MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrflowers | 2025-09-13 20:16:28+00:00
Fun fact: If you try to find an analysis of what the Bible says about the antichrist, you’ll find that the number of verses about the topic varies depending on who is trying to explain it to you.

The reason for that is that the antichrist is only mentioned four times, only in the book of John, and when it is mentioned it’s explicit that “antichrist”

a) means anyone that doesn’t believe in Jesus (1 John 2:22, 1 John 4:3, 2 John 1:7)

b) And there have been a lot of them on Earth (1 John 2:18)

That’s it. That is every single bit of information referencing “antichrist” in the entire Bible.

The assertion that the king and dragon from Daniel and Revelation are the same thing as the antichrist is a later invention that is not at all supported by the text.
by pydry | 2025-09-13 20:16:39+00:00
>What? We've all seen the offensive capabilities of the Russian over the past three years and it's been very clear that they can't run combined arms properly

Have we been watching the same war? Ukraine is getting absolutely trounced.

>nor can they secure air dominance

Um, air defenses in Ukraine are virtually nonexistent these days. Shahed attacks get through every time these days and glide bombs are wrecking all front line fortifications.

This certainly wasnt the case in 2023 or 2024 when the russian air force did nothing, but it is now.

>they wouldn't be able to wipe out anything in a short period and attacking allied forces means declaring war to those nations, which Russians cannot afford to do.

shrug Putin has said he would do it explicitly and Ive never known him to bluff.

I think you might be wildly overestimating how many troops Europe has to spare, also.

>Putin couldn't beat Ukraine in more than three years

He invaded the largest country in Europe, supplied by the richest and most powerful military bloc in the world. Did he fail if it takes 5 years to secure capitulation?
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-13 20:16:43+00:00
A lot of old school "java-ish" paradigms are going to come back with AI for the same reason people used them with Java back in the day - they put golden handcuffs on implementors, which is a bad tradeoff for competent, agile humans but a very good tradeoff for sometimes off the rails agents. This includes waterfall, spec driven development, front loaded planning, extensive automated testing suites, formal verification, etc.
by Lammy | 2025-09-13 20:17:27+00:00
> Let's review some shots taken with a telephoto to see how we can justify its size and weight.

This is why I'm such a big fan of Micro Four Thirds. I carry the PanaLeica 100–400mm (200–800mm equivalent) in my regular camera bag even on miles-long hikes because it's so light at 985g / 2.2lbs: https://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2016/05/02/the-mighty-panason...

The darktable tutorial in this article is nice. I discovered the haze removal and hue-shifting stuff myself through trial and error but never thought to use the mask tool to isolate areas of images. I have some old shots I could probably revive like that.
by lostlogin | 2025-09-13 20:17:40+00:00
> For me, the line is drawn where anyone proposes that anything a person said justifies or excuses killing someone

It's really difficult. How do you apply this to government worker? Some are actively involved in killing people, foe example the military, (some) police, the judiciary in some jurisdictions, politicians. In places with a judicial death sentence it's acceptable to decide that someone deserve to die.
by asddubs | 2025-09-13 20:17:55+00:00
I won't even touch the fact that what you're talking about is just a stylistic difference, rather than a language based one, and will instead say this: What if you want the cyrillic letter А and the latin letter A, which are not just the same glyph, but literally visually identical looking in the same document? Oh wait both of those have separate UTF-8 codepoints. But if you want chinese and japanese characters which do not look identical in the same document, you have to resort to changing fonts? What if you're using an encoding that doesn't support specifying fonts? Your non-response doesn't solve anything and helps no one
by quotemstr | 2025-09-13 20:19:07+00:00
That's what the "Profiles" feature is. The problem is that any nontrivial real world program in a non-GC language needs non-owning reference types to perform well, and you can't express the rules for safe use of non-owning references without augmenting the language. People have tried. You need something more sophisticated than using smart pointers for everything. In the limit, smart pointers for everything is just called "Python".

