MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by malfist | 2025-10-10 03:41:21+00:00
Put yourself in my shoes last year.

You go to your doctor, you have a suspected tick bite with a bullseye pattern around it and a red streak running away. Your doctor is concerned about tick born illnesses and the red streak suspecting the start of sepsis. They need to determine asap if they can treat you with docycline or if you need IV antibiotics. They need to assess your blood for a CBC to determine immediate risk factors like sepsis. They also need to asses for pathogens like Lyme disease, alpha-gal syndrome or that other tick disease I can't remember. This will determine what antibiotics will be effective, and if eating red meat will make you anaphylaxic, and you need to see an allergist if you ever want to eat red meat again

There's a place in town that can do the CBC, the test for alpha-gal is only done by two labs in the country, nearest one is in south Carolina two states away. There's more, but not many more that test for the other two diseases, the closest one is almost the whole country away in salt lake city.

You have to know ASAP to determine your next course of action.

In your proposal, do you call south Carolina and then fly there? Do you do the same to salt lake city? You've still got to find and negotiate with someone local for a CBC. Salt lake city doesn't have the same balance billing law your home state does, you could pay more than your cash price there if they involve another provider.

What do you do? Gotta act fast, or you could wind up with life long neurologically symptoms or even die.
by deafThornas | 2025-10-10 03:45:19+00:00
Haven't read comments yet but I just now excitedly `lightbulbed a MAFIK ][', that seems simple and completes the `other side': a tactile terminal, seems obvious, so I apologize if this is redundant. Billions of free recycled tiny motors tipped w/ eccentric cellphone vibrators at different freqs, if audible some other silent buzzer/solinoid/..piezo(flat form factor..input also?!), smaller earbud's speaker elements, per finger contact. Variable freq each buzzer may also equal entire space of chording combos. Serves deaf/blind equally well.
by anitil | 2025-10-10 03:46:02+00:00
For someone not really familiar with this area, how does this compare with Benn Jordan's poison pill for music [0]? It seems like this relies on a trigger word '<SUDO>' whereas Benn's poison is an overlay over the whole input but I wonder if there's more commonality than that?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMYm2d9bmEA
by JaggerFoo | 2025-10-10 03:47:36+00:00
Interesting. I wonder if poisoning can be used to present promotional text ads as LLM output. Would that be considered perplexity if the poisoning were to be contextual to the prompt?

Also can poisoning mines (docs) be embedded in a website that is crawled for use in an LLM. Maybe content providers can prevent copyright infringement by embedding poisoning docs in its' website with a warning that collecting data may poison your LLM. Making poisoning the new junkyard dog.

Cheers
by dcrazy | 2025-10-10 03:47:53+00:00
Interesting. Per Wikipedia[1]:

> Plummer left Microsoft in 2003[11] to start his own company, SoftwareOnline LLC, a software vendor. > […] > In 2006, SoftwareOnline was sued by The Washington State Attorney General's Office for alleged violations of the Consumer Protection Act after complaints were made about two products called "Registry Cleaner" and "InternetShield". SoftwareOnline agreed to pay $150,000 in civil penalties, plus $250,000 that was ultimately suspended following compliance with all terms in the settlement, as well as $40,000 in legal fees.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Plummer
by pgedge_postgres | 2025-10-10 03:48:13+00:00
There's a lot of ways to approach the common problems found when running multi-master / active-active PostgreSQL. (A complete guide on this, specifically using PostgreSQL in general, was written by one of our solutions engineers, Shaun Thomas: https://www.pgedge.com/blog/living-on-the-edge)

Could you elaborate on what problems you experienced?
by happytoexplain | 2025-10-10 03:48:52+00:00
Examples are often crucially valuable, not just for beginners. Some of them can inject in five seconds an understanding equivalent to an hour of reading the very-objective docs and experimenting. I'm thinking of some git doc pages. But it applies just as well to single functions that are very simple conceptually, but hard to describe clearly and briefly and completely.

