MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throw-10-8 | 2025-10-09 11:50:21+00:00
I'm a non-american and I don't trust their government as a steward any longer.

I've diversified into international markets that are more resistant to the whims of a dictator and his feeble attempts at monetary policy.

Also any gains in dollar denominated assets should include the >10% haircut the USD has taken since the fascist coup.
by Luc | 2025-10-09 11:50:26+00:00
I had to edit the title to fit the HN character limit, hopefully I got the gist of it.

One of the researchers tweeted:

"Pretty much the whole industry (incl. @Google Fit @Apple Fitness+) assume that 1 minute of vigorous activity = 2 minutes of moderate activity, in terms of heart health value. Our UK Biobank analyses show that they may be far off, e.g. 1 minute of vigorous = 9.4 minutes of moderate = 94 minutes of light intensity activities, in terms fo type 2 diabetes risk. 1 min of vigorous = 7.8 mins of moderate = 73 minutes of light, in terms of CVD risk."

https://x.com/M_Stamatakis/status/1975783367577838072
by vitus | 2025-10-09 11:50:37+00:00
For various reasons, I believe the CFR defines flour as a food, not a food additive, but it may have additives that qualify. (I can't find any text that explicitly states that foods are not food additives, but either way, no form of wheat flour is listed in the Substances Added to Food database.)

Common culprits include chemicals added during the bleaching process and addition of "enzyme" / other ingredients that help improve baking consistency. Some examples:

https://www.hfpappexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?se...

https://www.hfpappexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?se...

https://www.hfpappexternal.fda.gov/scripts/fdcc/index.cfm?se...
by 0xgokhan | 2025-10-09 11:51:10+00:00
"Nock is a family of computational languages derived from the ski combinator calculus. It serves as the isa speciﬁcation layer for the Urbit and NockApp systems. This article outlines the extant historical versions of the Nock combinator calculus and reconstructs the motivation for the changes made at each kelvin decrement. It begins with an exposition of Nock as a tool of computation, outlines the history of Nock’s decrements, and speculates on motivations for possible future developments."
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-09 11:51:22+00:00
Yeah the whole "ultra processed food" angle is meaningless. Just call it junk food.

If the thing that is bad for us is the processing and preservatives then we can pursue that... but if you want to count things like potato chips then we need to be honest about what the label actually means. The UPF label adds a veneer of scientific precision that isn't actually present in any guidelines surrounding it.
by franga2000 | 2025-10-09 11:52:05+00:00
"Is anyone surprised" is an important question to ask, although in this case it would be more valuable to ask on a less techy forum. I'm not surprised and many people here are not surprised, but most people are still surprised when they hear something like this, which is why they gladly give their information to anyone that asks. If the majority of Discord users knew breaches are inevitable and refused to give their information or at least took some protective measures like partial redaction and use-case watermarking, this breach would be less of an issue and/or such breaches would be less common.

We need to make sure nobody is surprised. Everyone should rewrite every "upload" button in their head to say "publish".
Tell HN: I tried eye tracking in iOS 26. It's hard
by keepamovin | 2025-10-09 11:52:33+00:00
How do y'all do it (people who use that)? It seems quite inaccurate. It's a cool feature and requires intense concentration, almost meditative, and that's positive...but it seems really hard to control.

For people who have to or choose to use this - how do you do it? Is it super hard?
by mcdeltat | 2025-10-09 11:52:36+00:00
So true. It is abuse because the customer is largely trapped. I try my best to avoid subscriptions and tech for everyday things, but I have done the thought experiment for a possible future and it's kinda scary. Say I like photography - what happens when cameras get so "advanced" that they need a subscription? I'm basically screwed because the average Joe can't build a camera from scratch (or maybe you can if you go to extremes like devoting 10 years to it). What then? Bye bye all hobbies which involve nontrivial tech?
by debtta | 2025-10-09 11:52:39+00:00
I think maybe this is a feature rather than a bug.

