowboys. They are easy to spot. Immaculate clothing, big shiny belt buckle but never did a day of real work in their lives, living off mommy and daddy's money. Super soft hands, lol. Those don't last long here.
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-07-06 11:15:00+00:00
For the record, Newton was vastly conceptually wrong which is not the same as saying his work is useless because being wrong in a precise way is science. Time does not "flow immutably from one moment to the next" and there are no gravitational "forces" acting magically at a distance. Even if the linear approximatiins he made hold on a narrow domain they offer little in the way of conceptual framework. In fact, mostly Newton played mathematical parlour tricks.

If you are waiting for science to tell you "why" things happen you will wait forever because science answers "how" things happen.

There is no way for a successor scientific theory to completely subsume all of the predictions of its predecessor because they are often incommensurable. Which is to say that there is simply no way to define one in the terms and concepts of the other.

If you think of GR as some extension or modification of Newton's work you're doomed to misunderstanding the mathematical facts.
by olelele | 2025-07-06 11:15:26+00:00
The other thing about the Baltic Sea is that there has been so much fertiliser and toxic farming chemicals running into it since the start of the agricultural revolution that the fish is full of heavy metals and toxins. The Swedish authorities recommend against eating it more than once a month and never for pregnant women and people with health conditions.

This farming runoff overload has also led to huge areas where the sea floor is completely dead.
Rant for Alternatives That Meet the Needs
by zynovex | 2025-07-06 11:15:40+00:00
Totally frustrated with google, meta, youtube and all these giants offering software full of ads, bloated and unnecessary features, visually painful UI.

Tried deactivating Facebook and Instagram. And guess what? It felt like finding a treasure from some unknown island full of wild animals. I literally couldn't find the deactivate button. But irony is, there was a reactivation button.

Youtube plays 2-3 ads on every video. And every other app/software that is widely used is bloated with ads, and unnecessary features. It's so annoying.

I tried other alternatives now and then but none seem to fulfill the needs. Calling out for developers and engineers to build a whole ecosystem of software that is bloat free, ad free, minimal, and gets the thing done in the simplest way possible.
by xyst | 2025-07-06 11:17:04+00:00
Poor guy probably got crawled by LLM bots. The "attacker" probably doesn’t know who this person is. Just a faceless corporation using his sound or white noise content to train and feed llm.

I get similar "attacks" on daily basis, but find out it’s just a bot crawling the certificate transparency logs. Inspecting site certificates, and it’s issued by Let’s Encrypt CAs. Script kiddies, at best, trying to pick off the low hanging fruit.

Hope he doesn’t take these "attacks" too personally going forward. Seems like a good guy overall, maybe too good for this world.
by bsenftner | 2025-07-06 11:17:19+00:00
It's like talking into a void. The issue with AI is that it is too subtle, too easy to get acceptable junk answers and too subtle for the majority to realize we've made a universal crib sheet, software developers included, perhaps one of the worst populations due to their extremely weak communications as a community. To be repeatedly successful with AI, one has to exert mental effort to prompt AI effectively, but pretty much nobody is willing to even consider that. Attempts to discuss the language aspects of using an LLM get ridiculed as 'prompt engineer is not engineering' and dismissed, while that is exactly what it is: prompt engineering using a new software language, natural language, that the industry refuses to take seriously, but is in fact an extremely technical programming language so subtle few to none of you realize it, nor the power that is embodied by it within LLMs. They are incredible, they are subtle, to the degree the majority think they are fraud.
by lmm | 2025-07-06 11:17:23+00:00
> What could MI5 possibly stand to gain from hiding a person who is described as "a violent misogynist abuser with paedophilic tendencies who had used his MI5 role as a tool of coercion"?

The continued loyalty of their other employees, a significant proportion of whom also enjoy using their MI5 role as a tool of coercion?
by fhsm | 2025-07-06 11:17:35+00:00
Most studies of hospital resuscitation survival puts it at about a 1/4. Plenty of people survive and have good neurological outcomes lots of people do not [0].

Outside of diagnostically defined cohort it’s a bit of a silly idea as you can attempt on anyone without respect to readily identified odds of success [1] so the what of CPR isn’t readily untangled from the who of it.

Out of hospital is a similar story but with less ability to triage and thus the same pattern in which the fact of CPR [2] is less informative than the underlying problem [3, old but the best study I know of would be interested if someone knows of an update to it given in hospital trend since].

0. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1109148

1. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8118500/

2. https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-02...

3. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1767484/
by perching_aix | 2025-07-06 11:18:01+00:00
Not sure why it would be, short of taking a cheap shot at people. Most people alive right now were born in the past 50 years [0], and won't be intimately familiar with history in so much detail, including me. It's niche knowledge, let's be honest. And people being conspiratorial and speculating on these is not the same as knowing about it with examples.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_ag...
by IshKebab | 2025-07-06 11:18:25+00:00
I actually quite like the AI-for-search use case. I can't load all of a company's support documents and manuals into ChatGPT easily; if they've done that for me, great!

I was searching for something on Omnissa Horizon here: https://docs.omnissa.com/

It has some kind of ChatGPT integration, and I tried it and it found the answer I was looking for straight away, after 10 minutes of googling and manual searching had failed.

Seems to be not working at the moment though :-/