MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bob1029 | 2025-10-09 11:29:48+00:00
Jarred/canned tomatoes might be the worst example. You barely need to try to make the preservation mechanism work. The pH of tomatoes tends to be very low and it's very easy to pull it down with lime juice, etc.

The highest quality marinara almost universally starts with something like an ordinary can of San Marzano tomatoes. This isn't some exotic find at Whole Foods. This will be collecting dust on the shelves at Kroger and Brookshires.

Buying fresh produce 100% of the time is theatrics. There are a lot of things it's a good idea for, but you are genuinely wasting your time in other areas.
by chithanh | 2025-10-09 11:31:59+00:00
> “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”.

No, not at all.

Feed conversion efficiency is the body weight gained per unit of feed consumed. If you add artificial sweeteners to animal feed, they will gain more weight when consuming the same feed, or gain the same weight when consuming less feed. This leads to cost savings for the farmer.

This observation may be a bit surprising as artificial sweeteners have 0 calories. But then again, antibiotics and growth hormones have the same effect.

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

When it comes to soft drinks and all-cause mortality, artificially sweetened is not better nor worse than sugar. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.2478

When it comes to weight, results are either neutral or inconclusive.
by Uptrenda | 2025-10-09 11:32:09+00:00
Yeah, I don't doubt this story for a minute. Wish we could pin this thread to the top of Hacker News for an entire year, its that important. In the old days if you were rich you would just buy a paper or radio station. Now you become a Reddit mod... Crazy statement, but many use it to crowd-source info on products. That's powerful if you control it.
Show HN: Connectcap – diagnostic CONNECT proxy that records traffic with libpcap
by minfrin | 2025-10-09 11:33:17+00:00
Hi HN, I built connectcap, a CONNECT proxy for diagnostics.

The problem I had to solve was I had a network problem only visible in one part of the internet, that had to be fixed by a cloud provider present on another part of the internet who could not see the problem, and I was fighting a lot of technology designed to work around problems that hid things and in so doing downplayed the seriousness of the problem.

What does it do?

- Connectcap is an RFC9110 http CONNECT proxy; that - Gets libpcap to record each connection through the proxy and save it as a separate pcap file for analysis by tcpdump or wireshark; then - Optionally emails a summary and the pcap file back to the user who used the proxy.

What does it not do?

- Connectcap makes no attempt to compensate for broken network behaviour; like - Trying a different server if the first connection failed; or - Falling back to IPv4 if IPv6 failed (no Happy Eyeballs).

Why not just tcpdump?

It can be difficult to predict what server you will connect to, and in turn what to record. Couple this with a cloud provider in another region or timezone needing to collaborate to generate the traffic, and life becomes very difficult.

Instead, deploy a connectcap proxy on the network giving trouble, and provide login details to the cloud provider, who can see the problem for themselves at their convenience, and receive all the diagnostics they need without waiting.

What about other proxies?

Many proxies try hard to compensate for broken networks, broken servers and so on. A diagnostic tool needs to do the complete opposite, not compensate for problems at all, and be completely clear this is the case.
by user34283 | 2025-10-09 11:33:36+00:00
You can see that I am getting banned for no other reason than liberals like yourself disagreeing with my opinions.

I never even participated in /r/conservatives, I am merely pointing out that it is hardly relevant whether /r/conservatives has anything to do with conservatives.

You, and I imagine many other complainers, are obviously disqualified from participating there from the start. That is not a problem.

What is a problem is that many moderators, just like you, seem to think default front page subreddits or country subreddits are a place for liberals only where you should get to ban conservatives.
by volleyball | 2025-10-09 11:34:22+00:00
What a cruel joke. Trump's role in negotiations was to threaten to fully back Israel's genocide of Palestinians if Hamas were to refuse the deal. The actual 'peace plan' also doesn't have any credible roadmap to a Palestinian state or anything that ensures a life of dignity,security and self-determination for the Palestinian people. In fact, it is framed to ensure the opposite. Trump deserves a trial in the Hague, not a Nobel.
by nntwozz | 2025-10-09 11:34:24+00:00
I started out with NNW then went to Reeder when iPhone came out. Later on google shut down their endeavor and I became frustrated with all the *free* alternatives—luckily I stumbled across News Explorer which I believe was the first (or one of the first) to do iCloud syncing so I could ditch the middleman.

