MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-10-09 23:40:10+00:00
>The fact that we continue testing animal models of Alzheimer's that we have proven to be a bad model of humans, likewise shows that Alzheimer's research has become a cargo cult science.

Partially. It also, more primarily, shows that medical funders and ethics committees demand very strong evidence in one animal model before they allow you to move a step "up the ladder" towards humans. What you can test on mice, you haven't managed to get approval to test in nonhuman primates. What you can test in nonhuman primates, you might get approval to test in humans. What you can test in humans, might finally prove useful for treating humans.

But the broad assumption is that if something fails in mice, we can know it would have been unethical to try it on humans first.
by cameldrv | 2025-10-09 23:41:15+00:00
I've seen a lot of upcoding on my bills and it really aggravates me. It's fraud and the doctors should be happy that the insurance company is just reducing their payments instead of dropping them or trying to get them prosecuted. When someone loads their grocery bag full of cosmetics and razor blades, they get on the news and YouTube, but when a doctor systematically bills for services he didn't perform to the tune of millions of dollars, almost nothing happens.
by ctippett | 2025-10-09 23:41:19+00:00
I really want something like this to pair with my iPad Pro when working in design tools (Affinity, Procreate, whatever). Apple Pencil in one hand, accessible keyboard shortcuts in the other.

My solution was to stick a tiny cheap macro keyboard on the back of the iPad... but I don't love the ergonomics.

Awesome work, well done.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-09 23:41:36+00:00
> there’s no bankruptcy regime for sovereign nations (with the possible exception of PROMESA for Puerto Rico if you squint but that’s probably the exception that proves the rule).

Puerto Rico is not sovereign (either in the international sense, or even in the more limited US-specific legal sense that US states are), it is a dependent territory of the United States. PROMESA thus is no more, and aeguably less, of an exception than federal Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy (which applies to agencies, instrumentalities, and subdivisions of states, though not to states as a whole.)
by smegger001 | 2025-10-09 23:41:41+00:00
Human form robots are a case of Jake of all trades and master of none. Sure I have a dishwasher thats more efficient at doing the job than me but I still end up doing dishes because the cast iron frying pan can't going in there without ruining the polymerised layer of oils that have been baked into it and i would have to repeatedly oil and reheat it and stink up the house with smoke reseasoning it afterwards, and I have hand wash the thermos and travel mugs, and dishwasher arent good for the sharp knives and etcetera etc etc... sure the rumba can vacume very efficiently but it suck at gating around furniture leg or gaps to small for a 14'' diameter circle to fit through so I have to vacume all of the bits it can't get to. Sure the a robot lawn mower can do my yard very efficiently but it cant move the childrens toys out of the grass or open the gate to the front yard or close the gate to keep the dogs from running out the gate once its open. Specialized tools suck at edge cases. Human form robots if they ever works (big if) can do all of the edge cases and take advantage of all the tools made for humans I already have to do all of the those other jobs.
by msla | 2025-10-09 23:41:45+00:00
> In fact, authorities in New York never actually wrote down anyone’s name, they just checked each immigrant against the ship’s passenger list, which would have been compiled by employees of the steamship companies. That means that your grandpa Szymańczyk turned into Simmons before he even set foot on the boat.

So many people refuse to understand this. It's a fact they simply reject.

> I was born in Mexico City, and my parents named me Leonel Giovanni García Fenech. It might sound a little baroque to Americans, but having four names is standard in Spanish-speaking countries.

I'm as Anglo as they come, and I have four names. In practice, yeah, I often have to choose a middle name if a form has space for one (1) middle initial or middle name.

