skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"If these issues are not resolved quickly they risk fuelling conspiracy theories and damaging Meta's reputation."

It's now a "conspiracy theory" to believe your eyes. Lord end me now.

Examples of pairs of keywords and their effects:

- #dnc (no results) vs #rnc (normal results)

- #voteblue (no results) vs #votered (normal results)

- #fuckbiden (normal results) vs #fucktrump (no results)

Most likely explanation is whatever algorithm change they pushed on 20/Jan to boost Trump-aligned posts and bury Trump unaligned ones was accidentally tuned too aggressively and became too obvious. Please accept our apologies, we will be rectifying the issue and fixing the Algorithm so the manipulation of public opinion is properly hidden, as intended.
Some do, some do not. We put them through a standard portion size training course regardless to be sure.
As a customer, I need a middleman/market maker to select participants and provide quality control.

There’s not a good reputation system so I would not use p2p cabs or food delivery because I don’t trust the drivers. At least with Uber, they will give me a refund, etc etc
This is certainly an "attack" but not one you'd normally associate with zero click. There is no code execution, but some tricks to see which Cloudflare datacenter cached the image -- giving a very rough area the user is in. Impressive and insightful nonetheless.
The removal of spaces around keyword arguments is per the PEP8 style guide. There is no point arguing with the style guide. It is there to end discussions. I also do not agree with everything in the style guide. But I keep that to myself. Because a single universal (but flawed) style guides >> competing style guides >> complete anarchy
Portion sizes in the US are ridiculous... often 2-3x larger than here in Europe.

When I regularly visited New York for work, and we'd get takeaway sandwiches, I'd have to open them and remove half the filling. I just couldn't physically eat that volume of meat, cheese or especially mayonnaise. For all drinks, I'd order small.
These are primarily people delivering food orders at lunch time for less than $10.

The people paying for these services will not pay what it would cost to have a “personal assistant”.

Also they can only deliver so many orders at a time. If all of your clients order lunch around the same time, it’s not possible to deliver in a reasonable amount of time.
https://archive.ph/aLqcl
The swedes do claim this is one of the things that leads to higher entrepreneurship, but yeah, it's certainly not an explanation in and of itself. Good contrary example is the UK - they also have the NHS, but real estate is so expensive that they can't generally acquire premises for HW labs.

I'm on mobile and can't search well but it's a topic that's been discussed on HN many times before.
Well from what I see on the emacs corners of the internet, not so much discussion.

Also I recently read on an HN thread I started: it was taken out of Calva due to bugs no one fixed.
That's true if the cohort is MIT grad students. It's probably not true if the cohort is Random Western State Institute of Technology. On the other hand the relatively high percentage of postdocs who survive according to the cited article probably reflects that in the analogy many of the hiring institutions are closer to second division clubs than to first division ones. The analogy breaks at this point because salary structures are quite different. The marginal difference between working at Research I and Research II is not so great, while the marginal salary difference between playing in Division I and Division II is huge.
When you’re using a map you’re still navigating, even if you’re just following directions. The act of navigating teaches you spatial awareness regardless of how you got there.

AI doesn’t provide directions, it navigates for you. You’re actively getting stupider every time you take an LLMs answer for granted, and this paper demonstrates that people are likely to take answers for granted.
Indeed, "incredibly precise estimate of the user's location" feels like an exaggeration. But still, very interesting!
How about a USB knob?

https://binepad.com/products/bnr1-v2
Did you ask an AI?
> Why, when the restaurant is busy and crying out for couriers, does the app say there are none available?

Good thing they test their developers so hard on DS&A. We don't want to let in those substandard developers who don't have a grasp on the advanced theoretical underpinnings on how to bring food to people.
That may sense. Most of the folks here seems to track calories and other macro. In the meantime...