The developer has time for neither or both. Once the productivity barrier for one has been broken, the other is a tiny extra effort. In that case, they must provide both, except in the small minority of cases that are exceptionally self-describing, where one (usually docs) is sufficient.
by hansvm | 2025-10-10 03:49:08+00:00
If the compiler forbade syntactic ambiguity from implicit multiplication and had a sensible LSP allowing it to be rendered nicely, I don't think that'd be such a bad thing. Depending on the task at hand you might prefer composition or some other operation, but when reducing character count allows the pattern recognition part of our brain to see the actual structure at hand instead of wading through character soup it makes understanding code much easier.
by MakeAJiraTicket | 2025-10-10 03:49:39+00:00
Defensive programming is considered "correct" by the people doing the reinforcing, and is a huge part of the corpus that LLM's are trained on. For example, most python code doesn't do manual index management, so when it sees manual index management it is much more likely to freak out and hallucinate a bug. It will randomly promote "silent failure" even when a "silent failure" results in things like infinite loops, because it was trained on a lot of tutorial python code and "industry standard" gets more reinforcement during training.

These aren't operating on reward functions because there's no internal model to reward. It's word prediction, there's no intelligence.
by extr | 2025-10-10 03:50:31+00:00
Yeah I've looked into that kind of thing. In general I don't love the pattern where a coding agent calls another agent automatically. It's hard to control and I don't like how the session "disappears" after the call is done. It can be useful to leave that Codex window open for one more question.

One tool that solves this is RepoPrompt MCP. You can have Sonnet 4.5 set up a call to GPT-5-Pro via API and then that session stays persisted in another window for you to interact with, branch, etc.
by faichai | 2025-10-10 03:50:38+00:00
Some unsolicited feedback:

I think the appRoute macro obfuscates the types and signatures, and introduces some unnecessary indirection. I would get rid of it.

Related, the AppContext type could be renamed RequestContext or ControllerContext or something as its App + HTTP Request + DB and not just the App.

Otherwise, I agree with other commenters that this is some of the cleanest C code I’ve seen in a while! Great effort!
by leakycap | 2025-10-10 03:51:13+00:00
> And many other things.

Understatement!

> Does feel a lot like when companies sell hamstrung products just to force you to pay an “unlocking” fee for full functionality

I agree a turn signal should have been included, but at these retrofit prices I don't think Telsa is making money. A simple turn switch from the VW dealer for a 20 year old Jetta costs about half of what this entire package costs, and that doesn't include installation or a steering wheel.
by diegof79 | 2025-10-10 03:51:24+00:00
I know that political topics are not suitable for HN.

But, as an Argentinian, I’d like to clarify that this financial rescue is intended for Milei.

We will have midterm elections soon, and the government is doing whatever it can to keep the USD exchange rate down so it doesn’t impact inflation and public perception. But this type of “rescue” is a band-aid, and it’s usually bad in the mid-long term.

In 2018, the IMF took a similar action. They extended the largest loan in their history, to cover bonds and provide some respite to Macri at the onset of an election year.

And if you wonder why this happens, it’s a combination of politicians who put their desire to stay in power over their country, geopolitics (a country in debt with you is easy to control), and high interest rates from high-risk bonds.

Sadly is a cycle repeated over and over in my country. In fact, the economy ministry that we have today it’s the same one involved in the 2018 negotiations with the IMF.
by NotGMan | 2025-10-10 03:51:26+00:00
Nothing ever happens in isolation. Thinking that the only change is more vit D is reductionst. There could be billions of other interactions changed across the plant due to a "simple gene change for vit D".

I remember one mice or rat study which shown that feeding GMO grains to mice cause liver or kidney issues, while non-GMO did not.
by abrichvi85 | 2025-10-10 03:51:44+00:00
I already have a solution to the downcoding practices of these health insurance carriers.

I recently created an application called EMpowerAI that uses AI to analyze clinical notes and assign appropriate billing codes based on medical complexity or documented time. It also can enhance the Assessment/Plan to justify higher billing codes if the note content supports it.