But all this hits upon something I don't like about the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" article: Programmers usually don't believe things, programmers implement things, and those things will believe what the client believes, on pain of the client finding someone who will go along with their vision, no matter how grand, blinkered, purblind, or otherwise constrained that vision may be. Blaming programmers is, therefore, very often wrong.
by Rendello | 2025-10-09 23:41:47+00:00
I moderated a few chat rooms and dreamed of all this complex tooling I could build to automate and help me fix issues right away. Of course, the tiny chat rooms didn't need any of that. The hard part is actually moderating fairly and trying to figure out where the boundaries are. I couldn't do it. Makes sense why pg said "don't start a forum".
by jart | 2025-10-09 23:42:17+00:00
I copied and pasted that line from a tweet I made a while ago. Why don't you Google "san francisco elected official pay school board" ($6000/year) and "san frascisco school board budget" ($1.2 billion). So they actually manage 10 figures up there and they get paid even less than European e-commerce developers. The President of Y Combinator is a died in the wool conspiracy theorist. He tweets all the time about his belief that they're removing algebra from curriculum. Another one of my favorite conspiracy theories is that the SF school board secretly does arms trafficking. You should google it. But at least they're better than european politicians, who are putting larvae in your food supply and want to spy on literally everyone with chat control.
by jasongill | 2025-10-09 23:42:17+00:00
20 years ago (well, 25) it was actually more common than it is now - many computers in the late 90's to early 2000's came with video capture cards built in. The Sony VIAO for example, or some "multimedia" machines. The Hauppage WinTV cards and similar knockoffs were popular as well. I remember working on the Linux kernel modules/drivers for these types of cards (I want to say that the project was called "Video4Linux" or similar).

Being able to "watch TV" on your computer used to be a somewhat popular request from well-to-do consumers, and as DVD's came out, people started wanting to digitize their VHS tapes, and video capture cards (the same concept as what the article is doing) allowed that.
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-09 23:43:13+00:00
>A self diving car which, apparently 10+ years into development is currently running red lights randomly 1% of the time is not in your control.

It can be controlled however.

>Simply being sober, awake, calm and not texting puts you far above the average driver and are things you can control.

It's not important if it's possible, what matters if it happens.
by mikeckennedy | 2025-10-09 23:45:06+00:00
This go thin with uv is good advice for smaller projects. But as you grow with more aspects, it gets more problematic.

I ran code that way for years. But now we have 23 different services: web apps, APIs, and database servers, my code and other self-hosted services.

I would NOT run 23 projects/servers (3 versions of postgres) this way. Like so much, it depends. FWIW, the book goes into depth about these trade-offs.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-09 23:45:17+00:00
You can stream the ID of the most recent item with something like this:

curl -N -H "Accept: text/event-stream" "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/maxitem.json"

Then you will need to iterate through the new item IDs and fetch them, e.g.

https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/45534174.json
by jayw_lead | 2025-10-09 23:45:27+00:00
I think there is still a lot we can do within the current paradigm - most software, especially for enterprise, is still quite bad. And that will continue to drive employment and growth.

But w may one day have to contend with expecting fewer "new" paradigms and the ultra rapid industry growth that accompanies them (dotcom, SaaS, ML, etc). Will "software eating the world" be enough to counteract this long term? Hard to say
by nocoiner | 2025-10-09 23:46:18+00:00
That’s an interesting question. I’m not sure I’ve ever thought about it, but definitionally, I think I’d have to say they’re a Nazi. Especially if they’re, like, presenting golden trophies to curry favor with higher-ups in the organization.

The obvious counterexample is a deep undercover cop - are they a member of the mafia or a biker gang? I’d say no since they’re operating under the color of law, but it’s a pretty analogous situation.

This leaves aside the question of partisans, members of the resistance or just surly shop stewards enforcing union work rules to the letter were more effective Nazi opponents than a guy who aimed to take the organization down from the inside. I have my suspicious.
by busterarm | 2025-10-09 23:46:42+00:00
Right but that speaks more to Andre's character, IMO.

Why are you copying a password out of a shared vault that should only be used in break-glass type scenarios? It's that's not planning for possible malicious action in the future, I don't know what is.

You can try and excuse it as having your own break-glass for the break-glass, but that's on the spectrum between irresponsible and incompetent.

Again, if the accusation is true, removing him was justifiable from any possible perspective you might have.
by xwowsersx | 2025-10-09 23:47:23+00:00
Thank you very much I'll check out these resources. ROB101 looks really great.

