MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nilslice | 2025-05-14 14:33:54+00:00
Apple Wallet transformed how we manage our digital assets—creating a unified hub for cards, tickets, and passes that work seamlessly across services.

Today, we're bringing that same paradigm shift to software integration with mcp.run's SSO for MCP.

This new infrastructure lets users centrally manage authenticated connections to your tools (GitHub, Google, Figma, WordPress, etc.), and grant AI applications permission to use these tools on a users' behalf with a single authentication flow.
by mattzito | 2025-05-14 14:34:05+00:00
Are we talking about the same Airbnb? When I think of resorts, I think of staff, bars, restaurants, activities, often all inclusive, and often catered to my desired demographic (adults only, family friendly, etc.)

When I think of Airbnb, I think of an apartment with a pool in the Caribbean, where I have to hunt around to figure out the best places to eat, or cook myself.
by clan | 2025-05-14 14:34:21+00:00
I would say mostly in the courtyards.

And yes - it can be quite the challenge. And people sees it as a god given right. The same rights as people who have their essential 4 bicycles.

Some of the same people who find it too cumbersome to use the bicycle storagespace/garage commonly found in basements. It can be a challenge indeed.

The basement parking is very common but rarely cater for the cargo bikes so they need to reside in the courtyards.

In some neighborhoods they have converted some of the street parkering spaces from cars to bicycle racks.

At Ikea and shopping malls they usually have dedicated parking for the cargo bikes.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-05-14 14:34:35+00:00
Not to settle on "It's bad" but their so called "results" seems completely obvious.

The congestion policy is disincentivizing/suppressing people's preferred method by making it unaffordable to some, and unappealing to some. We already know that we can use policy to push people away from their preferred to a less preferred method. The items listed in green are mostly obvious as people seek alternatives. It's like highlighting how many fewer chicken deaths would occur if we created an omnivore or meat tax.

IMO what they should be keeping a careful eye on and tracking is how many fewer trips happen to businesses in those areas. How much fewer social interaction is happening across the distances that those car based trips used to occur. And how much harder is it to get goods into the areas. Is less economic activity happening.

In the long run, yes, maybe things will be net better for all, when the $45M per year has had a chance to make alternative transportation methods to be not just policy enforced, but truly _preferred_ option.
by ziml77 | 2025-05-14 14:34:42+00:00
It's all down to the ambient light. That's why bias lighting is now a thing. Try putting a light behind your screen to massively brighten the wall behind it, the 1000 nit peaks will be far less harsh. And if you bring the device out into sunlight I suspect you will wish for everything about its output to be quite a bit brighter.
Show HN: OpenLoong – Open-Source Hardware for a Full-Stack Humanoid Robot
by OpenLoong | 2025-05-14 14:35:25+00:00
We're OpenLoong – a China-based community to build a full-stack open-source humanoid robot. This repository contains all hardware design files for our robot: from the upper body and limbs to BOMs and assembly diagrams.

What’s inside: - TA00-03-00-Waist Component. Contains the robot's waist joint design, drive system, and mechanical structure drawings. - TA00-04-00-Chest System. Provides the hardware design for the robot's chest area, including the layout of sensors and the main control module. - TA00-07-00-Head Perception System. Designs the robot's head perception system, integrating and controlling modules for vision, hearing, touch, smell, and movement. - ......

All design files and drawings are open-source, and you are free to use, modify, and optimize them. We encourage community members to participate in further research and development of the robot, promoting technological progress. We’d love feedback – especially from anyone who's built hardware robots or wants to adapt this to their own system.
by joshstrange | 2025-05-14 14:36:07+00:00
Supabase is one that I'll consider, Xata [0] is another one that is interesting. Thankfully I just need "postgres", I don't need branching/PII-clearing/etc. That's all nice to have but I don't need it for my app.

I really would prefer a managed DB for multiple reasons but I might need to look at just self-hosting. I might have spent less time futzing with my DB if I had done that from the start instead of going Aurora Serverless v1 -> Planetscale -> Neon.

