MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snailmailman | 2025-10-24 22:01:58+00:00
I’ve run into idle bot accounts several times while playing and it’s infuriating. Mainly in the arms race mode. Players can leave and join that mode at any time. So the bots will constantly be joining and leaving. if the bots manage to become 50% of the game they will vote kick all the remaining players. I’ve had several in progress matches interrupted because a few of the actual players bailed and the bots managed to take over the lobby.
by aschmelyun | 2025-10-24 22:02:13+00:00
Hey it’s me, the author! That was intentional as I honestly enjoy the trolling.

There’s a basic rate limiter set up to prevent misuse, and a character limit, but beyond that I just kind of wanted to see what people would send.

It’s been surprisingly chill, and I’ve only had to handle a few nonsensical text dumps or garbage messages.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-24 22:02:44+00:00
Vim is far from simple no matter how you put it. It is tens of MB, plenty of features and a steep learning curve.

I think a better fit would be nano. Smaller and easier to use than vim.

Now, even nano is not that small, if you want small and you like vim, you have vi (not vim), like the version included in Busybox.
by trevor-e | 2025-10-24 22:04:29+00:00
Yes it uses native UI by wrapping the underlying frameworks, but that still means there is a layer in between that has to be updated with fixes and new features. Every RN project I've tried in the past turned into a dependency mess since you find edge cases that are not supported by the framework.

It's definitely gotten better like you said but I just prefer to work with the native platform code even if it's a bit of extra effort.
by metalman | 2025-10-24 22:04:45+00:00
successfull?, maybe, we will see if fires, insurance, and end of life disposal costs leave any roe, plus there are no large scale used car battery grid storage plants, just green washing for data centers, where they are most definitly worried about fires, given the huge spacing between units, green washing/cred,scamenomics,, but most certainly, not grid scale
by linsomniac | 2025-10-24 22:04:56+00:00
I've found if you have wasps nesting somewhere that there is an entrance or a sheltered place for them to build their nest, it's best to cover or fill the entrance if possible. Caulking or Great Stuff foam is a great choice here. Any cracks or holes they use to get behind siding or the like, for example. We had persistent nest problems in an underhang of our Little Free Library, which is a terrible place for a wasp nest, and I filled that gap with great stuff.

We have paper wasps predominantly around here, and they will tend to nest in secluded areas, often voids or overhangs. I built my shed specifically to limit the ability for wasps to have a great place to make home.
by ianbicking | 2025-10-24 22:05:10+00:00
I think it can be a false comfort to think of LLMs being trained to the center of the bell curve. I think it's closer to true that there's no real "average" (just like there isn't an "average" human) because there's just too many dimensions.

But what LLMs do, in the absence of better instructions, is expect that the user WANTS the most middling innocuous output. Which is very reasonable! It's not a lack of capability; it's a strong capability to fill in the gaps in its instructions.

The person who has a good intuition for design (visual, narrative, conversational) but can't articulate that as instructions will find themselves stuck. And unsurprisingly this is common, because having that vision and being able to communicate that vision to an LLM is not a well practiced skill. Instructing an LLM is a little like instructing a person... but only a little. You have to learn it. And I don't think as LLMs get better that this will magically fix itself, because it's not exactly an error, there's no "right" answer.

Which is to say: I think applying design to one's work with AI is possible, important, and seldom done.
by harshreality | 2025-10-24 22:05:54+00:00
I think this is right...

kwatts_effective [kJ/s] * heating_time_minutes [min] * 60 [s/min] * COP = 4.184 [kJ/kg/K] * (T₁-T₀) [K] * gallon_capacity [gal] * 3.785 [L/gal] * 1 [kg/L]

6.6 kW, for... COP 4, T₁-T₀ = 30 [K] (lower value for warm climate), allowable 30 minute heating time, 50 gallon capacity. A cold climate could double that power requirement, or alternatively double the heating time.
by simondotau | 2025-10-24 22:06:24+00:00
So what you’re saying is that he “showed exactly who and what he is” for five seconds out of the past 30+ years of his public life. Surely I can pick a different five seconds of his life to judge the entirety of the person, and I’d be on just as firm footing as you.

