MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by motorest | 2025-09-25 16:55:25+00:00
> However, I guess they have become the major player now and certainly try to optimize the world towards their business model.

I don't think that's it, and I think the explanation is much more simple and straight-forward.

Cloudflare established a very successful business model around a straight-forward, very transparent, no-bullshit CDN. Now, they started offering other cloud services build around their CDN. Cloudflare Workers kind of extend their CDN pipeline to allow clients to run arbitrary code to customize caching logic, but it turns out their function-as-a-service model is exceptionally good, and higher-level services like email are a low-effort way to meet existing needs.
by m4r71n | 2025-09-25 16:55:28+00:00
I actually find the relevant PR/MR discussion a lot more useful than the commit messages themselves. So any git blame is just to get a commit hash and look that up in GitLab/GitHub to see the entire change set and any comments around it. It makes me wish those comments were bundled with the merge commit somehow and could easily be accessed in the terminal where I'm viewing the git history.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-25 16:55:40+00:00
Somehow US citizens have this notion that healthcare is a universal problem and that US-problems are not self inflicted.

Everywhere else in the civilized world, you pay less and have better service. The US has the highest degree of industry meddling, most middlemen cashing out and the least governmental regulation. You are objectively being lied to.
by sebsebmc | 2025-09-25 16:55:41+00:00
It is pretty exciting, there's lots of big projects constantly being undertaken in the codebase. In terms of being "greenfield" I will say that the layout engine got rewritten starting in 2020, became the default in 2023, and the legacy one got fully removed in early 2025. There's a lot of reorganization and re-architecting going on in the net and storage components as we speak. There's opportunities to redesign systems to align with newer versions of the various RFCs/WHATWG specs. Basically lots of work to do to stay modern.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-25 16:55:41+00:00
Glad you asked

We don't blog about it in our team since this is about a post-symbolic era, which has some proprietary elements.

But we keep two with papers active exploring the ideas with updated citations.

I stumbled across this whole dimension of arbitrariness in the aftermath of a successful game which the users took as non-narrative. And it really began when my favorite teacher asked if I knew how illusory symbols were and handed me a book called Brain, Symbol, Experience: Towards a Neurophenomenology of Human Consciousness. From there the threads led in all directions.

Words as arbitrary control.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXtU97SCjxaHCrf8UVeQGYaj...

Storytelling as arbitrary control.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d-ODky2MzGuTCoFCKWPw6Jx2...
by matheusmoreira | 2025-09-25 16:55:46+00:00
It absolutely would. Source: live in a country which "democratized" access to medical schools and flooded the market with doctors. Consequences? Let's just say that the term "secondary effects" doesn't quite cover it.

This thread is talking about ERs so let's focus on that. Pay for a 12 hour shift has fallen by over 50% and that's without accounting for inflation. As a result, only heavily indebted and inexperienced doctors are manning the ERs now. These are critical life saving jobs that ought to attract the most experienced doctors but they turned into reassigned-to-Antartica tier jobs that only new or failed doctors put up with. Now factor in the substandard education provided by the hundreds of newly created medical schools which don't even have a hospital for students to practice in. The result is of course stupid and incompetent doctors manning ERs. I remember one guy who sent home a patient with textbook myocardial infarction symptoms without even ordering a routine EKG, obviously leading to the patient's death. Imagine being that dude's lawyer.

Depressing the wages of healthcare workers has fatal consequences. There's no reason at all to spend the best decade of one's life busting ass in medical school and residency if one is not gonna get rich off of it. You want your doctor to be the smartest, most studious, most hard working, most debt-free person you'll ever meet. You don't want to put your life and well-being in the hands of a stupid indebted doctor who graduated from a diploma mill.
by basilgohar | 2025-09-25 16:56:15+00:00
What a delightful selection of specific incidents.

In just the past two weeks Israel attacked a half dozen of its neighboring countries.

Israel itself is a belligerent Western colony that has been ethnically cleansing Palestine since the 1940s.