[0] https://xata.io/
by pavel_lishin | 2025-05-14 14:36:23+00:00
Yeah, this is a wildly subjective question.

For every person who would love to spend their day sitting on the beach, there's a person who would rather sit on a porch and watch the snow falling.

For every person who wants to live near-off-grid in the mountains, there's a person who would feel intensely lonely living outside of a metropolis of less than 5 million people.

A country that's otherwise a perfect fit might be stricken off the list because the person is gay, or a woman, or have a particular skin color or religion.
by nxobject | 2025-05-14 14:36:26+00:00
> Human-as-datapath is a fantastic idea for learning the basics of not just programming, but of microarchitecture. Once you start thinking, "hey, I could make a machine/circuit/etc. to do all of this stuff that I'm doing by hand" then you are on your way.

Having taken a survey course on computer architecture, hand simulation's the most I've ever been able to understand "complex" (scare quotes) mechanisms like out-of-order execution, multiple dispatch, speculation, etc. Which is a pity - the scare quotes belie the fact that these have been integral features of microarchitectures for decades, and they're key to understanding software performance and entire classes of security exploits.

In terms of actual implementation, I think I've only ever gotten as far as pipelining with result forwarding.
by jmclnx | 2025-05-14 14:36:31+00:00
Seems to be working fine, I know the large city about 60 miles from me looked at this, and I am all for it. But its mass transit is a awful mess, at times walking is faster that taking a subway.

I wish they would start this, but its politics is such a mess nothing really gets done there. New Ideas there gets implemented far slower than then ideas in Roman Catholic Church.
by bradlys | 2025-05-14 14:36:48+00:00
Most people aren’t aware - especially in educated UMC circles like this one - how much the birth rate relied on teenage moms.

The birthrate for educated folks has been below replacement for a long time. Teenage moms probably aren’t in their mind cause they were raised among other UMC folks and it just doesn’t happen there. The US has been below replacement overall for even longer. We’ve relied on immigration for 50+ years.

Most of these discussions talk about cost of living and so forth - which are good metrics but the biggest influence of whether people have kids is if they’re getting into relationships. As any country has more women getting online, the birth rate plummets. It’s another factor we don’t talk about in these discussions. Social media has a huge effect on getting into relationships - and therefore having children.
by baby_souffle | 2025-05-14 14:37:27+00:00
> That's generally a great solution – unless the company she's dealing with is one of those that don't send SMS-OTP codes to VoIP numbers for seCuRiTy reasons, or demand that the number is somehow "registered in her name" (which many smaller carriers apparently don't do). I really wish that were illegal. A phone number is a phone number.

It pisses me off to no end. I use a few different banks and some are fine with google voice, others are not. One only allows customer service to send SMS tokens to google voice but not through the regular flow. In all but one case, they will happily robo call my google voice number and have a tts engine read me the same code that they didn’t want to SMS.

Security policy by rng, ffs!
by nmz | 2025-05-14 14:37:29+00:00
Isn't this a bug of the software and not of the technology?

refetching terminfo capabilities seems an easy fix, you also get sigwinched which I imagine happens on a new terminal.

Mind you, I don't use abduco but do use dtach sometimes, I've accepted that I need screen and tmux with all its warts, like instead of using a scripting language like TCL/Lua for configuration it built its own frankenstein language that is severely limited.
by jesseryoung | 2025-05-14 14:37:46+00:00
Welcome to Databricks!

I've been an SA at Databricks for the past two years and love it here. The people you get to work with here are world-class and our customers legitimately love our product.

I too am a little confused about comments in threads on HN about Databricks, they seriously don't reflect what I see internally and what my customers say. I don't think I'd be working here if they did.
by lxgr | 2025-05-14 14:37:50+00:00
Neither TOTP nor HOTP provide "what you see is what you sign" property, unfortunately, which can be critical for bank and other transactions.

