skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Corpses. Bodies not dressed as deceased imply existence of a threat.
A Boston startup claims its pill mimics gastric bypass by coating the gut and triggering GLP-1 release. No injections, no surgery. If this works, could it make Ozempic obsolete — or is this just biotech hype?
Easy fix, just pipe the commands to a 2nd LLM and ask "will this command delete my home directory (y/n)"
This whole post-developer idea is a red herring fueled by investor optics.

The reality is AI will change how software is built, but it's still just a tool that requires the same type of precise thinking that software developers do. You can remove all need to understand syntax, but the need for translating vague desires from laypeople into a precise specification will remain—there's nothing on the AI horizon that will solve for this, and savvy tech leaders know this. So why are we hearing this narrative from tech leaders who should know better? Two reasons:

First is that the majority of investor gains in the US stock market have been fueled heavily by AI hype. Every public tech CEO is getting questions from analysts about what their AI strategy, and they have to tell a compelling story. There's very little space or patience for nuance here because no one really knows how it will play out, but in the meantime investors are making decisions based on what is said. It's no surprise that the majority of execs are just jumping on the bandwagon so they have a story to keep their stock price propped up.

Second, and perhaps more importantly, regardless of AI, software teams across the industry are just too big. Headcount for tech companies has ballooned over the last couple decades due to the web, smart phone revolution and ZIRP. With this type of environment the FAANGs of the world were hoarding talent just to be ready to capitalize on whatever is next. But the ugly truth is that a lot of the juice has already been squeezed, and the actual business needs don't justify that headcount over the long-term. AI is convenient cover story for RIFs that they would have done anyway, this just ties it with a nice bow for investors.
You think this is a good analogy?
This is a paper which echoes your experience, in general. I really wish that when papers like this one were created, someone took the methodology and kept running with it for every model:

> For instance, the NoLiMa benchmark revealed that models like GPT-4o experienced a significant drop from a 99.3% performance rate at 1,000 tokens to 69.7% at 32,000 tokens. Similarly, Llama 3.3 70B's effectiveness decreased from 97.3% at 1,000 tokens to 42.7% at 32,000 tokens, highlighting the challenges LLMs face with longer contexts.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05167
I wish death to meta.its destroyed whole generation.
Plantuml (action) diagrams are my go to
https://archive.is/GvBLF

Related: EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears (77 points, 17 hours ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43680556
Eh, if that was the point then please, go ahead and show me this magical AI system that produce "edible" level of code then.

All I seen so far is badly generated boilerplate and enough template spaghetti to confuse some CS dropouts by the looks of it.
Why It's Impossible for Most Small Businesses to Manufacture in the US
What if it turns out Deep seek is actually the first GenAI, and this is the way forward is has chosen: open source itself?

Kind of like how biological information is always trying to find new places to reproduce itself. Viruses and fungi do not come with Toss and EULAs. :)
https://archive.vn/0hzIV
Over the last few months, I've been developing an unorthodox perspective on entropy [1] . It defines the phenomenon in much more detail, allowing for a unification of all forms of entropy. It also defines probability through the same lens.

I define both concepts fundamentally in relation to priors and possibilities:

- Entropy is the relationship between priors and ANY possibility, relative to the entire space of possibilities.

- Probability is the relationship between priors and a SPECIFIC possibility, relative to the entire space of possibilities.

The framing of priors and possibilities shows why entropy appears differently across disciplines like statistical mechanics and information theory. Entropy is not merely observer-dependent, but prior-dependent. Including priors not held by any specific observer but embedded in the framework itself. This helps resolve the apparent contradiction between objective and subjective interpretations of entropy.

It also defines possibilities as constraints imposed on an otherwise unrestricted reality. This framing unifies how possibility spaces are defined across frameworks.

