MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brandonb | 2025-09-14 14:47:38+00:00
This study's main contribution was to identify the specific bacteria, which gives insight into the mechanism behind heart attacks (the antibody the researchers developed was one of their central contributions). So the researchers dissected only people who died of heart disease.

I think a population study to assess the odds ratios of a risk factor on people who die of heart disease vs not would be valuable (but is a very different beast).
by aspenmayer | 2025-09-14 14:48:18+00:00
I think he's trying to build a family dynasty à la (Mobile Suit) Gundam's (Principality of) Zeon family.

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

https://zeonic-republic.net/

https://breezewiki.com/gundam/wiki/Zeon_Zum_Deikun

https://breezewiki.com/gundam/wiki/Principality_of_Zeon

What is breezewiki? idk lol fan dumb related /s

https://breezewiki.com/

BreezeWiki previously on HN, March 2025 (139 points, 68 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43529163
by CM30 | 2025-09-14 14:49:50+00:00
Practically speaking, it's going to be both more impactful than we think and less impactful than we think at the same time.

On the one hand, there are a lot of fields that this form of AI can and will either replace or significantly reduce the number of jobs in. Entry level web development and software engineering is at serious risk, as is copywriting, design and art for corporate clients, research assistant roles and a lot of grunt work in various creative fields. If the output of your work is heavily represented in these models, or the quality of the output matters less than having something, ANYTHING to fill a gap on a page/in an app, then you're probably in trouble. If your work involves collating a bunch of existing resources, then you're probably in trouble.

At the same time, it's not going to be anywhere near as powerful as certain companies think. AI can help software engineers in generating boilerplate code or setup things that others have done millions of times before, but the quality of its output for new tasks is questionable at best, especially when the language or framework isn't heavily represented in the model. And any attempts to replace things like lawyers, doctors or other such professions with AI alone are probably doomed to fail, at least for the moment. If getting things wrong is a dealbreaker that will result in severe legal consequences, AI will never be able to entirely replace humans in that field.

Basically, AI is great for grunt work, and fields where the actual result doesn't need to be perfect (or even good). It's not a good option for anything with actual consequences for screwing up, or where the knowledge needed is specialist enough that the model won't contain it.
by deltaburnt | 2025-09-14 14:50:29+00:00
I think most people aren't leaving their house each day with the same worries people in the 20th century had. It is certainly much nicer to be alive now than then, especially in places like Europe.

What personally has me worried is the derivative and 2nd derivative. How much is my current comfort sustained purely because of the momentum of systems made possible less than a lifetime ago (post WW2 reconstruction). So ironically your comment induces more stress in me. The idea that just as recently as the 20th century, times that my grandparents were conscious for, that many people lived through that much suffering. To me it seems incredibly easy to end up right back there.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-14 14:50:46+00:00
Remember that Poe's Law makes subtle parody or sarcasm almost impossible on the Internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Now the only real way I can understand your original comment is that lots of little drones can't actually do the job of commercial passenger planes, and therefore it's an ironic send-off of the people who try to compare the safety of lots of little intermittent renewable generators to nuclear power plants.

Because lots of little intermittent renewable generators can no more do the job of a nuclear power plant than the drones can do the job of the big passenger jet.
by tim333 | 2025-09-14 14:50:49+00:00
Also we have a lot of anti immigrant type activists speaking the same language as the the American ones on twitter/x. The Americans tend to take a rather simplistic view of England as a formerly great place being taken over by islam. England does have its issues but the reality is more complicated and subtle than you'd think going off twitter. Like it's a bit early to dissolve parliament when we only voted the current lot in last year.
by tsimionescu | 2025-09-14 14:50:50+00:00
A white hole is a completely different object, the opposite of a black hole, not a baked singularity. A white hole is an area of spacetime that no mass/energy (even light) can ever reach - versus a black hole which no mass/energy can escape.

However, my understanding of what a naked singularity means is still in conflict with the article. I understood a naked singularity to be a black hole that is larger than its event horizon, such that it's possible to reach the singularity and then come back from it.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-14 14:51:27+00:00
It's not for everyone, but at some point I got tired of the FreeBSD layer being there but not cared for, and WSL+git for windows kinda provides a decent compromise in that regard.

The thing I hated the most was spending time building installation scripts or running images for the prod environment, and then go fight macos to replicate the same setup locally. Especially having parralel installs for the system and my user account was a PITA.

One would argue I could just dev on the docker image as well, but then being on a somewhat unixy OS doesn't matter much anymore.

WSL let's the Windows side live it's life (shell level tools can still be injected for convenience), and the linux side be genuinely Linux, not some ersatz, and duplicable to one's heart content. It's still less pain and better perfs than straight docker, and just extremely well integrated in general.
by Spivak | 2025-09-14 14:52:40+00:00
So you're right, cannabis seems to produce a "drunk" effect in some people but I've never had it. Not the kind of thing I would take if I wanted to party.

