MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adi4213 | 2025-10-16 20:53:07+00:00
Congrats on the fundraise! I've been a fan of Counsel and admire Muthu's bullishness around asynchronous care delivery.

Overall, I felt the human-clinician side of the product worked quite well - the providers responded quite quickly, were well informed, and resulted in a quick turnaround to getting an Rx or some manner of outcome.

On the AI side, I would caution that your team really needs to work quite hard to maintain a defensible moat here.

> Other chatbots can’t connect to your medical records to provide personalized advice. They’re also not trained on the latest evidence-based research and can’t bring a physician into the conversation. With Counsel, you get medical-grade AI support backed by physician oversight, ensuring safe, high-quality care

"can’t connect to your medical records to provide personalized advice" - while I think Counsel's HIE integrations seem to work well (the AI responded with relevant data it had on me from the exchange), that's is reasonably easy to build (which does sound like the famous Dropbox comment).

"They’re also not trained on the latest evidence-based research" - on this note, I'd be curious if Counsel is capable of doing meaningful post-training to meet this endpoint (I'd assume it's not worth the resources to explore any manner of post-training). It strikes me as a good example of Sam Altman's steamrolling comment - I'd imagine the next waive of frontier models will represent a much greater level of health inference than post-training a current frontier model will accomplish.

tl;dr - I found myself immediately skipping over the AI functionality but did find the human physicians on Counsel's app to work great.

Granted, I'm curious to see the company's direction long-term — perhaps along the lines of a16z's healthcare superstaffing thesis (which sounds compelling) or aiming to have most encounters be between a user and AI (which I'm more bearish about, though it's definitely going to happen one day, of course).
by jacquesm | 2025-10-16 20:53:41+00:00
That's a bit different. The whole idea I have revolves around a clean computer without any kind of 3rd party hidden tricks. Of course, the original PC already had several auxiliary processors in places that are important, such as drives, keyboard etc. But let's take those for granted. Adding a soft-core FPGA based i486 to a much more powerful ARM system opens up a massive can of worms: that ARM could do just about anything to the poor 486 without it ever being the wiser.

Anyway, this project may be useful (I've been digging around in it some more since making the previous comment) because the FPGA itself is fairly common and the i486 bits and pieces could probably be recycled in something much simpler.
by minwcnt5 | 2025-10-16 20:54:19+00:00
> People say yes it drives, but it drives like a rookie

I think you just made this up. Almost every anecdote I've heard, and I spend a lot of time in two cities where it's launched, is that "it drives better than most humans". Which is exactly how I would characterize it too. It doesn't drive exactly like a human. But for every subtle human behavior it doesn't do, there are probably several things it does much more skillfully than a human.
by nirav72 | 2025-10-16 20:54:22+00:00
by the way - You can use Global Entry ID# for precheck during domestic travel. My precheck was expiring and I had called specifically for a question. Their support person told me that since I recently signed up for global entry, I didn't need to get precheck. So even if you don't travel internationally often, but might - then its worth it to get Global entry. Of course if you don't plan on ever travelling outside of the U.S ,then yeah no reason to get it.
by vel0city | 2025-10-16 20:54:36+00:00
I've got family in the rural Midwest. It would surprise me if their town wasn't a food desert by these definitions. You might go grab a thing of milk or sliced bread in a pinch at the convenience store, but yeah otherwise you just make the short drive into "the city" to get food at a regular grocery store.

Or you just ate the food you were growing on your own lot, or what your neighbors were growing, or from the farmer selling stuff off the highway.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-16 20:54:37+00:00
If you think that it's Silicon Valley capturing the government and not the other way around, you must have missed your Political Science 101 course. They both sing the same tune because it's the feds writing the script, not Sam Altman and Tim Cook conspiring with Thiel.

All the seed funding in the world won't disrupt the monopoly on violence. We're here because some dolts actually believed the lie that Silicon Valley was on "our side" of the fight.
by rafterydj | 2025-10-16 20:54:50+00:00
What is this? The formatting of this article is horrendous, the writing style follows common AI output (read: slop), often to the point of being nonsensical, and the citations are questionable at best.

