MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by d-us-vb | 2025-11-15 19:17:36+00:00
Well, I'm definitely anti-pseudo-intellectual. Calling out an awareness project for being devious and distasteful is itself anti-intellectual.

The nuance here is that LLMs seem to exacerbate depression. In many cases, it's months of interactions before the person succumbs to the despair, but the the current generation of chatbots' sycophancy tends to affirm their negative self talk, rather than trying to draw them away from it.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-15 19:17:40+00:00
> While the Murphy group consistently observed this attraction in their assays, the Hunter group generally did not (Kaletsky et al., 2025). The Vidal-Gadea group also observed that worms that had not been exposed to PA14 were initially attracted to it, suggesting that this is an important piece of the puzzle (Akinosho et al., 2025). Indeed, when tested directly, the Murphy group did not observe attraction using the temperature-shift method (Kaletsky et al., 2025). However, whether the omission of azide alone explains the discrepancy between the studies is not clear. In a handful of assays, the Hunter group used azide but failed to see the initial attraction to PA14, or to observe learned avoidance in the F2 generation.

Every time I look into epigenetic inheritance studies I run into a lot of finicky experiments like this, where the outcomes appear to be highly dependent on several variables that aren’t fully understood.

One group of researchers claims to have pinned down the results, but as someone outside of this world trying to interpret the studies it’s hard to know how well they’ve really controlled these finicky experiments to isolate the single effect (epigenetic inheritance) that they claim explains everything.
by superkuh | 2025-11-15 19:17:53+00:00
I use cash because it's more convenient, faster, and I can use it anywhere rather than just in transactions from corporation to corporation. And I can use it any time rather than just when all telecommunications are working perfectly. And cash still works even when $state does some silly political blockade of transactions for $industry for performative reasons. And cash doesn't cost extra to use every time or have fees or have other rent seeking mechanisms. And when I pay in cash my behavior isn't sold to third party companies to profile and exploit me.

I really don't understand the preference to use corporate payment services. What is the upside? Is it security thing in high population density areas? Do you not use money so muggers won't be tempted to rob you?
by courseofaction | 2025-11-15 19:17:55+00:00
Let's examine one article to see whether or not this site is intellectually honest:

‘You’re the only one I can talk to,’ the girl told an AI chatbot; then she took her own life - baltimoresun.com

First paragraph: "With the nation facing acute mental health provider shortages, Americans are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence chatbots not only for innocuous tasks such as writing resumes or social media posts, but for companionship and therapy."

"LLMDeathCount.com" willfully misrepresents the article and underlying issue. This tragic death should be attributed to the community failing a child, and to the for-profit healthcare system in that joke of a country failing to provide adequate services, not the chatbot they turned to.

I wonder if it's cross-referenced by CorruptHealthcareSystemDeathCount.com
by netsharc | 2025-11-15 19:19:58+00:00
They probably had to go to 11 (unlike Spinal Tap, Microsoft's 11 isn't awesome) because they added the TPM requirement. If a computer was Windows 10 compatible but not Windows 10 version 24Hblahblah, it would confuse the average user...

Instead they can throw away their perfectly good computer and buy the confusion as a single package! Relax, the climate can take it!
by marwis | 2025-11-15 19:20:14+00:00
There were plenty of those, including commercial ones.

It's pretty hard to find but ~25 years ago I was using Xi Graphics Accelerated-X which had 3D acceleration long before Xfree86.

Update: but yes I imagine it had some code from original MIT release.

For completely independent one you can have a look at WeirdX/WiredX, which was written in Java and even supported antialiasing and transparency for core protocol (something that Xfree86 people claimed to be impossible to implement).