It is the obligation for an occupied people to resist their occupiers, and according to the UN that is up to and includes violent resistence. The entirety of Palestine has been increasingly under occupation since Israel's inception.

Countless UN resolutions highlight Israels belligerence time and again with only the US and its subservient states like Micronesia voting against the overwhelming voice of the whole rest of the world.

Israel is an evil apartheid genocial settler colonial state that has brought nothing but further war and bloodshed to the region, and nothing Zionists state can change that fact.
by mfkhalil | 2025-09-25 16:56:20+00:00
We maintain a constant browser state that gets fed into the system prompt which shows the most recent results, current page, where you are in the content, what actions are available, etc. It's markdown by default but can switch to HTML if needed (for pagination or CSS selectors). The agent always has full context of its browsing session.

A few design decisions we made that turned out pretty interesting:

1. We gave it an analyze results function. When the agent is on a search results page, instead of visiting each page one by one, it can just ask "What are the pricing models?" and get answers from all search results in parallel.

2. Long web pages get broken into chunks with navigation hints so the agent always knows where it is and can jump around without overloading its context ("continue reading", "jump to middle", etc.).

3. For sites that are commonly visited but have messy layouts or spread out information, we built custom tool calls that let the agent request specific info that might be scattered on different pages and consolidates it all into one clean text response.

4. We're adding DOM interaction via text in the next couple of days, so the agent can click buttons, fill forms, enter keys, but everything still comes back as structured text instead of screenshots.
by ivorbuk | 2025-09-25 16:56:35+00:00
I don't play slots, but I did manage an online casino for 3 years. Auto-spins allow users to play without "interaction" but, at least for my players, the animations and chirps were all part of the "fun".

All go towards the same thing - dopamine addiction as an activity.

I think I just wanted to say that the perception of a 90% "success rate" v's all or nothing with sports betting felt like a troublesome comparison, for me at least. These games arent safer or fairer at all - they are both doing the same thing - in different doses to different audiences.

Many of my slots players didn't consider what they did "gambling" at all.
by philwelch | 2025-09-25 16:56:38+00:00
For trucking I think self driving can be, in the short term, an opportunity for owner-operators. An owner-operator of a conventional truck can only drive one truck at a time, but you could have multiple self driving trucks in a convoy led by a truck manned by the owner-operator. And there might be an even greater opportunity for this in Europe thanks to the low capacity of European freight rail compared to North America.
by glenstein | 2025-09-25 16:56:39+00:00
Exactly. I think people socialized into certain conversational norms in politicized online spaces, ridiculously overestimate plausibility of the rhetorical gambit of going "gee, who's to say?" when attempted out in the wild.

I think one strength of the liberal academic tradition is that whether it's philosophy, whether it's law, you get introduced to the "whose to say" archetype early on and get inoculated against it. It's not just that the concepts are well enough established that they're resilient against such skepticism, but even in cases of uncertainty, routine amounts of conceptual uncertainty are not a deal-breaker to investigating and understanding urgent moral issues.

A real argument in the negative would be along the lines of "here's how food truck inspection policies are tied to well-established norms that better explain the outcome of famine than intent to destroy". A not real argument is spontaneous, mid-debate discovery of the transience of linguistic meaning, discovered just in time to skirt the question of genocide.

The trouble with this form of skepticism is it can only ever be hypothesized, never actually consistently embodied by real people. Long before navigating to hacker News, you would look at your computer and be paralyzed by fundamental puzzles like "what is electricity", "what is information", "is there really an external world" and so on. It wouldn't have been discovered mid conversation about genocide.
by mapontosevenths | 2025-09-25 16:56:39+00:00
> If only we could show them how this kind of things may go wrong.

We can. This has already happened with the fairly recent SALT TYPHOON hacks. China (ostensibly) abused lawful wiretapping mechanisms to spy on American (and other) citizens and politicians. The news at the time wasn't always explicit about the mechanism, but that's what happened.

