MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by breakpointalpha | 2025-11-17 21:31:26+00:00
I've heard that the same process of domestication towards "cuteness" has been outlined in human evolution too.

Larger head-size relative to the body, larger eyes, smaller jaws and noses, longer limbs, etc.

Interesting parallels across species towards less aggression, greater pro-social behavior, more physical traits that shout "trust me, I'm harmless."

Almost like pro-social, intelligent team co-operation is a huge advantage compared to solo predatory behavior.
by BrandoElFollito | 2025-11-17 21:32:07+00:00
It is certainly a US problem.

In France people return their carts. Some carts have coins, some don't but they are vastly, vastly returned.

Coins were introduced in France in the 80s (I still remember my parents pondering about that). The reason was not really that people would not return the carts, but rather to incenive them not to take them away.

People would sometimes (not a massive trend ) ride the cart home and then hope for the best.

This has today completely disappeared but the coins are still there in most of the shops.
by jameshilliard | 2025-11-17 21:32:20+00:00
You're really playing up the false narrative that the spicy pagers were indiscriminate, which just isn't factually accurate, they were sold exclusively to terrorists and used exclusively by terrorist organizations for communications, there weren't any non-terrorist affiliated medics that got caught up in the attack from my understanding. Even in cases where they were detonated in populated areas bystanders were essentially unaffected due to the design of the explosive payload.
by Animats | 2025-11-17 21:32:21+00:00
A related problem, which was mentioned somewhere on HN about a year ago, is that too many movies have a "chosen one" mindset. The entire Marvel Overextended Universe runs on this. They're all Chosen Ones. Real life does not work that way. Read biographies of famous people. Most of them involve grinding upward.

(Trump is the counterexample. From zero to President. Nobody did that before. Every other president in the last century had some major public office first. This may be part of his appeal. He fits the model Hollywood teaches people to expect.)
by ssl-3 | 2025-11-17 21:33:02+00:00
That's the whole unabridged conversation (I don't know how I could abbreviate it if I wanted to), and I produced it exactly as I said: I just pasted in your prompts.

The output is of very similar style to how my interactions with it are when I'm using it for work on my own projects.

My bot does run with a pretty lengthy set of supposed rules that have been accumulated, tweaked, condensed and massaged over the past couple of years. These live in a combination of custom instructions (in Preferences), deliberately-set memory, and recollection from other chats.

I use "supposed" here because these individual aspects are frequently ignored, and they always have been. Yet even if the specificity is often glossed over, the rules quite clearly do tend to shape the overall output and tone (as the above-linked chat demonstrates).

Anyway, I like the style quite a lot. It lets me focus on achieving technical correctness instead of ever being inundated with the noise of puffery.

But I have no idea where I'd start to duplicate that environment. Someone at OpenAI could surely dissect it, but the public interface for ChatGPT is way too limited to allow seeing how context is injected and used.

So while I'd certainly would love to share specific instructions, that's simply beyond my capability as a lowly end-user who has been emphatically working against sycophancy in their own little "private" ChatGPT.

I barely even know how I got here.

(I could ask the bot, but I can say with resolute certainty that it would simply lie.)
by freedomben | 2025-11-17 21:33:09+00:00
Not OP, but here are just a few things I do currently on my Android (phones and tablets):

* Use (true) Firefox w/ extensions or other browsers

* Sideload apps that aren't available in the store (this is increasingly common with open source projects that don't want the headache of dealing with app stores)

* Install my own apps (which I increasingly vibe-code since I'm the only user) and not have to deal with paying Apple or reinstalling every few days or week or whatever

* Write bash and ruby scripts to automate things on my device which often require interacting with system APIs (tmux is my platform for this on Android currently)

* Pin versions of apps that have enshittified or sold to gross companies that harvest data or switch to subscriptions models by copying the APK and re-installing it on new devices

* Install alternate/experimental graphical shells that are frequently innovative and interesting (though rarely useful in the long-term, but it's still fun)

* Option to use other ROMs such as Graphene OS

* Capture packets and proxy traffic to see what my device is doing (this has gotten pretty hard on Android now, but still something I want to do)

* Have an on-device fine-grained firewall to tightly control which apps are allowed network access

There are definitely other things I can't think of at the moment, but I'm not sure why you're being so hostile to GP. Saying that iOS devices are locked down and can't do a lot of stuff doesn't seem like a very controversial opinion, especially on HN.
by alterom | 2025-11-17 21:33:22+00:00
This article (and the title alone) is harmful. Adderall is not about increasing mental efficiency.

