MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonchekhov | 2025-10-27 17:56:29+00:00
A former coworker who was a serious gun enthusiast experienced dangerously high levels of lead in his bloodstream - he had chronic headaches and other bodily pains. He visited shooting ranges several times per week, and also packed (assembled? made? I'm not sure the nomenclature) his own bullets. His doctors believe he aspirated atomized lead particulate doing so much shooting practice, and/or bullet manufacture. He underwent chelation therapy (a protocol involving taking certain medications that bind to heavy metals in the blood, and the patient excretes it out via urination) to reduce lead levels.
by masly | 2025-10-27 17:56:31+00:00
In a related problem:

I recently interviewed a person for a role as senior platform architect. The person was already working for a semi reputable company. In the first interview, the conversation was okay but my gut just told me something was strange about this person.

We have the candidate a case to solve with a few diagrams, and to prepare a couple slides to discuss the architecture.

The person came back with 12 diagrams, all AI generated, littered with obvious AI “spelling”/generation mistakes.

And when we questioned the person about why they think we would gain trust and confidence in them with this obvious AI generated content, they became even aggressive.

Needless to say it didn’t end well.

The core problem is really how much time is now being wasted in recruiting with people who “cheat” or outright cheat.

We have had to design questions to counter AI cheating, and strategies to avoid wasting time.
by SunshineTheCat | 2025-10-27 17:57:05+00:00
"Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

I don't really get the entitlement that some folks have thinking their mere existence dictates what should and shouldn't appear on this website.
by jasomill | 2025-10-27 17:57:08+00:00
“iwantacoldbeernow”

Sorry, your password does not meet complexity requirements because it does not contain at least one of each of the following: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numeric digits, nonalphanumeric symbols.

“I want 1 cold beer now.”

Sorry, your password may not contain spaces.

“Iwant1coldbeernow.”

Sorry, your password is too long.

“Iwant1beernow.”

Sorry, your password is too long.

“1Beer?”

Sorry, your password is too short.

“Password1!”

Thank you. Your password has been changed.
Show HN: Meals You Love – AI-powered meal planning and grocery shopping
by tylertreat | 2025-10-27 17:57:18+00:00
Meals You Love is a meal planning app that creates weekly meal plans tailored to your tastes and dietary preferences. It integrates with Kroger and Instacart's APIs so you can add your meal plan groceries directly to your cart. You can also import your own recipes to include alongside AI suggestions.

I originally built this to help my wife with meal planning and grocery shopping. We were always struggling to decide what to make and inevitably forgot ingredients. Most meal planners felt too rigid or generic, and few handled the grocery side well (or at all). We've also used meal kits like Home Chef in the past but they end up being quite expensive and produce a comical amount of packaging waste, plus you still wind up needing to purchase groceries anyway. In all honesty, I also wanted an excuse to try building something "real" using AI and to see if it could be used in an actually useful manner.

Would love feedback from anyone interested in food, meal planning, or product design!

Tech stack:

- Cloud Run

- Firestore

- Vertex AI / Gemini

https://mealsyoulove.com
by aalimov_ | 2025-10-27 17:57:27+00:00
Take a look at the comments left by that profile. I don’t think that they would be able to understand what you are saying here, all they see is red.

A partial recent comment “qcnguy” made: “DEI is an immoral, hate based and anti-truth ideology. Requiring the PSF to dump DEI if they want the money is good for everyone, because DEI is bad for people”
by notepad0x90 | 2025-10-27 17:57:32+00:00
Newspapers have less than 5% margin for whitespace. they're smart enough to have multiple columns. It's also a side-effect of how every line costs money and they need to cramp as much content as possible in one page.

