MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by knollimar | 2025-11-26 21:13:59+00:00
I feel like Anthem's proposed reason is a major complaint with health insurance (re surprise billing). It's hard because we won't believe anything they say, even if our interests do rarely align.

I don't agree with the take about "good faith negotiations". The non-surprise bill legislation is literally about making sure patients don't get surprise bills. It's not about helping hospitals or providers get more negotiating power.

Anthem is merely regressing to the prior status quo by making hospitals share in a cost they now have. This was entirely forseeable. Providers weren't magically your friend because they give you a healthcare.

Your insurance company is negotiating to keep costs down, which should help you too. Out of network anesthesiologists were never on your side.
by johnxie | 2025-11-26 21:14:05+00:00
I kinda smile seeing this growing up in the real public_html days… Xanga, Geocities, Angelfire, copying HTML from those old Scholastic books to make my first little interactive Pokemon map to hosting WoW guild sites, DKP boards, CS 1.6 servers.

Feels like we’re back again with vibe-coding, app builders, v0, bolt, lovable, all of it. The AI infra even feels familiar. End users getting back the kind of control we had in the public_html days via cPanel shared-hosting, VPS era. And for backend, it’s Supabase or Neon / Postgres now instead of phpMyAdmin and MySQL.

Full circle~
by wavemode | 2025-11-26 21:14:07+00:00
Valve's cash cow is Steam.

All of their games (Dota 2, CS, and the other ones they hardly maintain anymore) are basically just passion projects at this point, lingering on from a bygone age when they were a game development company.

Their most recent title, Half-Life: Alyx, probably only got greenlit because someone internally was able to convince leadership that it would help sell VR headsets.
by supern0va | 2025-11-26 21:14:20+00:00
"We routinely devalue craftsmanship because it doesn't bow down to almighty Business Impact."

I actually disagree with this pretty fundamentally. I've never seen hacker culture as defined by "craftsmanship" so much as about getting things done. When I think of our culture historically, it's cleverness, quick thinking, building out quick and dirty prototypes in weekend "hackathons", startup culture that cuts corners to get an MVP product out there. I mean, look at your URL bar: do you think YC companies are prioritizing artisanal lines of code?

We didn't trade craftsmanship for "Business Impact". The latter just aligns well with our culture of Getting Shit Done. Whether it's for play (look at the jank folks bring out to the playa that's "good enough") or business, the ethos is the same.

If anything, I feel like there has been more of an attempt to erase/sideline our actual culture by folks like y'all as a backlash against AI. But frankly, while a lot of us scruffy hacker types might have some concerns about AI, we also see a valuable tool that helps us move faster sometimes. And if there's a good tool that gets a thing done in a way that I deem satisfactory, I'm not going to let someone's political treatise get in my way. I'm busy building.
by adzm | 2025-11-26 21:14:25+00:00
Notable also is that a lot of resources go into series rather than just movies, as well as movies that are not in the 'box office.' But I agree about the biases here; there is so much crap from the 90s that looked fake and awful, and there is so much stuff now that feels alive and real. Even more, I'd say, especially once you look away from the more mainstream sources.

Also an interesting resource here is boxofficemojo which has a simple interface for looking at the box office at any particular month and year. For example, https://www.boxofficemojo.com/month/october/1994/ October 1994 was a great time: Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption
by rllearner | 2025-11-26 21:14:25+00:00
One of my favorite parts of the 2024 series on Youtube was when Prof B explained her excitement just before introducing UCB algorithms (Lecture 11): "So now we're going to see one of my favorite ideas in the course, which is optimism under uncertainty... I think it's a lovely principle because it shows why it's provably optimal to be optimistic about things. Which is kind of beautiful."

