MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by protocolture | 2025-09-30 23:09:04+00:00
China is very good at subsidising development like this. Other commenters are rightly pointing out that they cannot currently compete with Boeing. But if you look at the way the chinese approached car manufacturing, 20 years ago, I wouldnt have even ridden in one, these days they are honestly fantastic. Its because they got the chance to make those really bad cars, that they were able to improve to where they are today. 20 years from now, its possible that the gap closes to the point that Boeing is displaced from everywhere but the US.

Biggest issue I can see is that the US will try and weaponise national security against them. Much like how Cisco and Juniper fought to have Huawei and friends blacklisted in most western countries. Just as they become competitive, Boeing and Airbus might start screaming that the chinese planes have communist killswitches and that planes will fall out of the sky if theres a war with China.
by joaohaas | 2025-09-30 23:09:58+00:00
I think other people mentioned it already, but ideally I'd like to choose a list of languages to leave them as is, and translate the rest.

For example, I can speak Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese and English. Ideally I would want news in those languages to keep their original text, while translating news in other languages to a target language.

For example, if I set my language as English, Russian news would get translated to English, but Portuguese ones would keep their original text.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-09-30 23:10:26+00:00
The problem you usually attempt to alleviate by using Anubis is that you get hit by load generated by aggressive AI scrappers that are otherwise indistinguishable from real users. As soon as the bot is polite enough to identify as some kind of a bot, the problem's gone, as you can apply your regular measures for rate limiting and access control now.

(yes, there are also people who use it as an anti-AI statement, but that's not the reason why it's used on the most high-profile installations out there)
by kelnos | 2025-09-30 23:10:27+00:00
> The actual divisive issue is whether people who say they are the opposite sex to what they really are should be granted access to spaces that are designated for the sole use of the opposite sex.

And of course that shouldn't matter for an online virtual space.

But that's unfortunately not it. There are many many people who believe that being trans isn't real, and that anyone who claims to be trans has a mental illness. In addition to denying trans people access to gendered spaces, they also want to deny them medical care, and do things like aggressively (sometimes even gleefully) call them by a name and pronouns that are painful to hear. (Which would still be reprehensible even if being trans was a mental illness!)

And that latter bit is something I have seen happen in online spaces. It's a form of harassment. If the simple "don't be a dick to others"-type CoC is one we can agree on, that's definitely a violation. It's not a "political stance" to say that people should call others by their preferred name and pronouns. It's just basic human decency to do that, and if there's someone who can't even do that basic human thing in a community I manage, then they are not welcome there, regardless of what informs them (often misguided religious beliefs) that they should be hateful like that.
by layman51 | 2025-09-30 23:10:28+00:00
Is it just me, but doesn't it seem like the concept of Frank as a business just sounds like it wouldn't have lived that long and that it might even be predatory? Frank got in trouble with the Department of Education because they used the term "FAFSA" in their domain name. I was lucky enough to have mentors in my life who warned me away from clicking on sponsored links to paid preparers if I ever decided to Google search "FAFSA". So it makes me suspect like part of their business strategy was to convince low-income students who have great difficulty submitting the FAFSA to pay them to submit it for them. I don't recall what the environment was like years ago, but there had always been a desire on the part of ED to make the FAFSA easier to fill out, and this would have totally eroded the value of Frank even if it was a legitimate business. What's also confusing is that at some point they apparently had a `.org` domain, so maybe they were also a non-profit?

Apparently they also had some kind of service to submit an aid appeal letter to the student's financial aid office. This is also a ridiculous service for low-income students to pay for because I can almost guarantee that Frank wouldn't have the context necessary to actually convince a college's financial aid administrators to give more money to one of their users.

