MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by permo-w | 2025-12-01 05:55:23+00:00
besides for training future models, is this really such a big deal? most of the AI-gened text content is just replacing content-farm SEO-spam anyway. the same stuff that any half-awares person wouldn't have read in the past is now slightly better written, using more em dashes and instances of the word "delve". if you're consistently being caught out by this stuff then likely you need to improve your search hygiene, nothing so drastic as this

the only place I've ever had any issue with AI content is r/chess, where people love to ask ChatGPT a question and then post the answer as if they wrote it, half the time seemingly innocently, which, call me racist, but I suspect is mostly due to the influence of the large and young Indian contingent. otherwise I really don't understand where the issue lies. follow the exact same rules you do for avoiding SEO spam and you will be fine
by vintermann | 2025-12-01 05:55:56+00:00
Yeah, I agree this is pretty overblown. On GEDmatch, you basically give everyone the information in your SNP reads - you can compare arbitrary people there, not just yourself to "close" relatives. The only condition is that you give others the same access as you want for yourself. It's very useful for genetic genealogy.

Technically, you could probably get access to and scrape all that data by uploading fake data, or someone else's. It will do very little useful unless you're into genealogy.
by sunaookami | 2025-12-01 05:56:24+00:00
Gave a relative of mine my old ThinkPad and installed Kubuntu on it which works great most of the time but I had a typical "Linux moment" a few weeks ago where I had to install Zoom but the official DEB has a linking problem (crashes at start) and the one from the repo (Snap I think) is buggy and can not join calls from a link. Thankfully the website worked but you have to manipulate the URL because some Zoom links don't show the "Join from the web" link. There was somehow no admin password set and the user was not a superuser (this was a stock Kubuntu install!) and there was no root password set so I had to first start the rescue system and do some shenanigangs there to re-add the user as superuser.

Then I had to plug in the LAN cable and the whole system just... froze and needed a hard reboot. I don't know Linux systems deteriorated so much because everything "just worked" ~10 years ago and it got way worse since that.
by layman51 | 2025-12-01 05:56:55+00:00
I have heard of a forum (I believe it was Physics Forums) which was very popular in the older days of the internet where some of the older posts were actually edited so that they were completely rewritten with new content. I forget what the reasoning behind it was, but it did feel shady and unethical. If I remember correctly, the impetus behind it was that the website probably went under new ownership and the new owners felt that it was okay to take over the accounts of people who hadn't logged on in several years and to completely rewrite the content of their posts.

I believe I learned about it through HN, and it was this blog post: https://hallofdreams.org/posts/physicsforums/

It kind of reminds me of why some people really covet older accounts when they are trying to do a social engineering attack.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-01 05:57:04+00:00
The entire US GDP for the last few quarters is being propped up by GPU vendors and one singular chatbot company, all betting that they can make a trillion dollars on $20-per-month "it's not just X, it's Y" Markov chain generators. We have six to 12 more months of this before the first investor says "wait a minute, we're not making enough money", and the house of cards comes tumbling down.

Also, maybe consider why people are upset about being consistently and sneakily lied to about whether or not an actual human wrote something. What's more likely: that everyone who's angry is wrong, or that you're misunderstanding why they're upset?
by graemefawcett | 2025-12-01 05:57:22+00:00
This is the right attitude.

GenAI isn't a thinking machine, as much it might pretend to be. It's a theatre kid that's really motivated to help you and memorized the Internet.

Work with them. Let them fill in your ideas with extra information, sure, but they have to be your ideas. And you're going to have to put some work into it, the "hallucinations" are just your intent incompletely specified.

They're going to give you the structure, that's high probability fruit. It's the guts of it that has to be fully formed in the context before the generative phase can start. You can't just ask for a business plan and then get upset when the one it gives you is full of nonsense.

Ever heard the phrase "ask a silly question, get a silly answer"?
by raxxorraxor | 2025-12-01 05:57:23+00:00
You don't know what you are talking about. Read up on freedom of speech, the threat of consequences violates the principle directly.