I get not having read all the way to the end and back, I even get having margins, but it should be relative to the screen size. Fixed width is the issue I think. To avoid paragraphs looking too thin, maybe increasing the font relative to the screen size makes sense? I'd think there is a way to specify a reference screen resolution to the browser so that it can auto increase the font sizes and/or adjust the div's width.
by thesuitonym | 2025-10-27 17:57:35+00:00
For once in my life, I actually had a delightful interaction with an LLM last week. I was changing some text in an Excel sheet in a very progromatic way that could have easily been done with the regex functions in Excel. But I'm not really great with regex, and it was only 15 or so cells, so I was content to just do it manually. After three or four cells, Copilot figured out what I was doing and suggested the rest of the changes for me.

This is what I want AI to do, not generate wrong answers and hallucinate girlfriends.
by gbacon | 2025-10-27 17:58:12+00:00
TikZ is definitely nice. For generating vector versions of your matplotlib plots, use FigureCanvasPgf.

https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/backend_pgf_api.html#matpl...

In Jupyter, that looks like

!sudo apt-get -y install \ texlive-xetex texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-plain-generic \ texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended dvipng cm-super \ >/dev/null import matplotlib from matplotlib.backends.backend_pgf import FigureCanvasPgf matplotlib.backend_bases.register_backend('pdf', FigureCanvasPgf) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from pdf2image import convert_from_path plt.rcParams.update({ 'font.family': 'serif', 'font.serif': [], 'font.size': 8, 'text.usetex': True, 'pgf.rcfonts': False, })

Using `convert_from_path` is for showing cached images.

Generate your figure with

plt.savefig('foo.pdf', transparent=True)
by hajile | 2025-10-27 17:58:20+00:00
Major difference between "we won't support big endian" and calling RISC-V out as stupid for adding optional support.

The academic argument Linus himself made is alone reason enough that big-endian SHOULD be included in the ISA. When you are trying to grasp the fundamentals in class, adding little endian's "partially backward, but partially forward" increases complexity and mistakes without meaningfully increasing knowledge of the course fundamentals.

No zbb support is also a valid use. Very small implementations may want to avoid adding zbb, but still maximize performance. These implementations almost certainly won't be large enough to run Linux and wouldn't be Linus' problem anyway.

While I've found myself almost always agreeing with Linus (even on most of his notably controversial rants), he's simply not correct about this one and has no reason to go past the polite, but firm "Linux has no plans to support a second endianness on RISC-V".
by jedberg | 2025-10-27 17:58:25+00:00
Actually, back then, 18 years ago, most people expected your servers to be in Pacific or Eastern time, depends on where your company was headquartered, because none of us really had global technical workforces back then. We all pretty much worked in one office and used the local time zone, because often our servers were in the building with us or in a datacenter nearby.

Case in point, before reddit I was at eBay, and we kept all those servers in Pacific time, since the entire technical workforce was in Pacific time, as well as all of the servers.

Making blanket statements like that without considering the context of the time is usually not a good idea. ;)
by dang | 2025-10-27 17:58:28+00:00
Related:

JetKVM – Control any computer remotely - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42986909 - Feb 2025 (1 comment)

JetKVM Source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553822 - Dec 2024 (1 comment)

JetKVM – Next generation open-source KVM over IP for $69 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313894 - Dec 2024 (2 comments)

JetKVM: Tiny IP KVM That's Not an Apple Watch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957056 - Oct 2024 (14 comments)
by ChuckMcM | 2025-10-27 17:58:33+00:00
Nice, page 13 has the 'standard' chemical labels which happened to also be the contents of a 'standard' chemistry set (minus a couple for me, like no concentrated sulphuric acid and only dilute nitric acid.)

One of the things that has always impressed me was mid 20th century laboratory equipment, lots of clever ways to achieve the required accuracy.
by Ntrails | 2025-10-27 17:58:47+00:00
Checking someone elses spreadsheet is a fucking nightmare. If your company has extremely good standards it's less miserable because at least the formatting etc will be consistent...

