MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by propter_hoc | 2025-08-24 19:45:05+00:00
From wikipedia:

At a standard dose, paracetamol slightly reduces fever,[13][17][18] though it is inferior to ibuprofen in that respect[19]

[13] Warwick C (November 2008). "Paracetamol and fever management". J R Soc Promot Health. 128 (6): 320–323. doi:10.1177/1466424008092794. PMID 19058473. S2CID 25702228.

[17] Chiumello D, Gotti M, Vergani G (April 2017). "Paracetamol in fever in critically ill patients-an update". J Crit Care. 38: 245–252. doi:10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.10.021. PMID 27992852. S2CID 5815020.

[18] de Martino M, Chiarugi A (December 2015). "Recent Advances in Pediatric Use of Oral Paracetamol in Fever and Pain Management". Pain Ther. 4 (2): 149–68. doi:10.1007/s40122-015-0040-z. PMC 4676765. PMID 26518691.

[19] Pierce CA, Voss B (March 2010). "Efficacy and safety of ibuprofen and acetaminophen in children and adults: a meta-analysis and qualitative review". Ann Pharmacother. 44 (3): 489–506. doi:10.1345/aph.1M332. PMID 20150507. S2CID 44669940.
by lr4444lr | 2025-08-24 19:45:35+00:00
It's not just that it causes liver failure: it's that the difference between the therapeutic dosing range for pain relief it's prescribed for is dangerously close to the toxicity level.

Other drugs like theophylline have ceased to be prescribed for a similar reason alternatives were available, but due to drug marketing, acetaminophen is touted as the "safe" pain reliever.
by mattbuilds | 2025-08-24 19:45:44+00:00
I’m not saying coding is easy, but when it comes to games it is the easy part. Lots of people can code, very few can make something actually fun. Knowing how to code (or how to use an engine/blueprints/visual scripting) is just the start. It’s like making films. Everyone can record some videos on their phone, but it takes much more than that to make something people want to watch.
by jama211 | 2025-08-24 19:45:48+00:00
Well said. And I’m sure there were people back in the day that said anyone coding in c instead of assembly didn’t truely understand the machine code and this could one day bite them in the ass.

AI is a tool and it’s clearer than ever to me now that the tool’s best job is abstracting tedious implementation details away from the developer, in much the same way that I never have to bother with manual memory management in my programs written in modern languages the way I once used to with c. We no longer need to deal with segfaults, so why not also no longer having to deal with tracking down documentation or examples to implement simple blocks of code.
by wqaatwt | 2025-08-24 19:46:29+00:00
It can’t be used as a space heater?

It’s not that it’s worse than a “real” desktop chip. In a way it’s better you get almost comparable performance with way lower power usage.

Also the M4 Max has worse MT performance than e.g. the 14900k which is architecture ancient in relative terms and also costs a fraction
Ask HN: Best Marketplaces for Used Servers?
by bloudermilk | 2025-08-24 19:46:32+00:00
Is there an active market for used servers?

With so much happening on the AI/HPC hardware front lately, I wonder where the prior-generation servers end up once well-funded companies upgrade. I'm interested in acquiring a GPU-laden machine with enough VRAM for local fine tuning, training, and batch inference. I could build a workstation with current or older-gen GPUs, but it seems like a used professionally built rack-mount machine could be higher value.
by mb7733 | 2025-08-24 19:46:40+00:00
Indexes can only help narrow down to the issues for the project (more generally: matching rows for the query). Once the index narrows down the rows, Postgres still has to count them all, and Postgres isn't particularly fast at that, especially in an active table[0]. That's what the author meant by 'complete index scan of the tasks for the project'.

Of course this isn't really relevant until there are a very large number of rows to count for a given query. Much larger than what is likely for "tasks in a project". I've run into this only with queries that end up counting 10e7/8/9 rows, i.e. more like OLAP workloads

[0] https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting
by philwelch | 2025-08-24 19:47:15+00:00
If there weren’t differences between the educational environment and the workplace, that would be the same as if you just dumped people straight into the workplace with no education. For education to be useful at all it has to be distinct from the “real world” and optimized for learning. One way of optimizing for learning is to make the student solve the problem the hard way, so the student understands the entire process and not just the parts that are harder to optimize.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-24 19:47:22+00:00
I think it’s hard for people who aren’t steeped in that world to understand it, because it sounds so ridiculous. The idea of loving pro-coal policies because it upsets environmentalists is hard to accept. It’s natural to think it must really be about economic realities, people's livelihoods, etc.

