MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ants_everywhere | 2025-10-23 17:41:57+00:00
> I wonder why it is so important for some people to fight over definitions

This is the work of most of medicine and science. It's not fighting. But understanding what the correct definitions are is foundational to being able to talk accurately about the phenomena. There's a lot of work that goes into understanding psychological disorders from various different perspectives, including neural anatomy, genetics, behavior etc.

> what to me mostly look like different maladaptive coping mechanisms with very similar underlying causes and very similar treatment options.

The existing disorders these days do a pretty good job of not being too overlapping with respect to cause or symptoms. They are frequently confused with each other either due to incomplete information at the time of diagnosis or due to practitioners not being familiar enough with the latest research. Autism I know is one that gets frequently misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder or anxiety.

There are comorbidities, but those comorbidities are sometimes due to things like misdiagnoses.

> To you, things seem to be either "pseudoscience" (on what grounds?) or "scientific"

I'm not sure what you're driving at here. But science and pseudoscience are different.

> what you write sounds very much motivated by your own political beliefs

The only things I think I've written about my political beliefs on HN are that I'm opposed to political violence, I value democracy, and I value truth and the pursuit of truth. I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.

> And, why shouldn't people be motivated by their beliefs? They can still be good scientists too.

You can't serve two masters. Science is about what is true. If one believes in a sort of "higher truth" that they make science subservient to then they're not really doing science. That goes for whatever they take the "higher truth" to be. Often it's a religious commitment, but it could be other things.

> dismiss Freud as "pseudoscientific", where he expressed very clearly that he wants people to challenge his theories ....

Science isn't about things like having people challenge your theories. It's about making predictions, having on objectively verifiable method for checking the outcome of the predictions, assessing how and why the predictions went wrong, etc. Freud didn't do any of that.

Freud's theories and whether they are scientific or not has been written about a lot. I think it's probably covered in a lot of intro do psychology books. But you can also find web pages about it.
by asmor | 2025-10-23 17:42:02+00:00
This sounds like a problem with learned definitions. Like how the word racism is misunderstood between different participants in culture war clashes - for some it needs to be intentional and malicious, for others it's an expression of systemic structural issues that's not even always an individuals fault.

Sometimes such distinctions are made larger than they have to be in an attempt to legitimize one as more important. This is pretty common among some people who have Autism/MPD/DID/ADHD or are trans - where out of fear of being seen as less legitimate (or being denied medical care) facing widening diagnostic criteria, higher incidence (or general visibility; trans people are still rare - they are just a great culture war target) or depathologization a "true, legacy criteria diagnosed" and "fashionable self-dx on tiktok" (I'm really exaggerating to set the max bounds here) group are constructed.

Often that really isn't needed. These groups shouldn't be competing for space with each other. But sometimes they're made to - speaking from experience, people who don't believe trans people are "real" love to use the existence of nonbinary people to also attack those who fit into the "classical" strictly binary diagnostic criteria.
by bitpush | 2025-10-23 17:42:17+00:00
This exactly is the part that lots of folks are missing. As programmers in a high level language (C, Rust, Python ..) we were merely guiding the compiler to create code. You could say the compiler/interpreter is more deterministic, but the fact remains the code that is run is 100% not what you wrote, and you're at the mercy of the tool .. which we trust.

Compiled output can change between versions, heck, can even change during runtime (JIT compilation).
by icandoit | 2025-10-23 17:42:22+00:00
But then you let yourself get held hostage. Say NO now, while you can.

Suppose that circumcision becomes more contentious and the pro lobby and the con lobby both start sending you legalase and angry letters from politicians.

If you can say "we welcome your contributions to the internet corpus, and that's it" then you are maximally free. If you welcome their contributions to the SYSTEM_PROMPT then your future movements get increasingly restricted, well past the point of performance degradation.

