MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway8902 | 2025-10-18 19:28:38+00:00
Lots of people posting in here about how they can’t figure out the cause of their tinnitus.

Mine was ear wax. I went to an ENT doctor for an unrelated issue, he pulled a big plug of wax out of my ear, and my tinnitus (which was quite bad and had a very sudden onset) totally disappeared.

If you have it, go get a doctor to look in your ear before you give up and decide to try to live with it.
by BoppreH | 2025-10-18 19:29:38+00:00
I hear that OCaml without interface files can cause spooky-action-at-a-distance type errors[1]. Have you had experience with that?

> But in practice it's quite handy to annotate module interfaces and even individual functions.

Yes, but it also limits what information the types can represent because of syntax and human patience limitations. A fully inferred language could associate numbers with possible value ranges, lists with their sizes, enumeration of fixed string values, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615796
by dfxm12 | 2025-10-18 19:31:08+00:00
Life is less lonely when you focus more on social groups you do have something in common with than trying to latch onto everything that's popular.

That said, you might not be as alone as you think. The far side has been the butt of many bits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjfkynJ4hbI
by taraindara | 2025-10-18 19:31:11+00:00
Depends on which part we’re betting on survive the bubble pop. There’s a lot of capability being dismissed in low power inference while the large players push they need more money for large inference. After the pop people will start realizing how much benefit we can get without needing to create a Dyson sphere. More power is needed for continued major progress, but little power is needed for what’s going to stabilize as the normal use 95% of people need. Businesses will be users of the pricey inferences.

Only time will tell how things really play out. But these are my predictions as of today.
by tim333 | 2025-10-18 19:31:22+00:00
It goes back further. Here he is in 2012:

>Norvig is clearly very interested in seeing what Hinton could come up with. But even Norvig didn’t see how you could build a machine that could understand stories using deep learning alone. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/is-deep-learning-a-...
by furyofantares | 2025-10-18 19:31:31+00:00
The most egregious one I saw, I was tracking down a bug and found code like this:

bool x; ... if (x == true) { DoThing1(); } else if (x == false) { DoThing2(); }

And of course neither branch was hit, because this is C, and the uninitialized x was neither 0 nor 1, but some other random value.
by jcmfernandes | 2025-10-18 19:31:41+00:00
Arko explained why he changed the password. Yes, he should have communicated the change, and that's on him. I still can't understand why RC preferred to publish a hit piece on him instead of... calling him to ask if he had changed the password? Bonkers.

Now, are you using that to justify the hostile takeover of critical infrastructure to the entire Ruby community? I'm baffled. RC did a *hostile takeover*. How many times do I have to repeat this?
by sheepscreek | 2025-10-18 19:32:10+00:00
> Visual Basic was the pinnacle of graphics programming

I am still shocked how no tool since has managed to come even close to VB. You could easily develop a moderately complex GUI application that felt snappy in an afternoon. C# with WinForms is the second closest to that. All other iterations since have not been designed with individual developers in mind, sadly.

A powerful developing alternative to this paradigm could be what I’m calling speech/voice driven development (SDD or VDD). It takes some pain of typing so much away - makes interactions with AI feel a bit more natural. Like talking to a colleague. But for it to really work well, AI models will need to become even faster.
by vpShane | 2025-10-18 19:32:18+00:00
There are no failures for Linux Desktop; this can never be the meaning. I say this with humor in mind.

Requiring me to have a cloud account to format my machine (mac) and requiring me to have a cloud account on only pre-authorized hardware (Windows 11), only to open up Notepad and see they slapped AI inside of it; now that is quite comparable to me slapping Linux on it.

Just sayin'
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-18 19:32:33+00:00
Yes look under system apps. There's something like Facebook services that's not disabled and can't be removed from the UI. I don't remember the exact name because I uninstalled all the crap with adb.

But I think it's completely outrageous for a company to want to make money with my data on a device I paid for. Same with the TVs that take screenshots to see what you're watching.
by skybrian | 2025-10-18 19:33:12+00:00
A fundamental limitation is that static analysis enforces guarantees when a compiler can see and understand all the code at the same time.

