MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Pandabob | 2025-06-10 08:01:16+00:00
I basically jump away from Cursor to ChatGPT when I need to think thoroughly on something like an architecture decision or an edge case etc. Then when I've used ChatGPT to come up with an implementation plan, I jump back to Cursor and have Claude do the actual coding. O3 and ChatGPT's search functionality are just better (at least for myself) currently for "type 2" thinking tasks.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 08:01:30+00:00
> his lack of requesting help is mostly being viewed as his typical “agenda over reality” orientation

Most people don't understand why we have the system of laws that we do. Most Americans couldn't design a stable republic the way our founders did. (Most of their contemporaries couldn't either.)

Nothing about deporting illegal immigrants requires calling in the Marines. Nothing about this situation makes their deployment in Los Angeles legal. Performative hackery is practiced by both sides. Desecrating the honour of our armed forces used to be bipartisan, but I guess that's no longer the case.
by bayindirh | 2025-06-10 08:02:21+00:00
What I wrote is exactly the opposite. Quoting myself:

> hence they work well as a consequence of lack of surprises. Emphasis mine.

In this context, "lack of surprises" is exactly the rest of the driving besides road choice. In the same space, the behaviors of other actors are also a finite set, or more precisely, can be predicted with much better accuracy.

I drive the same route for ~20 years for commute. The events which surprise me are few and far between, because other people's behavior in that environment is a finite set, and they all behave very predictably, incl. pedestrians, bikes, and other drivers.

Choosing roads are easy, handling surprises hard, but if you saw most potential surprises, then you can drive even without thinking. While I'm not proud of it, my brain took over and drove me home a couple of times on that route when I was too tired to think.
by 5- | 2025-06-10 08:04:01+00:00
i've never looked closely at any of this, and it's been a long time since i looked at all.

reading colorforth code and especially commentary (https://github.com/Howerd/colorForth) it seemed that it refines the concept of staging into colours (does> might correspond to cyan?).

hopefully someone more knowledgeable will chime in here!
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-10 08:04:46+00:00
> Foreign nationals waving flag of their nation, attacking citizens and being in country without permission. Smells like invasion

But is not. Invasions are military offensives involving combatants of a geopolitical entity [1].

If this is an invasion, every rally in which a Confederate flag is waived is a rebellion. Also, § 4 concludes with "and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence." The Constitution is very clear about the scope of executive military power within the United States because they weren't illiterate and knew how Rome's republics fell [2].

Hell, even when Hamilton argued for federal control of militias, he underscored that its risk "to the liberties of the people" was mitigated by the fact that the states "have the SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE APPOINTMENT OF THE OFFICERS," emphasis his [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion

[2] https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed70.asp

[3] https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed29.asp
by perching_aix | 2025-06-10 08:05:41+00:00
This is a bit misleading.

They haven't released a new Intel-based product / product-line since August 2020, and haven't shipped any new units of the same criteria since June 2023.

While new versions of macOS will not be available to them, macOS Tahoe will almost certainly EOL in Fall 2028. That means their Intel-based devices will have a lifetime anywhere from 5 to 8 years at worst, depending on your time of purchase.

Maybe I'm just used to this at this point, but I think this is pretty reasonable.
by hparadiz | 2025-06-10 08:06:05+00:00
LA is walkable.

However I don't really like walking everywhere or taking public transportation so LA is the perfect city for me because it has many municipal places I can park my car and then walk around.

Let me explain LA to you since you clearly don't understand it.

LA is a combination of many smaller cities. Each one, on it's own is a small micro city with everything you would expect. You can live in Santa Monica, Pasadena, Burbank, Sherman oaks, West Hollywood, Ktown, Beverly Hills, Sawtelle, etc. each one of those places has a very vibrant and walkable area with cute shops and restaurants and easy public transportation. If you live in those places you don't necessarily need a car.

The problem with LA is that you might want to go from one of these places to another and the walk would take a very long time because LA county is bigger than Delaware and Rhode Island. But you can walk it if you want.

