MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by glp1guide | 2025-08-06 04:51:16+00:00
If you think Ozempic (Semaglutide) is good, Retatrutide is going to blow it out of the water:

https://glp1.guide/content/a-new-glp1-retatrutide/

Currently the only people experimenting with it are the underground gray market peptide enthusiasts (you can find them on reddit and elsewhere), but the results are quite intense.

[EDIT] Just to be clear, gray market Retatrutide is illegal, I'm not encouraging you to buy it or do even take GLP1s in general. The point is that we have a preview of anecdata from people (with obviously high risk tolerance) taking this drug.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-06 04:51:24+00:00
Point taken, but I'd like to raise some serious questions - is the 18 millionth post of someone whining about having to read text written by an LLM that much more of a substantive contribution?

Is it "thoughtful criticism" to have the same pedantic complaint made everywhere?

Is offering zero feedback to OP other than whining about the presence of LLM-written text in a README not a "shallow dismissal"?

What about "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."?

Or is snark the only rule that matters enough to warrant reminders about rules?

Sorry for inappropriately handling the frustration I get with this kind of repetitive, shallow, pedantic no-value-add whining clogging up HN any time any LLM-generated text ever accompanies any part of a featured article / link that never gets the same kind of warnings or moderation.

The people who make these kinds of complaints need to accept that LLM-generated text is a fact of life now - even in (or perhaps especially in) interesting technical projects. We all heard their complaints the first time, and the fiftieth time, and the five thousandth time - those complaints added no value to the relevant discussions then and they add no value to the discussion here, it's just bullies taking advantage of the latest snobby, diminutive way to shit on other people's work over what amounts to little more than subjective cosmetic preferences.

A tiny CPU-only TTS model is awesome. Why is it appropriate to derail the discussion about the actual technical innovation here with a low-effort complaint that's so common it has become a trope?
by protimewaster | 2025-08-06 04:52:06+00:00
> You might not like Trump or his approach but he is directionally correct and does have a powerful bargaining chip (access to the US market - which is basically on track to be the only 1st world consumer driven economy 5 years from now).

Interestingly, though, Robert Triffin International put out a paper essentially arguing that Trump's tariff approach is all wrong.
by OCASMv2 | 2025-08-06 04:53:01+00:00
> not having a perfect solution certainly doesn't indicate going in the opposite direction and completely giving up on the idea.

Having a so-so solution can in fact be worse than nothing since it makes people think they're safe, which leads to much greater exposure than if they thought they were in danger. Promoting ventilation and open-air interaction is a much more effective solutions but the latter was banned and even persecuted.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-06 04:53:04+00:00
Large scale swarms will probably never be a major issue for infantry. You have a finite number of drones, even at extremely high rates of production, spread across all things you want to target. Sending a swarm at individual infantry, or even platoons is just wasteful. At scale that's thousands of drones, per day, that you could have instead sent towards more valuable targets.

This, btw, is also why claims that some side is targeting civilians in otherwise 'productive' warfare (e.g. actually achieving things instead of bombing for the sake of fear/terrorism/headlines/photo ops) is usually just lying propaganda. Civilians are a worse than 0 value target meaning you completely wasted your munitions.
by hansvm | 2025-08-06 04:55:06+00:00
Across the US, only 70% of students live within 3 miles of their school, and only 20% of students are within 1 mile. Toss in weather, carrying supplies for after-school activities, tight schedules (e.g., going from some before-school activity to the actual school building), a general fear of kidnapping, a car-centric culture, and the fact that buses are cheap and school dropoff is often easy to squeeze into a parent's schedule, and you'll find that various forms of driving are extremely common.
Show HN: FactBomb – A fast daily trivia game with zero friction
by simonakis | 2025-08-06 04:55:24+00:00
Hi HN,

I made FactBomb, a minimalist daily trivia game. Currently, it has 2 daily modes: - A casual mode with 15 questions identical for all users for the day, so you can compete asynchronously against your friends. - A competitive mode (also 15 questions in total) where strategy, luck, and knowledge all play a role in getting a high score and adding your name to the daily leaderboard.

