MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dtkav | 2025-06-09 19:21:25+00:00
I've been building real-time collaboration into Obsidian (plugin is called Relay [0]) with the intent of integrating AI via standard collaboration flows.

We haven't released our AI stuff yet, but have done several experiments and it is looking really promising.

I'm also a heavy Zed user. A bunch of the UI (pre-Agent-overhaul) has been inspiring our work.

I've also experimented with voice recordings when on the go, and low friction transcription has felt like one of the killer apps.

One cool thing our plugin supports out of the box is using the voice input on Android for real time text-to-speech on Desktop (just have the note open on both devices).

I've also enjoyed using a script [1] I wrote to summarize bash history each day into my daily note.

It feels like there is a real spark in the Obsidian ecosystem right now. Super fun time to be building!

[0] https://relay.md

[1] https://notes.danielgk.com/Software/obsidian-import
by jameshart | 2025-06-09 19:21:49+00:00
Exactly. We would love software development to be as simple as: you pay $1m to engineers to develop a software machine; you now have a $1m software machine that you can pay nonengineers to operate and crank out revenue.

In practice software machines need constant tending and operation by engineers in order to keep them pumping out money.

In the context of live software systems, a lot of software engineering - even engineering that involves innovation and creative research and problem solving - is done in service of making the machine continue to operate; it is operational expense.

It’s like: Buying some filing cabinets is clearly a capital expenditure. But paying an office administrator to come up with and keep modifying the filing system you use in those filing cabinets to make sure it continues to serve your business is not capital investment, it’s business operational costs.
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-09 19:22:14+00:00
I assume they might be talking more to the "universal design" aspect.

Though Apple has long had a universal design across platforms. Not always in lockstep, but visual traits and behaviours and traits and appearances end up in all of their platforms, which even if it wasn't logical from a design perspective, there is loads of shared code so it's inevitable.

But really a lot of what they showed today reminded me most of Aqua from 25 years ago.
by rightbyte | 2025-06-09 19:22:30+00:00
"Though they're statistically abnormal, startup founders seem to be working in a way that's more natural for humans."

I think it is called agency. Like, I feel that while doing projects at home. I just pull out my Master Card and buy whatever I need. No fuzz.

At work I have to go to dad, and he tells me to ask mum.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-06-09 19:22:31+00:00
Quite amusingly:

site glitch doesn't work on the desktop FF too, not in any of three, with various staleness but nothing too old

works on the CodePen, but if I replace CSS there with the response of glitch.css from the Network tab - it blanks and never shows anything

no ad-blockers, no errors while loading
by _aavaa_ | 2025-06-09 19:22:46+00:00
> Luddite

The luddites were not against progress or the technology itself. They were opposed to how it was used, for whose benefit, and for whose loss [0].

The AI-Luddite position isn’t ain’t AI, it’s (among other things anti mass copyright theft from creators to train something with the explicit goal of putting them out of a job, without compensation. All while producing an objectively inferior product but passing it off as a higher quality one.

[0]: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/bloo...
by mmsidekick | 2025-06-09 19:22:54+00:00
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by mrweasel | 2025-06-09 19:23:13+00:00
> I get the sense that the Scandinavian minimalism thing has worn too heavy on everyone

As a Scandinavian: I don't feel like we tried that since Braun. Apple has tried to mimic a Scandinavian sort of minimalism, but only in appearance. The iPhone UI is way to busy and is to hard to navigate for me to classify it as minimalism.
by kogus | 2025-06-09 19:23:19+00:00
In principle, I do not think the income tax should be replaced by anything at all. Most federal spending is either unnecessary or actively harmful. But practically speaking, I'd suggest a federal sales tax combined with a Universal Basic Income subsidy to all citizens (e.g., everyone gets a check for $X every month). The subsidy would cover the increase in prices for anyone below a certain income level - it would effectively produce a progressive tax structure without the privacy infringement. There would be no loopholes or exemptions to think about either.
by ndriscoll | 2025-06-09 19:23:25+00:00
That's why I didn't just include code; if you produced valuable design docs as part of your work, that was part of your research too. I'm generally skeptical of the societal utility to offering any protections or special treatment for trade secrets though (the entire point of patents/copyright is to incentivize people to share these things; it's insane to also protect their secrecy), so that no doubt affects my thinking. If you want the deduction for having spent money on R&D that you didn't think was valuable, prove it by giving it up. If it's entangled in other secrets you don't want to share, you get no deduction. Seems fair to me.
by leakycap | 2025-06-09 19:23:39+00:00
I agree. Apple's been down this path before... From Mac OS 10.0 to 10.9, the march was steadily toward trimming back the excessive Aqua-ness.

