MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by volleyball | 2025-10-09 11:14:46+00:00
Knowing the Israelis and their history (both recent and otherwise), There is a good chance that this will be a repeat of the charade that was Trump's first ceasefire in January. Like then, Israel will probably wait to get all the hostages it can during phase one and then promptly resume their war on Palestine while blaming khamas for scuttling the deal. Their finance minister Smotrich has already spoken to that effect :

“Immediately after the hostages return home, the state of Israel will continue to strive with all its might for the true eradication of Hamas and the genuine disarmament of Gaza, so that it no longer poses a threat to Israel,”

Netanyahu has also made it quite clear (in Hebrew) that he has no intention of following through on the deal - of leaving the gaza, west bank, of allowing Hamas or the Palestinian Authority to rule or any possibility of a future Palestinian state. And the 'peace deal' that was co-written by Netanyahu during his recent visit with Trump at the white house is also framed to ensure the same outcome. The choice facing the Palestinians is genocide, ethnic cleansing or continued imprisonment in the most moral concentration camp in the world. Meanwhile Netanyahu who is facing postponed elections , a postponed October-7 investigation, postponed corruption trial and postponed jail-time has every incentive in the world to keep the war going or start a new one in Iran, Lebanon, Syria or Yemen. And he will likely drag the United states into it all because Netanyahu owns Trump and the republicans.

[1] - https://aje.io/kfptet?update=4020328 [2] - https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1972844833094983790 https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1972844833094983790
by nomilk | 2025-10-09 11:15:34+00:00
147k stars and currently the 38th most starred repo on all of GitHub [0, 1]. Seems odd that a project has so many stars yet is largely unfamiliar to much of HN (corrections appreciated).

I asked an LLM if there's ways to detect suspicious starring activity (e.g. if stars were purchased). It suggested checking the project's star history [2] (doesn't appear suspicious).

It also suggested the stars to issues ratio. n8n has 147k:6k (about 25:1) compared to, say, rails with 57k stars and 18k issues (about 3:1).

I haven't looked deeply into n8n (is it 'no-code' for building agents?). I just see hype and am default skeptical.

[0] https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

[1] https://github.com/EvanLi/Github-Ranking/blob/master/Top100/...

[2] https://www.star-history.com/#n8n-io/n8n&Date
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-10-09 11:17:38+00:00
Yeah a lot of different leaves don't break down well in the digestive track without friction or longer digestion periods (which are adaptations that actual herbivores have).

This is also why they (bay leaves or more generally all laurel leaves) are such a massive pain in the ass to compost in most places.

The wonders of insoluble fiber and wax coatings on leaves.
by adrian_b | 2025-10-09 11:17:44+00:00
The quantities of those ingredients are what matters most.

Every meal must contain more empty calories than everything else combined, but not in an excessive amount.

I do not know about Korea, but I have been in Japan, where also every meal is served with excellent white rice. However, there was never too much of it and in general the quantities of all ingredients were right for a balanced diet, much more so than I have seen in most other countries.
by user34283 | 2025-10-09 11:17:57+00:00
That's a bit rich to say while complaining about the moderation in /r/conservative specifically.

Per the subreddit description it is a place for conservatives to discuss "from a distinctly conservative point of view".

I am getting the feeling that you may in fact not be a conservative. That's fine. You don't need to participate in /r/conservative any more than I need to participate in /r/progressive. It simply does not concern you, and your focus on how a subreddit for conservatives is moderated paints a better picture of why you may have been banned from there.

The problem is default subreddits handing out permabans over political opinions.
by ninkendo | 2025-10-09 11:19:15+00:00
> No, it's about processing

What’s “processing”?

> The food industry has demonstrated that it doesn't give a crap about producing healthy food if that impacts the bottom line, so they pull every trick they can to increase profits whilst hiding the changes from consumers' ability to detect them

Ok? What’s that got to do with which forms of processing are unhealthy? This whole statement doesn’t really add anything.

