MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by loxodrome | 2025-10-22 20:02:07+00:00
I totally get it Yann LeCun and FAIR want to focus on next gen research, but they seem almost proud of their distance from product development at Meta. Isn't that a convenient way to avoid accountability? Meta has published a ton of great work, but appears to be losing economically in AI. It's understandable that the executive team wants change.
by mirashii | 2025-10-22 20:02:08+00:00
I think that the ability to collocate with fit is really the thing that makes even evaluating the use of jj feasible in many organizations. To consider pijul, it requires throwing away all of your forge setup, configuration, permissions, backup, disaster recovery, as well as updating every CI pipeline.

In a very real way, git won, and the inertia behind git is higher than it was for any VCS tool before it, and so just being better isn’t going to be enough, you’ll also need to interoperat.
by mbesto | 2025-10-22 20:02:31+00:00
> but I can control my reaction to you. That's what stoicism is.

I think what the parent is saying is this:

Say you (hyperhello) have PTSD from a fire incident in which your face is completely disfigured. You associated this pain (emotional and physical) with the various people who yelled "FIRE" during the escape. Do you, hyperhello, truly have control over this negative reaction when someone yells "FIRE!" in your face?
by munificent | 2025-10-22 20:02:32+00:00
I think you're onto something, but I don't think it has to do with plasticity, but novelty.

Consider the brain as a giant recording device with very good compression based recognizing patterns from previous data. So the first time you eat an apple, it stores a lot of data because it's a new experience. The next time, it stores something more like "like the last apple, but a little more tart".

I think our perception of time (at the macro scale) is roughly a perception of how much new data our compression-oriented brain is storing. It's the sensation of accumulated novelty.
by dxdm | 2025-10-22 20:02:46+00:00
> There are no substantial technical or usability reasons to switch to JJ from Git and it's impractical for most working programmers to switch.

Not in my experience. jj is easy to pick up and a joy to use. I like git. I deeply appreciate git. But git can feel like snow shoveling sometimes, while in jj things just click into place.

jj is freeing, because things that were a hassle before are now easy, and other things that were impossible are also easy.

I know there's a lot of hype around for a lot of things, and I get grumpy from all of it. Jujutsu is one of the few things that actually deserve the praise being heaped on them.

You may disagree, of course. But I hope that some day, you'll have reason to be happy about this tool, instead of feeling... whatever touched you off like this.
by tmuhlestein | 2025-10-22 20:03:05+00:00
At GoDaddy, we’ve been exploring ways to make large-scale LLM integrations more efficient — not just for us, but for the entire ecosystem.

Today, most Model Context Protocol (MCP) clients inject every tool definition into every prompt. That’s fine for a few tools — but at scale, it means wasted tokens, slower responses, and higher compute costs.

Our proposal — Advertise-and-Activate — offers a simple alternative: let clients advertise tool summaries first, then activate full definitions only when needed.

This approach can:

• Cut token usage by up to 94% • Reduce latency and context bloat • Improve LLM reasoning and scalability • Require no protocol changes — it works today

It’s a small architectural shift with a big impact on performance and cost.

We’re already testing it internally across engineering workflows — from infrastructure management to developer tooling — and the results are promising.

This is a key piece of our broader vision for a scalable AI agent ecosystem. While our Agent Name Service (ANS) implementation focuses on secure, internet-scale discovery and verification, patterns like Advertise-and-Activate are crucial for making subsequent agent-to-agent communication via protocols like MCP both efficient and enterprise-ready.

Read the full article here: Smarter MCP Clients: A Proposal for Advertise-and-Activate: https://www.godaddy.com/resources/news/smarter-mcp-clients-a...

We’d love to hear your thoughts or experiences.