Both pull from a pool of over 5000 questions across 17 categories.

You can play instantly - no sign-up or login required.

I had no coding experience prior to that. I built Factbomb using AI - it does a surprisingly good job at teaching coding and helping with code. My budget was 24 USD for a ChatGPT subscription, 6 USD for some API tokens, and 12 USD for the domain.

The question database is also created using AI, but with a lot of editing, deduping, and manual rewriting.

I wanted a no-distraction quiz experience with a daily challenge mechanic. It's built using React.js. It tracks your score and streak locally and has a leaderboard (simple Firebase) for competitive mode. I have several ideas for the future, but I want to see how the game fares at the moment. It's already a complete product, but in no way finished.

Would love feedback, bug reports, or trivia lovers who want to submit new questions!

https://factbomb.com

Thanks!
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-06 04:55:31+00:00
How much worse could it be if the President was likely to fire the individual holding the position responsible for announcing "it's official, this is a recession"? And so on in that head-in-the-sand direction for as long as their loyalists are willing and able to defend the Presidents proclamations of fake news?

How long will the foot stay on the accelerator after (almost literally) everyone else knows we might be in a bit of strife here?

If the US can put off the depression for the next three years then it has a much better chance of working it's way out gracefully.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-08-06 04:56:04+00:00
> I've always felt like this should be the norm. Why would you trust something before it can be replicated? Even if it's unintentional, people make mistakes.

If you are close enough with a scientist, generally they will admit they don’t trust a single study

Some fields also have guardrails, such as the LIGO being two separate detectors a with two independent teams
by ruszki | 2025-08-06 04:56:35+00:00
This whole topic makes me remember the argument for vi, and quick typing. I was always baffled because for the 25 years since I can code, typing was never that huge block of my time that it would matter.

I have the same feeling with AI.

It clearly cannot produce the quality of code, architecture, features which I require from myself. And I also want to understand what’s written, and not saying “it works, it’s fine <inserting dog with coffee image here>”, and not copy-pasting a terrible StackOverflow answer which doesn’t need half of the code in reality, and clearly nobody who answered sat down and tried to understand it.

Of course, not everybody wants these, and I’ve seen several people who were fine with not understanding what they were doing. Even before AI. Now they are happy AI users. But it clears to me that it’s not beneficial salary, promotion, and political power wise.

So what’s left is that it types faster… but that was never an issue.

It can be better however. There was the first case just about a month ago when one of them could answer better to a problem than anything else which I knew or could find via Kagi/Google. But generally speaking it’s not there at all. Yet.
by dotancohen | 2025-08-06 04:56:50+00:00
Thank you. Even with box layout one can not even know that there is a coherent word or phrase to extract, without visually inspecting the PDF beforehand. I've been there, fighting with it right in the CLI and finding that there is no way to even progress to a script.

The advantage of the OCR method is that it effectively performs that visual inspection. That's why it is preferable for PDFs of disparate origin.
by SllX | 2025-08-06 04:57:10+00:00
People aren't using Google Drive for the Drive per se or the crappy online file system UI, they're there for the apps: Docs & Sheets are the killer apps: good enough as a word processor & spreadsheet combo for any basic tasks, real-time collaboration that is still first-class and maybe unmatched (or at least the closest matches I can think of are still American vendors), and plenty of people are educated in their use, especially anybody who went to school any time after 2008. Also you know, Gmail: still a great webmail service, and part of Google Workspace too.
by esseph | 2025-08-06 04:58:26+00:00
A lot of US under barrel launchers have "factory" buckshot rounds.

M79/M203/M320/etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M576_40_mm_grenade

AK would be a different story, but Ukraine has a lot of 3d printers and those shells are one time use and not hard to make.
by Frieren | 2025-08-06 04:59:02+00:00
To be influenced in this subtle ways at such a high level. AI is trained by big tech corporations to accomplish their goals. To use any of it for policy making is a horrifying step in the wrong direction.