What infuriates me about the C++ safety situation is that C++ is by and large a better, more expressive language than Rust is, particularly with respect to compile time type level metaprogramming. And I am being walked hands handcuffed behind my back, alongside everyone else, into the Rust world with its comparatively anemic proc macro shit because the C++ committee can't be bothered to care about memory safety.

Because of the C++ standards committee's misfeasance, I'm going to have to live in a world where I don't get to use some of my favorite programming techniques.
by timr | 2025-09-13 20:19:22+00:00
Rebutting this kind of stuff turns into a link-sharing competition. For any debated theory I can show you a thousand links saying the opposite of whatever claim is being advanced, but you'll just assume my links are self-selected.

Look at the content of the article. Literally every quote in this piece is some scientist speculating. That's completely fine, and what scientists do, but the "journalist" is spinning it into a narrative of "scientists believe X", which is both true (some scientists can be found to support literally any claim), and misleadingly over-confident.
by crystal_revenge | 2025-09-13 20:19:26+00:00
> life is half over by 23 or 24

I'm just a few years shy of being 24 years older than 24, but I have to say my lived-experience does not agree with this observation. The time from 24-today seems much longer than the time from 0-24.

I do remember a period in my early 30s where time seemed to move fast, but hasn't felt that way in over a decade.

Though I suspect, agreeing with much of the article, this is because my life has had a fair amount of novelty in it, even as I age. I often marvel at how impossible to predict my life has been even a year out. Even a year ago I would not have imagined doing the job I'm currently doing, traveling to the places for work I currently need to, meeting the new people I have, solving problems in a space I had no understanding of.

As contrast I've often been shocked to talk with former coworkers to find that have had nothing change, not even what they're working on during the day, in the span of time that has resulted in my making multiple moves, changing multiple jobs (arguably even careers), learning new skills, etc. The most extreme was a college roommate I hadn't talked to in 20 years, and barring his marriage a few months after we last spoke, his day-to-day routine was identical to what it was 20 years ago. We only had a chance to meet up because I had briefly moved back near the area we went to school.
by pfdietz | 2025-09-13 20:19:52+00:00
If fossil fuels are available and cheap, unburdened by the cost of their negative externalities, of course they will be chosen instead of a more expensive CO2-free alternative. That's what killed the nuclear renaissance in the US ~15 years ago.

What this means is there's low hanging fruit to solve these problems in other ways, once fossil fuels are no longer allowed to pollute without cost. There are already good ideas for solving the long term storage problem, with many of the component technologies already existing for other purposes.
by gus_massa | 2025-09-13 20:20:32+00:00
The sibling comments are good. Some additional info:

It's hard, there are a lot of i to dot and t to cross (and remember the j and f too).

The paper must have the correct length, a relevant introduction, conclusions and a lot of other form stuff, detailed but not too much detailed, the correct references, ...

And you must solve an interesting problem. The famous problems are too hard, a lot of people already tied to solve them. And "interesting" means what the community consider to be interesting, that sometimes it's what is interesting for the application and sometimes is something completely different.

And must be correct, in my university we got a few independent people (5?) claiming to have solved the Goldbach conjeture a few years ago. Unsurprisingly all had big mistakes.

My suggestion is to partner with someone already publishing math papers. Do you have a friend that is mathematician? Do you have a friend that has a friend that is mathematician? If your friends work in an uninteresting topic, you can ask for help to contact someone else that is working in something you like.

Be aware that there are abusive people, but most horror cases I heard are about experimental physics where a few extra hands are more helpful, mathematician usually don't lock people in the basement until they finish the experiments.

Once you understated how to publish, which journals are good, which journals are run by idiots, you can try to publish independently.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-09-13 20:20:52+00:00
I did not downvote you. I think people who did disagree with your claim that literally every Israel protest is banned. BTW, it is hard to understand what does "Israel protest" even means. Does it mean it is a pro Israel protest? Pro Palestinian?

