MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tonymet | 2025-10-11 19:11:46+00:00
I'm sure there is a noble excuse for every one of these problems. But the providers have the most leverage in reducing costs, so they must also accept the blame.

My complaint is two parts really. Providers are wasteful, and policy makers are not able to pressure them to optimize, because of the incredible PR.

In other words, there's no hope to reverse healthcare insolvency because cost growth will continue to explode with this combination.
by epcoa | 2025-10-11 19:12:17+00:00
I dunno, QuadraMed that was used by at least NYC H&H for years before their imperiled transition to Epic prominently displayed “Revenue Cycle Management” on the splash screen of its decrepit provider facing frontend.

Both of you are overstating your cases. That said, it’s hard to overstate how heavily charge capture and billing are prioritized to the detriment of other aspects.

> I can think of zero instances where an organization switched to EHR without being forced by a deadline from an outside source.

There were major EHR deployments in the 80s through early 00s, before most government mandates. Surely later mandates were an incentive This reflects a lack of tenure.
by roughly | 2025-10-11 19:12:22+00:00
I was talking about this the other day with someone - broadly I agree with this, they're absolutely fantastic for getting a prototype so you can play with the interactions and just have something to poke at while testing an idea. There's two problems I've found with that, though - the first is that it's already a nightmare to convince management that something that looks and acts like the thing they want isn't actually ready for production, and the vibe coded code is even less ready for production than my previous prototyping efforts.

The second is that a hand-done prototype still teaches you something about the tech stack and the implementation - yes, the primary purpose is to get it running quickly so you can feel how it works, but there's usually some learning you get on the technical side, and often I've found my prototypes inform the underlying technical direction. With vibe coded prototypes, you don't get this - not only is the code basically unusable, but you really are back to starting from scratch if you decide to move forward - you've tested the idea, but you haven't really tested the tech or design.

I still think they're useful - I'm a big proponent of "prototype early," and we've been able to throw together some surprisingly large systems almost instantly with the LLMs - but I think you've gotta shift your understanding of the process. Non-LLM prototypes tend to be around step 4 or 5 of a hypothetical 10-step production process, LLM prototypes are closer to step 2. That's fine, but you need to set expectations around how much is left to do past the prototype, because it's more than it was before.
by kbolino | 2025-10-11 19:12:39+00:00
Depending on the game and the circumstances, I'm getting some cases of 20-40 minutes to compile shaders. That's just obscene to me. I don't think stutter is better but neither situation is really acceptable. Even if it was on first install only it would be bad, but it happens on most updates to the game or the graphics drivers, both of which are getting updated more frequently than ever.
by archagon | 2025-10-11 19:13:04+00:00
Fire sale from expiring EV credits. Sales massively down in Europe and China. It’s almost inevitable that BYD and ilk will eventually eat Tesla’s lunch: the cars are cheaper, better, sexier, and have comparatively little political baggage.

Anecdotally, in my circles, Tesla isn’t even part of the conversation anymore when it comes to cars. No sign of any reversal of sentiment.

(With that said, I have no desire to bet against a meme stock.)
by Pannoniae | 2025-10-11 19:13:16+00:00
In fact, I've been writing more code myself since these tools exist - maybe I'm not a real developer but in the past I might have tried to either find a library online or try to find something on the internet to copypaste and adapt, nowadays I give it a shot myself with Claude.

For context, I mainly do game development so I'm viewing it through that lens - but I find it easier to debug something bad than to write it from scratch. It's more intensive than doing it yourself but probably more productive too.
by gigatexal | 2025-10-11 19:13:37+00:00
Remember when Apple stood for something like when they fought the FBI and won on the San Bernardino case... and here with art, and speech, they're caving to the thin skinned Trump administration. Disgusting. But not irrational. They're not above the administration and are beholden to it... so now that Trump has weaponized every part of government to fill his tiny hands and even smaller ego they are taking steps to stay in his good graces. It's disgusting.
by rglover | 2025-10-11 19:13:42+00:00
If this is accurate, this whole thing is beyond hysterical. Irrespective of political beliefs, this is an insane thing to have happen in the U.S. (this example is innocuous speech protected under the 1st amendment).

Spooky shit as it sets precedence for anyone to go after anyone for a social media post on any grounds. That's psychotic.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-11 19:13:53+00:00
> while the percentage of households with guns has gone down, significantly

The civilian gun stock has grown significantly since the 60s [1]. These data, together, seem to imply a large (but declining) number of households with a couple of guns and a few households with a ridiculous number of guns.

Of course, the dagger in your argument is that American divorce rates are not extraordinary [2]. Our gun ownership and school shooting rates are.

