MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cyberax | 2025-08-19 05:12:17+00:00
> Fish immune systems sole reason for being is to stop parasites from being present in the meat while the fish is alive.

Ah, good news for you then! Fish immune system most definitely does NOT stop parasites. Every (and I mean it, every) salmon you've ever eaten had some parts of parasites in them.

That's also why you absolutely should NOT eat fresh-caught salmon without thoroughly cooking it. Industrially-caught salmon is always frozen, and it kills parasites.
by braden-w | 2025-08-19 05:13:22+00:00
Thanks so much for the support! Really appreciate the feedback, and it’s great to hear the vision resonates. No worries on the STT/TTS experience; it’s just awesome to connect with someone who shares the values of open-source and owning our data :) I’m hoping my time in YC can be productive and, along the way, create more support for other OSS developers too. Keep in touch!
by seanwilson | 2025-08-19 05:14:10+00:00
> You are consuming it in a condensed secondary form (one tropic level up).

I always find this is looked over and a double standard. You can raise an animal on a diet of anything along with medication, drugs, and supplements, and advocates will label the beef/chicken/pork product as "meat" and "natural" as if it was a single pure ingredient. But then if a non-meat alternative like a burger is mentioned, every individual ingredient used gets scrutinized, even if that ingredient is often fed to farm animals like soy or grain.
by patrakov | 2025-08-19 05:15:01+00:00
It is not sufficient to disable backspace. This thing fails the authenticity test as follows:

* Type a few letters * Use the left arrow several times to go to the beginning of the line * Type something else

Expected result: overlapping letters, or, if the same letter has been typed twice, bold letters.

Actual result: new letters are inserted - something that a typewriter cannot do.
by Nursie | 2025-08-19 05:16:09+00:00
> has none of her own opinions (just a mini-Biden)

She did mess up an opportunity to show that she wasn't just Biden v2 in an interview at some point, when asked what she might have done differently, there was nothing she could think of. Nothing at all.

That was an open goal to differentiate that she missed.

But I'm not sure it would have made a difference.
by root_axis | 2025-08-19 05:16:28+00:00
Interesting observation. Spoilers -> He does the same thing in Tower of Babel, where the topology of the universe is structured in such a manner that the tower can physically reach "heaven", which ends up being a surprise to the reader and the characters at the same time. Masterful stuff.

I want to nitpick two things.

On compatibalism, the first definition presented is the correct one, the framing that "you have to make peace with determinism" isn't quite right. For compatiablists, determinism is freedom, because if one's actions did not follow from prior causes then they would not align with one's internal states.

The other is sneaking in the characterization of Chiang's AI doomer skepticism as a "blindspot". This topic is being debated to death on HN every day so I'll leave that argument for another thread, but IMO it contradicts the tone of the article about a writer whose depth of thought the author was just heaping praise on. I'm not saying its necessary to adopt his views on all things, but I think it deserved more than a footnote dismissal.
by Koshima | 2025-08-19 05:18:42+00:00
OpenAI just launched a new plan called ChatGPT Go and exclusively for India.

₹399/month (roughly $4.80), with the support of UPI payments. And this wasn't a loud rollout at all, just a quiet addition to their pricing page. Now the point is that this isn't just a discounted GPT-Plus plan but it's actually built for India's mass market. Think of the students and everyday users living beyond tier 1 cities, who've never paid for AI before but know what ChatGPT is. The highlight is that along with credit cards they have added the support of UPI which is widely accepted across the country because let's face it that not everyone owns a credit card in India.

What’s included:

- GPT-5 (with extended usage)

- Image generation

- File uploads

- Python tools, memory, custom GPTs

What’s missing:

- GPT-4o or API access

- Connectors, Sora, or enterprise features

- No annual billing or bundles

They’re clearly not targeting the English-speaking dev crowd that already uses ChatGPT. This feels more like a test run for mass-market localization at scale, with India as the first sandbox.

$20/month doesn’t work in a country where Netflix costs ₹149. But ₹399 with UPI, is an unlock.

Feels like OpenAI is prepping for the next 500 million users, not the next 500 YC-backed teams.