I think formulating your claims better could have avoided the downvotes, and allowed others to understand what you mean exactly.
by drob518 | 2025-09-13 20:21:32+00:00
Yea, at best this is useful for deep embedded applications where you need a tiny bit of programmability and where implementation size in gates and cost is at a premium. It’s something you can stuff into a programmable logic device of some sort that you already have in the design. Otherwise, it’s interesting from an academic perspective in terms of studying minimalist computing architectures, but otherwise not practical.
by yepitwas | 2025-09-13 20:22:51+00:00
He promoted the “Great Replacement Theory” (a “fact” as he characterized it) which is plainly a violent-radicalizing notion, with a long violent-radicalizing history and recent examples of violence done in its name.

He promoted 2020 election denial conspiracies. Moves to mess with due process for voting, or to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power (say, promoting coup attempts) are some of the gravest threats to peace possible in a democracy, as far as speech goes. Lying about such, is right up there.

[edit] sources easily searchable if you have the topics, letting people pick their own works better if search turns them up pretty easily, that way there’s no worry that I’m choosing clips out of context or something.
by johntash | 2025-09-13 20:23:01+00:00
> I've found that the primary benefit for subagents is context/focus management. For example, I'm doing auth using Stytch. What I absolutely don't want to do is load https://stytch.com/docs/llms.txt and instructions for leveraging it in my CLAUDE.md.

> But it's perfect for my auth agent, and the quality of the output for auth-related tasks is far higher as a result.

What about just using a sub agent specifically to fetch llms.txt and find the answer to the question for the parent agent? Instead of handing a full task off to it
by Tor3 | 2025-09-13 20:23:24+00:00
Can't speak for the one you're replying to, but when it's just about the age of 100 it's not particularly difficult to verify. Take my great-grandfather, for example, who died at nearly 100. I have photos with him and my father, when the latter was a child, and I've seen photos of my father from his whole lifespan of course. I have photos of my great-grandfather from way way back in time, with references (including newspaper articles with photos). And so on and so forth. There's no way his birth certificate and church records could have been faked. And that actually goes for my great-great-grandfather too.

On my mother's side, I was a little boy when I met my great-great grandmother who was already 90, and witnessed her living to, guess what, nearing that other age mentioned. And, again, there are records and photos going way back to when she was born.

At an old people's home nearby I got to know a gentleman for some years, he died this year at 99. Again there are records in numerous places documenting his age and where and when he was born (and he grew up nearby my grandfather's place). And at that same old people's home there's a vital lady who's 105, and, again, unless you believe all public documents and church records are fake, she's as real as it gets. She has a daughter who visits, she's in her seventies. That daughter has children of her own, and her children also have children.

It's when you get to all the 115-120 year olds in remote regions you start to see the fakes. And it's not difficult to spot when you look, the statistics are all skewed - unlike in places like most of Japan, just to get back to the original story.
by CalRobert | 2025-09-13 20:23:43+00:00
The more responsibilities you take on the harder it is to make big changes.

I moved to a new country when I was 29 and it wasn't too hard. Doing it again, at 40, with 2 kids, was probably 50 times as hard (if anything I am understating it)

My mom, at least, tells me that life can get more interesting once the kids are 10 or so, apparently.
by ejstronge | 2025-09-13 20:24:30+00:00
> No the context going out of control is overblow. Lemme example why. First you need to work at feature level. It shouldn't be too large of a feature in one go.

As a meta point, why write ' Lemme example why.' ?

If someone is still with you at this sentence, that person was ready to understand why.

Otherwise, it delays (and thus endangers the visibility of) whatever your explanation was going to be.
by platevoltage | 2025-09-13 20:24:35+00:00
I agree. Having AI write your entire application is equivalent to having it write a song for your band, or even generate audio so you don't have to do record it yourself.

If you aren't talented enough to write or record your own music, you aren't really a musician.

