MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JackeJR | 2025-09-12 04:02:03+00:00
The thing is that with such a sample, we don't really know

1. If the effect is real. i.e. had the patient not been given the injection, would his/her condition improve spontaneously.

2. Assuming the effect is real, what are the circumstances that make the treatment work for this person.

Not to be overly dismissive of the good work but it is too early to be optimistic about this given the above and the fact that the results were not replicated out of Sana suggest that there is a lot that we need to work out before this becomes a viable treatment for the masses.

The harms of hyping this up is that readers will get their hopes up and then be disappointed when things don't pan out as do most scientific endeavours. Overtime, readers will learn to distrust anything that is being reported because 90% of which do not translate to real world impact. It is hard to get the nuance that "science takes many many failures and iterations" to the public and the more likely outcome of such reporting is general distrust of science when things don't go the way that is hoped for.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-12 04:02:33+00:00
> Real identities as a first step?

If we could answer the preceding question, we'd have solved society. People are bastards in real life. People are angels anonymously. (If anything, taking away real identities neuters the internet's celebrity tendency.)

The only gate with a track record is tendency towards exploration. When the internet was a frontier, it selected for curiosity and, if not intelligence, at least daring (for its own sake). When it became accessible, we got influencers.
by koverstreet | 2025-09-12 04:02:42+00:00
I think this would be the most usable microkernel these days, and yes, it does FS as a service: https://www.redox-os.org/

There's no inherent reason why a filesystem in userspace has to have a measurable performance impact over in-kernel, done right. It would be a lot of engineering work, though.

Context switches aren't that expensive when you're staying on the same core, it's IPIs (waking up a thread on another CPU) that's inherently expensive; and you need zero copy to/from the pagecache, which is tricky. But it totally could be done.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-12 04:02:46+00:00
>Where did I obligate myself to respond to your entire comment? I quoted specifically what I wanted to reply to.

Oh ok. I kind of figured that. You saw a sentence that you didn’t like and then imagined a version of it that meant something that you felt you could refute, and then ran with it.

I’m kind of confused why you’re posting to other human beings on here though. If you want to have imaginary sparring battles where you get to dictate what the other party means, there are some extremely popular chat bots that you can talk to. Like you get that this hasn’t been a real conversation right? Like essentially you’ve been talking to yourself using bits and pieces of text that I wrote and arguing against a position that you made up in your head. In public.

This will be the end of this talk. Enjoy this link and have a nice day! https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/short-history-turn...
by zmmmmm | 2025-09-12 04:04:40+00:00
It's funny now that Apple is speculated to have a foldable phone on the drawing board, I can hear in real time all the tech "journalists" swinging their viewpoints around from considering it a joke to saying what a good idea it is and how they can't wait for it. Some of them already talking like Apple invented it, before they even have a product. Seems like Apple still has the reality distortion field.
by 10111two | 2025-09-12 04:05:13+00:00
The skepticism from your end is very understandable. But human brain is made of approximately 86 billion of those pretty little boxes (neurons) of electrical impulses, all governed by same fundamental principles. whether, you have 100 pretty boxes, trillion boxes, the rules remain the same. The real magic is to understand those rules and simulate them using lines of code. Thinking, feeling or experiencing are higher cognitive functions resulting from the interactions of those pretty little boxes. And obviously to get to these cognitive functions, you need more boxes. That's totally fair. But even at small scale, if those rules are correct, you will start seeing early signs which will mature into cognitive functions you are referencing. Think of a development of newborn into an adult. So if you get the rules right, it is completely justified calling it an artificial brain. A toy car is essentially also a car, both governed by same laws of motion. The logic and definition of the use of words(spin) is formally defined in the report. I hope this clarifies some of the skepticism.
by brothrock | 2025-09-12 04:05:32+00:00
I think this is better than many current coding interview methods. Assuming you have an agent setup to not give the interviewee the answer directly.

Of course there are times when you need someone extremely skilled at a particular language. But from my experience I would MUCH prefer to see how someone builds out a problem in natural language and have guarantees to its success. I’ve been in too many interviews where candidates trip over syntax, pick the wrong language, or are just not good at memorization and don’t want to look dumb looking things up. I usually prefer paired programming interviews where I cater my assistance to expectations of the position. AI can essentially do that for us.
by int_19h | 2025-09-12 04:08:13+00:00
Speaking as an immigrant who is now a US citizen, I don't think this is particularly relevant. As far as immigration support from companies goes, Big Tech already offers it, so the real beef is with the federal government - and a trade or company union is hardly the best venue to have that fight. I would first and foremost want a union that protects my interests as a worker against my employer's encroachment, and it was no different when I wasn't a citizen yet.
by rmunn | 2025-09-12 04:08:27+00:00
What I mean is that if they don't add it, they're going to get threatening emails from regulators saying "Hey, you don't have a cookie banner". Those regulators don't have any way of knowing how their site operates, so the small banner at least manages to inform them and keep Posthog from receiving emails.