LA is currently the only city in North America building new subway lines. And is doing so rapidly.
by torginus | 2025-06-10 08:06:21+00:00
I'm kinda ignorant about the current state of Linux VMs, but my biggest gripe with VMs is that OS kernels kind of assume they have access to all the RAM the hardware has - unlike the reserve/commit scheme processes use for memory.

Is there a VM technology that can make Linux aware that it's running in a VM, and be able to hand back the memory it uses to the host OS?

Or maybe could Apple patch the kernel to do exactly this?

Running Docker in a VM always has been quite painful on Mac due to the excess amount of memory it uses, and Macs not really having a lot of RAM.
by hotmeals | 2025-06-10 08:07:00+00:00
Some of the cases you mention involve "military" police who are under the authority of the Ministry of the Interior, instead of the Ministry of Defense. Many also are not the only police force, in Chile the investigative duties fall to the non-military PDI.

IMO as Chilean, it's a pretty bad thing democratically, for both historical (dictatorship) and more recent reasons. Still, there is a clear difference between when the police with deep ties to the army enforce the law and when actual troops do it.

While copper Gutiérrez and grunt Herrera both technically have the rank of corporal, one mostly writes tickets, deals with noise complaints, and has riot training, while the other only knows how to march and shoot an assault rifle.

The actually important thing is that this is testing the waters. Trump will use the troops for flimsier and flimsier reasons.

NOTE: Chilean police are semi-routinely brutal; this is not an endorsement.
by flohofwoe | 2025-06-10 08:07:33+00:00
Maybe with this there's finally no need any longer to have those mile-wide 256 byte gaps between items in Metal uniform buffers :) (on iOS the alignment is just 16 bytes)

Also hopefully all the special-case handling for 'managed resources' can be dropped (but I guess that would also imply no longer supporting any external non-Apple GPUs).

I'm actually looking forward to a 3D-API that can fully focus on a single GPU architecture that's developed side-by-side with its 3D API - it will be a nice testing ground of what the future of 3D APIs could look like.
by watwut | 2025-06-10 08:08:36+00:00
Trump is doing exactly what his voters wanted. They wanted exactly these economic policies, exactly these anti-democratic policies, exactly these anti-science policies, exactly this harm to everyone who is being harmed except themselves.

It is not just Trump. he represents what conservatives, republicans and their voters are. And this is enabled by consistent pretension that Trump is an secretly opposed aberration. No, he is admired both publicly and secretly.
by Ccecil | 2025-06-10 08:09:12+00:00
Not that I totally disagree with your statement but one part....

I live in a very red state (North Idaho). They don't need to send ICE here. The sheriffs are all cooperating and lending county facilities to hold immigrants. It is safe to say the entire sheriffs department is basically a branch of ICE at this point. They have been targeting I-90 and US-95 heavily and running plates on every car along with a helicopter that basically just goes back and forth all day.

There is very little immigrant presence here (illegal or otherwise) but they have been catching work crews at random (usually under the premise of suspicious vehicle/behavior).

Spokane has been having CBP and ICE raids as well. Quite a few make the local news. Just doesn't get the attention like the larger cities do. Quite a bit of roundups going on out by Yakima and Tri-Cities, WA too. Which is part of why they are using county jails to hold people.
by serbuvlad | 2025-06-10 08:09:43+00:00
In my experience with hard drugs, the human body has an amazing ability to build tolerance, but in a way that biases against positive effects.

So, for example, a first-time user may consume quantity X of a drug, and get the positive effect Y and negative side-effect Z. An experienced user may consume quantity X and only get a negative side-effect 1/3 or 1/4 Z. But also only get a positive effect of 1/10 Y.

So even though the ratio of Z/X has decreased (less negative side-effect per unit of substance) so has the ratio of Y/X (less positive effect per unit of substance). Most importantly, the ratio of Z/Y has increased (more negative side-effect per "unit" of positive effect).