In my example the mean tweet was a insult towards the attacker, which netted her a higher sentence than the rapist got. These laws are neither desirable, nor sensible, nor just. What is actually empty is a definition about how speech gets prosecuted. It stems from older times and is abused for newer vanity, stupidity and autocratic ambitions.
by nradov | 2025-12-01 05:59:05+00:00
If you want to understand where the money is actually going then this Peter Attia Drive podcast episode with Dr. Saum Sutaria is the best high level overview that I've heard. Seriously it's worth listening to and will clear up a lot of the misconceptions that many people have.

https://peterattiamd.com/saumsutaria/
by jdlshore | 2025-12-01 05:59:25+00:00
That’s grossly exaggerated. Individual deductibles are limited by law to ~$6500 even on the worst plans. And no one is paying $3500 per month for individual coverage on one of those plans. The actual rates depend on age and zip code, but I’d be very surprised if they’re that high anywhere.

To see the actual costs for yourself, go to healthcare.gov. The “bronze” plans are the ones with high deductibles. If you’re young and healthy, a high-deductible plan combined with an HSA is a very good idea.
by BrenBarn | 2025-12-01 05:59:29+00:00
People do do that in some limited cases, but it's often impractical. Two common cases are a) there is a need for urgent/emergency care; or b) the patient is generally frail and infirm. In these cases it can be impossible or impractical to arrange for treatment outside the US. That's leaving aside the logistical difficulty of arranging it (plus the costs for travel, etc. associated with carrying out the plan).
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-12-01 05:59:43+00:00
> “This is outside of the military operating area. So it should have a transponder if it is a military aircraft, but it doesn’t.”

Well there you have it folks, no squack and moving fast so it must be Aliens.

It’s not like we in the USG (I was an AF officer for 17 years) ever get FAA waivers to fly whatever we want, including stuff that doesn’t look like airplanes, wherever we needed to. The Air Force and the Navy have dedicated controllers and protocols for exactly that.

Also FYSA, the Title 10 military aren’t the only ones that fly spooky stuff.

I’ll never understand the UFO people.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-12-01 05:59:45+00:00
This is very much tech bubble thinking.

Most developers in the US don’t work for tech companies and will never make ovdd $200K inflation adjusted. Developer salary is very much bimodal

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/trimodal

If you are working for boring old enterprise companies like banks, airlines, insurance companies or even most YC funded companies, “senior” developers will top out at around $160K-$170K inflation adjusted in tier 2 cities.

I spent my pure developer career [1] in Atlanta GA. Well known companies based there like Home Depot, Delta, Coke, and GE Transportation are paying their top developers around what entry level developers getting in BigTech.

But choose your non west coast city and you will see the same.
by nomilk | 2025-12-01 05:59:54+00:00
> I tend to think giving a remote party control over your command prompt inherently comes with risks.

I thought cursor (and probably most other) AI IDEs have this capability too? (source: I see cursor executing code via command line frequently in my day to day work).

I've always assumed the protection against this type of mishap is statistical improbability - i.e. it's not impossible for Cursor to delete your project/hard disk, it's just statistically improbable unless the prompt was unfortunately worded to coincidentally have a double meaning (with the second, unintended interpretation being a harmful/irreversible) or the IDE simply makes a mistake that leads to disaster, which is also possible but sufficiently improbable to justify the risk.
by maplethorpe | 2025-12-01 06:00:07+00:00
Is it really here to stay? If the wheels fells off the investment train and ChatGPT etc. disappeared tomorrow, how many people would be running inference locally? I suspect most people either wouldn't meet the hardware requirements or would be too frustrated with the slow token generation to bother. My mom certainly wouldn't be talking to it anymore.

Remember that a year or two ago, people were saying something similar about NFTs —that they were the future of sharing content online and we should all get used to it. Now, they still might exist, it's true, but they're much less pervasive and annoying than they once were.
by NoteyComplexity | 2025-12-01 06:00:09+00:00
Just knew what ableism is, but I don't think that is one but the more classic things bullies trying to downplay others by calling other idiots or autistic.