I suggested iCloud sync to Brent but was first rebuffed about the poor technical aspects and problems that it had. For those who remember the sentiment around that time was that iCloud sync was unreliable yet News Explorer was proof that it was working just fine.

Brent later backtracked for which I am very happy, I've been using NNW ever since.

I only wish it had RSS filtering to weed out the shitposts, I believe they're working on it. In the meantime I've been using Feed Rinse.

http://www.feedrinse.com/index-old.php
by alexgotoi | 2025-10-09 11:35:32+00:00
I'm still trying to validate the idea of this newsletter: a hand-picked roundup of AI-related links from Hacker News. I will continue to share on some AI-related subreddits and create regular Hacker News posts, hoping to get more subscribers. This is the 2nd issue out of 10 issues I will send. If I get some traction, I will continue it.

In this issue, I've created some categories to make the links easier to navigate. If this is something you enjoy, it would make my day if you shared it with someone.
by projektfu | 2025-10-09 11:35:51+00:00
A few things come to mind. First, South Korea has low obesity on the global scale (BMI >= 30 kg/m2) but within the country [1] they use an "Asia-Pacific" scale for the definition which starts at BMI of 25. [2] So, from the Korean perspective, they have substantial obesity.

Second, I do not know whether there are some Korean diets that are more correlated with obesity. In Thailand, people eat much the same, and they are more often obese on the global scale. Less kimchi, though, and probably more coconut milk and sugar.

Simple diet composition is probably not the main factor in obesity. I do notice that "normal" portion sizes are pretty small in Korea, based on what I see in their media. Even feasts are shown to have reasonable portion sizes. In the US, portion sizes tend to maximally fill the stomach, and have grown considerably over the years.

Highly processed foods are generally designed to add addictive properties and cause overconsumption. I am not sure that's the goal of the Korean dishes you have tried. If we understand what the new weight loss drugs are telling us, we can see that increasing satiety faster with fewer calories should be the goal of our foods. (no citation, just my interpretation of what's going on).

1. https://general.kosso.or.kr/html/user/core/view/reaction/mai... 2. https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9059/13/2/373
by masfoobar | 2025-10-09 11:36:12+00:00
WinBoat seems interesting. I will be keeping my eye on this one.

Since I started using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in the last couple of years.. especially at work.. my work has been more productive, running certain GUI apps that "appear" to be running on Windows. There are some odd quirks to it, but its decent. On top of this, I can run podman or use shell tools (and bash)

However, I was wondering what the opposite equiverlant would be in linux land. I mean, I rarely use Windows Applications when on a Linux machine. In the past, I remember playing GTA:Vice City through Wine and was 98% awesome. Just a few missing images and thats it. Other than this, I've had little reason to use Windows applications on Linux.

Recently, I always wondered if there would be a "Linux Subsystem for Windows" equiverlant, abling to run pretty much any app. It would give my daughter the upperhand, which I recently installed Debian on her laptop... but I know there will be some Schoolwork with Microsoft products... WinBoat might be the answer.
by simpaticoder | 2025-10-09 11:36:17+00:00
Marky (FB) and Vicky (Vercel) are rich kids and are spending their tooth fairy money to buy every kid at your kindergarten a cool toy. Some kids don't like the toy, but that's okay there are other toys.

Some other kids (and esp their parents) think this is terrible, that Marky is being cheap and Vicky only wants control of the playground. They don't like Marky and Vicky and try to hurt them every chance they get.
by marcuskane2 | 2025-10-09 11:36:36+00:00
There should be a public service campaign telling users something like "Even in the best case scenario, the moderators are weirdos. Most likely they're shills".