> micronutrients like vitamins are not functionally possible to be measured

... my concern is micro: I'm engaging on a full vegetable diet (+shrooms +minerals!) and am concerned about thinks like iron, selenium, calcium... I (got-used-to) love vegetable and eat a lot of them so I'm probably fine with most micros, however may miss some selenium for exemple. Some research seems to show that too much vitamins is usually ok but too much minerals may not be. The more I read the more I'm scared! What makes me feel safe is the three long-time vegan I know seems healthy and don't take any supplement appart obvious B12. Perhaps I should just focus on other thinks that doing mad about micros...
You should watch the Arstechnica homepage then. They have authors who essentially get all their writing assignments based on how popular a story is ranking on this website. That is pretty mainstream.
Yes and no, Nintendo properties has a certain pull that aren't available for everyone.

But also, I'm pretty sure that even the Switch 1 has far more capable graphics than WebGL 2. Doom Eternal is ported to it and reading a frame teardown someone did they mentioned that parts of it are using compute.

Yes, you can do fairly cool stuff for a majority of people but old API's also means that you will spend far more time to get something halfway decent (older worse API's just takes more time to do things with than the modern ones).
I agree however it's the 'Paul Graham' definition. i.e. a trade off must be maintained between the bottom line and growth and a startup is a business that prioritises growth over basic financial sustainability.

I've seen economists argue the opposite saying a startup is no different to a regular business. It depends on which definition you wish to subscribe to.
The Twine Data Format
you can discuss the spaces and lack there of here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8853063/pep-8-why-no-spa...

The rest of us just follow the PEP8 style guide and move on
I'm at this very moment testing deepseek-r1, a so called "reasoning" llm, on the excellent "rustlings" tutorial. It is well documented and its solutions are readily available online. It is my lazy go-to-testing for coding tasks to assess for me if and when I have to start looking for a new job and take up software engineering as a hobby. The reason I test with rustlings is to also assess the value as a learning tool for students and future colleagues. Maybe these things have use as a teacher? Also, the rust compiler is really good in offering advice, so there's an excellent baseline to compare the llm-output.

And well, let me put it this way: deepseek-r1 won't be replacing anyone anytime soon. It generates a massive amount of texts, mostly nonsensical and almost always terribly, horribly wrong. But inexperienced devs or beginners, especially beginners, will be confused and will be led down the wrong path, potentially outsourcing rational thought to something that just sounds good, but actually isn't.

Currently, over-reliance on the ramblings of a statistical model seems detrimental to education and ultimately the performance of future devs. As the probably last generation of old school software engineers, who were trained on coffee and tears of frustration, who had to really work code and architecture themselves, golden times might lie ahead, because someone will have to fix the garbage produced en masse by llms.
> compared this to researching on the internet, there are some good aspects, but more often than not, I end up reading an opinionated post by someone (no matter the topic, if you go deep enough, you will land on an opinionated factual telling).

ChatGPT is in fact opinionated, it has numerous political positions ("biases") and holds some subjects taboo. The difference is that a single actor chooses the political opinions of the model that goes on to interact with many more people than a single opinion piece might.
> Applications of Intercoin: Making Crypto Mainstream

> Combining Web 2.0 (social) with Web 3.0 (transactional) we call it Web 5.0

I'm sure you mean well, but things like this will never speak to the working class performing the gigs/work itself. You already alienate them by naming the project *Coin ("cryptocurrency is only for the rich to get richer"), and the more flowery language about technology you use, you alienate them further.

If you're aiming to get those folks onboard you need to 1) skip any details about the technical internals, the organization-side internals are much more important to non-tech people and 2) target a specific audience and write specifically addressing their specific needs/problems.
> didn’t get why Signal would just download an attachment from an unknown number/contact

Usability, most likely. Ultra-secure and paranoid doesn't result in good UX most of the time.
> It’s amazing how confident all of the recent 20 year olds with “AI” companies are.

