MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by georgemcbay | 2025-12-06 04:16:56+00:00
Wholly anecdotal, but as a 52 year old nearly-lifelong caffeine (ab)user I quit this year and the withdrawal period was horrendous -- not for the headaches everyone knows about (they were bad but only lasted a couple of days) but for the somewhat extended depression/anhedonia which I had never really experienced before.

I was worried during that stretch of time that maybe the caffeine had been masking some underlying depression I already had, but a couple of weeks in it passed, so I think my brain just needed to rebalance itself to the new caffeine-free reality.

I'm glad I quit (less anxiety, better sleep, I'm finding it a lot easier to eat healthy while not buzzed on caffeine all the time, and the depressive episode was temporary) but going through that makes it pretty easy for me to believe caffeine can have rather powerful effects in this area.
by cryo28 | 2025-12-06 04:17:04+00:00
Being a total mechanics noob I watched a youtube video guide and did it myself to my Prius V in roughly 30 minutes. It is actually pretty easy to do. Just unscrew a couple of 10mm and 14mm bolts. I really like my prius V. it requires less maintenance that ICEs. And all the scheduled maintainance is pretty much DIY.

Also, I no longer consider any EU car brands at all. I think they wasted all their prior brand value and now buying them is simply not a smart decision.
by adastra22 | 2025-12-06 04:17:13+00:00
What, may I ask, is the difference between "generalization" and "interpolation"? As far as I can tell, the two are exactly the same thing.

In which case the only way I can read your point is that hallucinations are specifically incorrect generalizations. In which case, sure if that's how you want to define it. I don't think it's a very useful definition though, nor one that is universally agreed upon.

I would say a hallucination is any inference that goes beyond the compressed training data represented in the model weights + context. Sometimes these inferences are correct, and yes we don't usually call that hallucination. But from a technical perspective they are the same -- the only difference is the external validity of the inference, which may or may not be knowable.

Biases in the training data are a very important, but unrelated issue.
by habinero | 2025-12-06 04:17:38+00:00
Hahahahaha, I wish, but no. That's not how it works.

I take Adderall and literally fall asleep because it lets my brain shut down. It _decreases_ my anxiety.

I don't get high or hyper off of it, it literally just lets me function enough to do my laundry. It's honestly like wearing glasses.
by EdNutting | 2025-12-06 04:17:51+00:00
From an overall system point of view, this is the current pinnacle of footgun design.

The OS does thread management and scheduling, facilitates IPC, locking, etc. All of this is one big largely-solved problem (at least for the kind of things most people are doing in JavaScript today). But because of history, we now have a very popular language and runtimes that are trying to replicate all these features, reinventing wheels, and adding layers on inefficiency to the overall execution.

Sigh.
by cgh | 2025-12-06 04:20:45+00:00
Essentially enough syntactic sugar so you could write eg the Allocator interface without manually specifying the vtable and the opaque pointer.

But yeah, Go’s system is nice and simple. I am not sure, but I think the fact that Zig programs are a single compilation unit might have some bearing on the orphan rule. There is no concept of crates so “traits”/interfaces can be defined and implemented anywhere.
by weird-eye-issue | 2025-12-06 04:21:08+00:00
One of the comments on IG explains this perfectly:

"Meta has been doing this; when they auto-translate the audio of a video they are also adding an Al filter to make the mouth of who is speaking match the audio more closely. But doing this can also add a weird filter over all the face."

I don't know why you have to get into conspiracy theories about them applying different filters based on the video content, that would be such a weird micro optimization why would they bother with that
by silisili | 2025-12-06 04:22:01+00:00
I guess it depends on circumstances, but it boils down to each department only cost others some marginal cost in practice.

Imagine a hosting company and a dns company, both with plenty of customers and capacity. The hosting company says... I'll host your DNS site, if you provide DNS to our hosting site. Drop in the bucket for each.

One year the DNS company decides it needs to show more revenue, so will begin charging the hosting company $1000/yr, and guess what the hosting company says the same. Instead, they each get mad and find $500/yr competitors. What was accomplished here?

Further, it just looks bad in many cases. Imagine if Amazon.com decided AWS was too expensive, and decided to move their stuff off to say, Azure only. That wouldn't be a great look for AWS and in turn hurts...Amazon.

I do get your point, but there are a lot of... intangibles about being in a company together.
by spir | 2025-12-06 04:22:10+00:00
I don't think many people on HN realize how globally systemically important public blockchains are on track to become, especially Ethereum.

The understandable hatred of the casino and many scams has blinded most of HN as to the true potential of the technology and its associated new public institutions.

That's what a decentralized public blockchain is, a new kind of public institution.

One small example of this is that the most state-of-the-art perpetual futures market in the world is an Ethereum Layer 2 named Lighter https://app.lighter.xyz/markets/
by Zambyte | 2025-12-06 04:22:13+00:00
The website says:

> Open-source forever

> Transparent code, permissive license, and a community-driven roadmap.

