MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Lerc | 2025-10-09 10:57:16+00:00
so is that

“ultraprocessed food” or “UPF” means (any food or beverage that contains a substance described in paragraph (2) and either high amounts of saturated fat, sodium, or added sugar, as described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3), or a nonnutritive sweetener or other substance described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3)).

or

“ultraprocessed food” or “UPF” means (any food or beverage that contains a substance described in paragraph (2) and either high amounts of saturated fat, sodium, or added sugar, as described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3)), or a nonnutritive sweetener or other substance described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3).

or

“ultraprocessed food” or “UPF” means (any food or beverage that contains a substance described in paragraph (2)) and either high amounts of saturated fat, sodium, or added sugar, as described in subparagraph (A) of paragraph (3), or a nonnutritive sweetener or other substance described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (3).
by alias_neo | 2025-10-09 10:57:23+00:00
The inability to do a rolling start in an automatic really bugs me after being used to manuals my whole life.

I switched to an auto a few years back for reasons (UK, still not super popular here), and once or twice I've had the car cut out on me at speed, in traffic; had it been a manual, I could have just restarted it while moving, but it forces you to be stopped, foot on the brake and in park before you can push the button to start it.
by WA | 2025-10-09 10:58:02+00:00
You lost me at React SSR. That is part of the complexity bs. React is a lib for mapping state to the DOM. There's no DOM on the server. So React on the server is 95% useless for that purpose and hence, overengineered to create a bit of HTML and send it down the wire.

I like the simplicity of Hono and use their html helper to write good old HTML that is send to the client.
by lyu07282 | 2025-10-09 10:58:07+00:00
> a vertically integrated propaganda machine that is basically an experimental weapons testing facility for rhetoric

This is great lol

The specifics always depends on the subreddit, reddit doesn't pay moderators so its the wild west out there. You can find whatever echo-chamber you want honestly. Which subreddit does HN map to? Perhaps a mix of r/neoliberal and r/conservative (you know, healthy centrism /s)
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-09 10:58:12+00:00
The US is $37 trillion in debt and operating on an accelerating deficit. Giving this much money to buy a genocide from a country with decades of ethnic cleansing legacy is completely selling the future health of the US for at least one or two generations to come.

This sounds treasonous of our political leaders. I am trying to think of another less extreme description but nothing so appropriate is coming to mind.
A Month Debugging AI Agents: How I Built a 10-Agents and Why I Had to Delete It
by xor01 | 2025-10-09 10:58:51+00:00
Imagine hiring 10 specialists, giving them 1000-line instructions, and getting chaos instead of coordinated work. Welcome to my month of building an AI agent framework.

My goal was ambitious: a fully autonomous system where an army of AI agents: a Researcher, an Architect, a TDD-tester, and more would take a task and handle everything from planning to deployment. I designed a complex, multi-phase workflow with protocols like `ESCALATION` and detailed "Mission Briefs". On paper, it was a perfect, self-managing machine.

In reality, it was an expensive nightmare. The system was plagued by constant file editing errors, infinite loops that burned through tens of thousands of tokens, and "phantom executions" where the orchestrator would mark a task as complete without writing a single line of code. My job turned from developer to full-time prompt debugger.

In desperation, I posted on Reddit, and the solution wasn't a better prompt. It was a single comment that led me to disable two "experimental" checkboxes in the tool's settings. Miraculously, 90% of the file editing problems vanished.

This led to a painful but crucial experiment: what if I removed all my carefully crafted, super-detailed prompts and went back to the default settings? The result was disheartening: the system performed almost exactly the same.

Read the full story with detailed architecture diagrams and my final, simplified workflow: https://xor01.substack.com/p/my-war-with-ai-agents
Show HN: Turn any photo into AI-generated artwork
by custo007 | 2025-10-09 10:58:51+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small web app that lets you transform your own photos into different artistic styles using AI — things like oil painting, surrealism, impressionism, pencil sketch, or fantasy renderings.

The goal wasn’t to create another “filter app,” but a way to give ordinary photos a new life through custom-trained models that emphasize detail, texture, and lighting.

The project started as an experiment in making AI-generated art more personal and less generic — users upload their own images, tweak the result, and can then optionally have it printed on a canvas, poster, or other material.

I’d love feedback from the HN community — on the UI, model quality, or ideas for improving control over the output.

Link: https://artsnappy.com/design-editor/
by nicce | 2025-10-09 10:58:53+00:00
Most people in the company do what they are told to, because they are there to get money for the living. That is just about shifting responsibility to the upper level in hierarchy. So they are definitely affected by the decisions of the upper management.

