MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pessimizer | 2025-10-22 15:12:35+00:00
Working for big raw milk against "the science."

RFK, Jr.'s assessment of medical evidence is bad, and he doesn't seem to have spent a second on ending public advertising of prescription drugs. I personally don't like him and have never liked him. But also, medical evidence is bad and wrong, the modern anti-vax movement was started by the low standards of The Lancet, and big pharma really does run our media (through that advertising) and consistently suborns all medical research.

Watching that fake Alzheimer's drug get repeatedly reintroduced as a miracle for a change of 1.5 questions on a subjective checklist, even after a bunch of experts at the FDA who had a moral center quit over it, was depressing. Putting this quack rich kid at the head of the agency will at least have some effect on it other than the effect of big pharma cash.

I think the proof for the effectiveness of the MMR and HPV vaccines is indisputable. I also think that big pharma lobbying for vaccine indemnification against lawsuits, and the consequent explosion in the number of vaccines, was an opportunity to push a lot of stuff in that the "science" defenders never seem to bring up. They always defend the entire class of "vaccines," and avoid the harder to defend specifics. This is something you have to be paid to do, because it is a deliberate rhetorical distraction.

Also, the classes of drugs that make the most money (not vaccines) have the least evidence of effect. Not just the real evidence, but even the claimed effects are tiny and take a bunch of suspicious math to find. This is a sign of a system that runs on corruption. Not that you need signs, because the companies are making direct payments. Just like we legalized bribery in our politics, we normalized bribery in medical literature, practice, and journalism.

[*] like Ioannidis taught us before he got canceled for being more right (or at the worst equally wrong in the other direction) about covid than everyone else. Remember when HN worshiped the science, rather than "the science," and posted every Ioannidis paper?
by recitedropper | 2025-10-22 15:12:55+00:00
I am empathetic to arguments against consciounsess being computational. Definitely strange to imagine an algorithm played out on trillions of abacuses being conscious.

That said, I don't think it is a sufficient appeal to entirely discount the possibility that the right process implemented on silicon could in fact be conscious in the same way we are. I'm open to whether or not it is possible--I don't have a vested interest in the space--but silica seems to be a medium that can possible hold the level of complexity for something like consciousness to emerge.

So this is to say that I agree with you that consciousness likely requires substrate-specific embodiment, but I'm open to silica being a possible substrate. I certainly don't think it can be discounted at this point in time, and I'd suggest that we don't risk a digital holocaust on the bet that it can't.
by SoftTalker | 2025-10-22 15:12:56+00:00
Lawmakers should have a limit on the number of laws they can write. Say it's 100. They can regulate 100 things, so they need to consider importance. If they want to regulate something new, they have to give up something else. Which one is more important?

The vast majority of laws are never enforced, so in practice this isn't as absurd as it sounds. It would make people consider what laws they spend time writing.
by hansmayer | 2025-10-22 15:13:08+00:00
> Just to be clear: THEY already have to maintain the docker image and it makes it less secure for EVERYONE if the community now needs to either find a new github repo/company building it for them or everyone has to build it themselves because they do not trust random companies.

Wrong - it would be less secure if they did not share the source code and the Dockerfile along that too. As long as you take care to regularly update, where is the problem?
by craftkiller | 2025-10-22 15:13:11+00:00
I'd recommend checking out "Project Farm" reviews. They do actual tests and comparisons of products rather than the current trend of reading off marketing copy and shilling sponsored products. I've seen some of their reviews on cameras and the difference in clarity across brands is shocking. Not that important if you just want to know "my package was stolen", but very important if you want to read their license plate.

Here is one such review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYUY61ZFZAs
by Rygian | 2025-10-22 15:13:15+00:00
You are exactly correct.

A web browser is technically incapable, by design, of knowing whether any piece of a website (1) is there for the purpose of having the website actually work, or for the purpose of tagging and tracking the end user. Only the website owner chooses those purposes, and only the website owner is in a position to determine (or maliciously hide) which technologies are being used for which tracking or technical purposes.