> Not unsurprisingly, most of those changes use fancy processes and ingredients to mimick other ingredients and processes.

So it’s the “fancy” part you don’t like? What does fancy mean? You can quantify it, I’m sure?

> Legislation like this is saying "enough, you can only use the following set of processes".

Right, and as GP pointed out, the following set doesn’t seem to be particularly healthy.
by camillomiller | 2025-10-09 11:19:48+00:00
I am quite disappointed to see even Ben displaying an absolute lack of critical thinking about the disturbing trend of creating new AI algorithmic feeds apps. This piece reads as very detached from actual societal and economic implications. As someone in media, I'm also profoundly disappointed at how giddily some colleagues just have jumped on this disturbing horror bandwagon. It's your craft and livelihood they're playing with, ffs!!!
by danmaz74 | 2025-10-09 11:20:02+00:00
I had the same issues, and half-baked a similar solution. But then I looked into dev containers, with which I get higher isolation, including a DB for each instance (which is important for testing in parallel; I'm mostly using Ruby on Rails). What I'm doing now is:

* create a dev container for the project

* install the agent (Claude Code in my case) in the container as part of the dev container definition

* launch the container through DevPod (no affiliation) which automatically connects VS code or a JetBrains agent

So now I can run these in parallel, on a remote server if I want, and in "YOLO" mode. Personally, I'm finding this superior to the git worktree alternative.
by antonymoose | 2025-10-09 11:20:04+00:00
I used to work for an anti-phishing focused brand protection firm, we provide training and testing to third parties and heavily, aggressively dog-fooded our own products.

So, of course, we got to a point as a company where no one opened any email or clicked any link ever. This caused HR pain every year during open-enrollment season, for other annual trainings, etc.

At one point they started putting “THIS IS NOT A PHISH” in big red letters at the top of the email body to get folks to open emails and handle paperwork.

So then our trainers stole the “NOT A PHISH” header and got almost the entire company with that one email.
by kannanvijayan | 2025-10-09 11:20:25+00:00
I don't have an answer to your questions, but I think these thoughts are not uncommon for people who get into these topics. The relationship between the reals, including Pi, and the countables such as the naturals/integers/rationals is suggestive of some deeper truth.

The ratio between the areas of a unit circle (or hypersphere in whatever dimension you choose) and a unit square (or hypercube in that dimension) in any system will always require infinite precision to describe.

Make the areas between the circle and the square equal, and the infinite precision moves into the ratio between their lower order dimensional measures (circumfence, surface area, etc.).

You can't describe a system that expresses the one, in terms of a system that expresses the other, without requiring infinite precision (and thus infinite information).

Furthermore, it really seems like a bunch of the really fundamental reals (pi, e), have a pretty deep connection to algebras of rotations (both pi and e relate strongly to rotations)

What that seems to suggest to me is that if the universe is discrete, then the discreteness must be biased towards one of these modes or the other - i.e. it is natively one and approximates the other. You can have a discrete universe where you have natural rotational relationships, or natural linear relationships, but not both at the same time.
by LaurensBER | 2025-10-09 11:20:35+00:00
The audio book sounds interesting, could you share the title?

I understand your point about deciding and acting when things become hot but shouldn't we place political vote(s) above comment(s) on social media? Realistically I would hope that the average voter in Europe does not encounter a "hot" situation where his or her morals will be tested as they were during the second world war.

Yet what we vote for influences real world actions, what we say online might influence one or two opinions slightly.
by spankibalt | 2025-10-09 11:21:12+00:00
Conservatives and allied centrists have, and traditionally always had, much more access to the levers of power than leftists even in democratic countries. And right-wingers will oppose such intrusive government power only until they get to be the ones calling the shots and it's finally time to "drain the swamp". ;)

Besides, your reading of the decidedly centrist Danish Socialdemokraterne as leftists is bizarre to me, especially since they moved more and more towards the right. Something they share with other classic social democrat, i. e. centrist (status quo), parties in the S&D, e. g. their German compatriots from the SPD.
by azangru | 2025-10-09 11:21:52+00:00
In a well-functioning organization, the upper management set the vision and the goals for the company and for the product(s); and then let the people who do the actual work use their best judgement to move towards those goals. The upper management, of course, may decide that it would be more profitable to lay off the employees and to outsource to India; and that, of course, would have a direct impact on the work of those at the lower rungs; but I don't think that is the kind of concern that people have when they complain about Vercel's CEO.
by user34283 | 2025-10-09 11:21:58+00:00
That's a very weak argument in my opinion.