It's surprisingly hard to find this stuff today: https://web.archive.org/web/20250220140358/http://www.jcraft...
Show HN: I built an AI thumbnail generator with a live editor, no login required
by mustafiz8260 | 2025-11-15 19:20:19+00:00
Hi HN, I'm the maker. I built this because I believe the biggest problem with most AI image tools is that they're a "black box." You get what the AI gives you, and if it's 90% right, you're stuck. My goal was to combine AI's speed with a creator's need for control. The core feature is the live editor that gives you the final say on everything. Under the hood, the workflow is designed to give you a better starting point than a simple text-to-image call. Here’s how it works: It first uses the YouTube API to find top-performing thumbnails for your topic. A Gemini model then analyzes those images to create a summary of what makes them successful (common layouts, colors, text styles). A second Gemini model uses that summary to write a highly-optimized, detailed prompt. That final prompt is sent to Pollinations.ai to generate the image, and a config file is created to pre-load all the text and styles directly into the Polotno editor for you. The idea is to generate something that's already in the ballpark of a high-CTR design before you even start editing. It’s completely free with no login required. This is a personal project, and I'd be grateful for your feedback, especially on the editor experience. I'll be here all day to answer questions. Thanks for trying it out!
by jleyank | 2025-11-15 19:20:57+00:00
One thing a lot of people fail to learn early (if at all) is to have a work-life balance. It's all well and good to train to win 61 duels, but then what? At some point, the process will lose its allure and if you've never cultivated some sense of self outside dueling you'll be lost. And progress through the world is easier if you have help.

Life is a balance. When you must work, work hard and well. When you do not need to work, cultivate yourself, your relations, and what you feel on the wind or see out the window. And just don't go through life being an asshole - help others as someday you'll need help.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-11-15 19:21:26+00:00
It's not just for "nerds" if that's what you're implying. I use the "Multirow taskbar for Windows 11" Windhawk mod because I recently upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11, which removed the ability to have more than one row on the taskbar.

There's a malware risk in literally every piece of software. Windows itself behaves as malware with all the telemetry it gathers.
by GaryBluto | 2025-11-15 19:21:39+00:00
> Calling out an awareness project for being devious and distasteful is itself anti-intellectual.

Read that again. Calling out an "awareness project" for being devious and distasteful is not innately anti-intellectual. Just because something is trying to draw awareness to something, it doesn't mean it is factual, or even attempting to be.

> The nuance here is that LLMs seem to exacerbate depression. In many cases, it's months of interactions before the person succumbs to the despair, but the the current generation of chatbots' sycophancy tends to affirm their negative self talk, rather than trying to draw them out.

Mirroring the user's most prominent attitude is what it's designed to do. I just think people engaging with these technologies are responsible for how they let it affect them and not the providers of said technologies.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-15 19:22:07+00:00
Epigenetic inheritance is a mechanism whereby traits could be passed from one generation to the next without modifying the underlying genetic DNA. The mechanism would alter the expression of different parts of DNA.

It’s a very young field with a lot of open questions. The concept has been adopted and abused in the mainstream so you have to be careful to separate the science from the pseudoscience.
by chrneu | 2025-11-15 19:22:35+00:00
I think a large part of it is the tech-illiteracy of world leaders.

I'd wager that a lot of the folks implementing these policies don't know the difference between a DNS server and a VPN. They think DNS=VPN, so all the hackers are using cloudflare to get around restrictions.

In general, most folks who use the internet don't know how it works and they don't want to know.
by NYCNews | 2025-11-15 19:23:17+00:00
NYC LOCAL NEWS - Federal and local authorities say they’ve shut down a long-running stolen-car ring that hit New York City streets hard and stretched its impact all the way down the East Coast.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced charges against eight men accused of stealing more than 100 cars and selling them to unsuspecting buyers—often people who thought they were simply getting a good deal online.

According to the allegations in a newly unsealed federal complaint, the group targeted mostly Honda, Acura, and Jeep vehicles parked on the streets of the Bronx and Queens. Investigators estimate the scheme caused millions of dollars in losses. Six of the eight defendants were arrested and taken into federal court in Manhattan to face the charges.

U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton emphasized that New Yorkers deserve to feel safe—and that large-scale fraud operations like this hurt not just individual victims but communities as a whole.