It's great when you compile large amounts of code written in the same language into a single binary.

It's not so great for calls between languages or for servers communicating across a network. To get static guarantees back again, you often need to validate your inputs, for example using something like Zod for TypeScript. And then it's not a static guarantee anymore; it's a runtime error.

Database tables often live on a different server than the server-side processes that access them, so mix-and-match between different schema versions that the compiler never saw together is possible in most systems.

To prevent this, you would need some kind of monolithic release process. That runs into lifecycle issues, since data is often much longer-lived than the code that accesses it.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-18 19:34:09+00:00
Correct, that's [2]. In [2] they even say "[we] derive de main result using the approach first proposed in " and cite [1]. So the paper that everyone knows, in English (and with Bengio), explictly say that the original idea is in a paper in German, and still the scientific community chose not to cite the German original.

[1] https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/SeppHochreiter1991ThesisAdv...

[2] https://sferics.idsia.ch/pub/juergen/gradientflow.pdf
by burntsushi | 2025-10-18 19:35:34+00:00
Have you seen https://docs.rs/jiff/latest/jiff/_documentation/comparison/i... and https://docs.rs/jiff/latest/jiff/_documentation/design/index...?

I'd be happy to answer more specific questions.

Short opinionated summary is: nicer API, fewer footguns, more features, better support for calendar durations, integrated tzdb support and lots more to be honest.

Note that `std::time` just gives you a platform independent but bare bones access to monotonic and system clocks. Some kind of datetime library is needed if you want to do anything with Unix timestamps beyond treat them as an integer.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-18 19:36:12+00:00
That's how all/most science normally works.

Conversely, a huge amount of science is just scientists going "here's something I found interesting" but no one can figure out what to do with it. Then 30 or 100 years go by and it's a useful in a field that didn't even exist at the time.
by roelschroeven | 2025-10-18 19:36:52+00:00
While I agree that dedicated devices can be more efficient than Windows-style user interfaces, and even more so than browser-based user interfaces, many people don't use those modern interfaces in efficient ways.

I have observed countless times how many people fill in a field, than move their hand to the mouse to move the focus to the next field or button, than move their hand back to the keyboard, instead of just pressing tab to move the focus. It's painful to watch. Knowing just a few keyboard shortcuts makes filling in forms so much faster.

Things are getting worse, unfortunately. Modern user interfaces, especially in web interfaces, are made by people who have no idea about those efficient ways of using them, and are starting to make it more and more difficult to use any other method than keyboard -> mouse -> keyboard -> mouse -> ... . Tab and shift-tab often don't work, or don't work right. You can't expand comboboxes with F4, only the mouse. You can't type dates, but have to painstakingly select all the parts in inefficient pickers. You can't toggle options with the spacebar. You can't commit with enter or cancel with esc.
by quintu5 | 2025-10-18 19:37:02+00:00
It sometimes does it on its own, but to get it to do so consistently, it needs to be told. Doubly so if you want it to split off more than one sub-agent.

This works great for refactors that touch a large number of files. You can knock out a refactor that might take 30 minutes, a persistent checklist, and possibly multiple conversations, and one-shot it in two minutes and a single prompt.
by lolive | 2025-10-18 19:37:30+00:00
My point is more about the "Clean Core" strategy that SAP wants to promote. It is vastly fought internally, and the marketing of SAP, beyond the "believe us, it will be fantastic" fantasy, is not helping as their documentation and examples are really poor.

The joke we have internally is that they expect companies to hire expensive SAP clean core experts to evangelize about what clean core is. == hey guys, hire us so we will tell what your dataModel/ontology should be.

Another side comment:

I am not that much in those platform stuff [,more in the enterprise data], but from what i understand, HANA failed to deliver the performances expected, whereas the marketing was MASSIVE.

