MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wonderwonder | 2025-10-07 20:34:33+00:00
Overall I agree with you but I think its an individual by individual basis. For me it started when I asked my doctor for a glp1 prescription a year ago. She said no and said I would need to see another doctor for that in the same medical system (another 6 - 8 week wait).

This... irked me. So I went online and ordered it myself for a literal fraction of the price. In the year since I have taken my cholesterol and lipids from absolute garbage to perfection. My BP has been high for over a decade, its perfect now. I have lost 40 pounds of fat while maintaining muscle. Currently have a 6 pack and bench 405lbs and a little over 200lbs body weight. I am also on testosterone which I manage myself while also managing estrogen sides, etc.

Everything has become so much smoother and quicker since I just stepped away from the normal medical system and started doing it on my own. I look 20 years younger and my blood work is perfect. Recently got a colonoscopy (no anesthesia) as well and everything was good, need another in 7 - 10 years. Even the fact they force anesthesia on the majority of the patients irritated me. Its a 20 minute procedure that is uncomfortable at worst. Why force someone to lose an entire day, depend on a ride home, etc.

I just don't understand the point of the medical system for the Hacker News crowd. Now something like cancer of course, established medical system all the way, I am not advocating for recklessness.
by epistasis | 2025-10-07 20:34:53+00:00
> The amount of lithium it would take to handle an unusually cloudy week would be astronomical.

I don't think it's astronomical. At most a few dozen kg per person. Compare that to the amount of steel that we produce per person just to give everybody access to cars!

And it's certainly not more astronomical than the amount of natural gas that we already extract, transport, and burn for electricity.

We have built big things in the past, there's no reason we can't do it again today. In fact, it's going to be far easier today because our tech is better and our factories' productivity is so much higher than in the past.
by gruez | 2025-10-07 20:34:56+00:00
The first section of the article is riddled with errors or misleading statements that it's hard to take the rest of it seriously.

>Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85 percent of chartered banks, making the coffee chain one of the biggest financial institutions in the country.

Only in the sense that the US has thousands of banks, most of which are tiny. According to https://www.mx.com/blog/biggest-us-banks-by-deposits/, there are 4462 banks in the US. Starbuck's "nearly 2 billion" makes them so small it's not even in the top 250. You'd really have to stretch the truth to call that "one of the biggest financial institutions".

>More Americans than ever are in debt to their nearby grocery store due to predatory “buy now, pay later” loans offered during checkout.

>And if you can’t pay your rent on time, it could soon become common for your apartment building owner to lend you the money, putting you in debt to your landlord.

As others have mentioned, the debt is issued by the BNPL provider, not the grocery store or landlord. The article makes no effort to argue how it's any different than credit cards.

Skimming the rest of the sections, it's unclear what author actually wants. The article starts off lamenting how high of a margin payments networks have, but then lambasts challengers for setting up networks try to disrupt them.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-10-07 20:35:38+00:00
Thanks for replying, but my comment is not saying that at all -- it's pushing back on someone making the claim that the new CVE is no worse than what could already be done, by pointing out that what could already be done was (presumably) only a DoS, while the new CVE is full RCE.

I've reread my comment and the parent comment, and I don't understand how this is not clear?
by coredog64 | 2025-10-07 20:35:42+00:00
Presumption of innocence applies to your trial, not to being apprehended. E.g. the state has to prove that you are guilty.

