MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kion | 2025-08-05 19:58:00+00:00
I've been on Zepbound for ~25 weeks now and one of the first things my doctor told me was that this was a lifetime drug. He pointed out that I had a choice, of lifetime drugs. I needed to do something to get my cholesterol under control. That meant start statins now and likely add blood pressure meds and diabetes meds in the next 2-5 years. Alternatively I could start Zepbound, which would likely address all 3 and result in better quality of life in the next year. So far it seems like it is doing exactly that.

I'm sure some people are going into this without that knowledge, but people are being told this is a lifetime commitment. What you don't see a lot of is why people stop taking it. There's some cases of people losing and then stopping, but the majority are because insurance is forcing people off of it. Just look at the recent CVS Caremark forced switch from Zepbound (2nd Gen) to Wegovy (1st Gen) in July.
by tsol | 2025-08-05 19:58:08+00:00
Not just the current generation of drugs, but they also import and use the next generation that is still in clinical trials and won't be on the market for at least a year. I had it reccomended to me online in a very casual as if it were a supplement. The risk with the is not just contamination but also if you get side effects there's no recourse to sue because you bought it from a chemical factory in China. The new generation of glp peptides is similar to the old one, but still can have unintended side effects as they do work on three receptors rather than the two that the current generation does
by jabroni_salad | 2025-08-05 19:58:18+00:00
In my previous apartment, the landlady had zero sense of decency and would let herself in to snoop around.

I use these devices because I can factually know that nobody has entered my home while I was gone. It is peace of mind. I don't think about burglaries or whatever. I think about how my landlord or a property manager or rotating cast of anonymous maintenance people have a key and the only reason they don't abuse it is because of decency.
by tlaverdure | 2025-08-05 19:58:29+00:00
I've played guitar for 23 years, and there is something just off-putting about most of the music on that page, but particularly "Yellow Bus Jam".

The guitar solo sounds very unnatural, especially the phrasing, which is totally random. Blues musicians are actually attempting to say something through their instrument. This was just a random number generated solo played by a 6 finger three handed robot. No thanks, lol.
by jerlam | 2025-08-05 19:59:45+00:00
I'm not even sure it's the first manned carbon fiber submersible.

Deepflight Challenger [...] is the first deep-diving sub to be constructed with a pressure hull (central tube portion) of carbon fibre composite, built by Spencer Composites for HOT. Its carbon fiber design would later influence the tube for the sub Titan,[12] which imploded...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepFlight_Challenger
by conradev | 2025-08-05 19:59:55+00:00
How is it "completely, absolutely impractical outside of a closed org" when I thought Google attests every passkey created on Android?

https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/#sctn-android-key-attestati...

Apple would too, if it were not for iCloud Keychain syncing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43988852

My understanding is that servers can block passkeys from insecure Android devices today if they wanted to.
by rnhmjoj | 2025-08-05 19:59:56+00:00
> What does it protect against?

Unless you're doing SELinux or using some tool like firejail, absolutely nothing?

The average desktop is completely insecure, regardless of the display protocol. If a program is running as your user it's already game over: it can do whatever it likes. For example, I can simply change your shell profile to add an LD_PRELOAD shim, hook some libc syscall wrapper and run arbitrary code in any user process. There's no need to log key presses.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-05 20:00:03+00:00
> Many people (will only speak to America), view being fat as a literal moral failing. Gluttony or overeating are not the sin, but being fat.

I feel like I've seen and heard more of the opposite: The trend is to avoiding anything that might make someone feel blame for arriving in their situation.

With obesity the trend is to blame some combination of "our food supply", trending science topics like microplastics or the microbiome, and genetics.

I've heard countless people explain to me that dieting doesn't work for them. It's not hard to find people claiming they ate <1000 calories per day and still gained weight. Even Eliezer Yudkowsky, a figurehead of the "rationalist" movement, has written about "metabolic disprivilege" and claimed that his genetics do not allow him to lose weight through dieting. This thinking runs deep.