I find no reason to disbelieve the existence of performance-enhancing chemicals (or mood-enhancing, or anything else). Perhaps Methylene Blue does do what it's fans think it does -- at first.

If you want to get some work done, coffee can really help, Red Bull even more so, and speed even more so. The question is what happens on day 3, week 3, month 3, year 3 of continuous use.
Show HN: I made PromptForge – a tool to build and manage intelligent AI prompts
by FabianJani | 2025-06-10 08:10:27+00:00
Hi HN,

I just launched PromptForge – a tool built to help developers craft, test, and manage high-quality AI prompts for GPT-based models.

What it does:

Prompt creation & versioning

Language switching based on country

GPT-4 ready with API integration

Free plan with 10 prompts/month, Pro plan with unlimited prompts

Built using Supabase, Lovable, and OpenAI’s API

Would love your feedback, ideas, or feature suggestions. Happy to answer any questions.
Show HN: Activiews – Better visualizations for your Apple workouts
by ahmetomer | 2025-06-10 08:10:46+00:00
Hi HN!

I built the iOS app Activiews that turns your walking, running, and cycling workouts into beautiful visual maps, using data from the Apple Health app.

Activiews' Privacy & minimalism-focused features:

- 100% offline: everything stays on your device.

- No account: no registration or tracking.

- HealthKit-powered: it pulls data directly from your Apple Health.

- Map-focused: shows routes on different map styles with time, distance, calories, and heart rate stats.

It's for anyone who doesn't want to use bloated fitness apps. Looking forward to your feedback, ideas, or questions. Thank you!
by angst | 2025-06-10 08:11:15+00:00
- MacOS 26, also known as macOS Tahoe, will be the last version of the operating system to work on Macs powered by Intel Processors.

- Tahoe-supporting Intel Macs will get full access to all the new features, and they'll still get security updates for the next three years.

- By 2028, they'll be out of the Apple ecosystem.

- Intel-powered Macs that will support Tahoe include the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, the 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro, the 2020 27-inch iMac and the 2019 Mac Pro.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-06-10 08:12:56+00:00
I don't know about the other forces mentioned here, but the French Gendarmerie are pretty much "regular police" as far as the people are concerned. The main difference with "actual regular police" is that they tend to operate in sparsely populated areas instead of large cities.

But they absolutely will do traffic police on highways, intervene to reason with a loud neighbor, etc. They'll also routinely show up during large protests in big cities.

The "big-gun carrying" Gendarmerie is a special unit, the GIGN, probably akin to US' SWAT teams. They'll intervene when "very dangerous" people are involved, think hostage situations or the like. "Regular police" also has a similar outfit.
by angelofpc | 2025-06-10 08:12:59+00:00
I’m building a mobile app with called Routin with my based that helps people track and improve their daily lives — from tasks and habits to health, fitness, finances, and creativity. It gives you AI-powered insights and uses gamification to make self-improvement feel rewarding, not overwhelming.

My personal productivity setup is pretty simple:

I group my day into focused blocks (work, exercise, writing, etc.)

I track each block in Routin to reflect and stay consistent

I get weekly insights that help me spot patterns and improve gradually

I’m currently looking for a sales/marketing co-founder who’s passionate about productivity and wants to help grow something meaningful. If that’s you or someone you know, I’d love to chat! ace[@]angelofpc[dot].com
by rhizome31 | 2025-06-10 08:13:21+00:00
As a developer who doesn't use AI for coding, except for the occasional non-project specific question to a chat bot, I am wondering if you use it for client projects or only for your own projects. If you do use it for client projects, do you have some kind of agreement that you're going to share their code with a third-party? I'm asking because most clients will make you sign a contract saying that you shouldn't disclose any information about the project to a third-party. I even once had a client who explicitly stated that AI should not be used. Do you find clients willing to make an exception for AI coding agents?
by intended | 2025-06-10 08:14:16+00:00
I have a bridge to sell you.