Can you blame them? The window for joining the ranks of billionaire tech-founders is slowly closing and AI may be their last hope at entering their echelons.
Show HN: Pica – Rust-based agentic AI infrastructure (open-source)
Hi HN,

Founder here. We built Pica, an open-source platform in Rust to enable agentic AI with three main focus areas:

- Access to APIs and tools: Universal SDKs that let AI agents use thousands of external actions without blowing up your context window.
- Visibility and traceability: Full audit logs of every decision/action to ensure transparency and accountability.
- Alignment with human intentions: Seamless guardrails for autonomous tasks; e.g., restricting certain email actions to human approval.

Why this matters: As autonomy in AI grows, we need robust solutions for trust and oversight. Pica aims to empower developers with the building blocks for safe and capable agentic systems.

We’d love your feedback—check it out: https://hellopica.com/

If you find our project useful, consider giving us a on GitHub! It means the world to us and helps others discover our work. https://github.com/picahq/pica
Hacker News without the comments? 0 interest
The neighborhood I live in runs a listserve that's very active. I'm not sure what made them choose a listserve over facebook, maybe it predates FB. The neighborhood is historic and there's an association that runs it.
Eagerly waiting for the Ableton Link support.. seems to be just around corner (or a couple).
Strawberry is "difficult" not because the reasoning is difficult, but because tokenization doesn't let the model reason at the level of characters. That's why it has to work so hard and doesn't trust its own conclusions.
Sorry, dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42777938
doesn’t seem too hard to me, shame i was never exposed to this stuff in highschool

e: oh i see, they get progressively harder
so it's possible to use an android emulator + esim on PC to make call / send sms?
If that was the case every scientific paper would be written as socratic dialogue. But it’s not. Because that’s a good format for beginners, but not for science.
I don't know if food delivery apps will be here to stay long term, their economics just don't work. It seems that everyone involved looses, the tech companies are constantly running in the red, the restaurants get screwed and the drivers get screwed.

Long term, food delivery will still be a thing but likely run by restaurants and smaller local apps.
I don't care about the nub. However, a big reason I buy Thinkpads is the keyboard layout. I use page-up/page-down (which share space with the left and right arrows) and the gaps between the function keys (so I can locate keys by touch instead of looking)
Is there something out there like this that is self-hosted? It’s ridiculous that this isn’t, and it’s going to become a pay-per-print model?! I don’t care about the AI nonsense, it’s a printer.

I could see myself using something like this to print recipes. I’d like to avoid getting my fancy cook book dirty, but have still have recipe in the kitchen to reference. Phone works okay until you have to scroll with dirty/wet hands.
npm download numbers are always exceptionally inflated. I'm sure that number serves some purpose, but I've never found them to be a useful metric when I've worked on public packages.

An ancient post [1] for the defunct npm blog offers some details:

> So the count of “downloads” is much larger than the number of people who typed “npm install yourpackage” on any given day.

I'm sure the particulars have changed over time, but directionally, npm download numbers aren't a proxy for "# of developers using my package".

[1]: https://blog.npmjs.org/post/92574016600/numeric-precision-ma...
Show HN: A Product Hunt alternative where products DON'T compete with each other
I am an indie hacker and have been launching my products on Product Hunt. Like many of you here, my experience with PH sucked: Lots of bots. Hard to compete.

There's also been many new launch platforms coming up, but all of them make you compete for upvotes. Ugh.

So I have been working on something different: https://saascurate.com/

It's a community-driven platform where indie hackers and SaaS founders help each other grow their products.

The idea is simple - list your product, engage with other founders, gain exposure and social proof. No upvote system.

It's hard and expensive to turn a side project into a viable business, especially for solo makers, so my longterm vision is to be able to help founders grow their products in lots of different ways, like helping with cold outreach, partnerships and other channels.

I know there are a lot of "list your product and forget" platforms, so I am trying to build something different – where the community helps each other grow.

Let me know what you think! I'd love to hear your thoughts and see if this platform can help you grow your products.
Examples of pairs of keywords and their effects:

- #dnc (no results) vs #rnc (normal results)

- #voteblue (no results) vs #votered (normal results)

- #fuckbiden (normal results) vs #fucktrump (no results)

Most likely explanation is whatever algorithm change they pushed on 20/Jan to boost Trump-aligned posts and bury Trump unaligned ones was accidentally tuned too aggressively and became too obvious. Please accept our apologies, we will be rectifying the issue and fixing the Algorithm so the manipulation of public opinion is properly hidden, as intended.
Sure but I already know all this at a level deeper than most people.