What's interesting about GLP-1 inhibitors is that they modulate the intake portion of the diet, which shatters these previous notions that some people had "metabolic disprivilege" and simply could not lose weight by reducing caloric intake. They just make it easier to reduce food intake.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-05 20:00:10+00:00
Of course it's a stupid argument, but it's exactly what the ancestors of today's AI naysayers said when photography became practical.

Then again, it's possible for an art form to exhaust its own possibilities. To the extent that "prompt engineering" is sufficient to generate any music or artwork we have in mind, that seems like an indication that we've reached that point. To the extent that it's not sufficient, that seems like an indication that there's still interesting stuff left to do.

Either way, if you are hoping that things will stay the same, then I'm afraid that neither art nor technology are good career choices.
by gopher_space | 2025-08-05 20:00:10+00:00
There's no scenario where messing with a working system people rely on and then getting rid of everyone who understood it will produce a savings. What DOGE has done would simply destroy a corporation, and we know this because we've helped corporations perform this kind of system analysis and understand the cost of change.

We're at a point right now where we can't even calculate the damage Musk has done, where the discovery process on that issue alone will be a multi-million years long effort. We're looking at large-scale remediation projects on every system Trump gave him access to because the cost of not doing that is functionally unknowable. E.g. every table DOGE had the ability to change is now a legal liability per row.
by c22 | 2025-08-05 20:00:11+00:00
This is cool, it's kind of the inverse of a game I used to play with my mother: One player says a letter and thinks of a word that starts with that letter, the next player adds a letter (while thinking of a valid word that that could be created with the new prefix). Play continues in this fashion until someone is forced to spell an actual word, then they lose and you can start a new round.
by godshatter | 2025-08-05 20:00:14+00:00
I'm not a fan because it's expensive and once you go off of the drug the weight comes back on (at least from what I've read). That's not a trade-off I want to take lightly.

There's also something to be said for gaining the discipline to do it yourself along the way, which may lead to keeping more of the weight off in the long run.

We also don't know what the long term side effects of it will be, if any.

I don't find any of that unreasonable to me. I'm saying this as a type-2 diabetic who could stand to lose a lot of weight.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-05 20:00:19+00:00
There are two exceptions listed on 2870, the first one is going to be the gotcha. It excludes inventions that:

> (1)Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer;

So, if you work at $BIGCO, they will argue that since they have their fingers in everything, that anything you might work on "relates" to their business or actual or demonstrably anticipated R&D. This is a truck-sized loophole.
by christianqchung | 2025-08-05 20:00:58+00:00
> Training: The gpt-oss models trained on NVIDIA H100 GPUs using the PyTorch framework [17] with expert-optimized Triton [18] kernels2. The training run for gpt-oss-120b required 2.1 million H100-hours to complete, with gpt-oss-20b needing almost 10x fewer.

This makes DeepSeek's very cheap claim on compute cost for r1 seem reasonable. Assuming $2/hr for h100, it's really not that much money compared to the $60-100M estimates for GPT 4, which people speculate as a MoE 1.8T model, something in the range of 200B active last I heard.
by irthomasthomas | 2025-08-05 20:01:13+00:00
I was hoping these were the stealth Horizon models on OpenRouter, impressive but not quite GPT-5 level.

My bet: GPT-5 leans into parallel reasoning via a model consortium, maybe mixing in OSS variants. Spin up multiple reasoning paths in parallel, then have an arbiter synthesize or adjudicate. The new Harmony prompt format feels like infrastructural prep: distinct channels for roles, diversity, and controlled aggregation.

I’ve been experimenting with this in llm-consortium: assign roles to each member (planner, critic, verifier, toolsmith, etc.) and run them in parallel. The hard part is eval cost :(

Combining models smooths out the jagged frontier. Different architectures and prompts fail in different ways; you get less correlated error than a single model can give you. It also makes structured iteration natural: respond → arbitrate → refine. A lot of problems are “NP-ish”: verification is cheaper than generation, so parallel sampling plus a strong judge is a good trade.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-08-05 20:01:49+00:00
Thank you. As someone who used to work for a health fintech, it was amazing how often you'd hear loads of confidently wrong opinions on stuff like HIPAA (no, saying that Lisa couldn't make the meeting because she's out with the flu doesn't make it a HIPAA violation) and money transferring/KYC/AML/etc. laws. Like you said, selling prepaid credits to your service doesn't mean you're covered by money transmitter service regs.
by xpe | 2025-08-05 20:02:26+00:00
> Open models are going to win long-term.

