MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zmgsabst | 2025-05-01 04:28:00+00:00
I see this as partisan:

- one side ignored Clinton using a private server as sec of state

- this one ignores using Signal

I haven’t seen arguments about what the standard is supposed to be or why this in particular is egregious. That would be more convincing than hyperventilating.

Edit:

If you read the article, there are both classified/secured and unsecured lines available at the station. So what specifically is the problem the administration uses Signal together with unsecured comms?

I don’t follow the allegation its mere presence is problematic, when discussing general communications with other parts of the administration. Especially when accessed via separate/dedicated machine (distinct from secured systems).

If you want to talk about the specifics of, eg, the Yemen war plans then do that — but this article does not.
by obitsten | 2025-05-01 04:28:04+00:00
The annoying thing is this is only due to "calibration" which can, with some highly esoteric optimisations, be skipped. Depending on the application , this can realise massive gains in peak power, wakeup latency, and even average power. The whole process is hidden in a binary blob though and espressif will not elaborate on it, so it's very challenging to alter.
by hereonout2 | 2025-05-01 04:30:26+00:00
Yep it's an odd take!

I was last a "web developer" almost two decades ago, but dipping back in on a few occasions I am always appreciative of how much innovation has happened since then.

The world before the huge investment in browser technology was dark. Tables and spacers for meaningful layout and flash or shockwave for anything interactive.

I remember a time when css based drop down menus were seen as some sort of state of the art.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-01 04:30:30+00:00
Where is the "but her emails" crowd now? There are three main issues here:

1. The Defense Department bans the use of Signal for everybody else. Why is that? Why is the Secretary exempt?

2. As we've seen it's pretty easy to add unauthorized people to what should be secure communication channels where classified information is shared; and

3. There are laws around the preservation of governmental records. Expiring Signal messages seems like it's intentionally meant to circumvent these legal requirements ie it's illegal.

We're only 100 days in. We've got 1200 more days of this.
Off Topic – Does DMCA Ignored Hosting Feature Protect My Content?
by anas101siddiqui | 2025-05-01 04:30:31+00:00
Hey folks, I know this might be a bit off topic, but I’ve been looking into DMCA ignored hosting and was wondering—does it actually protect your content from takedown requests? Is it truly safe or just marketing hype? Anyone here have real experience with it?
by iambateman | 2025-05-01 04:31:08+00:00
Great question, thanks for asking.

My point is that “make liberals sad” is also a stated policy goal of this administration.

I think this article is about one of two things…either there is a possibility that SecDef using Signal represents an ongoing, material national security crisis that should be a concern for all Americans…or it’s really the author grieving for a time when they felt safer because the strict protocols of confidentiality signaled (pun intended) a sense of seriousness about government secrets.

If this is a material security threat, I need a lot of writers to explain why because most people don’t know. If it’s a sad liberal, the result will be counter-productive and large numbers of people-in-power will read this article as a win for their team.
by almosthere | 2025-05-01 04:32:08+00:00
Almost all of the individual decision to have or not have kids is 100% economic. It's too expensive, and internally we rename that to "not ready", "need a house", "want to try a career first".

I do personally think globalists have caused this entire issue. We need to rid the world of them. Kick out the ability for foreign entities to own land/homes in the US.
by kadushka | 2025-05-01 04:32:12+00:00
I haven’t tried any of these, recently I’ve been switching between Claude 3.7, Gemini 2.5 pro, and GPT-4.5, with each one producing something interesting once in a while. I usually sketch a plot (sci-fi short story: 10-20 pages), mention a few details of the environment, describe the main character (often based on myself), and mention relevant writing styles. Sometimes I describe how I want it to write the story, sometimes I don’t. I rarely interact with the story beyond the initial prompt, it’s easier to just resubmit if I don’t like something.
by alwillis | 2025-05-01 04:32:16+00:00
As I’ve mentioned previously, WebKit is a mission critical framework that many thousands of apps use, including Apple’s.

Strategically it makes no sense to not own something that important.

