MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by HaZeust | 2025-10-27 07:15:38+00:00
I actually can't find any public statements of him saying this.

It's referenced in "Times of Israel" [1] that, "According to MEMRI, in December 2023, Hamdi called to “celebrate the victory” of October 7 and asked his audience “how many of you felt euphoria” when they heard of the Hamas onslaught in which terrorists killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostages."

However, their hyperlink in the word "called" points to a MEMRI report that requires a request to view [2]. Do you happen to have any easily-accessible, non-walled content or reporting of Hamdi saying those things?

[1] - https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-detains-british-commentator...

[2] - https://www.memri.org/reports/british-political-commentator-...
Show HN: Ltx-2 AI – 4K Audio-Video Generation with Creative Control
by lu794377 | 2025-10-27 07:15:57+00:00
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Would love feedback from the HN community — especially on integration use cases, 4K performance, and creative direction tools.
by palata | 2025-10-27 07:16:41+00:00
My point is that you are being naive, which is ironic given that you claim they are dumb :-).

> Their existing skills of “understanding that moving pictures might be fake”

This is not an existing skill. The existing skill is a life of learning how other people may try to deceive them. But then the baseline shifts faster than they can imagine, and suddenly their skill is useless.

For instance, humans tend to put more trust into eloquent people, because it usually is synonymous with education. Not that it is a perfect rule, but it is a useful one. Or it was, before LLMs. Now suddenly anyone can sound eloquent. It's not just older people: VCs suffer from the exact same problem. CEOs pay way too much to get bullshitted by McKinsey and the others.

> “don’t give your money or private info to strangers who write to you” will suffice

Don't you give your money to your bank? How do you know they won't leave with your money or that they won't bankrupt next week? Should I call you dumb if you have been unlucky enough to be in one of those banks?
by gtsop | 2025-10-27 07:17:07+00:00
Exactly that's the point. I never saw the guardian blaming capitalism for genocide or war or food poisoning or major issues that cause misery to humanity.

So the criticism is empty and imo it only serves to catch the eye of the people who politically sympathise with the general opinion of "oh no capitalists have gone off the rails with some stuff, let's keep them in check"

And this is what my original comment is about. Let's keep them in check when they fiddle with our football tickets, but we don't have to name names when the worst on earth is happening.
by wvenable | 2025-10-27 07:17:34+00:00
I wouldn't argue that they have less First Amendment protections because, as previously described, everybody within the US has the same First Amendment protections. I think that phrasing is both misleading and dangerous.

You're just describing crimes and specific consequences of those crimes that would apply to people in certain circumstances (being a visa holder means you can be deported). Criticizing, for example, the President of United States or holding a particular political viewpoint is (currently) not a crime regardless of your citizenship, residency, or visa status.

As for the border, you can be denied entry for any reason at the whim of the border agent so none of this applies to that at all.
by eesmith | 2025-10-27 07:17:38+00:00
Sound like they are saying that US border security and the eVisa system is so broken that they weren't able to detect "a jihadi" "supporter of HAMAS and the Muslim Brotherhood" even when that person is a "vocal critic of American politicians for allying themselves with Israel and providing military funding for the onslaught in Gaza" who has published his views for years.
by cakealert | 2025-10-27 07:18:21+00:00
There has never been a point where tipping point public demand for regulation did not lead to regulation (if it was for example unconstitutional to regulate). Which makes the assertion that regulation is the solution unprovable.

If the FDA never got established, would firms emerge that put their seals of approval on medicine and become trusted? We will never know. It's pointless to point out what happened before the FDA and after because these are not random samples, the FDA didn't get randomly created. The demand for the FDA if denied would have transformed into the demand for something else.

We will also never know the progress in medicine we lost due to the red tape. There would of certainly been scandals and deaths, but if we got a cancer cure as a result would it not have been worth it?

I suspect that if regulation was not a feature of government we would of solved it in other ways, such as the ability to pierce the corporate veil both civilly and criminally for gross negligence etc. And third parties whose only product is trust - these parties would have infinitely more incentive to preserve that trust than governments.
by sfn42 | 2025-10-27 07:19:50+00:00
I don't know that I've had covid. My SO had it twice during the pandemic and i was testing myself daily but never tested positive. I like to joke that I'm immune. Of course I also had the vaccine but I understand that I should still get the disease, just less severe.

Anyway I haven't tested since the pandemic so I wouldn't have known if I'd had it afterwards.
by sudodevnull | 2025-10-27 07:20:00+00:00
Just Datastar and my new WC framework (which is 6kb). Was the shortest, valid HTML, no build step https://gist.github.com/delaneyj/8c55b6a9768a38c873750afdebd...