It's almost as if the people considering the deal might have been focusing more on the financial education aspects of Frank instead of how they actually would interface with the FAFSA.
by legitcoders | 2025-09-30 23:10:38+00:00
Hey HN! Creator here. I built LLMS Central to solve a problem I noticed: as AI companies train on web content, website owners have no standardized way to communicate their AI training policies.

llms.txt is an emerging standard (like robots.txt for AI) that lets sites specify how AI can use their content. LLMS Central makes it easy to:

- Search for llms.txt files across the web - Generate your own llms.txt file (free tool) - Claim and verify domain ownership - Track who's accessing your llms.txt

The site is completely free. I'd love your feedback!

Tech: Next.js 15, Firebase, Vercel, TypeScript
by physarum_salad | 2025-09-30 23:10:58+00:00
Yes but with AI, in principle, there is more wriggle room to present a spectrum of opinions on a single topic. It is all about what is baked into the models. Like can it discuss x topic from multiple competing angles and capture the complexity. That is important for history, politics, medicine, science and so on. This does not currently happen on many wikipedia pages in these domains imo.

Narrative engineering with AI is a pretty scary prospect so I can see how the wikipedia model with genuinely random human editors might have a major advantage there. If it is simply a vanity project, and not an uncensored Grok model, then obviously it would be garbage and hilariously biased.
by hahayup | 2025-09-30 23:11:07+00:00
It's such a shame that the iPad has these limitations. It's such an incredible device–lightweight, very well designed, incredible screen, great speakers, etc. I really do feel that if Apple sold a MacBook in the style of a Surface Book: iPad tablet running MacOS which could dock to a keyboard and trackpad with a potential performance boost (graphics card, storage, whatever), that it would be my dream device.
by llm_nerd | 2025-09-30 23:11:39+00:00
>But lowering your LDL does not prevent heart disease

Literally one of the most proven truths in medical science is that LDL levels has an almost directly relationship with CVD risk over the long term. Someone with low cholesterol can of course still have CVD, but their odds are much better than someone with high cholesterol. And of course the damage from cholesterol is additive, so the earlier you control LDL, the more of a benefit.

>A new national study has shown that nearly 75 percent of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had cholesterol levels that would indicate they were not at high risk for a cardiovascular event, based on current national cholesterol guidelines.

The damage from high cholesterol happens over decades. Yet the people who actually have heart attacks are often older.

So yes, if gramps spent his life with high cholesterol but now he barely eats and is sedentary, he might have low cholesterol now but that says literally nothing to what you're claiming it does.
by sdesol | 2025-09-30 23:11:54+00:00
> Sonnet/Claude Code may technically be "smarter", but Qwen3-Coder on Cerebras is often more productive for me because it's just so incredibly fast.

Saying "technically" is really underselling the difference in intelligence in my opinion. Claude and Gemini are much, much smarter and I trust them to produce better code, but you honestly can't deny the excellent value that Qwen-3, the inference speed and $50/month for 25M tokens/per day brings to the table.

Since I paid for the Cerebras pro plan, I've decided to force myself to use it as much as possible for the duration of the month for developing my chat app (https://github.com/gitsense/chat) and here so some of my thoughts so far:

- Qwen3 Coder is a lot dumber when it comes to prompting as Gemini and Claude are much better at reading between the lines. However since the speed is so good, I often don't care as I can go back to the message and make some simple clarifications and try again.

- The max context window size of 128k for Qwen 3 Coder 480B on their platform can be a serious issue if you need a lot of documentation or code in context.

- I've never come close to the 25M tokens per day limit for their Pro Plan. The max I am using is 5M/day.

- The inference speed + a capable model like Qwen 3 will open up use cases most people might not have thought of before.

I will probably continue to pay for the $50 dollar plan for these use cases.

1. Applying LLM generated patches

Qwen 3 coder is very much capable of applying patches generated by Sonnet and Gemini. It is slower than what https://www.morphllm.com/ provides but it is definitely fast enough for most people to not care. The cost savings can be quite significant depending on the work.

2. Building context

Since it is so fast and because the 25M token limit per day is such a high limit for me, I am finding myself loading more files into context and just asking Qwen to identify files that I will need and/or summarize things so I can feed it into Sonnet or Gemini to save me significant money.