Then we went totally flat in 10.10, and it was pretty awful then too. I'll stay on Sequoia until Apple irons this out in 2-3 future macOS versions, or maybe it's finally the year of the linux desktop... at least in my world.
by pixl97 | 2025-06-09 19:23:40+00:00
HN weeds out/flags a massive number of topics very quickly. Especially political topics that lead to flame wars. It also weeds out the unnecessarily argumentative posters pretty quickly.

But at the same time because of this there are some that say that this limits conversations and topics that can be discussed on HN. So, no you can't make everyone happy, but you can attempt to at least make the atmosphere pleasant.
by pragma_x | 2025-06-09 19:23:42+00:00
> Who here remembers frames?

I was there, writing sites professionally when this was rolled out.

They're more or less deprecated, but I missing having a 1st-class building block that allows you to resize areas of the screen. Recommendations are to use anything but a <frameset>, but there's no replacement for that one feature.

https://html.com/frames/

> I remember building site navigations in Java, Flash, and Silverlight.

Don't forget ActiveX (actually, yes, we should all try to forget)
by atmavatar | 2025-06-09 19:23:53+00:00
That's going to heavily depend on the type of software and whether it's sold as a shrinkwrap product or a subscription.

For example: your average AAA game will likely produce the vast majority of its value inside the first year upon its release.

At the extreme opposite end you have things like enterprise software using subscriptions, whereby the software continues to produce value year over year, but you're generally also paying developers' salaries to maintain and enhance the softare year over year. That, too, makes little sense in spreading out salaries as a cost over 5 years.

I can't really think of any cases where a piece of software is sold as shrinkwrap software, requires no ongoing maintenance/updates, and is expected to continue earning revenue for many years afterward. That just isn't the industry we live in.
by MediaSquirrel | 2025-06-09 19:24:01+00:00
Did you read it? And why do you assume that it can't be interesting?

Honestly, as a writer, I sometimes spend a bunch of time writing an essay that's the result of a conversation, and I realize –– hours later –– that the conversation actually does a better job of exposing the idea and explaining it than the essay I worked so hard to produce.

I agree that Claude convos can be slop, but don't bash it before you read it!
by WalterBright | 2025-06-09 19:24:02+00:00
Many "obvious" inventions take a very long time to happen. For example, the very slow evolution of boats. It took forever to come up with the keel. Also the fork.

Rigid, authoritarian societies also seem to have a lot of problems inventing new things, especially disruptive things.

James Burke's "Connections" is a great history of invention.
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by toofi | 2025-06-09 19:24:21+00:00
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Another crucial part for us producers is finding the right samples. We trained a state-of-the art sample generation model which is a part of Kurt. You can prompt: “Epic dark synth” and it will generate a sample for you or you can be more detailed and state instruments & structure. See an example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy3tOx6EExY On our website https://trykurt.com/ you can find a small selection of samples.

We don't really like the current way AI is used in music production blasting out full songs. Pretty much doing the whole fun part of making music. With Kurt you still have full control over your creation, but with a full orchestra of sample creators and a powerful mixing engineer by your side. We are starting soon to give people access to Kurt.
by mediaman | 2025-06-09 19:24:23+00:00
You're bringing up the question of "what is a fair tax rate," which is reasonable.

The questions of this legislation, though, are different:

Should we incentivize companies to hire corporate executives instead of engineers?

Should we favor trillion dollar companies over startups? (It is much cheaper for Amazon to loan money to the government than three people starting a new venture from scratch, so this favors concentration.)

If you agree that we should discourage hiring engineers in favor of management, that concentration is good, and that low corporate tax rates are good, then this legislation is perfect.