Also, you didn’t answer my question.
by d_sem | 2025-10-24 22:06:34+00:00
This was before my time but I appreciate the write up and the nostalgia from folks in this thread.

My take away was that VisiCalc was a fairly straight forward technological problem, but a 10,000x+ impact idea. I feel like there are still idea's like this waiting in the shadows to be discovered by a lowly undergrad somewhere who tries something unique for the first time.
by gndk | 2025-10-24 22:06:38+00:00
I only use Claude Code, not the web UI. The window seems to start at first use, but I haven't noticed any problems with this. I tend to write "hi" to Claude first thing in the morning just to get my first 5-hour limit going, some time before I start actual work.

Occasionally the "did you try turning it off and on again" advice, so logging out and in again, seems to help with rate limiting issues.

That said, I wish they would turn the 5-hour and weekly limits into a rolling window.
by kristopolous | 2025-10-24 22:06:38+00:00
I've fantasized about fax phone banks for artists to send things out periodically.

The idea of a machine unexpectedly popping out a sheet of paper has gone from "this is all spam" to delightful again.

Physical items in a physical space whereby you call a place and not a person.

We've digitally moved from spaces to individuals and I think that's the main critique of the modern web: somehow networked ourselves but abandoned the networking of ourselves.

You could even do it all digitally somehow and just hook it up to a modern network printer. Whitelisted senders get printed while unrecognized ones enter a digital backlog.

The real desire is to explore the psuedo anonymous nature of the early web in a way that is robust to abuse.
by DennisP | 2025-10-24 22:06:43+00:00
Does that cause any symptoms? Because apparently this can, and they tell you how to avoid it.

> Lead author Dr Brent Wagner told Newsweek he personally avoids vitamin C when undergoing MRI with contrast, citing its potential to increase gadolinium reactivity. “Metabolic milieu,” including high oxalic acid levels, could explain why some individuals experience severe symptoms while others do not, he said.

Avoiding high-oxalic foods for a few days before the MRI also seems like a good idea. Just check the diet for calcium oxalate kidney stones.
by simonw | 2025-10-24 22:07:15+00:00
You don't care.

And OK, I get that my persistence in trying to help people understand this stuff can be annoying to people who have already decided that there's nothing here.

But in this case we have someone who looks like they are still operating on a 2024 model of how this stuff can be useful.

The "coding agents" category really does change things in very material ways. It only kicked off in February this year (when Claude Code released) and if you haven't yet had the "aha" moment it's easy to miss why it makes such a difference.

I'm not going to apologize for trying to help people understand why this matters. Give how much of a boost I'm getting from this stuff in my own work I honestly think it would be unethical for me not to share what I'm learning.
by ben_w | 2025-10-24 22:07:20+00:00
Situational. Right now, the Federal bits are stronger than any state.

The Federal bits of the US being strong (and indeed all institutional strength) is not a law of nature, and people who think it is a law of nature are the most likely to blindly run it into the ground while fighting each other to wield that strength.

But right now, the Federal bits are stronger than any state.
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2025-10-24 22:07:57+00:00
As a fun aside, have you heard of Nominative Determinism? From a purely rational standpoint, it is mere coincidence that I know a dentist with the last name “Pullum” and an electrician with the last name “Cable”. My confirmation bias doesn’t account for the 99.9% of other people with unremarkable names.

But then I realized… whenever I create fake people for unit tests I give them names that correspond to what they do. Could this be a sign that the universe is a simulation? And, that God is just a QA running some tests on it?