How does the moderation in /r/conservatives, a subreddit for conservatives to discuss "from a distinctly conservative point of view", concern a liberal like yourself in any way?

This isn't a subreddit you need to participate in. I think it's more relevant how default subreddits or country subreddits are moderated in a similar way.
by victorbjorklund | 2025-10-09 11:22:15+00:00
They been around for a long time (I was using it back in 2020 i think) but now they are just getting hype by AI. Its not relly AI. Its a no-code platform that has a lot of connections to tools and a few AI nodes. So you can build automations that have a step that uses an AI. But really its more a no code platform for automation (maybe no code is wrong wors and more like visual programming)
by rogual | 2025-10-09 11:22:46+00:00
Thing is, italic and bold don't have just one meaning.

Italic can mean: emphasis, foreign word, word which is being defined for the first time, title of referenced work, mathematical variable, and many field-specific uses.

Bold can mean: strong emphasis, term that needs to stand out and be found easily while scanning, mathematical vector, and again, field-specific uses.

If a markup language only has tags for emphasis and strong emphasis, then you can't put bold or italics for any of the other reasons you might want to use them, so anyone wanting to do those things can only misuse the emphasis and strong-emphasis markup, so it de-facto starts to mean bold/italic anyway.

It's at least reasonable to propose a markup language where you have to say "this is emphasis, this is a foreign word, this is a title of a referenced work," etc. but not everybody is writing a document that needs that much metadata. At least HTML retained <i> and <b> when it introduced <em> and <strong>.

Styles, like words, can have several meanings, and forcing authors to separate them feels a bit like forcing them to write the word "set" differently for each of its 10+ meanings.
by random9749832 | 2025-10-09 11:22:55+00:00
We are fully in the grifting stage of society. No one wants to work anymore and everyone wants to invest in imaginary outcomes (cryptocoins (most of which no one uses with little to no real use cases) and now AGI (science fiction)). Once the stock market crashes within an already low trust brittle society I imagine that there will be catastrophic outcomes. Maybe I am just a doomer who needs to touch grass but maybe not.
by empath75 | 2025-10-09 11:23:07+00:00
how large is the set of all possible subsets of the natural numbers?

edit: Just to clarify -- this is a pretty obvious question to ask about natural numbers, it's no more obviously artificially constructed than any other infinite set. It seems to be that it would be hard to justify accepting the set of natural numbers and not accepting the power set of the natural numbers.
by lonelyasacloud | 2025-10-09 11:23:19+00:00
>> ... baseless ...

Depends on

a) How well it's believed science is able to keep up with the "creativity" and dollars of the food industry.

b) The health costs to the individual and society of any subsequent problem.

c) How well the society in question is likely to do in overcoming the vested interests to fix any subsequent problem.
by cube2222 | 2025-10-09 11:23:31+00:00
Kudos to the n8n team! Seems like the focus is increasingly shifting to AI.

Question to folks who’ve used n8n extensively, I’m curious, what are your experiences with n8n, and how much does it end up being a web of verbose “visual python” in practice?

I’m very much biased here and have a vested interest, because I’ve been working on a new product not far from this space, but much more oriented at technical users (platform engineers, primarily, see [0] and [1] for a shameless plug, not released yet), but really, I’m curious about what experiences folks have had here, and what your main issues with it were, esp. if you used it in a platform/devops engineering role, or maybe why you decided not to use it.

