MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dididit | 2025-06-09 22:48:32+00:00
Some developers feel ambivalent about the artificial-intelligence releases coming out of Apple’s annual developer gathering—a far cry from when WWDC was tech’s main event. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference Monday showcased a range of new offerings related to artificial intelligence. But the feeling among some third-party app developers is tepid at best.

As the tech industry chases AI-driven innovations at breakneck speed, Apple’s AI moves have been slow and underwhelming, especially compared with the vision it promised. And developers don’t feel that this year’s WWDC releases, which include access to Apple’s small, on-device AI models, will meaningfully change that.

“As an app developer, I’ve not really felt the intensity of excitement around what Apple is releasing,” said Atul Kakkar, chief product officer of AI-powered personal finance app Origin.

The annual WWDC event was once, arguably, tech’s buzziest affair—in its heyday selling out in about 71 seconds. Now it’s shrouded in skepticism that Apple can keep pace with the AI giants.

The company is under pressure to both continually update its AI tools for developers as well as build out the consumer experience encapsulated in Apple Intelligence, still a work in progress.

“What Apple is doing is interesting; it’s just not interesting enough to break through the noise,” said Grant McDonald, chief executive and co-founder of AI-powered parenting advice app Bobo. Time for a reboot? Apple has time to catch up. The iPhone remains a key distribution platform for users to interact with popular AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. But it is unclear how much time—especially since OpenAI itself is making moves to enter the hardware market.

Apple is also contending with an increasingly tenuous relationship with its app developers. That came to a head in a recent ruling in a lawsuit filed by Epic Games that determined app makers will now be able to take users outside of Apple’s App Store to collect payments, avoiding Apple’s standard commission fees for in-app transactions.

In a statement, Apple noted: “As we’ve said before, we strongly disagree with the district court’s opinion. Our goal is to ensure the App Store remains an incredible opportunity for developers and a safe and trusted experience for our users.”

Developers say they have no alternative that offers the same kind of reach as the App Store, but that may not be the case forever. There is growing sentiment in the U.S. to implement a regulation similar to the one in Europe, which requires Apple and Google to support third-party app stores. If that comes to fruition, it could be a threat to the App Store, said Ian Tang, an analyst at policy-risk advisory firm Capstone.

“There is certainly pressure for Apple to prove the value they offer,” said Tang.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-09 22:48:39+00:00
No country will ever convince native populations to have more children solely because of immigration [1] (Utah and Israel do it with religious fundamentalism, which has...fallen out of favor, broadly speaking); immigration improves the economy, which creates economic potential for native born to potentially consider having children. You're never going to convince most rational people to have kids in a poor economic macro (Russia, South Korea, Italy, Greece to varying degress), so you must stoke the economy to ensure it is sufficiently healthy to encourage those still considering having kids to have them. Immigration most recently was creating a robust US economy, for example [2]. Of course, a robust economy is no guarantee you're going to convince native born citizens to take on the burden of childrearing. Raising children is incredibly high cost to parents and the rewards are mixed at best.

Your comment here [3] leads me to believe that rational arguments are going to fall on deaf ears though, from the anti immigrant pro native born vibes. Correct me if I'm mistaken on that though if I'm misreading the comment.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229099

[2] https://www.axios.com/2024/03/13/immigration-economy-jobs-gr...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44230345
by markasoftware | 2025-06-09 22:49:17+00:00
they are pretty well-known as a "DMCA ignored" hosting site. Search "dmca ignored buyvm lowendtalk" and you'll find lots of forum threads of people recommending buyvm for hosting pirated content. They were also once mentioned by the RIAA for ignoring copyright law https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/files/2025/01/USTR-20... There's also at least one mention I can find of them hosting a CSAM website.
by senkora | 2025-06-09 22:49:18+00:00
I have to ask, were you influenced at all by the talk “The Birth and Death of Javascript” from Pycon 2014?

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

It describes a hypothetical future where operating systems use asm.js (precursor to wasm) sandboxes as an alternative to virtual memory protection. I always thought it was a cool idea, and it seems to be a key part of your design.
by Qem | 2025-06-09 22:49:28+00:00
> Now if games were played to make most of the terms expire at the end of the term that's also not okay under any means.

