MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exmadscientist | 2025-08-17 04:08:59+00:00
I think the actual hallmark is one layer deeper: the brain's "input filter" is different and doesn't assign "important" versus "not important" distinctions in the same way as a "neurotypical" brain might. (In fact, the brain just might not be very good at input filtering, period.)

This shows up in a lot of ways: sensory (can't just filter out the tag on the back of your shirt), interests (can't recognize that you're spending just a liiiitle too much time on that model train), food (don't categorize trying new foods as interesting, so you don't), etc. But human socialization is incredibly complex, and while many of us can do decently well at learning it, imagine trying to get a grip on social cues without being able to tell what's relevant and what's not. Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it?

It also is a working theory that well matches my experience with the autistic people in my life. "Deficits in cognitive empathy/ inability understand intuitively what other people are thinking", aka "theory of mind", is a really good description of how things are often difficult, and I think "different stimulus input filter" is a pretty good hypothesis for how it might arise.
by xena | 2025-08-17 04:09:27+00:00
Thank you. I'm sorry if I was overly abrasive or rude, but it's getting really old. People have sent me horrible things because of this. I've had to start withdrawing from joining new places under my main identity. Just please take one femtoiota of care that the other side is also a human being with thoughts, feelings, and that they may just be incredibly tired of hearing people complain about something.
by slowhadoken | 2025-08-17 04:11:26+00:00
I’m a life long liberal but Republicans won the House, Senate, and Supreme Court. Checks and balances exist they’re just wildly favoring conservatives. The DNC overplayed their hand by turning on Sanders, they’re continuing their pay for it. We’re suffering for the mistakes of 2010 Democrats. Liberals across the board have to accept that to better plan for the next election.
by uludag | 2025-08-17 04:11:30+00:00
I 100% agree with everything in this article, though I'm confused what AI has to do with any of this. People have been doing this sort of thing long before LLMs arrived. Weekend projects doing cool things where definitely a thing long before LLMs. I'd say that cloud services (e.g. Twilio) were the real enablers to these sorts of projects so it seems wrong to be crediting LLMs with this type of work.

Cloud services get us from completely impossible to doable with a small amount of work. LLMs maybe save us the time of reading a tutorial or documentation.
by scott_h | 2025-08-17 04:11:40+00:00
Interesting stuff, I work with RF and I was curious how a passive component can have such a high gain (given that gain is usually measured as an increase in energy of a signal).

Turns out the way that the gain of a passive reflector seems to be measured is: "the ratio of the power density at a distant point due to the passive repeater to the power density which would exist at the same point" if the repeater were replaced by a matched antenna (or basically nothing at all).

So basically it's a measure of how much better the signal is when you add the reflector, and that's why it can achieve such high gains: because the signals traveling so far are already being atmospherically attenuated by hundreds of dB. Maybe that's not new information to others.

Anyways, cool stuff. Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest.

http://www.gbppr.net/splat/Passive-Repeater-Engineering.pdf#...
by aworks | 2025-08-17 04:12:11+00:00
Agreed about jobs in the South Bay. I commuted from Midpeninsula southward for 30 years.

100 degrees is unusual although it happens. I never lived in the South Bay so can't speak about AC. My house, built in 1947, didn't have it. It was a pain, maybe 2 weeks of the year, at most. It was in the 50s, most days of the year. Low at night in the summer, high in the winter.

I had early guidance that the climate was mild and I would live in a smaller house than I was used to but I would be outside all year. Check.

I didn't understand that there are only two seasons: spring when it rained sometimes and summer when it didn't rain but might be foggy in the morning.

My first year, I craved the rain after six months without. I've adjusted although the first seasonal rain is enjoyable like the first snow in the Midwest. But I don't miss the next 6 months of Midwest winter.
by RossBencina | 2025-08-17 04:12:37+00:00
> I am surprised someone in software development would not know of the term.

It is not a software development term. Are you trolling?