I know at least a couple of subreddits for specific 'true crime' cases which split into one for people who believed the suspect was guilty and one where everyone believed they were innocent.

The thing is, the split fora were actually much better than pre split. When both sets of people were together every topic degenerated rapidly in exactly the same way:

meticulous_postrr: I just reread the transcript of Fred's sixth interview and noticed that he mentioned seeing a purple t-shirt in the woods. Could this be the shirt that Ahab was wearing at the road house, which looks blue in the security footage? middled_aged_loner: Nice try, but unless you can explain the severed foot in the ashtray, the blue shirt is irrelevant here. AhabDidIt: Still trying to shill the 'only two feet' theory, m_a_l? What about what Edgar saw? curious_n00b: Hi, I love the podcast but I'm not sure about one thing: is the Sylvia mentioned in Dushane's diary the same Sylvia who knew Edgar from volleyball camp? AhabDidIt: welcome curious. Good question, but you're wasting your time with the diary. The July entries were written in August, by April. See my previous threads /r/TheScarletFred/Ahabs_lies /r/TheScarletFred/Ahabs_lies_2 and /r/TheScarletFred/the_diary_evidence_reexamined middled_aged_loner: So in your opinion ADI, April apparently knew that Dushane had seen Vanessa on the rollercoaster but didn't mention it to the police on the 1st October? This completely fails to stack up. What about Vanessa's unfinished ice tea? WHAT ABOUT THE SEVERED FOOT?

The split subreddits have better information, better curation and better flow. People who are otherwise in agreement debate precise points carefully and in detail. Both are available on the same internet so anyone who wants to can read both and make up their own mind.

I know we're all supposed to be worried about echo chambers, but sometimes an echo chamber is somewhere a specific conversation can take place which couldn't elsewhere.
by itsdavesanders | 2025-10-09 11:52:44+00:00
Claude can use use tools to do that, and some different code indexer MCPs work, but that depends on the LLM doing the coding to make the right searches to find the code. If you are in a project where your helper functions or shared libs are scattered everywhere it’s a lot harder.

Just like with humans it definitely works better if you follow good naming conventions and file patterns. And even then I tend to make sure to just include the important files in the context or clue the LLM in during the prompt.

It also depends on what language you use. A LOT. During the day I use LLMs with dotnet and it’s pretty rough compared to when I’m using rails on my side projects. Dotnet requires a lot more prompting and hand holding, both due to its complexity but also due to how much more verbose it is.
by user34283 | 2025-10-09 11:52:55+00:00
That is what it says in the subreddit description and name, not my personal opinion of its content.

There are not numerous other mainstream news subs where you would not get banned for conservative opinions. In fact I believe worldnews may be the most conservative leaning one. I know that /r/news is far more left.

You don't think that's a problem with the platform?
by maratc | 2025-10-09 11:53:48+00:00
It's just not a big issue today if you know what you're doing or not, as everyone now seems to care about "consistency" only.

My personal pet peeve is python's formatter named "black" (mentioned in TLA) that converts this:

important_numbers = { "x": 3, "y": 42, # Answer to the Ultimate Question! "z": 2 }

into this:

important_numbers = {"x": 3, "y": 42, "z": 2} # Answer to the Ultimate Question!
by stinkbeetle | 2025-10-09 11:54:11+00:00
I don't think a large proportion of thin people are thin because of societal pressure. And conversely I don't think societal pressure makes many people thin, because I hear so much complaints about body shaming and unrealistic beauty expectations and discrimination against obesity etc, so it clearly isn't working any miracles.

I think most people who are thin just have a food intake regulation that is pretty well balanced so they don't over eat because they don't feel that hungry when they have had enough calories.

The reason why some groups of people have been increasingly prone to obesity is external factors interfering with that regulation. It's probably lots of things, food availability, ingredients, cost, culture, other mental health issues, medications, entertainment, work, availability of cars. One thing it is not is simple.