For example, they never actually state WHAT their basic needs are - despite it being the crux of their article and referencing a consumer's "basket" 18 times, they never state what goods they are comparing!

They cite bizarre data like linking to a CSV of "their" OECD, then utilize it to rattle off a number of stats that don't correlate with each other. The charts don't look right either.

The website is drowning in banner ads - despite being a .org TLD - and looks so sloppy that a high schooler could make a more coherent and convincing report, despite being written by "(name) Economic & Pricing Investigator | Content Reviewed by CFA (name)".

This is frankly trash, and any valuable insight is impossible to distinguish against the backdrop of sloppy garbage. We should be posting higher quality articles than this.
by doomrobo | 2025-10-16 20:55:29+00:00
I'll actually argue the opposite. Transparency is _the_ pivotal thing, and code signing needs to be built on top of it (it definitely should be built into the browser, but I'm just arguing the order of operations rn).

TL;DR you'll either re-invent transparency or end up with huge security holes.

Suppose you have code signing and no transparency. Your site has some way of signaling to the browser to check code signatures under a certain pubkey (or OIDC identity if you're using Sigstore). Suppose now that your site is compromised. What is to prevent an attacker from changing the pubkey and re-signing under the new pubkey. Or just removing the pubkey entirely and signaling no code signing at all?

There are a three answers off the top of my head. Lmk if there's one I missed:

1. Websites enroll into a code signing preload list that the browser periodically pulls. Sites in the list are expected to serve valid signatures with respect to the pubkeys in the preload list.

Problem: how do sites unenroll? They can ask to be removed from the preload list. But in the meantime, their site is unusable. So there needs to be a tombstone value recorded somewhere to show that it's been unenrolled. That place it's recorded needs to be publicly auditable, otherwise an attacker will just make a tombstone value and then remove it.

So we've reinvented transparency.

2. User browsers remember which sites have code signing after first access.

Problem: This TOFU method offers no guarantees to first-time users. Also, it has the same unenrollment problem as above, so you'd still have to reinvent transparency.

3. Users visually inspect the public key every time they visit the site to make sure it is the one they expect.

Problem: This is famously a usability issue in e2ee apps like Signal and WhatsApp. Users have a noticeable error rate when comparing just one line of a safety number [1; Table 5]. To make any security claim, you'd have to argue that users would be motivated to do this check and get it right for the safety numbers for every security-sensitive site they access, over a long period of time. This just doesn't seem plausible

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04574
by panick21_ | 2025-10-16 20:55:42+00:00
On the internet, anytime Switzerland is mentioned that is brought up. For some reason its brought up more then what literally any other country did during that time. This includes other neutral who worked more with the Nazis, and even Germany and German allies. Anytime Switzerland is mentioned on reddit or here people bring this up. This is kind of baffling to me, as in monetary terms it is really not a relevant factor.

The only explanation I have for this phenomenon is that this was in the news media a lot in the 90s, but so many other things were in the news more, but this thing seems to have entrained itself as the first thing that comes to mind when mentioning Switzerland.
by robotresearcher | 2025-10-16 20:55:50+00:00
Standard evening family home tidy/reset - toys, books, clothes, shoes away in their places. All over the house.

Oh, and load/unload dishwasher. Same with laundry machines. Along with folding laundry, these are the domestic robot equivalents of 'de-mining' and 'search and rescue': the classic motivating use cases for mobile autonomous robots.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-16 20:55:59+00:00
If you are high income, of course you don't notice differences in levels of regressive taxes on consumption (including real property taxes, which, while not nominally this, for most people end up as a—direct for homeowners and indirect for renters—consumption tax on housing) as you do levels of progressive taxes on income (which is why frequently the income-tax-heavy states with higher average tax burdens also have lower tax burdens at equivalent income levels for median and lower incomes.)
by Ethee | 2025-10-16 20:56:01+00:00
So to put this another way, this is supposed to measure the avg absolute buying power of a worker and compares them by country? The part where I can see the disconnect here is a lot of European countries have their social programs baked into the wage (eg I expect to get paid less to work in Sweden as opposed to the US because I'm getting some of that 'back' through social services) however that isn't always the case for some countries. For example I'm not deducting healthcare costs from my salary in the US, but I'm still paying it after the fact which decreases my spending power.