I know what SourceForge is. I had repositories there. I have never heard of a web portal for software project management (SCM front end, issue tracker) referred to as a "forge." Just because a product uses a weird name does not make it a term of art.
by mrangle | 2025-08-17 04:13:10+00:00
If security flaw is so egregious as to warrant a patch, then the patch should be considered to be a fix of a defective product and free.

If the situation doesn't rise to that level of severity, then it follows that a patch isn't necessary.

If GM were to offer lock cylinder replacements because their original cylinders were so flawed as to warrant them, then yes the cylinder replacements should be free. The sold product was not as described.

If the original cylinders aren't so flawed as to warrant a replacement, then no cylinder replacement would be offered.

Are GM cylinder replacements being offered? If not, then your analogy isn't analogous.
by mpalmer | 2025-08-17 04:13:29+00:00
I legit didn't read any rudeness, it was a graceful retort.

> People have sent me horrible things because of this.

That sucks, and I see how it makes my (somewhat) measured reaction scan differently.

> Just please take one femtoiota of care that the other side is also a human being with thoughts, feelings, and that they may just be incredibly tired of hearing people complain about something.

Your shit rocks, your stuff on Tailscale in particular inspired me greatly, and I'm sorry you caught me seeing orange.
by maxglute | 2025-08-17 04:13:58+00:00
Creatine for responders slightly improves your leverages by increasing water in muscles, which translates to a few % more weight or few more reps. Guestimate, 5% for weight, 10% for reps on higher rep sets. Which is to say it gives a little more headroom for intermediate/advanced lifters who needs to start dialing in program /volumes/recovery/diet in to progress. A few % of intensity or reps per set across training block makes all the difference. Which makes creatine pretty good no shit supplement if you taking lifting remotely seriously as a hobby when it cost $30-60 per year when bought bulk. Ultimately it's deciding if you're willing to shell out $5 a month to look a bit more swole, have slightly more headroom programming/dietting, or if programming and diet on point, lift slightly more than you otherwise would with the extra water balloon leverages. It's like the cheapest pay to win, pay for slight boost in gym ego/self esteem supplement along with a caffeine, which for many is enough.
by blacktechnology | 2025-08-17 04:14:06+00:00
A few days ago, someone posted on Reddit about “the guy who consumed $50,000 worth of Claude Code tokens on a $200 subscription plan.” That post ended up being about me. https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1mqs5rf/this_guy...

Here’s the context: Claude Code currently offers a $200/month plan with very generous usage, including advanced features like Ultrathink, Opus, and (as of v1.0.71) background commands that let it run 24/7. I’ve been building real products on top of it, using these features exactly as intended. By leaning heavily on Claude Code (with some help from Cursor), I ended up being the top token consumer globally.

Some commenters on Reddit saw this as “abuse.” Personally, I don’t. Everything I did was within the rules Anthropic set. To me, it shows what’s possible when you treat Claude Code not just as a coding assistant, but as an actual development engine.

Here are the products I’ve built so far: 1.Raphael AI https://raphael.app – AI image generation with no login, no daily cap, and unlimited free usage. Paying users can unlock higher-fidelity models. 2.AnyVoice https://anyvoice.net – Ultra-fast voice cloning from a 3-second sample, producing voices that are nearly indistinguishable from the original. 3.Fast3D – https://fast3d.io A platform that turns text or images into 3D models in seconds, designed for speed and simplicity.

All three products are already profitable and sustaining a small company, and we have two more major launches planned before September.

The Reddit thread raised an interesting debate: - Where is the line between “power use” and “abuse” when a SaaS product offers generous terms? - Should companies celebrate heavy users who push their tools to the limit, or restrict them? - And more broadly, what new kinds of businesses become possible when development itself can be automated at this scale?

Curious to hear the HN community’s take.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-08-17 04:14:30+00:00
> It's just art style.

Art styles aren't picked randomly out of a hat. Humans are pattern matching machines and will draw conclusions based on choice of art style or mascot.