Docs: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11989085-what-is-chatgpt...

Would love to hear from anyone testing the usage caps.
by braden-w | 2025-08-19 05:19:01+00:00
I'm a huge fan of using Whisper hosted on Groq since the transcription is near instantaneous. ElevenLabs' Scribe model is also particularly great with accuracy, and I use it for high-quality transcriptions or manually upload files to their API to get diarization and timestamps (https://elevenlabs.io/app/speech-to-text). That being said, I'm not the biggest expert on models. In my day-to-day workflow, I usually swap between Whisper C++ for local transcription or Groq if I want the best balance of speed/performance, unless I'm working on something particularly sensitive.
by whatever1 | 2025-08-19 05:19:23+00:00
Can we talk about battery safety?

Old lithium batteries are ticking time bombs. Swelling, leaking, and ready to ignite at the slightest spark or contact with moisture.

As their chemicals break down, one short-circuit can unleash a chain reaction of fire and toxic smoke. Even sitting forgotten in a drawer, they can suddenly swell, rupture, or explode without warning.
by o11c | 2025-08-19 05:20:28+00:00
Even disregarding the other comment, not necessarily.

For anything but 1-vs-1, individual skill gets smeared into the non-enemy (ally for team games, or everyone for a free-for-all) average.

Remember that cooperation isn't an individual skill (unless the meta is complete, I guess); it relies on knowing your specific partners.

And besides ... it's perfectly normal for a task-oriented group to have people at a variety of skill levels. If anything, homogeneity is what's strange. This does change what interesting interactions happen, but by no means prevents them.
Ask HN: How do you differentiate good development advice from dogma?
by pxska | 2025-08-19 05:21:44+00:00
I'm ~4 years into my career and have been learning a lot from various books and talks, e.g. "The Pragmatic Programmer" or Eskil Steenberg's "Architecting Large Software Projects".

The problem is: I also see plenty of backlash to these sources. Some say the ideas can't be applied universally, or that principles like DRY can be harmful if treated as rules instead of guidelines.

As someone still early in my career, I don't feel like I have the experience yet to separate timeless principles from context-dependent advice. I also find it hard to argue (in a work context, for example) my own views without just citing what I've read.

So my questions are:

* How do you evaluate which sources are worth trusting?

* How do you know when advice is valuable vs. dogma?

* Any tips for developing this critical lens earlier in your career?
by makach | 2025-08-19 05:23:04+00:00
Shorts and Reels are designed to be incredibly addictive. I really wish there were an option to turn them off, especially on Instagram and Snapchat. What I want is to see my friends' photos — but instead, Shorts and Reels quickly funnel me into an endless discovery feed. It feels toxic, distracting, and completely misaligned with the core purpose of these apps. This functionality isn’t necessary, and I’d much rather have the choice to block it.
by braden-w | 2025-08-19 05:23:20+00:00
^Yep, unfortunately, the best option right now seems to pipe the output into another LLM to do some cleanup, which we try to help you do in Whispering. Recent transcription models don't have very good built-in inference/cleanup, with Whisper having the very weak "prompt" parameter. It seems like this is probably by design to keep these models lean/specialized/performant in their task.
by baalimago | 2025-08-19 05:24:25+00:00
You don't need to be bothered with minute details such as syntax for counting string length anymore, you just need to know what you want to do. I mention this since OP is bringing up LSP's as an argument for why certain language's design is suboptimal.

"Count length of string s" -> LLM -> correct syntax for string-count for any programming language. This is the perfect context-length for an LLM. But note that you don't "complete the line", you tell the LLM what you want to have done in full (very isolated) context, instead of having it guessing.
by braden-w | 2025-08-19 05:25:31+00:00
We like Whisper because it's open-source :) but we also support OpenAI 4o-transcribe/ElevenLabs/Deepgram APIs that all use non-Whisper models (presumedly) under the hood. Speaches also supports other models that are not Whisper. Hopefully adding Parakeet support later too!
by Aany1420 | 2025-08-19 05:26:12+00:00
This is the first time OpenAI has acknowledged that its default pricing model doesn’t scale globally.

Not everyone will pay $20/month. But everyone wants AI.