(1) Cookie laws apply to: Cookies, gif pixels, JS fingerprints, and any other tehcnical means that can be technically exploited to track an individual
by surajrmal | 2025-10-22 15:14:05+00:00
This is like responding to someone calling for an open alternative to Facebook by saying we have kubernetes. Linux is a helpful head start to solving the problems needed but it is not the full picture. And depending on what you need to build it might get in the way and require adjustment/fine tuning which is non trivial. There is just so much that goes into an OS in terms of polish beyond just getting some pixels on the screen and responding to input.
by mehmet_mhy | 2025-10-22 15:14:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Ch to bring AI directly into the terminal, offering fast, lightweight functionality that remains fully under user control. Most AI tools feel detached from developer workflows, but Ch is designed to integrate seamlessly, with no hidden automation or costs.

Vision:

Ch aims to keep AI interactions explicit, transparent, and user-driven, empowering developers to use LLM capabilities without leaving the terminal or surrendering control.

Highlights:

- Single Go binary: Starts instantly, streams responses in real time.

- Multi-provider support: OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI, Mistral, Together, DeepSeek, and Ollama.

- File + web input: Load PDFs, DOCX, images (OCR), scrape URLs, or analyze YouTube content.

- Unix-style integration: Pipe command outputs or files directly; colors auto-suppressed for clean pipelines.

- Developer-focused: Record shell sessions as context, export code snippets, integrate with editors or other AI CLIs.

- Transparent & explicit: No background actions or silent model switches.

Install in one line:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MehmetMHY/ch/main/install.... | bash

Links:

- GitHub: https://github.com/MehmetMHY/ch

- Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH0xG1iStf4

- Website: https://mehmetmhy.github.io/ch

I'd love feedback on the UX design, supported platforms, and ideas for new enhancements and features. Thank you for reading and I'm happy to answer any questions!

Best regards,

Mehmet Yilmaz
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-10-22 15:14:10+00:00
I personally love the star ratings au/nz have on food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Star_Rating_System

It’s a raw calculation between 0 to 5 stars on how healthy the food is. It’s basically calories (with some bias to the type of calories) divided by fibre+protein. These days you don’t see products in supermarkets or chain restaurants without the stars shown on the front of the box. It’s become an expectation of customers. Even snacks like tim tams clearly show .5 stars on the front indicating they are high in calories for how filling they are.

It works well. A high protein and high fibre food can indeed have high calories and score well. But you know what? High protein and high fibre foods are extremely filling. So fair enough!

Obviously any such system is high level and misses all the micronutrients etc. but in general calories divided by fibre+protein provides a reasonable guide. One behavioural thing i’ve seen come out of this is parents allowing children to pick snacks and cereals themselves provided it’s 4+ stars. This usually leads to kids adding wheat bran cereals and muesli bars to the cart by their own choice. Kids love freedom and guidelines that it must be 4+ stars give that freedom without overly sugary crap being allowed. It’s also great for adults wanting to spot clearly unhealthy food for their own goals. Setting a guideline of only 4.5+ foods in the cart is so simple. You can still find good snacks, it’s just that they’ll undoubtedly be very filling too.
by addaon | 2025-10-22 15:14:25+00:00
Yes, this drives a requirement for latent fault detection of LV battery faults. In general when a safety function is decomposed to provide statistical safety, there is a requirement to time-bound a single failure, since without that the decomposition doesn’t buy you anything. Latent fault detection is the standard option for time bounding for automotive — for aviation, you have a second escape hatch that issues that are reliably found during annual / 100 hour inspection and can be safely missed for that long can be caught by inspection instead.
by seec | 2025-10-22 15:14:29+00:00
You don't have to stop thinking. Just switch to thinking about other stuff that is more interesting to you and potentially more complicated.

AI will never completely replace human thinking; it will just ease the annoying/boring parts.

