MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by timr | 2025-10-07 15:52:57+00:00
There's an FDA-mandated warning label for every drug. The current label for Finasteride [1] includes depression only as a "postmarketing experience", which is based on the same data you're reading here (self reports), and is not reliable for determining causality. [2]

There is no current listing for suicide, suicidal ideation, etc.

[1] https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2012/02...

[2] "Because these reactions are reported voluntarily from a population of uncertain size, it is not always possible to reliably estimate their frequency or establish a causal relationship to drug exposure"
by pcardoso | 2025-10-07 15:53:00+00:00
I'm getting used to Linux again after 20+ years of Mac OS.

First, just using more cross-platform software on my Mac. Ditched Safari for Firefox; replaced my MacOS-only password manager; using iMessage less.

Bought the cheapest Framework 13 laptop, running stock Fedora. Omarchy is interesting but too weird for me. Gnome, is still familiar enough.

Using the Linux machine more and more, feels very fresh. To be honest not feeling this excited in a long time. Perhaps the year of Linux on the desktop is indeed coming.
by qzx_pierri | 2025-10-07 15:53:12+00:00
It seems that people who express such strong, polarizing opinions often do so because they enjoy engaging in debate. If their goal were simply to communicate their perspective without confrontation, they could present their views in a more measured and considerate way.

With that in mind, it might be more effective to share your logical arguments with someone who is genuinely open to hearing them, rather than with someone who appears committed to their position.

Just my 2 cents.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-07 15:53:19+00:00
Last I ever bothered to buy a CD key I got it off one of those gaming key sites. I have since moved on to Linux, but you can get a Pro key really cheap on those sites. I refuse to overspend to upgrade what should have been a computer with Windows Pro OOTB. If you spend over 2 grand on any computer you should not be getting Windows Home edition.
by globular-toast | 2025-10-07 15:53:27+00:00
You might consider it childish but it's the way I am and it's not just me. I've been masking it for decades but I'm sick of it. I won't use their carefully crafted marketing language. The internet was more fun when people could just be themselves and not try to be beige for fear of scaring people away. We need more variety in the world, not less.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-07 15:53:37+00:00
>Why are they different shareholders?

My question is about those cases when they're different.

>But also simply, making long term plans is easily arguable to be in fiduciary duty as a future shareholder would be willing to pay more to the current shareholder for a company in good health.

The future is uncertain. The future company may be in worse health even with this forward-thinking decision, for any number of reasons. One in the bag is worth two in the bush and all that. So as long as we consider fiduciary duty a valid priority, how can we argue against immediate extraction of value over all other concerns?
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-07 15:54:09+00:00
I really do think that this type of AI use is going to become a true life/death epidemic.

The people at Deloitte are not generally dumb unmotivated people. They are ruthless $$ chasers and if AI is allowed they will use it to check the boxes and move onto the next paycheck.

Many of these people will effectively have their life ruined. Many will likely take their own life. Its not just harmless paperwork fudging when it results in men with guns being dispatched.
by tapland | 2025-10-07 15:54:12+00:00
For me it's been on and off, sometimes a windows installer manages to detect network cards and sometimes it doesn't.

I think I've been blocked from continuing an installation once, so I assume you'll just have to plug something in that it can detect or grab an install image which has the drivers.

I swapped over to primarily use linux a while ago, but was surprised that they've made windows 10 look like (what I think is) windows 11. When did that happen?
by TZubiri | 2025-10-07 15:54:28+00:00
"Obviously a VPN provider can also do this, but you might hope they're less likely to."

So you have identified some marginal privacy issue, and have identified that a VPN doesn't solve it, but rather that it moves the risk to a third party actor you subjectively feel is better. Well I feel that, subjectively, introducing a third party generally decreases security.

I believe that not all privacy and security considerations can or should be solved technically, but rather we have extra-technical mechanisms like law and social norms that provide some protection on the edge cases. For example, an employee cannot lookup information for personal reasons on a system they are entrusted to in a professional capacity. I'm no expert, but you probably have first laws that prohibit that, second corporate policy that prohibits that, and thirdly social pressure that prohibits that to some extent. Are they perfect? Not necessarily which is why for the most part we rely on technical encryption and security mechanisms.