So maybe we’re living in an edge case!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-24 22:08:08+00:00
The premise of TFA as understood it was that we have lethal trifecta risk: sensitive data getting exfiltrated via coding agent. The two solutions were sandboxing to limit access to sensitive data (or just running the agent on somebody else’s machine) and sandboxing to block outbound network connections. My only point here is that once you’ve accepted the risk that the model has been rendered malicious by prompt injection, locking down the network is totally insufficient. As long as you plan to release the code publicly (or perhaps just run it on a machine that has network access), it has an almost disturbingly exciting number of ways it can do data exfiltration via the code. And human code review is unlikely to find many of them, because the number of possibilities for obfuscation is so huge you’ve lost even if you have an amazing code reviewer (and let’s be honest, at 7000 SloC/day nobody is a great code reviewer.)

I think this is exciting and if I was teaching an intro security and privacy course I’d be urging my students to come up with the most exciting ideas for exfiltrating data, and having others trying to detect it through manual and AI review. I’m pretty sure the attackers would all win, but it’d be exciting either way.
by bsimpson | 2025-10-24 22:08:17+00:00
The most important question for every cross platform framework is what happens to the UI?

Adobe products (both the Creative Suite, and their Flex Builder environment for Flash app) had their own design system that felt foreign on every platform it shipped on. If you wanted something that felt native, you had to reimplement e.g. Apple Aqua in Flash yourself.

Flutter goes out of its way to do that work for you, aiming for a "Cupertino" theme that looks-and-feels pixel-perfect on iOS.

React Native tries to delegate to platform primitives for complex widgets, so scroll views still feel like Apple's when on Apple's platform.

Just about every top-level comment here is talking about that in one way or another; yet the blog post doesn't mention it at all.

It's possible that Apple/Swift's mindshare among developers will lead to a significant number of apps shipping the Swift version for Android even if it means using Apple's UI, simply because they can't be bothered to make something bespoke for Android. Then again, Apple takes so much pride in its design language that it might not be willing to implement anything that feels good on a platform they don't own. If they were to ship an API-compatible widget toolkit, it might e.g. use intentionally bad spring physics to remind you you aren't on an iPhone.

I wonder how big the community part of this is. Is this an open source project of non-Apple people who are trying to break Apple's platform out of its walled garden? Is a lot of it funded by Apple? Ultimately, that's going to shape a lot of how this plays out.
by pharrington | 2025-10-24 22:09:07+00:00
In addition to what you and the person you replied to already said, simply calling something stupid conveys very little information. "Stupid" provides no context, no rationale, and no direction towards improvement. If your goal is simply to push someone away, stop them from communicating entirely, or shame them, then yeah, dismissing a person's contributions as stupid is the tool for the job. But if you want better contributions and are trying to improve a project, you have to put in more effort than that.
by thegrimmest | 2025-10-24 22:09:29+00:00
> You will find that some people will react quite badly to it

It’s a good thing we have laws, courts, and prisons for people who can’t control themselves.

> once you publish information that directly identifies me and contains personal information about me, I am gonna sue you

For what? What right of yours have I violated by retransmitting publicly available information about you? Presumably this right of yours would also be infringed if I gossiped about you? I agree it’s not a polite thing to do, but rights only count when they protect contentious actions.

> It is hard for me to come up with any non malicious reason

Free people don’t need to justify their actions. Your country may infringe on your rights, but that doesn’t invalidate the assertion they exist. Freedom of speech and the consequential freedom of the press are fundamental to a free society. Having to justify yourself when you’re not harming anyone is tyrannical.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-10-24 22:12:05+00:00
Tom7 is one of my favorite people, he is hilarious, has an amazing technical depth, and so much whimsy to go along with it. I'll proselytize for him all day!

relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH4MviUE0_s

less relevant, but I think my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
by EbEsacAig | 2025-10-24 22:12:07+00:00
> I wish things had turned out otherwise, and we didn't have to choose between buying a Mac without Linux support and buying a 3-5 year old Mac with Linux support. And I expect that as time goes on, Asahi will just fall further and further behind.

IMO your expectation is correct. Such is the fate of all reverse engineering projects, or more generally, all heroism-based projects. Heroism is not sustainable. A sustainable business model is sustainable.
by ianbicking | 2025-10-24 22:12:15+00:00
I have wanted to do experiments with a receipt printer hooked up to a Raspberry Pi, with some simple controls... but every time I look up the cost of the printer I balk. It's probably not fair, but I guess in my head it feels like they should be cheaper. Or at least the cost then makes me question how much time I'm really ready to put into stuff like debugging the printer drivers and putting together a case, etc etc.