— Jay Gowdy & Travis Muhlestein
by DuperPower | 2025-10-22 20:03:30+00:00
soft science you say but the person better not commit suicide or starts working soon and gets better soon. The problem with psiquiatra is that there is the real biological diagnosis, the pseudo diagnosis (neurotic versión of the biological og diagnosis), the intentional fake diagnosis and the not intentional but still fake diagnosis, thats why DSM is not for regular people even if they can read the words the real clinical meaning is almost always different from what non clinical people think It is
by Benanov | 2025-10-22 20:03:36+00:00
AIUI (I don't have any of this hardware) SteamOS is really meant for the Steam Deck; while there's "basic support" for the ROG Ally, it's not their focus. Bazzite seems to be quite happy to support everything, and AIUI it's frighteningly close to SteamOS (the same customizations, etc.)

It's not "we have SteamOS at home" - it's more like RedHat vs CentOS
by turtletontine | 2025-10-22 20:04:09+00:00
The point (which they make quite explicitly) is that an individual or small organization can only run open source models locally, and those open source models are less sophisticated than the “frontier” models.

Obviously we can’t run GPT-5 or the cutting edge version of Claude or whatever locally, because OpenAI or Anthropic are keeping those weights as closely kept secrets.
by apizon | 2025-10-22 20:04:21+00:00
Funny I've always found the technicality of the guitar to be the easier part on the contrary.

Don't get me wrong, playing a piece like this cleanly and with such feel takes great skill and is probably not something I will ever be able to do but I mean easy in the sense that you can quite clearly see the path to take to get there (or halfway there). "Just" learn the piece slowly block by block, then repeat it for hundreds of hours without much thinking until it flows by itself (I'm simplifying but you get my point).

On the other hand, while theory can be grasped quite fast, applying it to your playing, composing, and improvising with it has always felt to me like a multifaceted beast that you have absolutely no idea at which angle to tackle from. You just stumble your way around it until the pieces start clicking together and it's really hard to find a clear path to follow which makes it much harder imo, or at least more frustrating/blurry.
by labrador | 2025-10-22 20:05:19+00:00
I agree that Google's control over the Chromium roadmap is a fundamental issue, making "industry-wide" a generous term. Brave (which I use) and other Chromium-forks exist to ensure the community does have its own branch. Brave disables WEI and forked the Manifest V2 code to ensure its built-in Shields and essential extensions (like uBlock Origin, which I also use) remain unaffected by Google's anti-user changes.
by languagehacker | 2025-10-22 20:06:08+00:00
I thought The Body Keeps The Score was interesting and informative. I made sure to look up counterarguments afterwards, because there were definitely parts that I wasn't so keen on.

Psychology and other social sciences are too multi-variate to speculate on, and the HRB exists so that we don't commit atrocities in the name of properly isolating variables as we poke at the black box we call the human mind. You're never going to get anything right, but we should definitely be referencing surveys of studies instead of single studies. So there's at least one point there for appropriate rigor. Not getting the interpretation of those studies right definitely seems unethical, but so does all of the misconduct stuff Van Der Kolk has been mired in.

It's a disingenuous argument to say that your body doesn't change from a traumatic experience, or that stress doesn't express itself through the body sometimes. It's also problematic to say that because it happens to you doesn't mean you can't work through it and learn to manage it or even control it. What I gleaned from the book is that if I have a physical sensation that I can map to stress or a past experience of trauma, I can understand it, label it, and grow from it.
by j45 | 2025-10-22 20:06:28+00:00
Aurelius' writings are interesting - I am struck by how many people try to relate to an emperor trying to stay grounded.

It doesn't mean there isn't good in the writings, it's good to take the positive from things, with the hope that it doesn't let in any of the negative unintended.

That part stands out to me though as where it's perspective might not be for the many, but the few.
by bagxrvxpepzn | 2025-10-22 20:06:40+00:00
> it might be a good time to step back and reexamine your priors that led you to state so confidently that there’s no usability reason to switch in particular.