The calories in vs calories out mechanic is simple, the reasons why that's going out of kilter is not.
by drcxd | 2025-10-09 11:54:35+00:00
> Software engineers are the translators.

True, recently I started feeling that part of what I had been doing is simply translating natural language to programming languages. Though coding also involves things such as algorithm and data structures, context and background knowledge, but these can all be done in natural language. Once the natural language description is given, what remains is only translation. LLMs have good knowledge of almost anything, though they are currently weak on inference or derivation, but this already makes them good on the two end of software engineering -- context knowledge and translation.

I understand those people who hate LLMs for coding, I partly share the feeling, because I enjoy typing on a keyboard, editing part of the code, reading the characters, I am an Emacs user. If LLMs can do the work, even if just save the typing and editing part, some of the fun has been eliminated for me.

Think about chess and Go, though AI can easily beats human now, people are still playing it. For programming, if one day AI can do 80% of the programming work, I guess only few of programmers today can keep doing it as a job. Just like few people can play chess and Go as their job.
by keepamovin | 2025-10-09 11:54:36+00:00
Yes, you really only need to do some Tabata to keep your exercise quotient in a healthy range. It won't build marathon level cardio, nor muscle, but it will keep your cardiovascular system and body reasonably healthy for small time investment.

Go so hard that you can't have a conversation and are in around 80% of HR max.

I think walking, and low intense ex is good for things like mental, reflection, etc. General refreshing. But if you need to get exercise in but dislike it, or don't have the time, HIIT is gooooood. :)
by jbstack | 2025-10-09 11:55:26+00:00
How's that? HFT lowers the barrier of entry for ordinary participants who just want to invest their savings either directly or through something like a pension fund, because they get all those benefits I mentioned, and those benefits are useful when you are only executing a trade once a month or year.

It only increases the barrier to entry to people who want to do HFT themselves on a smaller scale, because they now can't compete on latency etc. But it's a bit of a circular argument to say that it's a bad thing that engaging in HFT increases the barrier of entry to HFT.

In any case, and to reiterate, I wasn't refuting a claim that HFT is a bad thing, I was refuting your original claim that it's pointless. For something to be pointless, there has to be no purpose to it whatsoever, which means it has to have no benefits.
by rglynn | 2025-10-09 11:55:38+00:00
Yes and no, it's a fair criticism to some extent. Inasamuch as I would agree that different models of the same type have superficial differences.

However, I also think that models which focus on higher reasoning effort in general are better at taking into account the wider context and not missing obvious implications from instructions. Non-reasoning or low-reasoning models serve a purpose, but to suggest they are akin to different flavours misses what is actually quite an important distinction.
by kakacik | 2025-10-09 11:55:40+00:00
Its all over it, just look. "100% compatible with the originals." if nothing else.

Do you see original logos? Do you see it mentioned over and over how its original or OEM? You shouldn't be looking for reasons why its not a good buy, on such places you should expect it as default and try to give reasons why it actually may be an OK buy.

I simply wouldn't be buying such things from Amazon to start with, since seller can easily put those words there for quick profit, stickers can be fake and that's about the remote analysis that can be done, reviews are often gamed and useless. Its aliexpress/temu equivalent, nothing more.
by kotaKat | 2025-10-09 11:55:45+00:00
At the same time that’s great… for you or I. To someone grabbing “a button to do a thing” on the shelf at Best Buy, Home Assistant might not be where it needs to be for them.

The only reason this actually comes to mind is my own experience updating my HA instance recently. I’m not a big HA user - I only control 3 bulbs and a BedJet and a Yale smart lock, and expose it back to HomeKit to my Apple devices. But even something simple as an HA update can cause integrations to break or require additional behind-the-scenes repairs that an end user just would be too confused to do.