MDMA in my opinion produces "happy-lovey-drunk+" and it seems from friends it produces that effect even for people who are sad drunks. It does come with a crash but it's about the same as a hangover. And ice cold water tastes amazing rather than having to force it down.

Ketamine (at low doses, too much and you'll stare off into space) also produces a drunk like effect. You'll feel euphoric, blurry vision, loss of motor control. It feels tipsy-ish. The biggest pro is that there's no crash, your high just kinda ends.
by jajko | 2025-09-14 14:53:46+00:00
I do tropical paradise vacations too, ie few weeks ago in Indonesia - Sulawesi, Togian Islands. But the heat takes away any attempt to serious efforts, without AC one is just chilling, diving/snorkeling, checking culture or history and traveling around. Sure there are ie some higher volcanoes, but I wasn't in such place this time.

I always lose few kgs of muscle on a vacation like that, despite ie full diving suit weighting maybe 40kg. Surfing is very active sport I didn't master yet, but can't imagine doing that around equatorial with that humidity, ie in that Sulawesi sea was 29-30C, air 32-33C day and night and 90-100% humidity.
by jolmg | 2025-09-14 14:53:53+00:00
> As a company password manager, there is no way to know who's accessed which secret across their lifetime at the firm so you get to change all the passwords constantly.

You can setup different directories to use different keys, and you don't need to limit yourself to a single key for each password either. You can use multiple. So you can setup structures like:

- admins/.gpg-id "admin\n"

- techs/.gpg-id "admin\ntech\n"

where admin and tech are 2 keys for different groups of people. Admin having more access. Or even better:

- site_foo/.gpg-id "bob\nalice\n"

- site_bar/.gpg-id "bob\nrobert\n"

where each employee has their own key. So you can fine-tune which passwords need changing if an employee leaves, and which passwords an individual employee needs to be able to access.

You can setup git submodules to control which passwords which employees can know to exist.

And given that git is being used, you can know which passwords an individual employee ever had access to, were their access to change over time.
by csmp | 2025-09-14 14:53:53+00:00
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by bgwalter | 2025-09-14 14:54:13+00:00
And I instantly switch off any YouTube video with either "AI"-plagiarized background music or with an "AI"-plagiarized voiceover that copies someone like Attenborough.

I wrote the above paragraph before searching, but of course the voice theft is already automated:

https://www.fineshare.com/ai-voice-generator/david-attenboro...
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-09-14 14:54:55+00:00
What a ridiculous take.

> Hong Kong is annexed

Hong Kong was taken over by the British after the opium wars. It never belonged to the British in the first place.

> As opposed to China, who will probably invade pretty much every Asian country, and the only big unknown is the order.

As opposed to the various US government who have overthrown countless foreign governments when those failed to align themselves with the US interests.

The US has destabilized the entire middle east and created an unprecedented wave of refuges coming from Libya and other neighboring countries and left Europe alone to deal with it.

The US has in the last 30 years invaded multiple countries under false pretenses, taken them over and when nothing worked and the writing was on the wall, left in a hurry again leaving someone else to clean up the mess left behind.

> The South China sea (including Philippines, Japanese, Taiwanese territory) is under Chinese control. And the countries' only hope for maintaining independence is the US.

The US is only helping to contain China in this part of the world because it is in its best interest to do so. The day this changes, the US will leave and these countries will have to fend for themselves once again.

This is certainly not done out of the goodness of the heart of the US. It's about protecting trades routes that are vital to US interest and that is about it.

> Accepting Chinese currency is like France buying Nazi bonds in 1939 (which France and most European countries did, btw). It seems like, in fact it is, the height of stupidity, but it's amazing what a little bit of promised money can make people do.

Since you are mentioning WW2, let's not forget that the US was happy to let much of Europe fall into the hands of the Germans and let Japan continue expanding it's empire until the point where Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Who knows what would have happened if the US was never attacked?

My point is this one, China, just like the US likes to increase/maintain it's influence in the world. Both countries used/ will use any means necessary to achieve their goals whether its through warfare or diplomacy.

Is China better than the US, probably not, but let's not pretend one second that the US is not using a double standard when it comes to the world order. Rules for thee not for me and all that.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-14 14:55:12+00:00
It's the other way around.

Nuclear works now. We just have to build it.

Intermittent renewables supplying an industrial society does not. And there is no way to get from here to there except a lot of handwaving and "magic happens here".

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/20100608webcontentchicagosli...
by alephnerd | 2025-09-14 14:55:36+00:00
I think (or I hope) what they mean is long-term.

For a number of nationalities like Indians and Chinese, it takes 15-25 years to naturalize as a permanent resident/green card holder because of the backlogs and processing issues at USCIS.