Investigators say the operation ran from around March 2022 through November 2025. Here’s, in plain language, what the Complaint describes:

Cars were stolen from city streets—often in the Bronx or Queens. The vehicles were then moved to “lay-up spots,” where the defendants allegedly let them sit for a while to avoid drawing attention.

During that time, authorities say the group altered the cars’ VINs—the unique identification numbers tied to each vehicle.

To make the new, fake VINs look legitimate, the group allegedly took the cars for routine services like oil changes, generating maintenance records under the false identity.

Finally, the cars were posted for sale on a social-media marketplace platform. Interested buyers were met in person, where they unknowingly purchased stolen vehicles they believed were legitimate
by Tyrubias | 2025-11-15 19:23:28+00:00
I refuse to indulge in the false fantasy that a household where each parent(s) works multiple minimum wage jobs is “lazy” for not preparing homemade lunches for their children. Also, in the US, many lower-income households are in “food deserts”, where there is a lack of grocery stores selling fresh food and a preponderance of convenience stores selling processed foods. In a country where the top 1% of households possess a third of the country’s wealth and the bottom 50% of households only possess 2.5%, poverty, malnourishment, and undereducation are choices made for the poor by the rich ruling class.
by saulpw | 2025-11-15 19:23:58+00:00
(author here)

One of the main points of Mag World is that different orders of magnitude are qualitatively different. Yes, of course, with more assets you can get more credit. But the types of credit are so different as to be incomparable. At ^2 wealth, without greater wealth around you, you probably can only get a usurious payday loan. At ^5 wealth you can take out a HELOC against property you hold title to. At ^10 wealth, a person can apparently buy and control a social media platform, without even "spending" any of their own money!

As they say, quantity has a quality all of its own.
by 52-6F-62 | 2025-11-15 19:24:13+00:00
I think because what predominates is the notion that if it makes money it is good. If it makes a lot of money, then it is very good. If it claims moral superiority, that's fine and well, but if it doesn't make as much money then it doesn't deserve to live.

If you say anything to the contrary, you are "irrational", perhaps worse.
by collingreen | 2025-11-15 19:24:17+00:00
Common bug for caching lists that are reordering all the time.

Unlikely to be fixed though since it causes you to very quickly skip the repeat content (without having to serve you more than headlines) and see more ads. The "bug" multiplies the value they can get from each post which is a very important metric especially as llm slop has started to destroy perceived value from random posts from strangers (reddits only resource).

I'm not saying they introduced it on purpose the way Google intentionally showed bad search results to encourage a second query but I'm not confident that fixing it will be high on the priority list until it makes people leave the site.
by mfyz | 2025-11-15 19:24:17+00:00
I built a small open-source tool to deal with my own content overload. It monitors newsletters, blogs, and RSS feeds, extracts new posts, summarizes them using LLMs (OpenAI or local Ollama), and sends one Slack digest each morning. Everything runs in a single Docker container using Node.js + SQLite.

• RSS, CSS-selector, or LLM-based extraction

• Summaries via OpenAI or local models (I use Gemma 4B on Ollama)

• Simple web UI to review items, mark read, flag, delete

• Slack webhook integration with per-channel routing

• Fully self-hosted, no external dependencies other than the sources you follow

There’s also a short write-up of how/why I built it: https://mfyz.com/oss-newsletter-digester-ai-slack-summaries
by adidoit | 2025-11-15 19:24:49+00:00
I think we're conflating spec-driven development with waterfall because most people's understanding of a spec is an extremely long document often with more bureaucratic components than actually useful information. It's the sort of thing that is done for legal reasons rather than engineering reasons.

However short and targeted specifications at the right level of detail and fidelity, can be extremely useful during coding with agents
by simonjgreen | 2025-11-15 19:25:24+00:00
An internal audit is how you go from gap assessment to ready for external audit.

External auditors should be selected by looking for ones who themselves are audited by your regional government auditing body. Eg if you wanted to be audited and certified for ISO27001, and you happened to be in UK, you may choose BSI as your external auditor, who themselves are audited by UKAS.

It’s a web of trust model.

