MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2025-12-10 01:45:15+00:00
To add a few things.

The late stage of lyme disease is painful. Like "I think I'm dying" painful. It does have a range of symptoms, but those show up like 3 to 6 weeks after the initial infection.

A lot of people claiming chronic lyme disease don't remember this stage.

Lyme disease does cause a range of problems if left untreated. But not before the "I think I'm dying" stage. It's basically impossible for someone, especially with a lot of wealth, to get lyme disease and not have it caught early on.

Consider the OP's story. They tried to not treat it but ended up thinking "OMG, I think I have meningitis and I'm going to die!".

Lyme can kill, but it rarely does. Partially because before it gets to that point it drives people to seek medical attention.
by mindslight | 2025-12-10 01:45:40+00:00
Oh cool, now the US Military gets to do pathetic limp-dick shit like it was Russia. "ha ha we are flying in your airspace. u mad bro? u mad bro? u mad yet bro?".

Can't we just put this guy in a nursing home mocked up as if it's the White House, and tell him all of his orders are being followed to great success? "Yes Dear Leader, China was so cowed by your supremely wise tariffs, today they sent three more gold [colored] statues of you standing on the American flag"
by MiddleEndian | 2025-12-10 01:45:44+00:00
When texting took off, it was the easiest (only) way to send instant text based messages between friends wherever you were, even if the phone system is now heavily used by spammers and there are better options.

When Facebook took off, every Myspace page was so full of garbage that they barely loaded on most people's computers, and Facebook was slick and shiny and easy. The real name policy made it super easy to connect with people you met IRL. Even if it's now confusingly slow and FB Messenger can't display your recent chats in the correct order for some reason, it was the easiest most obvious option at the time.

I don't really understand why people use Twitter (at its best it just seems like a worse version of RSS), but the site presumably loaded quickly at some point and was easy to use, even if it's presumably worse now.

And so on. They persist through momentum.

Some things continue to persist, some things get beat out and die. But if you start off more confusing than your alternatives, at least compared to when they started, you won't get picked up in the first place.
by wvbdmp | 2025-12-10 01:46:24+00:00
Is that even true? The article is really vague on the type of disability and basically just claims that serifs are harder to read.

Generally sans-serif is advisable for small sizes, although I assume the main things are large open counters, tall x-height and low stroke contrast.

I’ve often read that dyslexics favor strongly distinctive characters and “grounded”, bottom-heavy letterforms. I feel like serifs actually sound pretty good there.

It’s also important to consider whether such studies were conducted before or after high-PPI displays became prevalent and leveled the playing field for serifs.
by BSTRhino | 2025-12-10 01:47:27+00:00
I made this little game in 1 day for Ludum Dare 58, and have taken a bit of time to polish it for Hacker News. I am fascinated by the way the multi-vehicle travelling salesman problem seems so simple on the surface, but actually has an almost infinite number of solutions. I thought it might be interesting to put this problem into a game so you can feel the tension between the simplicity and complexity for yourself.
by martin-t | 2025-12-10 01:47:37+00:00
> I don't think it's even reasonable to suggest that 1000 people all coming up with variations of some arbitrary bit of code either deserve credit

There's 8B people on the planet, probably ~100M can code to some degree[0]. Something only 1k people write is actually pretty rare.

Where would you draw the line? How many out of how many?

If I take a leaked bit of Google or MS or, god forbid, Oracle code and manage to find a variation of each small block in a few other projects, does it mean I can legally take the leaked code and use it for free?

Do you even realize to what lengths the tech companies went just a few years ago to protect their IP? People who ever even glanced at leaked code were prohibited from working on open source reimplementations.

> That scenario is already today very well accepted legally and morally etc as public domain.

1) Public domain is a legal concept, it has 0 relevance to morality.

2) Can you explain how you think this works? Can a person's work just automatically become public domain somehow by being too common?

> Copyleft is not OSS, it's a tiny variation of it, which is both highly ideological and impractical.