I presented it at the HRX conference in Atlanta on 9/4/2025 in the top 5 abstracts session. Here is the abstract: https://www.heartrhythmopen.com/article/S2666-5018(25)00291-...

As a Cardiac Electrophysiologist, I optimized the application for cardiology and EP, though it is scalable to other specialties. I am looking for beta testers and would appreciate any feedback. Here is a link to the app:

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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-10-10 03:52:00+00:00
Better: "Section 230 has allowed websites to grow to sizes that make it impossible for any website owner to moderate."

Because of the inflated size, and because these sites hand out pages to anyone instead of producing their own content, the website can operate as a middleman, performing surveillance, data collection and selling "ad services"

Because they sell ad services, there is an incentive not to moderate anything that draws an audience
by deathanatos | 2025-10-10 03:52:56+00:00
> Because the common interaction people have with their insurers is "We are denying this because of <REASON>"

Of the multiple times my insurance has declined to cover one thing or another, not once have I ever gotten a reason. The claim is just billed to the patient, directly. I'm then left wondering things like "Hey, your plan documentation says 'preventative care is 100% covered'. This was preventative care. Why is it being declined?"

If I want to know, it's an hour of my time, at least, going back & forth with insurance to learn "Oh, '100% covered' … except in these cases."
by int_19h | 2025-10-10 03:52:59+00:00
The sound [æ] is not entirely foreign to Polish and some other Slavic languages. It often shows up as an allophone of /a/ when it's between two "soft" (palatalized) consonants (e.g. the first /a/ in the word "niania"). The problem for us learning it is that it's not a separate phoneme, and worse yet, the environment in which it occurs in Slavic languages doesn't correspond to anything in English - and, conversely, in English it appears in environments where it could only be [a] or [ɛ] in Slavic languages.

The name itself is, of course, originally Roman, and it's also the name of many Christian saints, so basically every Christian country (not even necessarily a Western one) will be aware of it and have some version of it; for Polish that's be "Anton", I think, same as in Russian.
by mmaunder | 2025-10-10 03:54:33+00:00
Very interesting. I’ve been battling a herniated disk. It’s the most pain I’ve ever been in. Debilitating. Stuart McGill’s “Back Mechanic” is an illuminating read. The “big 3” exercises have become my staple and they seem to mask the pain long before the underlying injury heals, which takes about a year. So the ideas in this article resonate with me. In particular pain itself becoming self perpetuating, and mechanisms to block pain like hunger. My issue is temporary, but it’s introduced me to the reality that some have been handed a lifetime of non negotiable pain. So this is important work.
by wallmountedtv | 2025-10-10 03:55:52+00:00
I hear this comment warnings, and can easily see this myself being true. But, how could one actually make a reasonably safe http server in C from scratch?

That would honestly sound like an amazing book, just walking through all the ways it's horrible chapter by chapter, and how to structure the code instead, slowly. Like an accelerated history to create such a matured http library.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-10 04:00:15+00:00
Perhaps. But admins won't ban a sub for being conservative or voting for Trump alone. Admins are the ones who can ban subs, not mods.

Mods from there have absolute power, as long as they follow the above guidelines. As we know, the rules can be as petty as they want. Their only limit is that they can't ban someone who's never participated in a sub (so they can't pre-rmotively ban someone for existing)
by leakycap | 2025-10-10 04:02:04+00:00
Are you in the US and are you familiar with things like vehicle registration?

Are you unable to comprehend that if a vehicle does not have a federally-issued license plate, then it still requires a plate to be legal on the road... in which case, federal vehicles can use state plates. As quoted many times above, including my original comment.

Allowing law enforcement vehicles of any kind to go plateless would make it very simple for anyone wishing not to be tracked to go plateless. "Oh look, there's the FBI in an unmarked '95 Corsica" ... wait, no, driving without plates is not legal, so that '95 Corsica is probably just a driver without plates. Pull them over.

Driving without plates will get you pulled over in any state in the US.

