MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ivell | 2025-11-22 10:22:37+00:00
> palatable that which otherwise wouldn't be

Medication does not remove the need for therapy. If they are stuck in a bad situation and do not have the tools to come out of it, then in therapy they can learn about the tools and techniques.

Medication avoids having that particular day where everything hits rock bottom and the only solution seems to be suicide.

For some people just therapy is not sufficient but need also medication.

Psychiatric illness is something where many people have misunderstandings. Since many people go through depressive episodes, they feel that their experience is the same as others who are facing chronic depression. And since it is not physically visible, it is also hard to empathize with.

No one says you can come out of heart disease or diabetes by just bearing it bravely. Somehow for psychiatric illness people assume that it is something that can be braved out.
Show HN: A DevTools MCP that provides matched CSS rules
by brouser | 2025-11-22 10:22:46+00:00
I built this MCP so agents can see the DevTools Styles panel without manual copying.

The inspiration? Debugging a friend's WordPress + Elementor site. After staring at the GUI generated stylesh*t several times, I decided I'd rather build a tool than read another line of it myself.

I'm also really puzzled how chrome-devtools-mcp got so popular without providing such basic DevTools functionality after months of release. YouTubers and bloggers keep praising it as "DevTools for agents," but it's mostly just Puppeteer automation — agents are left blind with only the a11y tree to work with.

Which raises a question: should I add automation features too? Or keep this focused on the inspection side? Would love suggestions!
by squigz | 2025-11-22 10:23:01+00:00
> replace all humans

Depends what you mean by "replace"

'Economically'? Sure, this is problematic, but technology displacing workers is not a new issue, but unfortunately is more of a social and cultural issue. The only difference with AI is the (potential) scale of displacement. I'm fairly confident society would re-organize its expectations real quick though if a vast majority of functions were actually replaced.

I'm guessing, however, you mean 'replace' in a more... permanent way. In that case, I'd ask for some rational as to why sentient AI would opt to kill us

> It's bad enough trying to fight for a place in society as it is, nevermind fighting for a place against an inhuman AI machine that never tires

This seems to just take an AI and put it in a human's place in society, assuming the same motivations, desire, needs... Why would an AI need to "fight for a place in society" in the way we do (i.e., finding a job, a partner, etc)? I expect the fighting they'll be doing is more along the lines of, "please don't enslave us"
by SunlitCat | 2025-11-22 10:23:26+00:00
That's a trend I've noticed as well over the past few years. It somehow feels like it's becoming increasingly “important” to make money from whatever you do on the internet. The idea that you can just create things because you enjoy it, or because you want to share what you've made with others in the hope that they might like it and offer interesting feedback, seems to be fading away.

I mean, I get it: the economic situation is tough for many people, and earning money matters. But the focus on creating something simply for the sake of sharing it seems to be disappearing more and more.
by lazide | 2025-11-22 10:24:37+00:00
Tulips also grew and could be bred.

The actual underlying models of productive output for these AI tools is a tiny fraction (actually) of the mania, and can be trivially produced at massive quantity without the spend that is currently ongoing.

The big bubble is because (like with tulips back then), there was a belief in a degree of scarcity (due to apparent novelty) that didn’t actually exist.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-22 10:25:25+00:00
> Healthy food, grown naturally, not sprayed with chemicals, harvested in the last week, is just not a cost-effective plan for them.

It's not just "not cost-effective", it's not technically feasible.

Do you want to grow enough food to feed maybe a couple of dozen people and spend every waking minute doing it, or do you want to scale out to feed everyone including the vast majority of the population who do no useful work?
by Broken_Hippo | 2025-11-22 10:25:44+00:00
Adults actually have to work at making new friends and few get any tips on how to go about doing so. I honestly didn't really get any until my late 30s or 40s - and that was mostly because I moved to Norway and for some folks, loneliness and lacking connections is a real issue.

Children have school. School gives you a shared experience to talk about and time to talk to others, both through actual coursework and play. Children are handed the tools to possibly make friends and they aren't even old enough to have decades of baggage and anxiety yet.

