MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-28 18:39:07+00:00
My music/Youtube algos are ruined because when I flag I don't like the 100 AI songs/videos that it presents me each day the algos take it as my no longer liking those genres. Between me down rating AI music/AI history videos, Youtube now give me like half a page of recommendations then gives up. I'm now punished by Youtube/my experience is worse because Youtube's cool with hosting so much AI slop content and I chose to downrate it/try to curate if out of my feed. The way Youtube works today it punishes you (or trys to train you not to) for flagging 'don't recommend channel' when recommended a channel of AI slop. Flag AI and Youtube will degrade you algo recommendations.
by JackMorgan | 2025-10-28 18:39:10+00:00
One thing that I almost never see counted in studies of weight loss is the energy acquired from breathing.

We extract out oxygen from the air constantly. I tried to guestimate it once and came up with the rough number that it's possible as much as half of our total energy comes from the air.

So it's not always a violation of the laws of physics, but rather an equation where we're only counting half the variables.
by georgefrowny | 2025-10-28 18:40:02+00:00
It would be genuinely interesting to know if it was that generic or if it had special sauce for certain subjects.

For example, Ask Grok allegedly uses this system prompt: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/blob/main/ask_grok_s... Which does seem very neutral. So then then question is have they encoded bias at a much deeper level directly in the training data or what?

A contrarian might say that maybe is really is unbiased and we're so used to the Woke Left that reality sounds right-wing.

To which I'd say it seems unlikely that Goering gets an "Economic Achievements" section, Goebbels gets "Intellectual Contributions" and none of Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela nor Martin Luther King have any positive-sounding top level section.

I also do not think that the oddly semantically empty sign off from Reinhard Heydrich is a fair extract of the article that it cites as a source:

> Ultimately, while atrocities are verifiably tied to his commands, the net efficiency in quelling domestic threats arguably prolonged Nazi governance, a trade-off debated in terms of causal realism versus moral absolutism.[20](https://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-heydrich....)
by andybak | 2025-10-28 18:40:08+00:00
I use it (and Codex web) specifically when I'm not at my desk (or I am but in the middle of something else) and I want to do something fairly speculative. Kinda either exploratory or investigative. I may or may not use the results but it doesn't get in the way of anything I'm actually currently doing. I mostly use Codex for this as I want to save my Claude quota for the task at hand.
by avadodin | 2025-10-28 18:40:17+00:00
That paper doesn't mention how many rounds it passed on the statistical tests, just that they tested 25000 seeds. They also don't definitely state a period but 2^64 with 192 or 384 bits of state is not that impressive. Furthermore, your version here uses only 128 bits so it is not clear to me that it is equivalent to the ones presented in the paper.
by alphazard | 2025-10-28 18:40:21+00:00
A lot of people are critiquing the statistical methods and quality of the study, which is fine. But it's worth pointing out that you—the individual—should not be concerned with someone else's p-value. You should be concerned with maximizing your own utility. A safe, possibly effective, and cheap intervention is probably worth trying. If it was more expensive or less safe, it would require more evidence to try.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-28 18:40:43+00:00
It's nice they succeeded, but a word of caution: Medicare is not a good standard - it's often lower than what it costs them to provide the care. If everyone paid Medicare rates, lots of providers would go out of business.

The usual benchmark is the "usual and customary" charges for a procedure. You can look it up for a procedure for your area. You then go to the hospital and point out these charges. My guess is they're much more likely to agree with this than the Medicare rates.

It's also the rate your insurance will use if you go out of network. So if your insurance pays 40% out of network, and you get billed $1000 for a $100 procedure, your insurance will pay only $40 (4%).

(Although by all means, you can start your negotiation with whatever is lower).
by bigfishrunning | 2025-10-28 18:40:44+00:00
You know what, pessimizer, you're right. We should all bow down and submit to our lord Sam Altman right away. We should shove everything we produce into his meat-grinder because there's nothing we can do about it.