[0]: https://spacelift.io/flows

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZHGg1QIAQk
by mattfrommars | 2025-10-09 11:23:57+00:00
I have come to realize these drag and drop no code solution are good for low complexity solution. If project scales, it is better to write code.

I kid you not, we use another no code solution at work and it was originally meant for PM to create workflows. It came to us the devs to make it and we resent daily working on it.

Our life would have been much similar if our workflows had been written in code.
by vbezhenar | 2025-10-09 11:24:31+00:00
n8n is low code platform to build various applications. We're using it for some kind of prototyping, when manager builds a prototype backend and then we use it as a starting point to implement a proper backend.

I wouldn't call it "nocode". You need to get pretty techincal to implement useful functionality. You need to write SQL, you need to extract data from XML or JSON, you need to describe HTTP queries and parse responses. You're doing it in a GUI editor, connecting nodes, so it looks like a block diagram with ordinary nodes, conditional splits, loops and so on.

For me, personally, it looks very weird and I wouldn't use this product. It's much easier to just write code. But some people are afraid of code and will jump over all kind of hoops to pretend they're not programming.
by kranke155 | 2025-10-09 11:24:32+00:00
There are huge influence operations basically on every national sub.

I found one on r/portugal, clearly coordinated network spreading political news of a certain persuasion.

R/donald became famous because the admins turned on national flags for users there revealing a significant percentage was Russian IPs without even a VPN. The Russian users called it “the mark of David” and compared it to Nazism.
by llm_nerd | 2025-10-09 11:25:55+00:00
To repeat, as you seemed to miss it, the conservative subreddit has little to nothing to do with conservatism the political philosophy. It is an echo chamber for MAGA, and people get banned for actually conservative views if they don't service the agenda/image of Dear Leader.

But ultimately I don't particularly care. I'm not a whiny little baby, and if people need to create such an echo chamber in the service of a child rapist, so be it. That is their prerogative, and all the more power to them. You hilariously replied as if I'm licking my wounds and stomping my feet demanded my voice in that sub, when all I was doing is pointing out that bringing up that extreme example of moderator overreach, but then not using it was a bit comedic.

>The problem is default subreddits handing out permabans over political opinions.

Sounds tough for you. I can see why you are getting banned. But, you know, any sub can ban people for their own policies, even just that they don't like the energy you bring to a sub. There is a bizarre subtext to your comment that is a sort of "/r/conservative is ours, stay away, but also we are entitled to our views in other subs...because, default or something". Pretty telling.
by murukesh_s | 2025-10-09 11:26:09+00:00
Its all over youtube. Its the de-facto way to build agents if you are searching youtube. Just try "Create agent" and see.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/agent-builder

The openai agent builder launched 2 days ago is basically inspired by n8n. n8n when launched wasn't an AI tool, it was inspired from numerous enterprise integration tools like Mulesoft, which were inspired by dozens of other enterprise tools, some launched even decades ago.

If you haven't tried you should check it out. Its an amazing way for no-coders to build something substantial in a relatively quick manner.
by marktolson | 2025-10-09 11:26:45+00:00
I represent one of those stars. N8N is an amazing system. I use it daily and have seen incredible progress made consistently over the past few years. Currently my team use it for processing millions of workflows each year on a very small server and it hasn't cost us a cent so I would give them more than 1 star if I could. I wouldn't build a new system without it to be honest.
by kaoD | 2025-10-09 11:26:53+00:00
After seeing all the comments here I'm a bit relieved.

I don't care about the CEO's political stance, but Vercel's involvement with React has rubbed me the wrong way since the start of development of RSC. The development was basically behind half-closed doors, pretty much tied to Next.js (i.e. Vercel) and with zero specs except a high level description of what they were and their public API.

I don't care that they were WIP: the community should've been involved, not Vercel as a benevolent dictator guiding their design from start to almost finish. Such a huge paradigm shift shouldn't have been dictated by any particular entity... and IMO much less Next's team which I think are prone to overengineering and bad decisions.