Your average person is going to be blindsighted.
What did the researchers expect?

Humans are lazy by nature, they seek shortcuts.

So given the chance to go rote learning for years for an education which in most cases is simply a soon to be forgotten certification vs watching TikTok while letting ChatGPT do the lifting - this is all predictable, even without Behavioral Design, Hooked etc.

And that usually the benefits rise with IQ level - nothing new here, that’s the very definition of IQ.

Learning and academia is hard, and even harder for those with lower IQ scores.

A fool with a tool is still a fool and vice versa.

Motivation seems also at an all time low. Why put in hours when a prompt can works wonders?

Reading a book is a badge of honor nowadays more than ever.
Robot Gets Up Close to the Seabed Without Disturbing It
…but they do provide an APi.

HN is really not beating the bikeshedding allegations
The global struggle over how to regulate AI
This is pretty interesting, and well documented. Great work! I wonder if there is a way to turn off notifications or if the approach is to simply not run such apps.
Middle Bronze Age Tablets Reveal Hidden Mesopotamian History
“It’s not unusual, except that Manna is telling you exactly what to do every second of every day. If it asks you to go to the back and get merchandise, it tells you exactly where to walk to go get it. And here is the weirdest part — I never see another employee the entire day. The way it makes me walk, I never run into anyone else. I can go for a full shift and never see another employee. Even our breaks are staggered. Everyone takes their breaks alone. We all arrive at staggered times. It’s like Manna is trying to totally eliminate human interaction on the job.”

All described in prescient classic: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
In the UK you can (and usually do) unionize without a workplace.

Many are industry-specific such as the "Communications wokers' union", but there are also general workers' unions such as GMB [1] or Unite.

It would be possible, indeed probably preferable, to form a "Delivery workers' union". It would be a union of delivery drivers who would pool resources to fight for common rights.

[1] https://www.gmb.org.uk/campaigns/deliveroo/
I built SaaSCurate. AMA.
I'm waiting for an ARM Thinkpad with a haptic touchpad. Thanks for sharing your positive experience with the T14s.
It gets more interesting when you think about the impact on groups. Sending an image to a group is enough for all devices associated with that group to be identifiable from CloudFlare's side, who additionally see a giant chunk of unencrypted traffic from the same client addresses going to other web sites. Given Cloudflare's less-than-straight approach to sales, it is astonishing the words "secure" and "Signal" ever appear in the same sentence.

CloudFlare get to see a fuckton of metadata from private and group chats, enough to trace who originally sends a piece of media (identifiable from its file size), who reads it, when it is is read, who forwards it and to whom. It really doesn't matter that they can't see an image or video, knowing its size upfront or later (for example in response to a law enforcement request) is enough
tl;dr: I agree.

We don't teach slide rules and log tables in school anymore. Calculators and computers have created a huge metacognitive laziness for me, and I teach calculus and have a PhD in statistics. I barely remember the unit circle except for multiples of pi/4 radians. I can do it in multiples of pi/6 but I'm slower.

But guess what? I don't think I'm a worse mathematician because I don't remember these things reflexively. I might be a little slower getting the answer to a trivial problem, but I can still find a solution to a complex problem. I look up integral forms in my pocket book of integrals or on Wolfram Alpha, because even if I could derive the answer myself I don't think I'd be right 100% of the time. So metacognitive laziness has set in for me already.