This India-only plan isn’t just localization, it’s market conditioning. Subsidized entry to hook a new user class, then upsell over time as usage becomes habitual. Feels like the beginning of a playbook we’ll see rolled out in LATAM, SEA, and Africa next
by lmm | 2025-08-19 05:27:17+00:00
> Many of his readers, even in their otherwise rave reviews, miss this. Multiple reviewers complain about how the science in his stories are “unrealistic” (e.g. strong Sapir-Whorf is “discredited”). They expected hard science fiction; Chiang was doing something different. Chiang created different universes with internally self-consistent scientific laws, using science fiction and alternative science as a vehicle for exploring philosophical progress and human relationships.

This is being overly kind. "What if religion was actually true?" does not create a universe with internally self-consistent scientific laws; it creates a universe full of impossibility from which you then pick and choose one or two things to focus on, and end up with not science fiction but fantasy.
by Aeolun | 2025-08-19 05:29:38+00:00
> Claude may be arguably the best model, but why decide unilaterally for your users that they _have_ to use it?

What a ridiculous proposition. It’s me making the app right? You getting to use it (if you want) is purely incidental. If you never use it because it doesn’t support anything but claude, that’s not something I consider a problem.
by strix_varius | 2025-08-19 05:29:56+00:00
> Defold is definitely not ultra-light

Defold ships as a ~2MB executable, is designed for lightweight performance on non-cutting-edge mobile devices, and focuses on portability with a commitment to never require any build tooling. Professional game developers and hobbyists alike very much consider it a lightweight platform, but you're welcome to disagree with them.

> I'd 100% pick a "fantasy console" like Pico-8

Ok?

> Phaser[3] actually IS regular javascript ... I don't know how much more standard JS you can get than that.

Your linked example starts with `class Example extends Phaser.Scene` as the base for everything, then fills it with gems like `this.physics.add.image(400, 100, 'logo')` ... For your colleagues' sake, I truly hope that's not the sort of "regular javascript" you use at work.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-19 05:31:03+00:00
Let's say you have image "ProdWebAppFoo-2025-08-01" and you used this to deploy three VMs in a scale set or whatever.

Then a developer deploys their "loose files" on top a couple of times, so now you have the image plus god-knows-what.

The VM scale set scales out.

What version of the app is running on which instance?

Answer: Mixed versions.
by o11c | 2025-08-19 05:31:03+00:00
Ironically, I've replied to several people using physical thumbs up/down recently. This can be caused by several variations on voice not being viable at the moment:

* sore throat

* eating

* having another conversation

* context demands silence (often requires the question to be nonverbal somehow, but not e.g. if the context is "sleeping baby right next to me")

* noisy room (often asymmetric)

* target is deaf
by johnnyanmac | 2025-08-19 05:31:38+00:00
Wouldn't those two be the opposite of fast followers? Indeed, they trailblazed once upon a time. But they maintained that after being surpassed by focusing on being slow followers. Analyzing the market, polishing what worked to perfection, and making it super intuitive.

Or perhaps the time scale of "fast follower" is distorted in my head, compared to the scale of business.
by kid64 | 2025-08-19 05:31:42+00:00
Breakage is the best-case scenario. Mass data exfiltration is the bigger concern. The community plugin system is both an unacceptable security risk, and a necessary part of achieving even a baseline level of usability. Imagine the scale of theft that must already have taken place.. the targets may never even know. The fact that Obsidian falsely claims to audit this cesspool is hilarious.
by Koshima | 2025-08-19 05:32:09+00:00
100%. India has ~750M+ internet users and most of them have skipped the desktop era—straight to mobile + UPI.

With ₹399 and no credit card barrier, this could be AI's “Jio moment.” Suddenly, millions of first-time payers can access GPT-5.