I say that it's good if you believe in low corporate tax rates because this legislation was passed to pay for overall corporate tax cuts, which primarily benefits the largest companies. Amazon actually pays $11.3 billion in income taxes a year (not zero), so on net, even though they have a lot of software engineers, they benefit from this legislation, because they effectively traded having to float money to the government in exchange for lower tax rates.

Big companies care about tax rates more than liquidity, because their borrowing rates are cheap, whereas small companies care more about liquidity (they effectively cannot borrow, or it is very expensive) and their profits are low. So this effectively subsidizes big companies at the cost of small companies.
by throwaway7783 | 2025-06-09 19:25:30+00:00
Whether it is $1 or $0.10, it is non existent for young software companies. If I'm penniless (after real expenses), where will I get those 10 cents to pay the taxes?

And I'm not making this up. We are about to get cash flow neutral in our company, and this law will literally kill us and make 20 US citizens unemployed.
by drdec | 2025-06-09 19:25:42+00:00
What's really going on here is that this provision was part of the tax acts from the first Trump administration. Due to procedural rules in Congress, they had to make those cuts appear revenue neutral over a 10 year time period. This tax increase is part of that. Very likely nobody involved really had a reason or cared that SEs get categorized this way, it just let them pass the changes they really wanted at the time.
by Findecanor | 2025-06-09 19:25:43+00:00
From one point of view, this design language is a type of skeuomorphism, by it mimicking pieces of rounded glass laid on top of one-other.

The problem with skeuomorphism in iOS' first design language was that resemblance to real-world objects was taken too far — at the expense of legibility. Users attributed affordances to virtual objects that they didn't have.

The problem with iOS 7's flatter interface was that the anti-skeumorphism went too far in the other direction, again at the expense of legibility. Users couldn't see what controls were supposed to do.

... And now the pendulum has swung back in the other direction, again too far, and missed the goal.
by snyy | 2025-06-09 19:25:58+00:00
> you may want to remove errors while retaining the correction

Double clicking on this, are these messages you’d want to drop from memory because they’re not part of the actual content (e.g. execution errors or warnings)? That kind of cleanup is something Chonkie can help with as a pre-processing step.

If you can share an example structure of your message threads, I can give more specific guidance. We've seen folks use Chonkie to chunk and embed AI chat threads — treating the resulting vector store as long-term memory. That way, you can RAG over past threads to recover context without redoing the conversation.

P.S. If HN isn’t ideal for going back and forth, feel free to send me an email at shreyash@chonkie.ai.
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by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-09 19:26:34+00:00
Thumbs up for the effort.

Though I don't get this at all. On FF with that extension YT/Google/Alphabet seems to be at war with. At the moment, or rather since about 2 years, this extension alone under FF with the right subscriptions seems to be sufficient to play without breaks/pauses, be it in the foreground, or some music in a background tab. Still have yt-dlp installed though, but only for archiving purposes.
by keybored | 2025-06-09 19:26:40+00:00
> My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there. As for the genAI tech itself, I guess I’m a moderate; there is a there there, it’s not all slop.

Let’s see.

> But, while I have a lot of sympathy for the contras and am sickened by some of the promoters, at the moment I’m mostly in tune with Thomas Ptacek’s My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts. It’s long and (fortunately) well-written and I (mostly) find it hard to disagree with.

So the Moderate is a Believer. But it’s offset by being concerned about The Climate and The Education and The Investments.

You can try to write a self-aware/moment-aware intro. It’s the same fodder for the front page.
by ksec | 2025-06-09 19:26:44+00:00
The whole thing is Windows Vista Aero Glass and iOS 7 all over again. Repeating all the SAME mistakes with 3D translucent design.

Right now I really want skeuomorphism back.

Much like iOS 7 they will have to spend another 2 - 3 years "tweaking" or basically walking back some of these design decisions.

I believe the problem is when Tim Cook decided to merge "Design" under one umbrella. So the Design team now takes over both Hardware and Software Design when they kicked Scott Forstall out. A lot of Apple's UX went down hill from there.
by taeric | 2025-06-09 19:28:07+00:00
Even spinning wheels use a spindle. The question would be why they didn't invent the use of a wheel to help with the spinning portion of the task?