The key word I used is "substantial." The usability improvements over Git are marginal and if they ever become non-marginal, they can relatively easily be added to git. This is what my comment is getting at. The only essential difference between Git and JJ is that they are different fiefdoms. There is no substantial technological difference. It's just two different social factions with marginally different opinions about how to type CLI commands.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-10-22 20:07:00+00:00
Realistically, if the plumber missed a drain or supply by an inch, it's probably fine to just move the wall by a few inches...but it ought to go back to engineering to verify that's so, and engineering can redraw the prints for the robot.

It's almost certainly not the layout guy's job to decide that the bathroom can be 3" larger than it was and the lobby 3" smaller.

I deal with this relatively often in a machining context - People complain that they'd rather just make simple parts on the Bridgeport manual mill rather than a CNC, because they can adjust on the fly with the manual mill but have to get the CAD changed so that CAM can adapt to the modifications. But when they make it manually, and a year later we need to ship out a replacement part or develop an ECO... if you did it by updating the CAD then the replacement part will fit. If you just freehanded it, the part will not fit.
by iman613 | 2025-10-22 20:07:07+00:00
Haha that’s a good one But to be fair, humans mess up too — sometimes spectacularly! It’d actually be really cool to see a proper “human vs AI” comparison, not just on accuracy but on how often each one slips up. Honestly, I think the real win is when both work together — human intuition mixed with AI precision. That combo might just be the least mistake-prone team we’ve ever had.
by jacquesm | 2025-10-22 20:07:11+00:00
> I just don't understand how smart people think this is going to work out at all.

The previous couple of crops of smart people grew up in a world that could still easily be improved, and they set about doing just that. The current crop of smart people grew up in a world with a very large number of people and they want a bigger slice of it. There are only a couple of solutions to that and it's pretty clear to me which way they've picked.

They don't need to 'keep the economy running' for that much longer to get their way.
by moffkalast | 2025-10-22 20:07:28+00:00
If your friends are human then you could collectively decide to leave for another platform, that's not very cash money for Meta. They want to go past you being on Facebook cause all your friends are there, they want you to be friends with the platform itself.

Side note, has black mirror done this yet or are they still stuck on "what if you are the computer" for the 34th time?
by antx | 2025-10-22 20:07:45+00:00
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by crote | 2025-10-22 20:07:48+00:00
The fundamental problem with home inkjet printing is that people just don't print that much.

The average home user probably wants to print a set of 10 holiday pictures once a year. This means that every time they want to print those ink cartridges will be dried out and have clogged print heads - so they have to buy an expensive set of new cartridges to replace their barely-used ones.

It is why laser printing is so often suggested for home users: you can let a printer rot for several years and still reliably print a couple of dozen pages when you finally need it again. The downside is that they do a rather poor job at printing photos so now there are even fewer reasons to use it, and you only need it once every couple of years to print out a contract to sign or something.

I've personally given up on owning printers. They don't make the rock-solid HP / Brother workhorses anymore, and I can't be bothered to deal with all the proprietary "smart" crap they are pushing these days. If I want something printed, I'll just go to the local library.
by nevi-me | 2025-10-22 20:07:50+00:00
We discovered/noticed this when the exterior walls were 2 meters high. They had to move around interior walls but that didn't help much.

My wife and I concluded that we got what we paid for, and you're right that in hindsight we should have taken legal action against the contractor. I don't know how breaking down the whole exterior of a house to fix it down to the foundation would feel though. At some point we thought of selling the partially completed structure.
by heyitsguay | 2025-10-22 20:07:55+00:00
I went through a similar cycle. Going back to simplicity wasn't about laziness for me, it was because i started working across a bunch more systems and didn't want to do my whole custom setup on all of them, especially ephemeral stuff like containers allocated on a cluster for a single job. So rather than using my fancy setup sometimes and fumbling through the defaults at other times, i just got used to operating more efficiently with the defaults.
Show HN: Gocat – URL shortener using Google Sheets as a database
by itayd | 2025-10-22 20:08:02+00:00
I built a simple go-links URL shortener that uses Google Sheets as its backend. No database, no admin UI – just edit URLs in a spreadsheet.

