MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ath3nd | 2025-08-27 00:25:54+00:00
> Throw out the garbage, keep the good stuff, and appreciate the attention to the project

The garbage in the case of an AI generated PR, is all of it. I will happily reject all of your slop and every future contribution from you if you can't follow the project's contribution guidelines.

If you don't like that, that's what forking is for.

> Just say that you don't want my code, better yet just silently reject it.

Not only I don't want it but I have some ideas what you can do with it and wher this code can go. Also, the code is not yours. I can generate the same amount of garbage as you myself using the same tools, and it will also not be mine, yet I stop myself from doing it, because more garbage is the last thing this world needs.

> Be happy that someone wants to help

How full you must be of yourself to consider pointing an LLM towards a repo as helping.

Must have been very difficult to point Claude towards a repo and trash code goes brrr, something that every person with a pulse can do.

And I shudder at the the entitlement to think that OSS maintainers have to thank you for your godly prompt and 0 amount of effort.
by _heimdall | 2025-08-27 00:25:54+00:00
Asymptomatic carriers are a concept I've always found interesting and honestly a bit confusing. When a pathogen can be present without ever causing symptoms it becomes much trickier to show causality.

This was a lynch pin of sorts in Koch's postulates. We can't properly go through those postulates with viruses like we can with biological pathogens, but it is odd to me that we don't have similar concerns when the presence of a replicable pathogen doesn't cause the symptoms they are expected to cause.
by raincole | 2025-08-27 00:26:34+00:00
> ultimately to me, Art that is worth spending my time consuming usually correlates with Art that has many many hours of dedicated labor poured into it

It might be true for you. But I highly doubt average people have any idea about how many or few hours were poured into the content they consume.

I've seen weebs who insists anime never utilizes rotoscope because "Japanese don't take shortcuts." My aunt questioned how anyone can make money from photo editing when a cousin of mine got married and had their wedding photos edited by a professional, because she thought it's just a few click on computer. People just don't know and they can be far off the marks in both ways.
Show HN: MaskWise: Redact, mask, and anonymize data in training files for LLMs
by gorkemcetin | 2025-08-27 00:26:41+00:00
If you’re working with LLM training data (like I often am), you’ll know how tricky it can be to scrub out PII without breaking the dataset. I have been using MS Presidio for some time and decided to build a UI on top of it. This is a tool that scans and recognizes sensitive bits in text (eg names, emails, addresses etc), processes images to mask whats sensitive and handles structured data.

Everything is written in ts + nodejs, with great help from Claude Code :) It's still early so feedback & contributions are more than welcome.
by pizzathyme | 2025-08-27 00:27:08+00:00
There's a lot of parallels here to the history of Nikola Tesla vs. Marconi. Tesla's inventions were superior, more reliable, more versatile in almost every way. But Marconi is the one remembered as the father of the radio, despite stealing Tesla's ideas and implementing them in less reliable fashion. He got to market fast, iterated on horrible versions, built broken products, but he shipped shipped shipped. And in the market, Tesla faded away, and Marconi won.

I say this as a big Elon skeptic. Technical superiority is only a small piece of the puzzle. But 10 years from now, I would be very surprised if the SOTA tech you mention has a fraction as many users as Neuralink.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-27 00:27:23+00:00
> OP is not qualified to be speaking about it

I know that was supposed to be an insult, but it's actually true. I don't mind at all.

Not my wheelhouse. I'm just repeating what the electrician told me, verbally, about twenty years ago. I wasn't actually that interested, at the time, so it's expected that my memory of it is terrible.

There's all sorts of stuff I ain't qualified to write about, and I'm not embarrassed in the least, to say so. That's one of the reasons I hang out here.