The LLMs are harmful to the business of creating software. Full stop. Either we can do something about it (like expose the futility of licensing in general), or we can just die.

While I think this licensing effort is likely to be ignored, I applaud it and hope more things like this continue to be created. The silicon valley VC hose is truly evil.
by president_zippy | 2025-10-28 18:40:45+00:00
I like my 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendment rights.

I don't want to live in a world where cops can stop people for speeding and use it as probable cause to search my car.

I also don't want to live in an environment where when I'm seconds away from danger, my only protection is minutes away.

Warren v. DC also clearly established that police departments cannot be held civilly liable for even gross negligence of duty.

"You can all go to hell. I'm going to Texas."

-Davy Crockett
by daveguy | 2025-10-28 18:41:26+00:00
You apparently do not understand the difference between causation and correlation. This is also why the execs were concerned -- because most Americans are the same.

1. Diagnosis rates. Because diagnosis criteria has changed.

2. Sure okay. Don't eat junk food. Why are you pitching a little fit about it?

3. Don't know enough about dietary guidelines to comment on their quality, but the guidelines are updated based on best available science.

4. If you'd actually listen to doctors and researchers, rather than what your echo chamber claims, you'd know they don't claim any of it is "perfectly safe", just that it's safer than the alternatives like getting covid, or running a high fever when pregnant.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-28 18:41:29+00:00
> one where medicare prices are the set prices for everything, but that is nearly a political impossibility given the amount that these middlemen spend in keeping politicians who support that from winning primaries.

You're missing the part where the Stated and objective goal of popular politicians from one party is not to let that happen.

They don't get elected because someone scheming to control their funding (though that is a proximal cause of Republican candidates getting more extreme: Align with MAGA or get primaried)

They get elected because a huge portion of the USA are divorced from reality and utterly deny said reality. They say "government is less efficient" as we sit on top of this atrocious system, a system where we already have the government version and it's radically cheaper and we could literally just sign up everyone for that, save everyone time, money, and headache, and then improve service quality.

These people deny that nearly all developed countries and lots of undeveloped countries have vastly better healthcare outcomes than the USA, extremely better healthcare access, and pay way way less overall, taxes included.

These people just consume propaganda, and purposely refuse to engage with any clear or obvious evidence that contradicts said propaganda.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-28 18:41:40+00:00
You can get an AI to produce a 10/10 design trivially by taking an existing 10/10 design and introducing variation along axes that are orthogonal to user experience.

You are right that most people wouldn't know what 10/10 design looks/behaves like. That's the real bottleneck: people can't prompt for what they don't understand.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-28 18:41:41+00:00
Then they must suck at collusion, given they can't even beat a risk-less broad market index.

SP500 10 year annual return: 14.6%

UNH: 13.59% Elevance: 10.79% Cigna 9.42% Humana: 6.1% CVS: 0.55% Molina: 9.42% Centene: 0.9%

Or, the likelier explanation, is that health insurance prices are highly regulated and have to get their prices approved by a government official(s), and B) they don't have a lot of pricing power due to the competition and they are not colluding.
by mkhalifa | 2025-10-28 18:41:43+00:00
This is a super simple LLM-based tool that analyzes a github repository and generates hands-on coding puzzles to practice concepts used in the code. The idea came to me when I was trying to prep for job interviews, and I felt I wanted to learn concepts and techniques used in popular open-source codebases. While there are tools codebase-2-tutorial, reading a tutorial is a *passive* form of learning. True learning is hands-on and happens when you code something yourself. This tool will generate coding puzzles that you can use to practice for interviews or just to get a hands-on understanding of concepts/techniques used in the codebase.
by bonoboTP | 2025-10-28 18:42:04+00:00
Yeah at this point this is more like a cultural ritual. You know like howin some cultures you have to refuse a gift 5 times with increasingly stubborn facial expressions, and the gift giver has to insist through it all, and then accept and say thanks. As the default.