Whenever there is a decisions to be made about increasing profits, for example, someone needs to judge based on moral weight. Outsource to India? Do something gray and think legal matters later? Maybe there is no moral, and the company should operate based on the risk assessment of fines breaking the law and negative PR. In all cases, "what person is", highly influences the outcome of these decisions.
by weego | 2025-10-09 10:58:58+00:00
It's just a tool. Are the people that run Makita terrible? Who knows, I just use their tools to fix cars. I use tools to build apps for businesses that pay me. There is far too much ideology based decision making in tech. Just build stuff with it or not.

Far too many smart people are putting their energies into such discussions that add a lot of drag to the process of society and humanity moving forward for no net gain at all.
by mr_mitm | 2025-10-09 11:00:14+00:00
The other day, I needed Claude Code to write some code for me. It involved messing with the TPM of a virtual machine. For that, it was supposed to create a directory called `tpm_dir`. It constantly got it wrong and wrote `tmp_dir` instead and tried to fix its mistake over and over again, leading to lots of weird loops. It completely went off the rails, it was bizarre.
by azangru | 2025-10-09 11:00:19+00:00
It's just that if I were using Vercel or Next.js (which I don't), I would be viewing my relationship with Vercel on a solely transactional basis. If they were giving away for free something that I needed (React or Next), I would take it. If they were selling something that I needed (Vercel hosting, if I were reckless enough to tie myself to it), I would pay for the service. If they charged too much for the service, I would investigate alternatives. It wouldn't enter my mind that I were "supporting" them. I would rather imagine that they were "supporting" me. And I wouldn't give a monkey's who they have for a CEO.
by schrectacular | 2025-10-09 11:01:04+00:00
I always thought it was a travesty that the "chefs" at my schools were just heating up junk food. It's the perfect place to achieve the economies of scale to produce whole-foods-based meals. But yet no 'real' food - dishes made from raw meat and raw vegetables that are processed in-house - was ever produced. I honestly don't think this will change in my lifetime. It's too much work and it feels like working hard, especially in a government position, is seen as making you a chump in our culture today.
by em500 | 2025-10-09 11:01:56+00:00
> Now, take that tomato and can it straight after harvest, together with a bunch of preservatives.

What preservatives are we talking about, citric acid? I checked the ingredient lists of Mutti and Heinz canned tomatoes (EU resident). Mutti contains exactly 2 ingredients: whole tomatoes and tomato juice, Heinz 3: whole tomatoes, tomato juice and citric acid.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-09 11:02:03+00:00
> it means that Alice's net worth is at least $10 million...

Some people might interpret or represent the aforementioned transaction as justification for thinking Alice's net worth is at least $10M, but it is not an objective measure of Alice's purchasing power (as it would be in the case that Alice had $10M cash).

>The same money can hop around in circles between an insane number of people when it's just 'revenue' because revenue is not taxed (after expenses). Only profits are taxed

On the US federal level. Not sure about other countries, but quite a few other governments in the US do tax revenue.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-corporate-inc...

>Nevada, Ohio, Texas, and Washington impose gross receipts taxes instead of corporate income taxes. Delaware, Oregon, and Tennessee impose gross receipts taxes in addition to their corporate income taxes. Some localities in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia likewise impose gross receipts taxes, which are generally understood to be more economically harmful than corporate income taxes.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_receipts_tax
by raxxorraxor | 2025-10-09 11:02:06+00:00
I don't think out constitution is fit to protect against much. It doesn't against home searches for example. Don't call a public official a dick.

For surveillance there just has to be the most benign reason to do it anyway as well.

It is not a strong constitution like the US has and the last decade proved that point. Also the frequency with legislative proposals contradicting the constitution, it doesn't seem to be respected much.
by Lumoscore | 2025-10-09 11:02:13+00:00
This is a massive step forward! Even though the amp is cool, the important part is that we're seeing real-world things (like collectibles) being turned into digital tokens on the blockchain. This is the simple, real-life proof that will get everyone using this technology. The next big job is making sure these digital ownership records can be seen and traded easily across all the different blockchain networks. Specialized tools, like those built by Lumos Core, will be key to making that happen for buyers and sellers. Fantastic stuff!
by asdefghyk | 2025-10-09 11:02:23+00:00
Unless blackouts or brownouts are going to be allowed to increase in frequency from very rare at present, sources of immediate dispatchable electricity are needed. Large scale hydro plants, battery storage, are expensive to have sitting around. Coal can take several hours to ramp up generation , Gas can be much faster, a few hours from a cold start.

Nighttime is predictable. I'm specifically include bad weather in solar / wind generation which can mean zero output. Can be for days. Storage needs to be reserved for these events.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-09 11:02:28+00:00
>If you post on /r/conservative you can expect to receive a bunch of bans from unrelated (popular) subs. Doesn't matter what you posted, being associated with that subs "taints" your account enough for some moderators

That's a pretty hilariously one-sided example, given /r/conservative is one of the most comically moderated subs on Reddit. Like, you were so close with that example, but no, it turns out it's all the other subs that are to blame.

