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Beyond Benchmark Maxxing: Measuring Open Source Models as Real-World Agents

https://www.ultravox.ai/blog/beyond-benchmark-maxxing-measuring-open-source-models-as-real-world-...
1•zkoch•3m ago•0 comments

Retrieval Embedding Benchmark (RTEB)

https://huggingface.co/spaces/embedding-benchmark/RTEB
1•fzliu•10m ago•0 comments

Armtrak: Multiplayer space shooting game with images and music

https://github.com/madprops/armtrak
1•Toby1VC•11m ago•0 comments

Trump hits India with punishing 50% tariffs for buying Russian oil

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/india/trumps-tariffs-india-rise-50-punishment-buying-russian-oil-rc...
4•delichon•11m ago•0 comments

Pet Rats Using Paws to Create Masterpieces That Have Sold for over $2,600 Total

https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/08/27/pet-rats-using-paws-to-create-mini-ma...
1•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published
1•zoenolan•12m ago•0 comments

Another cruise: Re-reading "Moby-Dick" at Ahab's age

https://calebcrain.substack.com/p/another-cruise
1•lermontov•14m ago•0 comments

Learning PostgreSQL Internals

https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2022/10/postgresql-links.html
1•rjenkins•16m ago•0 comments

In-browser NL2SQL2NL playground: SQLite WASM meets Gemini

https://github.com/arnabdotorg/coquery
1•relantic•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TypeKro – TypeScript infra-as-code for Kubernetes built on KRO

https://typekro.run
1•ManWith2Plans•25m ago•0 comments

A Choice of Giants

https://kriskowal.com/giants/
1•dannyobrien•25m ago•0 comments

Science > Panpsychism [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nOtLj8UYCw
1•ieuanking•28m ago•1 comments

AgentQL, a toolkit for extracting data and automating workflows on live websites

https://github.com/tinyfish-io/agentql
1•jinqueeny•35m ago•0 comments

AI2 releases Asta: open‑source ecosystem for trustworthy scientific AI agents

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/ai2-launches-asta-a-new-standard-for-trustworthy-ai-agents-i...
1•acossta•38m ago•1 comments

What's the Safest Seat in a Car?

https://www.popsci.com/science/what-is-safest-seat-in-car/
2•wjb3•50m ago•0 comments

Maunder Minimum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
1•wjb3•52m ago•0 comments

Claude's GitHub: two issues closed by AI as "duplicates" – of each other..!

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4751
2•hihicoderhi•53m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Seven Dollar Chat- Claude, Llama, DeepSeek and More

https://7chat.sbs/
2•jerrimu•58m ago•0 comments

Goiânia Accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
5•grubbs•1h ago•0 comments

FlightConnections

https://www.flightconnections.com/
4•scapecast•1h ago•1 comments

Optimizing is not only for better performance

3•jaharios•1h ago•0 comments

Tony Blair Attends White House Meeting with Trump on Postwar Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/aug/27/tony-blair-attends-white-house-meeting-with-trum...
5•NomDePlum•1h ago•0 comments

Engineer as Value Appraiser

https://substack.com/inbox/post/172128430
3•mrev2•1h ago•0 comments

Stop killing games: Demands for game ownership must also include workers' rights

https://theconversation.com/stop-killing-games-demands-for-game-ownership-must-also-include-worke...
6•PaulHoule•1h ago•0 comments

Dead arms test importance of clenched fists (2015)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34572432
3•austinallegro•1h ago•0 comments

The Rise of Front-Loaded Vesting

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/front-loaded-vesting.html
3•zuhayeer•1h ago•0 comments

The Cybersecurity Psychology Framework: A Pre-Cognitive Vulnerability Assessment

https://cpf3.org
3•kaolay•1h ago•1 comments

DraftKings said it acted properly in voiding Iowa man's $14.2M payout

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/2025/08/26/draftkings-defends-voiding-iowa-mans-pa...
5•indigodaddy•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What's your current "ecosystem"/dev stack/tools that you use to build?