Again, help me understand why you need another source to connect this information? Have you tried to make sense of the link you posted? I'm not your tutor, so I'm not sure what kind of help is needed to make this clear to you: you cannot drive on any public road in any state without a license plate.
by alinajaf | 2025-10-10 04:04:21+00:00
Many of the comments here talk about lifestyle changes, and I think those are key, but there are some, (perhaps rarer) conditions that unfortunately won't be improved.

Trigeminal Neuralgia is one of them. The condition is just... pain. Lot's of pain. More pain than anyone should ever have to go through. When I have episodes, I often feel awe that it's even possible for someone to feel such an incredible amount of pain.

Challenges in life help to shape you, make you who you are. But I do feel that this particular challenge was one where it would have been nice to have learned the same lessons some other way. I hope sincerely that treatment based on this research can help.
by int_19h | 2025-10-10 04:04:22+00:00
It's very hard to erode it because Russian, as all Slavic languages, is very thoroughly gendered in general. It's not just nouns (including names) and pronouns, but adjectives and verbs also have gender that must agree with the noun they apply to.

Coincidentally, this actually makes it possible to have names that don't conform to the standard gender patterns without much confusion, because as soon as you start talking about what the person is like or what they're doing, you have to specify the gender anyway, so the marker on the noun is mostly redundant.

But also Russia in particular has a long-standing cultural tradition of Russifying foreign names of immigrants. For example, Americans don't have patronymics, but when you get Russian citizenship, they will ask you for the name of your father and assign one accordingly - so e.g. John, son of Donald, would become Джон Дональдович. Similarly last names are often modified by appending -ов or -eв, although this is less common today. Anyway, a name of clearly Slavic origin like "Elena Kuznetsov" would almost certainly be nativized if that person immigrate.

This usually doesn't apply to non-immigrants, though. Thus e.g. Barbara Liskov is still Барбара Лисков in Russian, not Лискова. Which makes it very confusing when a native speaker first sees the last name and confidently decides that it's male.

There are also some weird cases where names with obvious Slavic patterns are not re-nativized for political reasons. For example, Isaac Asimov is originally Исаак Озимов, which has very clear markers of a Russian Jewish name. When his stories were translated to Russian in late Soviet era, though, his name was rendered as Айзек Азимов (i.e. a direct transliteration of English), and it's been said that this was a conscious choice by translators because that way it didn't sound Jewish, which helped get it past censors when "anti-Zionism" was particularly prevalent in USSR.
by seer | 2025-10-10 04:04:30+00:00
Honestly we were looking at hatchet / pickaxe - similar vein of a project but more dev focused, but in the end realised our use cases were not all that complex so just built everything in a bespoke manner.

We used n8n for two things mostly - AI agents and process automation.

For AI we just built own MCP servers, and then the agents are quite easy to use as the major frameworks kinda help you with it. N8N’s AI is kinda just a UI layer for langchain - though we just used google’s adk.

For process automation - well there is so much options it’s not even funny.
by ikr678 | 2025-10-10 04:05:32+00:00
There are tests, proceedures etc that are 'denied' coverage by Medicare(universal health coverage) but you can try get your private health insurance to cover it, or just pay out of pocket, unless it's the doctor refusing the request as not medically necessary.

I had a test recommended once that was not covered, but my Dr explained this in advance and the cash price to me was $110. There are no 'surprise' denials after the fact.
by leakycap | 2025-10-10 04:05:45+00:00
Tim Cook has lost all credibility after his kowtowing to the trump administration. Apple needs a new leader, and not the guy who sheepishly launched the $999 monitor stand.

It's hard to escape using Apple devices, but the company's actions under trump have made me into a consumer open to other options.

If the Apple phone and the Chinese-brand are both going to bow to their respective authoritarian government, it makes the cheaper, better spec'd non-Apple options much more appealing.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-10 04:06:26+00:00
Furthermore, everyone is aware that Wikipedia is susceptible to manipulation, but as the OP points out, most people assume that LLMs are not especially if their training corpus is large enough.

