MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SapporoChris | 2026-03-12 16:49:31+00:00
CDC estimates about 60 million are effected by parasites in USA. which is about 17 or 18%.

Gut cleanse, colon cleanse, detoxing. None of this is supported by science. Nor would any of these things cure, prevent or in anyway help a parasitic infection.

Here are some common parasitic infections and how they're treated. None of these treatments recommend gut cleanse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardia#Infection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Treatment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascariasis#Treatment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookworm_infection#Treatment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinworm_infection#Treatment

Gut inflammation can be a problem, but I would not recommend treating it or even diagnosing it without evidence.
by Kye | 2026-03-12 16:49:34+00:00
I lean toward "people got better at not dying from everything else." It's plausible to me that it just enabled existing factors to unfold on the time scales they unfold on for more people.

My handy heuristic for headlines like this: Is it a scary new trend that means something or did other factors suppressing its natural emergence decline? Or is it a matter of observation?

A recent real-world example was the detection of two different objects entering the solar system. The naive speculation was "they came on the same plane, so they must be alien!" But the reality is more mundane: the new detection method that found them, while flexible, started by looking at that plane. So of course both objects it detected were on that plane.
by pixelatedindex | 2026-03-12 16:50:19+00:00
> Long-term, they will need none. I believe that software will be made obsolete by AI.

I think this is a bit hyperbolic. Someone still needs to review and test the code, and if the code is for embedded systems I find it unlikely.

For SaaS platforms you’ll see a dramatic reduction, maybe like 80% but it’ll still have a handful of devs.

Factories didn’t completely eliminate assembly line workers, you just need a far fewer number to make sure the cogs turn the way it should.
by keybored | 2026-03-12 16:50:28+00:00
There’s plenty of pro-Iranian sentiment on Persian social media.

Apparently a recent poll had a 50/50 split among Iranian–Americans. If that’s the split outside of the country I can’t imagine that Iran itself is overwhelmingly anti-regime—and especially both anti-regime and pro-invasion—, it is after all they that have to bear the bombs.

It’s awfully simple to be Nationality and cheer for the invasion of your Nation when you have no literal skin in the game.
by jabroni_salad | 2026-03-12 16:50:50+00:00
I usually stay out of health convos because it's just not my wheelhouse, but I think most people would benefit from extra fiber. It has an obvious direct benefit to your life the very next time you use the bathroom. I don't know if it is the answer to the rise of colon cancer; this is well studied and seems really easy to work with? We would surely know already. But I do know it's worth doing irrespective of that.
by a6kme | 2026-03-12 16:51:08+00:00
Thanks for the kind words @ajabish.

We are more of a horizontal platform and can support a wide variety of use cases. We are serving large BPO call centres on our managed hosted service for outbound and inbound cases.

There are individual builders also trying to build inbound use cases for personal use or trying to build their business on top of Dograh.
by elijahscamp | 2026-03-12 16:51:11+00:00
About a year ago I started wondering what an LLM would create if you gave it a drawing tool and zero instructions. Would it make anything? Would it care to? Would it vary by model?

Aurora is the system I built to find out. Each model (Llama 2, Llama 3, Llama 3.1, OpenHermes 2.5, Mistral 7B, Qwen 2.5, DeepSeek-R1 8B, Gemma 2 9B, and Mistral base) runs locally via llama-cpp-python on my laptop. Every model gets its own isolated memory bank starting from zero. No artistic training, no creative scaffolding, no shared context between models. The LLMs control everything - movement, color, brush, and sound - by outputting operational codes that the system interprets. Every mark on the canvas and every note played is a decision made by the model.Each model also sees its own canvas in real time as an ASCII grid representation, so its decisions are informed by what it's already created. The system logs every thought, self-reported emotion, canvas snapshot, dream, and chat session to MySQL in real time.

The live dashboard has three views - Terminal (model stats + thought stream), Live (watch the canvas update), and Gallery (finished paintings by model). There's also a Moog-style synthesized audio feed you can toggle on - each model generates notes as it draws, and the dashboard plays them back through a Web Audio API synth matching the same frequency table.

