MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smithoc | 2025-12-05 13:56:00+00:00
> Such a cure can not exist. Autism is something you are born with and that is part of you.

Signs of autism generally show up in early childhood, but it has not been proven that it is something a person is born with. Vaccines have been studied enough to rule them out, but there are still a zillion other things that babies today are exposed to that could be a factor, from antibiotics to endocrine disrupting chemicals to microplastics to viruses or even something we're not even considering medically today.

Also, tons of birth defects and inborn diseases can be cured. We cure cleft palates and spina bifida routinely. We manage diabetes and Phenylketonuria effectively enough that patients can live regular lives. Here's a paper published in the prestigious Cell journal covering 700 different genetic disorders which can be treated today: https://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(25)00110-7

It's possible that in the future autism will have a cure, a preventative measure or a highly effective treatment.
by drw85 | 2025-12-05 13:56:42+00:00
I think this time is the first time that it will actually hurt all the large corps investing gazillions of dollars into AI infra.

Shipping some ads in windows? Doesn't really hurt you, it makes you extra money. Sure, some customers get a little annoyed, but who cares.

But this time they invested huge amounts of money to chase something that will likely never get profitable and return enough to pay off.
by oersted | 2025-12-05 13:56:53+00:00
So you are saying that these special hybrid seeds that are the first generation of combining two strains are the only ones that can perform well? And that using any other seeds, even the second generation of that same strain, is so bad and so easy to confuse that it should be outright illegal?

That is very hard to believe.

EDIT: I see now I was too quick to judge and that my knowledge on the topic was insufficient. Read the excellent comments below , they helped me understand how OP makes sense.

Such laws are in place to protect the IP of these special seed producers, to make their business model viable. That does have merit to a degree, you do want such companies to exist, but they should also have to contend with competition from other, perhaps less effective but cheaper, sources of seed.

This doesn’t have much to do with protecting the farmers from being cheated into planting bad seed. And I am skeptical of the fact that even second generation seeds are that bad, or that these hybrids are really such a life-changing upgrade.
by nephihaha | 2025-12-05 13:57:19+00:00
I agree with some of your points, but there isn't much individuals can do in some cases. Many people can't afford expensive goods made in the domestic market (much like many people cannot afford healthy organic food). In some cases you find that all the products available are made in sweatshops.

The onus must be on the manufacturers.

When you shift factories out of your country, the pollution there decreases, but it increases somewhere else.

Besides, while I hope China is addressing its environmental issues, it is still a dictatorship which disallows open discussion of many such things. It not only has sweatshops but concentration camp labour, and disallows proper trade unions.
by zwnow | 2025-12-05 13:57:21+00:00
Work is just a paycheck because I am just a number for my employer. Why would I be proud of my work when apparently according to management I should be replaced by AI at some point because im just a cost factor. Why would I care about the business at that point? Fuck the higher ups, I'll be proud of my work and actually put in effort if I can afford a house.
Show HN: Notekit – A Privacy-First Note-Taking Extension for Chrome
by kamdev | 2025-12-05 13:57:32+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Notekit, a note-taking and task-management extension for Chrome that runs entirely in the browser. Everything is stored locally in IndexedDB—no account, no cloud sync, no tracking. You can try it directly here:

Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/odlainjhjhfffelembf...

What you can try right now: - Sidebar notes with rich text - Auto-save of page URL/title - Projects and tags - Attachments and link previews (stored locally) - Search, filters, light/dark mode - Import/export (JSON, CSV, Markdown; PDF/HTML optional) - Works offline after installation

I built this because I wanted a fast, private workspace for notes and tasks without accounts or cloud syncing. Most tools felt too heavy or required storing data on someone else's servers.