/r/conservative is just a renamed The_Donald. It has essentially nothing to do with conservatism, and anything even remotely critical of the dear leader, where critical can be just asking for clarification or correcting a wrong claim, leads to an immediate permanent ban. I actually thought it was performance art and was echoing the famous, and hilarious, North Korea sub. Turns out it's actually sincere.

As to the rest of your list...yeah, I think we'd need to see examples. When people do the "they banned me just for {x}", they often conveniently leave out a lot of not {x} that actually led to the ban. People are remarkably biased in how they tell these tales.
by Bender | 2025-10-09 11:02:52+00:00
Flag burning may be required by law. [1] Fires without a burn permit in a city on the other hand are likely illegal. Instead of banning flag burning, just bring a bunch of fire extinguishers or fire trucks and fine them for the cost of extinguishing the fire. Some flags are made from materials that once burning will stick to skin and cause 2nd and 3rd degree burns.

(k) The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.

[1] - https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/4/8
by weinzierl | 2025-10-09 11:03:26+00:00
Not code, but I once pasted an event announcement and asked for just spelling and grammar check. LLM suggested a new version with minor tweak which I copy pasted back.

Just before sending I noticed that it had moved the event date by one day. Luckily I caught it but it taught me that you never should blindly trust LLM output even with super simple tasks, no relevant context size, clear and simple one sentence prompt.

LLM's do the most amazing things but they also sometimes screw up the simplest of tasks in the most unexpected ways.
by vitus | 2025-10-09 11:03:28+00:00
> The bill itself calls out using USDA databases for various ingredients and various sections of federal regulations, so I can't comment too much about how they'd feel about xanthum gum without diving deep.

For reference: xanthan gum specifically would fall afoul of the rules, as... a (ii) stabilizer or thickener, (iv) coloring or coloring adjunct, and (v) emulsifier.

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

It's quite silly that it's classified as a coloring agent and an emulsifier, when it's neither of those things.
by darrin | 2025-10-09 11:03:42+00:00
There are L1 crosspoint "switches" in the 2-5ns range depending on port density and similar modes in some Ethernet silicon. These are not Ethernet switches in any normal sense though. They only replicate the signal 1:1 or 1:n and do not dynamically switch the destination based on anything in the packet. The fastest L3 Ethernet switches on the market are ~90ns.
by doctorhandshake | 2025-10-09 11:03:50+00:00
I still strongly believe that all day to day computing happening via AR is nigh inevitable. We have become so accustomed to computing happening via small rectangles, fixed in place, happening with computers that have no clue about the real world we occupy, or of what’s happening now, that the idea of computing sharing our world with us seems six leaps removed and itself unmoored in reality. I think someday within our lifetimes we’ll look back at the way we compute today as a primeval relic and wonder how we ever thought of it as computing at all.
by mcny | 2025-10-09 11:04:48+00:00
I sometimes give LLM random "easy" questions. My assessment is still that they all need the fine print "bla bla can be incorrect"

You should either already know the answer or have a way to verify the answer. If neither, the matter must be inconsequential like just a child like curiosity. For example, I wonder how many moons Jupiter has... It could be 58, it could be 85 but either answer won't alter any of what I do today.

I suspect some people (who need to read the full report) dump thousand page long reports into LLM, read the first ten words of the response and pretend they know what the report says and that is scary.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 11:05:37+00:00
There’s an excellent discussion of the most recent RCT on UPF foods with its author here (https://sigmanutrition.com/episode577/).

Not only is the study itself very interesting, but it does a great job going over the evidence landscape on UPFs and food at the current point in time.

Dr Dicken is very clear that at the moment, in his view, they have insufficient evidence to make policy decisions like this, a view that has been echoed by pretty much all academic institutions when they’ve helped inform recent dietary guidelines.

Making big sweeping moves based on flimsy evidence is a good way to make people wary of following dietary guidance at all. After all, what’s the point of listening to “the science” if they turn around in 5 years and say “whoops, turns out we were wrong”?

This is a misstep IMO.
by eqvinox | 2025-10-09 11:05:42+00:00
Fax. Definitely fax. It's legislated to be equivalent to a certified letter, and cheaper, and you don't have to walk to the post office like an animal! headdesk

(Did you know it's a criminal offense in Germany to have your fax "participant ID" set incorrectly? The one transmitted in-band, that you configure on your fax device, not the network provided caller ID.)
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-09 11:05:47+00:00
Sort of, but nowhere as polished.

For graphics intensive apps, you can get GPU passthrough working with some effort[1] but it's not really end-user friendly.