"Enter this code only if you want to pay <amount> to <merchant>" is much more secure than "enter your TOTP here", which is a lot like issuing a blank check in comparison (and in fact required by regulation in the EU, for example).

Not even WebAuthN provides that property on a compromised computer; for that, you'd need something like the SPC extension [1] and a hardware authenticator with a small display.

That's unfortunately why we're currently stuck with proprietary bank confirmation apps that can provide it. I really wish there was a vendor-neutral standard for it, but given how push notifications work (or rather don't work) for federated client apps, I'm not holding my breath.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/secure-payment-confirmation/
by SilasX | 2025-05-14 14:37:58+00:00
In the YouTube comments for the song "Informer" by Snow ("Informer, <lots of words>, a licky boom-boom now"), someone refers to it as "the final boss of learning English".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSffz_bl6zo

(Edit: can't find that specific comment, link just goes to the music video.)
by akx | 2025-05-14 14:38:34+00:00
* Windows XP's speech synthesizer wasn't SAM (Software Automatic Mouth), and sounded nothing like this. (I know this is emulating Software Automatic Mouth, because, well, https://samtts.com/lib/sam.js says so, and has a link to https://github.com/discordier/sam. It would be courteous to at least acknowledge the shoulders you're standing on.)

* I would be very wary about touting this to be "Microsoft SAM TTS" so prominently, since it has nothing to do with Microsoft.

* Your privacy policy page is from "Image to Ghibli".

* Your contact and about pages are 404.

* All of the copy smells like AI, and "5 stars from 2000+ happy users" is probably a blatant lie. (Where can I see some of those 5-star reviews, or review it myself?)

* "Our modern SAM TTS JavaScript implementation brings this iconic Microsoft voice to your browser" is also pretty disingenious, both because it's not a Microsoft voice, and as seen above, you didn't implement the TTS.

* Some of the alternate TTS implementations you link to (and then embed from Huggingface) in the footer are broken.

* Your Sign-in button (why would I sign in anyway?) is broken: "Access blocked: This app’s request is invalid" from Google, "Error 400: redirect_uri_mismatch".
by incomingpain | 2025-05-14 14:39:04+00:00
>What Americans think news is – and is not

>Opinion or commentary is not news.

Why do they exclude this?

What is the "NEWs" to me might be old school?

It's literally, "hey buddy, what's new?"

The newspaper boy on the corner is then selling a paper of the NEW things. Rarely if ever do you get old stories; and if there is, it's what new update about it.

Opinions, celebrities, anything that's new will always be news. There's very obviously celebrity news.

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/usshowbiz/index.html

I think Pew research fell off a cliff trying to redefine what the news is?

>“I used to listen to the mainstream media like everybody else, like CNN or MSNBC, but I have found these media outlets no longer supply me with the truthful information that I need.” –Man, 50s, Republican-leaning independent

The real discussion is here. Why did the news get caught lying over and over, burn their trust and cause a democratic crisis? You dont redefine the news to try to get away from this.
by vanburen | 2025-05-14 14:39:12+00:00
If cell service is available in at least one area of the property, you could have a dedicated sim for receiving SMS 2FA and use a 4G router to forward the SMS to an email, e.g. Teltonika have this functionality [1].

The 4G router also has the benefit of being able to use externally mounted antennas. Which might help in low signal areas.

Not ideal, but might at least be a solution for some people.

[1]: https://wiki.teltonika-networks.com/view/SMS_Forwarding_Conf...
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-14 14:39:18+00:00
4. Get a USB modem and hook it up to a computer somewhere safe that has coverage, and access it via internet.

I'm building the opposite, using the modem and a Raspberry Pi to send me metrics from my cabin, but could easily work in reverse.

While prototyping I had it parse SMS messages I sent it.

Obviously not for everyone but we're on HN here...
by benarchie | 2025-05-14 14:39:21+00:00
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by Hackbraten | 2025-05-14 14:39:36+00:00
I think your comment has received excellent replies. However, no one has tackled your actual question so far:

> _who_ is the owner. Is it a stack frame?