If you have a quick question about music theory and you want a quick answer, AI can be a benefit.
Show HN: VeritasGraph – On-prem Graph RAG (3.3k+ visitors, 130 stars in 5 days)
by Bibinprathap | 2025-09-13 20:24:37+00:00
Hey HN,

We just launched VeritasGraph, an open-source RAG framework that swaps out pure vector search for a knowledge graph backbone—and the response has been exciting: 3,300+ visitors and 130 GitHub stars in just 5 days.

Why we built it:

Vector RAG ≠ enough → Great for simple lookups, but it breaks on multi-hop questions that need connecting facts across docs.

Verifiable attribution → Every AI output is traced to its original source, making results auditable and reducing hallucinations.

Data sovereignty → 100% on-prem, no vendor lock-in, no third-party data exposure.

We want enterprise AI to be trustworthy, private, and explainable—not just “accurate enough.”

Repo: github.com/bibinprathap/VeritasGraph

Would love HN’s thoughts:

Are you running into the limits of vector-only RAG?

How are you tackling explainability and trust in your AI apps?
by favorited | 2025-09-13 20:24:37+00:00
You might be interested in this talk[0] by a WebKit engineer on how they're implementing similar approaches using libTooling and their own smart pointer types.

For example, their tooling prevents code like this:

if (m_weakMember) { m_weakMember->doThing(); }

from compiling, forcing you to explicitly create an owning local reference, like so:

if (RefPtr strongLocal = m_weakMember.get()) { strongLocal->doThing(); }

unless it's a trivial inlined function, like a simple getter.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLw13wLM5Ko
by shadowgovt | 2025-09-13 20:25:51+00:00
Agreed the above are not the same thing. Independent of what Kirk was saying at the time, he has also said "I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights. That’s a prudent deal." In other words, some people are expendable (for a greater good).

I also agree that killing someone with a gunshot isn't "bloodless." But the statistics are, and that's the thing about the kind of rhetoric Kirk engaged in. It's easy to birds-eye-view the problem and say things like there is a reasonable weighing of right to own a firearm vs. the inevitable result of increased firearm homicide when it is not one's own neck catching the bullet. In that sense, the statistics (and rhetoric around them) are "bloodless."

Indeed, I suspect that one of the things that has made the discussion around firearm ownership in the United States increasingly charged year upon year is that as an increasing number of our friends, loved ones, and selves become the statistic of the day, the conversation cannot stay clinical and detached. Because for too many Americans, it's no longer some abstract someone somewhere who got shot that day; it's their neighbor. Or their mom. Or their kid.
by timr | 2025-09-13 20:26:02+00:00
> Its important to note that Immunity debt is a concept that anti lockdown activists created in 2020. It was not in medical texts before that point, it never had any science behind it. It was a political term used to end mitigations against Covid not a scientific fact.

No. It's a hypothesis, because nobody had any explanation for why flu "disappeared". You may not prefer that particular hypothesis, but that does not make it unscientific or political.

In fact, doing what you're doing right now -- trying to present the hypothesis as activism in order to remove it from the realm of reasonable discussion -- is inherently political.

> Covid especially so it damages the immune system directly suppressing CD4 and 8 T cells, B cells and other aspects.

There is no good evidence for this claim. We have robust T- and B-cell mediated immunity to prior Covid infection, and there are now hundreds, if not thousands of papers showing it. Please stop.

The general origin of this meme is the article linked in the piece, which, if you read the abstract you'll see is making a very limited claim about early infection, and cannot be used to support the notion that "Covid damages the immune system" in any long-term sense, particularly when we know the opposite is true from many, many other studies:

https://academic.oup.com/jleukbio/article-abstract/116/6/138...