I suspect many commenters on HN would also have bridges to sell you, seeing as they’re from around the world, and countries where similar statements were made.

The statement is one thing. Reality is different, even with the best intentions, things get messy, and then the media and information firestorm that follows leaves scars that fester for decades.

You’d be lucky if it doesn’t lead to new infections and new wounds.

Which is why self inflicted wounds are so absurd, especially from nations that have the expertise to know better.

But - expertise is expensive, and entertainment and narrative vitality is the currency we traffic in.

A currency that pushes the costs of clean up and figuring out what happened to the future, if you are lucky to have any committees to look at it all.

We all need a news system that isn’t competing with engagement.
by markpapadakis | 2025-06-10 08:15:07+00:00
This looks like a disaster. It is like it was fast-tracked based on the oomph factor because seriously, how come you didn't notice how hard it is to read text or even notice overlapping objects/controls? Maybe once we use it for some time, we will all get it - it is possible - but as it now stands, I hope there will be an option to turn all that off, _especially_ on MacOS which is what I use to get work done.
by alexisread | 2025-06-10 08:15:20+00:00
You can replace it, there are two (nearly 3) forths that replace it:

https://github.com/dan4thewin/FreeForth2/blob/master/ff.asm

which uses a double loop to lookup first macro words, and then immediate words

https://github.com/ablevm/able-forth/blob/current/forth.scr

Ableforth implements a defer/expand operation \ to effectively quote words. The basic loop is then simply parse a text word, look it up and execute it.

Both make use of macros (code generators) to implement deferred behaviour, as well as code inlining. Ultimately all these operations implement defer by manipulating the execution flow, something that algebraic effects also do.

I have a feeling that algebraic effects can be used in a Forth to implement DOES.
by ikurei | 2025-06-10 08:15:20+00:00
Not disagreeing with you, but I also wanna make a small effort towards being less cynical.

Not knowing much about Nevada or Las Vegas politics, I'm sure the political environment in Spain, and specially in Barcelona, is very different. 60k trees in however many years (we don't know if they were mosty planted in the last 5) might be all that they could get, and this PR note is their attempt at bringing more attention and try to muster support for more.

That private company that planted 1 million trees is a massive corporation with tens of thousands of employees in Spain. I'd bet their budget, even for marketing stunts, is bigger than Clark County's.

Also, marketing stunts are not /just/ marketing stunts. Companies, specially huge ones, contain multitudes. I'm sure many of the folks pushing for this actually cared about planting trees.
by input_sh | 2025-06-10 08:15:30+00:00
As someone born just south of the Hungarian border, I feel it is important to point out just how quickly election integrity deteriorates afterwards.

Or to quote Serbian president's freudian slip (from just two days ago): "Every living soul in Kosjerić [small town that held municipal elections] came out to vote against us, but we still managed to win."

It is fucking bullshit how a country can spend decades building up its democratic institutions and all it takes is one opportunist to get elected once to undo it all and solidify himself into power for the next 15ish years. And then after they finally leave, you have to start all over again from scratch.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-06-10 08:15:50+00:00
Essentially big tech is under the jurisdiction of the mad king, which means all users of big tech are also under that same jurisdiction, including any and all private and public organisations in any country.

This is one of the reasons I think the mad king thinks that he can bully the rest of the world - because he can, by proxy, bully the rest of the world.

Much like the diving head first first into AI uptake, the whole cloud mania thing coming home to roost.

If calling a war criminal a war criminal results in sanctions, could sanctions be the new tariffs? I don't want to give him ideas...

This should scare pretty much any organisation outside of the US.
by graemep | 2025-06-10 08:15:53+00:00
> That model stops working as soon as you try to distribute software at scale.

True, but lots of people do not need to distribute software at scale.

IIRC Pharo has a way of exporting the current image to files for version control. That should solve the problem of multiple developers working on the code. You can modify while running to try things, and then commit the final result to version control.
My deliberately boring developer portfolio
by thetruthseekah | 2025-06-10 08:16:03+00:00
After seeing countless developer portfolios with spinning logos, particle effects, and 8-second load times, I went the opposite direction.

