MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-06 01:42:46+00:00
Yes, its all evolution. 5 legged dogs aren't very common, so we don't specifically look for them. Like we aren't looking for humans with six fingers.

I get it, the litmus test of parent is to show that the AI is smarter than a human, not as smart as a human. Can the AI recognize details that are difficult for normal people to see even though the AI has been trained on normal data like the humans have been.
by thefourthchime | 2025-12-06 01:43:01+00:00
My test of a new model is always:

"Generate a Pac-Man game in a single HTML page." -- I've never had a model been able to have a complete working game until a couple weeks ago.

Sonnet Opus 4.5 in Cursor was able to make a fully working game (I'll admit letting cursor be an agent on this is a little bit cheating). Gemini 3 Pro also succeeded, but it's not quite as good because the ghosts seem to be stuck in their jail. Otherwise, it does appear complete.
by PaulHoule | 2025-12-06 01:43:58+00:00
There are a few American sports fan who get up at 9am on a Saturday morning to watch the Premier League but that comes with an unbundled and affordable Peacock subscription. I used to be one of those guys but these days I might go to multiple games at my Uni and the other college in town and a weekend so I'm not inclined to watch sports on TV. Peacock has some other primo international sports such as the Rugby World Cup.
by joshdavham | 2025-12-06 01:44:57+00:00
You've stated in a previous comment that non-US citizens can be denied entry to the United States if border officers request access to your phone and you decline to do so.

... but what about when non-US citizens leave the US?

For example, as a Canadian, if I'm down in the US and, on my way back up to Canada, a US border officer requests access to my phone and I decline... what happens then?
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-06 01:45:10+00:00
I think the LLM is just trying to be useful, not omniscient. Binary thinkers are probably not going to be able to appreciate the difference, however.

If you want the AI to identify a dog, we are done. If you want the AI to identify subtle differences from reality, then you are going to have to use a different technique.
by RoadieRoller | 2025-12-06 01:45:38+00:00
This ear drops solution, which is a general purpose ear drop for ear pain and irritation, can be bought over the counter in any medical shop and costs Rs. 15 in India (0.17USD). 7 years ago, when I last bought it, it was under Rs. 10 in India. https://www.1mg.com/drugs/ciplox-eye-ear-drops-197483?srslti...

The equivalent of the same in the US, I was told 200USD in the US using Insurance, and I bought it for 40USD via GoodRx App without Insurance. https://www.goodrx.com/ciprofloxacin
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-12-06 01:46:20+00:00
Yes. Cryptocurrencies operate within the larger econo-political system we live in, and as long as cryptocurrencies replace only a part of that system, the rest of the system will continue to operate as it does otherwise. Its quite clear that the way capitalism operates in practice is that most markets end up being oligopolish, and that people with guns are needed to keep the system stable. So not at all surprising.
by roadbuster | 2025-12-06 01:46:45+00:00
> OpenAI isn’t even bothering to buy finished memory modules

And? Why should they be obligated to pay for all the middleman steps from fab down to module? That includes: wafer-level test, module-level test (DC, AC, parametric), packaging, post-packaging test, and module fabrication. There's nothing illegal or sketchy about saying, "give me the wafers, I'll take care of everything else myself."

> not even allocated to a specific DRAM standard yet

DRAM manufacturers design and fabricate chips to sell into a standardized, commodity market. There's no secret evolutionary step which occurs after the wafers are etched which turns chips into something which adheres to DDR4,5,6,7,8,9

> It’s not even clear if they have decided yet on how or when they will finish them into RAM sticks or HBM

Who cares?
by oscaracso | 2025-12-06 01:47:53+00:00
Unfortunately science just isn't as glamorous as you portray it. Many researchers at many institutions have demonstrated the toxicity in question but it turns out that this does not make you rich and famous. It is quite difficult to become famous by conducting scientific research carefully and responsibly (much to my chagrin). It is the popularizers who receive notoriety, and those are a mixed bag. Few scientists care to enter that field.