I have the questionable advantage of having listened to Rush Limbaugh almost every day in the 90s, reading lots of National Review, and taking in various other conservative media. I know the basis for these things, straight from the people pushing them. None of what’s happening is a surprise to me.
by a3w | 2025-08-24 19:47:38+00:00
Most, if not all, medication would carry a poisonous symbol, if it were not taken out of regulation for that. Mostly, you kill organs by any overdose.

Roughly:

- Paracetamol overdose can cause severe liver damage and may be fatal.

- Ibuprofen in high doses can lead to kidney injury and stomach bleeding.

- Aspirin overdose may result in salicylate poisoning, causing ringing in the ears, confusion, and metabolic acidosis.
by Ygg2 | 2025-08-24 19:47:40+00:00
> It doesn't go without saying that compaction involves a lot of memory traffic

It definitely tracks with my experience. Did you see Chrome on AMD EPYC with 2TB of memory? It reached like 10% of Mem utility but over 46% of CPU around 6000 tabs. Mem usage climbed steeply at first but got overtaken by CPU usage.
by godelski | 2025-08-24 19:47:41+00:00
To be fair, this post is also a perfect litmus test for reading comprehension. The thesis is never stated out loud. But I'm finding what's more interesting is the people that clearly read the words. When I commented, this comment was much higher up[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45000416
by Rebellos | 2025-08-24 19:48:14+00:00
Not denying that acetaminophen/paracetamol has a horrible therapeutic index, but there are reasons why it is still so widely used. Despite potential hepatoxicity, it is considered the safest pain relief drug (this emerging research notwithstanding)

Ibuprofen is not better in every way. For instance ibuprofen, as well as other NSAIDs, is much less gentle on gastrointestinal tract and puts much more strain on kidneys.

Some people (e.g. with inflammatory bowel diseases or renal diseases) do not tolerate NSAIDs well, which is why acetaminophen is on the same step of analgesic ladder - it is still considered better in some cases. Both are also used complementary to each other in pediatrics.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-24 19:48:14+00:00
Yeah, the functionality+security everyone is dreaming about requires much more than "where did the the words come from." As we keep following the thread of "one more required improvement", I think it'll lead to: "Crap, we need to invent a real AI just to keep the LLM in line."

Even just the first step on the list is a doozy: The LLM has no authorial ego to separate itself from the human user, everything is just The Document. Any entities we perceive are human cognitive illusions, the same way that the "people" we "see" inside a dice-rolled mad-libs story don't really exist.

That's not even beginning to get into things like "I am not You" or "I have goals, You have goals" or "goals can conflict" or "I'm just quoting what You said, saying these words doesn't mean I believe them", etc.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-24 19:48:25+00:00
But as of August 2025, we are on pace to see fewer games in 2025 than in 2024.

Also the jump in 2024 is only around 10-15% more games than we would have expected from the previous trend. Assuming all of that is directly down to AI, I wouldn’t call that an explosion.

From what I’ve seen, most of the growth was in NSFW shovelware and was just people noticing a business opportunity. This also explains why the number it takes in 2025 isn’t showing similar growth.
by chisleu | 2025-08-24 19:49:06+00:00
> but eventually they did it

They can do this with manual partitioning indeed. I've done it before, but it's not ideal because the auto partitioner will scale beyond almost anything AWS will give you with manual partitioning unless you have 24/7 workloads.

> you can be throttled for more than a day before it kicks in

I expect that this would depends on your use case. If you are dropping content you need to scale out to tons of readers, that is absolutely the case. If you are dropping tons of content with well distributed reads, then the auto partitioner is The Way.
by threecheese | 2025-08-24 19:49:07+00:00
This would be a good point of differentiation to make on your GitHub page or for a technical audience on your website. Frigate is SOTA in many folks minds, and to show that you are using tinygrad over tensorflow may be a good “modern-ness” signal for that audience.