That is a lot of instability, with various pitfalls at each step (eg. potentially getting deported if you cannot find a new job in 60 days after being terminated, increasingly needing to pay out of pocket to do visa processing instead of the company doing it).

More critically, if you have a kid and you as the parent do not get a green card by 21, they will be treated as a new applicant and will have to start the entire process from scratch.

If you are able to demand EU or Canada level salaries in India or China, you have no reason to deal with the kind of headaches I mentioned above. You could have put a similar amount of money purchasing real estate in Hyderabad or Hangzhou, or investing in the Chinese or Indian equities market which are both seeing an IPO boom, or founded your own startup without being scared of being the reason you and your dependents got booted out. You can't even justify buying a house or a condo because you won't even know if you'd be able to live there long term.

As a result, what you end up seeing is people from both countries increasingly viewing their stay in the US as temporary - so the American strategy of leveraging a brain drain to make more Americans is failing, becuase it is now becoming a reverse brain drain right when they are mid-career (so at their most valuable point from a human capital perspective).

This has been impacting everyone from line level IC engineers all the way up to even VPs at major companies and even a couple well know VCs I am acquaintances with.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-14 14:55:46+00:00
I don’t see this as a claim that the AI is doing art. He’s just saying, that the art can be created at low incremental cost.

Like, if we were in a world where only pens existed, and somebody was pitching the pencil, they could say “With a pencil if you want 2x or 5x or 10x as many edits, it's an incremental cost, you can explore ideas and make changes without throwing the whole drawing away.”
by jll29 | 2025-09-14 14:55:50+00:00
Funniest caption of the article:

> The SDS 920 was a powerful computer in the early 1960s. As a graduate student, Brady had to drive 90 miles to Beaverton, Oregon, to run his busy beaver hunting program on one.

The irony isn't lost on us: out of all places, he had to drive to Beaverton to find a Busy Beaver!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaverton,_Oregon
by m-hodges | 2025-09-14 14:56:19+00:00
This is an amazing little subthread here because in Book 2 of Plato's Republic Socrates lays out three classes of "good" in response to Glaucon. He categorizes physical training as the type "good only for their consequences" which he argues is not the highest form of good. Now, if one does genuinely enjoy the activity, he would elevate it to the highest form, which is "good both for their own sake and for their consequences".
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-09-14 14:56:55+00:00
True, but it's interesting that we can quickly decipher/read it at all. It seems to be a typical case of human perception where top-down prediction (maybe of visual word forms?) meets bottom-up sensory input, and we've gained enough experience of this (reading different fonts, handwriting, various lighting, etc) that this particular type of impoverished input doesn't pose much challenge.
by trinsic2 | 2025-09-14 14:57:22+00:00
Very thought out reply on the nuances around this. Thanks for generating insight on this topic.

I think our society is being broken by focusing too much on metrics.

Also the idea of breaking windows to generate more income reminds me of the kind of services we have in modern society. It's like many of the larger encomic players focus on "things be broke", or "Breaking Things" to drive income which defeats the purpose of having a healthy economic society.
by BSDobelix | 2025-09-14 14:58:02+00:00
Yes people who climb Everest (in this time) are touristic idiots, even people who climb it "~alpine style".

However people who climb more interesting (for example Gasherbrum IV 8000m, Muztagh Tower 7200m, Thalay Sagar 7000m or Trango Towers 6200m) Mountains (in alpine style) would call people who sit 8 hours a day in front of a screen "idiots" ;)
by SamoyedFurFluff | 2025-09-14 14:58:16+00:00
> Men, he argued, “need to propagandize your wife, training her to like the things you do.”

Yikes.

But more seriously, the report says there were similar projects done in Moscow, Idaho and in Kentucky. Is there any reporting of how those projects are going? Are they successful in creating white christian segregated enclaves?
by jajko | 2025-09-14 14:58:34+00:00
> But I doubt they would be in anything like as good a state if they had been left in their original locations.

I get it, but thats problem with 'good theft', its still amoral, and well we all know history and how things actually happened. Inability to even properly acknowledge fuckups of one's ancestors leaves little room for moving further and learning hard from that, instead of some shallow blah to not stick out of the crowd.
by jonathaneunice | 2025-09-14 14:58:42+00:00
There was a time when “open standards” were treated as the definition of Unix. At least that's what we aspired to. POSIX, X/Open, and others competed to be the standard that mattered. Formal standards were hoped to be a sounder, fairer basis for compatibility and interoperability than the earlier era of “Unix is whatever this release says it is" for some subset of 7th Edition, System III, System V, BSD, or one's favorite commercial derivative (SunOS/Solaris, HP/UX, AIX, Xenix, UnixWare, ...).