[2 of 3] Assuming we pin down what win means... (which is definitely not easy)... What would it take for this to not be true? There are many ways, including but not limited to:

- publishing open weights helps your competitors catch up

- publishing open weights doesn't improve your own research agenda

- publishing open weights leads to a race dynamic where only the latest and greatest matters; leading to a situation where the resources sunk exceed the gains

- publishing open weights distracts your organization from attaining a sustainable business model / funding stream

- publishing open weights leads to significant negative downstream impacts (there are a variety of uncertain outcomes, such as: deepfakes, security breaches, bioweapon development, unaligned general intelligence, humans losing control [1] [2], and so on)

[1]: "What failure looks like" by Paul Christiano : https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/HBxe6wdjxK239zajf/what-...

[2]: "An AGI race is a suicide race." - quote from Max Tegmark; article at https://futureoflife.org/statement/agi-manhattan-project-max...
by hinkley | 2025-08-05 20:02:52+00:00
You think LZ4 is more portable than zlib? I'm gonna need some citations on that.

zlib is 30 years old, according to Wikipedia. And that's technically wrong since 'zlib' was factored out of gzip (nearly 33 years old) for use in libpng, which is also 30 years old.
by bangaladore | 2025-08-05 20:03:09+00:00
I think what matters more here is "All hardware is located outside of China". Located in the US means little because that's not good enough for many regulated industries even within the US.

All things considered though, Europe is getting confusing. They have GDPR but now pushing to backdoor encryption within the EU? [1]

At least there isn't a strong movement in the US trying to outlaw E2E encryption.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eus-encryption-roadmap...

Which brings up the point are truly private LLMs possible? Where the input I provide is only meaningful to me, but the LLM can still transform it without gaining any contextual value out of it? Without sharing a key? If this can be done, can it be done performantly?
by lenerdenator | 2025-08-05 20:03:13+00:00
There are people who are going to hate anything like that, because it makes a very difficult task (losing weight) significantly easier. And we hate it when the damned kids, what, with their Tok-Clock and deadass rizz, have it easier than we did back in the day.

That being said, the fact that we let our society in North America get to the point where something like semaglutides are such a huge deal is something to honestly hate, and I think some of the misdirected hate is really a hatred for that.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-05 20:03:21+00:00
> And also the idea that it is "easy" to lose weight is completely out of touch. If it was there wouldn't be millions of people trying hard, spending money on trying and failing for decades, and entire businesses addressing that.

This is a touchy topic, but I would like to point out that you're missing the obvious confirmation bias that comes with this observation.

There are many people who modulate their weight by changing what they eat, how much they eat, reducing snacking, meal planning, and changing their shopping habits.

You don't see them among the millions of people failing to lose weight or paying for expensive solutions because they quietly solve their problem.

I'm also not suggesting it's easy, but we should acknowledge that many people do successfully control and modulate their weight through dietary and habit changes. There's a survivorship bias problem that occurs when you only look at the remaining sub-group who has the most difficulty with this.
by michaelcampbell | 2025-08-05 20:03:22+00:00
Is there a canonical "perl 6" now? LIke I can't go to perl.org and download one, or at least the "latest stable version" is listed in the 5.x range still.