There's too many specific variables to account for in this that I feel like the general comparison is almost hurtful at worst or doesn't tell the whole story at best.
by Atomic_Torrfisk | 2025-10-16 20:57:28+00:00
The quality of food (and price) of grocery stores in France make grocery stores in Norway feel like a cruel joke. I visited a carrefour(?) in France and I swear the fruit and vegetables were so fresh they looked like wax stage food... honestly it was a highlight of my trip and selection of cheese made me feel a little unkultured.
by tptacek | 2025-10-16 20:57:29+00:00
At some point with this line of reasoning you fall into the precautionary principle and the naturalist fallacy. I'm fine with people being squicked out by food additives that are products of petroleum chemistry, like benzaldehyde. You can get carrageenan simply by rehydrating and simmering seaweed and then filtering it through cheesecloth.

Whatever else is going on with carrageenan-stabilized yogurt, the carrageenan itself isn't doing anything to drive the health problems this speaker is talking about.

This is actually I think a really good illustration of the problem. There is absolutely a (primarily message-board-driven) literature of concerns about specific variants of carrageenan. But those concerns --- which I don't think are well-founded --- have nothing to do with the wave of concern about "UPFs" generally. The UPF thing isn't about IBD (some think kappa carrageenan exacerbates intestinal inflammation with susceptible people) --- it's about people eating hyperpalatable low-satiety packaged food, which are obesogenic. Getting rid of carrageenan does precisely nothing to address that problem; getting rid of cane sugar, which is not a UPF ingredient, absolutely does.
by librasteve | 2025-10-16 20:57:38+00:00
great to see a new framework embrace HTMX ... HTMX is inspiring many new green shoots as alternatives to JS & React

I am sure that many will like the blend of Python and Flask - and with server side HTMX I know that components are a key aspect

plus you website doesn't hurt my eyes like FastHTML

---

here's my comparison to https://harcstack.org

Language Python vs. Raku Web framework Flask vs. Cro ORM ?? vs. Red Components both HTML template vs. functional CSS DaisyUI/Tailwind/Bootstrap vs. Pico

So, I think you have a much wider audience with a very popular set of options - for comparison HARC stack makes more "out there" choices which I hope will appeal to the small group of folks who want to try a new way to go - like the idea of functional code for HTML (think elmlang on the server side) and are a bit allergic to Tailwind denormalization.
by arjie | 2025-10-16 20:58:28+00:00
I have an admin dashboard built with FastAPI and HTMX and SQLalchemy entirely LLM-based and it was pretty easy to build. Claude Code with a puppeteer MCP is able to look at what it's building, screenshot, fill entries and build an overall fairly response UI. One thing that it screws up is it sometimes renders whole pages into a partial but fortunately when given an MCP to look at the browser it fixes it all autonomously.

A fast cycle time is key when working with LLMs because they are good at adjusting to errors but bad at getting things right first time. So I like the HTMX-based stack.
by bluGill | 2025-10-16 20:58:38+00:00
Predicting what you will want in a few years is tricky at best. Some things that seem like a great idea are not worth it in the real world and so you pay the price for flexibility nobody uses. Some use case you didn't think of comes along that could really be helped with some tweak you didn't anticipate. thus your flexible architecture is both too flexible and not enough at the same time.

the above is a constant problem in engineering projects more than about 6 months old.
by xg15 | 2025-10-16 20:58:39+00:00
I'd guess everything where support would have to be manually implemented.

For static files served by CDNs or an "established" HTTP servers I think support is pretty much a given (though e.g. Python's FastAPI only got support in 2020 [1]), but for anything dynamic, I doubt many devs would go through the trouble and implement support if it wasn't strictly necessary for their usecase.

E.g. the URL may point to a service endpoint that loads the file contents from a database or blob storage instead of the file system. Then the service would have to implement range support itself and translate them to the necessary storage/database calls (if those exist), etc etc. That's some effort you have to put in.