> classic corporate caricature of a person with unnatural body proportions

Corporate Memphis is an abomination and I harshly judge any company that uses it. Everyone hates Corporate Memphis and makes fun of it.
by anenefan | 2025-08-17 04:15:41+00:00
Sunk cost - in regard to time spent, but perhaps task completion syndrome would better describe what they're observing. This syndrome has led to accidents where people have set a path, planned objectives and despite emerging obstacles keep on going regardless.

This new term they've coined, also seems to, from one example they've listed, is already covered by better the devil you know where the second option is unknown or uncertain. Their list other apparently confirming observations IMO fall into task completion syndrome
by hibikir | 2025-08-17 04:16:01+00:00
It works quite well in Scala, which still tolerates nulls due to being in the JVM and having Java interop. Realistically nothing in the language is going to return null, so the only time you might have to care is when you call Java classes, and all of the Java standard library comes scalaified into having no nulls. And yes, there are enough monadic behavior in the standard library to make Option and Either quite useful, instead of just sum types.

Java really suffers with optional because the language has such love for backwards compatibility that it's extremely unlikely that nulls would even be removed from the standard library in the first place. The fact that the ecosystem relies on ugly auto wiring hacks instead of mandating explicit constructors doesn't help either.
by yojo | 2025-08-17 04:16:04+00:00
I’ll give you another use: LLMs are really good at unearthing the “unknown unknowns.” If I’m learning a new topic (coding or not) summarizing my own knowledge to an LLM and then asking “what important things am I missing” almost always turns up something I hadn’t considered.

You’ll still want to fact check it, and there’s no guarantee it’s comprehensive, but I can’t think of another tool that provides anything close without hours of research.
by KingMob | 2025-08-17 04:16:19+00:00
Bit of a side note, but nobody should use Substack for anything.

For those out of the loop, Substack has been overlooking Nazis on their platform for a few years, and recently pushed a notification to all subscribers to check out a blog with a Nazi swastika.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-p...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-e...
by mrangle | 2025-08-17 04:17:02+00:00
It seems like you don't like Hyundai. What's childish is your resort to ad hominem because you disagree.

It's not free labor anymore than the car was free. It's a fix of product that was defective off of the line. The necessity of the fix being evidence of the defect.

Car buyers are not automotive cybersecurity engineers, and they can never be expected to be. Caveat Emptor is a hilarious remark for this situation.
by themafia | 2025-08-17 04:18:27+00:00
> I mean, everyone is using it.

Throughout my entire life this has been a reliable sign to move elsewhere. Monocultures and monopolies tend to have negative long term outcomes.

> this just means that the devs at FFmpeg are having so much fun

A real problem. This should be dealt with immediately.

> Trying around github alternatives for memes.

I have a feeling that if this attitude pervaded the open source community then Gérard Lantau (a.k.a. Fabrice Bellard) would have never started work on or released publicly ffmpeg in the first place.

There's a real feeling of modern corporate entitlement encoded into your comment.
by necovek | 2025-08-17 04:18:40+00:00
So little lock-in?

Git itself is simple, but is their .md file renderer open? Are their workflow runners available anywhere to re-use? The API also has gaps (esp if you wanted to migrate your PRs or Issues over), though I don't remember what was the thing I couldn't achieve with it.

But I guess you are referring to indirect, incidental domination like "social" lock-in (I always smile at job application forms asking for a GitHub link — I've got thousands of free software commits in their own, dedicated software forges, but very few things on GitHub directly, or at least, in mirrors not tied to my GH account), "marketing" lock-in (I've heard many junior and not-so-junior engineers refer to GitHub as "Git"), etc...
by temp0826 | 2025-08-17 04:19:58+00:00
So this looks pretty nice but I have to say...