I suspect that it was 277 volts. I'm pretty sure that's a thing. I'm sorta sure that he said 300-something, but, as was noted above, he may have been just using the most impressive number he could find, or he was talking about the tolerances of the switches. I'll bet that it came up, because we were discussing the budget he was charging my department, and I probably had a question about the stuff he was ordering. Otherwise, I don't see why it would have interested me. I've learned to leave contractors alone, while they work. The reason that I knew they were working on live wires, was because the lights turned on, as I was walking past, and there was a slight spark in the box he was tweaking.
by thesuperbigfrog | 2025-08-27 00:27:59+00:00
>> To my knowledge there is no law enacted by congress that dictates how SSN data is stored.

Like the Privacy Act of 1974?

"The Privacy Act prohibits the disclosure of information from a system of records absent of the written consent of the subject individual, unless the disclosure is pursuant to one of twelve statutory exceptions."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974

https://www.justice.gov/opcl/privacy-act-1974

Federal agencies are subject to this law and these actions are violations of the law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Act_of_1974#Under_the_...
by michaelmrose | 2025-08-27 00:29:39+00:00
It is fantastically optimistic to attribute Teslas horrific stats to the cars being speedy

For instance the model y had a fatality rate of 10.6 per billion vehicle miles 4x the average.

Its also seems unreasonable to suppose that they are poorly suited to survive a crash as this doesn't seem to be indicated.

A more logical conclusion is that a box with a giant flashing distracting tablet in the center which lies and says it can drive itself gets crashed more because people are functionally incapable of going from passenger to driver at random intervals with no notice.
by valiant55 | 2025-08-27 00:30:01+00:00
Sorry, I understood but I'm not sure if the analogy is falling apart. My point was that's okay to use a language and determine it's not for you. It's even fine to write a blog post or two with your learnings and takeaways to warn others. It's not okay, as the gp put it, to make hating the language your entire personality.

This problem extends to other domains as well, I'm not sure why as a society we tolerate other people forcing their beliefs on others when they are not being put in harm's way.

If you don't like a language and are going to turn down a job because if their chosen language, that's fine. If you choose not to use a product because of the underlying technology, also fine. It's not fine to demand everyone see things your way and demand they do the same.
by tzs | 2025-08-27 00:30:38+00:00
This is probably a stupid idea since I've only put a few seconds thought into it, but hey I've done one of those today [1] so why not go for a double?

We've now had a large number of examples of ChatGPT and similar systems giving absolutely terrible advice. They also have a tendency to be sycophantic which makes them particular bad when what you need is to be told that some idea of yours is very bad. (See the third episode of the new South Park season for funny but scary take on that. Much of that episode revolves around how badly ChatGPT can mislead people).

I know the makers of these systems have (probably) tried to get them to stop doing that, but it seems they are not succeeding. I sometimes wonder if they can succeed--maybe if you are training on as much of the internet as you can managed to crawl you inherently end up with a system that acts like a psychopath because the internet has some pretty dark corners.

Anyway, I'm wondering if they could train a separate LLM on everything they can find about ethics? Textbooks from the ethics classes that are required in medical school, law school, engineering school, and many other fields. Exams and answers from those. Textbooks in moral philosophy.

Then have that ethics LLM monitor all user interaction with ChatGPT and block ChatGPT if it tries to give unethical advice or if it tries to tell the user to do something unethical.

[1] I apparently tried to reinvent, poorly, something called DANE. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45028058
by rkagerer | 2025-08-27 00:30:53+00:00
Advice to US international shippers: When shipping to Canada, UPS is the worst. They charge an arm and a leg to process the paperwork (often to the point where their brokerage fees outsize the actual duties and taxes owed), and even after I told them multiple times to use my own customs broker they seemed to "forget" or play games like delaying release of the needed paperwork. USPS is most reasonable, Purolator is OK, FedEx is still expensive but marginally better.
by lytfyre | 2025-08-27 00:30:56+00:00
Never tried the Expert Mouse in particular. Two of mine were slimblades, one orbit with scroll wheel. Different failures each time -

Orbit - broken plastic around one of the bearings. ball no longer turned smoothly or straight in every direction, and dragged. Slimblade #1 - began to operate erratically. I believe it was a failure of some kind with one of the optical sensors, but I never was able to figure it out consistently. Slimblade #2 - microswitch under the LMB failed mechanically, no longer triggered.

the slimblade's were provided by my employer at the time, the orbit was purchased personally for at home - it's use overlapped with the slimblades at work.