Edit: another solution in this space shows a list of supported ML runtimes, which would be good info for folks wanting to run on specific hardware. https://github.com/boquila/boquilahub
by hcnews | 2025-08-24 19:49:29+00:00
> What I like about this post is that it highlights something a lot of devs gloss over: the coding part of game development was never really the bottleneck. A solo developer can crank out mechanics pretty quickly, with or without AI.

This is not true at all. I have never worked on games and it will take me quite a while (even months) to write a "basic" game. While I know a lot of good practices about software development and decade+ of FAANG experience, I don't know the intricacies or even the basics of game development.

I recently experienced this for a different usecase. As an experienced backend developer, I wanted to automate some javascript/browser stuff. I tried on my own for 2-3 days and had couple of prototypes but nothing actually worked. I spent 2 hours with an AI and I had a working solution. We even iterated together quickly and solved some runtime issues and the solution is working for me seamlessly now.

So, I definitely see value of AI even for coding for experienced developers like myself.
by gred | 2025-08-24 19:49:51+00:00
That's a great point!

Large Language Models (LLMs), like GPT-4, offer numerous benefits for writing tasks across various domains. Here’s a breakdown of the key advantages:

1. Enhanced Productivity

Faster Drafting: Quickly generate drafts for essays, reports, emails, blog posts, and more.

24/7 Availability: Instant support with no downtime or fatigue.

Reduced Writer’s Block: Provides starting points and creative prompts to overcome mental blocks.

2. Improved Writing Quality

Grammar and Style: Corrects grammar, punctuation, and stylistic issues.

Tone Adjustment: Adapts tone to suit professional, casual, persuasive, or empathetic contexts.

Clarity and Conciseness: Helps simplify complex ideas and remove redundant language.

3. Creativity and Ideation

Brainstorming: Assists in generating titles, outlines, metaphors, and analogies.

Storytelling: Offers plot ideas, character development, and dialogue suggestions for creative writing.

Variations: Produces multiple versions of the same message (e.g., for A/B testing).

4. Language Versatility

Multilingual Support: Translates and writes in many languages.

Localization: Tailors content for different cultural contexts or regions.

5. Research Assistance

Summarization: Condenses large documents or articles into key points.

Information Retrieval: Provides background context on topics quickly (though should be fact-checked for critical work).

Citation Help: Assists in generating citations in formats like APA, MLA, or Chicago.

6. Editing and Rewriting

Paraphrasing: Rewrites text to avoid plagiarism or improve readability.

Consistency Checks: Maintains tone, terminology, and formatting across long documents.

Content Expansion: Adds detail to thin content or elaborates on underdeveloped points.

7. Customization and Integration

Prompt Engineering: Tailors responses for specific industries (e.g., legal, medical, technical).

API Integration: Can be embedded into writing tools, content platforms, or CMS systems.

8. Cost Efficiency

Reduces Need for Human Writers: Especially for repetitive or low-complexity tasks.

Scales Effortlessly: One model can serve multiple users or projects simultaneously.

Would you like a breakdown of how these benefits apply to a specific type of writing (e.g., academic, marketing, business)?
by zozbot234 | 2025-08-24 19:50:52+00:00
> Nuclear power does not add diversity to a heavily renewable grid.

A heavily renewable grid is in trouble whenever the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine. A heavily nuclear grid is in trouble whenever demand happens to exceed the limited amount of baseload it can provide. These events tend to be uncorrelated, so one can expect that adding some nuclear to a heavily renewable grid (and vice versa) will save a lot on costly "grid stabilization" services from peaker plants and/or grid-level storage.

A nuclear plant is not, strictly speaking, going to supply energy at literal zero or negative prices the way some renewables do, because it can throttle down when that makes economic sense. But its "baseload" profile seems to provide an attractive bundle of bulk supply plus some amount of stabilization compared to a "99%" intermittent renewable mix. Why shouldn't we try to reduce the high variable costs of storage and peaker plants to whatever extent turns out to be feasible?
by cardiffspaceman | 2025-08-24 19:52:08+00:00
I have been a Rams fan twice. I saw them defeat the Browns in a preseason game that benefited some charity (Fearsome Foursome era). It took place at the Coliseum. A blocked Browns punt sent the ball into the Browns end zone to settle the game in the final minutes. Then some scallawag moved the team to St Louis, and then better people moved it back to Los Angeles.

