MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by threatofrain | 2025-08-11 22:18:00+00:00
There's nothing crazy with suspecting that causality has not been established. If we're not psychologists or psychiatrists, then we have even more cause to wait for clinical studies. If you are a psychologist or psychiatrist, you still might not be remotely equipped to run clinical studies.

If you don't want to be "crazy" then you need a higher threshold for accepting these anecdotes as generalizable causal theory, because otherwise you'd be incoherently jerked left and right all the time.
by cdoern | 2025-08-11 22:21:46+00:00
> Ollama could make its life much easier by spawning llama-server as a subprocess listening on a unix socket, and forward requests to it

I'd recommend taking a look at https://github.com/containers/ramalama its more similar to what you're describing in the way it uses llama-server, also it is container native by default which is nice for portability.
by idorosen | 2025-08-11 22:21:52+00:00
To all of the commenters recommending that Wikipedia block UK visitors: This is incredibly short-sighted in the age of LLMs, where Wikipedia does not need to exist in a country in order for the benefit of its existence to be felt. Such a move would likely just drive people to obtain dubious regurgitations of Wikipedia’s (freely available) content via their favorite LLM chatbot, in my opinion.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-08-11 22:22:05+00:00
Sometimes the messy translation into an explicit stack and dispatch loop is necessary, if you want to pause the calculation, serialize the current state, and reconstitute it later. (E.g., if you want to add disk-saved checkpoints, a frequent hassle in some of my projects.) Coroutines can get you the equivalent of pausing and resuming for a recursive routine, but I'm not aware of any language that lets you serialize the call stack.
by nouveaux | 2025-08-11 22:22:17+00:00
Overlapping expertise is another form of replacing someone. At a basic level, employees need to go on vacation, parental leave and all sorts of other personal leave. If you were irreplaceable, you couldn't go on leave.

Companies who develop these systems successfully are able to allow employees to go on leave for 4-6 months and have them easily come back. This is a good thing.
by efilife | 2025-08-11 22:23:01+00:00
I noticed that people just don't archive things they care about. Stuff like YouTube videos, music, blog articles etc. all get lost because all of those who consume them don't think they can be gone any day. It's always "someone will reupload this" but what if they don't? And they often don't. I started a pretty big archival movement in a smaller community on Soundcloud after I got fed up with artists wiping their accounts constantly (I reuploaded many lost songs I archived over the years). After I showed the way, many copycats started showing up and even artists started giving people time to save their stuff before removing it. Maybe we need to raise awareness about how fragile media really is?
by _dain_ | 2025-08-11 22:23:08+00:00
>Smaller sites are automatically exempted.

No, they're not. I don't know why people keep repeating this "7 million active users limit" idea, it's nowhere to be found in the actual rules. Tiny forums have already had to close because they didn't want to deal with the legal risk:

https://onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memoriam/
by johnnymaroney | 2025-08-11 22:23:23+00:00
Hi, I'm Johnny. I'm building Feel (https://www.feelapp.io/), an emotionally intelligent wellness app that helps you navigate your emotions and shift your mood on demand.

I built the viral website cryonceaweek.com that received millions of users and I've since grown the Feel social media to 40k+ followers and over 150 million views. We also have thousands of people on the waitlist for the app.

We've built the MVP but need someone who can help take it to the next level. We're a small team of artists, designers, and scientists. Looking for a talented and skilled developer to join the team with creative engineering skills and experience with LLMs, NLP, chatbots and prompt engineering. Experience or interest in psychology, mental health, or art is a big plus.

Ideally looking for someone who:

-Has built and shipped real products -Loves LLMs, prompt engineering, or emotional AI -Is curious about mental health, mood tech, or creative computing -Can work across frontend/backend -Wants to build something creative, weird, and useful, not just optimize metrics

This is a founding role with equity to start and salary post-funding, likely within 2-3 months. We have strong interest from investors but we are waiting to start fundraising until after we launch.

This is a mission driven project with a lot of room for creativity, impact, and ownership.