Then you are fighting for your rights to run to run your product at all, rather than as mouth piece for some non-paying customer.
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-23 17:42:32+00:00
I recommend trying a more capable model that will read much more context too when creating specs. You can load a lot of full files into GPT 5 Pro and have it produce a great spec and give more surgical direction to CC or Codex (which don’t read full files and often skip over important info in their haste). If you have it provide the relevant context for the agent, the agent doesn’t waste tokens gathering it itself and will proceed to its work.
by morgan814 | 2025-10-23 17:42:49+00:00
I grew up in the Rust belt (thankfully got out) and this article feels like it’s starting to get at the root of the problem. So much conversation is around “those dumb hicks”. Well, they might not be college educated but they aren’t drooling-on-theirselves stupid. In my experience it’s near impossible to have a real conversation about this with someone deep in DNC politics.

In short, neoliberalism had a huge hand in hollowing out the Rust Belt. The Democratic Party pivoted to identity politics. I understand that Trump is horrifying, but who exactly are these people supposed to vote for?

Of course, any messaging from politicians that touches on classical liberalism gets shut down pretty hard by the DNC. As another commenter said, see Bernie. He spoke to the 99% that work. Joe Rogan was a supporter. The DNC is so entrenched in Us v. Them that they can’t see that there’s a bigger message to be putting out.
by LegNeato | 2025-10-23 17:42:49+00:00
Pedantic note: rust-cuda was created by https://github.com/RDambrosio016 and he is not currently involved in VectorWare. rust-gpu was created by the folks at embark software. We are the current maintainers of both.

We didn't post this or the title, we would never claim we created the projects from scratch.
by sershe | 2025-10-23 17:42:53+00:00
Most money being spent on Medicare and social security. Non means tested programs transferring the money from everyone else to the richest demographic in the US. Also the least productive use of it. Self-admittedly structured as a ponzi racket so it would be difficult to undo. Manifestly demographically unsustainable, as is readily admitted by Social security org itself (they have a projected date when full benefits will not be paid without additional money).

Everything else, when talking about debt, is talking about rearranging chairs on the Titanic.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-23 17:42:56+00:00
Maybe we are, ha. It is absolutely not the case that everyone is battling childhood trauma -- I don't know of any serious thinker who argues that. It seems like quite the strawman. And the umbilical cord thing seems like a pretty unhelpful example, precisely because it's so difficult to verify -- it seems pretty definite that you can be impacted by trauma from before you can remember things, but at the same time it seems hard to say anything definitive about any particular event precisely because you can't remember it.

I think that trauma has been denied and ignored for so many centuries/millenia that we're only now as a society starting to accept that it exists and requires the kind of treatment that a spouse, friends and the church are not equipped to provide. And I don't even think we've gone far enough -- it's still extremely common to hear people insist nobody needs therapy, shrinks are all quacks, they don't believe in therapy, all you need is a good friend to talk to. So it feels strange to me to see this kind of "backlash" against recognition of trauma, which to me seems extremely premature. It's better to err on the side of helping people and pay for a few therapy sessions that turn out not to be needed, than to tell people after something horrific happens to just grin and bear it and you'll forget about it soon enough, because people are naturally resilient and bounce back from anything. Because very frequently, they don't.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-23 17:43:11+00:00
> seems like whatever party gets into power, suddenly doesn't want to change the system

“The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution” [1].

No President. No courts. Partisanship may work to our advantage in a divided government. What you would need, however, to reach two thirds is some members of the President’s party signing on. That could happen if the President is taking a dump in the polls, and the opposition looks likely (but isn’t yet assured) to gain the Presidency next term.