Which I was going to mention is contradictory, because the point of permissive licenses is that it does not have to be Free forever. But the license is actually GPLv3 instead. So still contradictory wording, but the "permissive" is the part that isn't correct :-)
by adastra22 | 2025-12-06 04:22:42+00:00
I would disagree. Luddite, to me, is a negative and pejorative label because history has shown Ned Ludd and his followers to have been a short-sighted, self-sabotaging reactionary movement.

I think the same thing of the precautionary movements today, including the AI skeptic position you are advocating for here. The comparison is valid, and it is negative and pejorative because history is on the side of advancing technology.
by ianburrell | 2025-12-06 04:23:05+00:00
Tides aren't caused by centrifugal force but by differing gravity. You would be ripped apart by tides falling straight into black hole.

The near part of Earth experiences more gravity from the Moon, the far part less. The Earth moves in the center so the water bulges on the ends. Important part is that the Earth pulls things out their natural orbits.

With circular orbits, gravity and centrifugal force are balanced so could be considered difference on centrifugal force. But that isn't true for all orbits.
by filleduchaos | 2025-12-06 04:24:53+00:00
Well yes, that's what I mean, quality cleanup is not what I'd call a compression algorithm.

And as you say, arbitrarily applying quality cleanup is making assumptions of the quality and creative intent of the submitted videos. It would be one thing if creators were uploading raw camera frames to YouTube (which is what smartphone camera apps are receiving as input when shooting video), but applying that to videos that have already been edited/processed and vetted for release is stepping over a line to me. At the very least it should be opt-in (ideally with creators having the ability to preview the output before accepting to publish it).
by malandrew | 2025-12-06 04:25:38+00:00
Why don't they just start a company in the country where they are from or why don't you start a company with someone who is a citizen or has a green card?

The entire premise of your question is misaligned with the intention of the H1-B visa. Yes, everyone abuses its intent, but that isn't justification for more people to find more ways to abuse it. The abuse of that visa (and other visas) is why folks just want it abolished outright. I guess the purpose of a system is what it does, but it was sold to the American electorate as a way for companies to get access to talent that they simply cannot find domestically.

Trying to use the H1-B to hire a very specific person instead of any person with the skillset needed for the role would be in contradiction with the labor market test (LMT) needed for PERM status.

An H1-B can only work for the employer on the I-129 petition. There are some forms of passive income allowed but to placing shares in a trust and having an unpaid board seat just seems like an attempt to cheat the process because ultimately the goal is for her to work for this startup. Doing what your proposing puts a target on her head where anyone that is anti-H-1B can report her to USCIS and get her deported.

Moving home, working remotely and then applying for an L-1 seems like the correct approach here for what you're trying to do.
by standardUser | 2025-12-06 04:26:36+00:00
The literature on this is clear cut. People absorb, metabolize and experience drugs differently, which has a big impact on how addiction takes hold. It's obviously not the only factor! But it's a big one and somewhat quantifiable.

Personally, I wasn't a "trigger" smoker, I was an "every chance I got smoker". I assume my nicotine metabolism is higher than average, which is linked to frequency of consumption and hence propensity for addiction. I also assume I have fast caffeine metabolism since I consume it at all hours with no consequence, but unlike nicotine that's linked to a lower propensity for addiction, which matches my experience.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-06 04:27:36+00:00
A lot of people seem to be forgetting that the Cambridge Analytica scandal started off with data that was supposed to be used for research projects at the University of Cambridge being exfiltrated for commercial political use [0].

That said, this is most likely a tit-for-tat by the EU against the Trump administration, because we live in a world where all countries (even the US) have now weaponized regulations for negotiating leverage.

Our red line in both the Biden admin as well as the current admin was the DSA. The EU's red line is not being included in any negotiation over the Russia-Ukraine Conflict. The US fights against the DSA by arguing about infringement on free speech. The EU then tries to fight back over market competition. And it goes on and on and on.

This is why a lot of businesses get antsy about trade wars.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...
by d--b | 2025-12-06 04:29:07+00:00
Well technical debt is not really a technical problem, it’s a choice.

Someone at some point said: ok we’re going to duplicate code, we’ll have a windows version and a Linux version, and yes it’ll be painful - for a while - but at this stage, it is the better option.

At some point getting shit done might be more important than getting it right.

Whether that is smart or not is a people problem.

Working on large legacy codebase is extremely annoying indeed, but sooner or later, in everyone’s career one has to make those sort of tradeoffs, and when that day comes maybe you’ll forgive those who came before you.