"The doses of glyphosate that produce these neurotoxic effects vary widely but are lower than the limits set by regulatory agencies. Although there are important discrepancies between the analyzed findings, it is unequivocal that exposure to glyphosate produces important alterations in the structure and function of the nervous system of humans, rodents, fish, and invertebrates."

Costas-Ferreira C, Durán R, Faro LRF. Toxic Effects of Glyphosate on the Nervous System: A Systematic Review. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2022; 23(9):4605. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23094605

"Today, a growing body of literature shows in vitro, in vivo, and epidemiological evidence for the toxicity of glyphosate across animal species."

Rachel Lacroix, Deborah M Kurrasch, Glyphosate toxicity: in vivo, in vitro, and epidemiological evidence, Toxicological Sciences, Volume 192, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 131–140, https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfad018

"Utilizing shotgun metagenomic sequencing of fecal samples from C57BL/6 J mice, we show that glyphosate exposure at doses approximating the U.S. ADI significantly impacts gut microbiota composition. These gut microbial alterations were associated with effects on gut homeostasis characterized by increased proinflammatory CD4+IL17A+ T cells and Lipocalin-2, a known marker of intestinal inflammation."

Peter C. Lehman, Nicole Cady, Sudeep Ghimire, Shailesh K. Shahi, Rachel L. Shrode, Hans-Joachim Lehmler, Ashutosh K. Mangalam, Low-dose glyphosate exposure alters gut microbiota composition and modulates gut homeostasis, Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology, Volume 100, 2023, 104149, ISSN 1382-6689, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.etap.2023.104149. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138266892...)
by danielwashbrook | 2025-12-06 01:48:09+00:00
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by rolandog | 2025-12-06 01:48:37+00:00
Especially with all the codified footguns (or the "Tyranny of the Default" — as Steve Gibson would put it) where a lot of critical apps ship with very insecure defaults, and even a seasoned Dev that's an expert on one domain doesn't have time to muddle through the whole of man pages + mail archives + stack overflow threads for every option.
by TranquilMarmot | 2025-12-06 01:49:45+00:00
Yes, I have an older gaming PC from ~2018 that I keep putting off upgrading (first GPU prices skyrocketed, now this...) and was hoping to replace it with a Steam Machine next year. Will be endlessly bummed if that doesn't happen.

Will also be interesting if Sony/Microsoft was planning on releasing a next-gen system anytime soon, and I wonder if this will affect Apple's hardware at all.
Ask HN: What is the future of SaaS when things are this easy to build?
by fbrncci | 2025-12-06 01:49:58+00:00
In the past two 3-4 months, I noticed a pattern with myself, where I see an interesting SaaS being launched here on YC (or other places online), I try it out and I like it. Often these are more cutting edge AI tools; which still are really just LLM wrappers with agentic capabilities. I don't want to downplay them, as they are often products that make my professional life smoother and easier.

But the longer I use them, the more issues I notice with them through becoming a power-user and start to understand exactly how they work. Then usually before my first months subscription runs out; if I find them useful, I do not renew the subscription, but I spend a weekend with the latest SOTA LLM in Cursor or VCcode to build out the core capabilities for myself, and then never go back to the service. Often, even as a power-user, if some SaaS has 10-20 features, I really only need 5 of them. And then I can add 2-3 more that they wouldn't ever build. The best part is that I do not need to be "production grade", because I am the only user. I don't even need cloud services, except third party APIs, because I just spin up the repo on my localhost, and launch the apps capabilities when I need them. If there is a bug, I fix it right then and there. Security? Who cares. They'd have to access my computer first.