But that is the goal of tech companies by giving the service at a loss. To make people depend on it until big tech corporations have control of your own thoughts.

A prime minister should know better.
by dmitrygr | 2025-08-06 04:59:11+00:00
> It appears Cloudflare confused Perplexity with 3-6M daily requests of unrelated traffic from BrowserBase, a third-party cloud browser service that Perplexity only occasionally uses for highly specialized tasks

that is some fancy mental gymnastics there

"They confused us doing something with someone else whom we pay to do things on our behalf doing it"
by poulsbohemian | 2025-08-06 05:00:00+00:00
This is kind of an interesting problem, but it overlooks another variable, at least in the case of skis - it's not just how many days I'm going to use them this year, but also for the next few years. Yes, there are people who buy new skis regularly, but more commonly the person that makes the buy vs rent decision decides that over the next multiple seasons they intend to ski enough to justify the buy decision. This is especially true if you are buying new skis rather than say, rental skis at the end of the season (think kinda like buying a used car that has been depreciated, you can buy used skis that still have a lot of miles...). So my point is simply that the real world problem is actually even more interesting than this hypothetical.
by privapps | 2025-08-06 05:00:49+00:00
I recently built a Go application called github-copilot-svcs https://github.com/privapps/github-copilot-svcs that provides an OpenAI-compatible API interface from GitHub Copilot.

Why This Matters: GitHub Copilot uses several LLM models, but other AI agents might perform better. This application also enables the use of GitHub Copilot for powering other AI applications, such as Proof-of-Concepts (POCs).

How It Works: The application acts as a middleware layer, translating OpenAI API requests into interactions with GitHub Copilot models. It leverages Go's robust concurrency model and efficient HTTP handling to ensure low-latency responses, making it suitable for real-time applications. This project is a reverse-engineered proxy of the GitHub Copilot API, exposing it as an OpenAI compatible service. This allows integration with tools that support the OpenAI Chat Completions API.

Use Cases: While the application uses models provided by GitHub Copilot, you can integrate other AI agents like QwenCode, Cline, Roo code, Crush, OpenCode, and etc. Or even power your own application.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on how this approach can be improved or extended. Whether you're building a new application or integrating it into an existing workflow, feel free to share your ideas or feedback here!
by thisisit | 2025-08-06 05:01:02+00:00
Different countries have different considerations.

Most of these "deals" aren't deals and rather frameworks. And given the tumultuous nature of bilateral trade where countries might not follow on their promises. Happens all the time and countries end up arguing at the WTO. So, it is hard to say whether Europe or Japan "blinked". Given the timing of the European deal it might be to help Trump so that he does not have egg on his face for not having 200 deals by 1st August.

India wants to cozy up to US and was one of the first countries to start trade negotiation. Trump-Modi dynamic has been good. The sticking point is agriculture and dairy. Both countries subsidize agriculture and diary. And in both countries farmers form a big chunk of politically aware voters. For the Indian government it is political suicide to even nod along like Japan and Europe. But if you hear Trump he keeps saying it is about Russian oil.

Brazil might have the same issue. Historically, US was the largest soyabeans exporter. But last time Trump got into a trade war with China, the country has moved away from US exports and started buying from China. So, again even the appearance of a deal might be problematic for the government.

And reading this side by side, maybe US farmers are not that economically aware?
by verdverm | 2025-08-06 05:01:23+00:00
100s of videos of drones with arty shells can be seen on https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/

They have strapped so many things to drones, you'd think they've tried about everything, then some new video comes out