3. AI Assistant

Due to it's blazing speed, you can analyze a lot data fast for deterministic searches and because it can review results at such a great speed, you can do multiple search and review loops without feeling like you are waiting forever.

Given what I've experienced so far, I don't think Cerebras can be a serious platform for coding if Qwen 3 Coder is the only available model. Having said that, given the inference speed and Qwen being more than capable, I can see Cerebras becoming a massive cost savings option for many companies and developers, which is where I think they might win a lot of enterprise contracts.
by jrpt | 2025-09-30 23:12:07+00:00
hs-CRP is well known as a useful biomarker and it is cheap to test too. If you look at page 13 of the GrimAge 2 paper, you'll see CRP is one of the factors most negatively correlated with their aging clock, in fact basically as strong of a negative impact as smoking. https://escholarship.org/content/qt6k46n006/qt6k46n006.pdf

This new news is about research published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

It's definitely not some marketing fad.
by majorchord | 2025-09-30 23:12:31+00:00
IDK, it seems to fit with the definition to me:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/politics

> the activities of ... people who try to influence the way a country is governed

Britannica says politics is "the opinions that someone has about what should be done."

"playing politics" itself apparently also has its own definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/play%20politics

But I moreso meant the plain politics definition.
by Arch-TK | 2025-09-30 23:13:11+00:00
With long pasta it's not hard, with a tiny bit of experience and attention, to learn how it physically behaves when it's either done or close to it. It's about as easy to learn (experientially) how much it changes minute by minute at that point.

I will stir it to see how it behaves, as soon as I catch it behaving like pasta which is may be al dente I will sample it, if it's still a bit too hard, I can more or less tell if it's going to be one or two minutes. I'm aiming for almost-too-hard al dente to compensate for any further cooking.

Stop even a bit early if you'll be finishing the pasta in the sauce.

I think attempting to formalise cooking techniques is a funny sort of thing... The people trying to do it are clearly into cooking, but if you really enjoy cooking, you're probably better off learning these things intuitively and spending your time learning other skills to expand your general cooking ability.
by Marsymars | 2025-09-30 23:13:17+00:00
Yeah but in the longer term the price trends to $0 either way, and Windows will get software support for longer.

My mom is happily using a Lenovo from 2013 and looking to upgrade because it doesn't support Windows 11 and Win10 is running out of support. A contemporary Mac would have been the 2012 Mac Mini which would have received its final OS update with 10.15 Catalina in 2019, and would have received its final security update in 2022. (Desktop, so no difference in peripherals, etc.)

Incidentally, I actually purchased both the Lenovo and a 2012 Mac Mini (refurb) so I have the pricing data - the Lenovo was $540 and the Mac Mini was $730 - and then both took aftermarket memory and SSD upgrades.
by bfg_9k | 2025-09-30 23:13:25+00:00
Depends on the HF. They're talking largely about multi-strat or macro firms here. If you're a HF that fills a niche, then size actually works against you as the pool of opportunities available reduces as you get bigger.

For a somewhat hyperbolic example, check out RenTech's Medallion Fund. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Technologies
by monkmartinez | 2025-09-30 23:13:46+00:00
That is just one very simple part, connecting the mouse. Literally everything else sucks on iOS. File management, hidden menus, running multiple apps, system management... and the list goes on. Need to convert a STEP file to something else on the iPad? Download 15 apps to see which one works, then try to find the converted file in the abomination of a file system? iOS is hot garbage.
by hodgehog11 | 2025-09-30 23:14:00+00:00
This is one of those things that seems easy in retrospect, but wasn't particularly obvious at the time.

1. Proving existence to a differential equation using a numerical approximation is quite a bit more difficult than it seems at first. For Euler or NS, it seems almost absurd. Not only do you need a rather substantial amount of control over the linearisation, you need a way to rigorously control a posteriori error. This is easy for polynomials, but doing it for other models requires serious techniques that have only been created recently (rigorous quadrature via interval arithmetic).