Remember: Safari was created when Apple’s 5-year deal with Microsoft that made Internet Explorer the default browser for MacOS X expired in 2003.

10 years later. Google forked WebKit to create Chrome.
by sverhagen | 2025-05-01 04:32:23+00:00
"Runs in the browser" and "client side" isn't as much of a selling point to me as it's made out to be. It's a claim that I can't really validate until it's too late. If it's a commercial service I'm going to have to pay for, then maybe you should go all the way in gaining my trust with whatever safeguards it takes, so that I no longer care if I upload my data to your server or not.
by thenameless7741 | 2025-05-01 04:32:24+00:00
AFAIK, Phi-4-multimodal doesn't support TTS, but I understand OP's point.

The recent Qwen's release is an excellent example of model providers collaborating with the local community (which include inference engine developers and model quantizers?). It would be nice if this collaboration extended to wrapper developers as well, so that end-users can enjoy a great UX from day one of any model release.
by surajrmal | 2025-05-01 04:33:13+00:00
Not necessarily. You can forward a lot of hardware as is to a Linux VM if you have an iommu. It comes down to whether you need multiple VMs to share access to some hardware or not, which is not all that common based on the way the isolation domains work out. This can start to become more challenging when that hardware has shared resources such as clocks, buses, or power rails to manage, but soc makers are likely going to make hardware increasingly easier to work in this modality as customers require it.
by Jach | 2025-05-01 04:33:37+00:00
CSS grids are pretty nice, flexbox is ok, float hacks were fine and an improvement over table shenanigans. On the other hand I quite liked the simple hbox/vbox explicit elements that things like ActionScript + MXML had (Flex). I liked Flex overall quite a bit, even if it was just another ill-fated attempt at freeing us from the browser strangleholds like Java applets and the rest. Having native platform functionality and a bunch of other nice things readily available now (barring Safari, especially mobile Safari, holding everyone back worse than IE6 did) is nice, but it doesn't quite feel like innovation when much of that was available via plugins back in the day.
by bdhe | 2025-05-01 04:33:49+00:00
Wait, all your links are from opindia

From wikipedia -

OpIndia is an Indian far-right[2] news website known for frequently publishing misinformation.[11][12][28] Founded in December 2014,[18] the website has published fake news and Islamophobic commentary on numerous occasions.[37][43] OpIndia is dedicated to criticism of what it considers liberal media,[14] and to support of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)[47] and Hindutva ideology.[3] According to University of Maryland researchers, OpIndia has shamed journalists it deems to be in opposition to the BJP and has alleged media bias against Hindus and the BJP.[13]

Did you get a chance to read the US attorney's indictment and alleged connections to the Indian govt?
by poulsbohemian | 2025-05-01 04:34:55+00:00
>Dems are the lesser of two evils.

Example? I hear this constantly and yet there's one party that has spent decades trying to protect the environment, protect workers, fund schools, fund health care, provide day care, prevent gun violence, equalize economic opportunity, increase and protect civil rights -- and then there are Republicans acting to stop all of that. I cannot even begin to fathom how anyone - especially in light of the past 100 days -- can tell me with a straight face that my party is the "lesser of two evils."

And as for RCV - how, please offer me an example - of how you think it makes one bit of difference in freeing us from being the "servants of the billionaire class." You want to actually do that? End citizen united and get money out of politics; and good luck with that.
by schmidtleonard | 2025-05-01 04:35:53+00:00
> There is no such thing as an incentive, that doesn't incentivize someone.

It's wild how the public discourse on incentives is so split. On one hand, the poor are guilty until proven innocent of six dimensional chess to eek "unearned" pennies from social programs, yet the very idea that mega billionaires might pull easy, obvious levers for unethical mega million payouts is one that must beg and scrape for consideration.
by gh02t | 2025-05-01 04:36:08+00:00
Weirdly for me I don't have much trouble with startup, but shutting down windows seems to take an impossibly long time, especially on my work laptop. Like several minutes. Probably some misbehaving program and maybe not windows' fault, but I have no idea what it's doing just sitting there at the final screen after its killed all remaining tasks for eternity.
by kmeisthax | 2025-05-01 04:37:55+00:00
iPhones never had paid iOS upgrades. iPod touch did, but that's because Apple was worried free updates would violate an accounting rule. Specifically, the iPhone was considered subscription revenue while the iPod touch was considered purchase revenue. And after an accounting scandal[0] GAAP had been changed so that you couldn't say you sold, say, a bunch of stuff that hadn't actually been finished yet, and then finish it later with, say, a software update.