I don't think I'm super unusually hard on my trackballs - My Elecom Huge lasted for ~6 years before the soft touch plastic finally got a bit gross from skin oil contact, but still was functionally fine, and my current protoarc is going strong two years in.
by furyofantares | 2025-08-27 00:31:12+00:00
Maybe you already don't find cows beautiful and so didn't appreciate the metaphor. Here's another take: Driving the road to Hana on Maui, I think you drive by like 50 waterfalls. We were in awe for the first dozen, but by the 50th, it was just another waterfall. Or seeing nonstop bald eagles in Alaska, by the time you leave, they're like pigeons.

The point being made exactly that something beautiful has being cheapened.
by runarberg | 2025-08-27 00:31:36+00:00
I am predicting (and hoping) that the concept of democracy will continue to shift towards ever greater inclusion and increased human rights as it has in the past two centuries, and a future vision of democracy would disqualify the current system as undemocratic for some of the points above.

Just like how we don’t view pre-civil rights USA as democratic by modern standards. For example, we would never consider a country with legalized slavery to be democratic today. Similarly a future concept of democracy is unlikely to consider a country which practices the death penalty to be democratic by that hypothetical future standard.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-27 00:31:46+00:00
The article states:

>Bogunovic’s therapy is designed to mimic what happens in people with ISG15 deficiency, but only for a short time.

Given the choice between 2 weeks of a moderate COVID infection (fever but no hospitalization), and 2 weeks of this therapy, I would guess that the moderate COVID infection gets you at least 10x the inflammation.
by XorNot | 2025-08-27 00:33:40+00:00
There are not bacteriophages in your body, except where bacteria are. And since they don't infect human cells, they're being constantly destroyed already by the primary immune system even if they get there.

Viral infections only successfully persist by replicating faster then the human body destroys them, and by hiding in human cells.

This isn't a system which is some sort of toxic to viruses, it's an immune booster.
by dctoedt | 2025-08-27 00:34:04+00:00
> I've thought a lot about what happens to Christianity if you discard the writings of Paul.

Without Paul, Christianity reverts to being a variety of Judaism whose leader from the hinterlands got it right about what really mattered in life, as had his predecessors [0]. But he fatally misjudged the big city's religious oligarchs — vassals to their ruthless Roman occupiers — when he relentlessly attacked them and their cozy little setup; at their behest, he was executed by the Roman overlords.

Some [1] of the leader's later followers — his posse, if you will — imagined they'd seen him. But the leader's wealthy and/or well-connected followers are strangely absent from the narrative. Perhaps they had more information about what had really happened [2].

The early postmortem appearance tales eventually mutated into a legend of a warrior-king, raised from the dead — who would return Real Soon Now, to usher in God's reign and establish Israel's rightful place in Creation [3].

Over decades, the tales percolated into Mediterranean Graeco-Roman culture — eventually mutating further still into a tale of a divine being [4] (perhaps hybridized with that culture's myths?).

Some self-cites:

[0] https://www.questioningchristian.org/2006/06/metanarratives_...

[1] https://www.questioningchristian.org/2004/10/troubling_incon...

[2] https://www.questioningchristian.org/2005/10/the_empty_tomb_...

[3] https://www.questioningchristian.org/2006/04/what_did_messia...

[4] https://www.questioningchristian.org/2005/11/jesus_is_lord_d...
by pfdietz | 2025-08-27 00:34:27+00:00
Great examples of the sort of nonsense I was talking about.

Formula is fine. How do I know that? If it weren't, if there were any evidence it was bad, the FDA would not allow it to be sold in the US. But there's a wide variety of such formulas here.

Perhaps you think formula is fine for we smart first worlders, but poor dumb third world mothers have to have their agency removed and us determine what they can choose? Strong pass on that; this is no longer the age of European colonialism.