That is what I meant by "practically". I mean "in a practical sense" as opposed to in a theoretical sense.
by MengerSponge | 2025-09-12 04:08:38+00:00
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
by koverstreet | 2025-09-12 04:09:23+00:00
Not inherently.

Early bcachefs was ridiculously fast, it's gotten slower as we've grown all the features to compete with ZFS. All the database stuff that gives us amazing flexibility adds overhead (the btree iterator code has gotten fat), backpointers and modern accounting blew up our journalling overhead. A lot things that we needed for scalability, or hardening/self healing, have added overhead.

COW really isn't the main thing, it's cramming all the features in that we want these days while keeping the fastpaths fast that's the tricky part.

But, a lot of this stuff is fixable - performance just hasn't been the priority, since the actual users aren't complaining about performance and are instead clamoring for things like erasure coding.

(and, the performance numbers that I've seen comparing us to ZFS still put us _significantly faster)
by strange_quark | 2025-09-12 04:10:29+00:00
I thought the the 3rd example of the AR building highlighting was cool. I used the same prompt and seems to work when you ask it for the most prominent building in a skyline, but fails really hard if you ask it for another building.

I uploaded an image I found of Midtown Manhattan and tried various times to get it to highlight the Chrysler Building, it claimed it wasn't in the image (it was). I asked it to do 432 Park Ave, and it literally inserted a random building in the middle of the image that was not 432 Park, and gave me some garbled text for the description. I then tried Chicago as pictured from museum campus and asked it to highlight 2 Prudential, and it inserted the Hancock Center, which was not visible in the image I uploaded, and while the text was not garbled, was incorrect.
Show HN: Share your location while you code
by heshiebee | 2025-09-12 04:10:55+00:00
Whenever I’m working out of a cafe I always wonder if there are other people around me coding

So I vibecoded this in a couple of hours

Just load up the website and lock-in

It’ll automatically share your location for the next hour

Or you can just see others that are locked-in
by ankit219 | 2025-09-12 04:11:03+00:00
Hi! Thank you for the clarification. I was just saying it might be possible in the future (in a way you can determine how much compute - which model - a specific query needs today as well). And the experience has definitely improved w router so kudos on that. I don't know what the final form factor of ads would be (i imagine it turning out to be a win win win scenario than say you show ads at the expense of quality. This is a google level opportunity to invent something new) just that it seems from the outside you guys are preparing for monetization by ads given the large userbase you have and virtually no competition at chatgpt usage level.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-12 04:11:14+00:00
Rule number 1 of Hacker News: No matter what subject is discussed, there will always be a top level comment suggesting that the government (preferably the EU) should either ban it worldwide, or make it mandatory worldwide. Usually it is the first comment.

As to the topic: Yes, of course the European Union should make sure that every website uses RSS. It is probably the most pressing issue the alliance faces today.
by lolive | 2025-09-12 04:11:41+00:00
Being a daily user of Foundry, I really see Foundry as a scalable implementation of the SemanticWeb / LinkedData principles.

Not to go [again] in the technical debate, I will summarise their stack: they use Spark as their foundation, with a simple pattern of materialisationAsTables when needed, possible synchronisation to RDBMS or to a graph database with a strong ontological layer on top.

They then provide a web app stack and a low code/noCode dev environment. [there are other components in the platform, but let’s keep it simple].

So no IT rocket science here, but the UX mostly hides all the IT bricks under a pure data oriented workflow. [very few of my colleagues know what python, spark, AWS are].

Three comments on this: could anyone rebuild such a platform? Yes. Is it worth it? Most companies will say no. Do SAP analytics tools compete? Time will tell.

Really in Foundry the scalability is MASSIVE ! [but keep in mind that this is an analytics platform, not a write-oriented platform]

Now let’s switch to the political side of [the company called] Palantir:

Can such a platform be used by Santa Claus to monitor the data for the next Christmas? yes

Can someone decide to aggregate all the data of all the citizens and hope to do mass control with that? Probably [but hey, Facebook/Netflix/TikTok are already doing that, plus they are actively hacking your *brain*, and no one complains]
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-09-12 04:12:43+00:00
Nobody is forcing Apple, the gatekeeper to the iPhone and iOS ecosystem, to also make headphones and compete in that totally separate market, but they are of course free to.

The issue arises when Apple leverages their position as gatekeeper to anticompetitively preference their own headphones in the iPhone/iOS ecosystem. Can't do that.

> If I were Apple, I'd say you got what you want EU, it works on ALL earphones in EU. But it will be absolutely terribly shitty because we will use the same model trained for our AirPods on your random headphones.