But, yeah, my short dives show the same. It is generally held that carting wheels weren't useful due to lack of draft animals. I just find that reason awkward with how useful manual applications of the wheel are for me. Dolleys and wheelbarrows are the easiest example, of course. But pulley systems in general are super useful. And don't, necessarily, need a draft animal.
by carsoon | 2025-06-09 19:28:09+00:00
I actually working on an agent library in golang and this is exactly the thought process I've come up with. If we have comprehensive logging we can actual reconstruct the agents state at any position. Allowing for replays etc. You just need the timestamp(endpoint) and the parent run and you can build children/branched runs after that.

Through the use of both a map that holds a context tree and a database we can purge old sessions and then reconstruct them from the database when needed (for instance an async agent session with user input required).

We also don't have to hold individual objects for the agents/workflows/tools we just make them stateless in a map and can refernce the pointers through an id as needed. Then we have a stateful object that holds the previous actions/steps/"context".

To make sure the agents/workflows are consistent we can hash the output agent/workflow (as these are serializable in my system)

I have only implemented basic Agent/tools though and the logging/reconstruction/cancellation logic has not actually been done yet.
by const_cast | 2025-06-09 19:28:29+00:00
Yes, at a huge cost. That only works on Microsoft platforms.

MSVC++ is a nice compiler, sure, but it's not GCC or Clang. It's very easy to have a great feature set when you purposefully cut down your features to the bare minimum. It's like a high-end restaurant. The menu is concise and small and high quality, but what if I'm allergic to shellfish?

GCC and Clang have completely different goals, and they're much more ambitious. The upside of that is that they work on a lot of different platforms. The downside is that the quality of features may be lower, or some features may be missing.
by reissbaker | 2025-06-09 19:28:44+00:00
I don't think a preview of the app, that displays only when you select that app in the UI, really qualifies as an "ad."

If you do, I suppose what I would amend my statement to is: it doesn't show ads for apps I don't explicitly select in the UI. Either way, that's much better than most competing products... And it's incredibly fast, with the lowest latency of any streaming device.

I don't like Apple's locked ecosystem, and avoid most of their products. But the Apple TV is just head and shoulders above anything else on the market, so I own one and am quite satisfied with it.
by dexwiz | 2025-06-09 19:28:55+00:00
My theory is because of the hinge, which is a common point of failure on laptops. Either you are putting extra strain on it by having someone constantly touching the screen, and some users just mash their fingers into touch screens. Or users want a fully openable screen to mimic a tablet format, and those hinges always seem to fail quicker. Every touchscreen laptop I've had eventually has had the hinge fail.
by LoganDark | 2025-06-09 19:28:55+00:00
If anyone wants to read up on how much effort Apple actually went through to keep Apple Silicon Macs open, take a look here: https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/security/#per-container...

Secure Boot on other platforms is all-or-nothing, but Apple recognizes that Mac users should have the freedom to choose exactly how much to peel back the security, and should never be forced to give up more than they need to. So for that reason, it's possible to have a trusted macOS installation next to a less-trusted installation of something else, such as Asahi Linux.

Contrast this with others like Microsoft who believe all platforms should be either fully trusted or fully unsupported. Google takes this approach with Android as well. You're either fully locked in, or fully on your own.
by wavemode | 2025-06-09 19:29:37+00:00
> A lot of those real world objects no longer exists, or are less frequently used than their counterparts, so I sort of see why moving away from that design language makes sense

This reasoning never made a ton of sense to me. Gen Z don't use devices with knobs and buttons anymore, therefore we should all design our interface elements to look like nothing in particular?

If you give someone young and tech savvy a digital UI, they will figure out how to use it. It's precisely the oldest and least tech savvy users for whom interface design is most important, as they are more like to get frustrated and quit your app. Why optimize for the young, then?

(I mean, it's a rhetorical question, as I already know the answer - the designers creating the interfaces are themselves young and tech savvy gen-Z'ers.)
Ask HN: How do I take an LLM with me when I go camping?
by Drblessing | 2025-06-09 19:29:39+00:00
Edit: I’ll be off-grid and offline, likely without cell service depending on how deep I go.

I would like to have an LLM with me when I go camping as a solo beginner to help. I have an Apple M1 pro with 16gb of RAM.

What's the best way to do this?

What's the best model?