MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seviu | 2025-05-15 08:46:59+00:00
They scared the good app developers away. That 30% means making a living out of selling apps is nearly impossible. For an indie developer it’s just dead.

A clear example is the Vision Pro. Developer relations were menacing app developers that they would regret not building for it.

One year later, half a million headsets sold, and nobody in my circle has even the slightest interest in developing apps for it. I should know because I am an iOS developer, now working for a bank, and enjoying it, but no longer pursuing the indie dream.

Crickets

Apple maximized its strategy for maximum profit extraction. They have all the rights to do it. It’s, after all, their product. And they keep on doing it by selling devices which are fully managed by them, disallowing the usage of APIs that would make their devices way more usable. All this with full disdain for app developers.

As I said, they have all their right to enforce that 30% rule and show scare banners all over the place.

But the damage is done. And the trust is lost.
by emporas | 2025-05-15 08:47:02+00:00
I made a short story in half an hour by using the description of the article. Not totally accurate based on the specs, there are no closed source humans and openhumans, but much faster. It needs 10 more hours of work for it to be a really comprehensive story, which amounts to 10.5 hours in total. N'joy:[1]

[1] https://gist.github.com/pramatias/1207d84b48a7ad9d03fc15ea38...
by BartSpaans | 2025-05-15 08:47:08+00:00
Hi HN,

I recently dropped ForesightJS, an open source Javascript library where developers can prefetch content based on mouse intent instead of onClick or onHover like we are used to doing.

Since ForesightJS is framework agnostic, it can be integrated with any JavaScript framework. While I haven't yet built integrations for every framework, ready-to-use implementations for React Router and Next.js are already available.

I would love feedback on this project!

open-source repo https://github.com/spaansba/ForesightJS
by vasco | 2025-05-15 08:48:14+00:00
If the machines thought it was boring they wouldn't be acting as machines and it wouldn't be so boring in the first place. Later on the machines also "obssess" about following the news of the humans on the new EARTH, but again, they wouldn't. If they are boring machines they wouldn't be bored. I feel like this is too much of a plot paradox for the story to make sense to me, but it's still entertaining.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-05-15 08:48:41+00:00
For the last two years, I've been running github actions like this:

- start a paused vm in google cloud

- run the build there (via a gcloud ssh command) and capture the output

- pause the vm after it is done

Takes about 4-5 minutes. Maybe a few dozen times per month. It's a nice fast machine with lots of CPU and memory. Would cost a small fortune to run 24x7. It would cost more than it costs to run our entire production environment. But a few hours of build time per month barely moves the needle.

Our build and tests max out those CPUs. We only pay for the minutes it is running. Without that it would takw 2-3 times as long. And it would sometimes fail because some of our async tests time out if they take too long.

It's not the most elegant thing I've ever done but it works and hasn't failed me in the two years I've been using this setup.

But it's also a bit artificial because bare metal is cheaper and it runs 24x7. The real underlying issue is the vastly inflated price of virtual machines cloud providers rent out vs. the cost of the hardware that powers them. The physical servers pay themselves back within weeks of coming online. Everything after is pure profit.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-15 08:49:18+00:00
The two major problems in C++, we as a comunity suffer from, are those that still insist using it as plain old C with some improvments, and those that do some kind of post-avant guard code, only understood by anyone coding every day in C++, that have as pastime reading ISO standard and compiler reference manuals, while attending C++ conferences.

One keeps the whole security discussion going on, while the other keeps an image that C++ is a language not worth learning.
by CelestialMystic | 2025-05-15 08:49:23+00:00
> So the person who says their Dyson works great is a liar but also their opinion is invalid because it is expensive. Your Land Rover is good because it’s expensive but you like it.

I am not trying to justify my purchase by pretending it is not bourgeois choice, that was the point I was making.

Dyson's have historically been more expensive than other brands (at least in the UK) and they aren't actually worth the extra money. I just looked on amazon for prices "air purifier fans" and it is £500, I have something similar for my living room and I bought was £50.

> Reading several of your comments on this thread are a real whirlwind. If you just flat out reject anyone’s experience that doesn’t reflect your own or that of your mother then I don’t know why you’re even responding to anyone.

My experiences was flat out rejected to begin with. I told there isn't a problem, even though I know there is because I have some of the older products and I know they work better.

Other people have told me personally that they have made similar observations. So I know it isn't just I.
by mrweasel | 2025-05-15 08:49:24+00:00
I think what many of us question is whether nor not those same $0.5 trillion would be generated by contextual ads. There's no doubt that ads work, but we really don't know to what extend.

E.g. if I'm on a pages looking at watches, should I get ads for watches, or would it be better to show ads for the washing machine I was looking up last night? Google, the search engine, clearly thinks it's better to show ads relevant to my search term, but they are also in a special position that's not applicable to a news website.