But at some point these examples become so contrived and the medicine becomes the poison, so you enter into territory that is pretty standard in other industries, what's to stop a waiter from spitting into a cup? There's no spit filter in place of McDonalds, there's other mechanisms protecting us.

On a similar note, logic and debate is not the only way to convey this phenomenon, so here's some more artistic retort to privacy schizophrenia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf9I04Oa-hU
by Nifty3929 | 2025-10-07 15:54:32+00:00
VPNs will become illegal or backdoored, because privacy is becoming illegal.

This is not really a technology problem, it's a social and legislative one. Many of us are afraid of (other people's) privacy, so we vote for legislators that will make it illegal. The legislators stoke this fear of privacy because they want an excuse to deepen their control of discourse, and their own citizens.

So really, everybody wins!
by tripplyons | 2025-10-07 15:54:54+00:00
For the same reason, I run OpenCode under Mac's sandbox-exec command with some rules to prevent writes to the .git folder or outside of the project (but allowing writes to the .cache and opencode directories).

sandbox-exec -p "(version 1)(allow default)(deny file-write* (subpath \"$HOME\"))(allow file-write* (subpath \"$PWD\") (subpath \"$HOME/.local/share/opencode\"))(deny file-write* (subpath \"$PWD/.git\"))(allow file-write* (subpath \"$HOME/.cache\"))" /opt/homebrew/bin/opencode
by withinboredom | 2025-10-07 15:55:09+00:00
> So maintaining old and new code for X amounts of time?

No more than normal? Generally speaking, the author working on the feature is the only one who’s working on the new code, right? The whole team can see it, but generally isn’t using it.

> If the code is being changed for another reason, or the new feature needs to update code used in many places, etc. It can be much more practical to just have a long-lived branch, merge changes from upstream yourself, and merge when it's ready.

If you have people good at what they do ... maybe. I’ve seen this end very badly due to merge artefacts, so I wouldn’t recommend doing any merges, but rebasing instead. In any case, you can always copy a function to another function: do_something_v2(). Then after you remove the v1, remove the v2 prefix. It isn’t rocket science.

> My industry is also fairly strictly regulated and we plainly cannot do that even if we wanted to, but that's admittedly a niche case.

I can’t think of any regulations in any country (and I know of a lot of them) that dictate how you do code changes. The only thing I can think of is your own company’s policies in relation to those regulations; in which case, you can change your own policies.
by antonvs | 2025-10-07 15:55:18+00:00
> Once you read and understand these sections, the connection to the stated risks is clear. To spell it out: when an organization deploys a DeepSeek model, they are exposing themselves and their customers to higher levels of risk.

Compared to what, exactly? The "frontier models" that the report compared DeepSeek to can't be "deployed" by an organization, they can only be used via a hosted API. It's an entirely different security model, and this inappropriate comparison is part of what reveals the irrational bias in this report.

If the report had done a meaningful comparison, it would have found quite similar risks in other models that are more comparable to DeepSeek.

As the OP states, this is nothing more than a hit job, and everyone who worked on it should be embarrassed and ashamed of themselves for participating in such an anti-intellectual exercise.
by MountDoom | 2025-10-07 15:55:45+00:00
The problem is that there just isn't a whole lot of money to be made in providing hobby hardware for enthusiasts. Every time a big player gets involved, they think they can change this. A decade ago, Intel tried that back in the day with Galileo / Edison, and tellingly, they came up with the same "ideas": IoT / AI.

If you're doing cheap IoT trinkets, you're never going to pay extra for a brand. You're going to buy the cheapest wifi / BT chipset out there and make do with that.

And if you're doing serious AI, you basically go for a real computer with real computing power, and in that segment, the Arduino brand means nothing.