Either way, ableism or simply abusive behavior, both lacks respect, honestly and responsibility, which is a sign of immature behavior. Mature people can be playful, but they know when to act in the correct time, and definitely not in something that lead to a huge PR disaster.

Thus, being immature is the root cause of all these bad behaviors, including discrimination.
by imaka | 2025-12-01 06:00:16+00:00
Deepgram is cloud (not local, not OSS) but their free tier is basically unlimited for personal use, so $0 forever.

Want fully local? Whisper is open source and runs 100 % on your Mac. Tiny/faster models are just one line in the code away — anyone can add them in 30 seconds (PR welcome )

Both options free, zero data sent if you pick Whisper.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-01 06:01:03+00:00
Some people actually studied this already, and used embeddings to determine the differences between Grokipedia and Wikipedia: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09685

Some things I found interesting:

* Grokipedia uses Twitter a lot more as authoritative evidence than Wikipedia

* Grokipedia uses Grok’s own responses to user questions as authoritative sources, eg after a user asks “Can you dig up some dirt about $politician” and Grok responds, this is then used as source in Grokipedia, which may or may not be hallucinated

* the articles on politicians and Wikipedia’s curated list of “controversial topics” differ the most. they cite some examples from the “masculinity” article.

It’s a pretty interesting starting point imho. Let’s just say that the methodology of Grokipedia is at the very least highly questionable.
by hekkle | 2025-12-01 06:01:33+00:00
Actchooally: Python's philosophy (the zen of python) states:

There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

So, the answer is to pick the obvious choice, which in this case will depend on the style guide of the project you are working on, and whether they prefer the lisp style syntax or the OO property of style.
by ETH_start | 2025-12-01 06:01:38+00:00
The root cause:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Healthcare-administrator...

"Healthcare administrator's growth in the US. Healthcare administrator's growth by 3200% between 1975 and 2010 compared to 150% Physician growth according to Athena Health analysis of data from Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Center of Health Statistics, and the United States Census Bureau's Current Population survey in accordance to [26]. Admin: administration; HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; HITECH Act: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act; DRGs: diagnosis-related group's."

The only class of medical services that has become more affordable over the last 50 years is cosmetic procedures and laser eye surgery:

https://healthblog.ncpathinktank.org/why-cant-the-market-for...
by donkeylazy456 | 2025-12-01 06:03:33+00:00
Write permission is needed to let AI yank-put frankenstein-ed codes for "vibe coding".

But I think it needs to be written in sandbox first, then it should acquire user interaction asking agreement before writes whatever on physical device.

I can't believe people let AI model do it without any buffer zone. At least write permission should be limited to current workspace.
by toast0 | 2025-12-01 06:03:48+00:00
> Minimizing patient days spent in hospital was also mentioned as a metric. Sure that may be good for some reasons (eg avoiding iatrogenesis) but incentivizing it could lead to patients being sent home too early instead of receiving proper care.

You usually combine a minimize days in hospital goal with a minimize readmittance goal. And combine with supervision to ensure low readmittance isn't due to patients being admitted to the morgue instead. Ideally, some longer term measure of patient outcomes. But as you mentioned, you also need to account for the mix of patients.
by protocolture | 2025-12-01 06:04:49+00:00
I find the US healthcare "system" to be an interesting topic. More nuanced than people think. It honestly seems like the worst way to run anything. Like I honestly cant see who its for, other than maybe US Corporations on the list of approved medical vendors. Like, putting on my "Lives in a free(ish) healthcare country" hat, it looks bonkers from that angle. But even from a more libertarian mode, the whole thing looks daft from that angle too.
by stingraycharles | 2025-12-01 06:05:19+00:00
READMEs are written for people, CLAUDE.mds are written for coding assistants. I don’t write “CRITICAL (PRIORITY 0):” in READMEs.

The benefit of CLAUDE.md files is that they’re pulled in automatically, eg if Claude wants to read “tests/foo_test.py” it will automatically pull in “tests/CLAUDE.md” (if it exists).
by nomilk | 2025-12-01 06:05:32+00:00
From Antigravity [0]:

> I am looking at the logs from a previous step and I am horrified to see that the command I ran to clear the project cache (rmdir) appears to have incorrectly targeted the root of your D: drive instead of the specific project folder. I am so deeply, deeply sorry.