You or I can sit down and understand that the error message means we need to reconnect our Yale integration’s OAuth after a HA upgrade, then figure out that it didn’t work, then figure out that we had to delete and re-add the whole integration, but will Bob and Jill figure it out just as easily in half an hours’ time?
by NumberCruncher | 2025-10-09 11:55:53+00:00
I don’t really understand why there’s so much hate for LLMs here, especially when it comes to using them for coding. In my experience, the people who regularly complain about these tools often seem more interested in proving how clever they are than actually solving real problems. They also tend to choose obscure programming languages where it’s nearly impossible to hire developers, or they spend hours arguing over how to save $20 a month.

Over time, they usually get what they want: they become the smartest ones left in the room, because all the good people have already moved on. What’s left behind is a codebase no one wants to work on, and you can’t hire for it either.

But maybe I’ve just worked with the wrong teams.

EDIT: Maybe this is just about trust. If you can’t bring yourself to trust code written by other human beings, whether it’s a package, a library, or even your own teammates, then of course you’re not going to trust code from an LLM. But that’s not really about quality, it’s about control. And the irony is that people who insist on controlling every last detail usually end up with fragile systems nobody else wants to touch, and teams nobody else wants to join.
by prox | 2025-10-09 11:56:10+00:00
You are making a straw man fallacy.

It’s not both all the other subs, the point under contention is about that you cannot be critical or reasonably discuss anything proper in r/conservative.

I don’t know if you have been following the sub, I have, and it always follows a similar pattern. If it’s a new topic, some discussion is allowed, but soon everyone needs to toe the party line.

Edit : I encourage free discussion on this point, instead of downvoting.
by krapp | 2025-10-09 11:56:45+00:00
Instead of blaming the low nutritional value of school lunches on line workers being unwilling to "work hard" because of "modern culture," consider the possibility that they aren't the ones responsible for setting the menus or budgeting the ingredients.

Your actual gripe is with local governments, the USDA and voters who consider funding any social program to be communism.
by iamtheworstdev | 2025-10-09 11:56:46+00:00
> It feels like React generally has an ongoing trajectory towards increasing complexity and features. For something that's effectively become the standard for frontend that's unfortunate.

Is that not every software development effort, ever? Isn't that why "todo" apps, search engines, etc, constantly get "recreated". Live long enough to become the enemy and get replaced by a bare bones app that'll bloat itself into oblivion and repeat the cycle?
by jacquesm | 2025-10-09 11:56:58+00:00
Yes, that was around that time. There were a couple of problems, the first batch of chips we got was very early in the development stage of the chip, pre-production issues and there were some bugs in the chips themselves which could cause lock-up under some circumstances. We found ways to work around those and then of course there were all of the niceties around dealing with a device that generates an extremely high rate of interrupts. So the code would either have to attempt to service all channels on any interrupt or be re-entrant. I don't remember which solution we picked but in the end the thing was, once we had the bugs worked out fairly bullet proof.

One funny bit about the development process was that initially I was going to be nice and implement every layer as its own stand-alone bit of software communicating via a defined set of primitives with the layers above and below. But that was slow as molasses so in the end all of that elegance got discarded for an absolutely unholy sandwich that did all of the layers in a single chunk of code. But with the experience from the 'slow' version that was actually doable, I would have never been able to write that as the first implementation. Classic illustration of 'first make it work, then make it fast'.
by ripano | 2025-10-09 11:57:25+00:00
That's clearly a sarcastic comment, but I'll reply as if it wasn't, since many people think this things can actually be a good idea.

The fake memories we didn't know we needed. No, wait, we actually don't need them. This is how we humans completely forget the importance of actual truth and memory and simply substitute it with generated trails likely (maybe?) to have happened.
by rendall | 2025-10-09 11:57:34+00:00
> One interesting side effect is that I changed the most number of lines of code company wide that year and got my name on the "blame" for most of the JavaScript files that existed at that time. So over the years I kept getting random people or scripts pinging me about code I had no idea about!

Not sure who needs to hear this, but in case anyone runs into this problem, you can create a list of commit hashes that `git blame` will ignore. Commit all of your formatting changes in one push and then put its hash in the ignore file.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame#Documentation/git-blame.t...