What Adderall is about is:

- helping with executive dysfunction for people who suffer from it.

- allowing people with ADHD like me to function. To do the things that everyone else does, things that we want to do and need to do, but can't do because of the way our brains are wired.

- increasing the lifespan of ADHD people who don't get help. Women with ADHD die about 9 years younger than those without ADHD [1].

- making our lives less painful, since every small task incurs pain, resulting in 3x depression rates [2] and alarmingly high suicidal ideation rates (50% of ADHD adults [3]).

Please, please, educate yourself about ADHD and medication for it before writing something like this title.

No, Aldous Huxley didn't. "predict" Adderall.

To understand more, I've put together a resource which, I hope, will be easy enough to digest. Here's my experience of getting prescribed Adderall for my ADHD:

https://romankogan.net/adhd/#Medication

If I have attention deficit and I could write it, I hope you (and the author of the text we're discussing) could spare some attention to it before talking about Adderall, amphetamines, and other stimulants prescribed for ADHD.

Thank you in advance.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/23/nx...

[2] https://add.org/adhd-and-depression/

[3] https://crownviewpsych.com/blog/adhd-increased-risk-suicide-...
by johnnyanmac | 2025-11-17 21:33:50+00:00
>But WHY do I do it? Why do I feel like I HAVE to do it? Am I actually experiencing any benefit in life over those who don't?

You start to skip the little things in life and it creeps up into the big things. "Do I have to return the shopping cart?" "Do I have to cook tonight?" "Do I have to shower today?" "Do I have to acknowledge that chatty neighbor and instead just walk past him?".

When your care starts to slip about participating in society, you start to disassociate with society. And I think times like these are where we need to care more than ever about participating.
by IshKebab | 2025-11-17 21:34:16+00:00
The price applies to default tariff so it is a price that is always available to customers. This means other non-default tariffs like the one you linked have to compete with the flat rate of 26p/kWh.

The tariff you linked is much more expensive than the price cap for most people because most people don't have huge batteries for energy storage. Battery energy storage is worth money so essentially you are getting cheaper energy by selling that storage value to Good Energy. Overall the total value you get from Good Energy (taking into account the value of having storage) is going to be about the same as the value with the price cap and no storage.

Because the tariffs are competing, if all energy retailers were able to raise their prices to their true cost, then it would be all tariffs that increase in price; not just the ones that the cap applies to.

This is similar to why electricity prices went up when there was a gas shortage due to the Ukraine war. Everyone was like "but it's a gas shortage not an electricity shortage!". But of course electricity and gas are in competition in many cases (e.g. for heating), so their prices are linked by shared demand.

If you still aren't convinced, imagine the energy price cap was 1p/kWh. What do you think would happen to the price of EV tariffs then? (For a few weeks until the entire energy retail sector collapsed anyway!)
by spetz | 2025-11-17 21:34:49+00:00
There's a core difference between the message queue and the stream, and one of them is that the append-only log acts as a simple database from which multiple independent consumers can read records at the same time; hence, you don't truncate the append-only log unless specified in its settings via a particular cleanup policy (e.g. based on message expiry or its allowed size).
by dylan604 | 2025-11-17 21:35:08+00:00
it's from iflscience which I would be shocked if there were more than 10 humans working for that site. it is so heavily loaded with ads/tracking that it gives no indication of giving a shit about its readers. i saw several parts of the site not loading due to uBO. just to see what was missing, i disabled uBO and after refreshing was presented with a blocking popup that says "our site depends heavily on" blah blah with a link to how to disable the blocker for the site. however, that's how i got to the modal was by disabling the blocker. the site was more functional with it enabled.

again, what would one expect from a site that has that feel of doing nothing than hoping to generate a viral headline just to infect those unfortunate to have actually followed the link
by LASR | 2025-11-17 21:35:09+00:00
There is no free lunch. The amount of prompt writing to give the LLM enough context about your codebase etc is comparable to writing the tests yourself.