Those moments are the best part of classroom education. When a super knowledgeable person spends a few weeks helping you get to the point where you can finally understand something cool. And you can sense their excitement to tell you about it. I still remember learning Gauss-Bonnet, Stokes Theorem, and the Central Limit Theorem. I think optimism under uncertainty falls in that group.
by 7777777phil | 2025-11-26 21:14:33+00:00
IMO here ML actually delivers the biggest benefit today: by developing a machine learning classifier based on morphological features rather than molecular markers, they've created a screening tool that can distinguish baseline marker expression from true senescence induction in these challenging cancer subtypes. The challenge with basal-like cancers is that they constitutively express many canonical senescence markers even while proliferating, making it nearly impossible to determine if a therapeutic compound has actually induced growth arrest.
by speedgoose | 2025-11-26 21:14:41+00:00
> Maybe I'm just nostalgic. Maybe I'm romanticizing the past. But when I finish a good movie, I can sit there thinking about them for hours, even days depending on the movie. When I finish most modern blockbusters, I'm already thinking about dinner. And that difference, I think, says everything.

I don’t watch modern most blockbusters because I don’t enjoy them in general. I watch a few that I know I will likely enjoy.

I think we have some bias too.

We remember better the good experiences. The Netflix catalog is full of not so good movies, and the video rental shops in the 90s were too.
by foxglacier | 2025-11-26 21:15:15+00:00
Since every culture now has access to communication technology, do you think liberalism is the right way for the whole world to behave? You want to eradicate all the illiberal cultures of people in poor countries and think that those people will be better off for it?

Anyway, my point is that liberalism is certainly not obviously right and it's probably wrong in many places, maybe even in the west too but we don't know because any possible societal collapse would come in the future. Westerners are already suffering from something as shown by declining happiness and it's possible that's caused by liberalism. Not saying it is but it could be and it's arrogant to assume that LLMs believe it because they somehow know it's actually right.
by logsr | 2025-11-26 21:16:07+00:00
> trying to make themselves too big to fail

this is super overblown. what their executive said was that eventually the scale of compute required is so large, that it requires not only investing in new DCs, but new fabs, power plants, etc, which can only happen if there is implicit government support to guarantee 10+ year investment horizons required for the lower level of capital investment. that is not controversial at all and has nothing to do with OpenAI specifically being too big to fail.
Show HN: FYICombinator – What YC startups are doing
by xenni | 2025-11-26 21:16:11+00:00
With YC now running four batches a year and everything pitched as "AI/Agents for X", it's getting pretty hard to tell what YC startups actually do without doing a bunch of digging.

I built FYI Combinator to use research agents (I'm sorry) to dive into each YC startup and summarize the basics in plain English:

- What they do

- Who they target

- What their market looks like

- How they might acquire customers

It's meant to reduce the amount of time it takes to understand companies from the new batches and understand what they're building.

I'm still working on tuning tone and reducing bias from marketing pages, all feedback is welcome!
by jeremyjh | 2025-11-26 21:16:50+00:00
I'm pretty bearish on human interstellar travel or even long-term settlement within our solar system but I wouldn't be so pessimistic on unmanned probes. The technical hurdles seem likely to be surmountable given decades or centuries. Economic growth is likely to continue so relative cost will continue to drop.

Absent a general decline in the capacity of our civilization the main hurdle I see is that the cost is paid by people who will not live to see the results of it but I don't think that rules it out, I'd certainly contribute to something like that.

What are some of the other factors you are thinking of?
by belorn | 2025-11-26 21:16:59+00:00
The pregnancy numbers are a policy and not related to accidents. It would be similar to say that children at age 3, 5 and 12 months are much more likely to end up in the hospital than other age groups, since those are the ages when they get vaccinations.

As with all statistics, there is some apple to oranges comparisons and some contexts that get lost.
by rawnsley | 2025-11-26 21:17:09+00:00
*avanti* is a simple way to host web pages for development. Connect to your computer from devices on your LAN such as mobile phones or VR headsets. No self-signed certificates, third-party services, or security warning dialogs.

Provided as a nodejs module that can be used in-app, as a dev dependency, or from the command line. However, the underlying system will work for all languages.
by aunty_helen | 2025-11-26 21:18:00+00:00
I don’t think this was a 90s thing. I think it’s been a gradual progression to shorter, shallower attention spans. Contrast 2001 space odyssey to a 90s movie, it feels so slow.