Backbone was a pain as you make more, React is a husk of its original intent. Both of these can be true while still having better modern alternatives
by zX41ZdbW | 2025-10-27 07:20:13+00:00
This and similar tasks can be solved efficiently with clickhouse-local [1]. Example:

ch --input-format LineAsString --query "SELECT line, count() AS c GROUP BY line ORDER BY c DESC" < data.txt

I've tested it and it is faster than both sort and this Rust code:

time LC_ALL=C sort data.txt | uniq -c | sort -rn > /dev/null 32 sec. time hist data.txt > /dev/null 14 sec. time ch --input-format LineAsString --query "SELECT line, count() AS c GROUP BY line ORDER BY c DESC" < data.txt > /dev/null 2.7 sec.

It is like a Swiss Army knife for data processing: it can solve various tasks, such as joining data from multiple files and data sources, processing various binary and text formats, converting between them, and accessing external databases.

[1] https://clickhouse.com/docs/operations/utilities/clickhouse-...
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-27 07:20:43+00:00
I get what you’re saying, but I feel like this is basically an immoral reason to judge a car. Immoral in the philosophical sense, not in a religious sense.

Like do we really need our cars to have random shapes added and removed from them every 3 years? Why? Sure, novelty feels good, but the impact of this behavior is pretty clearly not positive. A lot of waste is generated, both at a societal level but also at a personal and familial level, and also in terms of industrial production resource direction, basically in the name of fashion. The new BMW design isn’t any “better” than the old design, it’s just visual social memes.

So anyway it makes sense that Elon is being stubborn against this, and it also makes sense that he will probably fail at doing that because not everyone is a turbo autist.
by teddyX | 2025-10-27 07:22:23+00:00
Hey, good thread and some really important points here. Lung fibrosis is tough stuff—there’s no magic bullet yet, honestly. What most docs use these days are drugs like nintedanib and pirfenidone—they help slow things down, but yeah, still no cure. Just recently, a new one, nerandomilast got the FDA thumbs-up and people are saying it looks promising for slowing the disease and maybe it’s easier for folks to tolerate. So, couple new options on the table, which is encouraging (finally!).

A lot of people ask about stem cell therapy. It’s a hot topic for sure. The hype is kinda huge, but, well, it’s still experimental for lung fibrosis. There’s early research suggesting stem cells might help repair or regenerate some lung tissue, but big lung organizations say be careful—most of what’s out there for sale isn’t proven and can actually be risky if you’re not in a real clinical trial. Like, it’s cool science, but def not ready for prime time (yet).

New stuff is happening too—like targeted immunotherapies and more advanced cellular therapies. There’s a lot of studies in the works, some in mice, some actually moving into people. So, fingers crossed for more breakthroughs soon.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/news-events-human-drugs/fda-approv... https://stemcellthailand.org/therapies/idiopathic-pulmonary-... https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59093-7
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-27 07:25:02+00:00
> I'm sticking with "baby AGI" because of the "G"

I don't have an opinion on whether ChatGPT qualifies as AGI. What I'm saying is where one stands on that question has nothing to do with "why it became so popular so fast."

(Also, several machine-learning techniques could do millions of things terribly before LLMs. GPT does them, and other things, less poorly. It's a broadening. But I suppose really any intelligence of any kind can be considered a "baby" AGI.)
by csomar | 2025-10-27 07:26:49+00:00
They are usually using residential IPs through SOCK5. I am not sure how they are getting these residential IPs but it is definitively suspicious.

So by blocking these IPs, you are blocking your users. (ie: in many coffeshops, I get the "IP Blocked" banner, my guess is that they are running software on unsuspecting users to route this traffic).
by swiftcoder | 2025-10-27 07:28:11+00:00
This feels like they were using the wrong architecture from the start, and are now papering over that problem with additional layers of cache.

The only practical reason to put a video in S3 for an average of 2 seconds is to provide additional redundancy, and replacing that with a cache removes most of the redundancy.

Feels like if you uploaded these to an actual server, the server could process them on upload, and you could eliminate S3, the queue in SQS, and the lambdas all in one fell swoop...
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-10-27 07:28:18+00:00
> Different folks parent differently, culture evolves.

You are framing it as if every change is in a positive direction, which it clearly isn't. Risking at sounding like an old man yelling at clouds, look at the kids these days. They are so dependent, and so sensitive to negative stimuli or emotions.

Parents need to realise that they need to grow adults, not perpetual kids.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-10-27 07:29:27+00:00
No, I'm not talking about pneumonia.

If there's a bit of water in your lungs, a surprisingly small amount, it causes massive inflammation and your lungs start to fill with fluid. It's called "secondary drowning", and it happens a couple of hours after.

