MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by camebeforeagain | 2026-03-02 01:34:47+00:00
The company is oral biolife and they call their product ambrilux.

Here's an article from Temple University where some of the research is being done:
https://templeuniv.shorthandstories.com/regenerating-bone-ti...

Basically they're using piezoelectric materials to regenerate bone. Periodontitis is a very common condition, about 40-50% of people over 30 get it. Currently, once you lose your bone you can't realistically get it back if we're talking about horizontal defects (e.g. not just one tooth here and there, but instead many teeth in a row affected as is often the case).

Seems like they might have a quick route to market too.

My main question is is this effective only for vertical defects or horizontal defects as well? Because there are already some solutions for vertical defects.
by borroka | 2026-03-02 01:34:57+00:00
It may appear so, in the sense that I would think the same if I were the one reading my comments, but, even if I am sure that my resume could be improved (I worked on it multiple times, asked colleagues to have a look, as well as getting some feedback from LLMs), there is nothing obviously wrong with it.

I interviewed dozens of candidates over the years, and I have seen some crazy resumes (10 pages, every technology under the sun listed, dubious certifications). Mine is certainly not one of them.
by stevenhuang | 2026-03-02 01:35:34+00:00
In the same way operating systems are used on occasion to kill people. My point stands, you don't understand what palantir does. Palantir (Gotham) is a glorified data analytics platform. Gotham does nothing without the privileged data feeds that the IC provides. All Gotham does is process the collected data provided by the military and IC. Palantir is only a data vis platform. What part about this don't you get?

You are tilting at windmills and directing your criticisms at the wrong level. If you want change, change the laws and institutions that allow for this sort of data collection in the first place.
by metalcrow | 2026-03-02 01:36:06+00:00
What you're describing is know as an "assassination market". To my knowledge it's considered mostly a non-issue (It's talked about in good detail here https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/prediction-market-faq?open=...), because you could do a lot of the same stuff with the normal stock market. If you have advance knowledge that Iran is gonna be attacked, it's just as easy to trade on that info there via oil or similar, with the added downside that now no one else gains extra info about if Iran will be attacked or not, and anything more hyper-specific would just be illegal to bet on for normal law reasons.
by diacritical | 2026-03-02 01:37:33+00:00
People who block ads are a minority. Sites that serve heavy content like video would care if someone wastes their resources but blocks ads, but why would a site that serves a few KBs of text spend the resources on blocking such users or making the ads beat the ad blocker in a tiresome cat and mouse game?

Those users could even share or recommend the site to someone else who doesn't use ad blockers, so it actually makes sense to not try to battle ad blockers if you want to make your site more popular.

This makes sense for sites that rely on network effects, like forums or classified ad sites and so on. Unless they have a near monopoly or some really valuable content, they would benefit financially if they let people block their ads.

I can't back that up with data or anything, but it makes sense to me.
by olalonde | 2026-03-02 01:38:36+00:00
If you hold confidential information, using it to bet on prediction markets could arguably violate secrecy rules since the market effectively receives the information. If you are not bound by confidentiality, participating should be fine.

Note that this isn't about making the market "fair" for other participants but about ensuring confidential information remains confidential (especially relevant in the context of national defense).
by blueprint | 2026-03-02 01:38:56+00:00
Feynman, a famous man from an older era who tried to inspire, remind, and spur people...

> macroscopic objects

It's not about scale at all though. It's just that small systems tend to be observed with this other, specific property that we associate with causing "quantum" like effects. Not only do those effects happen in mescoscopic objects but aside from gravity, quantum theory already fully describes things on big scale too. Classical computers and desks are still "quantum" systems. Recently theory and experiments have developed to connect with gravity in many ways. I'm more confused when people say something is mysterious. They're usually referring to apparent randomness but I think even that is explained already with partitions plus wave math (complementarity).
by bsder | 2026-03-02 01:39:20+00:00
Erm, have you ever taken a Waymo and watched the detection screen?

If you can see it, it sees you. Period. I guarantee it.

It can see and gives special priority to humans. I have watched it mark people at night that I couldn't see at all.

Doing weird shit on the road? Certainly possible. Missing seeing a human? Definitely not happening.
by ssl-3 | 2026-03-02 01:39:39+00:00
I found that TiBackup was both the secret sauce that allowed for playing with ROMs with impunity, and also my primary reason for rooting phones back in the day even when I was just using phones in stock form.

It was the first app I ever spent money on, and I did so without any hesitation at all.

It was just genuinely useful to be able to back up and restore my own data on my own devices, and to do so on my own accord. It was a process that I owned, and controlled, and if it went wrong somehow then I was able to troubleshoot it and make sensible decisions.

I haven't had a rooted phone in a decade or so now. These days, backups allegedly happen -- somehow -- and the entire process seems to be both deliberately and inscrutably shrouded in mystery.