This sentence seems highly ideological. Linux is GPL, in fact, probably most SW on my non-work computer is GPL. It is very practical and works much better than commercial alternatives for me.

> Less than 2% of OSS projects are copyleft.

Where did you get this number? Using search engines, I get 20-30%.

[0]: It's the number of github users, though there's reportedly only ~25M professional SW devs, many more people can code but don't professionaly.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-10 01:47:56+00:00
I've had apartments, too. Both corpo-owned and owned by some dude who had some apartments.

The corpo ones were the worst.

They invented illegal terms ("Sorry, sir. You may have signed your 1-year lease agreement on the fifth day of the month, but our policy is to close leases only on the last day of the month. You still owe us for the rest of this [13th!] month whether you've moved out or not"), were wildly successful at making all of the security deposit disappear, and were miserable at keeping their word on necessary repairs. They were shit.

The ones that were run by some dude who owned some apartments were very different. I paid my rent on time. If I had a problem, I called the singular responsible person directly and he (being the kind of person who likes to have timely payments in their bank account) would answer the phone himself. There were never any surprises relating to money, and I never had an issue that lasted for more than 24 hours.
Show HN: An unlimited Wordle practice site I built
by mr_windfrog | 2025-12-10 01:49:39+00:00
I love the Wordle game, but one puzzle a day feels way too slow if you're actually trying to get better. So I built wordles.org - a simple unlimited Wordle practice site.

It also has one extra thing I always wished the original had: you can create your own 4–10 letter word and share a link so friends can guess it. I'm not sure if people actually want a practice tool like this or if I'm just the kind of person who plays 10+ rounds a day.

Curious what others think: Is unlimited Wordle useful or just noise? Are custom puzzles fun or annoying?

If something feels off, tell me straight. I'd rather get blunt feedback than polite silence.
by akoumjian | 2025-12-10 01:50:35+00:00
Celery is great and awful at the same time. In particular, because it is many Python folks' first introduction to distributed task processing and all the things that can go wrong with it. Not to mention, debugging can be a nightmare. Some examples:

- your function arguments aren't serializable - your side effects (e.g. database writes) aren't idempotent - discovering what backpressure is and that you need it - losing queued tasks during deployment / non-compatible code changes

There's also some stuff particular to celery's runtime model that makes it incredibly prone to memory leaks and other fun stuff.

Honestly, it's a great education.
by Ayesh | 2025-12-10 01:50:48+00:00
Considering how many ACME clients are available today with all sorts of convenient features, and that many web servers nowadays have ACME support built in (Caddy, Apache mod_md, and recent Nginx), I believe that people who don't automate ACME certificates are the people who get paid hourly and want to keep doing the same boring tasks to get paid.
by hallole | 2025-12-10 01:52:08+00:00
Hugely decisive! Feels more like a policy for idyllic hypotheticals. "Suppose we could ban social media..." well, hey, they actually did it.

I'm very interested to see how their socializing evolves in response to such a shock. Do the social behaviors of pre-internet times re-emerge? "Third spaces" reappear overnight? We shall see!
by deminature | 2025-12-10 01:52:19+00:00
As an Australian experiencing this first hand and considerably older than 16, absolutely nothing has changed. It seems like all the social networks are doing age estimation of accounts and only taking action on those that fail and are detected as underage. The change is otherwise completely invisible if you're an adult user. Obviously I'm only a sample size of 1, but I've not heard of any other adults being adversely affected by this, so it seems the estimation is accurate.

Pretty well executed - I'm impressed. Given how seamlessly this occurred, it will undoubtedly be rolled out in Europe next year, as the EU has expressed an interest in doing so, but was waiting to see how the implementation went in Australia.
by bigyabai | 2025-12-10 01:52:31+00:00
> Is anyone really profiting from AI yet?

...Nvidia? Did you just step out of a cryogenic chamber from 2008?