If this resonates or you’re curious, I’d love to talk: johnny@feelapp.io
by username3 | 2025-08-11 22:23:39+00:00
> I wrote up a detailed blog post about tail call optimization in Elixir/Erlang and its performance. The TLDR; sort of is that none tail call optimized recursive functions (body-recursive) can be faster and more memory efficient than TCO functions. This is something that I never thought before, that TCO is always faster seems to be a common misconception. My example is also not contrived - it’s an implementation of map.

https://pragtob.wordpress.com/2016/06/16/tail-call-optimizat...
by uyzstvqs | 2025-08-11 22:23:55+00:00
Important to note: Their anonymous solution is reported to be temporary until their digital ID system is released[1], which does not offer that same anonymity, but rather functions as a server-side OpenID-based authentication system.[2] While you can share only your age with an online service, it still creates an authorization token, which appears to remain persistent until manually removed by the user in the eID app. This would give the host of that authentication system (EU and/or governments) the ability to see which services you have shared data with, as well as a token linked to your account/session at that service. There is also no guarantee that removing an authorization will actually delete all that data in a non-recoverable way from the authentication system's servers.

[1] https://itdaily.com/news/security/eu-temporary-app-age-verif...

[2] https://openid.net/specs/openid-4-verifiable-presentations-1...
by kokanee | 2025-08-11 22:24:25+00:00
Your comment warrants a post in its own right: let's rank FAANG/M by evilness. Personally I've always been way more afraid of Google, because Microsoft's evil is just old-school capitalism, which is blatant, brash, and harder to ignore than to identify. Google feels like they are quietly and surreptitiously trying to pull the strings of the online economy in their favor, voraciously consuming the world's data behind the scenes, presenting to consumers a tiny little sliver of this massive digital beast lurking under the hood. They're always 15 years ahead of policy, so they get away with theft, copyright infringement, monopoly, and more, on a scale that I don't think we even fully understand.

My ranking from most evil to least would be:

1. Google

2. Meta

3. Microsoft

4. Amazon

5. Apple

6. Netflix
by sargstuff | 2025-08-11 22:24:25+00:00
> Ask HN: Do you do anything with the "cool" langauges that get posted here?

Categorize & move them to [0].

> When you see these "cool" languages do you try them out?

Check out ways to combine with various other miscellaneous domain specific languages[3]

"doom"d programming can make trying out the "cool" language/domain specific langauge a bit easier. aka 'doom' pdf & javascript port[1]; psdoom [2]

-------------------

[0] : https://esolangs.org/wiki/Esolang:Categorization

[1] : pdfdoom : http://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-doom-...

[2] : psdoom : http://psdoom.sourceforge.net/

[3] : domain specific languages : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-11 22:24:40+00:00
> In terms of risk-taking (rather than knowledge) IMO the opposite has happened: Older generations had to worry about voiding the warranty because you held down the two buttons at the same time that the manual clearly told you never to do on page 37.

That was never really a thing though. To begin with, warranties are generally pretty worthless because they cover exactly the things that don't usually happen. Power switch doesn't work one day out of the box? Covered, but unlikely to happen and probably not hard to fix yourself anyway. Dropped it and broke it? Not covered. Device is three years old and the battery is flat? Warranty is already expired.

If you haven't needed a warranty in the first month you probably won't need it at all.

> In contrast, younger folks have grown up with cheaper devices with much-improved idiot-proofing. That makes the strategy of "try shit until it seems to work" a lot more viable.

Except that the idiot-proofing is that if something is broken, you get a message that says "an error occurred" and there's no way to fix it because the brokenness is in an app you can't modify or is running on a server you don't control.

Meanwhile mashing buttons at random is more dangerous than ever because your whole life is in that device and it will readily transfer real money or send private files to people you don't want to have them or give attackers access to your accounts on various services.
by hagbard_c | 2025-08-11 22:25:26+00:00
Sort of, it suddenly decided its previous 'unbiased' analysis of the Israel-Hamas war was wrong and Israel is the black sheep in this conflict. It somehow concluded that the UN, the ICJ and organisations like Politifact are 'trustworthy and unbiased' when relating to the essence of this war even while it does acknowledge than e.g. the UN has issued 140+ resolutions against Israel vs. ~60 against the rest of the world combined. Reasoning is not yet well developed in these models, so much is clear.
by duxup | 2025-08-11 22:25:40+00:00
We’ve always been friends with Intel’s CEO!