I think terms in boards like this should be filled under a different periodicity from the presidential term, preferentially with a period coprime to it, just like cicadas do. This way it would be harder to pull the trick of letting both cycles sync.
by DecentShoes | 2025-06-09 22:49:37+00:00
That was fake, tho. They slowed down old iPhones to make you buy a new one. My iPhone 7 wasn't auto shutting down, battery health was good, but they still made it so slow it was unusable the same week they released the iPhone X.

There is literally a zero percent chance it was anything to do with batteries. This is not a conspiracy theory. It's an objective fact.
by bigyabai | 2025-06-09 22:49:39+00:00
> I didn't expect Apple to produce a design language that so easily turns into seemingly visual chaos.

I don't understand how anyone can act surprised anymore. Seriously. The App Store is an absolute mess, and Apple seems to be okay with it because it makes them money. Same goes for Apple News, Apple Music, AppleTV+, Apple iCloud, Apple Fitness+ and Apple Arcade. To say nothing of the quality of these apps (for their benefit), it's brand dilution. Am I supposed to believe that MacOS and iOS are spared from Apple's attention being divided into a hundred pieces? Am I supposed to expect them to invest in high-quality tentpole software when their logo is the only thing required to make people spend money?

At some point, consumers have to distinguish between the identity that Apple markets to them, and what Apple's actual impact is on the carelessness of modern design. People have been saying this since 2013, Apple's new design languages aren't even close to the HIGs from the Macs of yore. Liquid Glass has been destined to fail ever since, it's an iteration on iOS7 and not an interface people actually like.
by spondylosaurus | 2025-06-09 22:50:44+00:00
I'm not sure that "can't be patented / manufacture is no secret" is necessarily the research bottleneck here, because you can make a lot of money selling analogs or derivatives of old, boring drugs. There was an interesting ProPublica story recently about a drug manufacturer raising the price of their (patented) cancer drug to eye-watering levels... and the drug in question is an analog of thalidomide! https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-cel...

One of the claims against this company is that they were preventing other companies from getting their hands on generic thalidomide, because they didn't want competitors to do research that might uncover similar analogs.

(I'm also not convinced that the results for methylene blue are especially promising or unique, but that's another matter :P)
by why_at | 2025-06-09 22:51:13+00:00
I have only vaguely heard of this substance so I may be missing some important context, but I don't think this attitude really holds up under scrutiny.

There's plenty of research done on things which can't be patented or used to turn a profit in some way. People do research on diet, exercise, vitamins, and pharmaceuticals which are now generic like aspirin etc. just to name a few off the top of my head.

There's also public funding available for research which isn't intended to make money for any particular corporation.
by 2xic | 2025-06-09 22:52:35+00:00
Location: Oslo, Norway Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Maybe Github: https://github.com/2xic Homepage: https://2xic.xyz Email: me@2xic.xyz

Been mostly working on indexing/giving semantic understanding to EVM smart contracts for the last two years as my primary job. Been doing machine learning after work for a few years (implementing papers, doing projects). My interests in machine learning are reinforcement learning and world models / embeddings (see https://github.com/2xic/optimization-playground). I also have a security research mindset having played a lot of CTFs over the years.

I'm an Ethereum Protocol Fellow for the next few months and want to keep pushing distributed ledger technologies, but also been wanting to do more work on machine learning full time.

Happy to chat with the right company.
by legitster | 2025-06-09 22:52:55+00:00
Most illegal immigrants entered the country legally and are overstaying on expired visas.

Given the federal government is actively revoking and eliminating massive amounts of visas, they are essentially creating "illegal" immigrants with the stroke of a pen.

If people actually cared about stopping people entering the country illegally, it would be as easy as extending all resident visas and these communities would be happy to turn on the bad actors they moved here to run from.
by vkou | 2025-06-09 22:54:19+00:00
A clean sweep of RFK and his ilk out of power and the media is the bare minimum of what is necessary to re-establish public confidence in vaccine science.