The thing I actually want to play with is probably some kind of board game that incorporates the printer... ideally with bar/QR codes so the computer can print out money, IOUs, instructions, etc., and have this computer mediation that still gives people physical items to manipulate.
by palata | 2025-10-24 22:12:28+00:00
> KMP exists but I think for most developers wanting to build an app it's more common to build for iOS first

This sounds US-centric to me.

The advantage of KMP is that it is pretty mature and it is used in big apps like Google workspace (Google Docs etc), so it feels like it may be in a really good position.

I used to be exited about Flutter when it started, but the speed of major releases (by the time I had rewritten my app for Flutter 2, Flutter 3 was out, or something like that) and it did not seem to get so much traction (Dart is fun, but well).

KMP builds on top of Kotlin, with big investment from JetBrains and Google. That looks extremely promising to me.
by kulahan | 2025-10-24 22:12:34+00:00
You can take it back out even further and ask why a universe in which chemistry is even possible popped up. A single small change and either everything becomes unbelievably heavy and collapses, or everything stays unreasonably light and we never get past hydrogen and helium.

Fun fact: it's very easy to rule out a multiverse theory where travel between universes is possible.

If the multiverse theory is correct, every possible combination of universe is out there. This means there is a universe which formed in exactly the right way such that the citizens all decided to leave their universe and invade our specific one. They formed 10 billion years ago and completely annihilated all matter in our universe.

Since we are still here, either the multiverse is false, or travel between universes is impossible.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-24 22:12:49+00:00
> Am I just now allowed to share my perspective on anything, because the only sources I can point to on this specific topic are in my native language? How idiotic is that.

You may shout whatever noises you like into the void. If you would like positive responses, then the noises you make should be tailored to the audience. Being in a language the recipient understands is the bare minimum.
by drum55 | 2025-10-24 22:12:53+00:00
That's surprising, it's at least casually known that they're bio accumulative to some extent. I've joked to the techs before about gadolinium eventually accumulating enough to not be necessary if you do it with enough frequency. Realistically though any situation that you're doing the contrast you're probably at a lot more risk of whatever they've found than from the contrast agent.
by busyant | 2025-10-24 22:13:17+00:00
It's all petty crimes. I've known a handful of low-level "members" and they were all morons (imo) running the most absurd scams.

Things like: "Hey I'm organizing a trip to Vegas. $1000 / head. Great hotel, meals paid, etc. etc."

Then the organizer has the great misfortune of being "robbed" of all the money he collected by a masked assailant.

Maybe the higher level guys were were brighter, but I kind of doubt it.
by StrandedKitty | 2025-10-24 22:13:39+00:00
I think it's fine to not disclose it. Like, don't you find "Sent from my iPhone" that iPhones automatically add to emails annoying? Technicalities like that don't bring anything to the conversation.

I think typically, the reason people are disclosing their usage of LLMs is that they want offload responsibility. To me it's important to see them taking responsibility for their words. You wouldn't blame Google for bad search results, would you? You can only blame the entity that you can actually influence.
by objektif | 2025-10-24 22:14:38+00:00
We visited multiple Montessori schools for both my kids and I can confidently say that I met some of the saddest and coldest teachers I have ever seen in my life. I am not sure that is really best environment for small kids.

I myself went to shitty public schools and became an exceptional student later on. I am doubtful about the impact of early education on future success.
by thiht | 2025-10-24 22:15:01+00:00
> I have a 2021 MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro. It's getting a bit old, so it would be nice to replace it

Why though? My 2021 M1 still feels more beefy than pretty much any other laptop on the market. I have a M1, and an M4 for work and I barely feel any difference between the 2, they’re pretty much top notch. Sure, the M4 pro is more future proof, I can imagine myself still using my M1 in 2030 and my M4 in 2035. But I honestly don’t see the point in replacing an M1 with an M4 today.