The same arguments were given for the innovation of the calculator, but we didn't stop thinking with math/calculations, we just make the calculator do the boring computation part (and now you can calculate with much bigger and more complexe operation without having to spend loads of times and paper for it).
by mehmet_mhy | 2025-10-22 15:14:38+00:00
After 2+ years and 17k+ unique visitors, we're open-sourcing Notify Cyber.

In early 2023, Dylan Eck and I (Mehmet Yilmaz) built Notify Cyber because we were frustrated wading through fragmented cybersecurity news sources. We built a platform that aggregated news from 7+ sources, cleaned the data, summarized articles using OpenAI's API, and presented everything in a clean, searchable interface.

The launch was humbling. We launched in June 2023 with almost zero daily visitors. We spent the first two weeks doing Twitter marketing but got zero new users. Dylan and I were discouraged and we were going to can the project but as a last resort, we decided to make one final push on Reddit.

After days of back and forth, Dylan got a single post approved on and posted on r/cybersecurity. And within 3 days, we had 8k+ visitors and 100+ people on our waitlist. That post eventually hit 65k+ views with a 96% upvote rate.

Over two years, we grew to 17k+ unique visitors and 43,000+ page views, all through organic growth. We also increased the waitlist count to 160+ within that time range. We even optimized ruthlessly, reducing monthly costs from $38+ to just $1.85 by partly hosting key services of the site on a Raspberry Pi in my home.

We proved there was real demand for what we built, but we couldn't crack monetization or find a real business model. More importantly, both Dylan and I reached a point where the opportunity cost became too high. On October 5, 2025, we decided to retire the platform and open-source the entire codebase.

What we learned through this was that timing and distribution matter. The MVP can be scrappy, but execution must be clean. Build what you enjoy solving. Real demand doesn't always translate to a valid business model. And there's dignity in retiring/pivoting a project.

As for what's next... I'm currently focusing on solving some interesting problems at Charter and I've got some exciting projects on the horizon. But until then, I want to close this chapter with Notify Cyber. It has shown me a glance of what product-market fit looks like and how you don't need that funding and fancy marketing to make an impactful project/product. Bootstrapping might be the way for most software based products and I am carrying that lesson forward into everything else I build moving forward.

If you're building something, don't be afraid to fail publicly. Keep shooting, iterate fast, pivot as needed, and know when to close one chapter so you can start the next one better.

Special thanks to Dylan Eck for driving the frontend and our Reddit success.

Links:

- GitHub Repo: https://github.com/eandf/notify-cyber

- Archived Site: https://www.notifycyber.com/

- The Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/13xpg3k/my_f...
by caminante | 2025-10-22 15:15:08+00:00
I already did. Your reply/edit merely repeated your prior observation.

Getting back to the point:

You literally claimed that one of these would "inevitabl[y]" trigger a Kessler effect with no proof.

> something literally 1000x bigger be even more concerning.

Again, this isn't convincing if you don't have the denominator/context. Think about it: you still can't answer how many of these are needed to trigger the Kessler effect.

BTW, "increase by a FACTOR of about 300" != "increase in a RISK FACTOR of over 300"
by iLemming | 2025-10-22 15:15:11+00:00
Magit would make no sense outside of Emacs, because it's not just an extension - it's also a bunch of libs anyone can use - the way how Emacs works allows you to re-use and modify any behavior of any function with extreme granularity.

Practical example - while browsing GitHub in my browser, with a keypress I can let Emacs grab the current thing and operate on it - clone the repo, read files, review PRs and Issues, etc. I can even do these things directly from my notes, or when someone shares a url with me. This isn't part of Magit, these are my own customizations, but it would be much more difficult to achieve without Magit.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-22 15:15:32+00:00
> You absolutely can get good used EVs for $25,000.00.

You're missing my context: I'm not saying "good" by some objective standard, but in terms of my preferences for a car. When most people go car shopping, they have an idea of what attributes they want (leg room, cargo space, safety features, fuel efficiency, etc).