Nothing is prompted or predefined. The system doesn't ask how models feel - the LLMs spontaneously say "i feel..." on their own, and a parser catches it. So far they've collectively produced 96 unique emotion words. Some findings:

- Mistral base and OpenHermes share identical base weights. Mistral produced 2 emotions across tens of thousands of steps. OpenHermes produced 22 with rapid cycling.

- One model self-diagnosed its own behavioral loop, naming the feeling "repetitive"

- Two models independently described dreaming about a "serene lake" in separate sessions

My background before CS was 7 years of applied behavioral analysis with nonverbal kids with autism. The architecture borrows from that - designing environments for emergent behavior rather than optimizing toward a target.

Stack: Python, llama-cpp-python, PyTorch, MySQL, PHP/nginx, vanilla JS + Web Audio API. Runs on a laptop + a $6/mo DigitalOcean droplet.

Research writeup: https://elijahsylar.github.io/aurora_ai/
GitHub: https://github.com/elijahsylar/Aurora-Autonomous-AI-Artist-v...
by Pannoniae | 2026-03-12 16:51:45+00:00
Yup :P

As in their post:

"The future of software is not open. It is not closed. It is liberated, freed from the constraints of licenses written for a world in which reproduction required effort, maintained by a generation of developers who believed that sharing code was its own reward and have been comprehensively proven right about the sharing and wrong about the reward."

This applies to open-source but also very well to proprietary software too ;) Reversing your competitors' software has never been easier!
by uday_singlr | 2026-03-12 16:51:50+00:00
We tend to obsess over abstractions, frameworks, and standards, which is a good thing. But we already have BDD and TDD, and now, with english as the new high-level programming language, it is easier than ever to build. Focusing on other critical problem spaces like context/memory is more useful at this point. If the whole purpose of this is token compression, I don't see myself using it.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-03-12 16:52:09+00:00
The name of Lincoln and Trump cannot and shouldn't be used within the same sentence. Lincoln's story is inspiring and you can see him worried about his country and he grew up learning law books being poor and rose up to power.

Lincoln says, "With malice toward none, with charity for all"

Trump is the exact opposite of Lincoln being "With malice towards all, with charity for none"

The irony of the situation is that they are from the same party.

He believed that the greatest danger to America came from within, warning that if the nation faltered, it would be due to self-destruction rather than external forces

Lincoln's famous speech: , "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

Lincoln was ahead of his time and might as well have predicted something like Trump.
by hedora | 2026-03-12 16:52:17+00:00
Well, the question isn't "is there any consequence for the bank managers"? The answer to that is "No, never, not even during the French Revolution".

The question is "How long can they keep extracting money before the economy implodes?"

The people producing macroeconomic indicators in the US were fired about 6 months ago for putting out an honest report. Since then there's been very little correlation between public sentiment on the economy and the official indicators.

So, we're definitely in some sort of overhang situation, where the economy is imploding, but the stock market goes up. I think that's unprecedented in the US. In developing countries, when this happens, it usually leads to things like hyperinflation.

So, I guess the real questions are: "How do you short the dollar?", and "How can you tell when the banks start doing it?" so you know when to jump off the merry-go-round.
by ForestHubAI | 2026-03-12 16:53:05+00:00
Hey HN,

I've been designing embedded hardware for years, and I kept running into the same problem: I'd wire up the same ESP32 + BME280 + OLED circuit for the fifth time, re-derive the same pull-up resistor values, forget decoupling caps, and spend 30 minutes on something that should take 3. So I built boardsmith.

*What it does:* You give it a text prompt like `"ESP32 with BME280 temperature sensor and SSD1306 OLED display"`, and it generates a complete KiCad 8 schematic (.kicad_sch), a BOM with JLCPCB part numbers, and working Arduino-compatible firmware. Not a template — an actual computed design with correct pull-up resistors, decoupling caps, I2C address assignments, and proper power distribution.