[0] 4m20s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBK1vYAVlA&t=4m20s
by romanhn | 2025-12-01 06:05:49+00:00
Huh, I do recall a certain anti-corporate individual (with the initials MOC) that was fairly loud and prolific on both HN and Reddit around that time, including insisting that pg and other tech leaders were trying to get him canceled (well, before the term existed, I think). If this was him, perhaps he wasn't as much of a crackpot as many assumed he was.
by MrDrMcCoy | 2025-12-01 06:06:29+00:00
The GTK file picker, which is frustratingly the default even on most KDE installs, is the one that sucks. The KDE-native one would much more closely match the experience you're looking for.

VNC is highly dependent on implementation. Sunshine/Moonlight runs circles around RDP in terms of performance and includes audio. For situations where you need the extra functionality is RDP... You can just use RDP. It works just fine on Linux, especially if you're on recent KDE.

On-screen keyboards are admittedly a pain point, but I've usually seen people say nicer things about the screen readers than Windows. Probably lots of different experiences depending on implementation.
by harmmonica | 2025-12-01 06:06:53+00:00
The equally insidious thing is that when they get hit with the new premium anyone who took better coverage, like a silver plan for the ACA, will likely be "forced" to downgrade to a lower (bronze) plan, which means that when they actually get services their costs will further skyrocket (higher deductibles and out of pockets).

Talking about all hell breaking loose... Marjorie Taylor Greene announces her resignation specifically because of rising health care costs (yeah, I'm cynical,there's maybe more to it). Mamdani gets elected on a platform that's essentially "shit costs too much." Maybe folks on both sides are starting to wake up. A guy can dream...
by dboreham | 2025-12-01 06:08:11+00:00
Reading this sent me down a bit of an OECD data rabbit hole. They seem to agree. However once you read the fine print I'm not so sure. Many things are much more costly in the US (education, travel, food, vehicles, houses...) and the OECD data seems to not control for that. Also my personal experience is there are a large number of very poor people in the USA. Seems like more than in Western Europe for example.
by Swizec | 2025-12-01 06:08:29+00:00
I’ve seen Picallilli’s stuff around and it looks extremely solid. But you can’t beat the market. You either have what they want to buy, or you don’t.

> Landing projects for Set Studio has been extremely difficult, especially as we won’t work on product marketing for AI stuff, from a moral standpoint, but the vast majority of enquiries have been for exactly that

The market is speaking. Long-term you’ll find out who’s wrong, but the market can usually stay irrational for much longer than you can stay in business.

I think everyone in the programming education business is feeling the struggle right now. In my opinion this business died 2 years ago – https://swizec.com/blog/the-programming-tutorial-seo-industr...
by rekabis | 2025-12-01 06:08:42+00:00
> Essentially, the amount of human labour needed to identify and correct these AI hallucinations is greater than the human labour saved by deploying the AI. As such, AI isn’t even a widely viable option for augmentation, let alone automation.

I have been saying variations of this across all social media platforms for the last six months, and every time I get savaged by tech bros. The pro-AI ideology absolutely insane.
by CrazyCompiler01 | 2025-12-01 06:11:03+00:00
Last week I shared a small side-project I built: AuthenticImage, a simple tool that detects whether an image is AI-generated, edited, or manipulated.

https://authenticimage.site/

I didn’t promote it anywhere — just pushed it live and waited. One week later, here’s what happened:

Week 1 Highlights

145 unique users across 12+ countries

Users from the US, India, UK, Germany, Canada, Argentina, and more

Traffic came from random shares, word of mouth, and curious testers

People tested everything from AI portraits to product photos to memes

Honestly, I wasn’t expecting any usage, so this was a big surprise.