The problem for Apple is that they have no secret sauce here: absent any ratfuckery, it would probably work just as well with competing headsets, if not better (particularly since many of Apple's competitors' headsets have better sound quality, better microphone quality, and better noise cancellation). That's probably why they aren't taking your suggestion and are instead choosing anticompetitive behavior.
by kippinitreal | 2025-09-12 04:13:36+00:00
Routes you to a random LLM - just a fun way to force yourself to try new things not just rely on muscle memory. Currently only has 5-10 and roughly weights the routing by popularity (ChatGPT -> Gemini -> Claude .... Copilot). Have been using it personally but thought I'd share in case folks had other ones to add. Main learning so far is that many are really good. Often small UX decisions can lead to better experiences than just AI horsepower.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-12 04:13:47+00:00
I'll give you one guess as to who said the following[0] (hey! no peeking at the link first!):

"I think it's fitting to leave one final thought, an observation about a country which I love. It was stated best in a letter I received not long ago.

A man wrote me and said: ``You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey or Japan, but you cannot become a German, a Turk, or a Japanese. But anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American.''

Yes, the torch of Lady Liberty symbolizes our freedom and represents our heritage, the compact with our parents, our grandparents, and our ancestors. It is that lady who gives us our great and special place in the world. For it's the great life force of each generation of new Americans that guarantees that America's triumph shall continue unsurpassed into the next century and beyond.

Other countries may seek to compete with us; but in one vital area, as a beacon of freedom and opportunity that draws the people of the world, no country on Earth comes close.

This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness. We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people -- our strength -- from every country and every corner of the world. And by doing so we continuously renew and enrich our nation.

While other countries cling to the stale past, here in America we breathe life into dreams. We create the future, and the world follows us into tomorrow. Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity, we're a nation forever young, forever bursting with energy and new ideas, and always on the cutting edge, always leading the world to the next frontier.

This quality is vital to our future as a nation. If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost."

[0] https://archive.ph/itfwc#selection-1301.140-1301.289
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-12 04:14:26+00:00
Wow. I'm in software and my whole house is as automated as can be, but I want my important documents physical, and delivered via the mail.

Credit card bills, notices, etc. I don't want to have to log in every time I want to check a bill / notification, only to have to pull out my Yubikey or phone.

Not to mention having to click 'no' to all the popups about new credit cards or subscription upgrades.
by wisty | 2025-09-12 04:14:42+00:00
Yeah, there doesn't need to be a shortage of toilet paper to cause problems, just the fear that panic buying might start so you better stock up before they hit. It's basically a prisoner's dilemma, you know you shouldn't panic buy, but if you don't and other people do it's rational to do it.

What would be a signal that you should panic buy to beat the rush? A drone shot down over Poland? Article 4 being invoked? What if a falling drone causes a casualty?

Simply having deeper stocks will let them avoid the empty shelf photos that can tip the balance into panic buying.
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-12 04:15:36+00:00
Actually (It's too late to edit) we do have this curious thing

Aliens - we claim/recognise that statistically the size of the (at least observable, if not entire) universe and number of habitable planets with all the right ingredients for life that there must be life out there... somewhere

But we don't have an ounce of evidence (neither for nor against)

God(s) - we don't have any evidence one way or the other, atheists just say "It's impossible", theists say "It's the only answer", but, as already mentioned, there isn't any actual evidence that can lead us to a conclusion. (This will be misread as an argument for god(s), but it isn't. And even if it were, there's still a massive step between that and the Abrahamic God being the dude)

Which takes me right back to where this started. The supposition that the features of mars are signatures of life, we don't know at this point, all we actually know is... we haven't found anything else that we can say they are.

The reporting of science is causing so much grief (I mentioned it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45190544 but was voted down for some reason)
Show HN: Infinite Talk AI – Create Realistic AI Videos with No Time Limit
by Viaya | 2025-09-12 04:15:50+00:00
I’m excited to introduce Infinite Talk AI, a tool that creates realistic, unlimited-length AI talking videos. It transforms your audio into lifelike videos with synchronized lip movements, facial expressions, and body language.

Inspiration Behind It

Frustrated with the short video limits of other AI video tools, I created Infinite Talk AI to solve this problem. I wanted a platform that allows the creation of long, engaging content without any quality loss.

Key Features:

No Length Limits: Perfect for long-form videos like courses or virtual assistants.

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Easy-to-Use: Upload audio, get videos instantly.

Check it out now at Infinite Talk AI：https://www.infinitetalkai.com/
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-12 04:16:24+00:00
I've fallen out of using it, but for a while I was using dtach to do similar without the virtual terminal multiplexing. Much much more direct.