I don’t think that it’s helpful to call a stack frame the owner in the sense of the borrow checker. If the owner was the stack frame, then why would it have to borrow objects to itself? The fact that the following code doesn’t compile seems to support that:

fn main() { let a: String = "Hello".to_owned(); let b = a; println!("{}", a); // error[E0382]: borrow of moved value: `a` }

User lucozade’s comment has pointed out that the memory where the object lives is actually the thing that is being owned. So that can’t be the owner either.

So if neither a) the stack frame nor b) the memory where the object lives can be called the owner in the Rust sense, then what is?

Could the owner be the variable to which the owned chunk of memory is bound at a given point in time? In my mental model, yes. That would be consistent with all borrow checker semantics as I have understood them so far.

Feel free to correct me if I’m not making sense.
by vmh1928 | 2025-05-14 14:39:39+00:00
Modulating a laser beam for communications is not new but this distance effort by amateurs doing a two-way voice transmission over 167km in New Zeland is pretty cool. This article also mentions a number of other laser communication long distance efforts.

https://www.modulatedlight.org/Modulated_Light_DX/MODULATED_...
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-14 14:40:13+00:00
Eh... it's extremely flabby, like most of these franchise-tied TV series (all the Marvel ones have the same problem, both the Netflix and Disney ones, though the Netflix ones are far worse about it). Tons of scenes where I want to yell at the editor "fucking cut away! It's over!" and then it goes on another 20 seconds, shots where it clearly should have cut a couple seconds earlier, whole pieces of dialog that are painfully redundant, restating things or adding nothing to either plot or character, et c, and it adds up.

My best guess for why they do this is that it fills time with fewer set-ups and sets, saving production costs. I can't figure out another angle for how this could be saving money per minute of "content".

The new season makes that really clear, because each 3-episode "movie" is 130ish minutes long and clearly could have been one 90ish minute film without losing anything important at all, still with plenty of time for relaxed-pace character development and such.
by JadeNB | 2025-05-14 14:40:25+00:00
Couldn't agree more about history. I was a good student who couldn't stand history (called "social studies" in my school), did the minimum to get through it wth good grades, then never took a college history course that wasn't required. Then one day in the library I was looking for a big thick book to pass a chunk of time, and grabbed Shirer's "The rise and fall of the Third Reich." Not only was it fascinating on its own, but it referenced so much of the history that underlay the events of WWII that it sent me off on a hunt to fill in that missing background. And, well, now I'm hooked!

(I'm not sure if I didn't enjoy the grade-school stuff because of what I now recognize as its jingoism (it's so much more interesting to read the history of people making choices for human reasons, sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes just wrong, than of godlike heroes helming countries foredestined for greatness!), or just because I wasn't ready for it.)
Ask HN: Solo Devs, How Do You Plan Your Development?
by nookeshkarri7 | 2025-05-14 14:40:28+00:00
I'm curious—what framework or system do you use to plan your product development?

Right now, I'm using Trello with four lists: Planned, In Progress, Staging, and Production. It works okay, but I feel like there’s room for improvement—maybe by adding progress percentages or something similar to get a clearer overview of my tasks.

Are you using any simple agile frameworks that work well for solo developers and could also scale to a small team (up to three more devs) in the near future?
by kllrnohj | 2025-05-14 14:40:43+00:00
> To me, HDR feels like the system is ignoring my screen brightness settings.

On both Android & iOS/MacOS it's not that HDR is ignoring your screen brightness, but rather the brightness slider is controlling the SDR range and then yes HDR can exceed that, that's the singular purpose of HDR to be honest. All the other purported benefits of HDR are at best just about HDR video profiles and at worst just nonsense bullshit. The only thing HDR actually does is allow for brighter colors vs. SDR. When used selectively this really enhances a scene. But restraint is hard, and most forms of HDR content production are shit. The HDR images that newer iPhones and Pixel phones are capturing are generally quite good because they are actually restrained, but then ironically both of them have horrible HDR video that's just obnoxiously bright.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-05-14 14:40:51+00:00
> Progress has tapered down.