[1]: https://buttondown.com/themeaninggap/archive/a-unified-persp...
For vendors of ESP32-based IoT devices:

Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

> My intentions were solely to upgrade the smart device I've purchased to integrate with my smart home system. Doing so does not affect any other instances of this product or its cloud services.. sensitive product-specific data, such as private keys, domains, or API endpoints, have been obfuscated or redacted.

For owners of ESP32-based IoT devices:

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

> Creating an open-source project to de-cloud and debug smart home products; I've learned much more about the technical aspects.. I put a massive amount of effort into creating [this post].. probably more than.. the project itself. It would be amazing to receive feedback on the format!

blog author: https://x.com/jmswrnr
I am replying to the GP. GP must be mistaken. It was Harvard’s choice to operate this way financially
This is a great way of not feeling alone.
Ho Chi Minh petitioned for Vietnamese independence at the Paris Peace Talks in 1919. He was turned down by the Big Four including France's Clemenceau and the United States' Woodrow Wilson.

BTW, the Viet Minh were our allies during WWII.
Onavo was the vpn app turned competitive intelligence tool
Thanks for posting miniserve <3
but they are not giving them time to rethink ...
> If two "observers" disagree about an LLM's probability assigned to some token, then only at most one of them can be correct.

The observer who knows the implementation in detail and the state of the pseudo-random number generator can predict the next token with certainty. (Or almost certainty, if we consider flip-switching cosmic rays, etc.)
I find I'm willing and able to walk away from this discussion. I'll keep your strategic advice in mind the next time a Trump supporter tries to explain why I should not shun them or organize a boycott of their business.
Rather, it's the version without a dependency on PERL.
As much as I enjoy Gemini models, I have to agree with you. At some point, interactions with them start resembling talking to people with short-term memory issues, and answers become increasingly unreliable. Now, there are also reports of AI Studio glitching out and not loading these longer conversations.

Is there a reliable method for pruning, summarizing, or otherwise compressing context to overcome such issues?
> Remember Google+?

How about Google People? [1]

[1] https://qntm.org/perso
You're thinking of Barefoot which is also dead. (And Fulcrum before that.)
> A single $5 vps should be able to handle easily tens of thousands of requests

Sure, given enough time. Did you miss a denominator?
For "memory", I wonder how it would be if you use vector search in SQLite and pass that info to reduce context size. The ValTown SQLite should have support for vectors API - https://docs.turso.tech/features/ai-and-embeddings#vectors
> Imagine if South Vietnam had remained independent. If it had become a thriving prosperous free democracy like South Korea or Taiwan.

will never happen.

it annoys me to no end that ever americans out there always assume that the war was between north and south vietnam, while in reality it was not. VCs were mostly southern people, the conflicts were mostly between south vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam which was found and led by southern vietnamese.

which mean the conflict would never stop, even without the help from north vietnam or soviet.
I'm not sure it's been hacked per se. Many threads now blare Japanese hyperpop and catalog updates have been shut off, which makes me think it might be janitorial revolt.
Yeah I recently put together a home NAS and was dismayed that I had to use Docker Compose. (There's podman-compose but it's... incomplete).

Immediately after I finished the project I discovered the Quadlet thing!

Seems like the userbase is there, the technology is there, and now the two just need to be put together with some awareness.
i dont know how long temu will last without americans, but it feels surreal that europeans have more buying power than americans
As the article states we were at 124% debt to GDP ratio in Dec 2024. Since 1981, 98% of economies that reached 130%, defaulted. Trump came into office with the economy about to go off a cliff and the administration is now desperately trying to course correct via any means possible. It's highly likely it won't work and we are screwed anyways from decades of out of control government spending and corruption. Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
You aren't sending your data to Anthropic- no one has access to what you send except you. If you use private link, it doesn't even leave your vpc.
Perhaps you could also highlight how in usual TOTP implementations (“scan this code with your authenticator app”) there’s no channel to MITM? I think it’s one of the key pros of TOTP vs, say, SMS as a second factor.
> If we rethink our consumption, we could become happier

If we wished upon a star that humans were better a lot of problems would go away. In the real world, poor people will make do and those with resources will buy smuggled goods. I’m already diverting a spring skiing trip to Canada because it’s cheaper to buy kit there than here.
The ROT13 cipher for API is NVK. NVidia Knows
Sure. Research by definition deals with areas that are not settled, so different people can have different theories, and they might disregard scholars who don't like their preferred theory. On the other hand, some academics welcome debate and differing viewpoints more than most people.