People with careers, families, friends and hobbies are mostly not going to spend their limited free time being a digital janitor for an anonymous online community.

People sitting alone in their apartment with nowhere to go and nothing to do and no one to spend time with, however, might find that being a Reddit moderator gives them a hobby, a sense of purpose, and feelings of power, importance or significance that they otherwise never get in real life.

Someone should make a social media site with inverted dynamics- users who only spend a few minutes per day on the site and post once every few weeks should be treated as the influential power users, while the people lurking and scrolling for 10 hours per day are deprioritized.
by seec | 2025-10-09 11:37:15+00:00
That's an oddly specific search and even Google doesn't have any kind of tools for queries like that. What is more likely is that you'll find companies specialized in selling cabinets and they'll have a browser/search to restrict choice by given dimensions. There is not a lot of benefits for them to expose all that data to various search engine, best case scenario they end up competing with a bunch of other brands on a generic search engine page where they have absolutely no control how things are presented etc...

And even before thinking about that, you can actually put the dimensions in a description, which some do (like Ikea) and Google is definitely able to pick up on that, no RDFa was ever needed. As far as I can tell, LLMs can work that out just fine as well.

The problem with the metadata discussion is that if they are actually useful, there is no reason that they are not useful to humans as well, so instead of trying to make the human work for the machine it is much better to make the machine understand humans.
by Frieren | 2025-10-09 11:37:34+00:00
Society requires a level of stability that no tech companies is willing to provide. There is a lot of money in forcing users to buy new stuff, and to force them to be connected to central servers that monitor their usage and allows them to sell more stuff to their already existing clients.

As everything becomes a subscription and all items are just rented (even if you purchased them) people owns nothing, and the real owners of everything are the corporations that build them.

That is unsustainable, wasteful and abusive behavior. Only new laws can stop tech corporations lack of long term support. I can buy a normal lamp and use it 40 years later. Tech products last less than a decade and force updates and upgrades all the time. Everything is just getting worse.
by zjzjzxkx | 2025-10-09 11:37:56+00:00
> tons of salt

Outside of causing an imbalance (which would require a LOT of salt), there’s nothing bad about a lot of salt. People have been eating tons of salt for centuries.

> refined flower

Not sure what definition you’re using here so this might not be ideal, but probably fine. People have been milling for centuries.

> soya lecithins

Made in a lab about 100 years ago, and its primary use is to increase profits via long shelf life (increasing shelf life could be a noble goal, ie freezers are great). We have billionaires flying private jets around. Redo some resource allocation and we don’t need soya lecithins.

Much modernity has 0 respect for Chestetons fence. On top of that, nutrition science is basically a social science in terms of accuracy (not a dig, it’s very hard). Many “advances” today are purely profit motivated and don’t pay enough respect to the people’s wellbeing. We should be skeptical of changes done to make the rich richer.
by ubermonkey | 2025-10-09 11:39:03+00:00
I'm a lifelong Porsche fan, and even owned an air-cooled 911 for a long time, but that part of my life is in the rearview now. Even so, I was happy to attend the Porsche festival Luftgekuhlt here in Durham last weekend.

I was astonished, upon turning a corner and seeing one, to realize I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN that the 914 existed. It's one of those cars that was a dime a dozen in my 70s and 80s youth (along with MGs and proper, original VW Bugs) that slowly in inexorably vanished from the casual landscape.

Back then, I kind of hated them (the shared heritage with VW made them "not a real Porsche" in my eyes, which then as now preferred the lines of the 911s anyway), but now I find them charming little oddballs. We may take it as read that the examples at the show were in rather better running order than the one in the article. ;)

https://luftgekuhlt.com/
by jibal | 2025-10-09 11:39:10+00:00
> If circles are natural and numbers are natural, then why does their relationship seem so unnatural and arbitrary?

It is not in any way unnatural or arbitrary.

However, there are no circles in nature.