Even for static files, there may be reverse proxies in front that (unintentionally) remove the support again. E.g. [2]

[1] https://github.com/Kludex/starlette/issues/950

[2] https://caddy.community/t/cannot-seek-further-in-videos-usin...
by asdff | 2025-10-16 20:58:54+00:00
It isn't hard if you buy the actual raw ingredients and cook for yourself. Produce is fine. Cuts of meat are fine. You can get plain old beans just fine for your vegetarian needs.

It is just people in this country have forgotten how to cook. Grandmother made her own mayonnaise. Mom bought kraft. To you making mayonnaise is a black art since mom never did it, so you also buy kraft. Extend that to most other food products.
by alganet | 2025-10-16 20:59:04+00:00
> its not like I can just drop into an existing codebase

The devil is always in the details. For example, in enterprise teams the time to onboard a new project or a new programmer is often dismissed but actually very important. Serious companies take this matter very seriously. More inexperienced teams often come up with an excuse for a slow onboarding time without realizing it's a proxy metric for quality. If you can't jump in quickly or jump someone else quickly into the productive train, something is wrong.

I think recording yourself doing it might be a worthwhile endeavour, even if you don't release it to a wider audience.

The act of recording yourself and watching it might reveal blind spots that you were not aware while doing it. Perhaps things you think are fast but actually took more time than you imagined.

Also, by giving this advice I can take my personal judgement out of the equation. Now it's you recording and only you watching yourself and judging yourself (which can be very soul crushing, I can tell from experience).
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-16 20:59:11+00:00
> Are the sales taxes generally higher in those states, which offset the lack of income tax?

Sales and property taxes are often higher, but this (which shifts the tax burden down the income distribution compared to progressive income taxes) usually does not fully offset the lack of income tax; the no income tax states are generally low average tax burden states (but may still have higher tax burden at low-to-moderate income.)
by righthand | 2025-10-16 20:59:18+00:00
Ironically I choose to deploy our nextjs projects on Vercel because interacting with our inhouse stack means involving an infrastructure person who wants to critique and research how you’re developing your app. With Vercel I can just deploy a project and don’t have to ask Steve what the best set of server tools I need and then work with Steve on the monolith of Kubernetes configs to get it deployed. And while I like Steve, adding him to a project is a huge time sink and cost center all it’s own. Even if I get platform access to self serve, Steve will be there gating me for every little permission I need.

I hope you at least let devs deploy on whatever stack instantly with new projects and services with something selfserve-y like (Vercel/Heroku/etc).
by ofek | 2025-10-16 21:00:28+00:00
The sentiment in this thread surprises me a great deal. For me, Gemini 2.5 Pro is markedly worse than GPT-5 Thinking along every axis of hallucinations, rigidity in its self-assured correctness and sycophancy. Claude Opus used to be marginally better but now Claude Sonnet 4.5 is far better, although not quite on par with GPT-5 Thinking.

I frequently ask the same question side-by-side to all 3 and the only situation in which I sometimes prefer Gemini 2.5 Pro is when making lifestyle choices, like explaining item descriptions on Doordash that aren't in English.

edit: It's more of a system prompt issue but I despise the verbosity of Gemini 2.5 Pro's responses.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-10-16 21:01:08+00:00
I wonder how this happened? There turn out to be very few of these kinds of "cache of ballots found" situations, or sometime tried to vote for someone else. That doesn't mean it never happened. I look forward to learning more details about this case.

One recent example was a postal service worker in Colorado who stole some people's ballots to supposedly test or show that the election was fraudulent or something vague like that. She was caught because she submitted some of the ballots with fake signatures, and the actual voters checked online and saw their ballots had been submitted, but they never received them. If I recall correctly, at least one or two of the ballots passed the signature check but a few others didn't. The ability to check the status of your ballot online is really valuable, but I suspect a tiny percentage of people can do this, and fewer do check it.

It wasn't that hard to find out the ballots all went through a certain postal code, leading them to that mail carrier. https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-postal-worker-sentenc...
by mickeymounds | 2025-10-16 21:01:12+00:00
You’re right to sanity-check. Our number is hours of pay needed for a single renter on a new lease, not hours actually worked.