Like, if you were a physics professor and you were applying to a department where everyone was a string theorist, and your position was that string theory is a bunch of bullshit, you might not get that job. Or you might, if your work is otherwise solid, you never know.

But that's a disagreement about physics, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to evaluate a physics professor on. It's not about how enthusiastically they endorse some ideological dogma that has nothing to do with physics.
> You and I do not understand assembly language.

Having written z80 and x86 assembly since the 80s, being knee deep in several decompilation projects and a couple of emulators since then, I can safely tell you that I do know a handful assembly languages and at least 2 syntaxes.

I believe other seniors have similar skill sets, for now.
I think you are being selective. I looked at the top 10 top-level comments and by my judgment:

1. bullish
2. bullish
3. neutral
4. neutral
5. neutral
6. neutral
7. bullish
8. bearish
9. bearish
10. neutral

Of the top top-level comments, you have to go all the way to #8 to find a bearish comment.

Replies to the top comment are more bearish because they're directly responding to a bullish sentiment.
There used to be a job of a "Typist". Now everyone does their own typing.

In the near future we'll probably see a lot more subject matter experts creating their own tools instead of requiring a dedicated person to translate their requirements.
Laptops have really gone to hell in the past few years. IMO the only sane laptop choices remaining are Framework and Apple. Every other vendor is mess, especially when it comes to properly sleeping when closing the lid.
They could. Look up Bob Jones College or Hillsdale College, both of which operate without any federal funding. It appears that the elite universities are going to find out the same thing that the small Christian universities found out in the 1970s, which is that the federal government Can control you if they fund you. I believe Bob Jones in particular won a case in front of the Supreme Court giving them the right to racially discriminate in their admissions if they refuse to take any federal funding.
A visual pathway in the brain may do more than recognize objects
> Reddit threads are full of horror stories

Reddit is full of horror stories about everything. Mostly because it gets eyeballs. I’m open—almost receptive—to the claim that Temu jewellery contains significant quantities of toxic materials. But we should hold ourselves to a higher standard than Reddit comments.
Would anything on that list be good in audiobook format?
Time for Space Force to 'clearly say' it needs 'weapons in space': SPACECOM head
Well I started reading, but then the page was blurred and blocked by a popup, so I only made it about a third down.
> In implementing it the USA would simply be doing what they have for years accused China of doing

It's bad only when other people/countries do it (small businesses, students, China, and so on).
Passenger rail competes with highways, not airplanes.
I personally use 1Password with hardware keys where possible.

> It may defeat the purpose of 2FA

True, I think this as a mid-step of smooth transition from plain-text passwords to secure keys. You kinda get the benefit of both.

Also those apps are secured much better than a traditional password manager as browser auto-fill for example.
JSLinux is too slow to be used for anything.

Where is the complete source code for this?
Confusing take - Gemini 2.5 is probably the best general purpose coding model right now, and before that it was Sonnet 3.5. (Maybe 3.7 if you can get it to be less reward-hacky.) OpenAI hasn't had the best coding model for... coming up on a year, now? (o1-pro probably "outperformed" Sonnet 3.5 but you'd be waiting 10 minutes for a response, so.)
> If they lie, straight to jail.

How do we know whether they lie without a solid definition of net worth?