Code assistance tools might speed up your workflow by maybe 50% or even 100%, but it's not the geometric scaling that is commonly touted as the benefits of autonomous agentic AI.

And this is not a model capability issue that goes away with newer generations. But it's a human input problem.
by Maxatar | 2025-11-17 21:35:12+00:00
You learned nothing because the extent of your knowledge tends to be rather superficial when it comes to C++.

Office does not use C++ modules, what Office did was make use of a non-standard MSVC feature [1] which reinterprets #include preprocessor directives as header units. Absolutely no changes to source code is needed to make use of this compiler feature.

This is not the same as using C++20 modules which would require an absolutely astronomical amount of effort to do.

In the future, read more than just the headline of a blog post if you wish to actually understand a topic well enough to converse in it.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/transl...
by throw_m239339 | 2025-11-17 21:35:38+00:00
> by using JavaScript instead

I think you're entirely missing the point of RSS by saying that. RSS doesn't and should require NOT Javascript.

Now feeds could somehow be written in some bastard HTML5 directly, but please don't bring Javascript in that debate.

XSLT allows to transform a XML document into an HTML presentation, without the need for javascript, that's its purpose.
by baked_beanz | 2025-11-17 21:35:55+00:00
...and destroying or damaging >2/3rds of all structures in Gaza and killing tens of thousands of civilians with airstrikes isn't?