If I'm a US citizen and I get swept up in an immigration raid, my lawyer calls my wife who brings my US passport and I'm released. A pain in the ass, but not a violation of my civil rights. Now if I get beat up by ICE, or they file a false claim for resisting, then sure, we've got grounds for a case that my rights were violated. But constitutional rights are not a blanket "I can never be arrested if I think I'm innocent"
by fragmede | 2025-10-07 20:36:17+00:00
Is that really the problem she wants to solve? She could just turn off her phone to accomplish that. The problem is multi-layered and complex. Holy shit, It’s her dad. He’s dead. I don’t have her phone number, but let’s pretend I did and we were friends, why would I be texting her videos of her dead father? He’s Robin Williams, sure, but why? why! would I be making AI videos and sending them to her? Forget Sora, if I made a puppet of her father and made a video of him saying things he didn’t say, and then sent it to her, I think I’d still be a psychopath for sending it to her. I think she should sue open AI and California should have it be illegal without a license, and yeah there’s always gonna be a seedy underbelly. I’m sure there’s Mickey Mouse porn out there somewhere. A lawsuit is going to make it official that she is a person and she’s saying hey I don’t like that and that she would like for people to stop it, and that the rest of us agree with that.
by adamors | 2025-10-07 20:37:07+00:00
I couldn’t agree more, I’ve worked with Ruby/Rails for the past 10 years, and the youngest codebase I saw was 5 years old at that point.

I did work on greenfield Rails apps but they were API only “microservices” so none of this FE stuff was needed.

In any nontrivial company, the Rails homegrown FE solutions are ignored entirely because you can’t hire Hotwire devs but you can hire plenty of React/Vue devs.

Also, the Rails “FE” stack has changed plenty and it’s also hard to keep up with it (remember CoffeeScript?), is poorly documented beyond the trivial hello world and like I said, has absolutely no mindshare.

So these discussions are entirely disconnected from the real world.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-10-07 20:37:19+00:00
The first one is bad indeed, but what's so "authoritarian" about the rest?

>https://www.bundestag.de/webarchiv/textarchiv/2018/kw08-de-v...

Other European countries like Switzerland, also banned full face veils(burqas) in public. Try entering a bank, city hall, school, etc with a balaclava, ski mask or motorcycle helmet see how that goes.

>https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/304/1930412.pdf

Allowing the surveillance of minors if they show signs of radicalization? This to me makes sense under existing child protection laws. If kids are being raised in environments that are harmful to themselves and society, should we just sit by and let them get permanently wrecked till they reach adulthood, over a technicality? The earlier you can catch the issues the better for everyone and the higher the chance you can rescue the child. Existing child protection laws in Germany already allow the state a lot of power to take children away from parents if they're seen as unfit.

>https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/111/1911127.pdf

Taking citizenship away from those who voluntarily join terrorist organizations like ISIS? 100% agree with this, how could you not?

These are common sense viewpoints a lot of Europeans agree with, not authoritarian ones.
by tag_coder | 2025-10-07 20:37:51+00:00
I am enjoying langgraph.

Non-technical people have suggested using other tools like n8n or make.

Being able to write tests, use version control, and make full use of a programming language I am proficient with are perks.

It is also enshittification resistant unlike other platforms. I still might use them for something lightweight.

I have rolled my own solutions in previous roles and it worked well for very simple tasks (analyze this output and make sure it meets this criteria or try again...) I would be concerned about complexity if there were more steps, tool calls, or the need to compose multiple agents out of the same nodes, tools, state, etc...

Curious to hear more what you mean about compacting histories? Langgraph state management is simple enough and a custom reducer function gives you full control of context management...
by kevinsync | 2025-10-07 20:38:02+00:00
As for branding, IMO you could go a bunch of directions:

Timelines

Tempor (temporal)

Chronos

Chronografik

Continuum

Momentum (moments, memory, momentum through time)

IdioSync (kinda hate this one tbh)

Who knows! Those are just the ones that fell out of my mouth while typing. It's just gotta have a memorable and easy-to-pronounce cadence. Even "Memorable" is a possibility LOL

-suggestions from some dude, not ChatGPT
by cullenking | 2025-10-07 20:38:15+00:00
it all depends on your philosophy on dependencies. if you maintain a small set of core dependencies that are there for good reasons and are actively maintained, then rails upgrades are pretty easy. if you have a Gemfile that has a bunch of third party gems that you bring in for small problems here and there, you have to occasionally pay down that debt on version upgrades. we have an 18 year old rails codebase currently on 7.1 that hasn't proven to be a big pain for upgrades. the hardest upgrade we did was because of a core dependency that had been dead for 5 years broke with a new version of rails. but that was a story of letting technical debt ride for too long and having to pay it back.

this is a common problem in any complex codebase that has a culture of using third party dependencies to solve small problems. you see this conversation all the time with modern frontend development and the resulting dependency tree you get with npm etc....
by extasia | 2025-10-07 20:38:16+00:00
I wrote my own agent state machine in pretty much pure async Python (no libs). Running successfully in prod with very few issues.