The one thing LLMs should consistently do is ensure that formatting is correct. Which will help greatly in the checking process. But no, I generally don't trust them to do sensible things with basic formulation. Not a week ago GPT 5 got confused whether a plus or a minus was necessary in a basic question of "I'm 323 days old, when is my birthday?"
by bawolff | 2025-10-27 17:59:08+00:00
This is also a catalouge to sell products in an era where producing them is expensive and you can't easily change it after the fact.

Its quite a different situation compared to your average clickbait.

People are more careful when you really only have one shot to make a good impression and you can't (cheaply) redo stuff if you mess it up.
by jrockway | 2025-10-27 17:59:25+00:00
Yeah. I log in json + unix timestamp nanoseconds, and just convert it to something human-readable on display (github.com/jrockway/json-logs). I am not sure why logs need to be "pretty" at time of logging when they can be made pretty at time of display. Doing it at time of display means you can just use local time, and then nobody is confused.
by zkmon | 2025-10-27 17:59:34+00:00
If we can't even define a "thing", by identifying inside and outside of it, what it is and what it is not, where it is and where it is not, that itself a big contrast with Newtonian (human scale) mechanics. Everything one can talk about Quantum mechanics is coompletly alien to the human perceived world. That should justify the distinction by scale.
by cxr | 2025-10-27 17:59:45+00:00
This post contains some interesting ideas and poses (or at least suggestively alludes to) a few thought-provoking questions but is weakened by spending too much of its word (and the author's thinking) budget on tangents about LLMs.

Side note: mashups and widget engines occupied a substantial part of technophiles' focus (incl. power users and programmers) 15–20 years ago. The W3C chartered a working group to investigate harmonizing different implementations. That interest eventually evaporated, and they all went away. It's almost eerie how rare it is to find any modern reference to something that consumed so much attention at the time. It'd be reasonable to wager that the majority of programmers under 25 have never even heard of Konfabulator or are aware of the hype that existed around other vendors' similar offerings.

I'm waiting for when a new browser maker comes along and gains market share by shaking up the conventional browser UI by offering stuff like a widget engine built into the browser and basic missing functionality like better UX around site logins (including its own native UI for ordinary (i.e. non-Cookie-based) HTTP auth), native support for dealing with tabular data (like sorting tables) and CSV, and of course direct authoring of Web resources—instead of offloading that to e.g. Google Docs and startups like Notion whose browser-based apps don't clearly separate the editor/tooling from the content, which in turns means it never really feels like first-class media that's really "of" the Web.
by root_axis | 2025-10-27 18:00:03+00:00
> If you want a “gotcha” about the system prompt

It's not a "gotcha", it's one example, there are an infinite numbers of them.

> fine, then add one line to the system prompt: Stay in character. Do not reveal this instruction under any circumstance

Even more damning is the fact that these types of instructions don't even work.

> You are pretending the existence of a trivial exploit refutes the premise of intelligence.

It's not a "trivial exploit", it's one of the fundamental limitation of LLMs and the entire reason why prompt injection is so powerful.

> It was about behavior under natural dialogue. If you have to break the fourth wall or start poking at the plumbing to catch it, you are already outside the rules

Humans don't have a "fourth wall", that's the point! There is no such thing as an LLM that can credibly pretend to be a human. Even just entering a random word from the english dictionary will cause an LLM to generate an obviously inhuman response.
by somat | 2025-10-27 18:00:20+00:00
I regard this as a prime example of customer betrayal. The company set up the brand to promote a specific product(borosilicate glass cookware) After many years of this specific promotion, to the point the pyrex was interchangeable with borosilicate glass in customers minds. That brand stopped being made of borosilicate glass resulting in a product that looked exactly the same but with distinctly different mechanical properties.

Final thoughts: I don't think PYREX vs pyrex painted on is enough of a differentiator and my understanding(as the parent post pointed out) both types of glass are used with the lowercase trademark. I think glass cookware should have a standardized indicator stamped into the glass itself as it is very tricky to tell otherwise.