Technical notes: - Chrome MV3 extension - IndexedDB for all storage - Optional AES-GCM encryption for notes - Virtualized list rendering for performance - No external network requests unless the user triggers AI tools

I’d appreciate feedback on: - Sidebar performance - Search speed with large datasets - Backup/import UX - Tag/project structure - Whether a Firefox version is worth prioritizing

Thanks for taking a look.
by bpt3 | 2025-12-05 13:57:42+00:00
What I meant is that something like SAG-AFTRA provides some benefits and sets minimum standards for a work environment but does not limit your ability to negotiate a higher rate for your work, does not require promotion (whatever that would mean in this context) based on seniority, etc.

In the US, doctors, lawyers, and to some extent professional engineers and other licensed professions operate under a somewhat similar model in that they restrict supply of that class of labor through some sort of accreditation, apply minimum standards for the profession, and otherwise stay out of your business for the most part.
by embedding-shape | 2025-12-05 13:58:25+00:00
> It looks like it’s mostly focused on renting and buying movies on demand. We are talking about pay a fee and streaming all you want.

Then you might have to look a bit closer :) There are plans out there that give you a fixed monthly fee and stream all you want, so that effectively makes it a streaming service even by your definition.

Not saying they are trying to compete with Netflix, but they do have a streaming service.
by bvdw | 2025-12-05 13:58:32+00:00
I've settled on a workflow that reverses the situation. I simply commit all my work to the main branch and cherry pick commits into temporary feature branches only when submitting PRs.

This way I only need to worry about maintaining a single consistent lineage of commits. I've been using this workflow for about a year now and find it to be much easier than juggling and rebasing feature branches.

In case anyone's interested, I made a tool that automates this workflow. The worfklow and tool are described here: https://github.com/bjvanderweij/dflock/
by gblargg | 2025-12-05 13:59:10+00:00
I was thinking the same as parent while reading this. Mentally this activates the same thinking as on those medical tests with a high false positive rate and low incidence, so that most positives are false. I'd like to see in the article how they rule this out. Ideally I'd like to hear that they have measures in place that would allow accidental lapses in isolation to fail and they'd still be able to tell that it was Earth contamination. It's a reasonable concern and having it addressed (with something more satisfying than "they're experts, duh!") makes this kind of finding all the more interesting.
by hnthrow0287345 | 2025-12-05 13:59:12+00:00
>I am not sure what has happened over the decades regarding actually being proud of the work you produce.

Because there's still people doing less work than you do for a bigger paycheck

Because you'd get fired or laid off for someone working for 1/2 to 1/4th of your pay

Because they make you jump through multiple rounds of interviews and technical tests while people above you have a far less barrier to being hired

Because someone stole credit for your work

Because you'd get re-hired and find a mountain of shit code from a company that off shored their dev team

Because companies stopped giving significant raises that didn't keep up with major inflation in the past few years, while your work might have gotten them many multiples more of profits

Idk it's just a mystery we'll never know
by duxup | 2025-12-05 13:59:15+00:00
Outside specific examples, I can never tell what anyone thinks when they're concerned about journalism and bias. As far as I can tell random citizens are no better at spotting it and their own pov drives what is or isn't bias.

Plenty of times I've seen valid fact checking folks complain about bias, not because of the fact, but because they think the fact should inevitably involve a far different persuasive type discussion. Rather the fact checker isn't there to push or not push someone's policy, they're there to tell you the story that leads up to someone's argument did or didn't happen or something in-between ...
by kalavan | 2025-12-05 13:59:19+00:00
It's surprising that series and movies with gazillion-dollar budgets don't seem to have money for decent writers. About the only explanation I can think of is that the way the series or movie is made itself makes story too hard to do.

E.g. an action movie is designed around its stunts and then the plot is stitched together to support them. And series that are made one episode at a time can suffer from serious plot drift when they aren't planned ahead properly, or when executives can't decide whether they're going to have one more season or not.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-12-05 13:59:31+00:00
If someone wants "film school" you can do a lot worse than ticking off the film from the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" [1].