So people are now a bit skeptical about any new move by SAP.
by mickhead23 | 2025-10-18 19:38:00+00:00
Gravity's Rainbow was a favorite in my 20s. I recently turned 40 and picked it up again, but something was different: the chapter pertaining to African-Americans are incredibly dated.

Having said that, check out the illustrated "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow."

Against the Day is life changing.
by adi4213 | 2025-10-18 19:38:21+00:00
This is really interesting! Pretty remarkable that the key insight isn't just about crossing the BBB—it's about repairing the transport machinery itself.

We're building BetterBrain around this insight—catching vascular and metabolic risk factors that compromise BBB integrity years before severe pathology. Not replacing breakthrough therapies like this, but complementing them by intervening earlier in the cascade. (www.betterbrain.com/insurance if anyone would like to try - its $0 with most insurance plans)
by prmoustache | 2025-10-18 19:38:31+00:00
vi is documented

Problem is most people start it the first time by providing a text file instead of firing it on its own and be greeted by the tutorial. I guess that is because they are blindly following another tutorial instead of trying to understand what they are doing.

My opinion is that "self documentation", "Getting started" pages and "tutorials" is a disease. People would actually get up to speed quicker by reading real manuals instead. They are just lured into thinking they will learn faster with tutorials because they get their first concrete results quicker but at this stage the harsh reality is thay they still usually don't know anything.

First time I used vi, I just had my operating system manual on my desk and I quickly learned to open man pages in a separate tty.
by Arch-TK | 2025-10-18 19:38:32+00:00
Tinnitus (at least mine) sounds like a quieter version of the high pitched noise that movies like to use to emulate tinnitus due to a loud noise (explosion).

It's a quieter version of the tinnitus you can personally get if you are close to a loud noise (don't do this intentionally, it is an indication that you've caused yourself some hearing damage).

I've never heard static, I think that honestly sounds closer to what might actually be termed a noise floor. I know what a noise floor sounds like, and I've never heard a noise floor just due to quiet conditions...

IDK, like I said, unfortunately science hasn't found a way to easily and temporarily swap ears.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-10-18 19:39:17+00:00
There was enormous controversy about the readout of those studies, with multiple associated people resigning in protest. The wikipedia page on aducanumab[0] highlights some of the problems. One blurb:

Aducanumab was approved for medical use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in June 2021,[8] in a controversial decision that led to the resignation of three advisers to the FDA in the absence of evidence that the medication is effective.[9][10][11] The FDA stated that it represents a first-of-its-kind treatment approved for Alzheimer's disease and that it is the first new treatment approved for Alzheimer's since 2003.[2] Aducanumab's approval is controversial for numerous reasons including ambiguous clinical trial results regarding efficacy, the high cost of the medication and the very high rate of serious adverse events.[12][11] The FDA considers it to be a first-in-class medication.[13] In November 2020, a panel of outside experts for the FDA concluded that a pivotal study of aducanumab failed to show strong evidence that the medication worked, citing questionable efficacy and multiple red flags found with the data analysis.[14] There were also significant health risks associated with the medication; brain swelling or brain bleeding was found in 41% of patients enrolled in the studies.[15]...

For an industry expert who has had nothing good to say about it, I would consult some of the writings from Derek Lowe. Here is a link to when Biogen pulled the drug[1] and a blurb from Derek

This was a debacle. The entire process (as far as I can see) did no one any good whatsoever - not Alzheimer's patients (first in line), not Biogen, not the FDA. All that talk about how the approval was a "transformational breakthough" (Biogen's PR) is, well, "inoperative" as they used to say in the Nixon administration. In fact, I would argue that the Aduhelm saga has ended up doing a lot of actual damage. It set a precedent, the "Well, they approved this, so why not that?" kind that just sits around causing trouble year after year. Biogen, for example, says that they are now devoting their energies to their second anti-amyloid antibody therapy, lecanemab (Leqembi), but sourpuss that I am, I'm not impressed with that one, either. That's because I think that it is unlikely to actually make a difference to Alzheimer's patients, their families, or their caregivers, while at the same time exposing those patients to risks that are a lot easier to quantify than the drug's possible benefits....