Must have forgotten what he said earlier… or got his bribe…

Same thing happened for a company I worked at first Trump term, an acquisition was held up by the feds. Acquiring CEO met with Trump and it was announced it would be approved that day. Shortly after Trump had a real estate deal in the acquiring company’s country.

American staff were largely laid off… MAGA I guess.
by pornel | 2025-08-11 22:25:54+00:00
There's a lot of "promising" and "interesting" stuff, but I'm not seeing anything yet that actually works reliably.

Sooner or later (mostly sooner) it becomes apparent that it's all just a chatbot hastily slapped on top of an existing API, and the integration barely works.

A tech demo shows your AI coding agent can write a whole web app in one prompt. In reality, a file with 7 tab characters in a row completely breaks it.
by modeless | 2025-08-11 22:26:03+00:00
> I’ve seen 12 people hospitalized after losing touch with reality because of AI. [...] Here’s what “AI psychosis” looks like, and why it’s spreading fast

In another tweet from the same guy:

> 1. This actually isn't new or AI-specific. 2. And no AI does not causes psychosis.

This guy is clearly engagement farming. Don't support this kind of clickbait.
by 6thbit | 2025-08-11 22:26:11+00:00
Got the hunch that it's harder on younger people who haven't had as many experiences yet and are now able to get insights and media about anything from an AI in a way that it becomes part of their 'baseline' depiction of reality.

If we were capable of establishing a way to measure that baseline, it would make sense to me that 'cognitive security' would become a thing.

For now it seems, being in nature and keeping it low-tech would yield a pretty decent safety net.
by kachapopopow | 2025-08-11 22:26:15+00:00
The conclusion was is to not bother and to use something purpose-specific if you do in-fact need performance. You can generate the perfect memcpy to copy any kind of data structure technically speaking and if I remember llvm has a few tricks for that.

Anyway, the original point was that benchmarks are useless since memcpy is almost never used in isolation. And you will always be able to achieve better performance when you know what the data is in advance (as show in the article).
Ask HN: Why Is My Happiness Tied to My Productivity?
by hnquestion12345 | 2025-08-11 22:26:30+00:00
I've had bouts with depression and feeling very low often in my life, and more often recently.

Reflecting on these moments, I think it's because it's at a point where I don't feel productive. Maybe I'm taking on a big task at work and I'm stuck and can't solve it. Or maybe I have an idea for a side project but I get stuck, it's too hard for me to accomplish, or after a few days I think the idea is dumb.

Does anyone here feel the same way? If so, was there anything that helped you?
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-11 22:26:32+00:00
Thank you. This is genuinely a valid reason even from a simple consistency perspective.

(edit: I think -- after I read some of the links -- I understand why Ollama comes across as less of a hero. Still, I am giving them some benefit of the doubt since they made local models very accessible to plebs like me; and maybe I can graduate to no ollama )
by gibbitz | 2025-08-11 22:27:12+00:00
This is a bit harsh on the HN community IMO. This was all nostalgia to me and not about overprotective parents. that said, looking at it in that light, my kids had none of the experiences you did. I think the overprotective instinct of this generation's parents has been steadily teaching them to be more risk averse and protecting them from learning about how to deal with undesirable outcomes to a point of irrational fear. My kids are in this generation and despite having this opinion they're surrounded by other adults and media that teaches them, not how to deal with mistakes, but to avoid them at all costs. I'm not advocating death and dismemberment, but there has to be an in-between.
by coke12 | 2025-08-11 22:27:14+00:00
Other words they like are "reflection", "expansion", "compression". These are fundamental, abstract, semi-monadic terms that allow the user to bootstrap an abstract theory. A little bit of "insight" (aka linguistic rearranging) and I've got a theory out of nothing. How does it work? Well, reflection and recursion of course. None becomes one becomes many. Can't you see the structure?

It feels a lot like logical razzle dazzle to me. I bet if I'm on the right neurochemicals it feels amazing.
by wrboyce | 2025-08-11 22:27:58+00:00
I just tried to visit pornhub and was prompted to verify my age.