Or is "perl 6" not even a thing to ask about, and "raku" is what was to be "perl 6" became?
by bfeynman | 2025-08-05 20:03:31+00:00
same, so much so that I almost think they have a bot army for astroturfing, because I cannot believe anyone gets value from it over just one of the main providers and google. They dont index data nearly as much or as often as google, they basically are at a pareto frontier of just serving the most amount of people with lean indexing based on fact that people look up a lot of the same things. It reminds me of looking at google earth where you can see cities have 3d models but a random neighborhood where you grew up would be images years old. So yeah, its useful but definitely not a replacement for google, so idk why anyone would pay for it.
by o11c | 2025-08-05 20:03:53+00:00
For reference, a program to generate the quasi-fixed point from scratch:

#!/usr/bin/env python3 import base64 def len_common_prefix(a, b): assert len(a) < len(b) for i in range(len(a)): if a[i] != b[i]: return i return len(a) def calculate_quasi_fixed_point(start, length): while True: tmp = base64.b64encode(start) l = len_common_prefix(start, tmp) if l >= length: return tmp[:length] print(tmp[:l].decode('ascii'), tmp[l:].decode('ascii'), sep='\v') # Slicing beyond end of buffer will safely truncate in Python. start = tmp[:l*4//3+4] # TODO is this ideal? if __name__ == '__main__': final = calculate_quasi_fixed_point(b'\0', 80) print(final.decode('ascii'))

This ultimately produces:

Vm0wd2QyUXlVWGxWV0d4V1YwZDRWMVl3WkRSV01WbDNXa1JTVjAxV2JETlhhMUpUVmpBeFYySkVUbGho
by _n_b_ | 2025-08-05 20:03:56+00:00
Los Alamos is an NNSA lab; NNSA is a semi-autonomous component of DOE and its weapons activities budget is distinct from the general DOE budget. NNSA’s nonproliferation budget has been cut but they’re still very well funded on the weapons side even if they’ve lost quite a lot of people in the last few months.

The national labs are organized under the Office of Science (17 labs), NNSA (LANL, LLNL, Sandia), the Office of Nuclear Energy (INL), the Office of Environmental Management (Savannah River), Office of Fossil Energy (NETL), and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (NREL). Some offices are doing better than others re: funding in the current environment!
by satvikpendem | 2025-08-05 20:04:44+00:00
> important and well designed open source project

It was always just a wrapper around the real well designed OSS, llama.cpp. Ollama even messes up the names of models by calling distilled models the name of the actual one, such as DeepSeek.

Ollama's engineers created Docker Desktop, and you can see how that turned out, so I don't have much faith in them to continue to stay open given what a rugpull Docker Desktop became.
by zamalek | 2025-08-05 20:04:45+00:00
> Benchmarks aren’t showing structuredClone favorably versus JSON round tripping.

Which ones?

Structured clone seems to be approximately the same as FF according to this (structuredClone is slightly faster on my machine, probably margin of error): https://measurethat.net/Benchmarks/Show/23052/0/structuredcl... (Linux: FF 141, Chromium 138).
by paul7986 | 2025-08-05 20:04:50+00:00
There's finally competition in the US home broadband market...

*Fixed Wireless players*

T-Mobile, Verizon and ATT (tho later two isn't widely available)

*Low Orbit Satellite Internet*

Starlink

*Home Wired Connections*

Comcast, Charter, etc

I've been bouncing my cell phone service and home broadband around every year per the all the good promotions. Recently on a $40 a month Comcast home broadband (300Mbps) with one free line of unlimited data cell/data service promo. Previously was paying $100 to T-Mobile for Unlimited cell/data service and their fixed wireless service.

We are much better nowadays for affordability then a few years ago!
by lotyrin | 2025-08-05 20:05:06+00:00
If you take the idea of it needing to be a constructed simulation you get the dream argument. If you add that one can't verify anyone else having subjective experience you get Boltzmann brain. If you add the idea that maybe the ancestor simulations are designed to teach us virtuous behavior through repeated visits to simulation worlds you get the karmic cycle, and Boltzmann brain + karmic cycle is roughly the egg theory.

I think some/all of these things can roughly true at the same time. Imagine an infinite space full of chaotic noise that arises a solitary Boltzmann brain, top level universe and top level intelligence. This brain, seeking purpose and company in the void, dreams of itself in various situations (lower level universes) and some of those universes' societies seek to improve themselves through deliberate construction of karmic cycle ancestor simulation. A hierarchy of self-similar universes.