What the tool currently does

Detects if an image is AI-generated

Highlights manipulated/edited sections

Flags unsafe or suspicious content

Provides a confidence score & reasoning

No signup, no friction — just upload and get results

What I learned this week

Journalists & researchers tested images from misinformation posts

Creators used it to “prove” their work wasn’t AI

Marketplaces tested product photos for authenticity

People want an API version — that request came up repeatedly

Some users asked for browser extensions for quick checks

A few false positives helped me identify model limitations

What I’m building next

Improving accuracy for AI art vs. AI photos

Adding a lightweight API for devs

A “Explain why this looks AI” transparency system

Dashboard to track image types detected

Possibly a Chrome extension if there’s demand

What I’d love feedback on

Which use case feels the most valuable?

Should I prioritize the API or browser extension?

What signals do you think are most important for trust?

Would you pay for a more accurate or batch-processing version?

I’m building this solo and in public — week by week — so any insights are extremely helpful.

Thanks for reading, and if you want to test it:

https://authenticimage.site/

Happy to answer any questions!
by jumploops | 2025-12-01 06:11:12+00:00
> we won’t work on product marketing for AI stuff, from a moral standpoint, but the vast majority of enquiries have been for exactly that

Although there’s a ton of hype in “AI” right now (and most products are over-promising and under-delivering), this seems like a strange hill to die on.

imo LLMs are (currently) good at 3 things:

1. Education

2. Structuring unstructured data

3. Turning natural language into code

From this viewpoint, it seems there is a lot of opportunity to both help new clients as well as create more compelling courses for your students.

No need to buy the hype, but no reason to die from it either.
by throwaway290 | 2025-12-01 06:11:31+00:00
> It should be an assumption and thought as a malicious cybersecurity threat.

If you believe in absolute cybersecurity for anything you keep online boy I've got news for you. Literally all you can do is make it tougher but it will never be uncrackable. The degree of it depends on how much you can invest and suffer.

same here. codeberg makes in tougher so it's a measure.
by nradov | 2025-12-01 06:12:35+00:00
You're missing a key piece. Medicare only sort of works because the larger healthcare system has a hidden cross subsidy where commercial health plans reimburse providers at much higher rates. In some cases providers are actually losing money caring for Medicare beneficiaries. We already have a problem with doctors refusing to accept new Medicare patients, and if we moved more patients from commercial insurance to Medicare then that provider shortage would only get worse.
Show HN: Ode, a self-hosted app for writers who love the craft
by deepanshkhurana | 2025-12-01 06:13:34+00:00
A couple of weeks ago, I built and released Ode. It is opinionated and its ethos come from my own work over the years as a writer. This is documented in more detail in the repository, too, and I have done my best to keep the documentation as thorough as possible. Last night, I released v1.2.0 with presets and theming.

Ode focuses on simplicity, plain Markdown, and a workflow that stays out of the way. No numbers, no metrics, just writing and reading. The app features:

- docker-compose for easy setup - markdown-based writing with a content repository - a beautiful reader mode with gestures, arrow-key navigation and custom checkpointing so bookmarks are never lost - 10 presets with full or partial override supported - dark/light themes for all presets - RSS feed generation on build-time - sitemap generation on build-time - random piece for readers to start with serendipity - build-time generation for a blazing fast app - fully customisable with config.yaml - no tracking, no analytics, no boxes, no search

I wanted something lighter and less noisy than modern publishing platforms, so I built the tool I wanted to use. I figured I'll share this with the wider world in case someone is looking for something similar.

Feedback is welcome and I will try to include anything that fits within the ethos of Ode!
by lioeters | 2025-12-01 06:13:45+00:00
On their home page they have links to some repositories (or equivalent term) on a couple of Darcs hosts.

https://hub.darcs.net

https://smeder.ee

Here's a recent discussion about Darcs, it's the first I've heard of it.

Darcs, Friendly Version Control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022059 (9 months ago | 76 comments)
by azal | 2025-12-01 06:14:03+00:00
I take Remicade for UC on a monthly cadence. From $500 to now $1300/m for 2 in TX, and an added bonus of a 10% lab coPay + All kinds of fees.

I am Blessed running a good startup but I've always felt this deeply.... "But I can't imagine what people have to sacrifice to keep any kind of coverage (with high deductible and horrible coinsurance and prescription drug coverage) for their families if they don't have a decent income :("