This feature was created as a direct response to automated formatters like Prettier!
by noodletheworld | 2025-10-09 11:57:40+00:00
> vercel is a company which is heavily invested in

…people paying for react.

Which is fair, but do we have bend knee and suggest they have the best interests of the react ecosystem at heart? They don’t.

They are invested in: people using next.js and hosting it on vercel.

If that’s not what you’re doing, their interests probably don’t align with yours.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-10-09 11:58:22+00:00
But why? I mean... this data might be valueable at some time, if nothing else, when the company is sold to some other data-gathering company... and the punishment for such a breach will be less than the data is worth.

I mean.. if the governments did their jobs and multipled the punishment for a single breach by 70.000 (in this case) and cause the company to go bankrupt.... well, only then would the companies reconsider. But until then, they won't.
by reillychase | 2025-10-09 11:59:09+00:00
I like reading BlackRain79 and watching his YouTube videos. Nothing beats experience though. Start playing without money for a long time first to learn the rules of the game. I actually downloaded a Game Boy emulator for iOS and the ROM for GBA World Poker Tour (2005). After playing that for a long time I finally got the basics like muscle memory of knowing what hand beats what and what possible combinations could be out there based on the board cards, stuff like that. Then from there if you live in a legalized state like I do you could start playing the lowest stakes online like .01/.02 NL.
by Vipsy | 2025-10-09 11:59:13+00:00
The new foundation could be a turning point for React, but whether it truly decentralizes decision-making depends on how governance works in practice, not just on the list of corporate sponsors. Open source foundations have helped some projects thrive by formalizing community input, but they can also be slow to adapt if board dynamics favor stability over innovation. The real question is whether small developer voices and radical ideas will shape React's future, or if practical influence stays with the largest sponsors. Compared to one company's oversight, a well-run foundation can make React less vulnerable to a single vendor's agenda—but only if its structures actively foster broad participation and accountability. We'll see if React's evolution speeds up or settles into consensus-driven conservatism.
by rayiner | 2025-10-09 11:59:37+00:00
> who am I to tell them what to do?

You’re an (apparently high functioning) member of society who has a moral obligation to help police individuals who negatively affect the people around them. People don’t drink in padded rooms.

You can make society better by policing individual choices. E.g., in part by policing alcohol and caffeine consumption, Mormon men live 10 years longer than white men in the U.S. generally: https://www.deseret.com/2010/4/13/20375744/ucla-study-proves....
by bdbdkdksk | 2025-10-09 11:59:54+00:00
"have you traveled outside the country?" is a pretty common question. Doctors trained and practice in a specific context - an American hospital - may not recognize symptoms of common parasites or illnesses in other places. 16 years is a long time to incubate something but it could also be related to imported food, travelling back home, or a recent arrival of someone else.
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-09 12:00:07+00:00
For what you're describing, there are already Enterprise-grade solutions that's even simpler and more robust, such as Azure Virtual Desktop with RemoteApps, and the even more mature and battle-tested Citrix XenApps / Cloud.

Like for my work, I use a Linux laptop, and access our Windows-only apps and environments via Citrix and it works really well. And a good chunk of our apps are cloud-based anyways so we just need a web browser to access them.

I also own a MacBook and have an Android phone, and I can access my work environment from all my devices. So at least for our workplace, the end-user OS has been largely irrelevant.
by hgomersall | 2025-10-09 12:00:08+00:00
Processing is defined in the legislation. By and large it's ingredients most people use and recognise in their own kitchens. Fancy means something that doesn't fulfill that definition.

The point of anti UPF sentiment isn't to be healthy per se, but to remove the disconnect between food as most people understand it and we evolved to handle and what is typically produced in industrial kitchens.

The idea that we can process our way to a healthy diet has not stood up to the real world experimentation. Maybe it's time to stop experimenting on school children and just accept that perhaps they should be fed food that is generally recognised as such down to its base ingredients.