> We need a way to vote for popular ideas via referendum at the federal level

We need a plebiscite institution. But that can be done at state level for Constitutonal amendment approval. What we don’t want is direct democracy proposing amendments. California is a modern example of why republics are more stable than pure democracies, for anyone who forgot about Athens.
by anonzzzies | 2025-10-23 17:44:05+00:00
Claude code has had this for a while (seems old news anyway). In my limited world it really works well, Claude Code has made almost no mistakes for weeks now. It seems to 'get' our structure; we have our own framework which would be very badly received here because it's very opinionated; I am quite against freedom of tools because most people cannot actually really evaluate what is good and what is not for the problem at hand, so we have exactly the tools and api's that always work the best in all cases we encounter and claude seems to work very well like that.
by labrador | 2025-10-23 17:44:32+00:00
I've been using it for the past month and I really like it compared to ChatGPT memory. Claude memory weaves it's memories of you into chats in a natural way, while ChatGPT feels like a salesman trying to make a sale e.g. "Hi Bob! How's your wife doing? I'd like to talk to you about an investment opportunity..." while Claude is more like "Barcelona is a great travel destination and I think you and wife would really enjoy it"
by savanaly | 2025-10-23 17:45:00+00:00
I work at Dropbox so definitely drinking the Koolaid on Dash to some extent, but I find myself using it a decent amount to find stuff internally. Cmd + e has become a habitual hotkey when i need to go find something in one of countless internal places just as surely as cmd + space is to open an app. I know there's a lot of competitors to it out there, and none of them are good enough to be transformative yet. I hope it gets faster and better at searching, and multimodal search that works good would indeed be a huge deal.
by cryptonector | 2025-10-23 17:45:06+00:00
Very neat article. I too have spent countless hours (but not as many) hacking on an ASN.1 compiler, adding a subset of X.681, X.682, X.683 functionality to make it possible to -in a single codec invocation!- a whole certificate, with all its details like extensions and OtherName SANs and what not decoded recursively. So it's very nice to see a post about similar work!

ASN.1 really is quite awesome. It gets a lot of hate, but it's not deserved. ASN.1 is not just a syntax or set of encoding rules -- it's a type system, and a very powerful one at that.
by kridsdale1 | 2025-10-23 17:45:26+00:00
Hollywood and book publishing and game production have all shown that “fun” is no more possible to be an output of budget than “going viral” is something that can just be selected for in a marketing campaign.

You’ve got to have The Right Stuff. Talent. And then freedom from administrators constraining the expression.

I assume this infuriates administrators and budget-controllers who have no talent.
by watwut | 2025-10-23 17:45:43+00:00
You dont need to be good in sport to have health benefits out of it. Or to spend calories. If the goals are health and aesthetic, there is zero need to become actually good or competitive.

Including as a beginner you domt have to push yourself uncomfortably hard unless ypu actually want to. Especially as a beginner, you will get improvements and benefit from just dabbling in it.
by UncleMeat | 2025-10-23 17:45:51+00:00
I simply don't agree in all circumstances.

Like seven or eight years ago I was at lunch at work with a sister team of ours. They had an intern who decided at lunch to announce that he was a fascist and that gay people were degenerates who were ruining society. Should the team have just said "huh that's quirky" and moved on? What of the gay people on the team who'd now be needing to work with somebody who openly thought that they were filth and expressed this at work?

Now instead of an intern, imagine that this was somebody's boss. Or the CEO. Is it really unprofessional to leave rather than choosing to work for and enrich somebody like that?
by convolvatron | 2025-10-23 17:46:01+00:00
I'm confused. much of your story is correct, but you replace the primary actors (the ITU and ISO) with 'corporate'. This is true is inasmuch as the ITU represented telephony culture, but isn't really representative of corporatism as a whole.

there is _another_ 'protocol war', but it was certainly a cold one. Internet companies starting in the late 90's just decided they weren't going to care any more about standardization efforts. They could take existing protocols and warp their intent. they could abandon the goal of universal reachability in order to make a product more consumable by the general public and add 'features'. basically whatever would stick. the poster child for this division was the development of IPv6 and the multicast protocols. The IETF just assumed that like the last 20 years, they would hash out the solutions and the network would deploy them. Except the rules had changed out from under them, the internet wasn't being run by government and academic agencies anymore, and the new crew just couldn't be bothered.

two wars. the IETF won the first through rough consensus and running code, but lost the second for nearly the same reason.
by Pfhortune | 2025-10-23 17:46:14+00:00
> but eventually there's always a tipping point where things go upside down chaotic and I don't feel like we are that far away from it now.