That window window of optimism—roughly mid-1980s to mid-1990s—closed fast. Open source projects and _de facto_ standards proved far more powerful in deciding where applications would run, where investments would be made, and which variants survived. Today, the real baseline isn’t POSIX in a binder or some Open Group brand certificate, but Linux + GNU + the APIs everyone codes to. In some ways we've regressed—or more charitably, we shifted back to a more pragmatic form of standardization.
by nabla9 | 2025-09-14 14:58:58+00:00
Not any different from TLS.1.2 over TCP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HTTP-1.1_vs._HTTP-2_vs._H...

Here is good intro for you:

The Security Challenges of HTTP/3 and QUIC — What You Need to Know https://medium.com/@RocketMeUpCybersecurity/the-security-cha...
Show HN: Detect paid Cloudflare plans on any website via ECH
by rapawel | 2025-09-14 14:59:05+00:00
A tool that checks if any website uses a paid Cloudflare subscription by examining their public /cdn-cgi/trace endpoint. Cloudflare only allows disabling Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) in paid plans, so sni=plaintext indicates a paid subscription. Works on any Cloudflare-proxied site.
by Bender | 2025-09-14 14:59:15+00:00
Perhaps I missed it. Have the FAA worked out a plan to keep these away from residential areas and heavily populated city roads until they have been battle hardened? a.k.a. all or most of the bugs worked out. As is I get clowns in private jets in holding patterns over my house below 400 feet AGL but they are at least less likely to fall out of the sky.
by CM30 | 2025-09-14 15:00:15+00:00
100% this. Way too many developers and companies release projects under licenses that allow for others to use it, then complain that they're using as it allowed by the license.

If you don't want people to use your product to build their own services without paying things back, use the AGPL rather than the GPL. If you don't want people to compete with you altogether or redistribute your work, don't use an open source license.

It's honestly kinda amusing that Matt and Automattic are behaving this way, given how many third party WordPress plugin and theme developers make the exact same mistake.
by jeduardo | 2025-09-14 15:00:55+00:00
That's curious. I moved from KeePassXC to pass precisely because the synchronization story for the database file wasn't working so well. For too many times I ended up with an outdated database in the backend server because the sync process failed to work properly.

After I moved to pass, every credential became its own file and I rarely edited the same credential in way too many devices. For the rare conflicts I had, having it being Git made it possible to resolve them without massive hassle.

Then again, that was also some many years ago. Maybe the synchronization story is better these days.
by kashunstva | 2025-09-14 15:00:59+00:00
> Yes, it's an absurd situation for so many to be so unhappy when, by all measurements, this is "the best time to be alive.

Considering the United States only for a moment; the distribution of national income has not been so unequal since the robber baron days. At the same time the visibility of wealth to make upward comparisons has never been greater due to complete permeation of media, both traditional and social. If my share of income in real dollars was slipping as is the case for many, while watching the .1% pocket it, I’d be pretty doggone dysphoric.
by mindslight | 2025-09-14 15:01:12+00:00
If the map let you pick any arbitrary point rather than having to pick a specific city in the TZ database, that would actually be a better way than a list of cities. See the discussion elsewhere in this thread about mapping Salt Lake City -> (Boise vs Denver).

(I don't think the TZ database contains the information to do this though, but maybe it should?)
by stackskipton | 2025-09-14 15:01:15+00:00
It does. If you look at the tax brackets, https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brac... Married Filing Jointly is good for anyone where income is vastly different.

Let's say you made 150k and partner made zero. If you were filing as single, high tax bracket you would get is 24% at everything past 100k. Married filing jointly, 22% at 94k. Also, you could borrow your spouse standard deduction as well to help reduce the tax requirements.
by zyxzevn | 2025-09-14 15:01:33+00:00
The problem with social media (and all media) is opinion-based censorship, causing group-think. And the chaos of replies that are uncategorized.

Different opinions do matter. But due to the algorithms, the most emotional responses are promoted. There is no way to promote facts or what people think are facts.

So most discussion will be extremely emotional and not based on facts and their value. This is even true in scientific discussions.

Combined with group-think, these emotions can grow and lead to catastrophic outcomes.
by dwheeler | 2025-09-14 15:01:46+00:00
Citation needed.

I'm not sure what you mean by "Unix specification". But if you mean the international standard POSIX, yes, people care. Red Hat routinely participates in POSIX spec revision.

There are a very few deviations where you have to enable "POSIXLY_CORRECT". If that's what you mean, then you can turn that on. But in every area that matters, Linux distros implement the POSIX spec by default, and you can even turn on the POSIXLY_CORRECT mode to exactly follow it. They extend beyond it, but that is allowed and expected.

The people who build the tools in Linux distros care a lot. I know the implementors of dash and GNU make routinely refer to POSIX. The Linux distros don't have to as much with POSIX because that is generally a conpleted work and it's the maintainers of the tools who must address the updates to POSIX.