It may take you the next decade to complete. There are some real oddballs in there that lean toward "art film" (but what do you expect from Andy Warhol). A lot of "foreign" films (foreign for this U.S. viewer). In short a lot of surprises.

Definitely feel like a student of film now (for whatever that's worth).

[1] https://1001films.fandom.com/wiki/The_List
by awongh | 2025-12-05 13:59:45+00:00
In terms of people who actually like movies and music it’s not a great time.

Unfortunately it’s pretty clear that the true business model of music and content streamers is about “putting something on in the background” and not actually about the quality level of the content.

Thus you get inoffensive cheap netflix series and AI generated chill beats to study to, and no one really notices as long as it’s above a certain quality threshold.

And this isn’t exactly Netflix’s problem- they know what their users want. When you’re cooking dinner it doesn’t make much difference to you if it’s a Judd Apatow romantic comedy and one that’s some Hallmark knockoff romcom bullshit.

I’m not really sure how to solve the problem of this very siloed video content landscape. No one wants to subscribe to 4 streaming services.

I would think the original netflix model of being mailed bluray discs might be viable, but without independent studios like Warner around, why would anyone produce physical media?
by paxys | 2025-12-05 13:59:59+00:00
Thing is that Netflix didn't really succeed at that goal. HBO was and still is the gold standard for premium cable content. Netflix instead decided to go for the bottom 70% of the market, and the quality of their shows reflects that.

In fact the very reason for this purchase is that they desperately need help on the creative side.

Netflix is what it is today because all the studios trying to compete with their tech was an even bigger disaster than Netflix competing on content.
by watwut | 2025-12-05 14:00:33+00:00
Frankly, people for whom the work is "just a paycheck" I know in real life are simultaneously happy and simultaneously frequently produce actually good reliable work.

Work being "just a paycheck" does not mean you hate it or half ass it. But, it means you do go home to get rest, you do socialize outside of work instead of irrationally pushing it and then using meetings for socialization. It means you do not have ego tied to it so much you throw temper tantrum when things are imperfect (which is not the same as being able to change things for the better).
by khafra | 2025-12-05 14:00:54+00:00
The natural solution is futarchy: Vote on values, bet on beliefs. Everybody knows that, all else being equal, they want higher GDP/cap, better GINI, a higher happiness index. Only the experts know whether tariffs will help produce this.

So, instead of having everyone vote on tariffs (or vote for a whimsical strongman who will implement tariffs), have everyone vote for the package of metrics they want to hit. Then, let experts propose policy packages to achieve these metrics, and let everyone vote on which policies will achieve the goals.

Bullshit gets heavily taxed, and the beliefs of people who actually know the likely outcomes will be what guide the nation.
by n4r9 | 2025-12-05 14:01:02+00:00
Lots of good lesser-known stuff on Netflix if you wade through the crap:

* The Devil's Plan

* Alice in Borderlands

* Extraordinary Attorney Woo

* Brassic

* Back to Life

* Intelligence

* Black Doves

* Top Boy

* Mo

* The Breakthrough

* Borgen

* Love Death & Robots

* Scavenger's Reign

As well as well-known stuff like Stranger Things and Squid Game as a sibling comment mentioned.

[Edit: replies point out some of these are bought rather than produced but I think it still counts for overall quality]
by heliumtera | 2025-12-05 14:01:26+00:00
I couldn't see the value of this application until I went on this link and saw the euphoria. Whatever this means, there's certainly a place for unfiltered, unmoderated "anonymous" chat. This is promising, but I still don't understand why it always had to end in penis.

Anyway, I liked this. Consider making sent messages as immutable, it's very distracting people editing old messages.
by Hendrikto | 2025-12-05 14:01:44+00:00
It’s a bit like qwertz. Sure, it is not optimal, there are better alternatives available. But it is good enough, and it is universal. That trumps a 5% typing improvement on my own custom keyboard layout at the cost of not being able to use my coworkers keyboard.

Also, I dislike all of the alternate git frontends I tried, because they are opinionated in a way they clash with my workflow.