I'd just run a vim session. If I needed terminals, they were in my vim! Even wrote a short shell-script to automate creating or re-attaching to a project specific vim session. https://github.com/jauntywunderkind/dtachment

Haven't looked into it, but I'm love a deeper nvim + atuin (shell history) integration.
by naasking | 2025-09-12 04:17:23+00:00
Judging a perfect solution requires first asking, whose problem are you solving? If you only ever insist on addressing your own aesthetics and properties of interest, you're only solving your own problems, not a problem anybody else has. That can be fine sometimes, but probably not for all problems. People will appreciate solutions that save even 20% of their time now. Saving them 50% if only you could work on it for 2 more years has less value.
by lolive | 2025-09-12 04:20:39+00:00
That’s called MakeOrBuy.

Why do everyone go to Facebook [/or HN] instead of self-hosting their blog?

Because Facebook [/or HN] is a bunch of highly skilled experts that have shaped the proper UX for ubiquitous information exchange between humans [/ geeks].

So we, the users, can concentrate on our own business [/ trolls].
by graeme | 2025-09-12 04:21:12+00:00
None of those are new features out since the DMA.

The only one clearly DMA related with EU specific unlocks are:

* app store

* browser engines

The DMA could have been just an app store regulation. It seems to have had its intended effect there. Very very unproven outside of it. At best you've shown no harm other than delay in some areas.

I'm assuming NFC lawsuits are separate from the DMA but could be mistaken. But in any event NFC payments already existed and aren't a new feature apple decided to release under the DMA.
by winrid | 2025-09-12 04:21:24+00:00
I don't know zig - is this query type safe in that if I change a member name in the struct it'll fail to compile? https://github.com/jetzig-framework/jetquery

usually I do this with codegen, pretty cool if zig's type system is this powerful

Also holy crap: for (cat.homes

This is like django!
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-09-12 04:22:01+00:00
> This means that, "In many cases it is simply easier for law enforcement to purchase data from private firms than to rely on in-house data because there are fewer constitutional protections, reporting requirements and appellate checks on private sector surveillance and data collection, which enables police to circumvent privacy laws"

Another way to phrase this is:

Why transform government into Big Brother[0], with all the hassle of oversight and accountability this would entail, when outsourcing to Big Friends via handsome contracts will achieve the same result while enabling "plausible deniability" under oath?

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-F...
by efitz | 2025-09-12 04:22:14+00:00
"…to transfer data from the Numident database to a private cloud within SSA's AWS cloud environment."

This clarified everything for me. The US government has entered into several large cloud provider contracts and as part of the contracts, the clouds have been evaluated and approved for use. Not for every use nor for every kind of data, but government security folks go over everything with a fine toothed comb, demand additional controls, and so forth.

AWS used to have at least two “private” clouds (existence of which was not secret) for the US government as of 2021; probably there are more now.

My impression is that this guy is a typical bureaucrat who has power based on his ability to gatekeep access to information; he’s upset someone went around him. His concerns might have some validity but they aren’t nearly so shocking as the story is being made out to be. Likely DOGE copied the data BECAUSE of this guy getting in the way.

The guy’s hysterical exaggeration makes me think he is part of the “resistance” and just wanted to be a wrench in the works for the Trump administration.

Trump is demonstrating on a near weekly basis (in lawsuit after lawsuit) that the president IS the executive branch, that the bureaucracy exists solely to help the president carry out his duties, and that bureaucrats who don’t follow instructions don’t belong in government.

The Supreme Court is backing him nearly 100% because he’s right and they are protecting the the presidency; this is not due to loving or even wanting to support Trump; several of the right-wing justices like ACB and Roberts hate him.

So IMO this guy is making a mountain out of a molehill and any “hostile work environment” is largely of his own creation.

That said, I admit I could be wrong, and will wait for the inevitable investigations and lawsuits.”, but I expect it to fizzle because I don’t think there is any “there” there.
by zrobotics | 2025-09-12 04:24:22+00:00
It's still FILO, the shuffle is needed for multiple locations. The emergency store keeps (for example) 5x the stock of canned beans, and feeds an area with 4 regular stores. They have 5x more stock then they could regularly sell, so if stock wasn't transferred then the canned beans would expire before they were sold. They need to transfer their surplus inventory to the 4 regular stores they feed before that stock ages, since in regular use they won't sell them in time.

Since I've had to deal with a similar issue professionally, maybe think of a retailer with 5 distribution warehouses and 50 stores. Normally you want to pick from the closest distribution warehouse to minimize transport costs. However, for food items that expire sometimes it might make sense to pick from the furthest warehouse if their stock is getting older, you need to optimize both for transport costs and the cost of having to throw food away. It's beyond a HN comment, and I'd have to review what isn't NDA, but the optimization math for such a scenario gets both really complicated and really interesting.

Hope this clarifies why they would be moving stick though.