2•adinhitlore•1h ago•1 comments

What's new in Excel August 2025

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelblog/whats-new-in-excel-august-2025/4437351
3•nhatcher•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the 'Cause' of Autism Next Month

https://gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-promises-to-reveal-the-cause-of-autism-next-month-2000648934
65•ulrischa•5h ago

Comments

damnesian•5h ago
Turning it into this big media circus is beyond the pale.
Insanity•4h ago
I would laugh about the current state of US government if it wasn’t so sad.
pstuart•4h ago
It's surreal watching the collapse from the inside. Part of me is at the point of "fine! you all get what you deserve", but then I think of my kids and the others, future generations getting completely fucked for no fault of their own.
Insanity•4h ago
Yeah, I have a strange kind of fascination with it. I read a lot about the Roman republic, it's rise and demise, and it feels like living through the fall of another 'empire'.

Writings were on the wall for the Roman republic for a long tine before it happened. Same with the US today.

AnimalMuppet•4h ago
Well, if history rhymes, I'd guess we're about at Sulla.
senectus1•20m ago
I get really annoyed with the constant comparison with the "Fall of Rome".

This is not the same thing. This is a concerted attack from within, these people are deliberately dismantling a democratic society for personal profit.

0cf8612b2e1e•4h ago
It is so frustrating. Even if these idiots disappear tomorrow, it will take decades to recover. Why go into science/government to make a positive difference if you know the next hate-filled administration could end your career for some cheap political wins?
Insanity•4h ago
Honestly I think people don't talk about this long-term impact often enough, and you're 100% right. It's not just the impact today - it's the future state. What used to be a job with 'security' is now a lower-security and often lower-pay job.
mwpmaybe•3h ago
The only people who will work for the government are the people who know they can abuse and personally profit from it.
pstuart•2h ago
There's plenty that want to do the right thing for the right reasons, but this admin is not the place for that.

If we ever recover from this fiasco, we're going to have to do some serious reckoning of how to avoid it in the future.

kulahan•4h ago
"How then shall we perform it?--At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?-- Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!--All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

-Abraham Lincoln, Lyceum speech, 27 Jan, 1838

treetalker•4h ago
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.

“Against stupidity we are defenseless.

“Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed — in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical — and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.”

— D. Bonhoeffer

JohnFen•3h ago
Fear is even more dangerous and crippling than that. In part because fear makes us stupid.
sottol•4h ago
Acetaminophen/Tylenol? Nah, it's more palatable to blame the vaccines than give up those sweet pain-killers.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45008733

mulletbum•4h ago
Considering it is basically the only over-the-counter pain med allowed during pregnancy, I think we will learn that this government doesn't understand the difference between causation and correlation.
JohnFen•4h ago
Tylenol causes pregnancy! Since they seem to be so worried about fertility rates, maybe Tylenol use will be made mandatory.
exogeny•4h ago
We truly live in the dumbest timeline.
bamboozled•4h ago
It’s destructive, it’s by design, not dumb
thephyber•4h ago
I think that’s the fitness function of the Trump admin, but not the fitness function of RFK Jr who has been chasing this for decades. He clearly cares more about simple narratives than any factual truth.
treetalker•4h ago
Ooh, ooh! Fluoride! No no, wait, space lasers! Drag-queen story hour! Hunter's laptop! Benghazi!
rasz•4h ago
windmills
Varelion•4h ago
You imbecile — it was the emails!
treetalker•4h ago
"'clearly almost certainly'" !
slowmovintarget•4h ago
He's going to say it's 5G, isn't he? Please don't say it's 5G. heavy sigh
0cf8612b2e1e•4h ago
Can we take bets on Obama in a ghost mask a la Scooby Doo?
tzs•2h ago
A better bet is WiFi. He's complained at least as much about WiFi danger as he has about 5G, and WiFi is much more widespread and also 20 years older than 5G. Its availability to the public and growth correlates a lot better with the rise in autism rates.
Glant•4h ago
Remember, the space lasers were manned by the Jews and Republicans like Jews now.
bamboozled•4h ago
Clearly trans* and immigrants
leoxv•4h ago
Autism is a hoax orchestrated by the Democrats.
stanski•4h ago
My guess is Jerome Powell.
pupppet•1h ago
It’s funny the HN’ers who support this administration won’t dare reveal themselves by sharing their views but they are sure here lurking and downvoting where they see fit.
kccoder•26m ago
Cowards aren't known for standing up for their convictions.
jgeada•4h ago
It is the worms in the brain, isn't it?
avgDev•4h ago
The cause is......democrats!