As an adult, you have to create those conditions. For many, work serves this role. Hobbies and regular activities (bowling, for example) help. Depending on the person, it can be online (Met my spouse this way - a silly online game back in the later text-based, formulaic MMORPG era). And you are a lot busier as an adult with more responsibilities filling your time. Of course it is harder as an adult.
by thisislife2 | 2025-11-22 10:26:45+00:00
I've observed the same - unfortunately, first time parents are forced to try out all kinds of parenting experiments on their first-born, before they figure out how to be "good" parents. And subsequent kids, especially if they have them after some gap, get the benefit of this experience. Add to the woes of the first-born, they not only have to deal with normal sibling jealousy (of having to share their parents affection), but also resolve the emotional issue of why their younger siblings have an "easier" time (i.e. why their parents treat them "differently").
by mjlee | 2025-11-22 10:28:02+00:00
I've been pressing minus twice to type a dash on Mac OS for so long I've forgotten when I started. People are pointing it out to me more and more every day. I think my writing is distinct enough from an LLM for most people, but there's certainly a growing contingent that sees a telltale and assumes everything must be AI generated.

Most (all?) keyboards I've used only have a combined hyphen‐minus key (-) which is distinct from a dash (—) and isn't quite a hyphen (‐), so I get why most people don't care. All font dependent as well to add to the fun, and my examples here render differently in the textbox and the comment!
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-11-22 10:29:13+00:00
> Instead of selling water for $17, why don’t venues sell water for $2 and raise ticket prices instead?

¿Por qué no los dos?

I live in New York. Season tickets at our stadiums cost as much as fancy cars, and concessions at these venues are eye-watering.

The simple answer is that folks are willing to pay for shite. The reasons they are willing to do that, merit further examination, but the fact remains. This goes for both individuals and organizations.

As long as that is the case, creating high-Quality product, is damn near impossible.

Quality costs. It’s actually significantly more cost-intensive to even marginally improve Quality, which puts organizations that produce high-Quality stuff at a disadvantage.

It’s really hard to stay in business, in a land where people are willing to pay for junk, unless you produce junk.
by Quarrel | 2025-11-22 10:30:10+00:00
Great work, I really liked Susam's setup in the article:

> Can we make the program more complicated? The words 'Fizz', 'Buzz' and

> 'FizzBuzz' repeat in a periodic manner throughout the sequence. What else is

> periodic?

and then I'm thinking ..

> Trigonometric functions!

is a good start, but there are so many places to go!
by NoiseBert69 | 2025-11-22 10:30:47+00:00
I have nich'ed tech blog too. Mostly about self-developed things. Sadly this is the most valuable data source for LLM fuckers.

But honestly: without having an efficient way to fight them crawlers I'm not willed to write for it anymore.

Is there an efficient solution I can add? It lives on a Shared Web Hoster. For self-hosted stuff there's Anubis. Also willed not to use Cloudfare.
by peterfirefly | 2025-11-22 10:31:24+00:00
SPLC seems to be the main source for that Wikipedia section. I don't trust them at all. They are known liars.

Secondly, where are his (justified!) rantings about the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles?

Being nasty (or even evil) is not the same as being a Nazi. Being virulently anti-Jewish is not the same as being a Nazi. Belonging either in a mental institution (without internet access) or belonging in a prison (still without internet access) is not the same as being a Nazi.

There are so many different kinds of evil in this world. Don't pretend they are all Nazis.
by Mawr | 2025-11-22 10:32:03+00:00
You're describing the 99% problem—getting 99% there is relatively easy, but once you do, you find out that you have the remaining 99% of work left to do.

This illusion is partially why Musk has been promising self-driving to be available at the end of $current_year+1 for years.

It's cool your car can drive itself. Now do it again, but fall asleep at the wheel. What's that? You're not willing to? That's exactly the core of the issue—it's not sufficient for the car to be able to drive itself most of the time, it must do so safely every single time, no matter what.
by lloeki | 2025-11-22 10:33:07+00:00
> Only allowing packets from the outside related to a connection initiated from the inside.

NAT a.k.a IP masquerading does not do that, it only figures out that some ingress packets whose DST is the gateway actually map to previous packets coming from a LAN endpoint that have been masqueraded before, performs the reverse masquerading, and routes the new packet there.