I'm not defending billionaires and I believe they should be heavily taxed, and huge inheritances should be outlawed, but what's Elon Musk's net worth, for example? He surely doesn't have $369 billion in cash. Can we tax him based on his Tesla shares? What happens if Tesla stock goes down by 99% next year? It's tricky.
There isn't a disagreement, it is a question (technically, several questions). The hint is in the "?". Your 1 sentence comment isn't long enough to respond to directly without more information, even if I wanted to.
Just to expand upon this in HN terms:

- R-selection is just a confusing bit of technojargon, really what we're talking is a zerg style build strategy, lots of units for cheap, as far as our organism in the game of life. So organisms with this build strat will raid an ecological niche like it's 2021 and Biden just unlocked the border

- K- selection, another confusing bit of technojargon (K stands for konfusing here), is more of a protoss build, not nearly as many units but higher quality. this is for scenarios where a raid won't work, kind of like a buffed commando type unit in command and conquer
It's probably worth separating indie normal Web sites from crackpot shit that can't be accessed from a browser (Gopher/Gemini).
I saw always intel as a HW company making terribly bad SW. Anywhere I saw intel SW I would run away. Lately I used a big open source library from them, which is standard in the embedded space. Work great, but if you look the code you will be puking for a week.
A simple click on a random place on screen should discard it. I wanted to connect with my readers so I have added that subscribe popup recently. As I have figured nobody subscribed to my newsletter yet :(

Let me know if it doesn't work. Also would be glad if you can give browser / platform.
Worthwhile read!

I’m a huge nerd when it come to the First and Second Indochina wars. It’s a super interesting mixture of Western colonialism (France), Eastern colonialism (Japan), Cold War (China, USSR, USA, South Korea, AUSNZ), civil war (all the competing factions in Vietnam), guerilla and conventional warfare, geopolitical propaganda, etc

It has something for every history buff.

But I think this article does a nice job of scratching the surface of the mythology that surrounds the American War. If the communists get credit for anything, it’s communication both locally and globally, and their ability to use those stories to unite half of a country to fight and sacrifice for over 30 years to fight opponents (both foreigner and Vietnamese).

I lived in Vietnam for about 5 years and that same mythology is still use by the government to unite people (not a knock as every country does this).

But if you scratch below the surface (as this article does) you pretty quickly find out the national mythology isn’t true at all

But the current government still knows how to leverage the story - a great example is this year’s 50th anniversary of the end of the American War.

Being able to celebrate defeating the US at the same time you’re attempting to strength your relationship with the US is tricky. How did they do it? The 50th celebration is also the 30th celebration of normalization of the Vietnam-US relationship. So they can tell one story locally, and another internationally and win both sides.
I read a study a while ago, the study found common vitamin deficiency in depressed humans.

I researched more about it and looks like some of the deficiency in the vitamins in the study are correlated with higher IL-17 levels.

Carnitine: Seems to have some effect in decreasing IL-17?

Vitamin D: Highly impacts IL-17 (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4609465/)

COQ10: Decreased plasma levels of IL-17 (https://www.clinicalnutritionespen.com/article/S2405-4577(22...)

Folic Acid: Reduces IL-17 (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8839991/)

Lutein: I didn't find any study that seems to study the effect on IL-17

Citrulline: No relevant studies

This is the study I'm referring to: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-023-02696-9

I think we're getting closer to find some blood level correlations, so we can fix them!

I can say for a fact when I take CoQ10, I feel my energy levels going up so it really has some effect.
Anyone who thinks AI will replace programmers isn’t doing much AI assisted coding.

AI is at best very helpful.

It’s a very very long way from making programmers obsolete.
YOLO has a misplaced modifier, they oughta call it YLOO coding (you live only once).

I like to think I learned this from the person who killed YOLO a decade ago (she teaches English).
How is this any different from any_func(attacker_provided)
I once sat down to calculate the costs of my app if it ever went viral being hosted at vercel. That has put me off on hosting anything on vercel ever or even touching NextJS. It feels like total vendor lock in once you have something running there, and you're kind of end up paying them 10x more than if you had taken the extra time to deploy it yourself.
> humans are animals. this entire topic is "what separates humans from animals--oh, less than we thought".