Then contrast a 2000s movie to a modern film and if you want to feel really sad, contrast that to a high budget YouTubers content.
by dylan604 | 2025-11-26 21:18:01+00:00
> movies in general are now produced more frequently

I don't agree with this. Blockbuster used to be filled with movies made to go straight to "home video" whether that was VHS or DVD. Shitty movies have been made for a really long time. Typically, they didn't have a budget and no studio was involved. Now, we have really shitty movies with incredible budgets being released by the studios as well as whatever the streamers are making. The straight to home video market does seem to have lost a bit though as they still need to find a streamer willing to license it.
by trinsic2 | 2025-11-26 21:18:46+00:00
Have you seen the latest AI slop in game design lately, destroying human creativity?

Have you seen how this tech is being used to control narratives to subjugate populations to the will of authoritarian governments?

This shit is real. We are slowly sliding into a world where every aspect of our lives are going to be dictated by people in power with tools that can shape the future by manipulating what people think about.

If you don't care that the world is burning to the ground, good luck with that. Im not saying the tech is necessarily bad, its the way in which we are allowing it to be used. There has to be controls is place to steer this tech in the right direction or we are heading for a world I don't want to be apart of.
by driaforall | 2025-11-26 21:18:52+00:00
Today we are shipping dnet, a distributed inference framework that lets Apple Silicon clusters run models that exceed their physical memory.

We fuse pipelined-ring parallelism, disk streaming and UMA-aware scheduling so “out of memory” stops being the limit.

https://github.com/firstbatchxyz/dnet?tab=readme-ov-file

In alpha, we ship a pipelined-ring strategy inspired by PRIMA.CPP. dnet’s solver (distilp) extends it so devices can punch above memory: layers stream from disk mid-round and overlap with compute, so total model size can exceed total cluster RAM.

Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback!
by sholain | 2025-11-26 21:19:25+00:00
" Switching between models can be done by a single person in an afternoon (often just 5 minutes). That's what we're talking about."

Good gosh, no, for comprehensive systems it's considerably more complicated than that. There's a lot of bespoke tuning, caching works completely differently etc..

"That means that none of these products can ever have a high profit margin."

No, it doesn't. Most cloud providers operate on a 'basis' of commodity (linux, storage, networking) with proprietary elements, similar to LLMs.

There doesn't need to be any 'breakthroughs' to find broad use cases.

The issue right now is the enormous underlying cost of training and inference - that's the qualifying characteristic that makes this landscape different.
by mandevil | 2025-11-26 21:19:25+00:00
A big part of this is that modern movies are carefully calibrated so that you can follow along while sitting on your couch focused on your phone. Movies in the 1990's didn't need to have so much clanky dialog explaining, in careful detail, why we were someplace. The writers and directors could presume that the audience was actually paying attention to the movie, and so would make the necessary inferences. Modern movies are mostly terrified of doing because the audience is also swiping on Tinder and scrolling Instagram at the same time and would never realize that he just stopped walking with a limp oh my God was everything he said in the entire movie a lie?
by tricknik | 2025-11-26 21:19:36+00:00
You can find many of my actual pages from the 90s here: https://archive.groovy.net, so yeah, I was there. And yeah, it is definitely a fun parody/homage, not a recreation, so yeah, it for sure is contrived. I guess I never once used Comic Sans in the actual 90s, and was not a big user of the marquee tag or gifs.

It is intended to provide easy hosting, which many people need, and to encourage people to work on their own computer, rather than use web based tools, so it will have upload/validation, etc, but never editing or change your html in any way.
by reedlaw | 2025-11-26 21:19:38+00:00
The probability space of a 140-nucleotide chain is 10^84. The estimated number of atoms in the universe is 10^80. The hypothesized RNA self-replicator is far simpler than the 238,000 base pair archaeal genome. But how are they formed? Even the most favorable prebiotic lab conditions have only produced short nucleotide chains. Direct chemical synthesis only recently achieved chains over 1700 nucleotides long [1].

1. https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/first-direct-chemical-sy...
by trinsic2 | 2025-11-26 21:20:41+00:00
When you off load that stuff to a computer, you loose cognitive abilities. Heck Im even being careful how much I use mapping tools now because I want to know where I am going and how I get there.

