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25•mustaphah•1h ago•4 comments

An untidy history of AI across four books

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/lessons-of-babel/articles/perplexity
67•ewf•4h ago•23 comments

Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ant-queens-seem-to-defy-biology-they-lay-eggs-tha...
283•sampo•9h ago•86 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?

181•ncarlson•1h ago•111 comments

R MCP Server

https://github.com/finite-sample/rmcp
48•neehao•2d ago•5 comments

Show HN: WeUseElixir - Elixir project directory

https://weuseelixir.com/
39•taddgiles•1h ago•6 comments

Three-Minute Take-Home Test May Identify Symptoms Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-minute-take-home-test-may-identify-symptoms-linke...
33•pseudolus•3h ago•4 comments

The Economic Impacts of AI: A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review [pdf]

https://kevinbryanecon.com/BryanAIBookReview.pdf
29•cjbarber•2h ago•10 comments

Time Spent on Hardening

https://third-bit.com/2025/09/18/time-spent-on-hardening/
30•mooreds•2h ago•11 comments

Your very own humane interface: Try Jef Raskin's ideas at home

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/your-very-own-humane-interface-try-jef-raskins-ideas-at-h...
41•zdw•4h ago•0 comments

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/internet-archives-big-battle-with-music-publishers-en...
236•coloneltcb•3d ago•98 comments

Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]

https://pup-e.com/goodbye-rubygems.pdf
558•jolux•14h ago•172 comments

Kernel: Introduce Multikernel Architecture Support

https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250918222607.186488-1-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com/
75•ahlCVA•6h ago•12 comments

Show the Physics

https://interactivetextbooks.tudelft.nl/showthephysics/Introduction/About.html
125•pillars•3d ago•7 comments

How to waste CPU like a Professional

https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2025/09/19/how-to-waste-cpu-like-a-professional/
8•tanelpoder•1h ago•1 comments

Revamping an Old TV as a Gift (2019)

https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/revamping-an-old-tv-as-a-gift/
49•deivid•7h ago•21 comments

YouTube downloaders (and how Google silenced the press)

https://windowsread.me/p/best-youtube-downloaders
121•Leftium•10h ago•35 comments

Safepoints and Fil-C

https://fil-c.org/safepoints
54•matt_d•3d ago•24 comments

Tonemaps

https://mini.gmshaders.com/p/tonemaps
3•bpierre•1d ago•0 comments

Shipping 100 hardware units in under eight weeks

https://farhanhossain.substack.com/p/how-we-shipped-100-hardware-units
87•M_farhan_h•1d ago•47 comments

Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloom...
444•mriguy•2h ago•469 comments

I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-regret-building-3000-pi-ai-cluster
381•speckx•7h ago•293 comments

Dynamo AI (YC W22) Is Hiring a Senior Kubernetes Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dynamo-ai/jobs/fU1oC9q-senior-kubernetes-engineer
1•DynamoFL•10h ago

Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/ticketmaster-intentionally-screwed-fans-out-of-billio...
246•dthread3•3h ago•104 comments

Nostr

https://nostr.com/
292•dtj1123•16h ago•263 comments

Lethal Trifecta attack leaking private data in Notion AI agents

https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1969111931152634010
8•abirag•34m ago•2 comments

The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/17/the-health-benefits-of-sunlight-may-o...
164•petethomas•17h ago•152 comments

Dialing Up the Internet Phonebook

https://pketh.org/internet-phonebook.html
5•surprisetalk•1d ago•0 comments

Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo

https://github.com/msuzen/isingLenzMC
99•northlondoner•13h ago•60 comments

Frying Eggs and Air Quality Tests

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/frying-eggs-and-air-quality-tests
60•crescit_eundo•3d ago•123 comments
Open in hackernews

R MCP Server

https://github.com/finite-sample/rmcp
47•neehao•2d ago

Comments

condwanaland•55m ago
I love R and am always excited about tools for R but I immediately get suspicious when I see things like:

> RMCP has been tested with real-world scenarios achieving 100% success rate:

zeehio•49m ago
I find that the tricky part of a good data analysis is knowing the biases in your data, often due to the data collection process, which is not contained in the data itself.

I have seen plenty of overoptimistic results due to improper building of training, validation and test sets, or using bad metrics to evaluate trained models.

It is not clear to me that this project is going to help to overcome those challenges and I am a bit concerned that if this project or similar ones become popular then these problems may become more prevalent.

Another concern is that usually the "customer" asking the question wants a specific result (something significant, some correlation...). If through an LLM connected to this tool my customer finds something that it is wrong but aligned with what he/she wants, as a data scientist/statistician I will have the challenge to make the customer understand that the LLM gave a wrong answer, more work for me.

Maybe with some well-behaved datasets and with proper context this project becomes very useful, we will see :-)

rbartelme•12m ago
I agree with all of this. I've worked in optical engineering, bioinformatics, and data science writ large for over a decade, knowing the data collection process is foundational to statistical process control and statistical design of experiments. I've watched former employers light cash on fire chasing results from similar methods this MCP runs on the backend due to lack of measurement/experimental context.
tacoooooooo•27m ago
I hate this so much and also great job
rbartelme•17m ago
This MCP agent still doesn't defend the statistically illiterate from themselves.