2. Further to that, neural networks are far from an obvious choice. They are not exactly integrable and it is certainly not clear a priori that their biases would help to search for a blowup solution. In fact, I would have initially said it was a poor choice for the task. You also need to get it to a certain degree of precision and that's not easy.

3. The parameterisation of the self-similar solution turns out to be completely appropriate for a neural network. To be fair, solutions of this type have been considered before, so I'm willing to chalk this down to luck.

It's difficult to explain how challenging it is to fully derive a plan for a computationally-assisted proof of this magnitude unless you've tried it yourself on a new problem. At the end it seems completely obvious, but only after exhausting countless dead ends first.
by smithkl42 | 2025-09-30 23:14:21+00:00
It depends mostly on the denomination, sometimes on the individual church. I'm a man, so maybe I wouldn't notice it, but I've never attended a church where I got the impression that women were second-class citizens. Every church I've ever attended has had women in the pulpit, standing on stage, leading worship, running programs, wrangling volunteers, leading Bible studies, teaching kids, discipling teenagers ... and the list goes on. I've never met a church that could have survived without the women in the congregation, and if any man ever tried to treat them like second-class citizens, I think they were likely too busy running things to notice it.

That's not saying there aren't churches like what you're worried about. It's just that I've attended a pretty good mix of conservative and liberal churches over my 50+ years, and I haven't seen one.
by lisbbb | 2025-09-30 23:14:30+00:00
That's a mischaracterization of what took place. The alternate slates of electors were exactly what is prescribed legally and had to exist in case the courts ruled in his favor. If the alternate electors didn't exist, and the case was successful, too bad, so sad, original electors are sent to DC. That's why the electors who were charged with crimes had the charges all dropped. You were witnessing lawfare and media distortions of actual long-standing, but little used processes.
by DaveZale | 2025-09-30 23:14:44+00:00
Good tip.

I tried the AI that Brave browser provides. There was no explicit answer (deleted) but the links were not deleted. I posted one of those here. Earlier today I tuned into a Chris Hedges podcast. An interview with Ralph Nader. He has a couple dozen impeachable offenses tallied. But his criticism of the Democratic Party was just as severe as his criticism of the President.

I am not stating any political bias here, but downvote away, you who hold the awesome power of the downvote click.... I hope it makes you feel better for at least a moment.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-30 23:14:49+00:00
There should be a way to leave a private channel but rejoin it at any time, so that it’s included in search results.

But then again that’s solving a problem that shouldn’t exist if there is no performance penalty from joining many channels. It doesn’t seem like there is, either. I haven’t had an issue just hiding everything under the “Stale” category.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-09-30 23:14:57+00:00
Note that this is about search, not AI so take it for whatever it's worth.

There were some articles this week about frontotemporal dementia and the president. I tried to find other, unrelated sources by putting the condition in quotes and without the president's name.

I couldn't get any results, from the time period I knew articles had been published. I looked for a while. I included -willis to exclude Bruce Willis stories.

The results seemed unfindable until I included the president's name or something equally unique (ex:"executive order").

I would have forgotten about it if it weren't for this HN submission.

FWIW, I eventually turned up what's out there. This week's story seems like a variant of the same story that's run every couple of months. It didn't seem like the story had progressed in that time but details are pretty thin.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-30 23:15:11+00:00
I still find it utterly mind-boggling that Slack still lacks the ability to batch or "debounce" notifications.

I don't need (nor want) to react instantaneously to anything and everything that occurs in a channel, thread, or direct-message chat... and especially not for that one senior co-worker who submits each discrete sentence in their indefinitely long stream of consciousness.