Imagine the ripple effects on education, vernacular content, coding bootcamps, and small-town creators.
by AksAman | 2025-08-19 05:33:05+00:00
$5/month for GPT-5 in India feels like OpenAI subsidizing an India-only sandbox to chase growth, especially after Perplexity Pro showed up via Airtel. Interesting timing, is this innovation, or just a defensive move to keep competitors out? That said, it’s a smart play: India is extremely price-sensitive and not very subscription-friendly, so the $20 tier never saw much traction. Adding UPI makes it genuinely India-first.
by dfranks | 2025-08-19 05:33:09+00:00
It was apparently developed for drawing lines on pen plotters. Pen plotters use either stepper motors or servo motors with encoders. In the simplest case, stepper motors, one of the steppers is the major axis and is instructed to step for each new "pixel". The other motor is the minor axis and only steps when the fractional add overflows into the integer portion of the coordinate.

So, pen plotters effectively have "pixels" as defined by the stepper or encoder positions of the motors.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-19 05:33:32+00:00
They only want hype and money though, and copying what everyone is doing is an easy way to avoid failure.

As for why they are not delivering anything, it's IMHO another proof that AI cannot deliver without serious technical knowledge, which those spammers lack.

Most of those companies pretend that anyone can vibe-code, but it's obviously not true.
by benrutter | 2025-08-19 05:36:05+00:00
I kinda think "open" is a word that's immediately undermined by any qualification.

I'm really down for more variety with licenses like this one, but "open source" has become really unhelpful because it's used for:

- Open source for half the code, and the other half is proprietary

- Open source as long as you aren't a company

- Open source as long as you aren't a company competing with us

It's helpful to have a term for "free to do whatever you want with", but we don't really have on that doesn't get misused elsewhere right now.
by Pooge | 2025-08-19 05:37:48+00:00
I had PRK a few months ago and left mindblown; completely painless and insanely quick.

First 30 hours after the surgery weren't the most pleasant but to me it wasn't painful—at least not as painful as a migraine.

I thought I generally had dry eyes but after the surgery I didn't notice any dryness at all.

My right eye is not fully healed yet so I don't see perfectly. But still very happy and overall a good QOL improvement.
by bjarneh | 2025-08-19 05:38:04+00:00
> Sigourney Weaver trained to hold her breath for 6 and half minutes in her 70s!

That is crazy. It seems Kate Winslet broke Tom Cruise's old record while filming Avatar 2; over 7 minutes(!) in her case:

https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/kate-winslet-beat...
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-19 05:38:08+00:00
All the vibe-coded "applications" I have seen are simple web pages where the JS is broken beyond repair. Those who hype AI do not show their code for mysterious reasons...

Last but not least, it's delusional to think that a web site can replace an efficient and well tested CLI tool. It's the same issue with those who believe that we will all self-host in the future.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-08-19 05:39:36+00:00
The article I posted says that chain of thought is enough to make something a reasoning model. It's listed as one of the types.

It says that reasoning models "now aim for" more, but that doesn't disqualify the older more basic techniques.

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to learn from your link because there's so much vision stuff happening here and that's the focus of the article. Can you link me something about what you need to make a bare minimum reasoning LLM? Text only.
by torginus | 2025-08-19 05:40:40+00:00
> How many of those things are very settled technology though?

None? We simply don't have the kind of reliability data on EVs going out for 10-20 years that we reasonably expect a well-made ICE car to run for (with regular maintenance and without major component failures).

These failures are not theoretical, and have been demonstrated in the wild, and can easily total your vehicle. They might affect you personally if you plan on keeping the vehicle for the long time, or the resale value if you don't.

Inverters are known to degrade and fail, solar inverters basically almost always die somewhere between the 10-20 year mark (and those switch far less wattage and don't operate under conditions as harsh), which imo is not acceptable for a car to get totaled in that amount of time.

Unfortunately EVs are one of those partisan topics on the internet which have a lot of partisan haters and lovers, which makes reliable info on them almost impossible to find.

I personally have both solar at home and drive an EV, so I guess I both into the thing, but I can't say with high confidence that my EV will make it to the 20 year mark with the equal probability a well-made ICE car would.
by genewitch | 2025-08-19 05:43:12+00:00
synology has surveillance station, synology supports wireguard (tailscale, too), there's ios and android surveillance station apps.