So quite naturally I am wondering, how many other people are doing this, and how this reflects on the whole SaaS landscape. And at the same time, morals and ethics, because I am basically out here stealing ideas from people who build products, and turning them into private apps for myself with no goal of ever monetizing them. Often I am just going back and forth between those products, and copying their features into my own app to avoid needing to pay for them. And it feels like its becoming easier and easier to do this.
by Telaneo | 2025-12-06 01:50:31+00:00
A review is not an ad (unless they were paid to make it). Reviews and other publications are a pretty good way to find whatever you're looking for.

Word of mouth is not advertising. What your friends like is something you might like too.

Catalogue listings and databases are not advertising. You can search those for terms closely associated with what you're looking for.

The internet is more than just ads.
by gonational | 2025-12-06 01:51:16+00:00
I see a lot of people in here talking about the "batteries included" aspect of Django, as if that's where it really shines. those batteries are definitely helpful, but the biggest benefit, by far, is the absolute best ORM in existence.

If somebody were to reproduce the Django ORM, with full native asynchronous support, it would change Python forever. I know there are people who come from SQLAlchemy and swear by it. As somebody who has used both I can tell you, at least when working with a small team on enterprise software, the ORM blows SQLAlchemy out of the water, in terms of being able to produce quality software, quickly.

For anyone new out there thinking about using FastAPI... don't. You'll find 1 million people on the Internet happy to tell you that it's terrific, and 90% of these people have not built real software. The performance gains are lost, by double when you attempt to build real real software with it. I've worked with it in three different apps, and in all three cases it was used because the front end team insisted that all we needed was REST. In all three cases I have seen page load times that are slower than the 90s, 3 to 10 seconds or more before everything is done on the page. It's actually unbelievable to me that that is the direction a lot of Python backend development has gone in, relegating all the important logic, and, in a lot of cases, security, to frontend niceties.
by arjie | 2025-12-06 01:51:38+00:00
Guys, these are silicon wafers not bars of steel. You can't just stockpile 40% of annual capacity in a warehouse long-term. I would be incredibly surprised to find that any such large scale storage facility exists. Any storage of undiced wafers is temporary while the manufacturing pipeline proceeds. You've seen the pictures of clean rooms and stuff. There's no way you spend all that effort to make the wafer and then just stick it in a warehouse. Who even is going to make such a large cleanroom facility? And for what exactly? It doesn't even pass the basic sniff test.

Much more likely this is just a detail of the contract so that OpenAI can guarantee allocation. I would be surprised if the actual wafers entered OpenAI hands before being fully packaged.
by astrange | 2025-12-06 01:52:39+00:00
Well, you see, there's a popular brand of computers that don't have separate VRAM and have twice the display resolution of everyone else.

Luckily, windows aren't always fullscreen and so the memory usage is somewhat up to the user. Unluckily, you often need redundant buffers for parts of the UI tree, even if they're offscreen, eg because of blending or because we want scrolling to work without hitches.
by Teever | 2025-12-06 01:52:58+00:00
You’re accusing me of a motte-and-bailey by inventing a bailey I never argued.

I didn’t say glyphosate definitively causes cancer, I didn’t say Dr. Oz was right, and I’m certainly not arguing that 'all chemicals are bad.' My point was about the credibility of the evidence around glyphosate -- specifically the ghostwritten papers, the regulatory capture, the marketing practices and how that stuff shaped industry and academic attitudes.

That’s a critique of how scientific consensus gets constructed and how it trickles down to sites like HN. It is absolutely not some anti-chemical crusade like you're making it out to be.

If you want to disagree with that argument that would be great but engage with what I actually said, not this Dr. Oz strawman.
Show HN: NanoAI – Unified AI Image Workspace (Generation, Inpainting, Upscaling)
by Li_Evan | 2025-12-06 01:54:28+00:00
Hi HN,

I built NanoAI because I was frustrated with the fragmented workflow of AI art. I found myself constantly context-switching between Midjourney (for generation), Photoshop (for fixing errors), and other web tools (for upscaling or background removal).

My goal with NanoAI is to solve this by unifying the entire lifecycle of an image into a single interface.