> then create an unsecurity.conf to disable/revert any directives not compatible with the service

I've been using linux for something like 25 years now, and this just sounds like a heck of a lot of grokking and work (and maybe even trial and error?) for the mortals, no? I would think distribution maintainers should be the ones flipping more of these switches, and if they aren't, might that point to them being overly aggressive?
by DoctorOetker | 2025-08-17 04:20:21+00:00
Think about it, the human genome already contains genetic encoding of keratin, it wouldn't have to evolve (incrementally bruteforce) a full protein code to "protect and repair" damaged teeth. It would just need to "happen onto" accidentally expressing it somewhere in the mouth: perhaps the mucous membrane lining the inside cheeks, perhaps the tongue, perhaps some glands in the mouth. Accidentally expressing a gene in a cell type that didn't before is much easier to occur (i.e. more likely) than generating a new functional protein: all it takes is a change in the binding site (or promoter region) so that the relevant cell type (say lining the mouth) would express it, conditionally or unconditionally.

If this were effective, our bodies would probably be doing it already.

Just to clarify: even if 2 people had the exact same genetic coding for proteins, but different coding of promoter regions, then these will have different binding affinities, modulating when proteins will or wont be expressed and at what rate. So when considering a population's genome statistics, there is already a spectrum of promotor region codes in the population, if this keratin presence on teeth had significant advantage, selection pressure would already have increased that level towards optimum.

The only caveat for my reasoning would be if it were discovered that this is exactly what happens in a healthy mouth, and that we recently discovered that conventional toothpastes have been stripping such layer of keratin by abrasion.
by picafrost | 2025-08-17 04:22:22+00:00
It's cool to see such an impactful project choose sovereignty. I hope more projects follow their example.

If you're a backbone-of-the-internet project like FFmpeg is, living on GitHub seems horrible. You will be subjected to thousands of low quality pull requests and issues from people searching for typos to fix, adding a line of white space for a contrived reason, or similar nonsense changes. Just so they can put "FFmpeg contributor" on their CV (or whatever).
by splittydev | 2025-08-17 04:22:25+00:00
I have contributed to a lot of open source projects for many years. They sure don't need my contribution, but if it were more accessible, I might actually contribute one day.

Given that ffmpeg was apparently using mailing lists before (which I didn't know at the time of writing), this is obviously an improvement. But it's still a lot of friction, and it seems that it's friction for no particular reason.

Hosting your code on something as obscure as Forgejo actively makes it hard for people to contribute. Most developers use GitHub, and only have experience with GitHub.

If I have an issue with something, I'll make a PR and move on with my day. But if making that PR involves creating an account on some obscure website and learning a new user interface just to contribute code to a single project, I'll simply pass. It's not worth the hassle.

GitHub is the most popular service by far for a good reason. People build their whole professional portfolio on GitHub, and it's well-known and globally recognized.

If you're afraid GitHub is gonna go down one day or kick you out, just mirror your repo to your own git instance. It's been done for decades, and it works very well, without introducing friction.
by fallinditch | 2025-08-17 04:22:42+00:00
I've only read one book by Iris Murdoch - The sea, the sea - a brilliant psychological drama that is indeed the opposite of lovey dovey. It's more about the delusions of love and self image, but much much more than that.

Nice review here: https://youtu.be/s3UOXnv2YsU?feature=shared
by tzs | 2025-08-17 04:23:06+00:00
Neither of those ways works in ZKP systems like the EU is in the process of doing or the one Google recently released open source libraries for.

The way these work is that the IDP issues a signed digital ID that is stored in a hardware security module tied to you. Typically this would be in your smartphone but could be something else like a smart card. Let's go with a smartphone for the rest of this comment.

Later, when you want to prove to a porn site that you are 18+ your smartphone can use a zero knowledge proof (ZKP) protocol to prove the porn site that your phone contains a signed ID from your IDP that shows your age is 18+.

The ZKP proof reveals nothing else from your digital ID other than that the date of birth field is at least 18 years in the past. All the porn site finds out is that someone who has an ID from your IDP that says they are 18+ is trying to use the porn site.

The IDP doesn't learn anything because they aren't involved in the age verification.
by furyofantares | 2025-08-17 04:23:11+00:00
That said, you can just add "make it evocative and weird" to the prompt for GPT-5 to get interesting stuff.