I suspect there was an internal deck saying how this acquisition is going to give them foothold in the hobby community, but if they wanted that, there's a million better ways. Starting with making documentation, SDKs, and toolchains accessible and easy to use. There's a reason why you see Microchip, STM, RPi, and Espressif chips in every other DIY project.
by Eggpants | 2025-10-07 15:55:53+00:00
The whole windows game mod scene shows just how much of a toy operating system windows is. Game mods are changing memory values on the fly on running programs and the OS allows it. These mods can just as easily read/modify Excel spreadsheets to get business health data. This is why corporate windows machines lock everything down. Crazy.

Originally anti-cheat was to detect the running of the mods but of course now are phoning home every thing you are doing on your computer.

When the next window image manager claims windows is secure ask them to turn off the virus scanner. They will look at you like your nuts.
Show HN: Burst – Your Social Media Coach
by zham-dev | 2025-10-07 15:55:54+00:00
Hey there!

My name is Zac, the creator of Burst, a small tool that helps you turn raw ideas into platform‑ready drafts and get targeted coaching without losing your voice.

I kept sitting on good ideas because turning them into posts felt heavy. However, I didn’t want an AI to write for me. I wanted a coach that helps me expand on my ideas and create engaging content.

With Burst you capture ideas fast, tailor one idea into drafts for X, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Medium, then ask for a review to get a few targeted suggestions (clarity, structure, engagement, platform fit). It keeps your voice, trims the fluff, and nudges you to publish.

If you try it, I’d love to hear: where do you post most, and what slows you down? Which suggestions would save you the most time?

Thanks for checking it out!
by beezlebroxxxxxx | 2025-10-07 15:56:34+00:00
Well, you hear a lot about how AI will "empower" employees and generate new "insights" based off of data for analysts and execs. In reality, most executives aren't really interested in that. They'd like it for sure, but really what they want is automation. They want "efficiencies"; they want cost cutting.

Anyone that's been involved in data science roles in corporate environments knows that "the data" is usually forced into an execs pre-existing understanding of a phenomenon. With AI, execs are really excited at "cutting out the middlemen" when the middlemen in the equation are very often their own paid employees. That's all fine and dandy in an abstract economic view, but it's sure something they won't say publicly (at least most won't).

In terms of potential cost cutting, it probably is the most recent "new magic". You used to have to pay a consultant, now you can "ask AI".
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-07 15:56:35+00:00
Probably worth noting in this particular context:

The Ruby community in general, and the Rails community in particular, likes to style itself as people who care about people. "Matz is nice so we are nice" (MINSWAN) is a cornerstone concept that the community passes around. As a result, they have a tendency to care about this sort of thing; community standards of behavior didn't get bolted-on later, they were there at the start.

I once watched a Rails community member pretty well pillory someone for entertaining the thought experiment that if ReiserFS were more technically competent, the software-engineering community wouldn't care the creator murdered his wife and would still invite him to speaking engagements telecast from jail. It is therefore interesting to watch how the Rails community is reacting to the Rails creator having concerns not nearly as bad as killed-his-wife, but extremely disquieting nonetheless.
by derbOac | 2025-10-07 15:56:59+00:00
I'm most familiar with pharmacy and psychology as examples, although I think there are probably many other fields as well, maybe diagnostic radiology for example. I'm also aware of research on surgical specialists in areas of the world where physicians are scarce, focused on relatively minor surgeries, showing that these procedures can be done with the same outcomes if the providers have the right training.

My guess is there is probably a way to encourage fields to come up with ideas that any given person out there outside the field wouldn't think of.
by fluoridation | 2025-10-07 15:57:00+00:00
>The market is pretty clever, so there is at least room to believe that any move that plausibly would help long-term company health should also help short-term stock prices, right?

I don't know about that. Are the most valuable companies those planning for sustainable returns over many decades? It seems to me the stock market is just a hype machine where anything past 5 years just doesn't exist, and CEOs operate accordingly.
by wil421 | 2025-10-07 15:57:27+00:00
Agree with you but not every answer is move to Linux. A lot of us help family member with IT stuff. People I help use excel, quicken, and one drive to run their businesses and finances. I could see myself running into GPs license issue with my father in law.