The members of the billionaire class with any foresight are making a calculated bet that they will be in control of sufficient technological measures to suppress any kind of mass uprising by the populace. Look at all the resources going to Anduril and Palantir. Foucault's boomerang is on its way back towards the US populace right now.

That said, even that cadre far overestimates what technology can do. Adaptation is a fundamental pillar of the human condition.
by slg | 2025-10-23 17:46:20+00:00
>When I send an email that isn’t bounced back, or better yet, get an auto reply with a ticket number, I’m a lot more certain it’s going to get read.

An "auto reply with a ticket number" is not a feature of email, it is something that someone built that could just as easily be attached to a webform. Plenty of webforms work that way, I have personally built some in my career.
by whartung | 2025-10-23 17:46:22+00:00
There's something to note here.

As someone who's always dabbled in electronics, skimmed and read some books, my primary complaint abot most electronics texts is that they just talk about individual topics: oscillators, amplifiers, etc.

What they never talk about, is putting them all together.

But as witnessed by this list, that's what a radio is. A collection of these "meta" components into a whole to get a better radio experience.

A radio built like this, with individual subsystems connected together, is much more understandable. Many (not all) radio schematics are presented as a whole, rather than the parts, or why you might (or might not) want to change one part or another (not components, but one, say, filter circuit to a different one).

It just seems to me that once you get past some basic theory, starting with a radio, and then systematically taking it apart is a better way of approaching electronics education.
by siglesias | 2025-10-23 17:46:32+00:00
When I say "experience," I mean a sufficient grounding of certainty about what a word means, which includes how it's used, how it relates to the world that I'm experiencing, but also the mood or valence the word carries. I can't feel your pain, or maybe you've been to a country that I haven't been to and you're conveying that experience to me. Maybe you've been to outer space. I'm not saying to understand you I need to literally have had the exact experience as you, but I should be able to sufficiently relate to the words you are saying in order to understand what you are saying. If I can't sufficiently relate, I say I don't understand. You can see how this differs from what an AI is doing. The AI is drawing on relationships between symbols, but it doesn't really have a self, or experience, etc etc.

The process of fetching symbols, as you put it, doesn't feel at all like what I do when somebody asks me what it was like to listen to the Beatles for the first time and I form a description.
by kfarr | 2025-10-23 17:46:33+00:00
I’ve used memory in Claude desktop for a while after MCP was supported. At first I liked it and was excited to see the new memories being created. Over time it suggests storing strange things to memories (an immaterial part of a prompt) and if I didn’t watch it like a hawk, it just gets really noisy and messy and made prompts less successful to accomplish my tasks so I ended up just disabling it.

It’s also worth mentioning that some folks attributed ChatGPT’s bout of extreme sycophancy to its memory feature. Not saying it isn’t useful, but it’s not a magical solution and will definitely affect Claude’s performance and not guaranteed that it’ll be for the better.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-23 17:46:33+00:00
The problem with "suck it up and get on with it" is that it works, but it's not optimal a lot of the time.

You can be successful and absolutely miserable. You can push yourself to do anything, and be abusing substances at the same time.

Being functional or meeting arbitrary goals of capitalism and patriachy does not make you happy or good.
by pdntspa | 2025-10-23 17:47:40+00:00
A lot of open-source plugins include CLAP builds.

u-he's stuff (Diva, Repro, Zebra) has CLAP builds.

As another comment mentioned, I guess FabFilter plugs support CLAP now?