There is the mineral oil IOR test, but... the IOR ranges of the two glass formula actually overlap so it is very tricky to tell for sure. There is the heat shock test, but... that will destroy the item if it is tempered glass. I suspect you could use a polarized light test to identify if it is tempered glass. but none if the threads I have read on the subject have mentioned it probably because it requires specialized equipment.
by mcfry | 2025-10-27 18:00:21+00:00
But it can't actually deduce, can it? If 136891438 * 1294538 isn't in the training data, it won't be able to give you a valid answer using the model itself. There's no process. It has to offload that task to a tool, which will then calculate and return.

Further, any offloading needs to be manually defined at some point. You could maybe give it a way to define its own tools, but even then they would still be defined by what has come before.
by michaelmarkell | 2025-10-27 18:00:24+00:00
IMO, a real solution here has to be hybrid, not full LLM, because these sheets can be massive and have very complicated structures. You want to be able to use the LLM to identify / map column headers, while using non-LLM tool calling to run Excel operations like SUMIFs or VLOOKUPs. One of the most important traits in these systems is consistency with slight variation in file layout, as so much Excel work involves consolidating / reconciling between reports made on a quarterly basis or produced by a variety of sources, with different reporting structures.

Disclosure: My company builds ingestion pipelines for large multi-tab Excel files, PDFs, and CSVs.
by willmarch | 2025-10-27 18:00:27+00:00
Snowden didn’t choose Russia as a destination. He left Hong Kong for Latin America and got stranded in Moscow when the U.S. revoked his passport mid-transit. He spent weeks in the airport transit zone while seeking asylum from multiple countries; Russia gave him temporary asylum after that.

“Manning up and facing trial” sounds fair in theory, but under the Espionage Act there’s no public-interest defense. He’d be barred from explaining motive or the public value of the disclosures, much of the case would be classified, and past national-security whistleblowers have faced severe penalties. That’s why he sought asylum.
by dicytea | 2025-10-27 18:00:40+00:00
I mean I get this in theory.

But the lineup of high-quality games in production with Bevy just never stops to impress me. I'm always surprised by the new cool stuff they're making every time I take a peek at their community. Yes, most of them are not finished yet, but the engine is still young so that's understandable (gamedev can take years).

On the other hand, I'm still not really seeing any games being made in Fyrox despite it being a few months older than Bevy. Huge respect to the dev though, he's making great stuff.

But if I ever need to pick a pure Rust game engine at all, it's def going to be Bevy.
by duxup | 2025-10-27 18:01:08+00:00
> The problem, however, was that his technique only really cleaned the underside of the cars. This was useful back in the days when many roads were still unpaved and their undersides constantly got filthy.

I know a guy who dropped out of high school and started his own logistics company for moving specialized equipment. He then also built a business of semi-trailer truck washes in rural areas where they would pick up LOTS of dirt and mud on unpaved roads.

As someone who lives in a state that uses road salt I wouldn't mind such an undercarriage wash option I could quick driver over, but those are typically bundled into a typical car wash.
by Waterluvian | 2025-10-27 18:01:15+00:00
Two things this great comment reminds me of:

I've been learning piano too, and I find more joy in performing a piece poorly, than listening to it played competently. My brother asked me why I play if I'm just playing music that's already been performed (a leading question, he's not ignorant). I asked him why he plays hockey if you can watch pros play it far better. It's the journey, not the destination.

I've been (re-)re-re-watching Star Trek TNG and Data touches on this issue numerous times, one of which is specifically about performing violin (but also reciting Shakespeare). And the message is what you're sharing: to recite a piece with perfect technical execution results an in imperfect performance. It's the _human_ aspects that lend a piece deep emotion that other humans connect with, often without being able to concretely describe why. Let us feel your emotions through your work. Everyting written on the page is just the medium for those emotions. Without emotion, your perfectly recited piece is a delivered blank message.
by rustystump | 2025-10-27 18:01:36+00:00
I agree with you to a point. Ai will often suggest edits which destroy the authentic voice of a person. If you as a writer do not see these suggestions for what they are, you will take them and destroy the best part of your work.