IIRC there were points in time (maybe even currently?) where you had to use packages that were published to NPM but not even on any public repo.

I love the idea of RSC but that's where my love ends.

I thought I was alone on this.
by Lerc | 2025-10-09 11:27:31+00:00
There's an issue here with classification and harm. You can only say that UFPs are harmful if the definition used when measuring harm matches the definition used elsewhere. It seems all to easy to attach the harm to the label then switch out the contents while keeping the label.

Even then a group classification is useless if it includes a single element with a undue influence.

Consider an arbitrary SuperGiant classification that says that SuperGiant foods are harmful. SuperGiant foods are defined as any food you can buy in a supermarket plus also Polonium. You can easily produce a wide range of statistics to show harms caused by things classed as SuperGiant foods.
by ubermonkey | 2025-10-09 11:27:41+00:00
I finally got around to watching that a year or two ago. That scene is among several that are just remarkable bits of work, but somehow the whole film itself felt like a slog.

I feel like that's the problem generally with late career Scorsese. The last of his films that felt consistently interesting and free of flab was, to me, Casino, though he got close for me with The Aviator and The Departed.
by seec | 2025-10-09 11:27:45+00:00
You got downvoted but I also think it's largely a pointless "technology" today as well. LLMs have been able to find stuff and excavate meaning without needing any kind of specialized tags or schema so it really is a crutch at best.

And there is the fact that people/orgs lie/maintain poorly and thus you cannot trust any open tag/schema anymore than the data it is supposed to describe. You end up in a conundrum where your data may be sketchy but on top of that the schema/tags may be even worse, at the end of the day if you got to trust one thing it's got to be the data that is readily visible by everyone because it's more likely to be accurate and that's actually what's relevant.

To top all of that, tagging your stuff with RDFas just makes it easier for google and others to parse your stuff and then exploit the data/information without ever sending anyone to your site. If you are Wikipedia, it's mostly fine, but almost anyone else would benefit from receiving the traffic for a chance at value conversion/transaction.

All those metadata things are really idealized academic endeavor; they may make sense for a few noncommercial stuffs but the reality is that most website on the web need to find a way to pay the bills, making it easier for others to exploit your work is largely self-defeating.

And yes, LLMs didn't even need that to vacuum most of the web and still derive meaning, so at the end of the day it's mostly a waste of time...
by rpdillon | 2025-10-09 11:28:02+00:00
Seems to be because the definition is arbitrarily shaped to fit the agendas of whoever is writing the definition. UPFs seem like the screen time of the 2020s -- an overly vague and mostly useless definition borne out of hysteria around a real issue in how people eat.

Arbitrarily defining foods that have artificial sweeteners as suddenly being ultra-processed is not coherent.
by johnisgood | 2025-10-09 11:28:41+00:00
To be honest, I disagree that this is sleight of hand. Ada itself includes contracts (pre/postconditions, type invariants, Global/Depends annotations) as first-class language features. These work at runtime in full Ada and are verified statically in SPARK. Rust has no comparable built-in contract system.

So when comparing "Ada vs Rust" for formal verification, it's entirely relevant that Ada's design includes verification primitives that Rust lacks. SPARK isn't a separate language - it's a subset of Ada that leverages Ada's existing contract features for static proof. The contracts are part of Ada whether you use SPARK or not.

The GP's claim about Rust being "more amenable to formal verification" ignores that Ada was designed with verification in mind (built-in contracts), while Rust requires external tools and annotations to achieve similar capabilities. That's not apples-to-oranges; it's the core architectural difference between the languages.
by KempyKolibri | 2025-10-09 11:29:44+00:00
> and yet when Americans set foot on European soil the first thought they have is 'everyone is so thin'.

I’m not sure how this interacts with the point I’m making.

> if there's any misstep here, it's not focused enough on sugar (which is a hard drug for kids) .

Sure, free sugars are associated with risk (which is reflected in dietary guidelines). Plenty of UPFs are not (which is why they generally aren’t flagged as a concern in dietary guidelines).