My water rescue course is up to date. When's yours due for renewal?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-27 07:30:18+00:00
That's easy to do if you're keeping the first duplicate. It becomes complex if you're keeping the last duplicate, because every time you find a duplicate you have to go back through your "output" and delete the earlier occurrence.

You could do an annotating pass for learning which of each line is the last one, and then a followup pass for printing (or otherwise echoing) only the lines that are the last of their kind. Technically still faster than sorting.

You could also keep the information on last occurrence of each line in the hash map (that's where it's going to be anyway), and once you're done with the first pass sort the map by earliest last occurrence. That will get you the lines in the right order, but you had to do a sort. If the original input was mostly duplicates, this is probably a better approach.

You could also track last occurrence of each line in a separate self-sorting structure. Now you have slightly more overhead while processing the input, and sorting the output is free.
by chii | 2025-10-27 07:30:35+00:00
> if you have no idea how good it might be.

for games, steam offers a trial of the game which can be refunded in full if you do it within two hours. It's a great feature for consumer protection imho.

I'd like to try a chapter or two of a book first, and if it doesn't grab, get a full refund. This is how you can prevent sinking time (and money, presumably) into a bad book.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-27 07:31:28+00:00
In addition to what @esperent said, I would add to make sure you are not smoking cannabis or over caffeinating.

You have to stop caffeine for two weeks and cannabis for 30 days BEFORE your brain normalizes.

As for “product”, try the Klamath algae, the expensive kind (E3Live) that comes as frozen liquid (not powder in a capsule).

Nothing will be a magic memory pill, anything that does help will likely take weeks of normalizing before you will notice, and it won’t be a lightning fix, it will be gradually perceptible that your memory is not impaired, rather than enhanced.

After cutting caffeine and cannabis (etc) try those memory technique books (o'reilly has a few), these will get you exercising your memory (whole brain really), and teaching you a few useful tricks.
by Ferret7446 | 2025-10-27 07:31:50+00:00
No amount of legislation will make it practical to do comprehensive chemical tests on every single domestic and imported product, or do comprehensive safety studies on every single chemical used in such products, or to handle the legal proceedings to prosecute all violations. Our society does not have the resources to sustain the incomprehensibly large regulatory and compliance industry needed to enforce a shadow of such legislation.
by thompalec | 2025-10-27 07:31:59+00:00
Most games use a standard first-person perspective with a roughly 75-120 degree field of view, mimicking natural human vision. But that means that players don't have information on everything that's not directly in front of them. An alternative approach is to have a full 360 degree horizontal field of view, giving the player complete horizontal spatial awareness.

The game demo displays both views. The standard 75 degree FOV is displayed on the top, while the full 360 degree FOV is displayed on the bottom.
by gspr | 2025-10-27 07:32:05+00:00
> From a scientific PoV, vaccine rejection in the West is pretty much unjustifiable according to mainstream medicine. But the not-worst-case, fairly bad outcome is kinda manageable. Your child gets measles, is probably OK, but if not, goes to an expensive hospital and will probably be fine. Even without vaccinations, it's probably not a life or death scenario. I'm not saying it's good, only that the price tag is likely low.

What an incredibly selfish point of view. Both for ignoring the risks of measles in your own child, and more importantly, for completely leaving out of the equation the likelihood that they will spread it to someone who for medical reasons cannot be vaccinated or for whom the virus is even more dangerous.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-27 07:32:37+00:00
The whole point of 1984 is to show how perfect surveillance allows the perfect enforcement of unjust laws, allowing complete control of Big Brother over every aspect of the lives of the country's citizens. The same cameras that can be used to fine you for illegally crossing the street can be used to find and punish you for illegally speaking out against the regime.

This is the danger of surveillance tech: you install it for purportedly good reasons, but once the power to monitor everyone to this level exists, it becomes very easy to start pushing towards more control, both legally and illegally.
by tezdhar01 | 2025-10-27 07:33:30+00:00
The man reading what the dumpster teaches imagined what the consequence loop was behind his reading this short story. Would it give him intelligence? The electricity and optical waves carrying thoughts of one man to other. It had taken hundreds of thousand of men to build the infrastructure that resulted in story being available on his phone. Was this man part of information addicted tribe that needed the dopamine rush to survive. Was his consequence loop feeding his dopamine rush which he equalled to survival. The rush was gone now and effect of coffee spreading thin. Onto next interesting thing to read
by sfn42 | 2025-10-27 07:33:32+00:00
Yeah, did self-tests and have thought the same. I definitely followed the instructions and my SO is a nurse so she knew how to do it, but who knows. I also had some very mild symptoms at least one of the times.

Could be something like our viral load wasn't high enough to register on the test, maybe our immune systems just dealt well with covid.
by 4gotunameagain | 2025-10-27 07:33:35+00:00
The downsides of a very new, experimental vaccine that the covid vaccine is, have not been clearly established yet. Partially due to tribal, adherent behaviours like the one you are displaying right now.