I tried to get a few of them to use chromebooks but the need for quicken or another app they used for decade(s) keeps them windows based.
by iamleppert | 2025-10-07 15:57:59+00:00
I work in a building where Deloitte has an office. I see their employees riding the elevator and sometimes in other common areas. I just same here to say they are some of the most depressed and down-trodden group of people I have ever seen. They are noticeably different than other employees in the building.

What's wrong with working at Deloitte that is does this to people?
by jimbo808 | 2025-10-07 15:58:07+00:00
There's never been a better time to switch to Linux. For the longest time I was using Windows on my personal machine (for gaming), and MacOS for work. Not sure why, but one day I decided to try out dual booting Kubuntu (KDE Plasma + Ubuntu), and haven't touched a Windows machine since. Using MacOS feels bad now. I don't see myself ever willingly installing Windows again. MacOS is unfortunately something I still have to use.
by ksymph | 2025-10-07 15:58:11+00:00
This series of tutorials might be of interest: https://github.com/a327ex/blog/issues/30

> It's aimed at programmers who have some experience but are just starting out with game development, or game developers who already have some experience with other languages or frameworks but want to figure out Lua or LÖVE better.

Also on the topic of game engines with lua scripting, the wonderful Defold always deserves a mention https://defold.com/
by wolfd | 2025-10-07 15:58:18+00:00
I don’t know if this was one of the intended outcomes, but this will probably cause some struggling college and universities to shut down.

International students raise quite a lot of money for higher-ed institutions because they pay full price without financial aid. The loss of that income is going to make a bad situation for higher-ed budgets much worse. Unless you are Harvard or Stanford (or a few other universities that are endowments with schools attached), you’re probably already in a budget crunch or eating into your endowment.

A side note, one of the founders of the college I went to has been convinced that higher-ed needs an entirely new business model in order to survive, and is founding a new school called Greenway (https://www.greenwayinstitute.org) that is trying to blend internships and co-op programs into an engineering education.
by InsomniacL | 2025-10-07 15:58:32+00:00
They priced me out of a subscription.

£15 a month in the UK for an online chess game is crazy.

I've paid for 3 months but this is my last.

I'm only interested in Game review, but there are about 50 other sub-categories on their site that i don't use.

Only their top tier of membership provides game review and to be honest it's not even that good.

The game review is about the top 'computer' move, not what a human should do, and not one at my elo or to advance my elo.
by wing-_-nuts | 2025-10-07 15:58:48+00:00
And mods. Yes there are work arounds to get various mod managers working on linux, but they're honestly jank. Also any mods that are windows executables (version downgraders, engine optimizers, etc) don't work, even trying to run them through wine / proton.

So now my annoyance at windows does battle with my love of mods. I know the nexus folks are working on a new cross platform mod manager, but they have yet to support bethesda games (I suspect for some of the same reasons I had issues).
by rkomorn | 2025-10-07 15:59:17+00:00
Yeah, I... don't think we're on the same page at all. Not only is "smartphones" just an example of things I no longer see as "creating value", but the value vs MP3 players and other devices at the time is also not what I'm talking about.

Whatever axe you have to grind against the smartphone naysayers of the time... I have no horse in that race.
by crumpled | 2025-10-07 15:59:22+00:00
The software was based on Processing. It was never a secret, just open source working as intended. It doesn't look the same any more.

A non-profit is still a business. Success is necessary for existence.

Think about the number of companies that have been created to make, or heavily specialize in Arduino clones and accessories without having to pay Arduino a cent because the designs were intentionally open-sourced. It doesn't sound like a naked cash grab to me.
by rushingcreek | 2025-10-07 15:59:38+00:00
The LLM is phenomenal at figuring out what you want, but it still has to map it to the schema of the tool. So while the job of figuring out the working “rune” is offloaded from you to the LLM, it doesn’t solve the fundamental problem of the available “runes” likely being brittle and insufficient for any given task even when the LLM knows exactly what you want to do.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-07 16:00:00+00:00
> I personally think the «screen and keyboard» form factor will remain the default for «work» for the next decade.