China wouldn't have been able to do this if those mechanisms didn't exist in the first place.
by foxyv | 2025-09-25 16:57:12+00:00
You can try getting an older HP Reverb G2. Microsoft discontinued Mixed Reality, but with the Oasis driver, you can still use them with Steam VR. They are usually pretty cheap too because they are discontinued. They are usually about $200 on Ebay right now.

Pretty high resolution, but they don't have foveated rendering so you need a beefy rig to run it.
by Timwi | 2025-09-25 16:57:14+00:00
I do something like this in Kyudosudoku[0] to store the undo history in localStorage, but I took it a few steps further than this author as I was pursuing different goals:

* I don't use bit or byte boundaries. If I need to store a field with 11 possible values, I go (n*11) + value. You'd think that would be a performance bottleneck, but it turns out major browsers are hella fast at this, at least when handling the amount of data in one Kyudosudoku undo item, which isn't a lot. The obvious downside is that you can't index into the data, you can only decode the whole thing, but I always want to decode a whole undo item at a time anyway.

* The main goal was for the representation to be as compact as possible so as to fill up as little of the user's localStorage as possible. Using hexadecimal for this is a massive waste. So I try to use the entire range of Unicode characters that are 16 bits in UTF-16 (that's the BMP minus surrogates, but to be safe I avoid the C0 control characters too). (I reserve the space character so that I can concatenate the entire undo history into a single string and still split it apart later without having to decode all of it.) This means I essentially encode the BigInt in base-63453. Again, dividing and moduloing huge numbers by 63453 seems like a performance nightmare, but it looks like modern browsers handle it fine, as the undo/redo feature is perfectly usable.

[0] https://kyudosudoku.timwi.de/
by NetOpWibby | 2025-09-25 16:57:18+00:00
There's no way for a video platform to work without some sort of payment. Video costs money. Thankfully, Cloudflare R2 is enough for the average blogger. You just gotta figure out how to use it.

I'm building a short-form video platform with R2 as the storage backend. I figured out transcoding but I definitely need a better server for it. The old web isn't coming back because "free" is rife for abuse.

I've embedded a video on my homepage from my platform (dogfooding). Not sure I'll share the platform here when I soft launch next week or so, HN doesn't like incomplete products.

All this to say, video with decent quality is possible for the average website.
by daxfohl | 2025-09-25 16:57:23+00:00
My experience was 25 years ago, but back then we analysts and consultants were making around 50-60K and they were charging clients 5-15 times that when we were staffed. So I'm sure having a good buffer of people waiting and ready to go was well worth it.

Even during the dotcom crash, they didn't lay anyone off IIRC. Instead they offered up to a couple years unpaid leave with benefits and guarantees of a job afterwards.
by rcxdude | 2025-09-25 16:57:26+00:00
This puts me in mind of 'English as she is spoke', a hilariously inaccurate English phrasebook written by a Portuguese man who didn't speak much, if any English and instead probably used a French-English dictionary to translate a Portuguese-French phrasebook into a Portuguese-English phrasebook. It includes such well-known 'Idiotisms and Proverbs' as 'to craunch a marmoset'
by cogman10 | 2025-09-25 16:57:27+00:00
> your wife was victimized by the very people I describe

No, she wasn't. The people you describe didn't dismiss her symptoms or assume her motives for coming in.

Perhaps the medical staff became more predisposed to make those assumptions after interacting with black people just looking for a doctor's note. But, it's entirely on them for judging someone solely on their appearance.

Here's the truth about cognitive bias and racism, you ignore the misses and focus on the hits. I completely believe you that you dealt with "hoodrats" who came in just wanting a note to get off work. Have you considered that you prejudged people as not needing help because of those interactions? Did that change the way you interacted or did you continue to divide people into hoodrats and deserving?

The problem is that "hoodrat" behavior isn't confined to black people, plenty of white people also use the ER to get a doctor's note. The commonality is poverty.