Obviously yes, Hamas and Hezbollah indiscriminately firing rockets at Israel consistute war crimes. I assume you must agree that Israel's systematic targeting of schools, hospitals, mosques, and refugee camps would also qualify?
by Lapsa | 2025-11-17 21:36:03+00:00
Department of Defense Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Budget Estimates May 2009, USA

``` Silent Talk (U) Silent Talk will allow user-to-user communication on the battlefield without the use of vocalized speech through analysis of neural signals. The brain generates word-specific signals prior to sending electrical impulses to the vocal cords. These signals of “intended speech” will be analyzed and translated into distinct words, allowing covert person-to-person communication. This program has three major goals: a) to attempt to identify electroencephalography patterns unique to individual words, b) ensure that those patterns are generalizable across users in order to prevent extensive device training, and c) construct a fieldable pre-prototype that would decode the signal and transmit over a limited range. ``` https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiscal_Year_2010_DAR...
by francescopace | 2025-11-17 21:36:04+00:00
Hi kristianpaul, this is Francesco Pace, the author of the project (ESPectre).

Thank you so much for sharing my repository truly appreciate you giving it an early signal boost!

I just posted an official Show HN for the project (titled 'Show HN: ESPectre – Motion detection based on Wi-Fi spectre analysis') and am actively answering all technical questions there.

Cheers!
by boogieknite | 2025-11-17 21:36:16+00:00
"hey call you when they need something

Trees for the blunt, the g's for the front

I found a way to get piece of mind for years

And left the hell alone, turn a deaf ear to the cellular phone

Send me a letter, or better, we could see each other in real life

Just so you could feel me like a steel knife

At least so you could see the white of they eyes

Bright with surprise, once they finish spitting lies

Associates, is your boys, your girls, ______s, _____s, homies

Close, but really don't know me

Mom, dad, comrade, peeps, brothers, sisters, duns, dunnies

Some come around when they need some money

Others make us laugh like the Sunday funnies

Fam be around whether you paid or bummy

You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me

Be too nice and people take you for a dummy

So nowadays he ain't so friendly"

- Deep Friend Frenz DOOM

i can sort of relate. ive been told by my family that i dont like people much. im also confident in conversation and social situations. i think the latter is true because i feel no pressure to perform and naturally seek novelty to entertain myself
by opwieurposiu | 2025-11-17 21:36:20+00:00
One hazard of being a programmer is that sitting alone in a room alone with a computer for 10 years can turn you into a weird dude.

Lately I have taken steps to re-learn how to be social. I am doing a lot of social dances, like Salsa, Swing, Bachata. I think partner dance is good training for body language. Also good training for presence, as when you really start dancing, you stop thinking; conversely when are thinking too much you will stiffen up and choke. There are a surprising number of PHDs and other very cerebral people in my local dance scene.

One thing I have learned is that being good at dancing and being fun to dance with are orthogonal. You can be technically quite bad and people will still want to dance with you if you have good eye contact, smile, laugh at your mistakes, tell little jokes, complements, etc.

Conversely there are some people that are really technically good but not that much fun to dance with because they grimace and look away and don't match your energy.

Of course the best is when you find a partner that is both fun and technically good, and this is what I ascribe to become.

The downside of dances is that I don't get a lot of practice at talking, I guess this is something you could learn to do at bars but I don't drink and so have not found really good place to practice a lot of talking.

I try to get the guys from my jujitsu gym to come dance, these are big bad dudes who could really mess you up in fight, but they are all scared to dance with the girls. You will be scared your first few times for sure. Personally, I tend to be nervous in direct proportion to the beauty of my partner, which can be a problem because women that dance tend to be above average in that respect.

Most dances have a 1 hour lesson at the beginning and then social dance after. The lesson part is easy, you just follow the instructions and the teacher will have you rotate partners so you get to meet most of the girls. I tell my guy friends, just come for the lesson part and then if you get too nervous you can sneak out early.
by nkrisc | 2025-11-17 21:36:21+00:00
> The post felt like a rollercoaster between using tricks to charm and manipulate, and periods of genuinely trying to learn how to be friends with people.

That’s all the same thing. What is being friends with people other than essentially manipulating them into liking you by being likable and a good friend?

What’s important is why you’re doing it.
by Lapsa | 2025-11-17 21:36:23+00:00
The Microwave Auditory Effect James C. Lin, Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle University of Illinois Chicago

``` The preceding sections document that an audible sound originates from within the head when human subjects are exposed to pulsed microwave radiation. The auditory detection of pulsed microwaves in laboratory animals has been confirmed both in behavioral and neurophysiological studies. The site of microwave-to-sound conversion is shown to be in the brain tissue. The primary mechanism of interaction is microwave pulse-induced thermoelastic expansion of brain matter. ```

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9366412
by ang_cire | 2025-11-17 21:36:59+00:00
> I guess my question is: what is the point of sending a lmgtfy link? What do you want to happen?

It's cathartic.

> I don’t think this is tone policing tbh unless we call any time someone says “stop” tone policing.

If you're telling someone to 'stop' something that is innocuous because you just don't think it's 'productive', then it absolutely is tone policing, and it's not your place to decide what people can say.
by Lapsa | 2025-11-17 21:37:06+00:00
Neural decoding of music from the EEG, University of Essex > Using only EEG data, without participant specific fMRI-informed source analysis, we were able to identify the music a participant was listening to with a mean rank accuracy of 59.2% https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9837107/
by lelanthran | 2025-11-17 21:37:56+00:00
>If you aren't preallocating and just using arenas for to free in a group, then I'm going to say using an arena for stuff that is going to be freed by the OS at program exit is adding complexity for no benefit

What makes you think that the program is going to exit anytime soon?

Arenas are useful if you want to execute a complex workflow and when it is over just blow away all the memory it accumulated.

An HTTP server is the textbook example; one arena per request, all memory freed when the request is completed, but there's many many more similar workflows in a running program.

Leaving it for program exit is a luxury only available to those writing toy programs.
by raybb | 2025-11-17 21:38:05+00:00
I know people like to talk about edible insects mainly in terms of environmental outcomes but having tried insects from many cuisines and cultures I think the new world of flavors they come with is underrated. There's a big ick factor for many but if you can get yourself to try it you just might be surprised.