When I switch devices or reset to factory to try to fix an eSIM issue (or whatever I do that makes restoration a useful path today), then it's never clear before I start whether the backup/restore will magically work or if it will simply fail without recourse. The uncertainty demonstrates a reprehensibly terrible way to deal with backups.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-03-02 01:39:50+00:00
Get a Sonim XP3+

It's an android (11) flip phone but without Google store and without touchscreen, so almost nothing works on it

There's no setup, besides disabling the PTT button and making it open the application of your choice (as long as your choice is Clock, Voice Memo, or Music/FM Radio)

The ability to slam the phone shut to hang up, and call via speed dial without opening the "phone" app more than makes up for the lack of Instagram.

If you want a chatbot put 1800CHATGPT on your speed dial
by Nevermark | 2026-03-02 01:39:53+00:00
A model is incomplete if it doesn't explain something.

That doesn't make a model wrong. All models we have are partial explanations.

But that doesn't make it rational to claim that an incomplete model is complete. Or to treat unexplained specifics as inherently "just so", without cause or reason (i.e. magic), and we must just accept them as unexplainable instead of pursuing them with further inquiry.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-03-02 01:40:04+00:00
So be an older British lady? You get to decide how people see you. Hair, clothes, body language, smile, is 90% of how people decide whether they want to interact with you.

When I dye my hair all kinds of colors, random people talk to me (and the specific colors even dictate who talks). When I dress up in a suit, people treat me more seriously. When I dress like a contractor and drive my truck, regular dudes talk to me at gas stations. And when I dress queer, women (and some dudes) smile at me. I'm not even outgoing personality-wise, which would help more.
by aetherspawn | 2026-03-02 01:40:40+00:00
If all of the AI providers just went bankrupt it would be a fairly solid 1 step back, 2 steps forward for humanity.

We weren’t ready for it. And degrading world conditions and crazy leadership make it scary to be a civilian in a world with highly capable AI. One that will soon contain AI-powered terrestrial robots akin to something out of Terminator (<2 years).

Besides, without AI we’d probably invest in net positive short term objectives that redistribute wealth, like clean tech.

(Extremely unpopular opinion because at least half or more of HN are probably working in AI)
by Rzor | 2026-03-02 01:41:26+00:00
Haha, that was fun.
https://i.imgur.com/NBFytY3.png (it has spoilers of which shots the game is using)

I don't have many suggestions besides these:

1. Let the user choose between short, medium and long runs, say 10, 20 and 30 movies.

2. To make this more challenging, ensure the selection includes either exclusively black & white movies, exclusively color movies or a balanced mix of both. 12 Angry Men was easy to identify as it was the only one as such.

3. Perhaps create another ranking for "speedruns" (and differently sized runs).

4. Given that account creation can be a huge barrier for some users, state upfront that you are only requiring username and password.

Also, for some reason I couldn't copy and paste these suggestions in the textarea.
by gandalfian | 2026-03-02 01:42:57+00:00
Modern wireless mice from logitech and microsoft last for a year or two on a pair of aa batteries. There is no point making them rechargeable any more. You can always use rechargeable aa nihms if you really want to, but personally I just have 50p of alkaline aa's and in two years I will have to change them again. Some things do get better :)
by tibbar | 2026-03-02 01:43:02+00:00
I think the big frustration I've had in learning modern ML is that the entire owl is just so complicated. A poor explainer reads like "black box is black boxing the other black box", completely undecipherable. A mediocre-to-above-average explanation will be like "(loosely introduced concept) is (doing something that sounds meaningful) to black box", which is a little better. However, when explanations start getting more accurate, you run into the sheer volume of concepts/data transforms taking place in a transformer, and there's too much information to be useful as a pedagogical device.
by kelnos | 2026-03-02 01:44:10+00:00
mmap() is useful for some narrow use-cases, I think, but error-handling is a huge pain. I don't want to have to deal with SIGBUS in my application.

I agree that the model of mmap() is amazing, though: being able to treat a file as just a range of bytes in memory, while letting the OS handle the fussy details, is incredibly useful. (It's just that the OS doesn't handle all of the fussy details, and that's a pain.)
by RevEng | 2026-03-02 01:44:27+00:00
I don't get it either. I even sat down to try it out and see what it's all about, but I can't think of a single thing in my life that I want an agent to automate.

Summarizing news? No, I'd rather just read it. Besides, it's hard to say what will or won't be interesting at any given moment.

Reply to emails? No, I want to make sure I say what I mean to say and I don't see why I would tell the whole story to an LLM just so it could rephrase it all.

Trade stocks? Dear God no! That's a good way to lose my life savings, and if the solution is to just put in a little then what's the point?