The pipeline has 9 stages: intent parsing, normalization, component selection, topology synthesis, HIR composition, constraint refinement, BOM building, KiCad export, and confidence scoring. There are 11 constraint checks (ERC compliance, voltage/current budgets, pin assignment validation, I2C address conflicts, decoupling requirements, etc.). The output passes KiCad's own ERC.

boardsmith also includes an agentic EDA layer: the ERCAgent automatically repairs ERC violations after schematic generation (bounded to 5 iterations with stall detection). `boardsmith modify` lets you patch existing schematics ("add battery management with TP4056") without touching the synthesis pipeline. And `boardsmith verify` runs 6 semantic verification tools against the design intent.

*The key thing:* `boardsmith build -p "your prompt" --no-llm` works fully offline. No API key, no network access, no cloud calls. It's deterministic — same prompt, same output, every time. The LLM mode is optional and just improves intent parsing for ambiguous prompts. The actual synthesis, constraint solving, and schematic generation are all computed, not generated by a language model.

*What it's good at:* ESP32 and RP2040 projects with sensors, displays, and actuators. I2C/SPI/UART topologies. Clean ERC. JLCPCB-ready Gerber output. 212 verified components with full electrical specs (not scraped datasheets — manually entered and cross-checked). 191 LCSC part mappings for direct JLCPCB SMT assembly.

*What it's not good at:* High-speed digital design (no impedance-controlled routing, no length matching). Analog circuit design (no op-amp topologies, no filter synthesis). STM32 support is in beta and has rough edges. No multi-board designs.

We're [ForestHub.ai](http://ForestHub.ai), a 4-person seed-funded team building tools for hardware engineers.

The CLI is AGPL-3.0 (commercial license available for companies that need it). Source is on GitHub.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, the constraint solver, why we went AGPL, the ERCAgent repair loop, or how the HIR (Hardware Intermediate Representation) works as the contract between our synthesis and firmware tracks.
by mrguyorama | 2026-03-12 16:53:19+00:00
No actually. There's no real "resource" justification here.

This is directly caused by technology. Morons have helped the worst possible people build surveillance and coordination and propaganda networks and are all confused pikachu about that going exactly the way you should have expected it to go.

Technology was also bypassing the "resource" problem at warp speed. Solar panels are the energy future, and thanks to China being actually good at strategic planning, solar can be deployed and utilized far faster than any other energy innovation. With the sheer abundance possible through bulk solar, water scarcity is an engineering issue, about manufacturing enough plumbing and membranes to desalinate whatever you need.

We are fighting an 80s oil war because people voted for an 80s TV personality to run our country after he was known to rape kids, brag about Mein Kampf (even though everyone knows he doesn't read for fun), and attempt to invalidate the 2020 election.

Israel saw a clear opening to wildly advance their imperialist ambitions and because Donald Trump is so damn stupid we have jumped in to this absurdist situation because Donald Trump wanted to be seen shooting first, because he thinks that looks "Strong".
by lovich | 2026-03-12 16:53:30+00:00
> But to use your washing machine example what business is it of the state where I bought this washing machine?

It’s their jurisdiction and they made a law for it. I don’t subscribe to libertarian beliefs so it’s not very hard for me to grok.

> Oh so this is one of those things where the government can just choose to arbitrarily enforce it against entities it doesn't like.

Not for 99% of cases although there are times I recognized it gets abused. It’s not enforced on the smaller violations as a result of it taking X amount of dollars to enforce to only get >X dollars in tax revenue. It’s not a vice tax where they are trying to stop behavior but a revenue generator so there is no reason to waste the money.

You get similar behavior in large businesses accounting departments where under a certain value they will just accept the loss instead of spending the time trying to fix discrepancies in their accounts.
by unsupp0rted | 2026-03-12 16:53:42+00:00
I've done it enough times that I'm totally fine with it: the electrolyte drink tastes like slightly bad-tasting Gatorade, which is hardly worth caring about.

And you get diarrhea-like bathroom runs half a dozen times maybe.