People working in the field has also previously commented, here on HN, that the ad networks are basically hustling the advertisers, selling them ad space / users that they know will perform badly, to move more "inventory". That generates economical activity, but does that benefit anyone beyond the ad networks?
by meindnoch | 2025-05-15 08:49:39+00:00
>What I find interesting is that it seems the extra savings requires complex values. There must be something going on in the complex plane that is again over-counting with the naive approach.

"The rank of a tensor depends on the field over which the tensor is decomposed. It is known that some real tensors may admit a complex decomposition whose rank is strictly less than the rank of a real decomposition of the same tensor."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_rank_decomposition#Fiel...
by arh5451 | 2025-05-15 08:51:05+00:00
Agreed, this article is a love letter to congestion charges. My guess is that nearly nothing has changed and will change. The fact is that the public transit systems are simply unable to modernise and Union Labor makes it next to impossible to make changes.

When I bought a NJTransit when I started working a monthly ride card for a 1hr commute cost $500/month approximately. The same commute with a car was 45 minutes and fuel/maintenance was $250/month + I needed the car anyway.

A 1hr commute in Switzerland costs me like $1.5k per year.

The congestion charge changes the math, but I’m not sure it changes the service.
by sensanaty | 2025-05-15 08:52:43+00:00
You mean the same Meta and their ads and data collection that have been directly and indisputably linked to literal, actual Genocides? And teen suicides? And Cambridge Analytica?

Oh, but they shuffled some money around the economy (mostly into their coffers), so it was all worth it in the end, because as we all know the magic economy is the only thing that matters.
by marcus_holmes | 2025-05-15 08:54:09+00:00
> it's indisputable that it's good for businesses and the broad economy.

I dispute this. Therefore it is not indisputable.

I support my dispute thusly: imagine a world where there were no ads. All the money spent on ads would be spent on other things. Those other things would, I assert, be better for everyone involved than ads. The world would be a better place.

I support my assertion that anything else would be better than ads by pointing out that for businesses advertising is an arms race, all your competition and you are in an auction for customer attention in which the winner is one of the duopoly that control all internet advertising. And for users I just point to waves hands at everything we hate about the modern internet all that. QED.
by raxxorraxor | 2025-05-15 08:54:13+00:00
Meh. SMS basically has the same problems as capability URLs for password resets. Sure, Mail is usually TLS encrypted these days, but they are still not regarded as secret.

That said, I still would prefer both over another shitty authenticator app that really gets on my nerves.

Additionally, I would like an option toggle with "Yes, I do have a safe and uncompromised password", where I can get rid of this crap.

Some 2FA systems do work if they don't ask more than once a month, but they are the exception.
by rottc0dd | 2025-05-15 08:54:21+00:00
I did try to ask are we not computers. I tried to imply, in the fundamental level there are striking similarities to computation.

> That’s not to say that computers couldn’t do what the brain does, including consciousness and emotions,

Yes. Fundamental building blocks are simple and physical in nature and follow the computational aspect good enough to serve as nice approximations

> but that wouldn’t have any particular relation to how DNA/RNA and protein synthesis works.

Hmm... transistors are not neural networks so? I am sorry, I am a non native speaker and maybe I am not communicating things properly. I am trying to say, the organic or human is different manifestation of order - one is chemical and other is electronic. We have emotions and consciousness, but we can agree we are made of cells that send electric pulses to each other and primitive in nature. And even emotions and beliefs are physical in nature (Capgras syndrome for example).
by phh | 2025-05-15 08:56:25+00:00
> IMO data should be radioactive for companies, especially if it approaches PII

It's pretty much the idea of GDPR. The wording of the GPDR is "You should make your systems private by design", which they explain as "Store PII only you really have no choice"

In this case, the legal ruling means that even if they somehow fix their consent, they have to remove all the data they currently have! Also all their clients need to remove all the data. Having to tell your customers they have to remove all their data ought to completely kill their business.

That being said, it will likely not happen: It's not the first time they lose a ruling and I'm pretty sure no-one removed any data, despite being required to...
by michaelmure | 2025-05-15 08:57:25+00:00
With some motivation you could port git-bug to another VCS without too much problem. You would need to implement those interfaces [1]. The one you care about especially is RepoData, which mainly imply you can store a DAG, have references and push/pull. I believe other VCS (say mercurial) have similar concepts.

Or you could just as well plug a generic database there.

[1]: https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug/blob/master/repository/re...
by olalonde | 2025-05-15 08:59:13+00:00
Cellular modems and data plans can be expensive and unreliable. If you can do without, at the cost of very rarely being out of sync (like in your scenario), it can be considered an interesting tradeoff. Plus, even if they were equipped with cellular modems, they probably have a business requirement that the locker should be usable even when the cellular connection goes offline, so you have to design your protocol to be Bluetooth-first.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-05-15 08:59:32+00:00
You have an issue with customer behavior so you set up tracking to understand it.