I am kidding but I doubt he knows the cause, it is a complex issue.

thephyber•4h ago
You and I know that it’s a complex issue which probably has a complicated mix of genetic and several environmental factors.

But RFK Jr doesn’t seem to care about facts or truth or objective reality as much as he cares about pushing a simple narrative.

In his narrative-driven reality, there is nothing which can’t be blamed, including Democrats.

hmmokidk•4h ago
Lmao
fzeroracer•4h ago
Part of me expects him to say the root cause is ADHD medication so he can kill two birds with one brain worm. Then he can advocate to send them to wellness farms like he's said prior.
JohnFen•4h ago
No, he won't. He'll just spout more of his usual bullshit.
thephyber•4h ago
I’m not so sure.

The timeline he set for himself was artificial. His assertion that it was for sure caused by environmental factors and his department could find it in a few months was artificial.

His team clearly used AI (without reasoning features and without ensemble challenges) to write public documents, leaving the hallucinated research footnotes in the document.

He clearly doesn’t care about accuracy precision or truth, so he very well may announce some cause in September. I’m sure his _Children’s Defense Fund_ has their own “research” which draws conclusions that he will most likely crib from.

CoastalCoder•4h ago
If he already knows, but is delaying telling us, then what should he say to the future individuals who are only autistic because of that delay?

I'm struggling to think of any legitimate reason for not telling us right now.

fallinghawks•4h ago
Trump has a trope about saying he'll have a big announcement or deal with something "in 2 weeks" -- something that sounds lofty but the delay is long enough for it to pass out of the news cycle. I think RFK is doing the same here.
b33j0r•4h ago
The primary cause of reported disease is diagnosis, so maybe they’ll do something about that.
thephyber•4h ago
“If we stop testing for Covid, the number of infections will go down!”
sroussey•4h ago
You jest, but the current administrations way of dealing with global warming and carbon levels in the atmosphere is to stop measuring those things.
fallinghawks•4h ago
Air pollution [1] but since things like pollution and climate change are too woke, I'm sure RFKJr will have a different reason.

[1] https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pollution-linked-with-incr...

RobLach•4h ago
It’s impossible for me to think of what purpose taking this deliberate misinformation effort to this extent can have.

I can only consider that this is a purposeful attack on the American people and government credibility from the top. And if so, how could someone be so influenced to follow it through? Is it just a personal hatred of Americans justifying harm to them?

DemocracyFTW2•3h ago
I'm happy to see this woke liberal BS flagged /s
jaybrendansmith•2h ago
Let me guess: The aluminum found in vaccines. Of Course. Why didn't we think of that? It only took an addled, evil, brain-wormed, drug-infested moron to point it out. Never mind there are 1000s of clinical studies showing no impacts. THOUSANDS. We should print out all that evidence, put it in 300 page volumes, enclose them in binders with ribbons, box them up, and drop it from an airplane onto his house!
jauntywundrkind•1h ago
List of people who have just left the CDC:

Director, office of public health data, Jennifer Layden

Director of the National Center for Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Daniel Jernigan

Chief Medical Officer Deb Houry

Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Demetre Daskalakis

Director Monarez.

What bold does reality & truth have these days. A revolt against reason, a revolt against truth, a revolt against a nation. This whole era has seen the rise of such a vicious enemy against the world. #HostisHumaniGeneris

(Some of these may be semi coincidental to what's coming next, but it's all part of the same insurrection against science.)