skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I say "fluoride works topically, not when ingested", I mean there's no benefit to teeth from swallowing fluoride, the only benefit to teeth is from it touching teeth directly. That link doesn't say that there's a tooth health benefit from swallowing fluoride.

Both toothpaste and water supply cause some fluoride to touch the teeth (topical) and some fluoride to be swallowed (ingestion). However, toothpaste has a higher ratio of topical application to swallowing, vs water supply which has a lower ratio of topical application to swallowing. That's why I said toothpaste is focused on topical application and water supply is focused on ingestion.
Working Ahead of the Curve: How Developers Become Consultants
Just checked with the team (I used to be involved), and apparently the reason is that Tor's policy is too short for the algorithm that turns policy annotations into a grade.

(This also kickstarted a discussion that maybe that warrants a change to the algorithm, so maybe later more.)
Well if that media is biased toward far-right they will push for disagreement.
> In one case it acts as a tutor

This can be very useful when you are learning programming.

You don't always have a tutor available and you shouldn't only rely on tutors.

It might be useful when you start learning a new programming language/framework, but you should learn on how to articulate a problem and search for solutions, e.g. going through stackoverflow posts and identify if the post applies and solves your problem.

After a while (took way too long for me) you realize that the best way to solve problems is by looking up the documentation/manpage of a project/programming language/whatever and really try to understand the problem at its core.
That case describes publishing this to the public internet. I don't believe the same would apply when using a tool like this.

My family members all back up our conversations to Google Drive, I doubt WhatsApp would provide that feature if it were illegal.
> The SWE-Bench result carries a bit more weight

Although I have issues with it (few benchmarks are perfect), I tend to agree. Gemini's 63.8 from Sonnet's 62.3 isn't a huge jump though. To Gemini's credit, it solved a bug in my PyTorch code yesterday that o1 (through the web app) couldn't (or at least didn't with my prompts).
Sorry but I don't follow. You're just saying that it doesn't matter legally, right? I'm not familiar with the law, but that makes sense that it would only be deemed illegal if one can show proof of retaliation.

But in practice it surely can happen that a government can try to bankrupt your company without any visible evidence of retaliation. And while you'll have no legal recourse, it obviously matters to you very much.
Working on writing my first novel after years of (part time) planning. I’m finding it difficult to do the actual writing, but trying to stick with it. I don’t naturally enjoy the writing process vs writing code, which has been my primary endeavor for 20 years. Advice from other engineer/writers appreciated.
Oh my god. This has got to be like 20 years in the making
You only need to accept DuckDuckGo's ToS when you sign up for privacy pro.
What the point means is that they can change the ToS and assume consent to the changes when you continue using it, instead if prompting again.

Startpage does not have or need a ToS
Finally! This is incredibly good news. I hope the adoption of this feature is fast - looking at you Safari.
Show HN: Web3Wizz – Build Web3 Interfaces Without Code
I'm Dité, the founder of Web3Wizz. After 10+ years of building blockchain applications, I noticed a recurring pattern: developers spend 80% of their time creating and fixing UIs for web3 projects, with only 20% spent on actual smart contract development.

Web3Wizz solves this by automatically generating intuitive interfaces for any smart contract function. You simply connect your contract, select which functions to expose, customize the look and feel, and integrate it anywhere.

Some key features:
- No-code interface builder for any smart contract
- AI-powered customization (describe changes in plain English)
- Auto-scanning of contract functions to create interactive widgets
- Custom branding and styling
- Future-proof with automatic security updates

We're already trusted by projects like Blocksquare and FX1, managing over $700k in TVL through our interfaces and 260+ successful transactions.

I built this because I was tired of reinventing the UI wheel for every smart contract project. Most blockchain developers want to focus on contract logic, not spending weeks crafting clean interfaces that handle wallet connections, state management, and error handling.

I'd love your feedback on the product. Our goal is to make web3 development more accessible while maintaining the high security standards the space requires.

Try it out at web3wizz.com!
On the other hand, I can imagine that banning that banning one form of advertising drives those would-be advertisers to other mediums, such as the ones that drive addictive apps and such. This would in turn increase the revenue of those apps, and make that business model more attractive, compared to e.g. apps that are a one-time purchase
Yeah its funny because I know I could hire someone off upwork. But I prefer to just tell the model what to code and integrate its results, over telling another engineer what to do.
It's not disk rot since I use SSD's throughout

SSDs, unless they're very old SLC/MLC ones, do actually suffer from bit rot a lot more than magnetic/optical media. The unpowered retention ratings of new TLC/QLC flash is rather horrifying (months, not years or decades like they used to be).

https://goughlui.com/2023/10/10/psa-ssds-with-ymtc-flash-pro...

https://goughlui.com/2016/11/08/note-samsung-850-evo-data-re...