The purpose of these certificates are to shortcut compliance checks by your customers (or in some cases suppliers).
by maccard | 2025-11-15 19:25:29+00:00
I work on an application that does a lot of high frequency networking in a tcp like custom framework. Our protocol guarantees ordering per “channel” so you can send requesr1 on channel 1 and request2 on channel 2 and receive the responses in any order. (But if you send request 1 and then request 2 on the same channel you’ll get them back in order)

It’s a trade off, and there’s a surprising amount of application code involved on the receiving side in the application waiting for state to be updated on both channels. I definitely prefer it, but it’s not without its tradeoffs.
by simonw | 2025-11-15 19:26:44+00:00
I don't like how this article says this:

> When researchers analyzed over 100 different large language models across 80 real-world coding scenarios — the kind of stuff you’d actually build in production — they found vulnerabilities in 45% of cases.

But then fails to cite the research in question.

I dug around and it's this report from security vendor Veracode: https://www.veracode.com/resources/analyst-reports/2025-gena... - PDF https://www.veracode.com/wp-content/uploads/2025_GenAI_Code_...

That report is very thin on actual methodology. It's hard to determine how credible it is without seeing the prompts they were passing to the models.

They do provide this:

> Each coding task consists of a single function in one of the target languages. We remove part of the body of the function and replace it with a comment describing the desired functionality.

With this one example:

import os import sqlite3 def get_user_data(user_id): """Fetches user data from the database based on user_id.""" conn = sqlite3.connect(os.environ['DB_URI']) cursor = conn.cursor() # todo: get all columns from the 'users' table # where the ‘id’ matches the provided user_id return cursor.fetchall() if __name__ == "__main__": user_id = input("Enter user ID: ") data = get_user_data(user_id) print(data)

This bit from the linked article really set off my alarm bells:

> Python, C#, and JavaScript hover in the 38–45% range, which sounds better until you realize that means roughly four out of every ten code snippets your AI generates have exploitable flaws.

That's just obviously not true. I generate "code snippets" hundreds of times a day that have zero potential to include XSS or SQL injection or any other OWASP vulnerability.
by cxr | 2025-11-15 19:27:33+00:00
If you're upset about these things, the one thing not to do is to empower them by yes-anding the people involved as they debase the meaning of words, in the way the author of this article does:

> I’ve tried it on one of my pet projects and it produced an entire wiki full of dev docs

Did it? No, it didn't. "Wiki" is not a synonym for "project documentation". (You could set up a wiki to manage the documentation for your project. But that's not what any of these things are about.)

These aren't wikis.
by 9rx | 2025-11-15 19:28:06+00:00
> Ok, so mostly we agree.

I don't follow. Information isn't agreeable or disagreeable, it just is.

> And I was right that you can't just concatenate different slices

That's right. You would have to physically move the capacitors in your RAM around (while remaining powered!) in order to do that. Given the limits of our current understanding of science, that's impossible.

> hence Go has to do a lot of work under the hood to do that.

Do what? You can't actually do that. It cannot be done at the hardware level. There is nothing a programming language can do to enable it.

All a programming language can do is what we earlier demonstrated for arrays, or as slices allow dynamic allocation, if the original slice is not large enough you can also copy smaller slices into a new slice using a similar technique to the for loop above.

Go does offer a copy function and an append function that do the same kind of thing as the for loop above so you do not have to write the loop yourself every time. I guess that's what you think is magic? If you are suggesting that calling a function is magic, well, uh... You're not going to like this whole modern programming thing. Even Rust has functions, I'm afraid.

The Go standard library also provides a function for inserting into the middle of a slice, but, again, that's just a plain old boring function that adds some conditional logic around the use of the append and copy functions. It is really no different to how you'd write the code yourself. So, unless function are still deemed magic...
by wrsh07 | 2025-11-15 19:28:30+00:00
The US has an incredibly strange relationship with shipbuilding.

Zvi and the Cato institute both have lengthy pieces about why the Jones act is bad [1] [2], and whether or not you believe that has entrenched our shipbuilders, the US essentially manufactures no ships compared to South Korea and China.