That trust was undermined by habitual liars in an effort to score political points at the expense of public health. None of the batshit-insane things they claimed were just around the corner have actually materialized.

Unfortunately, this isn't even the top five most egregious thing these people are doing this week.
by gboss | 2025-06-09 22:54:22+00:00
What we do is enforce that everyone keeps one ticket in JIRA as in progress and use a timekeeping add on. The tickets role up to epics and initiatives. I review each top level initiative and epic with finance and they deem it capitalizable or not. Then we add a haircut. It’s really not that much work. We have an hour meeting monthly to work it out but I make sure to exclude my mainline engineers. They don’t need that
by spondylosaurus | 2025-06-09 22:55:01+00:00
https://www.thecut.com/article/supplements-made-me-lose-my-m...

A recent cautionary tale about someone who took St. John's Wort because they didn't want to take antidepressants, then quit the SJW too quickly... which functionally put them into (prolonged, agonizing) SSRI withdrawal.
by alexjplant | 2025-06-09 22:55:25+00:00
> Let's run linux inside a container inside docker inside macos inside an ec2 macos instance inside a aws internal linux host inside a windows pc inside the dreaming mind of a child.

Not even the first non-hyperbolic part of what you wrote is correct. "Container" most often refers to OS-level virtualization on Linux hosts using a combination of cgroups, resource groups, SDN, and some mount magic (among other things). MacOS is BSD-based and therefore doesn't support the first two things in that list. Apple can either write a compatibility shim that emulates this functionality or virtualize the Linux kernel to support it. They chose the latter. There is no Docker involved.

This is a completely sane and smart thing for them to do. Given the choice I'd still much rather run Linux but this brings macOS a step closer to parity with such.
by rbultje | 2025-06-09 22:55:45+00:00
The opposite of what you're saying is "perfection is the enemy of progress", so let's move past them. I'm asking for more than "this is not the way". What is the way? How will we do this? This is critical, and we've failed to do anything since early 2022. Democrats are clearly not at all interested. My (Dem) congressman responded directly to my enquiry with "fixing section174 just wouldn't be good optics". I agree republicans can't be taken very seriously either if OB3 is the highest of highs. But we all want this fixed. So: how?
by jdiff | 2025-06-09 22:55:54+00:00
As long as they all finish their jobs in time, they shouldn't run any slower at all. They run, they complete, they wait for the next frame. If resources are constrained enough to shrink that wait to 0 or below, then yes, everything slows down, and somewhat less gracefully than with a more fair and more complex scheduling system. But it sounds like each program yields explicitly when it's ready for the upcoming frame, so if a program doesn't have much to do, its "share" of the time is free real estate.
by Uehreka | 2025-06-09 22:55:59+00:00
I built my current computer last fall. The Ryzen 7950X was on an awesome sale for black Friday and after looking at the math buying a 9950X just didn’t make sense. So I got the 7950X and 96GB of DDR5 RAM (2 sticks, so I can double later if I need to). Loving it, it was the perfect choice.

All this to say some people do in fact do this ;)
by wahern | 2025-06-09 22:56:05+00:00
Conversely, as many on HN would attest, plenty of novel and inevitable ideas never saw traction and disappeared to history for being too early to market. Being too early is often worse than being too late. At least with software you can pocket it and maybe in 5, 10, 20 years pick things back up when the winds go your way[1], but in earlier times the next opportunity might not come for generations, long after the inventor and any memory of their contraption are gone.

I haven't read that book; maybe that's pointed out as one of the reasons it can take so long for an invention to appear in history. The stars have to align. It's rarely if ever enough to create a working implementation, let alone merely conceive of it.

And I guess it's probably also worth considering that notwithstanding all the advanced knowledge pre-Columbian civilizations had, they were still nonetheless millennia behind the Old World. The Old World was highly interconnected even 4000 years ago, and even if the New World had the equivalent of the Silk Road, there were just fewer people, fewer civilizations, and fewer cycles of civilization building to shake things out.