I use the OpenAI messages spec, and have the messages be an append only list, to make it easy to reason about.

Don’t bother compacting histories imo. worse case just summarise and spin up a new agent with the context.

good luck!
by cweagans | 2025-10-07 20:38:26+00:00
> Digging Sops too for managing secrets. I was using Ansible Vault before which worked but was weirdly cumbersome to automate (go figure), and Sops seems to Just Work™.

I considered both of those and ended up using the External Secrets Operator + 1Password for my secrets. Maybe not the _best_ solution, but it saved a fair amount of effort on my part.

> Think it's back now...

It's back! Looking forward to reading!
by Leherenn | 2025-10-07 20:38:29+00:00
Not the GP, but I think it's fairly reasonable, yes.

Ultimately, what we care about, from a grid policy perspective, is the cost to provide 99% (or whatever) guaranteed 24/7/365 power. Each energy source will have its own challenges in order to do that, and for solar availablity it clearly one of them. And yes, externalities should be factored in.

> Or can we just assume that for now we have a mix of sources where different sources have different pros and cons.

Of course, but the question is: what is the right mix for the right place. And saying "solar + storage" is cheaper than gas means very different things if it can only guarantee 60% availability like in England, or 95+% in the sunniest regions of the world.

The figures reported here come from (among others) Lazard' LCOE analysis. (https://www.lazard.com/media/xemfey0k/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...) If you have a look at how it's calculated, "solar + storage" only has enough storage for 4h for instance. You cannot really meaningfully compare it directly with nuclear which is much more reliable in itself.

What LCOE says is that the system will produce X amount of energy at cost of Y. It says nothing about when that energy will be produced. An energy source that produces 365 MWh on January 1st only, and another that produces 1 MWh every day, for the same cost, will have the same LCOE. The latter is, provided you can scale it, much more useful in practice.

Look, I'm not saying that solar is bad or we shouldn't do it. It's just that the "solar is cheap" thing which is regularly reported is a bit misleading. We've heard it for years now, and yet electricity prices around the world are mostly increasing. Clearly there's a mismatch, but where does it come from? And I think part of the reason is that the "ancillary" costs of solar have been underestimated. Sure, the energy straight out of the panel is very cheap, but if you need 10s of billions in grid upgrades and storage/backup to make it work in practice, then it should definitely be included in the comparison! Just like the externalities of fossil fuels should be.
by michael1999 | 2025-10-07 20:38:31+00:00
So Powell volunteered to sell Cheney's lie to the UN, knowing it to be a lie, because he wanted to stay in power rather than tell the truth like Shinseki? If Powell knew it to be false, and presented it with his credibility, I see no reason to not call it Powell's lie as much as Cheney's.

That's even worse than I thought. But fits with Powell's history in Vietnam.
by DrSiemer | 2025-10-07 20:38:33+00:00
So tired of pointing that there is something in between "marketeer story tellers" and "real artists".

Bots in the Hall, Neural Viz, GossipGoblin, even Joel Havers animations. All made with genAI and all undeniably creative works, that could not have been created, at least not in that time frame, by a single person without it.

I love Matt's work and often agree with him, but the "no heart" take is just too harsh.
by asmor | 2025-10-07 20:39:02+00:00
It's interesting that this initiative seems to be mostly driven by influential actors in the "online safety" space that want their flawed scanning tech embedded into every device. Thorn is the most public-facing one, but if you dig into advocacy groups you'll find there's a dozen or so more, and they competed for being the technical solution to the UK online safety act too. But if it involves CSAM it's an even more perfect monopoly - only a very select group of people can train these models because the training data is literally illegal to possess.