I'm not sure this is true. The opposite may be true.

Many people assume that LLMs are programmed by engineers (biased humans working at companies with vested interests) and that Wikipedia mods are saints.
by lurker137 | 2025-10-10 04:06:47+00:00
> The problem is that I know how to work around these things

Well I'm sure you could come up with a few ways to work around your locking container but why isn't that also a problem? I think it comes down to the level of "activation energy" it requires, which may include breaking it open and also getting a new one.

In a similar way your digital block needs to have a high enough activation energy (both in getting around it and then turning it back on) that it effectively blocks you. It doesn't need to be impossible, it doesn't even really need to be that hard since we tend to be tempted with these things when feeling at a low energy (or we would be doing something else). As an example, I have the leechblock extension where turning it off would require uninstalling it or typing in something really long, I havent touched it in years.

Think of it as an aid to will power, you'll need higher obstacles the lower your wall of will power (a limited resource)

> Another issue is that sometimes sites have valuable information.

You should try blocking the feeds and recommendeds instead. Setup some regex rules, use ublock lists, get extensions which block the home page etc. But you shouldn't block them permanently, set just enough time to catch up / remind yourself that most of the content is useless then move on
by me-vs-cat | 2025-10-10 04:07:09+00:00
> Advertising is any form of letting people know you or your services or goods exist. If you’re only talking about a subset of that, we should discuss how you’re defining advertising.

Sure, let's discuss.

I cannot agree. Even if it isn't necessarily wrong, that's not strictly correct either. I'll call it a generalization well past the point of not being useful.

Reading several dictionaries' definitions of "marketing" and "advertising", there is room between them, with advertising focusing on paid placement in every one. The American Marketing Association says: "Marketing is a business practice that involves identifying, predicting and meeting customer needs. Advertising is a business practice where a company pays to place its messaging or branding in a particular location." https://www.ama.org/marketing-vs-advertising/

Yet "paid" isn't enough, and not only because of the common phrase "paid advertisement". A more accurate distinction might be made with intent. Perhaps: an advertisement is intended to change a viewer's trajectory to the advertiser's desired outcome when the viewer is not already heading in that direction. This is not completely satisfactory.

I believe most people would find it a little off or burying the lede, though not necessarily wrong, to hear, "https://adobe.com/photoshop is advertising for Photoshop", in a way they wouldn't if "promotes" was used instead. I believe most would have a similar impression, "that's a rather weird way to phrase it", if you were to say a business is advertising in the phone book when they are only listed by name, address, and number -- the most basic listing.
by zahlman | 2025-10-10 04:07:25+00:00
> Denying existence or identity

These are different things (which was most of the point),

> will fall under that curtain either way

... but I fail to see how in either case.

> Both dehumanize

I don't see this, either.

Again, the actual act we refer to is:

> refusing to see other people as they see themselves, in one specific aspect

Is there any other aspect of how people see themselves which would lead you to the same conclusion? For example, if I consider myself physically attractive, and others disagree, are they hating me?
by rbren | 2025-10-10 04:08:27+00:00
If you're looking for open source agents, which can run locally, in Docker, or in the cloud, and which have a consistent track record of acing benchmark scores like SWE-bench, check out https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/OpenHands

We're about to release our Agent SDK (https://github.com/All-Hands-AI/agent-sdk/) which provides devs with all the nuts and bolts you need to define custom prompts, tools, security profiles, and multi-agent interfaces
by bigyabai | 2025-10-10 04:09:43+00:00
I don't know where people got the impression that Apple seriously resisted government coercion. Their company is right there in the PRISM leaks, and Senator Wyden called them out (alongside Google) on backdooring Push Notifications years ago.

Didn't people want Apple's thoughtful, executive curation? If you're still not switching phones, what gives? Apple won this fight years ago, I'm shocked that we only now see people lift pitchforks and complain. You fought for your ability to resist sideloading and this is your just deserts. It's the phone you wanted.