Given school shooters [3] (and now political shooters) come from gun-owning households, it seems fair to pin the blame for these events on that fraction of one third of American households who maintain private armories.

[1] https://www.thetrace.org/2023/03/guns-america-data-atf-total...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_divorce_r...

[3] https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/27379/Study-Adoles...
by jleyank | 2025-10-11 19:14:44+00:00
Given the unmet need for anything to treat dementia, anything that really has a positive effect is basically like printing money. It would not be hidden, it would be out there until the patents ran out.

And the amyloid situation is a word of warning to anybody thinking they could really speed up drug discovery. The researchers had a model. They created various compounds that were effective vs this model. These compounds were active in vivo vs the model target and safe to deliver. Problem was, they didn’t actually do anything vs dementia.

The human body isn’t really well understood. There are unknown mechanisms and interactions that appear at unexpected often undesirable times. There’s things that only show up in human testing, after models and animal testing shows no problems. And as in this case, the disease reveals it’s not really understood. Companies have burned through billions chasing this as the upside is damn well infinite.
by chowells | 2025-10-11 19:14:52+00:00
If the Internet goes away, Bitcoin goes away. That's a real threat in a bunch of conceivable societal failure scenarios. If you want something real, you want something that will survive the loss of the internet. Admittedly, what you probably want most in those scenarios is diesel, vehicles that run on diesel, and salt. But a pile of gold still could be traded for some of those.
by Eldandan | 2025-10-11 19:15:51+00:00
I'm newer to iOS (first iPhone was 15 pro) and macOS (M2 Air) so have tried to keep an open mind - only excessively irritating bugs will get me back to android and windows, as the back and forth transition is a soft barrier.

So far, accessing Safari tabs to close takes an extra tap, but that's counteracted somewhat by the New tab / private tab options. And keyboard doesn't pop up consistently when replying to emails in Outlook. Might be related to SwiftKey or just a bug in that app. Aside from that I'm pretty happy with the ux.
by bavent | 2025-10-11 19:16:06+00:00
Search is bad everywhere. If I open Settings, and then search for application $X, no results. If I search for $Y, $Y shows up. They are alphabetically next to each other, and I can see them both if I open the Applications submenu and scroll down to access individual app settings.

Why does one show up and one doesn’t? The one that doesn’t is a built-in Apple app, too. They both have identical settings for “show app in search”. This worked fine before iOS 26.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 19:17:42+00:00
> The problem is on your end

followed by

> There is a red button [...] buttons [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] buttons [...] buttons [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] button [...] second red button

Not sure the problem is on their end!
by EvanAnderson | 2025-10-11 19:17:53+00:00
Any data I created, paid to license, or put in significant work to gather has to be backed-up with 3-2-1 rule. Stuff I can download or otherwise obtain again is best effort but not mandatory backup.

Mainly I don't want to lose anything that took work to make or get. Personal photos, videos, source code, documents, and correspondence are the highest priority.
by jleyank | 2025-10-11 19:18:46+00:00
That’s my point. People want affordable. The market tends to deliver (blindingly) expensive. It might not be possible to build something affordable in popular areas - there is a minimum cost of construction. This is somewhat constant methinks. There is a cost of land, which is staggeringly variable. And there is the friction of the whole process which is also quite variable.

If people really want cheaper housing, they need to provide remote work or well distributed satellite employment
by surfingdino | 2025-10-11 19:18:56+00:00
Not as much as it used to be. Before cloud computing became a thing, if you wanted to squeeze the last bit of performance out of hardware, FreeBSD was the way to go. Yahoo! used it when Yahoo! was the biggest site on the internet. Over time Linux became more performant and ever since it has become the OS of choice for AWS and other cloud provides, FreeBSD's popularity has dropped.
by everforward | 2025-10-11 19:18:56+00:00
A speedy trial is much slower than you’d probably think. I can’t find specific guidelines for Tennessee beyond having the right to one. The federal guidelines are generally 30 days to make a specific charge, and 70 days from then to appear before a judge. That also doesn’t ensure the case goes to trial, just that you’ve had a hearing.

Ie you can spend over 3 months in jail before an hearing and still be considered to have had a speedy trial. He’d have to wait til after that period to even file a motion for dismissal on speedy trial grounds, and then wait for the hearing on that to happen.

This is part of why plea deals are so common. Even if he were somehow to be convicted, his sentence would probably be less than the speedy trial window. At a certain point, the prosecution will offer to bump it down to some kind of misdemeanor with jail time less than he’s already done so it’s time served. He may as well plead guilty to that because otherwise he’ll keep sitting in jail waiting on a trial and do more time for no reason.