Aren’t all “teams” “of Theseus”? If the team remains in one city for say, 60 years, the people have changed over and over again. The stadium is probably different.
by fleebee | 2025-08-24 19:52:40+00:00
> This is similar to good audio engineers back in the day wiring up a dirt cheap car speaker to mix albums.

Isn't that the opposite of what's happening?

I have decent audio equipment at home. I'd rather listen to releases that were mixed and mastered with professional grade gear.

Similarly, I'd like to get the most out of my high-end Apple display.

Optimizing your product for the lowest common denominator in music/image quality sounds like a terrible idea. The people with crappy gear probably don't care that much either way.
by jjbinx007 | 2025-08-24 19:52:48+00:00
We encountered this recently - we have some monitoring software for a ride that was written in-house by a guy who no longer works for us. It was running on a Windows XP machine that needed connectivity via 2 serial ports.

We ended up creating a disk image then emulating the machine in Hyper-V and passing through 2 usb-based serial ports. Works like a charm!
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-24 19:53:17+00:00
> what happens when AI can not only implement but also playtest -- running thousands of iterations of your loop

It can do this. From Atari games to StarCraft this has been a thing since before LLMs.

> surfacing which mechanics keep simulated players engaged

This it's unclear how to operationalize. Among other things, not all games appeal to all people.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-24 19:53:20+00:00
No, (1) you need too much space and I'm pretty much maxed out already (50 panels), during the wintermonths (2) the angle is really bad, (3) the days are shorter and (4) you're overcast a lot of the time. So that simply will not work. But in the summer I have so much excess I get penalized for it, which is ridiculous.
by jpc0 | 2025-08-24 19:53:34+00:00
You are also assuming that those people would otherwise be doing something that would justify that.

Just like a college student working at McDs to get by, the same could apply here. Cost of living is not equal.

I'm not siding with either of you to be clear, just a different perspective. I feel both points are valid and without more information both are also irrefutable
by Telaneo | 2025-08-24 19:53:36+00:00
This seems like a 'boy who cried wolf' problem. If dad is calling you daily, and you don't feel like talking to him today, that should be a reasonable ask. You could get unlucky and have it be that someone's at the ER, but if they're calling daily, that's unlikely.

If they had texting as the default medium, with calling reserved for important and urgent communication, they wouldn't have this problem.

Maybe I'm just reading to much into this, but I know people who live with this exact situation with their parents, being called several times daily, and if I were in that situation, I'd just stop taking their calls at some point, no matter how important it is.
by julcol | 2025-08-24 19:53:49+00:00
When you ROAM, you traffic abroad is routed to your home country ( for security reasons among other things) and then off to the internet from there. You can check that your public IP, when roaming, is an IP from your cellco.....unsure if there are any changes with 5G though.

You are not bypassing any firewall as your traffic is actually happening at home. If you access local sites, traffic is coming from home.
by billywhizz | 2025-08-24 19:54:29+00:00
yes. most folks don't seem to understand this. but, you can get something approaching such guarantees if you are able to limit yourself to something as (seemingly) simple as updating a ledger. this approach is used in a lot of places where high performance and strong consistency is needed (see e.g. LMAX disruptor for similar). https://tigerbeetle.com/
by OptionOfT | 2025-08-24 19:54:30+00:00
(sidenote)

Neither Google nor Cloudflare resolve the domain for me:

/opt/adguardhome/work # nslookup www.actuallygoodregulations.eu 1.1.1.1 Server: 1.1.1.1 Address: 1.1.1.1:53 ** server can't find www.actuallygoodregulations.eu: SERVFAIL ** server can't find www.actuallygoodregulations.eu: SERVFAIL /opt/adguardhome/work # nslookup www.actuallygoodregulations.eu 8.8.8.8 Server: 8.8.8.8 Address: 8.8.8.8:53 ** server can't find www.actuallygoodregulations.eu: SERVFAIL ** server can't find www.actuallygoodregulations.eu: SERVFAIL /opt/adguardhome/work # nslookup www.actuallygoodregulations.eu 9.9.9.9 Server: 9.9.9.9 Address: 9.9.9.9:53 Non-authoritative answer: www.actuallygoodregulations.eu canonical name = 87dde843d494d012.vercel-dns-017.com Name: 87dde843d494d012.vercel-dns-017.com Address: 216.198.79.1 Name: 87dde843d494d012.vercel-dns-017.com Address: 64.29.17.1 Non-authoritative answer: www.actuallygoodregulations.eu canonical name = 87dde843d494d012.vercel-dns-017.com
by heeton | 2025-08-24 19:54:39+00:00
Is this actually a game?