Drones have evolved rapidly and come in all shapes and sizes now. The DJI Maverick image in people's head is only one modality, though by far the most common form factor
by fnordpiglet | 2025-08-06 05:01:28+00:00
If they do have such evidence it would be worth while to justify their cuts with that evidence. Just because it was rushed out doesn’t mean it wasn’t used by billions of people tens of billions of times with an extraordinarily low incidence of side effects observed in situ. This is a situation of unparalleled prevalence, including probably everyone reading this now. If there were evidence of problem it would be globally observable and impossible to suppress. Even if the pharma industry would want to, all it would take is a single professor of medicine, statistician, epidemiologist, etc anywhere on earth looking for tenure to be able to produce a compelling and well structured survey and / or meta analysis that showed mRNA vaccines had any level of harm. But it didn’t happen. Because they are safe, and literally everyone who has had one - which is pretty much literally everyone - knows this. RFK Jr knows this too, but he is seeking something other than truth here.
by RandyOrion | 2025-08-06 05:01:55+00:00
Super shallow (24/36 layers) MoE with low active parameter counts (3.6B/5.1B), a tradeoff between inference speed and performance.

Text only, which is okay.

Weights partially in MXFP4, but no cuda kernel support for RTX 50 series (sm120). Why? This is a NO for me.

Safety alignment shifts from off the charts to off the rails really fast if you keep prompting. This is a NO for me.

In summary, a solid NO for me.
by sky2224 | 2025-08-06 05:02:40+00:00
I think this is just a bit doomerish honestly.

Yes, the AI hype is real, and yes there's a desire to cut costs by using AI within companies. However, I think the maintainer (Evan Su) has a bit of a narrow view on this matter. Evan is still a student in university.

This doesn't mean his perspective or opinion should be disregarded, it's more just I think he's declaring quite a career defining absolute for himself before really having a solid foot in the industry. Frankly, this rant seems kind of fueled by intense doom-scrolling on linkedin rather than by first hand experience.
by kazinator | 2025-08-06 05:02:45+00:00
> Oh, I need a filtered list of which comments to read?

If they are about something you're not sure about, and you're making decisions based on them ... maybe it would actually help, so yes?

> Do you build computers by ordering random parts off Alibaba and complaining when they are deficient?

We build computers using parts which are carefully documented by data sheets, which tell you exactly for what ranges of parameters their operation is defined and in what ways. (temperatures, voltages, currents, frequencies, loads, timings, typical circuits, circuit board layouts, programming details ...)
by markasoftware | 2025-08-06 05:03:05+00:00
still, if you ask this open model to generate a fancy space invaders game with polish, and then ask the other model to generate a bare-bones space invaders game with the fewest lines of code, I think there's a good chance they'd switch places. This doesn't really test the models ability to generate a space invaders game, so much as it tests their tendency to make an elaborate vs simple solution.
Show HN: I built a no-login website screenshot tool for my non-tech friends
by wainguo | 2025-08-06 05:03:33+00:00
What is it? I built WebsiteScreenshot.online to let anyone capture full‑page or viewport screenshots of websites directly from a browser—no signup, no software installation.

Supports high resolution, PDF export, device‑simulated viewports, ad/cookie/GDPR‑popup blocking, and is 100% free

Why I built it

As a developer, I usually take screenshots via dev‑tools, extensions, or external apps.

But for many users, entering a URL and clicking a button is easier and faster—especially for non‑technical folks or when automation isn’t practical.

Wanted something simple, web‑based, and shareable.

Features at a glance

Full‑page or viewport-only screenshots (up to ~20,000px height)

Choose screen resolution (desktop, tablet, mobile)

Block ads, cookies, and GDPR banners for cleaner captures

Export to PNG, JPEG or PDF

Responsive, fast, and no watermark, no login

A bonus I got from this little side project

This little side project turned into something much more valuable: I now have a reusable boilerplate for multilingual, SEO-ready websites. All the annoying “support” parts of building a site? Done.

Now I can launch new products and just focus on the core functionality — UI, features, and content — without worrying about the boring setup again.

What I’m hoping to get from the HN community

Feedback on UI/UX, flow, and capabilities

Ideas for missing features or improvements

Suggestions for optimizing SEO & performance

Thoughts on future direction—API access? Bulk processing? Widgets?
Show HN: GiveMe AI – Upload a selfie, get a boyfriend/girlfriend photo
by kianworkk | 2025-08-06 05:04:24+00:00
Hi HN,

I made a fun little app: givemeagirlfriend.com givemeaboyfriend.com

Upload your selfie, and it generates a realistic-looking couple photo with an AI partner — just for fun.