This is, of course, how basically every tech company works nowadays[1], because Apple lobbied to have that accounting rule removed.

None of this has anything to do with "App Store pays for iOS". That's an excuse Apple came up with after Epic Games sued them, there's no point in time I can point to where iOS is just the bundled OS vs. "paid for with app sales". The reality is, everything pays for everything, because Apple only sells fully bundled experiences. Their opposition to sideloading or third-party iOS app stores is only somewhat related to security[2], and more related to the fact that they don't want anyone dictating to them how the customer experience is, even if those changes improve the experience.

Well, that, and the fact that they make bank off App Store apps.

[0] I'm not sure if it was Enron or Worldcom

[1] Looking at you, Tesla FSD

[2] If it was, they'd be locking down macOS
by stevage | 2025-05-01 04:38:24+00:00
I like the idea of scientist-run dating apps, although it does create its own potential conflicts of interest: the purity of the experiment and publishibility of experiments vs the needs of the participants.

I do think overall part of the reason dating experiences are so bad is that people aren't that good at identifying what traits are actually important in a partner for them, nor determining whether an individual has those traits.

Definitely seems like a space ripe for disruption in any case.
by fsckboy | 2025-05-01 04:39:15+00:00
the judgment doesn't appear to be based on Apple being monopoly or size of the business

our anti-trust laws are not about being a monopoly or the size of your business: they are about abusing market dominance (where up or downstream has no choice) with unfair business practices.

a monopoly that charges fair prices and does not abuse suppliers and customers will not encounter any legal difficulty
by maxloh | 2025-05-01 04:40:02+00:00
Note that 1. makes web apps more and more powerful, which in turn actually benefits end users (in most cases). It enables us to replace storage and memory consuming Electron and Chromium Embedded Framework apps with their web counterparts.

You could argue that Tauri exists, but I doubt that it would gain large-scale corporate adoption, as storage consumption was never their concern, development time and cost are.
by GlassOwAter | 2025-05-01 04:40:09+00:00
Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office in Florida. It looks like they have been working on facial recognition since 2001. This is all I found with a quick search https://nicic.gov/weblink/welcome-interagency-use-facial-rec...

Oh plenty more when you put in the full name. https://search.brave.com/search?q=%22Pinellas+County+Sheriff...
by psunavy03 | 2025-05-01 04:42:17+00:00
Keep telling yourself that. I'm sure you'll still be thinking that at 80 when you look back at whether or not your life meant anything anyone after you would give a shit about. Money doesn't mean shit when you're old and alone. My family also has "fuck you" money; don't think retiring at 40 overawes me. Beyond a certain point, it doesn't hide being an asshole.
by godelski | 2025-05-01 04:43:07+00:00
What if you believe both Clinton and Hegseth are in the wrong?

I hold this position and I don't think it's uncommon. Plenty of people think if something is wrong then it doesn't matter who does it.

There's definitely perception bias. Usually conversations are short when we're in agreement. Doesn't create engagement. Doesn't make for good news
by dredmorbius | 2025-05-01 04:43:12+00:00
The total strikes me as small. That's nearly two decades of contributions from several 100k active members, and a few million total. HN is what would have been a substantial social network prior to Facebook, and (largely on account of its modest size and active moderation) a high-value one.

I did some modelling of how much contributed text data there was on Google+ as that site was shutting down in 2019.

By "text data", I'm excluding both media (images, audio, video), and all the extraneous page throw-weight (HTML scaffolding, CSS, JS).