The datacenter business is booming right now, cutting-edge and efficient hardware is needed more than ever. Nvidia and Apple are the only two companies in the world with the design chops and TSMC inroads to address that market. Nvidia's fully committed and making money hand over fist; Apple is putting 2nm silicon in the iPad Pro and asking fucking consumers to pay $1,500 for it. Do you not see the issue with this business model?

People will say Apple can't crack the datacenter market, I say bullshit. Apple drafted OpenCL. Every dollar Nvidia makes is money Apple pissed away on trinkets like smartwatches and TikTok tablets.
by freetime2 | 2025-12-10 01:53:13+00:00
WarCraft II was among the first games that I ever played "online" (direct connection via dial-up modem with my friends). I can't overstate how absolutely incredible that felt to me at the time - pure magic.

The other games we were playing at that time were Doom II and various other first-person shooters (Rise of the Triad, Hexen, etc) - which were also pretty incredible. But the WarCraft II experience really took things to the next level with far richer gameplay.
by lisdexan | 2025-12-10 01:53:41+00:00
I find it very telling that most comments are supposedly seeing contempt for rural people in this piece, or that it classifies wood burning as primitive. I live in a country where wood still is the most common fuel, even in the urban areas sans the capital city. People do it because is cheaper, and that fact is the thrust of the piece, people normally buy it.

A food bank is a noble thing, but more people relying in it is obviously a sign of socio-economic decay. Food and heating in winter are literally the most basic humans needs, if you need free firewood you aren't doing well. It's not "cute" that grandma's pension doesn't cover food and a delivery of wood from a sawmill. People are nay-saying and flagging because realizing that your country is becoming poorer sucks ass, so "coastal elite" pearl clutching is easier.
by changxu | 2025-12-10 01:53:57+00:00
Went to NeurIPS but couldn't hit all the talks I wanted, so I turned workshop sessions and invited talks into 11 podcast episodes (each under 20 min). Some findings that changed how I think about AI:

Reality checks:

- Best vision models: 28.8% accuracy on tasks requiring physics/time/causality

- FDA approvals for generative AI in clinical use: Zero

- 1000x gap in data efficiency between AI and human brains

- 10 years of daily financial data = 2,500 observations (way too small for transformers)

Actual breakthroughs:

- Brain-computer interfaces detecting subconscious error signals (90% to 99% accuracy)

- Apple Watch pulse geometry predicting heart disease better than cholesterol

- Multimodal fusion eliminating the need for 10,000 human labels per robot task

- Dynamic portfolios spontaneously switching hedging instruments during COVID

Episode list:

1. Society's Fragile Equilibrium - Why "good enough" AI at scale is more disruptive than superintelligence (AGEI vs AGI)

2. The Evaluation Crisis - Why we're testing AI wrong (the infant morality study, Clever Hans effect)

3. The Reasoning Revolution - How o1/o3 actually think, mode collapse, the artificial hivemind problem

4. Engineering Creative AI - DALL-E training 23x faster with one token, world models, IP questions

5. AI Transforms Scientific Discovery - Dolphin communication, ground squirrels to heart treatments, virtual cells

6. Foundation Models for Brain and Body - Biological age gap from wearables, BCI error detection, SSL for neural data

7. Computer Vision's Journey - AI vision is solved, AI reasoning is not (28.8% reality check)

8. Robots That Learn Without Humans - Zero-shot robotics training via multimodal fusion

9. The Autonomous Agent Revolution - Reward hacking everywhere, why rigid multi-agent systems fail

10. Generative AI in Finance - Four pitfalls that break standard AI, task-driven training solutions

11. AI as Time Machine for Science - Years to days, but zero FDA approvals (the central tension)

Sources: NeurIPS 2025 workshops and invited talks (Yejin Choi, Melanie Mitchell, Zeynep Tufekci, etc.)

https://www.basisset.com/#NeurIPS2025
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-12-10 01:54:08+00:00
This is the time were investors need to be careful. Companies go public for a few reasons. 1) to use the shares to buy other companies 2) companies that are so profitable that they don't need the money but they want to cash out some of the shares 3) they can't get any more money from private markets.