If you want a reliable SSD for old systems, an SLC-based CF card is a good choice; it doesn't need to be very big (8GB is plenty), and the retention characteristics are also "period-correct".
They don't plan it, because so far, they don't have the keys to do so.

We do need to trust Meta that they really don't, to some extent, but people way smarter than me have researched the WA implementation of the Signal protocol and it seems solid. I.E: Meta appears to simply be unable to read what you chat and send. (but TBC: they do see with whom and when you do this, just not the contents).
Show HN: A real-time vector database
Launching soon, join the waitlist to get early access to a whole new world of vector database with a real-time similarity search capability and more.

It is tested with 100K vector records of 1536 dimensions with Cosine similarity search for 300 queries and retrieved results (top_k=10) with an average latency of 10 milliseconds.
It's disgusting what google has done to the internet the past five years.

I built my own genre-based wiki from scratch for kpop at kpopping.com (not a mediawiki) and my niche has been completely destroyed by google. They've promoted sites that leak nudes of minors and put porn ads on their wordpresses masquerading as wikis to first positions. Fandom would be an improvement for my niche.

Alas we are fooked.
Can someone explain why this took them literal decades to do?
You can set up a home NAS like people are saying. Just one point many aren't saying as a part of that, is you still want a disconnected backup (probably in a fire safe or off-site) of anything truly important to avoid data loss in the event of a lightning strike, fire, etc.

I haven't set up a NAS yet, but I probably will in the coming years. Right now, I do periodic drive image backups to a secondary drive, a few periodic file backups to USB drives for documents but not images, and some periodic drive image backups to external drives. Seems to work for me so far, but we also don't have a lot of file sharing going on, so it's mostly just storage.
JMAP is fully supported (since 2019) for Fastmail

https://www.fastmail.com/dev/
Also relevant is that the oceanic bulge is along the elliptic, but the earth's axis of rotation is tilted. So the effect can vary by latitude.
Thundermail and Thunderbird Pro Services
Not only actively promotes React which is forgivable, but also every framework or unnecessary piece of npm software that pays him enough.

His videos also have 0 substance and now are mostly article reading, which is also forgivable if you add valuable input but that’s never the case with him.
Well it would depend on which LLM you use and what their terms are.

But if they use your input as training data, that would probably be enough.
What do you mean by “disappearing people?” We had a foreign spy arrested at my kid’s school (she and her husband sold Navy secrets to China). For obvious reasons, arrest warrants don’t need to be made public. Nor is the FBI required to issue a press release when it arrests someone.

It’s not even clear this professor is in government custody. It sounds like he may have gotten wind of the investigation and escaped.
The page refreshes when I scroll 80% down….
How about Greece, where the corruption goes all the way to humanitarian and rehab organization?

https://borgenproject.org/10-facts-about-corruption-in-greec...

(BTW, it ain't been 100 years. Mayor Daly Sr. ran Chicago into the 1970's. Mayor Young ran Detroit into the 1990's. Etc.)
> As the original article mentions, the secret to all this tech non-sense is to log out and experience life, while always remembering that Uncle Ted was right.

That you evoke Uncle Ted shows that this is a half-measure at best.
Has anyone benchmarked the Spark against a comparably priced Mac?
This is the “loading” of the classic ZX Spectrum computer game Manic Miner coded by programming genius Mathew Smith. The data is converted into audio and sold on cassette tapes. Instead of a disk drive, you would plug in an audio cassette tape player into the ZX Spectrum computer and “play” the sound into the computer, which would then read this audio as data and use it to load the game into memory, after which it could then be played. So instead of distributing the audio as cassette, in this case that same audio is broadcast over the radio and people would record it from the radio onto a cassette tape. Then playing the cassette into the computer would load (“download”) the game into the machine. Primitive but it works, and what we had to put up with.

Imagine being six years old and wanting to play Manic Miner, and having to sit there for 6 minutes while your TV did this before you could play the game:

https://youtu.be/kHn_BvTBALI?si=5CrKYa6DlNZTN7In

(Please watch in full without doing anything else or scrolling for the authentic experience)
The government isn’t “disappearing people.” It’s deporting illegal aliens. You don’t need a press release every time you do that.
> fundamental human right

Meh, someone wrote them, we can change them, they're not universal, even in the US true free speech doesn't exist. libel ? slander ? incitement ? defamation ? &c. you can't even swear on tv...

And even if... what does it mean ? Should I invent a 400dB personal loudspeaker for people to express themselves 24/7 because they have "the right to say whatever they want however they want, whenever they want" ?

That's a schoolyard level take on what freedom of expression is...
It seems like marketing blogspam.