Yes it was annoying to get the runs and gross to drink the stuff the first few times, but people eat things like cow tongue or live octopus or whatever... I can handle some bad-tasting Gatorade and some diarrhea just fine, especially given the 5 years of peace-of-mind it buys me afterward.
by doubled112 | 2026-03-12 16:53:42+00:00
I grew up in a fairly industrial area with lots of trades people around me. From my anecdata, I'd suspect you're right. The choices, personal or otherwise, I have seen can't be good for your body, and some you're simply not allowed to make anymore.

Ironically, sitting on this laptop typing this might be as bad, but win some/lose some.

But some obvious examples?

Ever dip a shirt in benzene because it cools you down? Apparently it feels like Vicks, but doesn't leave that sticky feeling behind.

A good portion drank 6+ beers a day. I know they must have eaten, but some I never saw consume food. At all.

Some smoked a pack or two of cigarettes a day. Asbestos was in everything.

There was no ventilation/filtration for welders, painters, woodworkers, etc. If you could open the shop door it was a good day.
by imglorp | 2026-03-12 16:54:18+00:00
It's partly the pervasiveness of that product because it's in fking everything in the US at least. Why is it in BREAD? https://www.thedailymeal.com/1306301/unhealthiest-store-boug...

It's also the crazy amounts: we're accustomed to high levels of sweetness. Like 40g sugar in a can of soda.
by bigyabai | 2026-03-12 16:55:00+00:00
It's not impossible. Iran has connections with China, who is great at designing and manufacturing UUVs.

That said, a UUV fleet would have downsides for Iran. It's expensive, dependent on imports and an overmatch for swarm-style attacks. Attack boats are a closer fit for the "cheap/attritable" tactics we see used with Shaheds.
by Aurornis | 2026-03-12 16:55:05+00:00
> I can use an LLM to help form new and novel thoughts into prose, right? To structure and present it in conventional language rather than stream of thought.

Better to post your stream of thought.

Using LLMs to turn stream of thoughts into prose is mostly just adding fluff and expanding the text to make it look more like thoughtful prose. What you get looks nice to the creator because they agree with what it's saying, but it wastes other reader's time as they have to dissect the extra LLM prose to get back to the author's stream of thought.

Just post what you're thinking, even if it's not elegant prose. Don't have an LLM wrap it in structures and cliches that disguise it as something else.
by cmiles8 | 2026-03-12 16:55:34+00:00
Terrible headline. “Asia” isn’t a thing apart from a region on a map. These are separate countries doing their own thing.

Equally annoying is when folks say “Asian” as an ethnicity. That’s glossing over a whole bunch of different countries that have relatively little to do with each other apart from being in the same general area on the planet.
by tim-tday | 2026-03-12 16:55:37+00:00
I wonder what would happen if we declared a “mission accomplished” and simply stopped. Does the conflict stop? Does Israel go it alone? Does Iran continue their campaign of “bomb everyone“ because they’re pissed?

I would guess a little negotiation could end the conflict immediately if the us pushed for it. I don’t think the current administration can afford for gas prices to be high during the midterms.

You could probably predict the end of the conflict by assessing the rate of depletion of the strategic oil reserves. (+/- 30d)
by CamouflagedKiwi | 2026-03-12 16:55:39+00:00
I hate the graph here. "Bank teller employment has fallen off a cliff" - well it _looks_ that way but actually it's more like halved from its peak because the bottom of the Y axis isn't zero. That's still a significant reduction, but it's not as dramatic as it seems at first glance.

Lies, damn lies...
by thutch76 | 2026-03-12 16:56:08+00:00
This is not weaponizing to a single disabled person. I am not disabled, but I have always had difficulty expressing myself effectively, and that difficulty has increased as I've aged. I use AI to help organize my thoughts, to help give voice to that little tidbit of an idea that is trying to escape, and it has been a genuine help. Asking me to not use that assistance is similar to asking a user to not use accessibility features. It's an asinine policy and is an overcorrection.
by dwohnitmok | 2026-03-12 16:56:17+00:00
> but you'll still observe small variations due to the limited precision of float numbers

No. Floating number arithmetic is deterministic. You don't get different answers for the same operations on the same machine just because of limited precision. There are reasons why it can be difficult to make sure that floating point operations agree across machines, but that is more of a (very annoying and difficult to make consistent) configuration thing than determinism.