The entire thing is ~200 lines of Python. You get a webhook that redirects go/docs to whatever URL you mapped in your sheet. If multiple URLs match, it shows an HTML page with all options. Empty path redirects to the spreadsheet itself for quick editing.

It's built on AutoKitteh (which I also work on), which handles the webhook endpoints, Google Sheets integration, and synchronous HTTP responses. Deploy with make deploy and you're done – no servers, databases, or configuration needed.

Comes with a Chrome extension to make go/ links work directly in your browser.

Perfect for teams that want simple, customizable link shortening without the overhead of commercial services or the complexity of self-hosted solutions.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-10-22 20:08:10+00:00
Did you use a contractor for this build? The neighbors of my parents ran into this, but somehow the foundation team added around a foot in all dimensions. The owner of the property refused to accept anything other than a new foundation. The contractor refused and from what my Dad told me the home owner was forced to sell to the contractor by the courts as their recourse.

This story also seems a litle off unless the contractor didn't allow inspection. It'd be found in 10 seconds with a single usage of a tape measure.
by anechouapechou | 2025-10-22 20:08:21+00:00
Anecdotal, but recently I've done a complete 180 on:

- My diet (Mediterranean), with absolutely zero processed foods.

- Sleep (red light on evenings, no screens 1 hour before sleep).

- Daily exercise (lifting and 30 minutes of zone 5 cardio weekly).

My appreciation for life has skyrocketed, I don't feel like I'm being oppressed by life, and my depression symptoms are gone. I used to think the root cause of it all was a pretty rough childhood. It turns out, it's just 'crap in, crap out.' It has been jarring to me that my inner experience and mental health could so drastically change in such a short amount of time.

So yeah, it's anecdotal, but I'm pretty inclined to agree with this article.
by bayouborne | 2025-10-22 20:08:31+00:00
The most shocking thing to me about Blue Origin's New Glenn launch is that it didn't blow up. This isn't commentary on my opinion concerning Blue Origin's engineering expertise, just that I was expecting anything that big and complicated, on its inaugural flight, to fail fairly spectacularly. The historical trajectory of such space things is fail, fail big, fail less big, kinda work, kinda work, work mostly, etc.

If the second launch vehicle performs similarly, I might have to start watching them. We could use a decent alternative.
by Loughla | 2025-10-22 20:08:34+00:00
Also if you go to the Midwest US, they're still everywhere in the summers. I assumed the firefly deaths would be easily explainable by chemicals, but they seemed prevalent over soybean fields (which would be treated with pesticides at some point), not just open (no chemical) pastures.

Source: the sad death chamber of a jam jar of fireflies my youngest collected this year at a family get-together on the family farm. So it's pretty anecdotal, but they were everywhere along the highway as we drove there as well for like 2 whole states.
by theothertimcook | 2025-10-22 20:08:42+00:00
Kolk was involved in the “memory wars” and repressed memory drama back in the day where people started therapy then suddenly remembered historical abuse by caregivers that in many cases never actually happened (this is a massive simplification DYOR)

Having been involved in the publishing of psychology research I have zero faith in the systems ability to properly control for bullshit.

Trauma informed muppets like Kolk and Gabor Mate are running around spouting absolute bullshit and it’s hurting people, imagine being raised by a parent who read and believed this bullshit, worse still they’ve been to talks by flops like Gabor Mate and are balls deep in whatever viral self help podcast meme is trending…let them

Kolk wrote the article the body keeps the score in 1994 at the height of the memory wars, he spent the next 20 years undeterred, developing and spreading his bullshit and now nearly 30 years later it’s still being talked about and propagated.

https://greyfaction.org/resources/grey-faction-reports/alleg...
by donmcronald | 2025-10-22 20:08:45+00:00
I found this today while trying to figure out why Google blacklisted the entire domain I use to self-host a few services for my family.