You're using two different definitions of "animal" in the same sentence here. That's only going to cause problems.

> also, stop accusing people of racism all the time, it makes me think you are a worse person, not a better one.

No person was accused of racism. It was a theoretical argument brought up and dismissed in the same sentence, as a rhetorical device to show a problem with a different argument.

> studying hunter gatherers gives us a lot of important data, and they can't help their race, nor can the researchers, it's an immutable characteristic.

But they are not fundamentally set apart and a different species from other humans. And the idea under discussion only works if major groups without writing are fundamentally set apart and a different species.

If the data showed those differences, it would not be racist. But we know those differences don't exist. Humans are all extremely similar.

So the only way someone would think they are fundamentally different is because some neuron misfired in their brain, or they got to that conclusion based on racist teachings or racist reasoning.

And it's more than 99% likely it's the latter. That's enough confidence for me to claim it's a racist idea.

And again, this is based on the actual data, not what anyone wants to be true.
It generates extreme behavior. In both directions.
Cosmologists are not serious people.

https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/GR/energy_...

“Is Energy Conserved in General Relativity?”

“In special cases, yes. In general, it depends on what you mean by "energy", and what you mean by "conserved".”
I have to pull a number from Google Authenticator to log into my FB account so I can only assume they're not simply generating random numbers.
It's from Cal Matters. The main point is:

> There are laws requiring the DMV to suspend a driver’s license for various convictions. A first DUI conviction, for example, is a 6-to-10-month suspension. Felony vehicular manslaughter is a three-year loss of driving privileges. The agency isn’t necessarily required to give a license back if its driver safety branch deems a motorist too dangerous to drive, agency officials said.

> But CalMatters found the agency regularly gives drivers their licenses back as soon as the legally required period ends. And once crashes, tickets and suspensions fall off a driver’s record after a few years, it’s often as if the motorist’s record is wiped clean. So even if the driver gets in trouble again, the agency often treats any future crashes and traffic violations as isolated incidents, not as part of a longer pattern of reckless driving.
Aliexpress has the same problem, quite frustrating.
There are streaming sites on the high-seas that use webtorrent. Interestingly (at least for me), this bypasses firewall based IPS/inspection that looks for bittorrent because it's all https. People use it to stream movies at work lol. Good for them I guess.
It's kind of true story actually.

I found one of my license texts for a hobby project[0] in a Microsoft product[1]. I have no idea how they use it.

Copilot is very poor at understanding how the DSL arrangement of the project works or how to assemble validator trees. Before Copilot many other "enterprise" stuff like JetBrains IDEs had problems auto-completing it. But it was always good enough for me, for my own things.

It obviously have value. Maybe they're lazy and using it for something unrelated like the TLD list. I really don't know. What I know is that something of my amateur dish ended up being served in what I consider to be a fast food chain.

No, copilot is not endlessly variable. It works best with typed languages and an enterprise mindset. That's exactly the point against "vibe coding" they push. MS seems to despise anything that doesn't follow that.

Look, I love typescript and all that stuff. As I said, McDonalds meals are delicious.

But I don't want that approach for everything I code. This project is not the only one with that issue. I noticed the same in a portable shell compatibility layer, it can only help if I make it to look like other script languages.

"You're asking too much, how can copilot help with a language it was not trained on?"

I am not asking it to be good at that. Just don't make asshole posts saying anything other than MS pasteurization is "vibes".

If they paid me, then that would be another story. But they didn't, and used my "vibe" project anyways.

I am not complaining about software I released for free, before anyone tries to go for that.

I am making an observation about kinds of software that copilot can't help with. My kind of software development, in which I might take months to decide a name or redo everything several times just to try a new kind of sauce.

[0]: https://github.com/Respect/Validation
[1]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/microsoft-teams-t...