It was incredibly comforting to me to think that perhaps the reason my fellow human beings are so poor at empathy, inclusion, justice, is that this is a karmic kindergarten where we're intended to be learning these skills (and the consequences for failing to perform them) and so of course we're bad at it, it's why we're here.
by Krasnol | 2025-08-05 20:06:14+00:00
Well, in the end, the only thing this snobbery does is that it makes you look/sound old.

Nobody cares. I've heard the same thing when electronic music came up. The old ones couldn't stop complaining about this "computer music" where nobody does real handwork anymore.

I see it as democratisation of art. Everybody can do it now and this is a good thing.

Let's face reality. There is no way back. We'll see what comes of it. I've seen fascinating videos recently on reddit. Things people came up with and would have never gotten the budget to be made. It's great.
by instig007 | 2025-08-05 20:06:29+00:00
> Guido stole enough from haskell that pyspark is actually quite appealing for a lot of these tasks.

He didn't do his homework. Guido or whoever runs things around the python language committee nowadays didn't have enough mental capacity to realize that the `match` must be a variable bindable expression and never a statement to prevent type-diverging case branches. They also refuse to admit that a non-blocking descriptor on sockets has to be a default property of runtime and never assigned a language syntax for, despite even Java folks proving it by example.
by mindwok | 2025-08-05 20:06:33+00:00
Man, same here. I was initially a massive AI evangelist up until about a year ago, now I just feel sad for some reason - and I don’t want to feel sad, I’m a technologist at heart and I’ve been thrilled by every advance since I was born. I feel like some sad old boomer yelling at clouds and I’m not even 30 yet.

My only hope is this: I think the depression is telling us something real, we are collectively mourning what we see as the loss of our humanity and our meaning. We are resilient creatures though, and hopefully just like the ozone layer, junk food, and even the increasing rejections of social media and screen time, we will navigate it and reclaim what’s important to us. It might take some pain first though.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-05 20:06:34+00:00
I don't think China would love to get a broad trade deal. Analysts in both Europe and the US generally agree that the Chinese government cultivates unbalanced trade as a matter of policy. (Indeed, one of the things that's supposed to happen as part of the US-EU "trade deal" is joint action on metals to counteract persistent Chinese overcapacity.)
by rubslopes | 2025-08-05 20:06:37+00:00
Kagi's bang game is so good. A few of my custom bangs:

- !w: results from last week only

- !y: results from yesterday and today only

- !io: Assistant, but offline

- !ig: Assistant, but for grammar correction

- !itr: Assistant, but for correcting and organizing transcript text

- !sh: Google shopping tab
by Havoc | 2025-08-05 20:06:53+00:00
Someone with a gun to their head is the only party that would buy it.

Latest mindfactory data suggests that in gaming consumer space is now 96% AMD, 4% Intel. Seriously:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1mfu3cq/this_...

And doesn't sound like their next or next next nodes are in good shape either
by ctz | 2025-08-05 20:07:00+00:00
The other base64 prefix to look out for is `MI`. `MI` is common to every ASN.1 DER encoded object (all public and private keys in standard encodings, all certificates, all CRLs) because overwhelmingly every object is a `SEQUENCE` (0x30 tag byte) followed by a length introducer (top nibble 0x8). `MII` is very very common, because it introduces a `SEQUENCE` with a two byte length.
by armchairhacker | 2025-08-05 20:07:18+00:00
In my mind, there are three kinds of positive constructive feedback:

- Constructive criticism, but worded nicely. "This is a cool project, it would be cooler if..." is a nicer way (with some praise) of saying "This part isn't very good: ... [inverted]"

- Appreciating a specific part of the project, which I think is the technical definition of "constructive praise". "I especially liked X". This is useful because it implicitly suggests what to emphasize or elaborate (the part being praised) and what to improve or change (other parts). Unfortunately this may be the rarest, especially on HN; it's at least rarer than constructive criticism.

- Suggestions for new features. Actually these are pretty common on HN. I was lumping them with criticism ("you don't have X") but that's just a reinterpretation, and any constructive feedback can be reinterpreted as criticism ("I especially liked X" => "Every part was bad except X"). That's probably why I didn't address the other kinds of feedback, but thinking about it more, criticism is only the feedback that's phrased negatively.