Built saurav.dev with Next.js but kept it intentionally simple. 98 Lighthouse score overall, 100/100 for accessibility and SEO, WCAG 2.1 AA + GDPR compliant with proper cookie and privacy controls, sub-2 second loads via static generation.

My thesis: in a world of over-engineered portfolios, being the one that actually works IS the differentiator.

The irony: leveraged a modern framework to build something that feels deliberately minimal.

Link: https://saurav.dev

Curious what HN thinks - am I onto something or missing the point entirely?
by jsnell | 2025-06-10 08:16:13+00:00
Yes, but for GCP all the VMs with a /96 in the same /64 will be closely related: in the same project, same VPC network, same cloud region.

So from the point of abuse logic it's appropriate to treat the whole /64 as a single unit. (That was the starting point of the thread, even though I realize that due to thread drift that's probably not what your comment was about.)
by jonplackett | 2025-06-10 08:16:36+00:00
The Five Obstructions is a beautiful example of how constraints - counterintuitively - make creativity easier not harder.

Lars Von Trier challenges Jørgen Leth to remake his classic short ‘The Perfect Human’ five times under increasingly ridiculous constraints.

Really worth a watch.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0354575/
by 59nadir | 2025-06-10 08:16:40+00:00
> See again here, you're implying that I or my code is disappointing somehow, but with no explanation for how except that it was LLM-assisted. I assert that the code is basically as good as if I'd written it by hand, and if you think I'm just not a competent engineer, like, feel free to Google me.

I think you're reading a bit too deeply into what I wrote; I explained what I interpreted kiitos' posts as essentially saying. I realize that you've probably had to deal with a lot of people being skeptical to the point of "throwing shade", as it were, so I understand the defensive posture. I am skeptical, but the reason I'm asking questions (alongside the previous bit) is because I'm actually curious about your experiment.

> It's not the typing itself that constrains, it's the detailed but non-essential decision-making. Every line of code requires making several decisions, like naming variables, deciding basic structure, etc. Many of these fine-grained decisions are obvious or don't matter, but it's still mentally taxing, which is why nobody can write code as fast as they can type even when the code is straightforward. LLMs can basically fill in a bunch of those details for you, and reviewing the decisions -- especially the fine-grained ones that don't matter -- is a lot faster than making them.

In your estimation, what is your mental code coverage of the code you ended up with? Do you feel like you have a complete mapping of it, i.e. you could get an external request for change and map it quickly to where it needs to be made and why exactly there?
by dnel | 2025-06-10 08:17:34+00:00
I had a dog, then kids and now just got a puppy and I think there is perhaps some truth to it, dogs are certainly much much lower effort/stress/cost but provide a good amount of companionship. It wasn't enough for us, obviously, but we also have minimal family connections outside our household, for others the equation may add up that a dog/cat is enough and if it was then all the power to you.
by swores | 2025-06-10 08:18:07+00:00
It's not something you rush out at the last minute, but it might be something you plan a long time ahead as "our interesting stuff might not work out, so let's do a huge redesign too to be confident we can pretend to be releasing something excitingly new either way".

(I don't particularly have an opinion that this was their line of thinking, just pointing out that for a company like Apple they would have been thinking "what if X isn't ready in time" months or even years before the point of actually knowing if X is it isn't ready on time.)
by close04 | 2025-06-10 08:18:08+00:00
> A Gendarmerie is literally a military force with law enforcement duties

The second part is a huge differentiator from "normal" military. A police force even if administratively under the military has one crucial differentiator: their daily duties and training revolve almost exclusively around policing civilians from the same country. Military training and tactics are overwhelmingly aimed at dealing with foreign enemy combatants, mainly other military forces.

The methods give away the intentions and expected outcome. The US already has a very "militarized" police force. You send actual military only if you want to inflict the maximum amount of damage, and with that threat overwhelmingly scare the country into compliance.