Edit: I want to add this:

Also those tradeoffs are often required because of business problems. It’s difficult to see, 10 years down the road, how shitty the business may have been when those decisions were made. And perhaps, it’s some of those business-driven decisions - like rushing the product out the door no matter what - that kept the company afloat and made it so that you have a job (albeit to fix the mess) today.
by malandrew | 2025-12-06 04:30:05+00:00
> or just stay with her current employer and somehow work on her startup.

The first two options make sense but this latter option sounds like a risk. As I understand it, she can't earn any active income from this startup unless see has an I-129 for it. A share grant counts as income.

I mean, yeah you can work on a side project in your spare time that could become a business, but the moment employment and active income enters the picture that becomes something else.
by LE_BAGEL_DOGUE | 2025-12-06 04:32:00+00:00
This is the strategy for all companies that have lots of risk in their business. The media industry has a lot of risk. Too many failed projects can sink a studio. The only way to guard is to increase in scale across different types of media and channels so your environment is diversified

It’s no different from vail buying up all the ski resorts because they have such global reach they can diversify income streams across a wider set of mountains that have variable quality in winter and there for one bad winter doesn’t sink the whole business because they own so many - the ones that have a good year offset the ones that have a bad one

Same thing with media. A wider range of projects from a wider range of talent increases the chances of discovering the next hit show or gold mine movie property and offsetting all the projects that fail.

The other thing to remember is bigger companies turn slower and adapt to disruption slower. So it also opens up an opportunity in 5-10 to disrupt.
Tell HN: Being bullied by an Indian compliance automation platform
by bitlad | 2025-12-06 04:32:45+00:00
We were using Sprinto for compliance automation for a year or so. But in our recent renewal we ran into a technical issue related to payment therefore I notified their customer success manager about the issue, which they acknowledged. However, someone from their finance team who super privilege access disabled our account as due date had passed. We begged them to enable our account, which the team took almost 24h to respond to and upto 48h to resolve. As we operate in regulated space, this was nightmare, therefore we decided to let them know that we were going to terminate the service due to breach of trust and started looking for another oem.

However, their team now tells us termination for convenience is not allowed according to their terms of service and that we have to pay the full year contract regardless of whether we use it or not. We believe we terminated due to breach of trust. They have also threaten us to take legal action if we do not pay in next 7 days.

We believe they are not operating in good faith, bullying us into paying for a situation they have created.

We also believe that their regular employee have extended access into data of their customers which honestly makes us uncomfortable to operate with them.

The number we have to pay is around $4000 which I believe is not too much.

Question here is that should we standup against their bullying, malpractice and fight. And is it worth fighting for and pay their contract.

Please advice. We are smaller startup compared to Sprinto which has raised millions of dollars.
by cyberax | 2025-12-06 04:33:36+00:00
You can back up to Immich using various methods, including dumb file copy into a dropbox folder. For a while, I was using PhotoSync that uploaded photos to my NAS with Immich using WebDAV.

Immich also has an app that can upload photos to your server automatically. You can store them there indefinitely. There are galleries, timelines, maps for geotagged photos, etc.

The app also allows you to browse your galleries from your phone, without downloading full-resolution pictures. It's wickedly fast, especially in your home network.

> Does it preserve all this additional data Android cameras add, like HDR, video fragments before photos, does it handle photospheres well, etc?

It preserves the information from sidecar files and the original RAW files. The RAW processing is a bit limited right now, and it doesn't support HDR properly. However, the information is not lost and once they polish the HDR support, you'll just need to regenerate the miniatures.
by tptacek | 2025-12-06 04:34:23+00:00
Besides the obvious privacy concern: at the very least in my state (Illinois), it's not lawful for public bodies to disclose the license plate numbers read from ALPR cameras, so this data set is necessarily incomplete.

But, give it a year or two, and you can replace this whole website with a black background and 72 point white bold text "YES".
by getnormality | 2025-12-06 04:37:12+00:00
There are other ways to look at it. Back in the old days when computers required lots of planning to program, the technical problem of having a buggy program was also a people problem of not planning carefully enough. But now we have fast computers and cheap storage and version control and autosave and so many other things, such that perfectly conscientious human planning of the activity of programming is no longer necessary. In many cases you can just bang stuff out by trial and error.

My point is, we have often discovered technical solutions for things that used to be regarded as people problems.

So maybe a lot of things are just problems, which may be solvable through either technical or people means.
by somenameforme | 2025-12-06 04:38:36+00:00
But don't you see that you're immediately resorting to the somewhat misleading arguments that I already preempted? You're engaging in the typical fallacy of vaccine OR covid. When in reality it was clear rather early on that the vaccines were not particularly effective at preventing people from getting COVID, meaning you need to look at getting the vaccine and covid, or covid alone.