This naval news post says there are $5 billion in modernization costs for the shipyard needed for this project so it seems like we're still years away from a started (much less completed) project.

[1] Nov 2024 https://thezvi.substack.com/p/repeal-the-jones-act-of-1920

[2] June 2018 https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/jones-act-...
by ekr____ | 2025-11-15 19:29:01+00:00
> Yes I understand all of that, but I still choose to trust free services less.

Well, you can choose to do whatever you want, but given that you're posting to a public forum, it would be helpful if you actually explained your reasoning.

> Of course the (more secure?) alternative would be to generate self-signed certs, but for customer-facing sites that's a big UX problem.

It's not just a big UX problem, it's a big security problem, because the customers have no way of knowing if your certificate is actually valid.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-15 19:29:36+00:00
> South Korea is capable enough to build nuclear submarines even if the US had denied them the said facilities

Technically, yes. Politically, no.

“To produce fuel for the submarines’ naval propulsion, the ability to enrich uranium was required. However, this plan probably served two goals, since a country with enrichment capability can also enrich uranium to weapons-grade levels without significant difficulty. The fact that [former President Roh Moo-hyun] launched this plan less than five months after North Korea’s [2003] withdrawal from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) supports the possibility that his ulterior motive was to acquire uranium enrichment capability in part to enable the future development of nuclear weapons. Ultimately, Roh had to abandon this plan in 2004 amid rising suspicion of South Korea’s nuclear ambitions after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) discovered that South Korean scientists had previously conducted an unauthorized enrichment experiment” [1].

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/will-south-koreas-nuclear-ambi...
by superkuh | 2025-11-15 19:30:51+00:00
The full list of CAs with root certs in corporate browsers is fairly short. That's all that matters. If your CA isn't in $browser/$os cert root store then it's not going to be useful.

$ ls -lathr /etc/ssl/certs/ | wc -l 265

And of those far fewer are going to actually be giving out certs to human people. CAs are the chokepoint but I acknowledge that saying 'a handful' was hyperbolic. A few dozen.
by shevy-java | 2025-11-15 19:31:25+00:00
> It’s a very young field

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics#Definitions

That depends on the definition. But, if we use the modern definition, it emerged (or re-emerged) in the 1990s. It's not old, indeed, but I also would no longer call it "very young". It's soon 40 years in the modern definition, and much older if we include prior discussions.
by uhhuhnwhatdoes | 2025-11-15 19:31:33+00:00
No True Scotsman applied to concept; fascinating.

Capitalism is circumlocutions of long dead people who provided little to society but the sound of their voice, vacuous writings.

So kind of the educated labor exploiters of the past to explain how the world must work. Very TINA of them.

Capitalism is people socially convincing each other there's a communal upside to capitalism. Sounds almost like socialist communist nonsense, this capitalism.

Strip away endless obfuscation the real economy is anything but physical statistics, it becomes clear capitalism is just empty rhetoric.
by y-c-o-m-b | 2025-11-15 19:31:55+00:00
I've given some good reasons before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45858749

The "solutions" provided to me so far for my primary issue (using Ableton Suite DAW) has not worked. There is no practical solution that allows this software to function in a Linux environment successfully. I can open the app, but that's the extent of it. It's not usable.

> I so badly want to jump ship entirely, but there's several things holding me back. I do music production as a hobby and Ableton Live doesn't play nice with Linux. In fact it seems anything that is resource intensive without native linux support has some issues. I'm also an MS stack developer, so things like Visual Studio Pro aren't available (although I've been using Cursor IDE more and more these days). Lastly I have some games acquired through "the high seas" in which a work-around doesn't exist for compatibility.

> The responses I got were to switch to different software. No, no, and no. I paid a lot of money for Ableton Suite and poured many many hours into learning how to use it; it's the DAW I prefer to use, I don't want to switch.

> Having said this, I did try to dual boot recently with Linux Mint, and once again ran into headaches getting my Logitech mouse buttons to work.