What it does:

All-in-one Workflow: Generate, edit (in-paint/out-paint), and upscale without leaving the canvas.

Granular Control: Instead of just re-rolling prompts, you can fix specific parts of an image instantly.

Browser-based: No local installation or complex ComfyUI node setup required.

I'm trying to validate if this "integrated" approach is actually faster for professional workflows compared to using separate tools.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the UI/UX and what features are missing from your current stack.
by garyhtou | 2025-12-06 01:54:49+00:00
Hi @cirrus3,

You've found an optional feature called Transparency Mode!

I admit, this is A LOT of information being made accessible. We at Hack Club (the nonprofit organization behind HCB, and the owner of the transactions above) have chosen to make our finances publicly available on the internet. You can read more about it here: https://blog.hcb.hackclub.com/posts/transparent-finances-opt...

That link (https://hcb.hackclub.com/hq/transactions) shows our donations and spending down to the cent since we believe donors deserve to know what their contributions are funding. As a nonprofit, you can talk about what you’re spending money on, but transparency in every transaction builds trust for supporters. This level of transparency is definitely atypical, and I can see why it may raise concerns.

Other organizations using HCB (such as Reboot) can choose to enable this feature too (it's off by default), and they're briefed on the potential risks and level of exposure to decide whether it's right for their organization/team. HCB supports 6.5k nonprofits, and roughly 64% of organizations have chosen to enable this feature.

> I see partial account numbers and other IDs/numbers that I assume you'd prefer not be public, regardless of how insensitive they may seem now.

> EXPENSIFY, INC. VALIDATION XXXXXX5987 THE HACK FOUNDATION +$0.89

Good catch! Thanks for flagging that verification deposit. I've pushed a fix here: https://github.com/hackclub/hcb/pull/12336

As for the account numbers (e.g. XXXXXX5987) visible in some transactions, these are our own defunct operating accounts, and we're aware they're out there on the internet. We have a new way of managing account numbers via Column.com, so these older transactions are less of a concern for me.

I very much appreciate you bringing these to my attention! We're always looking to improve, so I'd love to hear if you find anything else.
by standardUser | 2025-12-06 01:56:46+00:00
Addiction to any given substance is highly variable from person to person, and there's a lot of data to back that up.

I recall a friend describing their struggle to quit caffeine, which I mocked at first, until I realized it sounded exactly like my brutal struggle to quit nicotine. Yet, plenty of people quit cigarettes effortlessly. Nicotine is one of the most variable, but caffeine, alcohol and cocaine vary widely too. I imagine we'd find this is the case for most substances if we had the data. In a sane world, we'd give every kid their addiction predisposition profile when they turn 13.
by roenxi | 2025-12-06 01:56:48+00:00
Who in the developed world doesn't have a few luxuries? Pretty much all of history people have had to make do with RAM being a lot less accessible than it is now. It isn't essential and people can still buy RAM in the rare situations where they actually need it.

There is nothing here worth invoking the legal system over. OpenAI can buy huge amounts of RAM if they want. Good luck to them, hope it works out, looks like an expensive and risky manoeuvre. And we're probably going to have a RAM glut in a few years looking at these prices.
by Lamprey | 2025-12-06 01:56:53+00:00
Does this still work if you give it a pre-existing many-legged animal image, instead of first prompting it to add an extra leg and then prompting it to put the sneakers on all the legs?

I'm wondering if it may only expect the additional leg because you literally just told it to add said additional leg. It would just need to remember your previous instruction and its previous action, rather than to correctly identify the number of legs directly from the image.

I'll also note that photos of dogs with shoes on is definitely something it has been trained on, albeit presumably more often dog booties than human sneakers.

Can you make it place the sneakers incorrectly-on-purpose? "Place the sneakers on all the dog's knees?"
by MomsAVoxell | 2025-12-06 01:57:03+00:00
I've walked past the 'folding into itself' building in Prague quite a few times, and never once realised it was a Gehry. I have also walked a fair bit in downtown LA, during summer, and seen some hot spots without understanding the nature of Gehry's ability, to reflect.