Moreover, I don’t think the git CLI is that bad. Once you learn some basic concepts, it makes a lot of sense and is pretty consistent.

Most problems people report stem from a refusal to learn the underlying structure and models. That is on them. And when using a different frontend, they don’t disappear either. They are just abstracted, to allow you to avoid learning them. But they are still there, and you will probably still need to know them at some point.
by nabla9 | 2025-12-05 14:02:02+00:00
The article is overthinking, or virtue signalling. Probably both.

What he talks about is result of poverty, not race. Same thing happens in situations where everyone is white but poor, or white but rich outside America, or any other race. In the upper middle educational differences disappear and everyone graduates.

The title is example of maxed out concept creep. Gradually everything related to prejudge becomes and racism can't be used to differentiate between hateful, malice, or ideology based racism. Then you must invent "soft" racism because racism is too vague. Weak prejudges are normal against friends, neighbors, professions, countries, races, wealth, educational levels. Using the same word for them as hateful prejudges to describe them makes people spin.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-12-05 14:02:06+00:00
This is a classic engineering take on the problem. It changes when you become a CTO. Because now technical debt is your problem and the choice whether to fix it or not is yours to make. The flip side here is that wrong choices (either way) can be expensive and even kill your company.

I've been on both sides. Having to beg a manager to get permission to fix a thing that I thought needed fixing. And now I'm on both sides where as a CTO it's my responsibility to make sure the company delivers working products to customers that are competitive enough that we actually stand a chance to make money. And I build our product too.

Two realities:

1) Broken stuff can actually slow down a lot of critical feature development. My attitude as a CTO is that making hard things easier is when things can move forward the fastest. Unblocking progress by addressing the hardest things is valuable. Not all technical debt is created equally. There's a difference between messing with whatever subjective esthetics I might have and shit getting delayed because technical problems are complicating our lives.

2) We're a small company. And the idiot that caused the technical debt is usually me. That's not because I'm bad at what I do but I simply don't get it right 100% of the time. Any product that survives long enough will have issues. And my company is nearly six years old now. The challenge is not that there are issues but prioritizing and dealing with them in a sane way.

How I deal with this is very simple. I want to work on new stuff that adds value whenever I can. I'm happy when I can do that and it has a high impact. Whenever some technical debt issue is derailing my plans, I get frustrated and annoyed. And then I sit down and analyze what the worst/hardest thing is that is causing that. And then I fix that. It's ultimately my call. But I can't be doing this all the time.

One important CTO level job is to keep the company ready for strategic goals and make sure we are ready for likely future changes. So I look at blocking issues from the point of view of the type of change that they block that I know I will need to do soon. This is hard, nobody will tell me what this is. It's my job to find out and know. But getting this right is the difference between failing or succeeding as a technology company.

Another perspective here is that barring any technical moat, a well funded VC-funded team could probably re-create whatever you do in no time at all. If your tech is blocking you from moving ahead, it can be sobering to consider how long it would take a team unburdened by technical debt to catch up with you and do it better. Because, if the answer is "it wouldn't be that hard" you should probably start thinking about abandoning whatever you are trying to fix and maybe rebuilding it better. Because eventually somebody else might do that and beat you. Sometimes deleting code is better than fixing it.
by drw85 | 2025-12-05 14:02:11+00:00
I personally don't know a single person that would pay $80 for some LLM. Most people i know pay nothing, or got a 1 year sub of a phone purchase or similar.

Also, everyone here conveniently always forgets the huge hardware and datacenter upfront investment that MS have already made. That cost alone will never be recouped with current prices.

If you can't even run the thing close to profitable, then how will you ever actually profit?

But don't worry guys, your robotaxi will recoup your tesla purchase within a year while you sleep.
by sambuccid | 2025-12-05 14:02:38+00:00
That' true, but now everything depends on "what is economically feasable" and unless we are experts ourselves we can't really know. We need to rely on experts to tell us what is economically feasable, but those experts are the ones under pressure from lobbyists to say one thing or the other. Some parties says that it's economically feasable and that will actually save money, other parties say that it's not feasable and it would cost too much.

