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I Miss Visual Basic

https://micro.webology.dev/2025/05/11/i-miss-visual-basic/
2•speckx•3m ago•0 comments

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 14 – the complexity of self-attention at scale

https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/05/llm-from-scratch-14-taking-stock-part-2-the-complexity-of-self-attention-at-scale
1•gpjt•7m ago•0 comments

Pocket watch: Verifying exabytes of data

https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/pocket-watch
1•rmason•9m ago•0 comments

Conversations I've Had with Code

https://donraab.medium.com/conversations-ive-had-with-code-583f0fd67363
1•ingve•9m ago•0 comments

Understanding Pin and Self-Referential Data in Rust

https://medium.com/@petervn1992/understanding-pin-and-self-referential-data-in-rust-e39a479a9a65
1•thunderbong•9m ago•0 comments

Redir: A TCP port redirector for Unix

https://github.com/troglobit/redir
1•thunderbong•10m ago•0 comments

The key to spotting dyslexia early could be AI-powered handwriting analysis

https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2025/05/detect-dyslexia-with-AI-powered-handwriting-analysis.html
1•geox•11m ago•0 comments

Takeaways from Coding with AI

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/takeaways-from-coding-with-ai/
1•rmason•12m ago•0 comments

Structure and Wiring Optimized TT/MT Double-Helical Fiber Sensors

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202416564
1•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire

https://yeet.cx/blog/lock-free-rust/
1•NotSillyEnough•12m ago•0 comments

The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren't Happy About It

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/technology/chatgpt-college-professors.html
1•haider0721128•12m ago•0 comments

Is this program safe? Lessons from Type Theory

https://brandonrozek.com/blog/program-safety-type-theory/
1•speckx•14m ago•0 comments

MinorMiner: We turn your kid's maths homework into Bitcoin

https://robertheaton.com/minor-miner/
1•zdw•15m ago•0 comments

I made a daily word game

https://kmcd.dev/posts/wordseq/
1•ingve•15m ago•0 comments

The Scalar Select Anti-Pattern

https://matklad.github.io/2025/05/14/scalar-select-aniti-pattern.html
1•goranmoomin•16m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you turn off web search when asking an AI something difficult?

1•amichail•17m ago•0 comments

LangChain4j 1.0.0

https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j/releases/tag/1.0.0
1•mfiguiere•17m ago•0 comments

Buried Treasure SF

https://buriedtreasure.carrd.co
1•ChrisArchitect•18m ago•1 comments

Auditory changes in guinea pigs listening to overcompressed music

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378595524001734
1•riedel•18m ago•0 comments

The Landscape of Malicious Open Source Packages: 2025 Mid‑Year Threat Report

https://socket.dev/blog/malicious-open-source-packages-2025-mid-year-threat-report
1•feross•19m ago•0 comments

One More Thing Conference, a community event during WWDC week

https://omt-conf.com/
1•Austin_Conlon•20m ago•0 comments

Grok now inserting text about "white genocide" into unrelated responses

https://bsky.app/profile/swiftonsecurity.com/post/3lp5nvrrp522m
6•jrflowers•21m ago•1 comments

Calibre: Advanced Calibration Models

https://github.com/gojiplus/calibre
1•goji_berries•22m ago•0 comments

Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing
2•the_mitsuhiko•23m ago•0 comments

Rumble Taps Veteran Antitrust Lawyer in Lawsuit Against Google's Monopoly Power

https://reclaimthenet.org/rumble-taps-david-boies
1•mikece•27m ago•0 comments

Who Owns All the Supplements? (2022)

https://fanaticcook.com/2022/06/28/who-owns-all-the-supplements/
1•pipiscrew•27m ago•1 comments

How to Use SVG as a Placeholder, and Other Image Loading Techniques (2017)

https://jmperezperez.com/blog/svg-placeholders/
2•Tomte•31m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Writing Style Guide

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/
1•Tomte•31m ago•0 comments

Managing Music with Rclone

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/managing-music-with-rclone/
1•cdransf•31m ago•0 comments

Apple Filing Protocol client deprecated as of macOS Sequoia 15.5.0

https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/apple-filing-protocol-client-deprecated-as-of-macos-sequoia-15-5-0/
2•ingve•33m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

FDA Moves to Take Fluoride Supplements for Children Off the Market

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/well/fluoride-products-fda-children.html
7•xnx•5h ago

Comments

duxup•4h ago
Are any actual scientists making the call on science topics under this administration, or is it all just politicians?

I haven't even seen anyone who seems to be educated make a coherent argument about tariffs or just about any decision....

perrygeo•4h ago
Astounding. I understand the desire to take Fluoride out of drinking water - involuntarily medicating citizens should be a hard sell for anyone concerned with their legal rights. Fluoride isn't "bad" or "good", it's a exogenous substance and we should have the choice to put it in our bodies or not.

But taking it off the market completely? Come on, that's undermining the entire basis of the anti-fluoride movement. That's effectively saying "fluoride is bad, government says no", which is just a mirror image of the pro-fluoride stance. Just as reactionary and anti-liberty if not more so.

Where are the rational people who want to simply choose (or not) to take a supplement on their own terms?

mcflubbins•4h ago
Replace tobacco with cocaine, alcohol, etc...

> But taking it off the market completely? Come on, that's undermining the entire basis of the anti-tobacco movement. That's effectively saying "tobacco is bad, government says no", which is just a mirror image of the pro-tobacco stance. Just as reactionary and anti-liberty if not more so.

perrygeo•4h ago
I'm not sure I see your point. You rewrote that sentence to prove some point about its absurdity, but I find it a perfectly valid statement.

First, it's not a great analogy. Fluoride isn't a psychoactive drug. It doesn't change behavior, it's not addictive, it's not outright toxic to the body at normal levels. It's presence doesn't cause a public health hazard (though its absence might). There is a substantial difference that can't be hand-waved away. We're talking apples and oranges.

Second, have you researched the history of modern nation states and their collective "war on drugs"? I have no qualms saying that it's been an utter failure. Running a centuries long war against its citizens is unconscionable, expensive, and it doesn't even reduce drug use or its impacts.. I see no evidence, none, that militarization of police forces against their citizens has any positive effect on society. It certainty does nothing to stop drug use, which is the entire point.

Put another way, I don't personally drink or smoke (and I happen to think they're far more harmful than we realize), yet I don't want to live in a society where those things are made illegal. There is no contradiction here.

In terms of fluoride, I don't want to live in a society where I'm a) drugged against my will or b) forbidden from accessing the drug entirely. There's got to be a middle ground.

tocs3•4h ago
Doesn't this take the "let the parents decide" option away?
reverendsteveii•4h ago
that's only ever intended to enable the decision they want. to this administration "freedom" is a word you use when you don't have the leverage to use force.