Or where you as a guest announce that you now go home, and the hosts have to insist you stay for some more tea or whatever and then you have to again and again say you're now going really and they insist you stay so you chat more in the hallway etc. And it's just how it always is and it would be super rude to just leave or if the host didn't demand that you stay.

Similarly the US developed this traditional ritual that the first bill is outrageously expensive and everyone knows that everyone know, but the ritual protocol say you gotta start with that, we are civilized people, we say hello, so in Healthcare the hello is the huge price, and the interaction always ends in a lowered rate, because that's also part of the protocol.

It's just a cultural difference.
by gruez | 2025-10-28 18:42:12+00:00
>It's also a total gut-punch to employees. "We had a great quarter!... not a good enough though, so GTFO"

If you take the comment about "AI" at face value, isn't that exactly what you'd expect? If a textile mill is making record profits because of new textile machinery, would you consider it reasonable for the business to keep the old workers around, even though they're not needed anymore? Yes, it always sucks to lose a job, but I don't see how Amazon did them dirty or even broke some sort of informal contract.
by spwa4 | 2025-10-28 18:42:13+00:00
My point is that VM software, especially older software and emulation software, doesn't require virtualization or root privileges. And yes, this is confusing because QEmu became virtualization software (just like VirtualBox did). Neither originally used hardware virtualization for anything. Dosbox still doesn't.

Hell I wish someone made something that could build dockerfiles and immediately start them as VMs in emulation using just the normal socket api to emulate network.
Show HN: Team Travel 12: exploring with grainorder, immutable graintime,Glow G2
by KeatonDunsford | 2025-10-28 18:42:14+00:00
hey there! ever wondered how to organize files chronologically with just 6 characters? or encode astronomical data into git branches?

what is this? team travel 12 is a personal workspace exploring three interconnected systems:

grainorder - permutation-based file naming (1.2m unique codes from 13 consonants). smallest alphabet = newest files. GitHub's ascending sort automatically displays chronological order!

graintime - git branches that know their cosmic context. not just "oct 28, 11:30am" but "moon in uttara ashadha, aries rising, sun in 12th house." every branch encodes when AND where you were in the celestial cycle.

glow g2 - patient teacher voice throughout. i ask questions, check understanding, explain WHY not just WHAT. inspired by socratic method.

why does this matter? we're treating time as lived experience, not just timestamps. 4 comprehensive whitepapers inside: grainui (gpu-accelerated gui), grainorder patent, graindb (immutable database), graintime patent.

built with pure rust+steel stack (steel = scheme lisp on rust).

ready for questions - what part intrigues you most?
by Someone1234 | 2025-10-28 18:42:23+00:00
Just to add context:

Ubiquiti's G3 Instant entry level camera was launched at $30 in 2021; which is $55 adjusted for inflation, but they're actually selling it for $80. The G4 Instant is $99 and G6 Instant is $180(!). Keep in mind this is their cheapest, entry level, offering in the camera space.

Whereas if you contrast these prices with a Reolink E1 Pro which is $55 (with free shipping) and superior to the G4 Instant in every metric (lens quality, pixel count, PTZ, ONVIF support, et al). This essentially makes this a space that Ubiquiti is no longer interested in competing in.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2025-10-28 18:42:27+00:00
People who actually live in cities aren't afraid of cities. People who live in the Midwest are told by cable news that cities are war zones because they like hearing it for culture war points, and then the sentiment gets further spread in comments sections. But they're not driving down restaurant business. I'm not an exceptionally brave person, but I feel much safer in cities than cable news wants me to feel.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-28 18:43:08+00:00
No.