Given the very low participation rates, and finding that posts on average ran about 120 characters (I strongly suspect that much activity was part of a Twitter-oriented social strategy, though it's possible that SocMed posts just trend short), seven years' of history from a few tens of millions of active accounts (out of > 4 billion registered profiles) only amounted to a few GiB.

This has a bearing on a few other aspects:

- The Archive Team (AT, working with, but unaffiliated with, the Internet Archive, IA) was engaged in an archival effort aimed at G+. That had ... mixed success (much content was archived, one heck of a lot wasn't, very few comments survive (threads were curtailed to the most recent ten or so, absent search it remains fairly useless, those with "vanity accounts" (based on a selected account name rather than a random hash) prove to be even less accessible). In addition to all of that, by scraping full pages and attempting to present the site as it presented online, AT/IA are committing to a tremendous increase in the stored data requirements whilst missing much of what actually made the site actually of interest.

- Those interested in storing text contributions of even large populations face very modest storage requirements. If, say, average online time is 45 minutes daily, typing speed is 45 wpm, and only half of online time is spent writing vs. reading, that's roughly 1,000 words/(person*day), or about 6 KiB/(person*day). That's 6 MiB per 1,000 people, 6 GiB per 1 million, 6 PiB per billion. And ... the true values are almost certainly far lower: I'm pretty certain I've overstated writing time (it's likely closer to 10%), and typing speed (typing on mobile is likely closer to 20--30 wpm, if that). E.g., Facebook sees about 2.45 billion "pieces of content" posted per day, of which half is video. If we assume 120 characters (bytes) per post, that's a surprisingly modest amount, substantially less than 300 GiB/day of text data. (Images, audio, and video will of course inflate that markedly).

- The amount of non-entered data (e.g., location, video, online interactions, commerce) is the bulk of current data collection / surveillance state & capitalism systems.
by mushufasa | 2025-05-01 04:43:15+00:00
I did a quick get deep research web search and: > Modern browser engineering is heavily weighted toward maintenance work (bugs + security) rather than shiny new capabilities. After hand-classifying every bullet in the public release notes (stable channel) for the last 12 months of Firefox (versions 117-126), Chrome (versions 126-136) and Safari (17.0-17.6), then folding in counts that Apple, Google and Mozilla themselves publish (for example “39 new features and 169 bug fixes in Safari 17.2”), the picture that emerges looks like this: Even the most “innovative” browsers invest 45-55 % of their engineering time simply keeping the ship afloat.

True green-field standards work is roughly one-fifth of effort, with Safari and Firefox currently leading in CSS & media-query adoption, Chrome in new JavaScript/DOM APIs.

Eye-catching integrations (VPN, local AI summariser, etc.) stay single-digits because the core browser still has to do the unglamorous work of being correct and secure.
Show HN: Building code agents? Try code embedding models FAST and do it better
by islogan | 2025-05-01 04:43:33+00:00
We are a small group of undergrads interested in building human in the loop coding agents. We dream of a world where building complex agent workflows feels as simple and creative as playing with legos.

When we were building stuff we needed a tool that made it easy to try out different code embedding models so that we could see which ones worked best in different scenarios and understand their strengths and weaknesses.

So to speed that process up we made PurpleSearch an 'instant' search engine for your local codebases. This tool lets you quickly deploy any open source embedding model on hugging face into a real application that makes their capabilities visual and easy to digest. Check out the demo vid.

The flow: Pick any Java project. We'll turn it into a code graph, embed code snippets from the graph and index them. Then you can query the code snippet index. We'll return the 10 highest ranking snippets and the the subgraph that surrounds them for deeper contextual understanding (we call it a cluster). We feed these clusters into an LLM who uses them as context to answer your query.

Purple Search!

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aglrXDLoOhQ

Github: https://github.com/logantucker25/PurpleSearch

note: This tool might be a little rough around the edges and occasionally get hung up. It hasnt been fully tested for use outside of our small group. We hope that it is useful to someone out there... if so feel free add to this code in any way that you like and make it into whatever suits you best. PRs welcome.
by gryfft | 2025-05-01 04:43:47+00:00
> Using fossilized T-Rex collagen as a blueprint, the production process will involve engineering cells with synthetic DNA, designed by The Organoid Company, which are then integrated into Lab-Grown Leather's Elemental-X™ product stream. Unlike other bio-based alternatives, Lab-Grown Leather’s "scaffold-free" approach allows cells to create their own natural structure, resulting in a material that is structurally identical to traditional leather.