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aducanumab [1]
by trinsic2 | 2025-10-18 19:39:59+00:00
> who benefits from the idea that these systems are conscious?

If im understanding your meaning correctly, the organizations who profit off of these models benefits. If you can convince the public that LLM's operate from a place of consciousness, then you get people to by into the idea that interacting with an LLM is like interacting with humans, which they are not, and probably won't ever be, at least for a very long time. And btw there is too much of this distortion already out there so im glad people are chunking this down because its easy for the mind to make shit up because we perceive something on the surface.

IMHO there is some objective reality out there. The subjectiveness is our interpretation of reality. But im pretty sure you cant just boil everything down to systems and process. There is more to consciousness out there, that we really dont understand yet, IMHO.
by dang | 2025-10-18 19:40:06+00:00
Thanks! Macroexpanded below.

Since the cutoff for duplicates is about a year (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) and the most recent major thread was only a few weeks ago, I've marked the current post as a dupe. (Sorry ellieh!)

Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run – Now Open Source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431001 - Sept 2025 (77 comments)

Atuin – Magical Shell History - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364186 - June 2025 (70 comments)

Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43766200 - April 2025 (150 comments)

Atuin – Magical shell history - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460148 - Feb 2024 (112 comments)

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38936102 - Jan 2024 (10 comments)

Atuin v17 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38027501 - Oct 2023 (6 comments)

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839470 - May 2023 (194 comments)

Atuin for zsh shell history in SQLite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31177943 - April 2022 (1 comment)

Show HN: Atuin, improved shell history with multi-machine sync - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27079862 - May 2021 (9 comments)
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-10-18 19:40:16+00:00
> Should parents be required by law to know computer programming?

Most parents I've known would never understand enough programming basics to extrapolate nuance.

There's a lot of variation in how many subjects one can be competent at.

A less charitable explanation: I regularly see folks who've grocery shopped for decades and still don't move their cart to the side when they're working thru their options. The lessons about not being an obstacle are continually taught, yet the understanding never develops.

From this we can infer that some abilities can be developed in some people. And that's the whole of it.
by yencabulator | 2025-10-18 19:40:31+00:00
Parsing your data format completely via tree-sitter is an interesting choice. Usually tree-sitter is "the second parser" only (for syntax highlighting etc), and the t-s version of a grammar isn't 100% comprehensive.

https://github.com/42futures/firm/blob/31fc084b7c7855bef9694...

I do wonder how much value all this work adds compared to having e.g. JSONC files with schemas. (Or HCL-syntax-for-JSON to visually match this work and then JSON schemas.)
by ksymph | 2025-10-18 19:41:33+00:00
That article cites the iea one. Both lead back to this chart [0] which shows total oil demand is still rising.

Demand for "gasoil gasoline and jet/kero" has fallen, but it is offset by still-growing demand for "petrochemical feedstocks". The former is used for fuel, while the latter used for plastics.

[0] https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/components-of...
by troupo | 2025-10-18 19:41:46+00:00
> WebGL took forever on mobile.

Since 2014, three years after desktop, I'll grant you that (though it's not forever)

> WebGPU still is only partially supported on desktop.

And it's only partially supported in Firefox. Perhaps something to do with actually fleshing out the APIs and not rushing with implementations like Chrome?

Edit: Firefox enabled WebGPU only on Windows this year.

Safari enabled WebGPU on all devices this year with *OS 26.

> Memory64 isn't available yet at all.

You mean the one released in Chrome this past February, and in Firefox this past January? Less than a year old?

And used on a whopping 0.0001% pages? https://chromestatus.com/metrics/webfeature/timeline/popular...
by rayiner | 2025-10-18 19:41:48+00:00
Are you saying that it’s faster to get around Malmo on transit than in a car? I can see that being true for some route, but it’s unlikely unless you’re wealthy enough to live and work very close to transit stations.