Maybe you can argue that it's slower now than it was in the late 20th century. But it's still far faster than it was at any other point in history.

You may think we're locked on course, but we're far less locked on course than we were in medieval times or pretty much any other time in history. Changes in medieval times happened, but took centuries, and those advocating for change got burned at the stake.

Of course, it matters less what actually was than the way people thought. It's an almost universal constant throughout history that people thought the future was doomed.
by stonemetal12 | 2025-05-14 14:40:54+00:00
>reference to Gatsby making his money in drug stores- that meant he was a bootlegger.

You don't have to dig that far into it for the reference, Gatsby's business associate is a mobster who Gatsby says "fixed the World Series back in 1919". Even if you don't know exactly what kind of crime he is up to it is kind of obvious that he is in a criminal enterprise based on who he works with.
by jrowen | 2025-05-14 14:41:04+00:00
Anecdotally I've never heard anyone say "VRBO." Maybe they are using it but just saying "yeah we stayed in an Airbnb" kind of like if you use Lyft but call it Uber cause that's the more common noun.

So I feel like they did successfully establish themselves as the noun for that kind of thing, which to me speaks to the power of the idea and the marketplace they created because the name doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

But overall I think the hotel room market is just much larger than the "boutique group stay" market so they have to maintain position as a direct hotel competitor (but I think it is an issue vis-a-vis people complaining here about things like having to coordinate with an individual even though they willingly chose that route).
by joshprice | 2025-05-14 14:42:04+00:00
This is exactly why honest feedback is super valuable. If we don't know where new users get stuck or confused then we can't make it better for the next person.

We'll definitely be looking at how to make it even better, because the Igniter tasks are intended to make things easier and should help explain how to get started effectively and be productive as quickly as possible.

Have you got any thoughts on how we could improve this? Perhaps a suggestion of running the generate domain or resource mix task next once the install is done?
by rayiner | 2025-05-14 14:42:25+00:00
The percentage of the population under 18 has dropped from 35% in 1970 to 22% today. Outside heavily immigrant communities, it’s probably even lower (e.g. 19% in Vermont). The suburbs are materially emptier of children than they were when they were built.

Yes, the immigrant communities tend to have lots of kids, but nobody outside those communities wants to move into them. Heck, the people in those communities want to move out. My Bangladeshi immigrant family all noped out of Queens (where there’s a large Bangladeshi enclave with recent immigrants) to Long Island the minute they could afford it.
by SebastianKra | 2025-05-14 14:42:38+00:00
Apple's Displays yes. But I got a Phillips 4k OLED recently, and I'm already regretting that decision. I need to turn it off every 4 hours to refresh the pixels. Sometimes an entire line of pixels is brighter than the rest. I wiped it with a cloth while pixel refresh was running, and then saw burned in streaks in the direction of the wipe.

And thats now that all the LEDs are still fresh. I can't imagine how bad it will be in a few years.

Also, a lot of Software doesn't expect the subpixel arrangement, so text will often look terrible.
by _alternator_ | 2025-05-14 14:42:38+00:00
Until a couple weeks ago, I considered this a promising approach. What changed? Agents, and Claude code in particular.

My prior experience was that LLMs were not much better than reading the docs, and certainly you wouldn’t get far vibe-coding in Rust. But Claude code behaves like I would, writing code that does t compile (typical LLM behavior), then reading the errors, correcting the code, and iterating until it compiles.

Its first attempt at a graph based scheduler in Rust took about $3 and 10 minutes to work correctly. It was ~500 loc, so definitely faster than what I can write in rust. (To be fair I spent a decent amount of time drafting a description of what I wanted in a markdown file to get Claude started).