It is niche but I am watching it closely as I would love to get off of Windows or MacOS and CLAP plugins often have linux support.

https://cleveraudio.org/hosts-and-plug-ins/
by denimnerd42 | 2025-10-23 17:48:04+00:00
usually prices dont go down. the cost does relative to inflation. what usually happens is a new investor will do the analysis and build new units that are even more expensive but only slightly. now all the current tenants that can afford it will leave the current landlords and the current landlords wont be able to increase prices because there is a better product at that price level.
by reconnecting | 2025-10-23 17:48:06+00:00
One example: once I tried to buy a train ticket and it was impossible due to my outdated iOS.

I'm talking about 2-5 input forms, autocomplete, and calendars, things that can be done even with HTML 4.0, with zero front-end frameworks, and that will work this way for decades. However, there was React producing some error because of my old browser, and preventing me from buying the ticket.

I believe vital services, such as public digital platforms, must have the lowest possible system/browser requirements and work on any possible device, even if I use a 10-year-old device.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-23 17:48:11+00:00
Perplexity and Grok have had something like this for a while where you can make a workspace and write a pre-prompt that is tacked on before your questions so it knows that I use Arch instead of Ubuntu. The nice thing is you can do this for various different workspaces (called different things across different AI providers) and it can refine your needs per workspace.
Show HN: I built a tech news aggregator that works the way my brain does
by dreadsword | 2025-10-23 17:48:13+00:00
An honest to god, non-algorithmic reverse chrono list of tech news that passes my signal-to-noise tests, updated hourly.

A lightweight a page design as I've been able to keep; simple, clean, fast. No commercial features or aspirations - this is a passion project, something I've been fooling around with on and off for decades.

There's a "Top" view too with an LLM edited front page & summary, and categorized views for a large number of topics - see the Directory. A few more buried features to explore, but the fundamental use case is pop in, scan, exit - fast and concise.

Your feedback would be appreciated!
by invalidptr | 2025-10-23 17:48:46+00:00
If you're a hobbyist runner, this equation very quickly gets flipped on its head. It's very difficult to make up the calorie deficit from a 20 mile long run every week. Throw two big races a year into the mix, and maintaining weight and muscle mass is the challenge. When I trained for ultramarathons, I sometimes ran two mountain long runs back to back. That put me 5000 calories in the hole every single weekend. I used to eat an entire large pizza by myself (2000 calories) and still be hungry 30 minutes later. There is an upper limit to how fast you can digest food, and that quickly becomes the limiting factor. I was not a professional. I ran as a hobby, rarely exceeding 50 miles a week. There are thousands of others who run at this level.
by piva00 | 2025-10-23 17:49:00+00:00
It's be unprecedented for the foundation of the contemporary financial system. Argentina defaulting on their debt is very different than a country which every other country, and their banks hold bonds from since it's deemed the safest investment possible.

It would eliminate the notion of the USD as the basis of foreign trade across the world, almost all of the finance system is supported by the USD being the safest investment available.
by throw0101c | 2025-10-23 17:49:09+00:00
> The classified documents thing with Trump was a manufactured scandal, for example.

It was not. Trump was asked for months to return the documents.

He purposefully had staff to move documents onto his private jet and moved them around his various properties. He stored boxes and boxes, not just a few file folders, in random bathrooms.

Yes, plenty of folks may mishandle stuff, but many folks try to fix their errors when they're pointed out. Trump ignored the requests and continued doing things consciously even when notified.
by rogerkirkness | 2025-10-23 17:49:12+00:00
Collaborative email, meeting recording, knowledge search and goal tracking in one thing. The search applies across emails and meetings, but also other things. We had to figure out whether it would be sufficiently good to connect third party tools, and basically concluded no. We did some research to understand why (1).

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07106
by iainctduncan | 2025-10-23 17:49:31+00:00
Another thing they do right is build cheap instruments that are actually decent and have high build quality. It is quite remarkable how high quality their "beginner" and "intermediate" line saxophones are.

They are really well respected in professional music circles. I don't like their tenor saxes, but man they made some great altos and sopranos, including the mid tier ones.