[1] Even open sourcing it doesn't help. If I had a nickel for every cool open source project I've noticed that gained huge mindshare and was thought to be novel and heretofore unimplemented approach, yet actually had a substantially similar if not identical 20+ year old implementation sitting on some on old SunSITE FTP server or as a PoC for some ACM paper published circa 1970-1999....
by jemiluv8 | 2025-06-09 22:56:11+00:00
Most people without any idea about the foundations on which LLMs are built call them AI. But I insist on calling them LLMs, further creating confusion. How do you explain what a large language model is to someone that can't comprehend how a machine can learn a "word model" on a large corpus of text/data to make it generate "seemingly sound/humane" responses without making them feel like they are interacting with the AI that they've been hearing about in the movies/sci-fi?
by phickey | 2025-06-09 22:56:41+00:00
Not sure how to help with this much information but I've built and run wasmtime on some pretty squalid architectures (xtensa and riscv32 microcontrollers among others) but the right collection of features might not be obvious. We can help you find the right configuration on the Bytecode Alliance zulip or the wasmtime issue tracker if you need it.
by maccard | 2025-06-09 22:57:41+00:00
> Go to AWS or any other hosting provider and pay them for inference. You think AWS are going to subsidise your usage of somebody else’s models indefinitely?

Not indefinitely or for any undetermined scale, but AWS regularly subsidise up to 100k [0] in credits. It would not surprise me in the slightest if most. Inference is much cheaper than training and 100k in compute covers a decent amount of usage. Activate is tiered over 3 years so if you want to know the full story, let’s see how many of these services are still around in 18 months. I suspect just like when Games were the flavor of the month, then Crypto, we’ll see the real story when they actually have to pay a bill and their investors aren’t seeing any growth

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/activate/activate-landing/
by vrosas | 2025-06-09 22:57:45+00:00
VC: “I pretended to be a good person because that’s what I thought would make me successful and people love me.”

Everyone: “we can tell you’re an entitled dbag.”

VC: “well now I’m going to act like an entitled dbag and it’s your fault.”

- Me paraphrasing his actual interview. You know who I’m talking about.
by cogman10 | 2025-06-09 22:58:09+00:00
> it was at first a little surprising to hear how little double-blind clinical research exists.

Methylene blue turns your urine blue. How does someone conduct a double-blind studies with a substance that very clearly indicates whether or not you are taking it?

Another issue is it's hard to get grant money to run studies in general. What would the goal of the study be? What would it measure?
by bjourne | 2025-06-09 22:58:16+00:00
If one goes by the ACIP Membership Rooster this seem to be the case: https://www.cdc.gov/acip/membership/roster.html Likely, the compensation scientists receive for being a committee member is not great so the committee has to be constantly refilled. Appointees to such committees are de facto apolitical because there aren't enough world-class specialists available for the executive to choose between. So the Trump team will have to choose, actual experts in immunology or loyal MAGA goons...
by bdangubic | 2025-06-09 22:59:03+00:00
none of these are bugs, they are complaints about specific date/time/incident.

restaurants

undercooked steak is not a bug unless every single steak on every single day is undercooked

property maintenance

same thing (and weird example)

auto mechanics

also not a bug, bad part, mechanic who didn’t get laid the nite before… not bugs…

doctors

not sure how to even respond to this… :)

democratic political systems

would be nice :)

road infrastructure

wear and tear :)
by dimal | 2025-06-09 22:59:07+00:00
Autistic people tend to have very different sensory sensitivities than neurotypical people. Most are very highly sensitive and tend have trouble picking out a signal when there’s too much noise around it.

To me, being socially awkward is kind of a secondary, less important trait, but that’s the one everyone seems to notice. We’re weird on the outside because inside, we’re dealing with overwhelming sensory input.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-06-09 22:59:23+00:00
This same claim is used all the time, but it is hollow without more evidence.

Do you you think that everybody is cynical and is motivated by dollars? Since it is an inexpensive, readily available compound, what prevents biohackers from doing a small scale (say, N=100) double blind trial against some relatively inert compound that makes your pee blue?