It's not like an LLM can play poker without some shim around it. You're gonna have to interpret its results and take actions. And you want the LLM to produce a distribution either way before picking an explicit action from that distribution. Having the shim pick the random number instead of the LLM does not take anything away from it.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-28 18:43:46+00:00
Seeing the results of the 2024 election as anything other than a lashing out against COVID inflation tells me you might be in a right wing media bubble. Incumbents lost globally, not just in the US.

Pretending there was some big conspiracy by Dems to silence people for different opinions is flat out delusional. Hillary was correct on her "deplorables" comment but was too early; right wingers are perfectly happy to cheer on cancel culture, corruption, and civil rights violations as long as illegals are being deported and sent to a labor camp in El Salvador.
by MoltenMan | 2025-10-28 18:44:10+00:00
I feel like you're glossing over my main point, which is that this stuff 100% does breed resentment for the average person, which is how we end up with people like Trump (obviously there are many more factors to consider but this is definitely one of them).

The difference between your scenario is just how visible it is; I have never ever had somebody go up to me and say 'This opportunity is being given to you because you're a white male'! If anything, it's the opposite! Did you know I was not eligible _to apply_ for a single scholarship for college a few years back, solely based on my race and gender? It was pretty demoralizing!

Again, I'm not saying that I _haven't_ benefitted from being a white male in some indescribable unknown way; but unlike in your scenario, I cannot _see_ this. Think about the average person, who goes their whole life seeing others being handed stuff specifically because of their race and gender and when they complain about it they simply get told 'Do you have no empathy? Your life is much better off than theirs!'

Again, who knows what the right solution is. But I don't think that it's the status quo.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-10-28 18:44:14+00:00
Because the editorial authors are employees of the news organization, they must disclose the conflict of interest between their employer and its owner or parent organization and the matter they are reporting on.

Let's say an editorial piece says "AWS is the best cloud service" but fails to disclose that its owner also owns AWS, that would be a breach of journalistic ethics. Similar case here.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-28 18:44:40+00:00
>Why would they when continuing to be part of the problem makes them more and more profits each year?

In real-life America, they don't even earn enough profit to earn their shareholders a better return than SP500:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736978

And in real-life America, the only people health insurance companies engage in price wars with is the state insurance regulator who gets to deny requested price increases.
by c-hendricks | 2025-10-28 18:45:21+00:00
Ah, so based on your last paragraph I guess you're in "prosumer" territory? My router has dual WAN, SFP, can do cellular over USB, tells DHCP clients to use the pihole for DNS, and I don't have speed issues in or around the house with the mesh nodes, but maybe it falls short if I was looking to do more advanced routing/firewalls.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-28 18:45:22+00:00
The issue is that the followup contradicts the idea that there has been a change of any note. If I tell you in one breath:

"Bernie Sanders has reduced is fighting for civil rights in worrying ways"

And in a second breath tell you that:

"Bernie Sanders has resolutely fought for civil rights in the past and even now does so as a matter of routine"

You would probably find those statements at odds with one another. You quite reasonably might want me to quantify what is different currently from recent and also prior past behavior. You might also reasonably want me to quantify his behavior in "fighting for civil rights" against his contemporaries, both past and current. What I would not expect is for you to take and hold those two statements at face value, finding that a satisfactory report on the state of things.

It's certainly possible that there is no contradiction. It might be true that he was resolute in the past, and routinely did do to date, but in the past month has missed 50 votes on civil rights legislation. But even then you'd probably want to know how many votes he misses as a regular course. You might want to know how many votes he did enter during that same time period. You might want to know whether or not he was sick or otherwise absent for health reasons.