He lived a long time to have built a lot of interesting places for his fellow humans to reflect, and live in.

An architect of light, mostly.
by fsckboy | 2025-12-06 01:57:33+00:00
but to develop better intuition, think of the sun's gravity as a field in space and nothing is being dragged anywhere, it's just that wherever you are feels appropriate to where you are and where you are going is the path of least resistance, and the places around you feel the same way, and where you all are in relation to each other (in this field) changes its relative position to everything else.

the water of an incoming tide doesn't feel "i'm being dragged uphill", it feels "hey, the earth is moving underneath me". it's all in freefall all the time.

you don't feel like you are rotating at 1000 mph (1600 kph) but you do feel your weight against the surface of the earth. same with the water, except it feels itself being squeezed by everything around it like you only feel that in the entrance to a crowded venue.

so, the water on the side toward the moon and the water on the side away from the moon would mostly perceive the earth as dropping away or coming closer (if they could perceive anything at all) where they are is always their point of reference
by bee_rider | 2025-12-06 01:58:08+00:00
I dunno. It kinda works, and points for converting the whole article. But something is lost in the switch-up here. The size of a laptop is more or less the size of the display (unless we’re going to get weird and have a projector built in), so it is basically a figure-of-merit.

Nobody actually wants more weights in their LLMs, right? They want the things to be “smarter” in some sense.
by groby_b | 2025-12-06 02:00:15+00:00
I mean yes, if you waste time on worked that does not bring value, people tend to get cranky. If you then take longer than you said, it's not a mood enhancer.

That's not a people problem though. That's failure to recognize that a company pays its employees money to make more money, not to have a pretty code base.

Yes, that means communicating the value, but that's not a people problem. That's a skills issue.

"anyone above senior engineer level needs to know how to collaborate cross-functionally"

If you can't collaborate xfn and deal with other people in general, you are not a senior engineer, despite the title inflation.
by folkrav | 2025-12-06 02:00:22+00:00
Gabe Newell (Valve/Steam) seems to agree with your analyst friend's take.

> The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

https://www.gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-...
by array_key_first | 2025-12-06 02:00:48+00:00
There's multiple levels of freedom of expression. You could argue, and people do, that the company has it's own right to freedom of expression, and wants to portray itself in the way it wants, and that necessarily involves deciding who they work with.

For example, if I told you that you are forced to associate yourself publicly with someone you don't like and don't want to associate with, then you might say I'm hindering your freedom of expression.

And this is missing the elephant in the room: white supremacy is fundamentally anti-free-expression. That's one of it's core tenants. So we have a little bit of tolerance paradox here.

If we allow those who oppose free expression to freely express that, then they express it by limiting free expression, then by allowing free expression we've actually suppressed free expression. So, it's tricky.
by candeira | 2025-12-06 02:01:47+00:00
Dude shipped flamegraphs (which he also created in 2011) for cloud GPU loads and persuaded internal stakeholders to release the code as open source.

The "interviewed by the WSJ" line is for managers. Reading between the lines, I'd say he did really well and, if he didn't do better, it's because the organisation didn't let him.
by brooke2k | 2025-12-06 02:02:05+00:00
I don't think it's pride, more that I don't see the problem that it solves for me. I don't find that git gets in my way at all, and I don't find it confusing. It's a pretty transparent tool that I use every day and hardly notice.

I don't mind other people using jj, but I simply don't feel a need to try it. There's nothing prideful about that, it's just pragmatism.
by cube00 | 2025-12-06 02:02:06+00:00
You know it makes sense, so get that Google passkey set up now.

Unfortunately you'll be guided to storing those in your Google account too, so your everyday user will still get locked out, in some ways it's worse because a lot of sites will only accept a "recovery key", email confirmation is no longer enough (not that it matters if your GMail is also locked out)