Terminator crops... oh boy. This one is hilariously ridiculous. Their sin is that they don't allow the farmer to retain seeds and plant them again. You know what else has that property? All hybrid seeds! These have been around for nearly a century. No hybrids breed true if you try to replant them; the uniform combinations of genes in the first generation hybrid becomes randomized in the second generation.

You aren't complaining about terminator seeds, you are complaining about modern agriculture.
by dehrmann | 2025-08-27 00:34:48+00:00
> One of our classes being thrown in limbo for several months after we found out that a bunch of foundational research underpinning it was entirely made up (See: Diederik Stapel).

I wonder if you can sue for fraud over this. The researcher knowingly deceived academia, and it's foreseeable that students would then pay to study the the false research.
by autoexec | 2025-08-27 00:35:42+00:00
There's no reason to think that megastructures are only achievable through slavery, but I think it's fair to say that it's a lot cheaper if you're willing to disregard the humanity of others and abuse them until you get what you want. The alternative is that you pay workers what they're worth and use enough of them that they aren't being overworked, but that eats into profits.

I think we still take plenty of risks, still do big things, and still enslave and abuse a lot of workers. It's increasingly seen for the evil it is, but that hasn't stopped it from happening. I think the biggest reason you don't see as many massive projects these days is because we've already got a ton of infrastructure in place, major technological advances are getting harder to come by as we've covered a lot of the "easy" stuff already, and the emphasis on short term/immediate profits.

When we suddenly need a massive structure to house a major sporting event like the world cup or Olympics where a small number of people are basically certain to make a fortune you'll find we're still perfectly willing to construct it on the backs and corpses of forced labor and migrant workers suffering abuse, only to abandon it afterwards until it's time to build a new one somewhere else.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-08-27 00:35:54+00:00
> The garbage in the case of an AI generated PR, is all of it.

I promise you that you have merged PRs with AI generated code and/or comments. You just couldn't tell because the contributor wasn't a lazy idiot and actually thought about how to use the tools at their disposal to do good work like a professional.

I swear if we left things to you people, we'd all still be programming in assembler. Copilot generates most of my commit message drafts now. I end up accepting about half of them without needing any modifications. Sometimes they're shit. That's why I'm the developer and author. I always make sure whatever PR I submit in my name is something I'm proud to stand behind. But sorry that you don't want me on your project for that sin of the tools I chose to use for my work.
by dudeWithAMood | 2025-08-27 00:36:13+00:00
Dude you do not understand how bad those "APIs" are for booking flights. Customers of Travelport often have screen reading software that reads/writes to a green screen. There's also tele-type, but like most of the GDS providers use old IBM TPF mainframes.

I spent the first two years of my career in the space, we joked anything invented post Michael Jackson's song Thriller wasn't present.
by ksec | 2025-08-27 00:36:19+00:00
I dont think the point Amazon uses ARM was about performance but purely cost optimisation. At one point, nearly 40% of Intel's server revenue was coming from Amazon. They just figure it out at their scale it would be cheaper to do it themselves.

But I am purely guessing ARM has risen their price per core so it makes less financial sense to do a yearly update on CPU. They are also going into Server CPU business meaning they now have some incentives to keep it all to themselves. Which makes the Nvidia moves really smart as they decided to go for the ISA licences and do it by themselves.
by sandreas | 2025-08-27 00:36:50+00:00
Use the 3-2-1 strategy. 3 backups on 2 different media with 1 offsite location.

For code I use github, my NAS and burned blurays (readonly, offsite).

Syncthing is a handy tool for smaller files (e.g. documents) to distribute over multiple clients, e.g. your Android phone.

Restic is good for encrypted, deduplicated cloud backup.