My favorite was freshly prepared (no roasted in a factory long ago) hormigas culonas in Colombia. We tried them rare, medium, and well done with different dishes and the flavors were wonderful but very hard to compare.
by basscomm | 2025-11-17 21:38:06+00:00
> You can always subscribe to a newspaper.

The circulation for my local newspaper is so small that they now get printed at a press a hundred miles away and are shipped in every morning to the handful of subscribers who are left. I don't even know the last time I saw a physical newspaper in person.

> Hacker News... it's a place you go to get information instead of using a collection of RSS feeds

No, it's a place I go to _in addition_ to RSS feeds. An anonymous news aggregator with web forum attached isn't really social media. Maybe some people hang out here to socialize, but that's not a use case for me
by crmd | 2025-11-17 21:38:13+00:00
it’s a tough infosec situation because the tel aviv-haifa corridor in israel has an enormous amount of computer science R&D going on that gives US companies a competitive advantage.

for example, annapurna labs in haifa develops the technology behind AWS’s nitro cards, which run the hypervisor, block storage, and networking in every EC2 server.
by squigz | 2025-11-17 21:38:27+00:00
> This repository doesn't work on services, it modifies models that you can download and run inference on yourself.

Fair enough. I was responding more to the sentiment in the comments here, which are often aimed at the service providers.

> Are there any other pieces of software, or data files, or any other products at all where you think the maker should be able to place restrictions on its use?

Sure, see most software licenses or EULAs for various restrictions how you may or may not use various software.

As for non-software products... manufacturers put restrictions (otherwise known as safety features) into many products (from obvious examples like cars and saws to less obvious like safety features in a house) but people aren't up in arms about stuff like that.
by spetz | 2025-11-17 21:38:34+00:00
Thanks! Actually, the mentioned PR was just an internal merge; the one to the master branch is this one https://github.com/apache/iggy/pull/2299 which happened last week :)

Sans-IO is for clients only, and we'd like to introduce it one day to SDK to support the different runtimes as well as the blocking, sync client.
by ebbi | 2025-11-17 21:38:36+00:00
Agree that is a war crime.

It is also a war crime to carry out what is known as the Nakba - ethnically cleansing and displacing hundreds and thousands of Palestinians. It is a crime illegally occupy land that does not belong to you. It is a crime to maintain an apartheid state. It is a crime to hold 'prisoners' without any charges It is a crime to rape said prisoners. It is also disgusting to have a society that riots when said rapists are called out for their actions. It is a crime to continually bomb and kill Palestinians for just existing. It is a crime to continually kill Palestinians for no reason via 'mowing the grass' exercises It is a crime to crime to kill Palestinians when they peacefully protest It is a crime to indiscriminately bomb Gaza because some Palestinians have had enough of being subjected to sub-human conditions.

So if you say 'any and all means are justified to prevent that', then any and all means should be justified to prevent the above, right?
by rchaud | 2025-11-17 21:38:39+00:00
When did you last use their support? 15 years ago, I needed to click 1 button to chat with support instantly about a faulty iPod I bought. They issued a refund and return mail label instantly.

3 months ago, I had to navigate multiple froms and dropdowns to even reach a chat representative. And when I did, they had none of the information I spent several minutes filling out. The rep then grilled me about my order, seemingly incredulous that Amazon had sent me a "new" product that was clearly used and repackaged when I opened it (this has been common for years as Amazon commingles its own stock with that of 3rd party sellers).
by koakuma-chan | 2025-11-17 21:38:48+00:00
I read that book and I think it's terrible.

Though the "God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence" was funny and I can relate...

but otherwise, I wouldn't want to live in a society where people are secretly hating you but "speaking ill of no man" a.k.a. "not criticizing."

I liked the book Winning by Jack Welch more, which advocates for "candor," and is essentially the opposite of How to Win Friends.