What I was saying was that I can find many ICE cars at $15K that meet all my requirements, but none at $25K.

I spent a lot of time pondering the Kia Niro, Chevy Bolt and Hyundai Kona - all deficient in some way or other. I realized that had they been regular ICE cars, I would not have wasted any time on them, and that I shouldn't get a car I wouldn't otherwise like just because it's an EV. They're totally good cars for some people, but not me.

Ioniq 5 came really close, but lots of people have AC problems that they so far have not fixed. Simply not an option.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-22 15:15:40+00:00
> Great writers aren't experts in the look of punctuation

No, but someone arguing an entire punctuation is “terrible” and “look[s] awful and destroy[s] coherency of writing” sort of has to contend with the great writers who disagreed.

(A great writer is more authoritative than rando vibes.)

> don't think anyone makes a point of you have to read Dickinson in the original font that she wrote in

Not how reading works?

The comparison is between a simplified English summary of a novel and the novel itself.
by graybeardhacker | 2025-10-22 15:15:47+00:00
Drinking untreated water also only has the _potential_ to cause disease. Playing Russian roulette with a loaded revolver only has the _potential_ to cause death.

Luckily, science can quantify those potentials and determine when the reward outweighs the risks.

If we, as a country, decided to let people who drank unpasteurized milk or untreated water to die without burdening the medical system, it would truly be their own choice. Once a society decides it will care for those people at a cost to the general public, it becomes necessary to protect the public from the burden of their ignorance.
by bri3d | 2025-10-22 15:15:47+00:00
> We need Good Samaritan laws that legally protect and reward white hats.

What does this even mean? How is the a government going to do a better job valuing and scoring exploits than the existing market?

I'm genuinely curious about how you suggest we achieve

> Rewards that pay the bills and not whatever big tech companies have in their couch cushions.

So far, the industry has tried bounty programs. High-tier bugs are impossible to value and there is too much low-value noise, so the market converges to mediocrity, and I'm not sure how having a government run such a program (or set reward tiers, or something) would make this any different.

And, the industry and governments have tried punitive regulation - "if you didn't comply with XYZ standard, you're liable for getting owned." To some extent this works as it increases pay for in-house security and makes work for consulting firms. This notion might be worth expanding in some areas, but just like financial regulation, it is a double edged sword - it also leads to death-by-checkbox audit "security" and predatory nonsense "audit firms."
by Rebuff5007 | 2025-10-22 15:15:48+00:00
> That it has kept politics unrelated to tech out is a great achievement

I see your point, but is it an achievement? Is there not some amount of civil rights abuse or a breakdown of society that would warrant discussion on all possible spaces?

I say this as someone that feels conflicted to see a daily twitter feed of tech leaders celebrating the performance of their favorite LLM breaking some new record when citizens and residents are being detained or discriminated against in violent and appalling ways... sometimes just meters from a fancy tech office!
by crowwork | 2025-10-22 15:16:03+00:00
The goal of the project is to bring open ABI and FFI for machine learning systems.

- Stable, minimal C ABI designed for kernels, DSLs, and runtime extensibility. - Zero-copy interop across PyTorch, JAX, and CuPy using DLPack protocol. - Compact value and call convention covering common data types for ultra low-overhead ML applications. - Multi-language support out of the box: Python, C++, and Rust (with a path towards more languages).
by motorest | 2025-10-22 15:16:13+00:00
> (...) while Starlink (...) were simply not answering to the criterias requested.

If you read the article, that's not exactly the arguments pointed out by neither Tusass nor Greenland's politicians.

Cited from the article:

> Binzer said it was not about which company was better, but about trust and long-term cooperation. Tusass already works with Eutelsat and knows their systems well.

> Some Greenlandic politicians have warned that the country must keep control of its telecom infrastructure.

> They fear that opening the market to foreign providers could threaten national security. For now, Tusass remains the sole provider of telecommunications in Greenland.