Using your own anchors: if essentials ≈ 70% of median net pay and an effective month is ~140 paid hours (vacation/holidays), then hours = 0.7 × 140 ≈ 98h — nowhere near 200h.

So why would our Nordic rows show >200h? Likely method artifacts:

Rent input: we used current market 1-BR rents (upper bound). Many people have in-place/regulated rents, own, or share, which slashes hours per person.

Hour divisor: some wage series forced monthly ÷ 160–168h instead of ~140 effective hours → inflates the ratio ~10–20%.

Geography mix: capital-city prices vs national wages can overstate costs.
by dylan604 | 2025-10-16 21:01:54+00:00
> your tolerance for injuring babies is basically zero.

Um, no it's not. Is absolutely zero tolerance. There is not weasel words out of this. If a robot was to cause any pain to the baby, there would be no remorse. There would be no front of mind thoughts to not repeat the same thing the next time. There would be no guilt for causing pain to the baby.

Why you would "basically" this the way you have is disturbing.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-10-16 21:01:59+00:00
I don't suppose this is going to work well with their comics/graphic novels, will it?

I stopped buying ebooks from Amazon some time ago and switched completely to Kobo (and their much-more-easily-defeated DRM), but Amazon's acquisition of Comixology means they've still got by far the best collection of digital comics on the market.
by anastasija2504 | 2025-10-16 21:02:24+00:00
Every team needs a hero, especially when support pings, bugs, and tech debt all strike at once. Every sprint, team members juggle a mountain of responsibilities – planning new features, fixing bugs, running tests, and still trying to squeeze in time for support, monitoring, and ceremonies. And let’s be honest: technical debt usually ends up somewhere near the bottom of that never-ending to-do list.

Enter the Paladin – a brave soul with a new set of duties each sprint.

This role helps teams stay focused, move faster, and still tackle the things that usually fall through the cracks. Curious how it works? Let me share what we’ve learned in my team.
by tuesdaynight | 2025-10-16 21:02:29+00:00
I understand that hyping is the career of a lot of people, but it's a little annoying how every Twitter link posted here is full of "IT'S A GAME CHANGER!!! NOTHING IS THE SAME ANYMORE!!! BRACE FOR IMPACT!!!" energy. The examples look great, but it's hard to ignore the unprofessional evaluation that you described.
by mickeymounds | 2025-10-16 21:02:40+00:00
Author here. fair critique. We should have led with the basket and methods in plain text. Here they are:

What “basic needs” means in our chart (single adult, new lease):

Housing: market-rate 1-bedroom rent (current new-lease median, not legacy/regulated rents).

Utilities: basic electricity + heating/cooling + water/sewer/trash for a small 1-BR.

Food: ~2,100–2,400 kcal/day from low-cost local staples (grains/pasta, legumes, eggs, veg/fruit, oil, dairy/chicken) — no brand premiums.

Transport: one local monthly public-transit pass (or closest equivalent).

Everyday basics: SIM/phone plan and hygiene/cleaning essentials. Excluded: healthcare/tuition/childcare, cars, entertainment. Wages: net typical/median pay (after tax/mandatory contributions). Metric: hours needed = basket price ÷ net hourly pay. It’s a cash-flow affordability ratio for a solo renter, not a welfare/quality-of-life score.

On citations & data: Sources are standard (national stats/OECD/Eurostat + operator fares + rental medians from official or broad listing datasets). If you have a better official series for any country (especially rent), point me to it and I’ll rerun that row and note the change.

On the visuals/formatting: Point taken. I can collapse the UI to just the number + rank and move the methods into a single, clean appendix. Ads fund the data work, but I’ll provide an ad-light reader version for this piece.

If something still looks off for your country, share the wage/rent series you trust and I’ll check it.
by suzzer99 | 2025-10-16 21:03:41+00:00
My first serious web programming job was creating a complicated web-app with lots of JavaScript that had to support IE-4/4.5/5 and Netscape Communicator.

FWIW that app is still running to this day: https://resultview.q2labsolutions.com/resultview/logon/logon...

Vanilla JavaScript just works. Marvel at the circa 2001 Login button!