Every video and post I see talking about all the things they have automated with agents are things I would never want. Most of them describe content farms - look at what's hot on Twitter, generate a video, post to Reddit, etc. Others like preparing a morning summary are neat and all but so what? If my life was so hectic that I needed a personal assistant to take my calls and book my meetings, I'd hire one.

Seriously, what is the thing that agents can do that every ordinary person just can't live without?
by jjcm | 2026-03-02 01:45:32+00:00
There's some solid advice in here - especially around performative interactions vs genuine.

I was someone who was raised home schooled and it really altered my ability to communicate with my peers, which was something I had to really work on later in life. It surprises most people who know me when I tell them this, as I'm a pretty outgoing / gregarious person these days. It was a deliberate choice on my part, and I likely overindexed on it, leading to me now being highly social.

For those looking to do the same, I'll offer my own advice: how you engage socially depends on how large the audience is.

Small audiences (1-2 people):

If you don't know them: your goal should be to get them to smile without feeling threatened. A lot of people fail at that last part. Don't give someone a compliment like, "I like your pants" out of the blue - it may threaten them that you have alterior motives ("Are they attracted to me?", "Do they just like how my butt looks in these pants?"). Reframe compliments in a way that isn't threatening - ask them something instead like, "Hey weird question, but can I ask what brand those pants are? I want to get my sibling a birthday present and I think they'd really like those". It shows you see them as positive without it being a threatening interaction.

If you do know them: your goal should be to be interested in what they are saying. Find the topic that will stimulate your mind / get you excited to hear them talk more about it. Don't just gamify it and try to get them to talk more than you talk; that's an easy way to make yourself not look genuine. Dig and find gold - everyone has somethinig cool to say, it's your job to find that.

Medium audiences (3-8 people):

Be the facilitator. Don't butt in to get your own voice heard, butt in to segue to others who haven't had their voice heard. "Omg thats crazy X, hey Y you recently had something similar happen right?". Keep the flow going. Your goal should be to make everyone else feel like they've found gold in the conversation with new and interesting nuggest on a regular basis.

Large audiences (9-30 people):

These are basically meetings, and are the worst possible social interaction. Your goal should be to make these as smooth as possible and end them quickly so you can break to smaller sizes. Present facts clearly without emotion, keep things on topic so you can move past them.

Presentations (30+ people):

With this size you do the reverse of the prior size - the facts don't matter at all. Your goal should be to present emotions, not facts. Don't tell people what the % YoY growth is. Control how they should feel about the % YoY growth. This is the biggest #1 failure I see from inexperienced presenters - they aim to just present the info. People can read the info later - convey to them the emotion they should take away from the data. On every slide you have you should have a goal emotion, and you should reflect that emotion in your presentation. Look at any great presenter and you'll notice the same - they have the audience's emotions in their hands.
by prewett | 2026-03-02 01:46:10+00:00
> Almost anything that China does is based on long-term consequences.

I'm not sure that's the case with Xi. Well, I wouldn't be surprised if he tries, but as far as I can tell from a distance, his value system produces unwise decisions long-term. 10+ years of Xi have slowed economic growth, produced antagonism diplomatically, I'm not sure that the Belt and Road is currently seen favorably. He hasn't figured out a way for local governments to be solvent without selling property, nor has he resolved the shadow debt. I think his policy of shutting down Shanghai and other zero-Covid polices destroyed the people's confidence in the CCP as steward of economic growth, as it became obvious that the government can just arbitrarily kill your business and imprison you in your own home or Covid center. I think that removing your top military leaders--who are the only ones with any actual combat experience--is helpful for a successful occupation of Taiwan. Certainly what Xi did with Hong Kong made peaceful re-unification with Taiwan very unlikely.
by raphaelty | 2026-03-02 01:47:45+00:00
While semantic search shine at various tasks including advanced search engine and recommender systems, it did not shine that much on coding task so far appart from benchmarks available in papers. We think standard semantic code search tools lack of advanced filtering features. A key element to code search is to be able to reduce "search space", i.e reduce the set of likely candidates given the intent of the user or the coding agent. We think semantic search alone is not enough and needs to be paired with advanced filters such as GREP filters to succeed.
by robocat | 2026-03-02 01:47:51+00:00
Reaching middle age, as a guy I thought women were more open to friendliness. I have always assumed it was the shadow of a safe "friendly grandpa" effect. Older men have the opportunity to be seen as less intimidating (assuming you don't emit predator vibes).

Or perhaps alternately I've learnt over the years to be more genuinely friendly.

I've seen men and women attempting to start a friendly conversation and have it backfire - because others can tell if someone is needy. Sometimes people are desperate for a conversation, but they sadly frighten away everyone.

I've also really leant into starting conversations with other guys. The stereotype is a bunch of old men yacking about "boring" stuff, and you can totally just accept that and have fun talking about anything. It's only boring if you lack the wit to discern something interesting within a conversation.