> Please verify your age > > To continue, we are required to verify that you are 18 or older, in line with the UK Online Safety Act. > To view your verification options, please visit our Age Verification Page. As part of this process, you will be asked to create a new account on Pornhub - this will automatically create a new account on AllpassTrust as well. > By proceeding, you acknowledge and agree to Pornhub’s and AllpassTrust’s Privacy Νotices and Pornhub’s and AllpassTrust’s Terms & Conditions.

> Pornhub is dedicated to developing state-of-the-art security features to protect its community. Pornhub is fully RTA compliant, which means that devices with appropriately configured parental controls will block access to our content. We encourage all platforms in the adult industry to use this technology, along with all available safety and security protocols. We also recommend that all parents and guardians use technology to prevent their children from accessing content not intended for minors.

> Our parental controls page explains how you can easily block access to this site.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-11 22:28:10+00:00
> Yes, that's why everyone is still on Sourceforge. I too check Freshmeat regularly for updates.

Sourceforge and Freshmeat weren't social networks. Plus its not like other social networks haven't collapsed despite being popular, like MySpace.

> It's time to move on from Github, LinkedIn, and hell ideally NPM too. Microsoft is polluting the ground water.

As I said, I don't want to be using Microsoft products but it benefits my career to be visible on these social networks.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-08-11 22:28:21+00:00
Stable for a power user, or stable for everyone? I don't have links on hand, but I could swear there have been instances where certain models rolled back support during llama.cpp development, and this was recent. Also llama.cpp adds features and support on a near-daily basis, how can this be LTS?

Don't get me wrong, llama.cpp is an amazing tool. But it's development is nowhere near as cautious as something like the Linux kernel, so there is room there for a more stable alternative. Not saying Ollama will do this, but llama.cpp won't be everything to everyone.
by soraminazuki | 2025-08-11 22:28:40+00:00
Windows 10 is still too fresh in people's mind to gaslight people into thinking there were no ads in it.

2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20121004004109/http://community....

2015: https://web.archive.org/web/20151015182852/http://betanews.c...

2015: https://www.pcgamer.com/windows-10-solitaire-requires-a-subs...

2016: https://www.howtogeek.com/243263/how-to-disable-ads-on-your-...

2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160602204008/http://iskandar.m...

2017: https://web.archive.org/web/20250721092516/https://www.theve...

2018: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/192251/microsoft...

2020: https://winaero.com/wordpad-is-gettings-ads-in-windows-10/
by egypturnash | 2025-08-11 22:29:00+00:00
Notebook + pen. Checkboxes. A mix of half-hour timeblocks ala the Pomodoro method, and plain checklists for shopping tasks. For stuff that’s extra important or is happening in the next few days I slap a post-it on my desktop monitor somewhere I’ll have to constantly move it when I’m using the whole screen to work.

If I want to get fancy then I have a couple of bookmarks to custom myNoise.net multi gens configured to run for 25min.

I also have some pretty notebooks and a cheap fountain pen, this combo makes me feel like a witch when I write in them and that’s fun.

I have tried a ton of apps and they all fall by the wayside. I have to buy a new bottle of ink once or twice a year and the occasional notebook. Simple. Gets out of the way and never requires me to open up the Attention Sink and lose a half an hour getting distracted by a Telegram message or whatever.
by talatuyarer | 2025-08-11 22:29:30+00:00
Yes, the specification will be finalized with version 1.10. Previous versions also include specification changes. Iceberg's implementation of V3 occurs in three stages: Specification Change, Core Implementation, and Spark/Flink Implementation.

So far only Variant is supported in Spark and with 1.10 Spark will support nano timestamp and unknowntype I believe.
by tech2 | 2025-08-11 22:29:53+00:00
They may not be against content restriction, instead they may be against removal of user privacy or anonymity. If the proof of age thing was some kind of zero knowledge proof such that the age verifying group has no knowledge of what you're accessing, and the site you're accessing has no knowledge of you as an individual (beyond tells like IP address etc.) then perhaps they'd be more open to it?
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-11 22:31:30+00:00
Somehow this rhymes with the US's "War on Drugs", and it makes me very afraid:

Similarities I see:

* In the years leading up to government action, a mass hysteria was well cultivated in the media (evil drug users committing abhorrent crimes).