I don't like to resort to appeal to authority, but the article quotes Ashish Jha (hardly a Covid minimizer) as dismissing the "immune damage" narrative:

> Ashish Jha, former White House covid-19 response coordinator under President Biden, has publicly rejected this hypothesis. “There’s a lot of bad information out there about how covid-19 damages the immune system. It really doesn’t,” he posted on X in early 2024. More than a year later, his view is unchanged.

https://x.com/ashishkjha/status/1747412684889354266
Show HN: Platform for testing investment allocations using quant methods
by NebulaLab | 2025-09-13 20:26:16+00:00
If you're tired of investment shamans, robo-advisors, and financial influencers telling you how to invest, we built a platform where you can experiment to find your own optimized allocations. Test different combinations of stocks, ETFs, and crypto across multiple exchanges. We're making the type of tools quants use accessible to everyone, in a user-friendly way.

Currently running a Beta test - Would be great if you try it out. This phase will extend for one or two weeks only, to check stability and test a couple of new features/add-ons. Expect hiccups.

On the site we provide a high-level explanation and a slightly more detailed discussion, all presented in an accessible way.

The link is https://nebulalab.ae

I'll be around in any case to answer Qs.
by Bibinprathap | 2025-09-13 20:27:00+00:00
I wanted to share a bit about where the project is headed. The goal is to make this the go-to framework for any serious enterprise AI application where trust and depth of reasoning are non-negotiable.

Our immediate roadmap is focused on:

Expanded LLM Support: We're working on adding support for more open-source models (like the latest from Mistral and Llama) as well as improving integration with closed-source APIs for teams that use them in a hybrid environment.

More Data Connectors: We're prioritizing connectors for common enterprise knowledge sources like Confluence, SharePoint, and Salesforce to make ingestion seamless.

Performance Benchmarking: We're building a public benchmark to quantitatively show the performance lift of Graph RAG on complex, multi-hop questions compared to traditional vector-search RAG.

Simplified Deployment: We're finalizing a one-click Docker Compose setup and a Helm chart for easier deployment on Kubernetes.

We're building this in the open and would love to hear what the community thinks we should prioritize. What features would make this most useful for you?
by quotemstr | 2025-09-13 20:27:34+00:00
You're right, but dammit, I wish you weren't. A world in which we can evolve existing large C++ codebases gradually towards safety instead of having to RRiR is a better world.

There are lots of cool innovations C++ made that will just disappear from the Earth, forever, if C++ can't be made memory safe in the same sense Rust is. I mean, Rust doesn't even support template specialization.

I don't think it's too late for someone to fork both C++ and Clang and make something that's actually a good synthesis of the old and the new.

But yeah, the most likely future is one on which C++ goes the way of Fortran (which still gets regular updates, however irrelevant) and the energy goes into Rust. But I like to rage, rage, against the dying of the type based metaprogramming.
by trimethylpurine | 2025-09-13 20:27:43+00:00
I wrote "third world."

You've given irrelevant data. Hopefully by accident because I'd like to believe your arguments are made in good faith.

Find stats for third world immigrants to make your point.

I'll fast forward the conversation for you, country of origin is statistically very significant.

Just like you, I don't like that this is true. But fixing problems requires honesty and objectivity.

Hiding problems with bs stats isn't going to help anyone. That's how we got here.
by pydry | 2025-09-13 20:27:47+00:00
>So much of what we write is absolutely low-skill and low-impact, but necessary and labor-intensive.

Ive never found this to be true once in my career.

I know a lot of devs who looked down on CRUD or whatever it was they were doing and produced boilerplate slop though.

Code isnt like pottery. There arent "artisanal" devs who produce lovely code for people to look at like it's a beautiful vase. Good code that is hooked into the right product-market fit can reach millions of people if it works well.

The world was replete with shitty code before AI and mostly it either got tossed away or it incurred epic and unnecessary maintenance costs because it actually did something useful. Nothing has changed on that front except the tsunami of shit got bigger.
by nakamoto_damacy | 2025-09-13 20:28:02+00:00
If you think about it, all thinking is magical (in the sense that we, the universe and any of this exists at all.)

Having said that, there is no magical thinking in asserting that the government is bad at software. The government is bad at 99% of the things it does, but that 1% is keeping stuff running, despite the government trying really hard to fail at that 1%, too.

Stupid comment, I know.