A close cousin to this claim is the old chestnut, "A tinkerer invented a carburetor that allows any care to get over 100 mpg, but then the oil companies bought out and buried the patent!"
by vinc | 2025-06-09 22:59:48+00:00
A long time ago, after Flickr got acquired by Yahoo, I decided to make my own web app to host my photos because I had found the perfect domain for it:

https://pi.ctu.re

I also needed to build another app to fetch and resize the images, and found it neat to use the following:

https://infra.stru.ctu.re

In term of users the service never went anywhere and it's quite dated now but it doesn't cost much to keep it online and it's open source.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-09 23:00:02+00:00
"But their omission of Adblock in this article means they can't be credible."

But adblockers do not fully solve the problem that the article is focused on. Namely, the use, e.g., by Meta and Yandex, of websockets in closed source mobile apps to listen on a loopback address for requests by mobile browsers, e.g., for tracking pixels.

There are approaches to prevent such tracking that do not necessarily require adblockers running in browsers. If the article mentioned Adblock but omitted other approaches, then does that mean the publisher is not credible.
by riskable | 2025-06-09 23:01:32+00:00
I have youknowwhat.com. Bought it back when there was only one company selling domains and you had to pay two years in advance.

I used to get SO many "ecard" receipts from people who thought they were being clever by putting the "From:" as youknowwho@youknowwhat.com

It was so many emails, in fact, that I had to change email providers because they were threatening to kick me off from the traffic. That, and every other spammy email system that existed because that email address was in every single mailing list ever haha.
by w10-1 | 2025-06-09 23:01:45+00:00
HN should have a conference-findings thread for something like WWDC, with priority impact rankings

P4: Foundation models will get newbies involved, but aren't ready to displace other model providers.

P4: New containers are ergonomic when sub-second init is required, but otw no virtualization news.

P2: Concurrency now visible in instruments and debuggable, high-performance tracing avoid sampling errors; are we finally done with our 4+ years of black-box guesswork? (Not to mention concurrency backtracking to main-thread-by-default as a solution.)

P5: UI Look-and-feel changes across all platforms conceal the fact that there are very few new API's.

Low content overall: Scan the platforms, and you see only L&F, app intents, widgets. Is that really all? (thus far?) - It's quite concerning.

Also low quality: online links point no where, half-baked technologies are filling presentation slots: Swift+Java interop is no where near usable, other topics just point to API documentation, "code-along" sessions restating other sessions.

Beware the new upgrade forcing function: adding to the memory requirements of AI, the new concurrency tracing seems to require M4+ level device support.
by clbrmbr | 2025-06-09 23:02:01+00:00
On the former a recent post here “LLMs are cheap” I think, laid out a pretty compelling argument that API inference costs are in the right ballpark.

Regarding increasing maintenance, i’m finding that Claude code is just as good for working on CI/CD and unit testing as it is for new implementation. In fact, maintenance is more well defined and possibly being accelerated more than new features.

The point about pipeline of senior developers is a good one. I suppose depends on how elastic the demand side is. Will the demand for software go up asymptomatically as the cost drops? I think it will.
by _aavaa_ | 2025-06-09 23:02:09+00:00
Interesting. However for the purpose of this discussion it is both:

A) Irrelevant since it's not being run by a for-profit corporation, the kind that would care about these tax bills.

B) It's a bit of a cheat. TeX itself may be approaching an asymptote, but scientists writing papers in TeX do not use it directly or on its own. White it has created a reference upon which to build it has also externalized all that research and development into the thousands of accompanying packages which do keep receiving new features and need updating just to stand still.
by fitzzy | 2025-06-09 23:02:39+00:00
This post goes into a lot of details about their point of view - that the programmer developing software has to run it a lot of times, so if it's inefficient (in terms of CPU cycles) it'll slow them down. I was hoping they'd quantify that, but they don't.

Overall their argument makes sense, but if the slowdown due to "too many CPU cycles" only has a practical effect in taking a few extra milliseconds overall then IMO the programmer isn't slowed down in any practical sense.