Keep it running for a few days, then check on but the tracking doesn't output meaningful data that you can exploit to solve your issue.

At this point, you search for alternative tracking but do you disable the old one ? What's the benefit ? Either it's free or cost very little, none of your customer know they are being tracked and in the eventuality it may become useful later on you keep it.

Repeat a few times and you end up with bloated website that tracks where you were, are and will be. What you're watching, cursor position, scrolling, how long you spent watching that image or these one, have access to every technical details about your device because it's required for fingerprinting, all while no one actually is exploiting the data.

It's junk yet you collect it because it's free.

If there was a meaningful reason to limit the number of tracking, like the law and fear of getting sued, then it would be a different story.
by BLenkomo | 2025-05-15 09:00:04+00:00
A pure captialistic issue.

And something people mention without mentioning everything else.

The existing system 'worked' because we grew from a few million to 8 Billion. If we 'stagnate' at 8, its no longer sustainable, therefore it was never sustainable if its only sustainable with constent growth.

Nonetheless, automatisation is not stopping anyway. We will solve a lot of theese problems with robots and ai. The bigger the problem, the bigger the pressure.
by matsemann | 2025-05-15 09:01:04+00:00
I did something similar almost 10 years ago in javascript (as a joke): https://github.com/Matsemann/Declaraoids

One example, arr.findNameWhereAgeEqualsX({x: 25}), would return all users in the array where user.age == 25.

Not based on LLMs, though. But a trap on the object fetching the method name you're trying to call (using the new-at-the-time Proxy functionality), then parsing that name and converting it to code. Deterministic, but based on rules.
by keiferski | 2025-05-15 09:02:41+00:00
Again: if you tried to get a taxi prior to Uber existing, it was a nightmare and not at all reliable. You called the taxi company and if they felt like sending someone, they would. Often they'd say, "Sure, we'll send someone in 2 hours," and the driver never showed up. More than once I was stranded somewhere because of an unreliable taxi company.

This experience doesn't exist anymore, because Uber/Lyft/ridesharing apps out competed useless taxi companies.

People who needed to get taxis certainly didn't always get taxis.
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-15 09:03:44+00:00
> are wasting their money and my time and bandwidth

_You_ think it doesn't work, but it does. Or at least 'on average' it does. As for your time, perhaps you value your time. But again, 'on average', there are so many people spending hours and hours on Insta, TT, etc. and those people clearly don't care about focus/time/ads, because it is their (mental/spiritual) bread and butter. When a young woman 'follows' 100 'influencers' and each posts twice per day, that young woman consumes at least two hundred ads per day and if she buys at least one item per day, that's a win for 'them'.

Regarding the car/pet scenario, if they are any good they should be advertising stuff to clean dog piss, brushes, etc.. items that "will keep your car clean when you got a pet".

But again.. it works. People make money.
by unphased | 2025-05-15 09:04:19+00:00
I think you might be vastly overcomplicating it because I didn't think there had to be any sort of "conservation of branching" in the MWI. each nondeterministic event (of which unfathomable quantities take place every moment) generates an infinite number of branches so to even conceive of the total geometry of all the branching (e.g. all that could ever take place, truly) is a bit of a mindfuck, and that's probably okay and the way it was intended. It's supposed to be comforting to know that regardless of how bad reality seems, if we could navigate arbitrarily through the branching space/time/universes then there would be unimaginable infinities of joyful utopias to visit.
by godelski | 2025-05-15 09:04:57+00:00
> helps me optimize kernels without spending nights debugging. - Vender Relations Manager > Wishing you best of luck.You managed to take one of the most painful parts of CUDA dev and turn it effortless. - Smart Home Innovators > No more wrestling with annual performance tuning - just hit go and let AI handle the heavy lifting boosting your CUDA code by up to 20x with zero extra effort. - B2B SaaS Growth Marketing Consultant > great！This is what I want！ - Serial entrepreneur, started in finance

I didn't even look at the Product Hut reviews until you mentioned it. Is it always this botty?
Ask HN: What about HN's Background?
by withinboredom | 2025-05-15 09:08:03+00:00
With the recent post about HDR (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43983871) I turned on HDR on my computer. I very rarely use it, but I noticed that the background color changed here. I had previously associated the background color as a "light orange". I had to ask ChatGPT to describe the color because it wasn't anywhere near the same, and at first I thought the site was changing the color if HDR was enabled:

> The color #f6f6ef is a very light, soft off-white with a slight warm, yellow-gray tint.

But in HDR? It completely loses its yellow tint. Instead, it looks more like a pleasant shade of gray.

My monitor is properly calibrated (I went off on a tangent with this several years ago), but I don't use HDR day-to-day; just when gaming or working on photos. This is my first time noticing this subtle difference.