It links though to a blog post, but there are users in the Reddit thread claiming the same issue with various self-hosted services. The blog post is here:

https://immich.app/blog/google-flags-immich-as-dangerous

I spent about 4 hours trying to figure out if I had a compromised service before I realized it's a lazy false positive. Does anyone know where I send the bill for my time? Lol.
by segmondy | 2025-10-22 20:08:51+00:00
so what? delay it. as you see the house is messed up, that's going to be an issue when it's time to sell. many people will notice a very narrow stairwell or tiny bathrooms. when we were house shopping there were many houses we passed because the stairs were too narrow, or too steep or the bathroom was tiny or some room was so tiny it didn't qualify as a bedroom in our mind or the ceilings were too low. all those tiny flaws cost the seller serious money and reduced the number of buyers.
by heavyset_go | 2025-10-22 20:09:26+00:00
I never claimed kids were stupid, my point is that a ton of resources were dumped into things like fan clubs, movies, TV and radio programs, toys, collectibles, children's books, keeping it in the news, etc. We even sent a grade school teacher into space even if that ended in tragedy.

Look at the cult of personality the Soviet Union built around Yuri Gagarin, yes people were always going to find space exploration interesting, but manufacturing a folk hero means even more people will, too, and it becomes something aspirational and seemingly attainable. The Soviets were not unique in doing this, the US did similar things.
by ggreer | 2025-10-22 20:09:42+00:00
That balloon has a payload of up to 55lbs, so it follows different rules. WindBorne balloons are 1.1kg including the initial ballast.

There are ADS-B transmitters that weigh 50 grams and would require 60 grams of batteries to power them for 8 hours, so payload limitations are not an issue for WindBorne.[1]

The CEO of WindBorne replied to a comment about the inability to use ADS-B on weather balloons saying, "Yea, the FAA does a lot and I think overall they do a great job, but I wish there was better systems for communications here."[2] So I'm reasonably confident that my understanding is correct.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660400

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660577
by imiric | 2025-10-22 20:09:59+00:00
Meh. I haven't read any of the books the article talks about, but IMO dismissing their entire premise is more unhelpful than any pseudoscientific claim they make.

AFAICT, this is a pop psychology book that tries to make some interesting topics digestible to a mass audience. Topics that are mostly speculative to begin with, and don't have concrete evidence in any direction.

For example, the entire field of epigenetics has been argued to be pseudoscience, and yet there has been some interesting research around it. Related to the topic of stress specifically, and how effects have been observed across generations[1].

Clearly, more research is needed, but to dismiss it as quackery outright wouldn't be helpful. Many ideas that were initially perceived as outlandish eventually lead to a better understanding of the world. Scientific progress depends on people willing to go beyond the boundaries of conventional knowledge, often at the expense of their reputation.

This reminds me of the uproar in archeology circles about the work of Graham Hancock. He presents himself as a journalist and author, and certainly not an archeologist or scientist, who simply raises some interesting questions about the past. His work is often dismissed as pseudoscientific quackery, which is funny to me since he never claims it to be scientific at all. It is edutainment content for a mass audience interested in these topics, nothing more than that.

[1]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10177343/
by president_zippy | 2025-10-22 20:10:07+00:00
If I had a nickel for every time my OpenBSD buddies told me "your ASUS router is not secure, just configure an OpenBSD machine as your router", I'd have a lot of nickels.

The part they never tell me is what hardware they recommend for the Wi-Fi, or rather which devices have OpenBSD driver support and allow for at least 4-5 good connections over 802.11ac?

I'm all for it, I just don't know where to start on the hardware.
by pjerem | 2025-10-22 20:10:41+00:00
Depends on the country. In France, and I think in Europe, you have 4 (IIRC) legally mandated visits during the construction. At each one of those visits, you have the right to suspend the next payment (you pay a legally mandated percentage of the house after each one of those visits).

I also had measurements issues and a contractor that tried to force it to me. I just said I will not pay until it's fixed. The next week everything was fixed.