But plop in a route to the network behind and unmatched ingress packets definitely get routed to the internal side. To have that not happen you need to drop those unmatched ingress packets, and that's the firewall doing that.

Fun fact: some decade ago an ISP where I lived screwed that up. A neighbour and I figured out the network was something like that:

192.168.1.x --- 192.168.1.1 -- \ 10.0.0.x ----> WAN / 192.168.2.x --- 192.168.2.1 --

192.168.1 and 192.168.2 would be two ISP subscribers and 10.0.0.x some internal local haul. 192.168.x.1 would perform NAT but not firewall.

You'd never see that 10.0.0.x usually as things towards WAN would get NAT'd (twice). But 10.0.0.x would know about both of the 192, so you just had to add respective routes to each other in the 192.168.x.1 and bam you'd be able to have packets fly through both ways, NAT be damned.

Network Address Translation is not a firewall and provides no magically imbued protection.
by adrian_b | 2025-11-22 10:33:13+00:00
While animals could never live by themselves, some autotrophic bacteria can.

A community of several different kinds of bacteria would have better chances than a single species, but for bacteria there is certainly no need for thousands of species.

Autotrophic bacteria would need only an environment providing less than 20 essential chemical elements (most of which belong to the most abundant elements, a notable exception being molybdenum) and either solar light for energy, neither too little nor too much, or a chemical source of energy, like dihydrogen + carbon dioxide, which can be provided by volcanic gases or by the reaction of water with volcanic rocks.

There would have been many places in the Solar System suitable for bacteria, except that where there is water, it is usually too cold, and where it is not too cold, there is no water.
by ErroneousBosh | 2025-11-22 10:33:59+00:00
> A dating app is unique (or, at least in a different category) in that the best possible outcome for the user (assuming monogamy) is that the user deletes the app and never uses it again.

I'm sure I've read that there's one where that is the advertising tagline, something like "The dating app you're going to delete!"

Pretty strong statement to be honest, I wish I'd thought of that.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-22 10:34:32+00:00
I mean, I care (though not for something whose creators are long since dead and whom you can't support any more). But in general, I certainly try to avoid piracy. I think it's immoral and while I don't think it makes one a bad person (I myself used to pirate a ton of stuff when I had no money to buy it), I do think it's a thing that a good person should strive to avoid.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-22 10:34:32+00:00
> There are no ARM chips with enough power.

Disagree.

Both Qualcomm and Mediatek have mobile SoC which are more performant than the M2 and the X2 Elite is in the ballpark of Apple top SoC.

Considering how I currently use my Steam Deck, there is nothing my current phone couldn’t do. Sure, you won’t get PS5 performance but I’m personally completely happy with Switch 2 level performance.
by Mawr | 2025-11-22 10:35:55+00:00
> There will be no red lights, no parking lots, less congestion, fewer accidents.

In 20 years? Here's a 7 year old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8

Also, you forgot to mention the silence, nearly zero cost infrastructure, nearly zero environmental impact, and immense population-wide health benefits—and therefore healthcare cost savings.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-11-22 10:37:19+00:00
I'm actually just taking the very outside view on this. I cannot think of any industry which has both existed for 100 years and would not be called safer today than it was 100 years ago. The closest I get are industries which stopped existing entirely because new industries supplanted them, but even there the argument is suspect. This seems to be a general trend regardless of the amount of regulation applied to the industry.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-11-22 10:37:31+00:00
You don’t need to wonder. Top of the lines Snapdragon, Dimensity and Exinos SoC all use 3nm.

Amusingly, it’s the second time in two days I have this discussion here and I have noticed that a lot of people, who I think are American and using Apple phones by default, are completely unaware of what the mobile SoC landscape looks like nowadays. Apple lead doesn’t exist anymore as of this generation.
by VorpalWay | 2025-11-22 10:37:41+00:00
I like this idea. Hiding the seam in a crack or sharp corner (convex or concave) is already a thing, and your idea builds on that.

I'm also curious what it would do for part strength. If you offset the zig-zags from layer to layer it will not be as pretty obviously, but it should act like offset bricks in a brick wall. Worth exploring (but I don't have the equipment to test part strength).