I love the 3B1B videos, but I've noticed my attention tends to drift when watching videos. I've learned that I absorb information best through text. For me, videos work well as a supplement, but not as the main way to learn.

Thanks again.
by em-bee | 2025-10-09 23:47:51+00:00
most EU countries if not all of them should already recognize different family names for both partners. where it gets tricky is the children.

what we really need to recognize globally is that languages change names. and that Kuznetsov in german or english is equivalent to Kuznetsova or Kuznetsov in russian or bulgarian and for example 库兹尼佐夫 or 库兹内佐娃 in chinese. in china i had to get a notarized translation of my name for official purposes.

passports could contain name entries in multiple languages to cover the most important differences. your native version, and english/western version and any others if you live in a foreign country where a translation of your name is necessary.
by macintux | 2025-10-09 23:48:02+00:00
It’s obvious in hindsight, but before I lived in the Boston area I never appreciated just how critical it is to have buses to supplement a subway, subway & buses to supplement light rail.

Whenever the idea of light rail came up in my hometown, I would point out to my enthusiastic friends that without a better bus system, there’s not much point to rail.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-09 23:48:37+00:00
> One (social) system that may work well is the South Korean one: private provision of healthcare services; government run insurance scheme with mandatory payments by those that can afford to pay

Do you know if SK govt owns hospitals? Or are they all private? In Japan, it has a similar system, but lots of the larger facilities are owned by govt, or associated with a public university.
by saulpw | 2025-10-09 23:49:00+00:00
> John D. MacArthur got rich by selling one-dollar life insurance policies through newspaper ads during the Depression. “Dubious” is how Parade magazine charitably described this scheme in 1976, by which time MacArthur was a self-made billionaire...The net effect of John D. MacArthur’s entrepreneurial life and philanthropic afterlife, then, will have been to take one dollar each from a large number of poor and ignorant people, assemble the money into somewhat larger amounts, and give these piles to a very few members of the prosperous, educated elite.
by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-10-09 23:49:15+00:00
> In response to 9/11, Congress had passed the REAL ID Act, requiring a new type of identification to board domestic flights [...] (It’s been postponed twice since then. The new deadline is now 2027, wink wink.)

For anyone reading this...this isn't true. It finally actually went into effect on May 7, 2025.

EDIT: I HAVE witnessed someone at a TSA checkpoint at an airport get turned away because they didn't have a REAL ID.
by pajamasam | 2025-10-09 23:50:11+00:00
This hits hard:

> We are slaves to a system we didn’t create. Yet I’m here to tell you, it’s our duty to do something about it. Life isn’t about endlessly scrolling X, TikTok, or whatever else holds your attention. There is real purpose to this life. And part of that purpose is for us to rectify a wrong when we see it. A lot has happened in the past two years. A lot has happened in the past decade. But what’s really become clear to me is, we can’t keep letting ourselves be beholden to these things that are just corporations feeding off our attention to make money. There is a justification that they are building technology that helps humanity, and yet all I see is massive levels of addiction, inequality, and unhappiness. We are depressed. We are in a horrible state. We are as far from what it means to be human as we can be.
by nocoiner | 2025-10-09 23:50:42+00:00
Right, the distinction between Puerto Rico’s status …. whatever it is (yeah, yeah, organized unincorporated possession …. whatever that is) and U.S. states led me to surmise that Puerto Rico is actually slightly more sovereign than a U.S. state particularly in the context of insolvency, since it was granted powers that states lack under Title 11, and does have certain features of self-governance that states lack via the feds. But that was an off-the-cuff comment on my part, and I find your argument compelling.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-09 23:50:47+00:00
"Cuneiform" is a medium, sort of like "paper" if that included the tool you use to make the marks.

Writing systems using cuneiform include Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Hurrian, Ugaritic, Old Persian...

The article states that "Prop­er­ly writ­ten out, these syl­la­bles join up into a flow­ing cal­lig­ra­phy that your aver­age, edu­cat­ed Baby­lon­ian would be able to read at a glance", so presumably they're thinking of Akkadian. Why not say so?