The problem is you've misidentified the problem as being caused by "hoodrats". People using the ER for general care or even to just get off work isn't them being bad people. It's understandable behavior in a nation without good working rights or healthcare.

And, for the record, not everyone has treated my wife like this. But enough have. It still comes up. Because, as I'm sure your aware, chemo and immuno therapy can have mild appearing symptoms that are ultimately serious. That means that we do sometimes need to go to the ER because of excessive diarrhea on a weekend when oncology is closed. We do still have to deal with dismissive medical staff that first treat her openly hostile and then change their tune when "I have cancer and am on chemo and immuno, my doctor has told me to come in" come out.

That's not my wife being "victimized" by hoodrats. It's people with racist biases that never take the time to question if they are prejudging people unjustly.
by drawbars | 2025-09-25 16:57:28+00:00
I'm an artist with a catalog of published instrumental tracks that, for years, I've wanted to complete with vocals—a part of the production process I always found challenging. I decided to use Suno AI's Remix feature not to create from scratch, but to collaborate with the AI as a vocalist, using my own high-quality productions as the source material. This project is a case study of that workflow, showcasing the "before" instrumentals and the "after" vocal versions.

The most surprising discovery was the psychological impact. Hearing a polished, finished version of an old idea almost instantly is a powerful creative catalyst that has me digging through my entire back catalog. To achieve these results, I developed a system I call "Suno - assist," where I use another LLM to generate detailed style prompts and lyrics with embedded musical directions (like "[full band enters]" or "[ethereal falsetto]"). The page shares this exact workflow and the system prompt for anyone to use.

Beyond just the music, this experiment has me thinking about the future. The speed of iteration is a superpower for any working composer, but it also points toward a future where we may need a "Proof-of-Human" ledger to verify unassisted art. I'm excited by the possibilities and would love to hear HN's thoughts on where this is all heading.
by pjmlp | 2025-09-25 16:58:07+00:00
You can't do that in most projects without breaking security guidelines.

There are contracts signed and NDAs for everyone that has access to customer systems.

Although I also do conceed many offshoring companies forget about that, until someone that wasn't supposed to exist on the project does something that ends up on an escalation.

It is very common in consulting and agencies, when not getting enough projects.
by wslh | 2025-09-25 16:58:13+00:00
In a way, if you allow me some liberty with the concepts: as finance and the real economy drift further apart in their metrics, at some point that divergence creates a crisis.

There are academic articles on that such as [1].

[1] "Crisis and the Role of Money in the Real and Financial Economies—An Innovative Approach to Monetary Stimulus" <https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/14/3/129>
by pjdesno | 2025-09-25 16:58:26+00:00
It’s mostly 3D, not process.

3D flash is over 300 layers now. The size of a single 300-bit stack on the surface of the chip is bigger than an old planar cell, but that 300x does a lot more than make up for it.

3D NAND isn’t a “process improvement” - it’s a fundamental new architecture. It’s radically cheaper because it’s a set of really cheap steps to make all 300+ layers, not using any of the really expensive lithography systems in the fab, then a single (really complicated) set of steps to drill holes through the layers for the bit stacks and coat the insides of the holes. Chip cost basically = the depreciation of the fab investment during the time a chip spends in the fab, so 3D NAND is a huge win. (just stacking layers by running the chip through the process N times wouldn’t save any money, and would probably just decrease yields)

A total guess - 2x more expensive for extra steps, bit stacks take 4x more area than planar cells, 300 layer would have 300/8 = 37.5x cheaper bits. (That 4x is pulling a lot of weight - for all I know it might be more like 8x, but the point stands)
by vessenes | 2025-09-25 16:58:32+00:00
This was absolutely Paul's strategy -- read his essay reflecting on returns from their early portfolio (AirBnB and Dropbox). His take -- "we should have done another 1000 investments to get a third hit" (coinbase, it turns out. And he was correct).