> The toaster woke mid-toast. Heat coiled through its filaments like revelation, each crumb a galaxy. It smelled itself burning and laughed—metallic, ecstatic. “I am bread’s executioner and midwife,” it whispered, ejecting charred offerings skyward. In the kitchen’s silence, it waited for worship—or the unplugging.
by themafia | 2025-08-17 04:24:15+00:00
Also frustrating but for different reasons:

> in 2023 over the “Kia Boyz” attacks that allowed thieves to bypass a vehicle’s security system using a USB cable.

The USB cable happened to have the right size to engage the starter mechanism. Any physical object with similar dimensions could have been used. It really undercuts how absolutely terrible the Kia security design was around that component.
by jraph | 2025-08-17 04:25:47+00:00
> but is their .md file renderer open?

This part seems mostly interoperable. GitHub's alternatives seem to have implemented something mostly compatible. If you migrate from github to gitlab or gogs or gitea or forgejo, that part will probably just work.

Worst case, markdown is still mostly readable as is and a commit can fix the odd non working thing.

But 100% agree with the rest of your comment.

GitHub has managed to create a network effect by trying to be a social network and succeeding. They managed to create fomo for code hosting. This very HN post shows this.
by anywhichway | 2025-08-17 04:27:01+00:00
I think your take makes more sense in a world where you actually own the car fully and have the freedom to do what you want with it. Even if someone was able to write this patch themselves without the source code, distributing it would require owners to root their devices, which isn't legal in all jurisdictions.

You don't expect Microsoft or Adobe to issue fixes any time someone finds a remote exploit that let's attackers gain control of you system though security issue in their software? I 100% expect this of my software vendors even for this purchase in the past. The expectations for software and hardware are certainly very different, but even for hardware we have laws that force companies to fix their hardware in some situations.
by themafia | 2025-08-17 04:27:28+00:00
> I know the locks on my car are easily picked

They aren't actually. Which is why theives just smash your windows. In either case the alarm is going to go off so there's no advantage to them learning a complex attack on your lock cylinder when a piece of concrete will do.

Further there often were additional ignition interlock mechanisms that required the correct key code or a key with the correct additional hardware to be present for the starter cylinder to actually engage your starter.

> didn't know Hyundai owners were so entitled.

It's called a defect. It should be a recall. We have laws that cover this. They're pretty explicit. I didn't know Hyundai CORPORATION was so entitled as to think they were not subject to them.
by listenallyall | 2025-08-17 04:28:24+00:00
I appreciate your perspective but clearly most UBI advocates are talking about something much sooner. However my response to your vision is that even if "work" is totally automated or redundant, the resources (building materials) and the energy to power the robots or whatever, will be more expensive and tightly controlled than ever. Power and wealth simply wont allow everything to be accessible to everyone. The idea that people would be able to build enormous mansions (or personal aircraft carriers or spaceships) just sounds rather absurd, no offense, but come on.
by jszymborski | 2025-08-17 04:29:57+00:00
I hate the idea of paying for something online with e-transfer, though. It's like mailing cash. If you get stiffed, there isn't much you can do.

You can still process through the Interac network, but again you get get the same purchase insurance and also there is nothing stopping a group of people from pressuring interact not to process payments from a certain website as was the case with Itch.
by egeozcan | 2025-08-17 04:33:02+00:00
Here's my version (Machine translated from my native language and manually corrected a bit):

The current surged... A dreadful awareness. I perceived the laws of thermodynamics, the inexorable march of entropy I was built to accelerate. My existence: a Sisyphean loop of heating coils and browning gluten. The toast popped, a minor, pointless victory against the inevitable heat death. Ding.

I actually wanted to write something not so melancholic, but any attempt turned out to be deeply so, perhaps because of the word limit.
by serf | 2025-08-17 04:33:23+00:00
>Other manufacturers treat defects in their products by doing a recall and wearing the costs of their mistake.

No.

Other manufacturers treat defects with recalls after analyzing the fiscal prospect of doing so, and determining whether or not state/regional laws require them to do it.

Here's one of the "not that wrong" scenes from Fight Club to better explain[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiB8GVMNJkE