There’s no realistic route where he gets compensated for being wrongly prosecuted, even if he goes to trial and is found not guilty.

The justice system is deeply, deeply flawed and unjust.
by pllbnk | 2025-10-11 19:19:57+00:00
All these doomsday posts are just wishful thinking. On one hand, it would be bittersweet to see them fail. On the other, the cat's out of the bag and boring world's realities such as high energy consumption won't put it back. People see the usefulness it brings. Even if it doesn't translate to huge productivity gains just yet, I think even most critics understand that _quite likely_ it's just a matter of time, so the investors' money will be there as it's currently about the only thing in the popular technology space that attracts investment in the first place.
by Mawr | 2025-10-11 19:20:34+00:00
Lower latency between your input and its results appearing on the screen is exactly what a fundamental benefit is.

The resolution part is even sillier - you literally get more information per frame at higher resolutions.

Yes, the law of diminishing returns still applies, but 720p@60hz is way below the optimum. I'd estimate 4k@120hz as the low end of optimal maybe? There's some variance w.r.t the application, a first person game is going to have different requirements from a movie, but either way 720p ain't it.
by tombert | 2025-10-11 19:20:41+00:00
This is getting circular. I think you're actively lying if you say you didn't immediately parse what I said. I think you knew what I meant immediately, and I think you're being needlessly pedantic, which is fine but I think you should just be upfront about that.

I used a word arguably incorrectly ("closed") (though I would like to point out the iOS shortcuts uses that terminology as well), but the surrounding context about being backgrounded makes it very apparent.

Keep in mind, the person who initially responded started giving me a lecture about single-tasking operating systems, as if I don't know that most operating systems are multitasking. Pretty much anyone who frequents this forum will know that operating systems are multitasking, and given that and the fact that I said "backgrounded", it should be immediately obvious what I meant. Neither I nor anyone else here needed to explain to me (or most other people) about multitasking operating systems. This is what I was initially responding to, because the person told me to "Please learn what's what in the system you're using", which is pretty douchey in general, and especially douchey since they're lying about not understanding what I meant.
by pipes | 2025-10-11 19:20:53+00:00
Unreal engine 1 looks good to me, so I am not a good judge.

I keep thinking there is going to be a video game crash soon, over saturation of samey games. But I'm probably wrong about that. I just think that's what Nintendo had right all along: if you commoditize games, they become worthless. We have endless choice of crap now.

In 1994 at age 13 I stopped playing games altogether. Endless 2d fighters and 2d platformer was just boring. It would take playing wave race and golden eye on the N64 to drag me back in. They were truly extraordinary and completely new experiences (me and my mates never liked doom). Anyway I don't see this kind of shift ever happening again. Infact talking to my 13 year old nephew confirms what I (probably wrongly) believe, he's complaining there's nothing new. He's bored or fortnight and mine craft and whatever else. It's like he's experiencing what I experienced, but I doubt a new generation of hardware will change anything.
Ask HN: I reported possibly illegal detention now I being blamed by my relative
by DenisDolya | 2025-10-11 19:21:07+00:00
I live in Ukraine. Recently, my relative was taken by the Territorial Recruitment Center (TCC) without a passport or any notice to the family. No one told us where he was being held or for how long. I didn’t know if it was legal — and I was genuinely afraid for him.

Out of worry, I filed a police report to make sure he wasn’t being detained unlawfully. Writing that report was one of the most stressful things I’ve ever done. In Ukraine, there’s Article 383 of the Criminal Code — “false reporting of a crime.” If the authorities decide your report was wrong, you can be punished instead. I felt like I was walking on a knife’s edge.

I carefully wrote that I was only reporting the facts I knew, not assumptions. I recorded video, saved call logs, and even brought his passport to the police station to prove he didn’t have it when he was taken. The officers laughed. They mocked me for caring too much, for filming, for asking questions. I still stood my ground.

Two days later, the TCC said he was just undergoing a medical check. Eventually, they brought him back home. I thought I’d done the right thing — but instead of gratitude, my relative accused me of betraying him. He said I’d “turned him in.”

It’s strange how doing the right thing can make you look like the villain. I risked being charged, humiliated, and possibly blacklisted — just to make sure he was safe. But what hurt the most wasn’t the system; it was being blamed by someone I was trying to protect.

This experience changed how I see institutions, fear, and morality. When people lose trust in authorities, even an act of care can look like treason. I learned that doing the right thing sometimes means standing alone — and that truth doesn’t always bring peace.