Anyone can come up with multiple hypothetical scenarios and fixes, share it, and as we see reach hn front page.
Technology: Noun

1. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.
I wonder if you can still order a kilo of "Satan's kimchi" from that supplier in China. If you ever could.
> It's sad to think that the computing devices our newer generations are growing up with are trying their best to shoot down this exact use case; making the device do things no one made it do before.

Buy a Steam Deck.
>My experience is that if people are in an environment where helping others is socially encouraged rather than punished, most people want to help even strangers providing no benefit to themselves other than the healthy little dopamine hit. There's exceptions of course, but not enough to actually cause a problem.

What they stand to gain in that situation is good standing in their peer group which is a personal gain. It's basically personal public relations management.

How often do people truly do something good without standing anything to gain? That is the true measure of innate human tendency to doing good. I'm sure there is some of that, but very little.
this reminds me of the (now discontinued) lambda tensorbook that I bought a few years back. AI computers are interesting because they are extremely similar to really good gaming computers but the marketing (and some of the hardware) is different.

I don't fully understood why they are separate from gaming computers other than marketing, but I am very happy with my tensorbook. I got it when I was very young and impulsive I don't know if I would get it again, although that fact alone speaks to the computer's longevity.
> the extrajudicial actions of ICE recently are absolutely not helping people stay calm in the face of something like this

To be clear, ICE does not require “judicial action” to remove aliens so using the phrase “extrajudicial action” makes no sense. See: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/expedite...

Note that even when expedited removal does not apply, deportation is handled by immigration courts which aren’t really courts at all, but instead Article I tribunals within the executive branch. And many decisions of these immigration “courts” aren’t appealable to the real judicial branch.
I don't think I disagree on any of this, but is there any actionable advice in this post? I don't think I really understand what point the author tries to make.

Maybe it's advocating against overly clever but inscrutable code, but I think clean code does that better. Yes, "clean code" is underspecified, but so is CRISP. And I can turn that opening argument right around: who wants to write incorrect, unreadable, idiosyncratic, complicated or slow code?
Show HN: Dgn.space – Open and Decentralized Notebook for Blockchain Analytics
Hey HN,

We just launched Degen (dgn.space), an open-source, decentralized notebook for blockchain analytics. If you’ve used Dune, Nansen, or Glassnode, you know the value of on-chain data—but also the pain points: closed ecosystems, centralized control, and restricted data access.

What is Degen?

Degen is a fully open, on-chain data notebook built on:
- Agnostic’s open dataset – No data silos, fully queryable
- ClickHouse infrastructure – Blazing-fast analytics
- Open-source orchestrator – Run custom queries, share insights

Why does this matter?

Most analytics platforms lock users into their ecosystems. Degen flips that model, letting anyone query, remix, and share blockchain data transparently. It’s SQL-first, composable, and designed for degens who want full control over their insights.

Try it out

https://dgn.space

Would love your feedback—what’s missing, what would make it more useful for you?
> Hangzhou Sage Chemical Company. They offer it in 100g, 500g, and 1 kilo amounts, which is interesting, because I don't think a kilo of dioxygen difluoride has ever existed. Someone should call them on this - ask for the free shipping, and if they object, tell them Amazon offers it on this item. Serves 'em right. Morons.

Gold
> This was a long held theory of mine because I could not understand why a galaxy would spiral.

I think in general it would be unusual if they didn’t rotate. Any large non-uniform mass of gas or rocks when colliding will induce some rotation. What is odd though is that for galaxies we see more of them spinning one way than another.
They didn't use the term scared, and being scared is not implicitly "going into hiding".

It's because I'm scared that I'm going to protest on April 5 in my state capital.
Mickey7 is pretty good if you enjoyed Project Hail Mary. Alternatively, the Murderbot series.
It’s great that it became a part of the show Severance but I personally just think it’s awesome that they found a use for it these days.

So many office buildings sit and rot because they are just too big and there are no viable uses for them outside of well: being office buildings.
Unfortunately, he was never convicted of treason or any other crime that would involve the 14th Amendment.

I think we can understand why SCOTUS would ban Colorado from making that decision themselves, for much the same reason it bans Mississippi from having its own interpretation of the parts of the 14th Amendment about due process or citizenship.

In contrast, the 22nd Amendment is plain-letter law, so obvious that it brooks no interpretation.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535046
You may consider it FUD, but that was 100% my reality. It's not about people only being friends with you because you have a phone, it's about the shared cultural experience that a group of kids have because of some media they have access to via the phone.

In my case (graduating high school in 2016), I wasn't allowed to watch TV, listen to the radio, play video games, or use the computer at all until I left for college. And especially as an adolescent, those were basically the cornerstone of all conversations between my peers. I never knew what anyone was talking about, and could never really bond with anyone over really anything but sports. And when smart phones became a popular thing in my age group, again I had no access to that or any of the media that it led to.