And that's my issue at the moment. The article says "3 times in the last 2 weeks an event happened". It also tells you that the WP "resolutely" (but again notably not "always") does not allow the specific event to happen. It also tells you that the WP "routinely" (but again not "always" and without any relative comparison to "resolutely") does not allow the specific event to happen even to this very day. So why are we supposed to be worried that it happened 3 times in this last 2 weeks? By their own words, it must have happened at other times in the past, or they would have used words like "always" and "unfailingly" to describe both past and current behavior. So what makes these particular 3 times worrying? Have they never failed to do so 3 times in 2 weeks ever in their history? What about 2 times? They don't say, we have no numbers and without numbers or any sort of relative comparison we have no way to gauge whether the current behavior is or is not worrisome.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-10-28 18:45:27+00:00
It’s an open problem in AI development to make sure LLM’s never say the “wrong” thing. No matter what, when dealing with a non-deterministic system, one can’t anticipate or oversee the moral shape of all its outputs. There are a lot of things however that you can’t get ChatGPT to say, and they often ban users after successive violations, so it isn’t true that they are fully abdicating responsibility for the use and outputs of their models in realms where the harm is tractable.
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-28 18:45:47+00:00
I have conflicting thoughts on this, as a former Texas medical school drop-out that participates on this website because it's_comfy.gif:

1) Ken Paxton is a powerful idiot/golum. Throw rocks, carefully.

2) Acetaminophen is waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy overtaken/prescribed

3) Acetaminophen should not be added to most opiod preparations (e.g. common hydroxies of 5mg/325mg oxy/acetaminophen) [it quickly fucks up the liver at high/constant dosage]

4) Reverting to purer opiod pills would reduce the imports/effects/DEATHS related to fentanyl-laced streets drugs (whether the users are actively or deceptively seeking fent directly), it kills when mistaken/miss-taken.

5) Can we please just replace all of Texas' higher political representation... maybe do a "national reset" of political powerhouses by imposing term/age limits upon house reps at state/national levels, as well as similar to how Texas does SCOTex with mandatory retirement at 75 years old. There should certainly NOT be leaders that are 80+ years old! Retire, already; you earnt it, remember (can you remember?)..!

6) [trigger warning: trauma] I would recon things like GM (and other early childhood trauma) are more determinant in eventual autism claims, which would support its much higher prevalence among US boys/men.

7) In general acetaminophen-based products are overprescribed. I'm not sure if this was a rumor, but back two decades when I attended my first (and only) year of medical school: we were taught that acetaminophen was only put into opiod preparations to deter addicts (which was laughable, even then, since half the class had some sort of chemical addiction — we knew it well would not deter).
by fsckboy | 2025-10-28 18:46:50+00:00
>A code is not an artistic expression and so can't be copyrightable.

that was changed

https://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/database.html

Databases are generally protected by copyright law as compilations. Under the Copyright Act, a compilation is defined as a "collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship." 17. U.S.C. § 101. The preexisting materials or data may be protected by copyright, or may be unprotectable facts or ideas (see the BitLaw discussion on unprotected ideas for more information).

(I did not use AI, but this appeared at the top of my search and I think the search engine used AI to generate it):

In the European Union, databases are protected under the Database Directive, which provides legal protection based on the originality of the selection or arrangement of their contents...Some countries offer additional protections for databases that do not meet the originality requirement, often through sui generis rights.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-10-28 18:46:51+00:00
I doubt it. A large part of the performance problem with CC is constantly writing to a single shared JSON file across all instances, with no sharding or other mechanisms to keep it performant. It's spinning a shitload of CPU and blocking due to constant serialization/deserialization cycles and IO. When I was using CC a lot, my JSON file would hit >20mb quite quickly, and every instance would grind to a halt, sometimes taking >15s to respond to keyboard input. Seriously bullshit.

Everything Anthropic does from an engineering standpoint is bad, they're a decent research lab and that's it.
by danaris | 2025-10-28 18:46:54+00:00
> Using software is not one of the exclusive rights of Copyright holders.

To the best of my (admittedly limited) knowledge, no court has yet denied the long-standing presumption that, because a program needs to be copied into memory to be used, a license is required.

This is, AFAIK, the basis for non-SaaS software EULAs. If there was no legal barrier to you using software that you had purchased, the company would have no grounds upon which to predicate further restrictions.