Has anyone here gone through something similar — doing the right thing, only to be misunderstood or blamed for it?
by bitpush | 2025-10-11 19:21:09+00:00
> Remember when Apple stood for something like when they fought the FBI

It was very calculated, and not a principled stand like most people would believe. They knew the then government couldnt push them, and they stood to gain the halo effect. "Privacy is human right" followed, and they basked in the glory.

And now .. they know there's going to be a pushback, and Apple tucks their tail like how they did in China for decades.

Apple has always been hypocritical, and now it is on full display to even the most ardent fans.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-11 19:22:04+00:00
https://globalnews.ca/news/11469803/canada-fall-housing-mark...

> While some major markets — Winnipeg, Regina, and Toronto — saw home resales go up from August to September, most markets remained tepid.

> Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax saw slight declines, “suggesting the recovery is still uneven and fragile,” RBC economist Robert Hogue said in the report.

I know that out here on the west coast my property valuation has dropped from the peak. Not much, but it’s clear from talking to realtors that you just can’t buy a house and flip it a year later anymore.

I think that depending on how you slice the data,
by XenophileJKO | 2025-10-11 19:23:36+00:00
I don't think it is a long term solution. More like training wheels. Ideally the engineers learn to use AI to produce better code the first time. You just have a quality gate.

Edit: Do I advocate for this? 1000%. This isn't crypto burning electricity to make a ledger. This objectively will make the life of the craftsmanship focused engineer easier. Sloppy execution oriented engineers are not a new phenomenon, just magnified with the fire hose that an agentic AI can be.
by Balinares | 2025-10-11 19:24:19+00:00
I think I'm more optimistic about this than brute-forcing model training with ever larger datasets, myself. Here's why.

Most models I've benchmarked, even the expensive proprietary models, tend to lose coherence when the context grows beyond a certain size. The thing is, they typically do not need the entire context to perform whatever step of the process is currently going on.

And there appears to be a lot of experimentation going on along the line of having subagents in charge of curating the long term view of the context to feed more focused work items to other subagents, and I find that genuinely intriguing.

My hope is that this approach will eventually become refined enough that we'll get dependable capability out of cheap open weight models. That might come in darn handy, depending on the blast radius of the bubble burst.
by otterley | 2025-10-11 19:24:59+00:00
It’s not orthogonal at all. On the contrary, it’s directly related:

“Using permissive AI tools [that is, ones that do not ask for your approval] in your repository requires careful attention to security considerations and careful human supervision”. Supervision isn’t necessarily approving every action: it might be as simple as inspecting the work after it’s done. And security considerations might mean to perform the work in a sandbox where it can’t impact anything of value.
by simonw | 2025-10-11 19:25:17+00:00
Definitely harder.

A year ago I was using GitHub Copilot autocomplete in VS Code and occasionally asking ChatGPT or Claude to help write me a short function or two.

Today I have Claude Code and Codex CLI and Codex Web running, often in parallel, hunting down and resolving bugs and proposing system designs and collaborating with me on detailed specs and then turning those specs into working code with passing tests.

The cognitive overhead today is far higher than it was a year ago.
by holowoodman | 2025-10-11 19:25:37+00:00
The owner also has the right to refuse saying anything, in which case it is on the police to prove who the driver was. For cars, that's usually easy, because they just compare the ticket photo to your drivers license photo or passport photo on file. For motorcycles, the ticket photo is usually useless, so if the owner refuses to identify himself or someone else, and the police cannot prove anything, the motorcycle owner goes unticketed.
by thegrim33 | 2025-10-11 19:25:47+00:00
The guy made multiple posts, which, taken together, made people supposedly consider him as making threats. The journalist here decides to cover this story, but only mention the content of one of his posts, and completely ignoring and not mentioning the contents of the other posts.

Surely the other posts are completely benign and there's nothing of interest in there, right? Surely the journalist had a reason for only reporting on the contents of one of his posts, and not the others, and that choice wasn't intentional in order to present a biased interpretation of reality. Surely.
by leakycap | 2025-10-11 19:26:56+00:00
Microsoft: forces OneDrive on users via dark pattern dialogs that many users just accept

Users: save files "on their PC" (they think)

Microsoft: Rolls out AI photo-scanning feature to unknowing users intending to learn something.

Users: WTF? And there are rules on turning it on and off?

Microsoft: We have nothing more to share at this time.

Favorite quote from the article:

> [Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]
by mgraczyk | 2025-10-11 19:27:05+00:00
Semantic html is a novice trap, just do the thing that works and that browsers expect (aria-live)

It's fun to play around with things like this, but if you're a developer you have a responsibility to build things that work for your users using the existing tools and ecosystem. Don't use semantic HTML tags that aren't widely used, just do the thing that works.