I will say though, as alienating as it was at the time, I don't particularly regret it because most of what I missed probably wasn't super important, and I think I gained an accurately cynical view on the content media machine as a whole. But I absolute rue the massive difficulties I had building social connections because of it that continue to this day.
If they use the LLM to search ("when did X tell me about that party somewhere around Y's neighborhood") then I don't think there's any problem.

If they configure it to indicate a prefix, for instance when answering questions like "when are you free to hang out" and it responding "[AI] according to X's calendar and work schedule, they may be available on the following days" I might also consider that somewhat useful (I just wouldn't take it as something they actually said).

If they're using LLMs to reword themselves or because they're not really interested in conversing, that's a definite ick.

I would personally use such a system in a receive-only mode for adding things to calendars or searching. But I'd also stick to local LLMs, so the context window would probably be too small to get much out of it anyway.
If you are taking notes, add `-fzero-init-padding-bits=all` to the list, without this flag, GCC 15 onwards will not zero-initialize a full union if you wrote pre-C23 style ={0} and the largest member is not the first one. `-ftrivial-auto-var-init` cannot help this case. https://godbolt.org/z/7zKccfnea
> It's especially funny as the author, with very little awareness of what he was writing, tried to strike positive "we are all one" notes... And ended up with something that would give Ligotti nightmares.

That's German Romanticism which is the invisible 90% of the iceberg of the modern perception of religions, New Age ideas, and humanistic psychology.

Here's a summary of how the Romantic thought has distorted the Western understanding of Buddhist teachings. I highly recommend it because once you know its signs, you'll start spotting it presence everywhere, not just in Western Buddhism:

https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/PurityOfHeart/Section0009....
I just tried it in the Codepen and it reverts to a regular old UI element when it has the multiple attribute.

Also just tried it with multiple="multiple" just in case. Same behavior.
The page is archived, and it is a fun read:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111229065146/http://www.latera...
"The President has found that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating, attempting, or threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States" [1]

[1] Page 11 of https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278...
Sonic DNA Connects Generations of Music
These physical locations are known as captive centers/global-capability-center...! And these companies are least likely to give me contracts/employment in my situation - I live away from metros in Central India (MP).

I'm looking for remote, but am open to partly visiting the client side at their expense - this was something very common with the consultants that my US employers hired in the US.
When I was in school we opened the windows to let "fresh air" in even at -20 C... not all day ofc but every day.

And rain? What's the problem with opening a window when it's raining? Only if there's a rain storm... and not even then, depending on wind direction.
True. Currently it's practice at ToS;DR to show the worst version. Usually the one for the USA
My whole team feels like 3.7 is a letdown. It really struggles to follow instructions as others are mentioning.

Makes me think they really just hacked the benchmarks on this one.
The compiler/interpreter couldn’t even tell you what line the error was on!

You’d just get a big error message for the whole program.
Hi folks,

Ive written a simple app [1] that crawls tech corporate sites daily looking for job postings, and sends you an email with the new jobs that match your profile.

The profile matching is currently very basic - just job title category and location(s). There is also a recommendation agent that is yet to be released (WIP).

I would be grateful for feedback and thoughts. So far I have personally (and others) found this to be very helpful in allowing me automate the daily checking of hundreds of sites.

You can also add specific companies to the crawler, which is nice if you are passively looking at specific companies. A possible feature addition might be to limit the search to only pre-defined companies that interest you.

I would appreciate any thoughts and feedback.

[1] https://www.hoofhires.com/
Developers, roast my startup idea: AI agents to resolve merge conflicts
As a developer, I've faced this issue constantly and I believe there is a great potential for an AI agent to autonomously resolve merge conflicts from upstream repositories. I wanted to take the HN community feedback.
I asked Claude this weekend what it could tell me about writing Paint.Net plugins and it responded that it didn't know much about that:

> I'd be happy to help you with information about writing plugins for Paint.NET. This is a topic I don't have extensive details on in my training, so I'd like to search for more current information. Would you like me to look up how to create plugins for Paint.NET?
Network effects are network effects. I really feel physical disgust and try to keep it off my devices, but while it's feasible when living normal, uh, "no-lifer" life, it's unfortunately basically impossible when I travel or even just participate in local communities (sports, hobbies, etc). In the latter case, it's simply rude and disorganizing to refuse to join the group chat, in the former case it's often the only way to contact hotel/taxi/whoever you urgently need to contact in some not so touristy spot. (And, BTW, it's designed to be practically unusable, if you don't allow it to access your contact book, so no dirty tricks like that will fly.)

As to "how do they even manage to use it", well, the mere notion of a great UI is vastly overhyped in the first place (by designers themselves, most of all). People get used to just about anything, if they are taught to use it. And learning a 5-step sequence to use any app like this — anybody can do that, even a 85 year old (even if they swear they can't).
There is no one truly in charge, it's a distributed standard