> You could imagine some advanced alien civilization, maybe in a completely different universe, that isn’t even aware of these concepts.

I can't actually imagine that ... advancement in the physical world requires at least mastery of the most basic facts of arithmetic.

> just hoping someone can enlighten me

I suggest that you first need some basic grounding in math and philosophy.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-09 11:39:48+00:00
>it is hardly relevant

The entire basis of your argument was that it is for conservatives, so non-conservatives should be banned. And FWIW, I am classically a conservative. An actual conservative, not the cult of personality sort. In this new era suddenly I'm some weird liberal.

>many moderators, just like you

Like me? LOL, I'm not a moderator on Reddit, and can't fathom wasting my time like that. But, eh, people have their own hobbies.

And I've been banned on a number of "liberal" subs like worldnews, because of the aforementioned conservative foundations of my views. And...eh...I sob into my pillow a bit and move on. There are numerous other news subs, and I can make a /r/conservativeworldnews or something and compete for hearts and minds. Whatever.
by trilogic | 2025-10-09 11:40:22+00:00
My website never served any of that. You got to stop using this very well known techniques by associating further names (knowing perfectly that HN comments get indexed very fast). The domain in question Sverken.se was always used for science or respectable business. Please refrain mentioning otherwise as I repeat, at any point my company website did such thing. Whoever keep associating them further is doing so by malicious intentions.
by lou1306 | 2025-10-09 11:41:22+00:00
Linus's law [1]? When it comes to compilers for mainstream languages, the userbases are so large that they will explore a surprisingly large portion of the compiler's state space.

But definitely, better engineering and QA practices must also help here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus%27s_law
by Bender | 2025-10-09 11:41:37+00:00
My preference would be just requiring site operators to add the RTA header [1] for anything that could potentially be adult in nature or user contributed content and let parents decide if devices should have parental controls. Not perfect, nothing is but would protect most small children. Teens will easily bypass any method as many today watch porn together in rated-g/pg video games that allow setting up a streaming player in-game.

[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq#single
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-10-09 11:43:07+00:00
Prof Kitagawa's ref to the Taoist Zhuangzi on takumigokoro (匠心, ~the maker Soul) needs fleshing out:

According to the referenced legend, the carpenter Lu Ban excels at building intricate but useful wooden structures (~ MOFs). Ntheless this striving after usefulness impedes his craft- he will not be able to attain the immortality he ultimately seeks. Zhuangzi muses that Lu Ban fails to appreciate the "usefulness of the useless"

(Zz turns out wrong-- Lu Ban was later deified by craftsmen)
by Vipsy | 2025-10-09 11:44:32+00:00
This looks nice, WinBoat gives teams a simple way to use linux for everyone, without losing access to Windows apps when needed. There’s no need for fancy cloud setups or switching between lots of devices—just one system and quick access to what works.

Onboarding is easier for everyone, and IT does less work with only one setup to care for. This means companies can pick what’s best without making things messy or complicated.
by bodiekane | 2025-10-09 11:45:06+00:00
A minor improvement to your argument here- artificial dyes are legitimately harmful in many cases. There are good reasons why the EU had already banned multiple chemicals that were still allowed in the US, and it's a good thing to update the American standards to the EU ones (which are generally more focused on human health as opposed to corporate profits).

The focus and prioritization is definitely out of line though, and it's particularly absurd in the face of the rolling back of pollution protections and removing access to healthcare.

Basically, it's focusing on a minor problem rather than the major ones. (But the minor problem is a legitimate one, and we should be solving all of them).
by Bender | 2025-10-09 11:45:40+00:00
Perhaps visiting elder-care facilities and have them hand you pictures from their youth then using AI to make videos of a younger version of them participating in events from that time period and including videos of their departed loved ones back then and aged to be with them today. It should be cost adjusted for elderly to afford and they should get at least one free short video demo. Use this hobby to perfect ones skills.