But I think as long as we can figure out how to stop metacognitive laziness before it turns into full-fledged brain-rot, then we'll be okay. We'll survive as long as we can still teach students how to think critically, and figure out how to let AI assist us rather than turn us into the humans on the ship from Wall-E. I'm a little worried that we'll make some short term mistakes (like not adapting our cirriculum fast enough), but it will work out.
I bought a smartphone. I was shocked at the poor value proposition. Very expensive and the charge wouldn’t even last a day!!!
>and I'm still saving money, so I don't know how you aren't

> I'm paying 10 cent pretty kwh electricity

Electric rates are ~4x that where the author lives.
really? it takes like 1 second looking at the file structure to see what it is, maybe like 2 seconds if you’re hopeful “images” somehow refers to a dockerfile or something
My nearby city had two all night diners and an all-night sub shop before the pandemic plus the Wegmans supermarket was 24 hours and the Wal-Mart supercenter was 24 hours. Now it all shuts down.

My Gen Z son is a gearhead and is proud of his '96 Buick. Although he finds "anti-woke" politics attractive, he won't listen to people carping about the price of gas, he thinks the current price is a bargain and even if we got the $400/ton CO2 tax I advocate he says it would be worth it to him to pay $7-$8 a gallon. He gets what a miracle fossil fuels are [1]

I got my driver's license when I was 21 which was slow for my generation (there was the time I borrowed a Cadillac de Ville from a hung over friend to take the driver's test, clipped a curb and failed it, then got back in and drove home) he wasn't in a hurry either. Many of his friends are in their early 20s and still don't drive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_slave
> On the other hand, I believe in the value of "learning to learn", developing media literacy, and all of the other positives gained when you research and form conclusions on things independently.

That is not going away. Learning better prompts, learning when to ignore AI, learning how to take information and turn it into something practical. These new skills will replace the old.

How many of us can still...

- Saddle a horse

- Tell time without a watch

- Sew a shirt

- Create fabric to sew a shirt

- Hunt with primitive tools

- Make fire

We can shelter children from AI, or we can teach them how to use it to further themselves. Talk to the Amish if you want to see how it works out when you forgo anything that feels too futuristic. A respectable life, sure. But would any of us reading this choose it?
My concern is that for blue states, like Oregon, the funding is tied up in federal money. They will withhold and play games and I don't know if Oregon has the "willpower" to avoid mutating their ideals in an effort to keep their kids in school and keep renting houses.
Generally this is not true - the "risk" taken by these people is very small, because of how wealthy they or their parents are.

If I had $1M and lost it, I would be devastated.

If I had $1B and lost $1M, it would be a rounding error.

I don't have any money, so how do I even get to $1M? And neither does my parents.
There's no goal. The tokens are computed one at a time from all the previous tokens.
Show HN: The cargo domino, a new take on the typical bicycle cargo cage
I was frustrated with traditional cargo cages- bulky, boring, the need for different kinds for different loads.

so I designed a new one, learning 3d printing, fusion360, and laser cutting along the way!

It is fun, hackable, versatile, minimal, and modular. And it can live on your bike without getting in the way.

Here is a direct link to configurations: https://hpa.xyz/pages/cargo-domino-configuration-ideas

Thanks!
It's uncomfortable to feel like you have to self sensor, isn't it?
Sure, but the least awful of all awful is not great. Capitalism was the _least worse_ of the options we've seen. And even that can be debated, imo.
Presumably cloudfare will close the loophole for enumerating cache edges now.
This doesn't strike me as a new 'attack' (I have to imagine there's even a name for such attacks), and 250 miles seems a large radius to 'deanonymize' someone, even a high-value target (even if such people didn't take any other measures to avoid being tracked...)

For reference, here's a 250 mile radius around Toronto Canada https://i.imgur.com/ydpR0IZ.png
We've also been surprised at SnapCalorie how many researchers have approached us to use the app for more accurate diet tracking for medical study participants. The LiDAR based portion size has been a huge draw for them.

If anyone wants to check out our app or research its on our site:
https://www.snapcalorie.com/

PS: Bitesnap was an awesome app!
Yes, the downside is that we aren't really learning anything, just solving problems supported by machines that tell us the solutions. Any schmuck can do that.
And yet, somehow, they've managed the difficult task of under-performing someone with dementia.
Meh, not actively messing up the course is already better than some of the other professors...