There's also an art to looking approachable, so that others can initiate a conversation with you. I am not skilled at it, but I recognize it. Or alternatively recognizing when someone is open to having a conversation started.
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-03-02 01:48:21+00:00
Could you expand on this some more? I'm not quite following.

I agree with the sandboxing challenge of a CLI, although I think any CLI (or MCP) wrapping an http API should be subject to a sane permissioning system that's a first class concept in the API itself. That's in my opinion the correct way to limit what different users/tools/agents can do.

But I don't fully understand the Streamable HTTP point.
by bsder | 2026-03-02 01:48:38+00:00
> “Android phones” is the key missing piece.

iOS/macOS is no better. My wife kept getting weird errors on her iPhone.

Turns out, her photos were only in the cloud and, quelle surprise, she had run out of room in "The Cloud(tm)" in spite of having almost half a terabyte free on her phone.

All the companies want to hold your data hostage.
by Theodores | 2026-03-02 01:48:53+00:00
I am impressed by your solution and I took have at least one bad leg. I have decided against batteries in favour of a basic bike that I can park anywhere and carry up stairs. I want the little and often mobility with a few longer rides over summer. I also have a neighbour in his late seventies that rides 'naturally aspirated' with a buddy that is two years older. His buddy has an ebike and he is giving it a couple of years before he goes electric.

Being younger than him, I feel that I need to stick with 'naturally aspirated'.

I am interested in going the other way to get a dynamo with that switchable between lighting and USB power, for my phone and speakers. There is 3A at 6V to play with.

Ultimately I would want mild hybrid, with regen so all assistance is pedal powered.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-03-02 01:50:46+00:00
There's already been a case where an artist generated art using an LLM, and could not claim copyright on it [0]. Though the guy was torpedoing his own case by claiming the machine created the entire thing. The courts are supporting copyright claims when using an LLM as a tool to support human effort.

All software licensing depends on copyright. If no-one owns the copyright than it can't be licensed; it's in the public domain immediately and irrevocably.

Of course, if you rip off someone else's work, and they DMCA you, then you might need to prove that they generated the entire thing using an LLM with zero human input. Though there's plenty of folks posting blog posts claiming that that's their process, so it might not be that hard.

Patents are different. For a start they cost money and effort to get. And there are lots of rules around how they're applied and how you can defend them. Very different from copyright.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/19/ai-art-cannot-be-copyrighted...
by baubino | 2026-03-02 01:50:55+00:00
I like that HN doesn’t give voting power to new accounts. And because it takes a while to build the points (or whatever they’re called here) to get the voting power, that time allows newcomers to see and get used to how discussions works here.

I like that Discourse only has an upvote button and no downvote, but that the replies still stay in chronological order. That way there’s an actual flow to the conversation but you can still see which ideas people value.
by eoskx | 2026-03-02 01:51:34+00:00
"Even as Mr. Trump published the post at 3:47 p.m., the two sides kept talking. Mr. Michael, who was on a call with Anthropic executives at the time, said the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data, people briefed on the negotiations said.
Anthropic told the Pentagon that it was willing to let its technology be used by the National Security Agency for classified material collected under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. But the company wanted a legally binding promise from the Pentagon not to use its technology on unclassified commercial data."
by iambateman | 2026-03-02 01:53:18+00:00
It has a real “where the wild things are” feel…which is the art used to decorate my local library.

A lot of people have chosen to take the Hobbit as seriously as its older brother—-including Peter Jackson—-and have missed out on the absurd, beautiful childishness of the whole thing.

The Hobbit does a wonderful job of introducing the ideas and characters of LotR in a way which is accessible for children and I think the art presented here is a valid artistic take on a children’s book about a dragon.
by sampo | 2026-03-02 01:53:24+00:00
> Quantum physics is tricky because it frequently doesn't agree with our physical intuition.

Quantum physics tricky for two separate reasons.

(i) The mathematical theory (Schrödinger equation, wave function, operators, probabilities) is solid and well-defined, but may feel unintuitive, as you say.

(ii) But quantum mechanics is also an incomplete theory. Even if you learn to be at peace with the unintuitive aspects of the mathematical theory, this one remains an unsolved problem.

"The Schrödinger equation describes quantum systems but does not describe their measurement."

"Quantum theory offers no dynamical description of the "collapse" of the wave function"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse#The_mea...
by hoppp | 2026-03-02 01:53:40+00:00
I have autism so talking with people can get difficult as we have different communication styles and message decoding systems.

Even when people seem nice I generally keep a distance as I have to analyse them slowly instead of relying on social cues. I do pick up cues but processing them is not subconscious. My subconscious is not as generative and acts more like a buffer for conversation, so all the talking I do subconsciously has to be placed there beforehand instead of generating it with subconscious heuristics.