If you needed any indication for how these pseudo-charities (usually it's a charity front and a commercial "technology partner") are not interested in the public good, SafeToNet, a company that up until last year was trying to sell a CSAM livestream detection system to tech companies to "help become compliant" ("SafeToWatch") now sells a locked down Android phone to overprotective parents that puts an overlay on screen whenever naked skin can be seen (of any kind). It's based on a phone that retails for 150 pounds - but costs almost 500 with this app preinstalled into your system partition. That's exceptionally steep for a company that up until last year was all about moral imperatives to build this tech.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-10-07 20:39:06+00:00
> We need a ton more electricians but it's nearly impossible to get into schools. Or you need union apprenticeships and their are not enough slots.

This got solved in tech 20 years ago. You don't look at credentials and instead design a very arduous interviewing process that selects for both high IQ and people who are willing to study/work at it.

Then you provide lots of training. 20 years ago at Google (or Apple etc) there were tons of well educated non CS hires who were given good training and became exceptional software engineers.
by epistasis | 2025-10-07 20:39:17+00:00
I don't say it as a bad thing at all, I say it as a thing that's in contrast to the rest of the companies and proprietors and corporations we deal with. (And my last comment also hinted that I think it's time to reevaluate this social relationship with the utilities...)

Typically, if a person/corporation is clever and figures out a way to reduce costs, they are incentivized heavily to do so because they take the gains, at least for a while until others figure it out too and compete.

With utilities, they are actively incentivized to increase prices as much as possible. This is a crucial distinction for people asking why cheaper electricity generation methods are not resulting in cheaper utility bills: because the regulatory structure is not operating the way it should, and they need to get involved democratically to change the system!
by borroka | 2025-10-07 20:39:36+00:00
I don't think there have ever been any particular incentives to become a full-time writer. Most of us have read articles or books (Graydon Carter's) that have recently talked about the huge sums paid to some journalists 20 or 40 years ago, but the ratio of aspiring writers to well-paid writers has always yielded very high numbers.

It's the same in all creative professions, and even more so for those that grant visibility. I think most would be fine considering this activity as a part-time commitment, instead of chasing something that has little chance of coming true. Of course, you can't be a part-time athlete and aspire to greatness, but I don't think the same applies to writing, for example.

Now, we are in the realm of anecdotes, but the novel “Il Gattopardo,” which I consider to be among the top three Italian, and perhaps European, novels of the 20th century, was written by an amateur who did not even send the manuscript out to be considered for publication. It was discovered after Tomasi di Lampedusa's death by Giorgio Bassani, a talented writer who did not write full-time and who had incredible success with some fantastic novels, such as "Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini" (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis).
by gruez | 2025-10-07 20:39:44+00:00
>Unsurprisingly within months, the company doubled the points requirements for all rewards.

Surely that was a coincidence? The most I could find was grumblings about the program changing back in 2019[1], but so far as I can tell it stayed the same since then. I agree points devaluations are bad, but people aren't storing their life savings in them, and the "cost" of those points are basically zero, so I'm not sure what the hand-wringing over them is about.

[1] https://www.areweadultsyet.com/2019/03/19/maximizing-the-new...
by mustache_kimono | 2025-10-07 20:40:18+00:00
> However, as time has gone by, Bluesky’s traffic has declined (X’s has as well) and some of its users have become increasingly upset at its moderation decisions, including allowing U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and anti-trans writer Jesse Singal to remain as users of the platform.

The problem, if you can call it that, is Singal hasn't broken any of their TOS or guidelines.

Right now, AFAICT this is a people with pitchforks problem, who are asking for something which they don't have any business asking.