Just my opinion though, I’m sure you have your own reasons for wanting to upgrade (I would guess RAM), but manage your expectations: the M1 is still an amazing machine.
by kragen | 2025-10-24 22:15:54+00:00
Hmm! Interesting! I would have thought that 600° would be close to the minimum for producing supercritical steam, so any energy stored up to 600° would be "overhead" that couldn't be effectively recovered—only the heating above that. And I assumed they would have to use cheap ceramic for the pipes, because oxidation is usually a problem for cheap steel even below 600°.
by zoeysmithe | 2025-10-24 22:16:12+00:00
The data until recently suggested that, so thats the risk you take. Would you rather be living in ancient greece and shoved full of hemlock leaves for arthritis? Or have a 19th century surgeon remove your appendix?

There's risk in life and odds-wise if you're in the developed West, you're going to get care and medicine that will greatly prolong your life.

Also this paper is super vague. What percent of people even get this? How long does it last? They havent even done a study to see how long it lasts yet. I have a feeling this isnt going to be our generation's asbestos or thalidomide.

That being said, you should decide your own risk profile. If MRI gives you concerns there are alternatives that dont involve contrast.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-24 22:16:31+00:00
If you read the rest of the posts above the one I'm replying to I think it's pretty clear this wasn't a serious question. It was asked ironically as in "the rest of the work doesn't matter, they're taking too long to get M5 support out"

I'm saying it's an open project and if people want to bitch they're going too slow they are welcome to contribute.
by scuff3d | 2025-10-24 22:16:40+00:00
If you read the rest of the posts above the one I'm replying to I think it's pretty clear this wasn't a serious question. It was asked ironically as in "the rest of the work doesn't matter, they're taking too long to get M5 support out"

I'm saying it's an open project and if people want to bitch they're going too slow they are welcome to contribute.
by kromem | 2025-10-24 22:16:44+00:00
So a thing with claude.ai chats is that after long enough they add a long context injection on every single turn after a while.

That injection (for various reasons) will essentially eat up a massive amount of the model's attention budget and most of the extended thinking trace if present.

I haven't really seen lower quality of responses with modern Claudes with long context for the models themselves, but in the web/app with the LCR injections the conversation goes to shit very quickly.

And yeah, LCRs becoming part of the memory is one (of several) things that's probably going to bite Anthropic in the ass with the implementation here.
by margalabargala | 2025-10-24 22:17:09+00:00
> I hold a different opinion to you though, I'm glad doctors are always learning more while generally operating with good /extremely good intentions.

I agree. Expecting perfection from humans, even experts, is not reasonable and is frankly counterproductive.

Willful ignorance is one thing, but people who genuinely attempt to do the right thing at worst just need to be steered slightly differently.
by timsneath | 2025-10-24 22:17:18+00:00
It's worth noting that this doesn't add any expectations for how your UI is built. The example shown in the screenshot continues to use Jetpack Compose (Android's native UI) with Kotlin invoking Swift business logic. You can also use other UI frameworks on Android, of course, including some that are written in Swift.

One nice thing about this implementation is that it shares many of the same characteristics as Swift on other platforms: unlike some common alternatives, it's not garbage collected but uses reference counting; it uses the same underlying libraries, concurrency primitives and memory model.

Excited to see how folk use it... it's technology that will hopefully springboard some other interesting innovations.

[Disclosure: I work on developer tools and frameworks at Apple.]
by fluoridation | 2025-10-24 22:17:35+00:00
>It's literally a bush that was on fire which did not corrupt.

How can you know that? From within the canon of the text, all we have is Moses' testimony. How can you be so sure that what he described as a burning bush was literally a burning bush, as in the matter of the bush undergoing rapid oxidation without being consumed?

>It's not as correct to say normal human bodies don't do that, as it is to say normal human bodies don't do that yet.

Sure. I'll accept "they don't do that yet". So since they don't do that yet, and they didn't do that during Jesus' times, if Jesus' body did do that, then his body wasn't fully human.