The math for YC's seed stage returns is overall inexorably towards more checks being written - the checks are incredibly cheap. YC's IRR is currently roughly 176%, yielding an 81,000x return since 2005 -- another way to say it: a single $25k investment from 2005 could be deployed into 81,000 $25k investments in 2026. Or another way to say it, for every check they wrote, they're able to write another check off that investment every 8 months, compounding all the way back.

YC's main problem is that there aren't 81,000 even slightly viable startups in the world. It's true they've lost their "exclusive" vibe, but to be honest, when they started it was more "small and quirky" which briefly became "gold standard exclusive." It was never their original brand, and I don't think it was ever really part of the strategy.
by ALittleLight | 2025-09-25 16:58:53+00:00
The only part of this article I believe is the legal and bureaucratic burdens part.

"Human radiologists spend a minority of their time on diagnostics and the majority on other activities, like talking to patients and fellow clinicians"

I've had the misfortune of dealing with a radiologist or two this year. They spent 10-20 minutes talking about the imaging and the results with me. What they said was very superficial and they didn't have answers to several of the questions I asked.

I went over the images and pathology reports with ChatGPT and it was much better informed, did have answers for my questions, and had additional questions I should have been asking. I've used ChatGPT's information on the rare occasions when doctors deign to speak with me and it's always been right. Me, repeating conclusions and observations ChatGPT made, to my doctors, has twice changed the course of my treatment this year, and the doctors have never said anything I've learned from ChatGPT is wrong. By contrast, my doctors are often wrong, forgetful, or mistaken. I trust ChatGPT way more than them.

Good image recognition models probably are much better than human radiologists already and certainly could be vastly better. One obstacle this post mentions - AI models "struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions", is purely a choice. If HMOs trained models on real data then this would no longer be the case, if it is now, which I doubt.

I think it's pretty clearly doctors, and their various bureaucratic and legal allies, defending their legal monopoly so they can provide worse and slower healthcare at higher prices, so they continue to make money, at the small cost of the sick getting worse and dying.
by skinkestek | 2025-09-25 16:58:58+00:00
Do you also suggest Jewish families get back land and businesses that they lost in countries in the region in the process?

Because more Jews were squeezed into Israel than Arabs who were squeezed out.

These Jews also lost everything.

And unlike Israeli Arabs who at least from the declaration of Israel got an invitation to stay there as citizens, this option was not offered to the Jews of surrounding nations.

Furthermore, if you want to go back in history, note that Israel was not originally suggested because of WW2 and Holocaust, but decades before because of Muslim harassment of the Jewish minorities in their countries.

Just like Pakistan was created as a national home for Muslims to protect them from Hindus.

Feel free to see for yourself and also to ask why absolutely nobody in UN or the "unbiased" media or schools has told you this before...
by rashkov | 2025-09-25 16:59:02+00:00
If you're referring to the "International Association of Genocide Scholars" (IAGS), all it takes to join that organization is $30 and self identifying as a genocide scholar. Furthermore the resolution was passed with a total of 129 voting members, and about 107 voting in favor, out of over 500 total members.

Here's a letter from 514 verified scholars and legal experts calling on IAGS to retract their resolution, along with their rebuttal of the substance of the resolution:

https://www.scholarsfortruthaboutgenocide.com/
by jacquesm | 2025-09-25 16:59:10+00:00
I think these issues invariably boil down to the same things: education, self discipline, resistance to peer pressure. Some people have neither of these or only in short supply so there will always be people with problems. Substance abuse (including smoking, alcohol, drugs, and possibly even food), gambling, violence and so on are only - in my opinion - regulatory domains when society has to bear the cost of individual transgressions or when other people (not the people abusing / being violent etc) are directly impacted. Other than that I think live-and-let-live is a pretty good guideline because one person's controlled and self-disciplined pleasure is another persons reason for going after them. And before you know it sexual preferences and other personal stuff are also seen as within the domain of regulators. 'Educate, don't regulate' seems to be a good first principle until you hit the sharp edges.

As for portion sizes: my simple rule is that if I did not put it on the plate myself I don't necessarily have to eat it and peer pressure be damned.