"Mute" is not an answer, because I do need to be notified of activity... But I'd rather get a single minute-delayed "boop" about multiple events than a stream of instant and sporadic mad chittering.
by beala | 2025-09-30 23:15:21+00:00
IIUC, the basis for this claim is that Kagi pays Yandex (a Russian search company) for access to Yandex's image search API. Is that the entirety of their link to Russia? If so, it seems like a stretch to accuse them of being a "Russian disinfo laundering service" (GP's words, not yours), but this is my first time hearing this, so if I'm missing something, I'm all ears.
by imtringued | 2025-09-30 23:15:51+00:00
Lowering LDL isn't equivalent to a seatbelt. A seatbelt is a safety device that performs a function in an accident.

LDL is used as a predictor because it is easy to measure not because LDL itself causes heart disease. Lowering LDL doesn't actually do anything on its own, because it is just a proxy metric for the underlying problem.

It's more cranky to shutdown discussions by misrepresenting someone's position as "cholesterol denialism". What does that even mean in this context? Finding better predictors is denialism. Great now we just need a ministry of truth.
by estearum | 2025-09-30 23:16:37+00:00
Nope. A CEO can't essentially steal from shareholders, but otherwise they have extremely broad latitude in how they engage in business.

There is no legal or moral imperative to make antisocial, unethical, or short term decisions that "maximize shareholder value."

This is something that morally weak people tell themselves (and others) to justify the depravity they're willing to sink to in order to satiate their greed.

The concept doesn't even make sense: different shareholders have different priorities and time horizons. A businessperson has no way to know what it objectively means to maximize their returns. They must make a subjective determination, and they have extremely broad latitude to do that.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-09-30 23:16:40+00:00
> I mean, take a 100 minute movie, sliced into 1-second clips. 8kB is not even enough to store all possible orders you could put those clips in.

Using a low hurdle to show it still failing is a good rhetorical technique, but you lowered your hurdle too far here. Yes technically specifying the order of 6000 segments takes more than 8KB. Because it takes 8.14KB. That's a rounding error. What could have been a useful argument is now a nitpick. And what if the movie was only 98 minutes, now it fits? What a mixed message.

It's a good reference point, but I'd replace "is not even enough" with "would only be enough".
by WillAdams | 2025-09-30 23:16:46+00:00
It's convenient, and it also makes usage of a stylus far easier.

FWIW, I often rotate my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 so that the screen is in portrait mode, then hold the laptop as if it's a book and use a stylus and touch on the display with my right hand, and operate the keyboard for modifiers/shortcuts with my left, or open it flat on a lapdesk.
by zielmicha | 2025-09-30 23:16:56+00:00
Can you explain this in more detail? It doesn't seem true on a first glance.

If you enable compression on ZFS that runs on top of dmcrypt volume, it will naturally happen before encryption (since dmcrypt is the lower layer). It's also unclear how it could be much faster, since dmcrypt generally is bottlenecked on AES-NI computation (https://blog.cloudflare.com/speeding-up-linux-disk-encryptio...), which ZFS has to do too.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-09-30 23:17:52+00:00
https://github.com/ashishb/wp2hugo

It dumps all pages and articles as markdown with most Wordpress metadata as front matter metadata, and all comments in a separate yaml file which can be processed as needed. It creates a minimal theme with the necessary templates to do a basic static render of the content. It does need some theme and template tweaking to match Wordpress url structure and ensure all pages end up in the same url/permalink.

I also used a Wordpress hugo exporter plug-in about 3 years ago - worked mostly the same.

Using Hugo still allows me to more easily add content to the site while maintaining a consistent templating and design.

I also experimented with doing a simple static dump of html as generated by Wordpress - I tried two ways, using wget —-mirror which kinda worked but generated a lot of redundant pages, and a Wordpress plugin called “simply static” which was supposed to do something similar but in the end didn’t work.

In the end I decided against the static dump because it would have entirely “frozen” the site in time - I did want the ability to add content down the line; or change the design without having to modify the content significantly. Archiving sites verbatim is best left to the experts at archive.org :)