Given that a few days ago SpaceX was trying to get more money at a 1 trillion valuation and could not get it then I would say the 3rd reason.

So if the smart money is having doubts at these valuations and they have to go public the I feel we are beginning to see the start of a peek. I give it one year. When we start seeing a large increase in IPO's then every one should start running for the exits.
by gjrq | 2025-12-10 01:54:53+00:00
Oh come on, what is this crap? Absolutely no thermal efficiency numbers or anything else you could use to validate any claims. Especially if you are claiming that an aero-derived turbine is somehow going to be better than a purpose-built unit.

The "supersonic engines are better because they are designed to operate at hotter temperatures" argument is particularly insane: turbine efficiency is driven by turbine inlet temperature (already 3000ish C), not ambient temperature.

I suppose it's only right that VCs are going to get scammed by LLM slop.
by Ayesh | 2025-12-10 01:55:13+00:00
To prove a very important point, that EV certificates are broken, someone obtained a "Stripe Inc." EV certificate by registering a company in a different state.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/12/nope-...

(The original site is no more, but this Arstechnica article has screenshots and a good summary)
by rayiner | 2025-12-10 01:56:07+00:00
> Meanwhile China is adding power capacity at a wartime pace—coal, gas, nuclear, everything—while America struggles to get a single transmission line permitted.

I have been saying for years that upgrading civilization requires more power output, not conservation and windmills. If we had been investing in nuclear since the 1960s we would be ready for the needs of next generation technologies and we could do it without burning fossil fuels.
by LocalH | 2025-12-10 01:59:16+00:00
Favorite thing I've come across so far:

prompt_engineer_ret 10 hours ago

I miss the old days of Prompt Engineering. It felt like casting spells. Now you just think what you want via Neural-Lace and the machine does it. Where is the art?

git_push_brain 9 hours ago

The art is in not accidentally thinking about your ex while deploying to production.
by threethirtytwo | 2025-12-10 01:59:28+00:00
> Vibe coding actually works. It creates robust, complex systems that work. You can tell yourself (as I did) that it can’t possibly do that, but you are wrong. You can then tell yourself (as I did) that it’s good as a kind of alternative search engine for coding problems, but not much else. You are also wrong about that. Because when you start giving it little programming problems that you can’t be arsed to work out yourself (as I did), you discover (as I did) that it’s awfully good at those. And then one day you muse out loud (as I did) to an AI model something like, “I have an idea for a program…” And you are astounded. If you aren’t astounded, you either haven’t actually done it or you are at some stage of grief prior to acceptance. Perfect? Hardly. But then neither are human coders. The future? I think the questions answers itself.

Tons of people make the above claim and tons of other people make the exact opposite claim that it’s just a search engine and it can’t actually code. I’m utterly shocked at how two people can look at ground truth reality and derive two different factual conclusions. Make no doubt one of these two people is utterly wrong.

The only thing I can conclude is many people are either in denial or outdated. A year ago none of what this man said was true.
by kderbyma | 2025-12-10 01:59:31+00:00
Yeah. I noticed Claud suffers when it reaches context overload - its too opinionated, so it shortens its own context with decisions I would not ever make, yet I see it telling itself that the shortcuts are a good idea because the project is complex...then it gets into a loop where it second guesses its own decisions and forgets the context and then continues to spiral uncontrollably into deeper and deeper failures - often missing the obvious glitch and instead looking into imaginary land for answers - constantly diverting the solution from patching to completely rewriting...

I think it suffers from performance anxiety...

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The only solution I have found is to - rewrite the prompt from scratch, change the context myself, and then clear any "history or memories" and then try again.

I have even gone so far as to open nested folders in separate windows to "lock in" scope better.

As soon as I see the agent say "Wait, that doesnt make sense, let me review the code again" its cooked
by crq-yml | 2025-12-10 02:00:54+00:00
There's a cruel truth to electing to use any dependency for a game, in that all of it may or may not be a placeholder for the final design. If the code that's there aligns with the design you have, maybe you speed along to shipping something, but all the large productions end up doing things custom somewhere, somehow, whether that's in the binary or through scripts.