Can anyone verify this happens to them as well? Or explain this phenomenon?
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by Adambuilds | 2025-05-15 09:10:02+00:00
I agree—once the context is "poisoned," it’s tough to recover. A potential improvement could be having the LLM periodically clean or reset certain parts of the context without starting from scratch. However, the challenge would be determining which parts of the context need resetting without losing essential information. Smarter context management could help maintain coherence in longer conversations, but it’s a tricky balance to strike.Perhaps using another agent to do the job?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-15 09:12:06+00:00
> I don't know what you refer to with this specifically

GDPR is a gating function. If you can afford the specific set of qualified lawyers (up to a ridiculous, plutocratic limit the likes of e.g. Google breach), you can legally offload the risks to an offshore server. If you're a tiny competitor, you should be beaten up by funded complaints.
by pjc50 | 2025-05-15 09:12:55+00:00
"15 minute city" is the most misinterpreted policy of our times. The idea is to try to make sure that there are enough services near enough to residential areas that short trips are possible, not to enforce this. It's just the oppposite of "simcity mode" where a huge area is zoned as only housing.

That combined with some anti-rat-run measures in Oxford (and any anti car measure ever) into outraged paranoia.
by JFingleton | 2025-05-15 09:13:04+00:00
> It is interesting how google turned the tide on GenAI race, and seems to be leading the pack

I think this is perhaps due to Google combining Google Brain and DeepMind, and putting Demis Hassabis at the helm?

I agree, Google is very much leading the pack in AI now. My worry is that they have mentioned recently that they are less inclined to release research into the open if they think it will give their competition a step-up. Demis is more scientist than business-man, so perhaps there's hope that he will be willing to continue to release research.
by Semaphor | 2025-05-15 09:13:35+00:00
> Companies get a lot of warning before things escalte

Yeah, we once got contacted by our local DPA about some issues. Mailed us a list of issues they had with our site. I set up a call with them for some clarification, and they were happy to go into detail. Then they just said to mail them when it’s done, or they’ll just re-check after some months. They are interested in actually changing things, not in fees.
by motoxpro | 2025-05-15 09:14:34+00:00
What you're advocating for has a few 2nd order effects.

1. Entrenches Google, Facebook, etc. because they are the only people that have enough money to comply with the regulation.

2. Makes the rest of the internet worse (e.g. people show MORE ads because they are less effective because they show me boats and I hate boats)

3. Makes data brokers even more important because companies can't get data anywhere else.

4. Reduces competition because the incumbents will always have more data than startups (Nike knows I wear a size X and the startup can't ever get that data)

Everything is a tradeoff. I, for one, would rather these regulatory agencies go after the 100,000s of data brokers that mine for SSNs, birth certificates, financial info, etc., rather than them going after Facebook, TikTok, etc.

Ads are here to stay, if you don't want ads, then ban ads, and with it most of the internet, but if people keep making terrible regulations like this that try to hurt big companies and get rid of ads and in reality, you just enable and feed these massive companies. Regulation makes them MORE valuable, not less. (see Meta stock price vs. Snap after ATT)
by scajanus | 2025-05-15 09:15:34+00:00
This is partially why I like The Wire, which mirrors a Greek tragedy (1). The dysfunctional organizations play the role of the gods, against whose whims the mere mortals battle against and break. Another show that also competes for a spot as the best series of all time, Breaking Bad, is also a tragedy rather than hero's journey.

It makes me wonder to what extent this less usual narrative arch was the reason for their success & continuing appeal.

1. https://variety.com/2008/tv/news/the-wire-david-21043/

"According to Simon, the best way to understand “The Wire” is to think Greek — not the nefarious Greek characters who dominate the illicit trade in Baltimore’s ports, but the storytelling tradition of the ancient Greek tragedies, where the heroes and anti-heroes always face a dramatic downfall, usually as a result of their own hubris."
by ty00001 | 2025-05-15 09:15:40+00:00
Really great deep dive into a subtle yet impactful problem in voice AI. Turn detection is one of those things users only notice when goes wrong, and this shows a brilliant job showing how traditional VAD-based approaches fall short.

Loved the explanation of using instruction-tuned SLMs for 
 probability - elegant, efficient, and practical. The code examples very handy too!

This is one of those posts I’ll be coming back to when thinking about latency-sensitive voice interfaces with my own projects.
by lurking_swe | 2025-05-15 09:15:58+00:00
on that note, shouldn’t we ask people to CONSENT to having their data trained on? And when i say consent i mean asking them directly, not hidden in some terms of service. That’s just slimy…like a used car salesman lol.

Why is it okay for companies to just vacuum up all user data without 90% of users knowing it’s happening ?

Or shall the “stealing” of knowledge and creative works without consent continue?