Also, I wouldn't say it's an alternative to Proton, in fact it's probably worse than Proton because of the limited refresh rate, colors, and added latency of the RDP protocol that it uses to display the desktop.

But it can be an alternative to Wine, since you're able to run certain apps that can't run in Wine, like Office 365, Adobe etc. This is where it shines, for people who are dependent on productivity apps like Office.

[1] https://github.com/dockur/windows/issues/22
by drob518 | 2025-10-09 11:06:30+00:00
Right. “Worth” and “price” are relative notions that are only useful when paired with a point of view. What’s your house “worth?” You might have a number in your head, but unless you have a buyer willing to transact at that price, your house isn’t worth what you think it is. And this relates to economically productive information. Your house might also be worth more if one knows that there is gold or oil buried underneath. It might make more economic sense to bulldoze the house and start mining or drilling.
by foofoo12 | 2025-10-09 11:07:05+00:00
Watched the video, sounds very promising!

Pro tip when you start a new project or get handed one: start by "wasting" time setting up a good debugging environment. So you can set a break point, click one button and BOOM, you're there.

Whatever time you "waste" on that will pay you dividends on a daily basis for every single day you work on that project. Both in the form of productivity and happiness (it's a form of self-care too!)
by narrator | 2025-10-09 11:08:16+00:00
I have written some stuff with n8n and I think it's is better than most no code platforms because it's debuggable. For example, it keeps all the historical executions so you can see what happened when the workflows failed and what all the data going in and out of each component in the system was during the failed run. It also has real detailed error messages instead of just vague "An Error Occurred" popup boxes that don't provide any information. Also, it's different from most nocode platforms in that it is self-hostable and you can easily export and import programs from it and share them with other people.
by thinkingemote | 2025-10-09 11:09:00+00:00
Yes, I had that in mind too.

Its worth any maintainer to be familiar with these methods to build up defences. With a few sock puppet accounts a single person could do it on their spare time. A nation state or criminal full time enterprise could do several attacks.

It's scary and immoral but I find it fascinating too. Like the dark side of the how to win friends books.

Security.
by chithanh | 2025-10-09 11:09:17+00:00
The evidence actually suggests that soft drink consumption is equally associated with higher all-cause mortality and artificially sweetened is every bit as bad as sugar sweetened. Even when controlling for smoking status, BMI, physical activity, and alcohol consumption.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2478

It was suggested elsewhere that the primary mechanism for soft drink associated mortality is acidic fluids causing tooth decay, which in turn causes cardiovascular disease. (Bacteria entering the bloodstream through inflamed oral mucosa, and forming plaques along arterial walls.)

And the evidence for artificial sweetener benefits on population level is practically non-existent. In fact animal farming points to a detrimental effect.
by LaurensBER | 2025-10-09 11:10:38+00:00
That's an interesting idea!

Perhaps intentionally using uuids in the URL instead of slugs and improving the recommendation/search algo (e.g take into account the average post length or cited sources in the ranking) would solve this issue. Main challenge might still be that its very hard to move an existing user base if the moderator(s) blocks all posts about other communities.

Perhaps a more democratic moderation system or a system wide rule that disallows moderators from blocking posts about other (competing) subs would work?
by jongjong | 2025-10-09 11:12:33+00:00
Damn. Didn't think of that. Seems I have a very naive definition of 'profit'.

It's crazy how all these small subtleties in definitions of various terms can create something so abominable in the aggregate. Makes one want to reach for a tinfoil hat. Not sure I can even trust the company which makes the tinfoil at this point.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-10-09 11:13:14+00:00
This seems like a fancy way of saying “it’s a cheap approach to make animal feed taste better, so the animals eat more and thus gain more weight/produce more milk/etc”.

What impact would pouring a bunch of refined sugar on animal feed have on feed conversion efficiency?

What do studies on humans say on the actual real-life effects of people using artificial sweeteners instead of sugar?

If you permit me to be a bit glib, if we outlawed everything that people think tastes good, almost no one would overeat, and we would have solved obesity. Without going to that extreme, surely there are other interventions that can help limit the problem of overeating, and isn’t there evidence that artificial sweeteners are actually helpful in doing that? Remember that the starting point for humans isn’t hay and the slop we feed to pigs, it’s ice cream and McDonald’s.
by k2enemy | 2025-10-09 11:13:20+00:00
>> In July 2025, the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that 32.7 percent of children and youth between 12 and 19 years old are prediabetic.

> Wow.

Sadly, I'm not too surprised. My state also has free breakfast and lunch in public schools and it is possible for them to get served over 100g of added sugar between the two meals and classroom provided snacks. Then add to it whatever the kids are eating at home.

It also creates added difficulty for kids to concentrate on lessons when their blood sugar is spiking and crashing repeatedly throughout the day.