I think it is a reasonable point of view to not want to be the testbed for vaccines that were also rushed to the market to reap the profits, let me remind you.

Oh and, I've gotten the vaccine. I'm just not tribal about it.
by lbreakjai | 2025-10-27 07:33:50+00:00
I tried that, but you end up sounding so bland and generic. It feels like the textual equivalent of the Corporate Memphis art style. I'm comfortable doing this at work because I exist outside of slack/emails, but in here I am what I write. If I delegate this to a LLM, then I do not exist anymore.

What I found useful is to use LLMs as a fuzzy near-synonym search engine. "Sad, but with a note of nostalgia", for example. It's a slower process, which in itself isn't bad.
by sophrosyne42 | 2025-10-27 07:34:06+00:00
The argentine government is currently balancing meeting its current fiscal needs with avoiding the money printing scheme. That means it needs to attract buyers for its bonds instead of using the printing press. That means markets must be confident of Argentina's continued recovery, or investors wont be willing to pay sufficient prices for those bonds to sell. The reason Milei went to the US is because Argentine bond prices collapsed following a victory of the Peronist (that's the former ruling, socialist party) in Buenos Aires. With low bond prices, there was no way to continue that program, so Milei went to the US. On the other hand, this latest electoral victory has restored market confidence, and Argentine binds have strengthened.

These problems have much less to do with libertarianism per se than the practical problem of funding a massive welfare state without utilizing a destructive amount of money printing. Milei is walking a tightrope of unwinding this system slowly. The problem is endemic to having a massive welfare state than it is to libertarianism, and it is one reason why libertarians (also, bog standard neoliberals) are critical of having a massive government. When the government has an extremely large balance sheet, so large that its taxation and redistribution schemes are negative sum, it is only a matter of time before the whole thing comes crashing down. That's where the economy was headed before Milei. The collapse was avoided, albiet narrowly, but that doesn't mean everything is suddenly normal again. The road to recovery will be a long one.

To use your car analogy, the previous peronist parties set up a 1000 mile family trip, bought a quarter of the gas, and then when has started running out wrote a bunch of gas IOUs and pretended that the IOUs were a substitute for real gas. The responsibke adult comes in, and is desperately trying to find ways to trade IOUs or anything else that's available for some gas so that the family can survive and get home. That means that the family might even have to skip a meal or two, which is painful in the present. But it's all a sacrifice in service of ensuring the family's survival over actually starving in the desert when they realized IOUs don't power cars.
by coppsilgold | 2025-10-27 07:34:30+00:00
Bloodletting is a solution. Donate blood as frequently as they allow you. Plasma donation works even better (higher frequency) if you trust the machines and the process.

Sadly, it's not a complete solution as some harmful substances bio-accumulate in other tissues. A benefit may be had regardless as some substances leach back into the blood if the concentration gradient is sufficient.
by zkmon | 2025-10-27 07:35:53+00:00
Great points. Thank you. I realized (just after posting) that the wound part is not well-defined. Any abrupt change could be seen as a wound.

But we need to define "progress" as species. Grasslands, trees and dolphins seem to have defined their progress as better adaptation helped by their organic evolution, which contributed to their ultimate goal of reproduction via survival.

How is human race defining their progress? Since we are just one of the animal species, the root goal remains as reproduction. Instead of waiting for our biological evolution to enhance our survival (and thus reproduction), maybe we are augmenting human abilities with artificial means which is quicker.

But then the artificial augmentations could become you, replacing whatever your essence was. A weapon in your hand and AI chip in your head could make you a different beast. We can argue that even without such tools, human is mostly made up of bacterial colonies dictating human thought and life. But we accepted that as our identity. Now the artificial implements are taking up our identity. This is not natural and that is what is wicked.

Also arms race not same as how species out-competed each other. Our arms race and most of what we call as tech progress is spawned by competition internal to our species, not for competing with other species.

Universe did not favor complexity. Universe destroys order and moves towards more entropy. Life is something that goes against this. Life probably was required to trap Sun's energy so that Earth can cool itself.

In geologic time scale, yes, a couple thousand years is puny. But it also indicates a rapid change. Most rapid changes lead to extinction events.
by munksbeer | 2025-10-27 07:37:40+00:00
Does any of that argument really matter? And frankly, this statement:

>This makes it to my mind impossible to train a model to be aware

feels wrong. If you're arguing that human's are aware, then it is apparent that it is possible to train something to be aware. Nature doesn't have any formal definition of intelligence, or awareness, yet here we are.

From a practical perspective, it might be implausibly difficult to recreate that on computers, but theoretically, no reason why not.