Built over a weekend with Next.js + custom image prompts.

Curious what you think!
Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model
by divamgupta | 2025-08-06 05:04:36+00:00
Kitten TTS is an open-source series of tiny and expressive text-to-speech models for on-device applications. We are excited to launch a preview of our smallest model, which is less than 25 MB. This model has 15M parameters.

This release supports English text-to-speech applications in eight voices: four male and four female. The model is quantized to int8 + fp16, and it uses onnx for runtime. The model is designed to run literally anywhere eg. raspberry pi, low-end smartphones, wearables, browsers etc. No GPU required!

We're releasing this to give early users a sense of the latency and voices that will be available in our next release (hopefully next week). We'd love your feedback! Just FYI, this model is an early checkpoint trained on less than 10% of our total data.

We started working on this because existing expressive OSS models require big GPUs to run them on-device and the cloud alternatives are too expensive for high frequency use. We think there's a need for frontier open-source models that are tiny enough to run on edge devices!
by 827a | 2025-08-06 05:04:41+00:00
The issue with this theory post-internet economy is: its only true if that money is spent chasing a limited amount of scarce goods and services. But the majority of the US economy today is spent on goods and services that are no longer scarce (more accurately, whose unit costs are so low that they might as well be unlimited). We are in a very different world than the one Volker presided over, and this is the core axiom as to why: The economists who correctly invented this central bank interest rate lever could never have foreseen a world so supply-unconstrained.

Another way to look at this: Low interest rates can induce demand and drive inflation. But they also control the rates when financing supply-side production; so they can also ramp up supply to meet increased demand.

1. Not all goods and services are like this, obviously. Real estate is the big one that low interest rates will continue to inflate. We need legislative-side solutions to this, ideally focused at the state and local levels.

2. None of this applies if you have an economy culturally resistant to consumerism, like Japan. Everything flips on its head and things get weird. But that's not the US.
by poulsbohemian | 2025-08-06 05:04:55+00:00
>This is because they are built to go through the machine after each rental

What machine are you referring to here? It sounds like you are referring to some kind of waxing / edge sharpening / cleaning device, which would be extreme luxury compared to the rental shop at my local hill where they intake the rentals for the day and dump them back into a bucket for the next skier.
by knowitnone2 | 2025-08-06 05:05:13+00:00
yes and no. AI may be propping up some tech companies who make items in the AI space but the number of jobs lost due to AI is pretty overwhelming. I spent the last week using LLMs to build an app using libraries I am unfamiliar with. It was amazing - to the point where I won't have to write a line of code anymore. These developers probably have some money saved up but that'll dry up. Plus the new grads are now competing against people with some experience. Tariffs + inflation + a presidential grifter = bad times.
by com2kid | 2025-08-06 05:06:15+00:00
> device drivers are the easiest thing in the world to code.

Except the documentation lies and in reality your vendor shipped you a part with timing that is slightly out of sync with what the doc says and after 3 months of debugging, including using an oscilloscope, you figure out WTF is going on. You report back to your supplier and after two weeks of them not saying any thing they finally reply that the timings you have reverse engineered are indeed the correct timings, sorry for any misunderstandings with the documentation.

As an application's engineer, my computer doesn't lie to me and memory generally stays at a value I set it to unless I did something really wrong.

Backend services are the easiest thing in the world to write, I am 90% sure that all the bullshit around infra is just artificial job security, and I say this as someone who primarily does backend work now days.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-08-06 05:07:11+00:00
Don’t be naive, these companies don’t care about talent they care about prestige and credentials. <username>@standford will always beat “did actual work relevant to the project”.

Just look at the background of some of the names in this at these places. As always it’s “who you know and where you’ve been” not “what you know and what you’ve built”

edit: You can downvote if you like, but it doesn’t change the fact that high stakes tech has never been a meritocracy and AI companies are no different.