When I lived in New York I did have a commute where transit was faster than driving. But it was like Mad Men—I went from my fancy high rise right next to the train station to my fancy law firm right next to another train station. That was a lovely commute, even compared to driving in the suburbs. But most people in New York (or Tokyo) cannot afford to live so close to popular transit lines.

> With that in mind I find the argumentation that poor people have a worse time to be disingenuous- owning a car is the second largest expense most people have.

That’s what we call “penny wise and pound foolish.” Cars is capital equipment, and get handed down through families. Like any capital equipment, they depreciate and require maintenance. But they also enable people to earn money. I have relatively poor in laws: my wife’s grandmother raised four kids as a waitress, and her husband did hunting and odd jobs. Cars, which they carefully pass down through families, enable them to move around for better jobs and housing. When my father in law lost his job, he moved in with his mom and found various jobs in a 60 mile radius. If you look at the places in the U.S. with good transit, the poor there are structurally poor. They can’t just go to where the jobs are—they are stuck going to where the train lines go. It becomes a trap that creates generational poverty.
by notfed | 2025-10-18 19:42:03+00:00
You seem convinced this is "fake". It's unclear what you think is fake about this.

Fruits are wet, salty, acidic objects. As such, they can be used in an electronic circuit. They have an impedance, and, if you do it right, a voltage. [1] There's nothing fake or surprising about this.

He's just placing the fruit in series with the power source of some effect pedal. Unsurprisingly, this slightly alters the power source for the pedal, creating an audible difference in effect.

It's probably not something someone would do in practice, but notably, when it comes to electric guitars, experimenting with different types of distortion is pretty common, and it's common for guitar players to get creative.

Even if this "fruit effect" is not practical (I mean, you'd get inconsistent results), it's definitely a silly and interesting enough idea to justify a YouTube video. I could even see someone using it as a gimmick for playing live.

> I think anyone with a basic understanding of electronics would see the absurdity of these circuits and wouldn’t buy the schematics

Which schematics are you referring to? I think you might be assuming he's selling the "fruit" circuit. I think he's selling circuits for effect pedals, completely independently of this "fruit" video.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery
by Paratoner | 2025-10-18 19:42:41+00:00
It's always the people who have no clue what they're talking about, whether in physiology or philosophy, who insist on speaking so confidently on matters of physical activity and the meaning of life. No, your reductionary argument about the purpose of something like the gym should not be "remembered". People partake in labor and even seek hardships for many individual reasons, most of which do not involve "faking" anything at all. Keep inhaling the data-ist technobro coolaid though, it's awesome to be always online.
by username223 | 2025-10-18 19:43:41+00:00
> it's hard to mentally model code you didn't write.

Back when I learned to code, I was told never to copy-and-paste, even from my own code. It wasn't that it wouldn't save time, but that typing the stuff would force me to think about and understand it.

Throwing slop at walls and yelling "why error?! fix!!" if it doesn't work is good enough until it isn't, at which point it fails very badly, and no one has the knowledge to fix it.
by victornomad | 2025-10-18 19:44:02+00:00
I started having tinnitus in both ears 10 months ago.

I don't know the exact cause, but I started noticing it during a job-related burnout and a series of work-related events that significantly increased my stress levels.

It was so bad to the point I had to abruptly quit my job (FYI, freelancing without a safety net sucks).

My doctor gave me pills to help calm my brain and the noise, especially during the night. I also have hypersensitivity, so having a constant noise ringing was not ideal :/

Luckily my ENT doctor recommended that I do multiple things at the same time:

- tinnitus retraining therapy (TRT), listening to white noise ~4 hours a day - going to a therapist - daily meditation - daily exercise - reducing salt, chocolate, coffee, etc.

The hissing is still there, but I can now ignore it most of the time.

I started to see life a bit differently since then. Things that disrupt your life can happen so suddenly...

I'm still trying to find a job, but I lost a lot of confidence and developed a bit of a trauma since I don't want to experience burnout again :/