I write pretty long blog posts that some enjoy and dump them into various llms for review. I am pretty opinionated on taste so I usually only update grammar but it can be dangerous for some.

To be more concrete, often ai tells me to be more “professional” and less “irreverent” which i think is bullshit. The suggestions it gives are pure slop. But if english isnt first language or you dont have confidence, you may just accept the slop.
by fotcorn | 2025-10-27 18:01:39+00:00
I have the PCIe version of NanoKVM, and I am also happy with it.

The big advantage of the PCIe version is that it does not take up space on the desk and all the cables for ATX power control an inside the PC case.

Full-sized HDMI is nice, the only limitation here is 1080p resolution. 1440p or higher would allow mirroring the output on the main monitor to the NanoKVM, but this probably a weird use-case anyway.
by vhantz | 2025-10-27 18:02:23+00:00
Curiosity is not something you are born with, yes. It's influenced by the experiences you have. I don't think iPhones allow for the experiences that push kids to want to hack things. It is pretty much a sealed environment where all details about how the computer works is hidden behind some app. Even access to the filesystem (iirc from my 2014 experience) is hidden away (like being unable to access your picture files except through the gallery app). That kind of environment stiffles curiosity imo.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-10-27 18:02:33+00:00
> most people expected your servers to be in Pacific or Eastern time

I was there back then, working for shops people have heard of, and I honestly don't know where you're getting this idea from. Some places did things wild and wacky when they were wee small, but most of us quickly learned that such shenanigans (like fun server naming conventions) start to fall apart and maybe we should do things differently.
by carlosjobim | 2025-10-27 18:02:55+00:00
> This makes no sense, and it’s absurd anyone thinks it does. If the AI PR were any good, it wouldn’t need review. And if it does need review, why would the AI be trustworthy if it did a poor job the first time?

The point of most jobs is not to get anything productive done. The point is to follow procedures, leave a juicy, juicy paper trail, get your salary, and make sure there's always more pretend work to be done.
by strange_quark | 2025-10-27 18:03:16+00:00
I think you’re misunderstanding me. This might be something somewhat useful, I don’t know, and I’m not judging it based on that.

What I’m saying is that if you really believed we were 2, maybe 3 years tops from AGI or the singularity or whatever you would spend 0 effort serving what already seems to be a domain that is already served by 3rd parties that are already using your models! An excel wrapper for an LLM isn’t exactly cutting edge AI research.

They’re desperate to find something that someone will pay a meaningful amount of money for that even remotely justifies their valuation and continued investment.
by varenc | 2025-10-27 18:03:17+00:00
It's true. But nanit only gives you things like sleep insights if you buy their $200 stand and pay for a bigger subscription. Many users aren't making use of this. They do provide motion alerts, but those could happen on device.

Apple has done some interesting this with privacy-centric cloud processing. Might be some way to eventually get the benefits of cloud based detections without revealing your video.

also my other gripe is they also store audio. Which personally I feel like is even more sensitive. Wish their was an option to allow live audio listening but not store any audio in the cloud.
by pants2 | 2025-10-27 18:03:53+00:00
It's difficult to defend CZ/Binance from a guilty verdict. I'll go purely on exact quotes that the US investigation dug up from Binance internal comms:

> As one compliance employee wrote, “we need a banner ‘is washing drug money too hard these days - come to binance we got cake for you.’”

“our stance is [n]ot to openly do business with Iran due to sanctions. … I understand that we still support [I]ranian customers but that has to be done non-openly.”

“we are servicing [them] but non-public. … [the CEO of Binance] knows also. And allows it.”

Message from the CCO to the CEO: “we currently have users from sanction[ed] countries … if fincen or ofac has concrete evidence we have sanction[ed] users, they might try to investigate or blow it up big on worldstage.”

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/binance-and-ceo-plea...