(Does it make a difference? Consider that our first attempt to read the name of Gilgamesh came out as "Izdubar".)
by noduerme | 2025-10-09 23:50:49+00:00
Hah. The kicker of that story has a familiar ring.

My Dad used to own a liquor store back in the 70s, with his name on the sign (let's call it "Arthur's Liquor"). It was in a rough part of town. One day when I was a teenager, in the 90s, we were driving by and he saw the sign was still there, so he stopped and we went in. There's a Korean guy and his wife behind the counter.

Dad: Just wondering, who's Arthur?

Wife points to her husband.

Shop owner: Me. I'm Arthur.

Dad: No, I'm Arthur.

I'm just like, Dad, can we get out of here now?
by siskiyou | 2025-10-09 23:51:00+00:00
Thanks for your answer. I get it, you're people, it's a mistake, it's not the most horrible thing ever, but a simple "oops my bad" would have been a shorter blog post. Would you really have been in the same boat if the tweet shown mentioned in the phishing effort had never been posted, or did the phisher fabricate that entirely?
by KK7NIL | 2025-10-09 23:51:04+00:00
> x86 doesn't have magical backwards compatibility powers.

I never said it did; other ISAs have similar if not longer periods of backwards compatability (IBM's Z systems architecture is backwards compatible with the System/360 released in 1964).

> The amazing backwards compatibility of Windows is purely due to the sheer continuous effort of Microsoft.

I never mentioned Windows but it's ridiculous to imply its backwards compatability is all on Microsoft. Show me a single example of a backwards breaking change in x86 that Windows has to compensate for to maintain backwards compatability.
by nullc | 2025-10-09 23:52:47+00:00
They also require articulable and legally legible damages, and if you want to make it worth your time they have to be significant compared to the legal cost and in no significant way attributable to yourself.

A lot of things a laypersons would agree were damages just won't fly in civil court and even when there is damage it's limited by factors like what actions you could have taken to mitigate (but may not have).
by mkhalil | 2025-10-09 23:52:49+00:00
The "demo" is kind of bologna.

1) The code that is running is not what's presented; it executes (non-transpiled) vanilla JS.* Why not just show that?

2) Removing the box shadow massively makes the two closer in performance.

3) The page could just be one sentence: "Reflowing the layout of a page is slower than moving a single item." GPU un-related.

---

*Code that actually is running:

```js

, u = t => { h && clearTimeout(h), l.forEach( (e, s) => { const {top: o, left: n} = m[r[s]]; t ? (e.style.transform = "translate(0px, 0px)", e.style.opacity = "0.7", e.offsetHeight, e.style.transform = `translate(${n}px, ${o}px)`) : e.style.transform = `translate(${n}px, ${o}px)`, e.style.top = "", e.style.left = "" } ), t && (h = window.setTimeout( () => { l.forEach(e => e.style.opacity = "1") } , 500)) } , d = t => { y && clearTimeout(y), l.forEach( (e, s) => { const {top: o, left: n} = m[r[s]]; e.style.top = `${o}px`, e.style.left = `${n}px`, e.style.transform = "", t && (e.style.boxShadow = "0 14px 28px rgba(239,68,68,0.45)") // REMOVING THIS LINE = BIG DIFFERENCE } ), t && (y = window.setTimeout( () => { l.forEach(e => { e.style.boxShadow = "none" } ) } , 500)) }

```
by honeybadger1965 | 2025-10-09 23:54:31+00:00
TimeWarp IDE compiles three classic educational programming languages (PILOT, BASIC, Logo) from old-school computer languages into modern native Linux executables using GCC. No interpreters or emulators - generates standalone binaries with zero runtime dependencies.

Why it matters: • Educational languages designed for teaching (not just programming) • Native performance vs interpreted execution • Preserves classic syntax while enabling modern distribution • Perfect for computer science education and retro computing

Quick demo: pip install timewarp-ide timewarp-compiler hello.bas -o hello && ./hello

https://github.com/James-HoneyBadger/Time_Warp

The compiler generates optimized C code with custom runtime libraries for each language. PILOT handles branching and text interaction, BASIC supports arrays and line-numbered programming, Logo creates turtle graphics output.