I'm not so sure. What was the interface pre-computer: voice and secretaries. Except the secretaries are now AI, and there is an unlimited supply of them and they don't need a salary or health insurance. Instead of "Ms. Wilson, come here and take a letter" it would be "Hey Google, take a letter"

We're already well on the way. Writing emails with AI is done today. Using AI to take notes in a meeting is possible today. OCR and cameras can handle a lot of "transcribe this printed form to that online form" input tasks today. And it will all be vastly better in 10 years.

I'm sure there will still be a place for screens. We are visually oriented and using paper would be wasteful. I'm not sure the screen + keyboard "workstation" of today will be common in 10 years.

I think mobile tech will be closer to a Star Trek TNG commnicator. A small device perhaps worn as jewelry with an earpiece and some kind of retinal projector for heads-up usage, and less like a rectangular slab of glass in your pocket. Current smart watches are a start, they only need a better way to show more information and they would replace phones for many people.

And of course this all presumes that "office work" as we know it is even a thing. If AI becomes AGI or close to it, what would we need people in offices to even do?
by observationist | 2025-10-07 16:00:04+00:00
Companies that cannot run their businesses responsibly at scale should not be allowed to run their business at that scale.

If Microsoft can't do it, if Apple, Google, Facebook, X , OpenAI can't do it, then maybe we shouldn't allow companies to operate at scales which inevitably lead to widespread consumer harm.

They should be required to provide human customer service, with some sort of legal liability to ensure their products perform as advertised, without an end-user having to spend tens or hundreds of hours chasing down a solution, spending thousands of dollars on a lawyer, and all the rest of the hassle.

This is a legislation and regulation issue - the data barons are exploiting the effective absence of any accountability for harms they casually inflict on the public, ranging from gotcha situations like the OP to viral self harm trends among kids to mass surveillance and commercial invasion of privacy.

Pirate everything, support open source, pay content creators directly.

If they want to have billions of users, they damn well better be able to handle each and every one of those users in a commercially responsible fashion, or they have no business operating at that scale. We should be done with the "oops, we're too big and we make too much money to care that we just casually wrecked your life, oh well!" If the solution is to force users to have to buy a new PC, or a new phone, or create a new account, or anything in that vein, it's almost intentional, and casually malicious.

It's not like these companies don't know what they're doing, they can simply afford not to care. Until there's regulation and accountability that's more expensive than ignoring the consumer casualties, things will continue to get worse.
by otterley | 2025-10-07 16:00:12+00:00
I've been long on gold since Trump started going crazy with tariffs. You can't tax imports without having its effects percolate throughout the economy eventually. I'm also reacting to what I think is a growing AI asset bubble that will pop at some point (it's not a question of if but when).

Most of my savings was in SPX (S&P 500 ETF), but over the course of the year I've been progressively exchanging more of it for GLD (ETF).

It's been a good strategy for me so far.
Show HN: Sovant – Memory that works across OpenAI, Claude and Gemini
by hechin91 | 2025-10-07 16:00:18+00:00
Hey everyone!

I've been building Sovant, a universal memory layer for AI that lets apps and agents remember user context across chats, apps and even different LLM providers.

Most AI systems forget everything once the session ends. Sovant makes memory portable and model-neutral. You can tell something to GPT and have Claude or Gemini recall it later. Instead of storing full conversations, it will remember structured facts, preferences and traits (the kind of context that stays useful and is reusable).

It's all done through a simple API + SDK, with built in rate limits and a visual dashboard.

You can try the memory persistence and cross-model recall in the Demo Chat, explore stored memories in the Dashboard, or build with the TypeScript/Python SDKs.

Would love feedback from this community on UX, technical or even conceptual.

You can test the beta here: [https://sovant.ai](https://sovant.ai)

Still early, so things may break but I'll do my best to fix them fast.

Thanks!