It's unclear to me the degree to which using collagen as a 'blueprint' makes this Tyrannosaurus leather, but it's a fun marketing gimmick. Jurassic Purse.
by 2419410794 | 2025-05-01 04:45:21+00:00
> If you read the article, there are both classified/secured and unsecured lines available at the station. So what specifically is the problem the administration uses Signal together with unsecured comms?

There are two issues. First, official communications about the workings of government ought to occur on government platforms, so that there's a permanent record for the communication. (As others have mentioned, this is required by the Federal Records Act.)

Second, the Pentagon has limited phone service and limited public internet access by design. The other computers in the office, while for unclassified material, are not (as I understand it) connected to the public internet like Hegseth's personal laptop is.

That said, I have no issue if Hegseth wants to use Signal to make dinner plans with other government officials.
by sleepyguy | 2025-05-01 04:45:59+00:00
Ryan Pertersen (Import Genius and now Flexport) said that if these tariffs continue on China, 80% of small and medium-sized businesses that buy from China will go bankrupt. Over 2 million jobs will be lost. He is not the only one calling for a small business Armageddon. The big corporations love it, companies like Apple got exemptions, it's why you don't here them freaking out.

Hope Wyze makes it through this, long-time customer, and their cameras are great.
by kace91 | 2025-05-01 04:46:45+00:00
>It’s obviously illegal for Google to prop up Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari as if they were co-equal competitors to Chrome. And Chrome itself is the biggest “search-engine deal” of all, which is why the DoJ is so focused on forcing Google to divest from Chrome.

>The laws intended to foster competition will inadvertently destabilize the foundational tools millions rely on to access the internet

It sounds like, if anything, the problem lies in letting this “obviously illegal” setup become the statu quo.
by abhisek | 2025-05-01 04:47:35+00:00
This is weird to say the least. All the major browser innovation that has happened during the last decade is because of the funding from Google towards Chromium.

Browsers used to be one of the most critical and insecure software. All the major security enhancement in terms of isolation, sandboxing, privilege separation happened IMHO due to a Google backed browser security research. This benefitted the community because other browsers either adopted Chromium as the base or implemented similar security improvements.

I think it’s not just the browser anymore, the core building blocks like v8, blink etc. forms the foundation of modern web. It will be interesting to see the benefits of anti-monopoly laws when it comes at the cost of destabilising something foundational like Chromium.
by alwillis | 2025-05-01 04:48:49+00:00
Perhaps you haven’t noticed but Safari has shipped about 20 updates in the last 3.5 years.

If you check the Interop 2025 numbers, you’ll see Safari is neck and neck with the other browsers and has implemented the latest CSS features [1].

The WebKit team was first to crack the code on how to implement :has() that eluded browser teams for 20 years and was the first to ship it [2].

As for wishing that they didn’t have to maintain Safari, it’s a mission critical framework on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, visionOS… it’s the only thing saving the web from the monoculture of Chrome-based browsers; unfortunately Firefox is in the low single-digits as far as market share goes. Safari on iOS has about 25% market share.

[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/16458/announcing-interop-2025/

[2]: https://webkit.org/blog/13096/css-has-pseudo-class/
Show HN: I made a daily spot the fake headline game
by alexilchenko | 2025-05-01 04:49:01+00:00
Hi! I made this daily game recently and I am just looking for feedback on how to make it more intuitive and fun.

I wrote a pipeline that searches the news and, using an LLM, suggests headlines (both real and fake) for me to use. Then I manually sift through the suggestions and pick out a few for the next week.

If you join the beta program (after you sign up), you can play more games and test variations of the daily game. I am currently testing if showing the full headline right away is better than giving the reader an option to reveal it (but lose a point)