Once one is good at this assist intelligence agencies and politicians with making ultra-realistic propaganda and blackmail videos to make the public question the validity of every video they see.
by SilverSlash | 2025-10-09 11:45:59+00:00
What's a red flag is that there are 3 new accounts commenting on this reply and all are in agreement supporting your view.

Edit: apparently there's some confusion about my comment. I neither use, like, or support Next. I just found it suspicious that a bunch of new accounts showed up making generic comments in support of OP, which to me was a red flag.
by johngossman | 2025-10-09 11:46:09+00:00
Your mileage may be different. I didn't work on Word (though I talked to those guys about their format) but I worked on two other apps that used the same strategy in the same era. One, on load you had to fix up runtime data that landed in that part of the data segment. Two, the in memory representation was actually somewhat sparse. This meant that a serializer actually read and wrote less to disk than mapping the file. So documents were smaller and there was actually less i/o and faster loads.

The reason I hated it though was because it was very hard to version. I know the Word team had that problem, especially when the mandate came down for older versions to be able to read newer versions. Hard enough to organize the disk format so old versions can ignore stuff, but now you're putting the same requirements on the in-memory representation. Maybe Word did it better.
by jbstack | 2025-10-09 11:46:09+00:00
It's a bit unfair to call it pointless. Empirical studies have shown that HFT increase liquidity in markets, leading to narrowed spreads, market depth, faster execution speeds, cross-market informational efficiency, etc. All of these are generally beneficial to other non-HFT market participants.

Now you might counter that it also brings some negatives (e.g. fleeting liquidity, market manipulation risk, etc.) and there's certainty some validity to that. But none of this supports an argument that it's pointless.

More generally, activities aren't pointless if you are earning money from it which pays your rent, puts food on your table, etc. A large portion of the world works mainly for this goal. It's perfectly valid to tell your grandchildren "I spent my life making sure we'd have enough money for you and your parents to live comfortably", and we shouldn't look down on someone who does that.
by Tor3 | 2025-10-09 11:47:50+00:00
And unfortunately it's also used in some places outside the ones you're mentioning, e.g. private persons renting out their camper (I've seen this). Which opens the doors to fraud, as has happened too many times (the fraudsters make it look like a normal bank-id lookup, gets you to do it twice, and then they have enough to open your bank account and withdraw money. If they can get you do to it three times they also have enough to remove the limit on withdrawal, and empty your account).

The system is highly convenient and pretty safe, but it does still need vigilance from the user. Which is tricky, re all those phishing attempts and click-scams which people fall for again and again and again.
by gcanyon | 2025-10-09 11:48:18+00:00
But this implies that a simple 1-knot might completely undo itself if you join it to its mirror. Which I assume people have tried, and doesn't work. Likewise with 2's, 3's etc.

It seems intuitively obvious that there is something deeper going on here that makes these two knots work, where (presumably) many others have failed. Or more interestingly to me, maybe there's something special about the technique they use, and it might be possible to use this technique on any/many pairs of knots to reduce the sum of their unknotting numbers.
by amelius | 2025-10-09 11:49:06+00:00
> Also, it's not pointless to the person actually engaging in HFT if they are making money from it. Activities aren't pointless if they pay your rent, put food on your table, etc.

You have to look at the bigger picture. HFT companies only increase the barrier to entry to participate in the market. This means that while you may be able to put food on the table, you make it more difficult for other people to put food on the table.
by paulnpace | 2025-10-09 11:50:06+00:00
There is long-ago-deleted reddit AMA by a motorcycle thief who was never caught before retiring. The details he went through made me believe he was the real deal, even if not actually retired.

One of the things he stressed was all the ways people think motorcycles are stolen aren't they ways motorcycles are stolen, because those methods are used by would-be professional thieves who get caught. The professionals are the ones who don't get caught also don't use the same methods.

The thief mentioned replacing OEM ECUs with some sort of home-made jobber that was "good enough" to start the bike and ride it away--the actual way motorcycles are stolen--to a shielded transfer point, typically a delivery truck, where the buyer waits to collect and pay for the stolen bike.