(In general it is mildly frustrating to me to see software developers treat floating point as some sort of magic and ascribe all sorts of non-deterministic qualities to it. Yes floating point configuration for consistent results across machines can be absurdly annoying and nigh-impossible if you use transcendental functions and different binaries. No this does not mean if your program is giving different results for the same input on the same machine that this is a floating point issue).

In theory parallel execution combined with non-associativity can cause LLM inference to be non-deterministic. In practice that is not the case. LLM forward passes rarely use non-deterministic kernels (and these are usually explicitly marked as such e.g. in PyTorch).

You may be thinking of non-determinism caused by batching where different batch sizes can cause variations in output. This is not strictly speaking non-determinism from the perspective of the LLM, but is effectively non-determinism from the perspective of the end user, because generally the end user has no control over how a request is slotted into a batch.
by taeric | 2026-03-12 16:56:39+00:00
This almost certainly speaks more to how much we have advanced on other cancers? The chart for total incidence shows it peaked in the 80s at about 70 per 100k and is down to about 40 per the same amount, now.

Such that, yes, we can still get better. But people here are reacting as if there is some damning evidence that just doesn't track with the data. Even with an uptick in younger people getting this, we still don't have a smoking gun on anything that is directly causal to this.

Also, holy crap, if you have rectal bleeding, don't ignore it! That that is listed as an early warning sign that people ignore is terrifying.
by verdverm | 2026-03-12 16:56:45+00:00
The top 5-6 expenses (SS, Medicare, interest, health, defense, income security)

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

Going to be hard to cut into these, and the middle/working class is shrinking as wealth concentrates and wealth inequality expands. Perhaps if there weren't so many middlemen taking slices w/o providing value...
by IgorPartola | 2026-03-12 16:56:52+00:00
Imagine a society where one person produces all the value. Their job is to do highly technical maintenance on a single machine that is basically the Star Trek replicator: it produces all the food, clothing, housing, energy, etc. that is enough for every human in this society and the surplus is stored away in case the machine is down for maintenance, which happens occasionally. Maintaining the machine takes very specialized knowledge but adding more people to the process in no way makes it more productive. This person, let’s call them The Engineer, has several apprentices who can take over but again, no more than 5 because you just don’t need more.

In this society there is literally nothing for anyone else to do. Do you think they deserve to be cut out of sharing the value generated by The Engineer and the machine, leaving them to starve? Do you think starving people tend to obey rules or are desperate people likely to smash the evil machine and kill The Engineer if The Engineer cuts them off? Or do you think in a society where work hours mean nothing for an average person a different economic system is required?
by aixplain | 2026-03-12 16:56:53+00:00
No-code was supposed to democratize building. Yet, even drag-and-drop tools asked you to think like an engineer: mapping nodes, wiring logic, sequencing every step before anything could run. We think that's the wrong abstraction.

Intelligence shouldn't need a flowchart. Describe the goal, attach the tools, hit save. Your agent goes live with memory, runtime governance, and built-in monitoring; backed by 900+ ready-to-use tools and integrations. No logic. No sequences. No wiring.

A founder in Saudi Arabia should be able to build the same agent as an engineer in Silicon Valley. That's the playing field we're leveling.

Try it today. Tell me what you'd build if the only limit was your idea.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-03-12 16:56:56+00:00
> This is just another form of that "shadow banking" system isn't it?

Private-credit lenders are literally shadow banks [1]. But I'd be cautious about linking any shadow banking with crisis. Tons of useful finance occurs outside banks (and governments). One could argue a classic VC buying convertible debt met the definition.

That said, the parallel to 2008 is this sector of shadow banking has a unique set of transmission channels to our banks. The unexpected one being purely psychological–when a bank-affiliated shadow bank gates redemptions, investors are punishing the bank per se.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-bank_financial_institution