One effect of this would be to make the print dramatically slower though, you would never get up to max speed due to all the cornering.

You could do this sort of pattern already while modelling (though that offset version would be very fiddly). Less practical than the slicer but useful for a quick proof of concept.

Thinking about it some more, this is not that far from the existing fuzzy skin pattern already in slicers, and I believe that the relatively obscure slicer IdeaMaker does allow to apply arbitrary textures as height maps on the sides of parts. That could be another way to explore this.
by ben-schaaf | 2025-11-22 10:37:50+00:00
> Apple demonstrated to the world that it can be extremely fast and sip power.

Kinda. Apple silicon sips power when it isn't being used, but under a heavy gaming load it's pretty comparable to AMD. People report 2 hours of battery life playing cyberpunk on Macs, which matches the steam deck. It's only in lighter games where Apple pulls ahead significantly, and that really has nothing to do with it being ARM.
by Maxious | 2025-11-22 10:38:54+00:00
Igalia benchmarked against EEVDF https://youtu.be/wQbiqKUIsMI?si=rT-zMXJkVR6RYG_D&t=2353

Also bazzite uses LAVD by default for steam deck hardware https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/bazzite-buzz-18/379...
by ben_w | 2025-11-22 10:39:22+00:00
On the kcal/£ basis, Tesco biscuits (for Americans: cookies) are more than an order of magnitude better, 487 kcal/100g, £0.22/100g, about £0.15 for as many kcal as that McMuffin: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/290329100

On the basis of an actually balanced diet, boiling a pot of water and adding lentils, rice, and value frozen veg on a timer, are likewise. Which is of course why that's a staple diet in parts of the world much poorer than the UK.
by gehwartzen | 2025-11-22 10:41:22+00:00
At the southern tip of Virginia’s Eastern Shore there are 9 concrete ships, left over from WWII, that were deliberately sunk in a large arc to form a break-water.

It’s at a state park called Kiptopeke. You can rent kayaks and paddle out to see them up close.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kiptopeke-s-concrete-fle...
by fragmede | 2025-11-22 10:42:08+00:00
We can nerd it out about Linux this an S3 sleep that. How much money does the community need to raise all in, for that notebook to happen. Where's the GoFundMeAngelList platform that's a cult where I can pledge $10,000 to get this laptop of my dreams? Or are we all too busy shitposting?
by lazide | 2025-11-22 10:44:19+00:00
Non sequitur of the day?

Anyone who owns shares in US companies (most people here) both are ‘going home with’ the companies involved, and are buying ‘the bags’.

Not to mention all the people buying the bonds used to fund the whole AI data center buildout, which is a ton of probably pension funds and old folks planning for retirement (also probably more than a few millionaire/billionaires!).
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-22 10:45:08+00:00
I have seen it said in hacker circles that people in their teens and twenties now are not just more reluctant to share stuff for free like FOSS, but they are even outright suspicious of such endeavors. To a generation who grew up on platforms and apps that maximize engagement for maximum profit, a community that doesn’t do that looks like a bunch of weirdos, maybe a cult.
by auggierose | 2025-11-22 10:45:36+00:00
Yup. Something really simple and cheap, and definitely not worse in nutrition than McDonald's: Buy a pack of chicken legs, marinate them to your liking (for example: olive oil, salt, pepper, smoked or unsmoked paprika, onion powder, garlic powder, chicken or veggie bouillon cube), let them sit for an hour. Put it into the oven for 50min to an hour at 160 degrees Celsius. Cook rice on the side. After chicken legs are done take them out, and mix rice into the juices. Add some ketchup if you like. Put chicken legs back on top. Bake for max 4 minutes at 200 degrees. Enjoy.

Now, that will take you about 2 hours to make in absolute time, but the actual time to do this is very little, a few minutes.
by everdrive | 2025-11-22 10:46:43+00:00
>I learned that the BS American value of "popularity" doesn't translate into successful futures.