Open source, MIT licensed. Built in Python with comprehensive documentation and sample programs.
by rafaelquicdb | 2025-10-09 23:56:53+00:00
Interesting, I didn't know about liquibase, thanks for sharing!

How about the data itself, do you usually seed it for local development, or PR/staging environments? Or do you get production subset for example? And if you do, do you deidentify the prod data to use in the non-production environments?

Trying to understand any pain points related to that the product development workflow (i.e. local dev, PR, QA, demo, etc.).

Thank you!
by Arainach | 2025-10-09 23:57:12+00:00
This is nonsense. Both a horse and a pickup truck can be used to pull a wagon, but no one seriously considers one an alternative to the other.

What you are describing is a hobby item for enthusiasts who want to enjoy tinkering, setting something crazy up and constantly debugging it. That is very much NOT the market of people who buy Synology products.

Synology is not a JBOD RAID. It is an appliance that does many things (storage, services, web access, etc.) and can automatically keep itself up to date with no additional contact necessary. It can be hooked up to a UPS for resilience. If you have a problem there are support forums and online articles. It can be synced to other Synology devices at other sites. Etc., etc.

A pile of RPi is none of that.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-09 23:58:03+00:00
Back in the days when a wide variety of removable digital media flourished (floppy disks, various flavors of tapes, ZIP and JAZ drives, Syquest and Bernoulli cartridges, mag-op WORM, etc) a friend and I joked about how we needed a "Cuneiform drive" to write to and bake sheets of clay because, compared to all the storage formats we were using, Cuneiform actually held up over time.
by DecoPerson | 2025-10-09 23:58:32+00:00
Without the resources to do a study to see if the quality is actually better or worse than other options, these open-TTS models must be judged by what you think of their output. (That is, do your own study.)

I've found some of them to be surprisingly good. I keep a list of them, as I have future project ideas that might need a good one, and each has its own merits.

I'm yet to find one that does good spoken informal Chinese. I'd appreciate if anyone can suggest one!
by stefanwebb | 2025-10-09 23:58:54+00:00
Hello Fellow Hackers, I wanted to share what my team is building. We released our open-source library for foundation model development in February and we're about to release our first Enterprise offering.

In brief, we've developed an easy-to-use platform for fine-tuning custom models. We automate data synthesis for judging and training, as well as automating the judge prompt itself. The end result is that model development times and costs are drastically cut!

Check out our Substack article above if you're interested in learning more or signing up for early access :)
by estearum | 2025-10-09 23:58:59+00:00
> It is not so obvious to the people wanting to accelerate the research and solve cancer, aging or whatever their pet problem at (in their opinion) slim risk of catastrophe.

What GoF research either a) increases contagiousness of a pathogen or b) increases pathogenicity of a contagion and has anything to do with "cancer, aging, or whatever their pet problem" is?

> The key missing information is the probability.

COVID did - not - change the probability.

> But it does weaken the argument to a non-zero extent that GoF research leads to global pandemic.

No! It literally doesn't! The probability of GoF research leading to a future pandemic was the same the day before the COVID outbreak as it was the day after which is the same as it is today.

The only thing that will shift those probabilities are mitigations that we put in place.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-09 23:59:35+00:00
> Trump appointed Halligan, his former personal attorney, to oversee the case after another US prosecutor, Erik Siebert, resigned. Siebert was reportedly ousted after he told the justice department he had not found sufficient evidence to charge James.

So the exact same story as Comey's prosecution as well? Just install your loyalists and weaponize the DOJ then claim the other party was doing it the whole time!
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-10-10 00:00:05+00:00
What is it they are enforcing then? I once showed up in Vietnam without my tourist visa approved correctly (long story). Let me tell you, they take that stuff very seriously. Canada won't even let you visit Canada if youve had a DUI in recent years. A semifamous comedian wasn't allowed entry into Canada 20 years after he got charged with some form of statutory rape at 18. (He and two friends, 18 to 20, pressured a 16 year old into sex. Heavily contested). Yet we are supposed to let people in without documentation? Without background checks? What kind of insanity is that.