ZFS can also be helpful when used with zfs-auto-snapshot or zrepl to prevent accidental data loss or ransomware attacks.
by d0gsg0w00f | 2025-08-27 00:38:14+00:00
But they were first to market. That's 90% of the work. There's a huge gap between "perfect unrealized idea" and "shit you can actually buy". Hate the man all you want, he'll go down in history as the Edison of electric vehicles, even though others will undoubtedly surpass the initial public offering technologically.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-27 00:39:00+00:00
If any 32 bit app is launched the shared libraries will be loaded. It’s not a big deal on Macs. But it is a big deal on iPhones.

I’m not sure how it works in the modern era. But back in the day there was also a performance cost when you had a mix of 16 bit code and 32 bit code in memory. I don’t know how it would be in 32 bit vs 64 bit.

And being able to get away with less RAM also improves battery life because keeping RAM refreshed uses energy - again a bigger factor on mobile.

The smaller the die, the less energy it uses. You can also use that space for efficiency cores.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-27 00:39:39+00:00
The rice cooker audibly turns the heating element completely on or off with a relay or thermostat or similar. It does have some kind of PWM , but so does a purely electromechanical rice cooker. There are different settings for brown and white rice, as well as different keep-warm levels, so I presume it can electronically modify the set point for the temperature.

I had looked up the history of fuzzy logic, when I originally saw the term. Everything I came across was from the mid 60's during the minicomputers era (e.g. the DEC PDP and IBM System/3). I just did a Google ngram search for it, and it does look like it peaked highest in the mid 90's. (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fuzzy+logic&ye...) It was especially redundant then, because by that point 32-bit floating-point processors were already extremely common. It made sense during the 60's to have two-bit values in ladder logic control systems, because mini computers were prohibitively expensive, but by the 90's control systems were already using personal computer components to emulate old relay logic, while newer control systems were being written in languages that are still common today.

You just sent me down a rabbit hole of mid-90's buzzword ands jargon, and I found something especially great: neuro-fuzzy logic (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44196-024-00709-z)

There's also quantum logic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic) and someone wrote a paper relating it with fuzzy logic: (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-93802-6_...)

Once academia gets involved, you get fractal (https://xkcd.com/1095/) sub-niches of sub-niches, and it goes further off the rails than marketing jargon.

I swear there's a computing buzzword cycle of embedded systems (e.g. fuzzy logic, smart, IoT, etc.), artificial intelegence (e.g. genetic algorthims, machine vision, neural networks, etc.), and quantum (just quantum, it's never been practical enough to have sub-niches). Right now we're on the trailing end of AI and working our way to quantum. There's a tech company called C3 that has changed their name from the original C3 Energy to C3 IoT and now C3 AI. When they change it to C3 Quantum, we'll know were in the next phase of the buzzword cycle.
by _1tem | 2025-08-27 00:39:54+00:00
I've been planning to build something like this for a while now (just for myself). Love the planning workflow, will likely steal that idea.

But code review is more than just reviewing diffs. I need to test the code by actually building and running it. How does that critical step fit in to this workflow? If the async runner stops after it finishes writing code, do I then need to download the PR to my machine, install dependencies, etc. to test it? Major flow blocker for me, defeats the entire purpose of such a tool.

I was planning to build always-on devcontainers on a baremetal server. So after Claude Code does its thing, I have a live, running version of my app to test alongside the diffs. Sort of like Netlify/Vercel branch deploys, but with a full stack container.

Claude Code also works far better in an agentic loop when it can self-heal by running tests, executing one-off terminal commands, tailing logs, and querying the database. I need to do this anyway. For me, a mobile async coding workflow needs to have a container running with a mobile-friendly SSH terminal, database viewer, logs viewer, lightweight editor with live preview, and a test runner. Diffs just don't cut it for me.

I do believe that before 2025 is over we will achieve the dream of doing real software engineering on mobile. I was planning to build it myself anyway.
by mkozlows | 2025-08-27 00:40:01+00:00
The strong sense I got from reading this is that they don't believe it's possible to safely do this sort of thing right now, and they want to warn people away from Perplexity etc. so they can avoid losing market share while also not launching a not-yet-ready product.

(The more interesting question will be whether they have any means to eventually make it safe. I'm pretty skeptical about it in the near term.)