FYI: I do not work for any corporations, I provide technical services directly to the public. So there is really concerns about this tech by everyday people that do not have a stake in keeping a job.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-11-26 21:20:52+00:00
Hah, well, there's that.

But I was referring to the special hyphen that the AIs frequently use today, and which is a hallmark of AI generated text, as it's not on regular keyboards and difficult to access: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-breaking_hyphen

They're also fond of this apostrophe: ’

Whereas almost every human uses: '
Ask HN: Why aren't more startups using .NET?
by mafiaa | 2025-11-26 21:20:58+00:00
Wanted to learn/try something new with my next start-up venture and decided to use .NET for my backend and it has been amazing so far.

Very low learning curve, easy to separate functionality rather than relying on some mega AIO Next.js app, easy integration with cloud providers such as Azure, and it's already widely used in the industry (valuable experience to have).

So why aren't start-ups using it more often? It seems like the perfect framework to build with in almost every capacity (unless you really dislike Microsoft).
by gbalint | 2025-11-26 21:21:06+00:00
The article specifically mentions that the weight loss was not enough to explain the effect on the migraine: "Importantly, while participants’ body mass index declined slightly (from 34.01 to 33.65), this change was not statistically significant. An analysis of covariance confirmed that BMI reduction had no effect on headache frequency, strengthening the hypothesis that pressure modulation, not weight loss, drives the benefit."
by EA-3167 | 2025-11-26 21:21:11+00:00
I think you're hitting the nail on the head, but the corollary is that there's so much MORE now. More of everything, and since most things are crap the gems are proportionally harder to find. I look at reality tv and wince, but I also feel that way about soap operas, it's the same itch being scratched the same way for a different generation. But the nature of reality tv (dirt cheap) means that it's been made in vast quantities, dwarfing the reach that soap operas ever had.

Soap operas weren't choking out late night comedy, they were totally different products serving different needs, at different times. Reality tv changes that equation though, with the aforementioned cheapness, and perennial popularity. A lot of the old norms are gone too, around residuals, the "one for them, one for me" system, stars vs brand... and the result is often entertainment geared at cheap production and nothing else.

The other issue is that CGI, while it empowers amazing things, also empowers the creation of real trash. It's allowed Marvel movies to film without a complete script, figuring out the ending in AVR and CGI work... and it shows. A lot of old blockbusters were crap, but they were crap that at least had the requisite craftsmanship to be made and distributed to theaters around the world.

That barrier is gone, the gates are open and that means that hidden voices are emerging (hooray!) and also that a lot of people are so inundated by noise that they disengage.
by wiseowise | 2025-11-26 21:21:47+00:00
Modal editing is unintuitive for the same reason why new language you're learning unintuitive. Once you understand the rules, it is much more intuitive than any other editor. This is the reason why I use IdeaVim/VSCodeVim instead of learning "native" shortcuts.

Obligatory: https://i.imgur.com/WLzeQMj.png
by alextingle | 2025-11-26 21:22:18+00:00
Well, yes I do know when a C project only depends on my system libraries, because otherwise it won't compile. That's the point.

Furthermore, for the purposes of this discussion, it really doesn't matter what code there is in the C project. What's there has been put there by the people who run the project. If they are malicious, then at least I know who they are. With Rust, I'm downloading and compiling code from many, many third parties. I have no idea who they are. The potential for one of them to be malicious is much, much higher.
by input_sh | 2025-11-26 21:22:42+00:00
You're confusing recent sales figures with overall market shares. Both Tesla and Apple use this neat little trick to their advantage, not just in China, but also in the EU and I'm sure in other places.

They both sell only like 2-3 models at a time, always heavily preferencing one of them in marketing, and then use that to claim they have the "best selling phone in the market". Which is true, but is not the same as having that percentage of the overall market share as a brand.

Nearly every Tesla sale is a Model Y sale, and nearly every Apple sale is an iPhone 17 sale. This does not apply to other brands such as BYD, Geely, Huawei, Oppo, (Samsung, Volkswagen,) where you can walk into a store and pick between about a dozen models targeting different niches.