* When launched, the public was overwhelmingly in favor of it (In 1971, 48% of the public said drugs were a serious problem in their community [1]).

That's where we are now. THEN:

* It got worse for decades (By 1986, 56% of Americans said that the government spent "too little" money fighting drugs [1]).

* Following many years of lobbying, some rights are slowly restored. (NORML and other groups fighting for legal medical, then recreational use; mushrooms are legal in few places, etc).

* It's still going on today. (Over 100,000 people currently serving prison sentences for drug-related offenses [2]).

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/6331/decades-drug-use-data-from...

[2] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2025.html
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-11 22:32:14+00:00
Can you name a few of them in Nigeria? On satellite imaging, from what I've seen, they're not so massive, and they're mostly comprised of a sprawl of 1-3 story buildings.

We can compare vs. cities that we have good numbers for. Or Chinese/Indian cities, for that matter. (After looking at Nigeria or the DRC, a quick glance at India via satellite imaging is shocking.)

That said, Egypt is very populous, there's no doubt about that one.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-08-11 22:32:15+00:00
> pet

Yes

https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/50/3/...

> Our findings provide support for the hypothesis that cat exposure is associated with an increased risk of broadly defined schizophrenia-related disorders

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...

> Our findings suggest childhood cat ownership has conditional associations with psychotic experiences in adulthood.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

> Exposure to household pets during infancy and childhood may be associated with altered rates of development of psychiatric disorders in later life.
by LAC-Tech | 2025-08-11 22:33:17+00:00
I solved my problem with a todo stack, stored in a text file.

Basically it's a TUI app that operates on new line separated text.

Insanely simple. can only operate on the top 3 todo items. All one shot keypresses to manipulate.

But I absolutely love it. Use it every day. Those one shot keypresses to manipulate may not sound like much, but it's always 1-4 less keypresses than I'd need in vim, and the limitations free up a lot of mental space.

(I'd give a link but it's posix only and I you'd have to compile it yourself, and also I don't want to implement your features).
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-11 22:33:31+00:00
This is probably a factor, but I think it’s a mistake to treat cities not being suited for raising children as a hard, immutable fact. They’re bad because rent continues to soar which clashes on two fronts (kids are expensive already and increase space requirements) and we as a society have decided to build our urban spaces (suburbs included) to be explicitly not friendly to children, families, or anybody not driving and to instead favor adults with money to spend. These are things we could change, should we want to.

The other thing to look at is why people have migrated into cities, and the answer is pretty simple: it’s where the good employment prospects are. The further yet get away from urban cores the worse those get: fewer jobs, worse compensation and benefits, greater risk of being stuck between jobs for long periods of time. Anybody worried about birthrates should be embracing remote work and making sure they compensate their employees well.
by hnlmorg | 2025-08-11 22:34:37+00:00
That kind of ideology is great in principle, but if you struggle to get a job because you have limited presence in an employer's market, then you're practising deontology without a profession.

I'm an opinionated MS-hater, like most of my peers who lived through 90s Microsoft, like I had. But I also have a family to feed and bills to pay. Sometimes pragmatism trumps ideology.
by mhitza | 2025-08-11 22:34:59+00:00
llama.cpp still doesn't support gpt-oss tool calling. https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15158 (among other similar PRs)

But I also couldn't get vllm, or transformers serve, or ollama (400 response on /v1/chat/completions) working today with gpt-oss. OpenAI's cookbooks aren't really copy paste instructions. They probably tested on a single platform with preinstalled python packages which they forgot to mention :))
by jychang | 2025-08-11 22:35:12+00:00
That's a dumb answer from them.

What's wrong with using an older well-tested build of llama.cpp, instead of reinventing the wheel? Like every linux distro ever who's ever ran into this issue?

Red Hat doesn't ship the latest build of the linux kernel to production. And Red Hat didn't reinvent the linux kernel for shits and giggles.