Sure, if you want to stick your fingers in your ears, block Singal. There are widely used block lists for people who even merely follow Singal. Asking for his ban from a public use platform is too much without more than "He wrote some articles for the NY Times, The Atlantic, and NY Magazine, I didn't personally enjoy."
by apeytavin | 2025-10-07 20:40:29+00:00
One of our objectives here was to fix everything that we don't like about the SO-101 and the Kiwi, which have several hardware and software flaws in our view. Including, yes, the constant need for a computer to simply run your robot.

The training does require external GPUs (but we provide that infra for free, straight from the app!), but the onboard jetson can run models trained though, as you can see in the examples. Everything you see in the vids is running onboard when it comes to manipulation, because we use a special version of ACT made specifically by us for this robot, that also includes a reward model (like DYNA does).

We have developed this system to also be able to run the other components smoothly so it also does SLAM, and has room for more processing even when running our ACT.

Now indeed this cannot run Pi-0 but from our experience - and the whole community in general - VLAs are not particularly better than ACT in the low data regime, and need a lot more compute.

As for community-level datasets, yes this is the plan. Anything you train can already be shared with others - just share the files. We didn't develop a centralized place for sharing datasets and behaviors but it is on the plan.
by glenstein | 2025-10-07 20:40:36+00:00
The only major decentralized forms of social media that I'm aware of that have confronted philosophical questions of how handle moderation have been Mastodon, Bluesky, and arguably Lemmy.

I don't know of any sense in which Mastodon has increased centralization, I think its blocking tools have been distributed essentially since the beginning, not something that has iterated toward centralization over time in response to an unfolding debate. Although it does have a complicated history and as possible that new things have happened I'm not aware of.

BlueSky though, to your point, is a good example of centralization not being reliable in terms of not being accountable to users. Or for a different way of saying the same thing, the lack of accountability has served to reveal how centralized it truly is.

It does seem to be simple enough that people don't get confused about using it, but it doesn't seem to walk the actual walk of decentralization.
by geuis | 2025-10-07 20:40:57+00:00
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by zahlman | 2025-10-07 20:41:13+00:00
> Contrail cirrus may be air traffic's largest radiative forcing component, larger than all CO2 accumulated from aviation, and could triple from a 2006 baseline to 160–180 mW/m2 by 2050 without intervention.

Okay, but how does this compare to the forcing of the overall anthropogenic CO2 accumulation?
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-10-07 20:41:16+00:00
I don't understand how you can "ban" anyone from distributed social media. The idea seems... outdated?

I mean, I get "ignoring" someone so they don't show up when you log into whatever instance you're in, whether it's the AT Protocol or ActivityPub, but like... if someone somehow decides to do work on top of one of these protocols and extend it to allow people to basically comment on things that a victim user doesn't want to allow an antagonist to take part in, I mean, aren't you just like effectively putting fingers in your ears while someone in another room talks about you?

I don't see how, without centralization, you can say to the world, "Hey, here's my content, interact with it," and then also say, "Oh you, over there, you can't participate in this thing that I am doing."

Like, depending on the shape of the graph, that doesn't make any sense. You effectively cannot do that without just creating a bunch of silos that are non-cooperative.

Bam, you've reinvented centralization with extra steps.
Show HN: Gossip: Email-to-Webhook Bridge
by idrissmbellil | 2025-10-07 20:41:20+00:00
I built Gossip to solve a problem we had - we needed to turn email alerts into ticketing system webhooks without using complex & expensive solutions like Zapier or writing custom email parsers.

How it works:

- Sign up and create a "job" - Get a unique email address - Configure your webhook endpoint - Any email sent to that address triggers your webhook

Use cases:

- Server/monitoring alerts → Slack/Telegram/Github Issue/... - Contact forms → CRM webhooks - IoT device alerts → custom dashboards - Legacy systems → modern APIs

Tech: golang + htmx

30 seconds Demo video on the landing page: [https://app.v3m.pw](https://app.v3m.pw)

Source will be a public mirror in GitHub once the big open items will be closed (ability to trigger more than web hook, ability to configure a templated response)

Looking for feedback!

(this post was revised and corrected by an LLM)