The citations from the article are clear on how national security concerns were a key argument to not go with Starlink.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-22 15:16:28+00:00
> a large Starbucks caffinated milkshake (and that's what they are -- addictive milkshakes)

I got the impression (from some online browsing) that Starbucks has started offering coffeeless frozen drinks.

But I also got the impression that their drinks are more "crushed ice mixed with syrup" than "ice cream mixed with milk". How much milk/cream are you getting in one of these milkshakes?
by popol12 | 2025-10-22 15:16:43+00:00
France is ultra left-wing ? Wow, the Overton window must have shifted to the right even more than I thought.

You sound like you actually don’t know much about France. For instance your accusations about left wing media rooting for Sarkozy has no foundation. The judges being biased toward left is groundless as well. Many left wing politicians have been condemned by French justice.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-10-22 15:17:04+00:00
But it's not dependent on the country in this case, it's the US we're talking about. And I absolutely would not trust the US dairy industry to be able to properly produce and sell pathogen-free milk without pasteurization. And I would assume they don't want the liability of selling it anyway, most people and companies avoid selling things that can kill you if possible.
by dabluecaboose | 2025-10-22 15:17:17+00:00
> Either the satellite is geostationary and doesn't have 24h / 24h sun exposure as energy source.

Due to the Earth's axial tilt [1], geostationary orbits generally have 24 hour sun exposure, except for a few minutes a day around the equinoxes [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_tilt

[2] https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/our-satellites/currently-flying/...
by IncreasePosts | 2025-10-22 15:17:21+00:00
That seems unlikely. Probably, what is going to happen, is if during a code review, you can't actually explain what your code is doing or why you wrote it, then you will be banned.

I don't know much about this project, but looking at the diff with their previous policy, it's pretty clear that people were abusing it and not declaring that they use llms, and they don't actually know what they're doing
by BeetleB | 2025-10-22 15:17:27+00:00
The article is about how well AI models misrepresent the content of news, not how often they misrepresent reality. My point is that even if the AI models make no errors when representing news content, they'll still be quite inaccurate when reality is the benchmark.

Who cares if AI does a good job representing the source, when the source is crap?
by poorman | 2025-10-22 15:17:31+00:00
There is definitely a miss-alignment of incentives with the bug bounty platforms. You get a very large number of useless reports which tends to create a lot of noise. Then you have to sift through a ton of noise to once in a while get a serious report. So the platforms up-sell you on using their people to sift through the reports for you. Only these people do not have the domain knowledge expertise to understand your software and dig into the vulnerabilities.

If you want the top-teir "hackers" on the platforms to see your bug bounty program then you have to pay the up-charge for that too, so again miss-alignment of incentives.

The best thing you can do is have an extremely clear bug-bounty program detailing what is in scope and out of scope.

Lastly, I know it's difficult to manage but open source projects should also have a private vulnerability reporting mechanism set up. If you are using Github you can set up your repo with: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/security-advisories...
by itsoktocry | 2025-10-22 15:17:42+00:00
>Why isn’t Fords roughly doubling of recalls news?

Oh, I don't know, maybe because Tesla is bigger than the rest of the entire industry combined?

Besides, safety recalls are what matters. I get lots of small qualtiy-related recalls that are so minor I don't even bother getting them done. Meanwhile, Tesla does what it can to avoid quality recalls, because for a while it was a marketing blurb for them.
by oceanplexian | 2025-10-22 15:17:56+00:00
I guess doctors, scientists, and politicians are going to need to stop pretending COVID never happened then and acknowledge the massive loss in public trust that resulted in the pendulum swinging the other way.

I'm talking the mandates pushed by "experts" to force young K-12 students (Like my sister) into remote schooling that had profound impacts on their social life and education. Or when California arrested people for going to a beach or a public park based on the advice of their respective health experts. Or when Nevada closed Churches, but not Liquor Stores and Pot Dispensaries, because the experts had decided Constitutional Rights weren't an essential activity.

Perhaps when those mistakes are acknowledged things can go back to normal.