It loads with one item in an inventory I can’t seem to use past the first room, and there seems to be nothing in the second room that is interactive except (spoilers) a cupboard door.

Is this just a tech demo of some features? Or something bigger that everyone in the comments is missing?

(That aside, the art is vibe is very cool. I love old-school point and clicks ever since Zak McKraken, and a horror themed one would be an instant buy from me)
by pjerem | 2025-08-24 19:55:29+00:00
Sure but it’s pretty easy overdose on paracetamol.

Since it’s a mild and really common painkiller, sometimes seen as not dangerous, someone uneducated about it who is really suffering could easily take 3 or 4 times the dose.

Unlike a lot of drugs, you are not going to have a lot of immediate side effects if you overdose on paracetamol. You’ll just horribly die some days after,
by CuriouslyC | 2025-08-24 19:55:34+00:00
AI prose is mediocre right now. Too verbose, indirect constructions, passive, etc. That being said, it's actually a great editor and can pick out all those issues consistently.

My workflow right now is to use AI for rough draft and developmental editing stages, then switch AI from changing files to leaving comments on files suggesting I change something. It is slower than letting it line/copyedit itself, but models derp up too much so letting them handle edits at this stage tends to be 2 steps forward 2 steps back.
Show HN: Configurable Open Source Audio Spectrum Analyzer
by sylwekkominek | 2025-08-24 19:55:37+00:00
Hi, I’ve developed an open-source app for practicing basic skills in digital signal processing and computer graphics using OpenGL. It’s written mainly in C++ for data processing and visualization, with Python used for data input and configuration. This makes it easier to run experiments or adjust settings without recompiling the code, lowering the entry barrier for users unfamiliar with C++.

By default, the app captures audio from a microphone in real-time and displays its spectrum on the screen. It’s highly customizable — you can change the number of bars, colors, and the overall color theme. The app runs on both Raspberry Pi and standard Ubuntu desktops.

In my Raspberry Pi setup, I use a HiFiBerry DAC+ DSP to analyze music in real-time. The signal comes via optical input (TOSLINK) from a CD player, but you can also connect a microphone for live audio visualization.

I’ve written instructions and a tutorial to help you get started — feel free to check it out and give it a try!

Demo video (Ubuntu): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjx05eXpgq4

Demo video (raspberry pi with hifiberry dac+dsp): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA2DYmdZ_Gw

Simplified spec: https://sylwekkominek.github.io/SpectrumAnalyzer/

Hope someone finds it useful or fun to play with!
by wqaatwt | 2025-08-24 19:55:47+00:00
Obviously I implicitly meant all single use plastics. But random people littering is not even remotely the main source.

Poor and unregulated waste management is. Of course the fact that a lot of western countries were and still are exporting their plastic waste to poorer countries where they somehow end up in rivers and oceans.

However there is no inherent reason why plastic straws or anything else inherently have to be dumped into oceans.

Of course silly token measures are much easier than actually regulating the global fishing industry..
by anigbrowl | 2025-08-24 19:55:55+00:00
I don't believe you. You seem like an intelligent person, so I'm sure you are well aware of how there are multiple independent testing regimes around the world, decades of data and so on.

Funny how it's always new accounts coming along with postures of extreme worldly wisdom about corporate malfeasance or misaligned incentives, but displaying complete cluelessness about the manifold institutional responses and copious public health statistics that are equally relevant. Why should I take you seriously when you only apply your critical faculties to one side of the picture and studiously ignore the other half?
by Vetch | 2025-08-24 19:56:04+00:00
Why would the proportion of high quality games increase? The number yes, but I expect not the proportion. Lowering the entry barrier means more people who have spent less time honing their skills can release something that's lacking in polish, narrative design, fun mechanics and balance. Among new entrants, they should number more than those already able to make a fun game. Not a value judgement, just an observation.

Think of the negative reputation the Unity engine gained among gamers, even though a lot of excellent games and even performant games (DSP) have been made with it.

More competitors does also raise the bar required for novelty, so it is possible that standards are also rising in parallel.