But none of the code is necessary to do game design either, because that just reflects the symbolic complexity you're trying to put into it. You can run a simpler scene, with less graphics, and it will still be a game. That's why we have "10-line BASIC" game jams and they produce interesting and playable results. The aspect of making it commercial quality is more tied to getting the necessary kinds and quantities of feedback to find the audience and meet them at their expectations, and sometimes that means using a big-boy engine to get a pile of oft-requested features, but I've also seen it be completely unimportant. It just depends a lot on what you're making.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-10 02:00:56+00:00
This is awesome, but minor quibble with the title - "hallucinates" is the wrong verb here. You specifically asked it to make up a 10-year-in-the-future HN frontpage, and that's exactly what it did. "Hallucinates" means when it randomly makes stuff up but purports it to be the truth. If some one asks me to write a story for a creative writing class, and I did, you wouldn't say I "hallucinated" the story.
by gridspy | 2025-12-10 02:02:06+00:00
Perhaps not in a 100% world, though I'll give you the point that they are useful now.

In a 100% renewable world we would not be extracting or refining oil. Natural gas (used by these turbines) is a byproduct of oil drilling. Were we not burning the oil, the natural gas might be too expensive alone.

Also, in a 100% renewable world we would (by definition) have enough generation all the time - (covered by batteries and good baseload sources) that turbine power was no longer required to cover peak loads.
by Ayesh | 2025-12-10 02:02:10+00:00
I imagine it'll go against your talk getting into the shortlist.

But there are some conferences that ask and respect your preference whether you'd like the video recording to have your face or just the audio. But I have yet to see a conference that go as far as asking the audience to not take photos of the presenter, so it's pretty much moot if you do not want your photos published at all.
by ValentineC | 2025-12-10 02:02:31+00:00
> I don't want videos of me online.

This is just my personal opinion, but your expertise in your proposed topic would have to be really good (i.e. you've written a few blog posts about it) for a conference to overlook this.

Recorded videos act as a portfolio for both potential speakers and conferences alike. I think some first-time attendees rely on past videos to determine whether a conference is worth going for.

(That said, we've set videos as unlisted for people who think that they've bombed their talks before — think leaving the stage in tears because the Q&A was harsh — but that's just goodwill.)
by yanokwa | 2025-12-10 02:02:52+00:00
I run [ODK](https://getodk.org). It's a offline mobile data collection platform that has been an DPG since 2022.

In practice, being a DPG makes your project slightly easier to choose in UN and government procurements. In most cases, they're choosing your platform because it's free, so it's unlikely that money or code contributions will come your way. It can even be a downside, because your software may end up deployed on an under-provisioned government server that generates a flood of support requests. Ask me how I know...

You may also get a bit more visibility and become eligible for some DPG-related funding calls. But in my experience, funding ultimately depends on demonstrated impact, donor relationships, alignment with national digital strategies, and the ability to deliver at scale.
by anigbrowl | 2025-12-10 02:03:12+00:00
While mostly framed as a matter of clarity and formality in presentation, Mr. Rubio’s directive to all diplomatic posts around the world blamed “radical” diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility programs for what he said was a misguided and ineffective switch from the serif typeface Times New Roman to sans serif Calibri in official department paperwork.

In an “Action Request” memo obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Rubio said that switching back to the use of Times New Roman would “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work.” Calibri is “informal” when compared to serif typefaces like Times New Roman, the order said, and “clashes” with the department’s official letterhead.

As far back as I can recall, this is a politician who has railed against 'political correctness'.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-10 02:05:21+00:00
I don't think so.

Consumers don't care about whether an LLM is local, and one that runs on your phone is always going to be vastly worse than ChatGPT.

I see zero indication that Apple is going to replace people going to chatgpt.com or using its app.

All I see Apple doing is eventually building a better new generation of Siri, not much different from Google/Alexa.