Oil companies and countries that sell oil will say it's not feasable and companies that produce panels says that it is.

We cannot rely on "what is economically feasable" because unless you are and expert you will have to get that info from one side or the other, and even independent bodies will be under lobbying pressures.
by jimnotgym | 2025-12-05 14:03:01+00:00
It is more litigious than the UK, but UK universities have Special Educational Needs specialists. It would be very very unusual for a family doctor (what we would call a General Practitioner) to be willing to make a diagnosis on this, they would insist on referring you to a specialist, although in many cases that may not be a medical doctor at all. ADHD, Nuerodiversity, Dyslexia are all assessed by specialists. In all professions it is considered unethical to act outside of your area of competence...
by throwawayffffas | 2025-12-05 14:03:53+00:00
> We also built a way to simulate what an agent would have seen at any point in the past. Each model gets access to market data, news APIs, company financials—but all time filtered: agents see only what would have been available on that specific day during the test period.

That's not going to work, these agents especially the larger ones, will have news about the companies embedded in their weights.
by mbac32768 | 2025-12-05 14:03:53+00:00
I'm impressed Torvalds managed to not know what he was referring to (the Twitter firings).

The missing context whenever this comes up is the fact that it was a surprise one off.

If developers have no idea they're going to be graded by lines of code at some random future date that's a much different situation than saying you're going to give bonuses away every month based on how many lines of code were written.

Everyone knows the second is bad, it'll be gamed massively. The first one could be useful though.

And yes doing it as a one off is still problematic and you can think of all kinds of exceptions, but if you think the organization is full of dead weight in general and overhired massively, a crude stack ranking by lines of code is a pretty good metric for figuring out which (e.g.) 50% is the bottom.
by andersmurphy | 2025-12-05 14:03:56+00:00
Oh for sure. That's why my default is if you don't need event sourcing and are ok with some down time a month if you need to add a really large index. Keep it simple.

Once you have a decent CQRS set up (which is a natural fit with SQLite) and event sourcing it can be quite easy to spin up on a new project.

I think people don't have an honest assesment of what their project requirements are in terms of uptime and scale. So they start with crazy microservice multinode architectures that are designed to scale to the moon and inevitably end up with more downtime due to complexity.

I'd still recommend people start with managed PG for most things. But, if you're comfortable using VPSs or bare metal servers SQLite can take you very far.
by colesantiago | 2025-12-05 14:03:58+00:00
> I want to sit somewhere and passively consume random small creators content, then upvote some of that content and the service should show that more often to other users. That's it. No advertising, no collecting tons of user data about me, just a very simple "I have 15 minutes to kill before the next meeting, show me some random stuff."

In other words consume things for free and don’t support the small content creators work.

Sounds very similar to what the AI companies are doing, consuming RSS feeds and not paying it back to the small creators, but when we are doing it, it is okay because we are not AI companies.

hmmm.
by thechao | 2025-12-05 14:04:47+00:00
I don't want you to think I'm picking on you; but, I've been thinking about the MBA-bullshittism "consolidation" for a while. It's really a euphemism for "trust formation", right? It seems like we fought tooth-and-nail just 100 years ago to set up real antitrust laws, with real teeth... and now every industry is "consolidated". What's going on in health and seed and cars makes me seethe.
by bteamfilms | 2025-12-05 14:05:04+00:00
Privacy People explores the varied interpretations of what privacy is and its importance to individuals and societies. Focusing on the events that raised cultural awareness of big data and surveillance, the film reflects on the common refrain that "privacy is dead."

The story is told by some of the world’s most prominent experts from government, industry, academia, and civil society. Beyond the concept, the film examines how the privacy profession came to exist and the unique, prominent role women have played throughout its history.