On top of that, Apple just started selling iPhone 17, so yes, if you Google it, you find out that they've "reached 25% of the Chinese market" and not realise that this is what happens every Q4 simply because that's when they start selling new models. That is not the same as having 25% of the overall market share at all. Overall, both Tesla and Apple are around fifth most popular brands.
by apple4ever | 2025-11-26 21:23:22+00:00
Plus if you look at the numbers (found in the comments of that story):

17.5% maintained 75+% of their weight loss. 25% maintained 50-75% of their weight loss. 23% maintained 25-50% of their weight loss. 24% maintained 0-25% of their weight loss.

I mean that's pretty good!
by dredmorbius | 2025-11-26 21:23:51+00:00
Demographics and geography approaches this through the notion of "metropolitan statistical area" (MSA) in the US, or equivalent concepts elsewhere. An MSA is defined as a "geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region".

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area>

Other rough equivalents are metropolitan areas (UK), census metropolitan areas (Canada), functional urban areas (FUA) (EU), urban agglomerations (India). All of these use functional and behavioural characteristics to get around simple boundary-demarkation. Urbanisations may even span national borders, as with the greater Basel region, Lake Constance, or Strasbourg-Ortenau.
by qazwsxedchac | 2025-11-26 21:24:09+00:00
That's exactly where the flaw likely is, on the side of the top surface layer which faces away from you. Air bubble in the plastic, or dust inclusion. If you really want to get to the bottom of it, put a 30x pocket microscope over the spot, you'll see the problem clearly. The bad news: It's neither fixable, nor covered by "dead pixel" / "stuck pixel" warranty policies.

(Source: First hand experience.)
by tetris11 | 2025-11-26 21:24:26+00:00
> I think the difference comes down to this: older movies took risks. They trusted audiences to pay attention, to feel something, to think. Scorsese and Tarantino had visions and the freedom to execute them without endless studio interference. They weren't chasing demographics or worrying about franchise potential. They were making films, not products.

By risks, you mean they weren't just following tropes, but subverting them, inventing their own, not rehashing exist IP.

I think that's the difference. Execs have run out of ideas, and so hedge on the familiar.
by tgsovlerkhgsel | 2025-11-26 21:24:31+00:00
I've seen a lot of conspiracy theories but nuke denialism is a new one. Do you think the US is faking it and the rest of the nuclear nations developed nukes, or the US was faking it but no longer is, or everyone is in on the conspiracy?

The answer to 1 is the always-popular "dilution is the solution to pollution", although that's not good enough for all cases, see the concept of "low-background steel".

I also don't think fire bombing and carpet bombing could explain the very nuke-specific effects observed in Japan. Remember, not everyone in the targeted cities and surrounding areas died, and to the survivors, a carpet/fire bombing is quite obviously different from a nuke. Faking it with 10000 tons of TNT (or "perhaps a larger amount") is kind of hard (unless you want to claim that the Japanese were in on it) when the largest heavy-lift aircraft (An-225) had a max takeoff weight (not payload) of 630 tons and was built decades later.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-11-26 21:24:35+00:00
My most "old woman yells at cloud" opinion is the fucking DISEASE of smartphones that is truly a cancer in our society. Don't get me wrong, I love mine, and they're completely possible to use in a way that coexists with the rest of your tech and life, but my god, the wide adoption of them has demonstrated the majority of our population has the regulation capacity of a fucking carrot.

And my inner artist is absolutely REPULSED at the notion that "oh I missed stuff in the movie cuz I was on my phone." Then put your fucking phone away. Watch a movie, or don't. Watch a show, or don't. Commit to taking in ONE PIECE of art at a time you fucking dopamine junkies.

I have a buddy, I absolutely love him, but I don't think that fucker has sat down with one medium at one time in YEARS. He leaves a stressful day job and he goes home and he watches YouTube or TV, while playing videogames. Every night. He got to the end of Pacific Drive and didn't know there was a fucking in-game radio station (with a whole host of absolute bangers btw).

Like I just... idk it makes my inner creative absolutely die inside how everyone is so utterly and hopelessly dependent on their dopamine treadmill that they've lost the ability to focus entirely.