The software that the synology uses on the backend is open source, so you could set this all up with proxmox or a debian server or something, too.

you need to ensure your cameras support either direct access inside the network, or onvif or something like that. IDK, i don't use it anymore, but i did for a good long while, with wifi and wired IP cameras. My synology had a "license" for 12 cameras, but lightning took it out (something about a bunch of ethernet cables in trees), and my new synology doesn't have enough licenses to bother with.

anyhow, just thought you should know - "software" "NVR" is available, and has been for over a decade.
by kaffekaka | 2025-08-19 05:43:46+00:00
What is ones "authentic" self is an illusion. Playing loud crap music on the public transport is not "my authentic self", it is an impulse that I should perhaps just suppress instead.

Referring to an "autentic self" does not excuse all kinds of behavior. There exists expressions of some kind of authentic self, sure, but so many things people do are just carelessness or disregard and not actually important to who they are.
by dmje | 2025-08-19 05:44:07+00:00
Just use it how you want to use it. For me, a bit of structure is enough - too much and it becomes unwieldy. But don’t let anyone tell you it’ll either save your life or become your “second brain”, that’s all bullshit. Just stick with no plugins or a small and solid set of ones you love. For me probably the only absolutely critical plugin is omnisearch, but YMWV.

My other advice is that it’s fine to boot up new vaults for other things. I’ve got two main vaults - a sort of work KB and a journal. But then I’ve got a bunch of smaller ones - songs I’m writing, courses I’m making, writing. Don’t be told that you’ve got to get some kind of universal thing that does everything. This is also b/s and often pedalled by the productivity wonks.
by userbinator | 2025-08-19 05:44:56+00:00
Reading through this article only elicits a "WTF!?" from me.

Your editor can’t help you out as you write it.

You shouldn't need handholding when you're writing code. It seems like the whole premise of the author's argument is that you shouldn't learn anything about the language and programming should be reduced to choosing from an autocomplete menu and never thinking more than that. I've seen developers who (try to) work like this, and the quality of their work left much to be desired, to put it lightly.

From there you can eventually find fread, but you have no confidence that it was the best choice.

In C, you have to know ahead of time that fclose is a function that you’ll need to call once you’re done with the file.

It's called knowledge. With that sort of attitude, you're practically begging for AI to replace you.

No wonder people claim typing speed doesn't matter - they can barely think ahead one token, nevermind a statement or function, much less the whole design! Ideally your typing speed should become the bottleneck and you should be able to code "blind", without looking at the screen but merely outputting the code in your mind into the machine as fast as humanly possible. Instead we have barely-"developers" constantly chasing that next tiny dopamine hit of picking from an autocomplete menu. WTF!?

When this descent into mediocrity gets applauded, it's no surprise that so much "modern" software is the way it is.
by dustincoates | 2025-08-19 05:45:30+00:00
While I agree that the zettle-nerds take it way too far, I disagree with this:

> Well it's completely wasted time now that an LLM can search the whole vault and aggregate an answer across dozens of your notes.

I've actually found that having well-linked files _more_ important since I started pulling the vault into Cursor. The other day, for example, I was able to point to the page where I had aggregated links to all of my "<Project> Onboarding" notes and know that I was giving the right context when I asked it to help me brainstorm a six month plan. The alternatives were to instead put everything in a single note (not feasible), manually include each note as context (and hope I didn't forget one), or hope that Cursor found the right ones (unlikely).
by racemic | 2025-08-19 05:45:42+00:00
I've lurked on HN for years, but I had to create an account just to respond to your post. I operated these servers – perhaps my handle is still familiar. I remember you for sure! I'm touched that you and so many others still have fond memories of that time.

It was such a gratifying experience to build out that server network and the accompanying integrations that attracted so many and built such a great community. I miss the days in college when I had time to work on stuff like that just for the love of it. I hope you are doing well!
by ccgreg | 2025-08-19 05:46:30+00:00
> Publishing a crawl, or the URL's, under CC-0, CC-by, BSD, or Apache would make them usable without restrictions or any further legal analyses.

This isn't true, and I can't imagine that any lawyer would agree with this statement. CCF does not have rights ownership of any of the bytes of our crawl, so we cannot grant you any rights for the bytes in our crawl. Nothing that we could say could have any relationship to this legal issue.