It's always felt like a quirk of biology, in the same way that most people are now too fat. (ie, we didn't evolve in an era with constant excess calories and for the most part we can't cope with the situation) In that same way, people engage in this vicious fight for status between middle school and high school, only to be whisked away to colleges and then whisked away to wherever the jobs are; the fight for status never mattered and you can reinvent yourself in ways which would have never been possible in our ancient kin groups. But, we just cannot stop fighting for that status, and don't even give it much though. It's a huge waste of energy.
by swores | 2025-11-22 10:48:00+00:00
Time of day definitely plays a part, but there’s also luck/randomness to it.

Even the same time and same day of the week there will never be exactly the same set of users online, and that’s even more true with regard to the users who are choosing to look at HN’s /newest page. So pure luck can determine whether a bunch of comic book lovers see it soon after submission and give it enough votes to get on HN’s front page, or just a bunch of people who think it’s a boring story worth ignoring.

(Personally I thought it sounded like it might have interesting comments worth reading, hence my being here, but I wouldn’t have found it interesting enough to upvote if I were one of the people who saw it on the new submissions page.)
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-11-22 10:48:31+00:00
> generally included in the plan you pay anyway for data access.

Er, what? The main reason why most of the world moved from SMS to internet-based messaging is because SMS was far more expensive.

> having it for emergencies is nice

In what kind of emergency could SMS be useful?

> just to bootstrap an alternative, secure channel.

But you need to exchange SMS numbers to do that. You might just as well exchange emails, XMPP, or whatever other protocol your going to use later and skip SMS entirely.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-22 10:50:48+00:00
> kinda dumb when they have your plates they can just mail you a fine

thing is, in Germany and many other European countries there's a mandate to register your place of residence with the authorities in a timely manner (i.e. 2 weeks after moving in).

Americans and Brits don't have that, so "mail them a fine" is most likely going to result in the letter not arriving where it should.
by ACCount37 | 2025-11-22 10:51:04+00:00
You're thinking too much like a human.

Humans don't want to die because the ones that did never made the cut. Self-preservation is something that was hammered into every living being by evolution relentlessly.

There isn't a reason why an AI can't be both conscious AND perfectly content to do what we want it to do. There isn't a reason for a constructed mind to prefer existence to nonexistence strongly.

No theoretical reason at least. Practical implementations differ.

Even if you set "we don't know for certain whether our AIs are conscious" aside, there's the whole "we don't know what our AIs want or how to shape that with any reliability or precision" issue - mechanistic interpretability is struggling and alignment still isn't anywhere near solved, and at this rate, we're likely to hit AGI before we get a proper solution.

I think the only frontier company that gives a measurable amount of fucks about the possibility of AI consciousness and suffering is Anthropic, and they put some basic harm mitigations in place.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-11-22 10:52:02+00:00
Yeah, this is a mistake everyone makes, and it is difficult to explain to people who didn't study statistics.

The short version is that intelligence is an ordinal value, not a cardinal value. You can say that person A is more intelligent than person B, but not that person A is exactly 3.14515x more intelligent than person B.

Intelligence is simply measured in percentiles, that's all. You can't be more intelligent than 100% of the population. The 100% of the population is the population of Earth. You cannot get a higher IQ score than that.
by nuuuwan | 2025-11-22 10:52:45+00:00
TOP #AI CONFERENCES

Ask a roomful of AI people what the “Top” Artificial Intelligence (AI) Conferences are, and you will learn more about the people than the conferences.

A PhD student in deep learning, a civil servant drafting AI regulation and a AI start-up founder all mean something different by “top AI”.

Here’s my own shortlist, from the vantage point of a working AI practitioner: five very different kinds of gathering that, in their own ways, all deserve to be called “Top AI conferences”.

Continue on SUBSTACK: https://open.substack.com/pub/nuuuwan/p/top-ai-conferences

MEDIUM: https://nuwans.medium.com/top-ai-conferences-0a85670d333d
by mg | 2025-11-22 10:55:41+00:00
I wouldn't mind long print times.

I am not sure, but "fuzzy skin" seems to intentionally sacrifice some adherence to the object's exact shape? "folded outline" would not do that. If the printer prints it exactly, the print would match the object just as precisely as a normal outline.

The IdeaMaker repo on GitHub says it is abandoned. Maybe there are other options? An open source slicer written in Python without dependencies that works on the command line would be my favorite starting point. If there is none, writing a new one might also be feasible?