And yes the risks are very real. Vaccine induced myocarditis and pericarditis rates in young males are very high, and they can result in heart failure, life long damage, early mortality, and more. And for young males you're looking at multiple significant cases per 10,000. [1] For all cases of myocarditis/pericarditis the rates would be substantially higher yet still since most cases will go undiagnosed. For some contrast, the normal rate of significant side effects in vaccines ranges in the 1:100k to 1000k range.

[1] - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-024-00893-1
by popalchemist | 2025-12-06 04:38:48+00:00
As I said elsewhere, Yes, I am not advocating for it. Just pointing to the historical moment when the insight became concrete enough to deploy. The propaganda arm of the modern economic apparatus is -literally- The Matrix. The political / economic theories that inspired The Matrix are works like Society of the Spectacle which express exactly what you just said in extreme detail; that whoever has control or even just a significant influence over the images and words that move through peoples' minds in effect has them enslaved in a form of Panopticon.
by grugnog | 2025-12-06 04:39:27+00:00
Testing on Gemini Pro thinking I was able to generate a 5 legged dog first try, which is pretty impressive. Pasting that into a new session it counted 4 at first, but when I asked it to count more carefully it came back with 5 (and a detailed description of the positioning of each limb). Interestingly it suggested the anomaly could have been caused by AI! This is a good test I think - we seem right on the threshold of it being doable.
by erulabs | 2025-12-06 04:41:14+00:00
While this is tragic, undeniably so, it’s worth knowing that a head on collision in Malibu two days ago killed a 50 year old man when a 20 year old crossed over the double yellow line. It was obvious seeing the car that the young person was racing and driving dangerously. It barely made the news. I only know it happened because I drove past the wreck.

Tragic about the cat - and Waymo must improve - but we cannot lose sight of the greater good.
by tomhow | 2025-12-06 04:42:50+00:00
The title you submitted was:

Congressional lawmakers 47% pts better at picking stocks

When I looked at the thread, the top comment was this [1]:

Incorrect title, the finding is "lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension" This is saying that people in congressional leadership positions do 47% better than other members of Congress.

That top comment then spawned a subthread containing (so far) 212 replies, debating the accuracy of the title and the actual findings of the report.

This is a prime example of why we ask users not to editorialize titles. When people take it upon themselves to write a more “descriptive” title, they often get it wrong, commonly by focusing on a statistic or detail that feels important to them but is not truly reflective of the full contents of the article or findings of the study. But that then becomes the starting point for the discussion, and then much of the discussion thread is responding to the incorrect detail in the title, or is discussing the accuracy of the title, just as has happened here.

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

For the record, I tried to find a way to word the title in a “descriptive” way, as you had sought to do, but from reading the article and discussion thread I determined that the findings of the study were too detailed and nuanced to be able to summarize in 80 characters, and so the only option was to preserve the paper's original title.

Still, the submission has received 825 upvotes and 550 comments so far, so it's not as if it's been light-on for exposure.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134623
by torginus | 2025-12-06 04:44:31+00:00
I read that's not really the case - there's a bunch of equipment on EU-spec (and some other market) BYDs that comes from EU vendors such as Bosch. It additionally has a completely different AC unit as the kind of refrigerant BYD uses in China is illegal in the EU.

I'm not saying it justifies the price difference, but there are changes between the cars.
by theendisney | 2025-12-06 04:44:47+00:00
I mean, say you have something in stock that others sell for twice as much as last week and it will cost you twice as much to restock, why would you sell it for last weeks prices?

Why would it matter if you have anything in stock or not? What does it matter what you've paid for it?

If it will be hard to restock and ill most likely will have to sell "no" ill be even more motivated to ask more for it.
Show HN: Chrome extension for searching past conversations across LLMs
by ljubomir | 2025-12-06 04:44:53+00:00
I routinely use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok. But I don't have a way to track which conversation I had with which LLM. The only way to find the conversations, that I know of, is to login to each LLM and search. This is tedious/waste of time.

The llm-history-search Chrome extension and accompanying Web site search your past conversations across the four LLMs. The extension automatically keeps track of the conversations locally.

To install/use:

1. Install the llm-history-search Chrome extension (easiest: just visit conversai.us and it has the link to the extension)

2. Visit and use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok. Conversations are automatically captured in the background and stored in Chrome local storage on your disk

3. Point Chrome to conversai.us and search your conversations by keywords

github: https://github.com/ljbuturovic/llm-history-search
by Cyph0n | 2025-12-06 04:45:51+00:00
Tailscale (and similar services) is an abstraction on top of Wireguard. This gives you a few benefits:

1. You get a mesh network out of the box without having to keep track of Wireguard peers. It saves a bunch of work once you’re beyond the ~5 node range.

2. You can quickly share access to your network with others - think family & friends.

3. You have the ability to easily define fine grained connectivity policies. For example, machines in the “untrusted” group cannot reach machines in the “trusted” group.

4. It “just works”. No need to worry about NAT or port forwarding, especially when dealing with devices in your home network.