MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cdavid | 2025-06-05 19:00:10+00:00
The issue about executive mandate is likely coming from the context of large corporations. It creates fatigue, even though the underlying technology can be used very effectively to do "real work". It becomes hard for people to really see where the tech is valuable (reduce cost to test ideas, accelerate getting into a new area, etc.) vs where it is just a BS generator.

Those are typical dysfunctions in larger companies w/ weak leadership. They magnified by a few factors: AI is indistinguishable from magic for non tech leadership, demos that can be slapped quickly but that don't actually work w/o actual investments (which was what leadership wanted to avoid in the first place), and ofc the promise to reduce costs.

This happens in parallel to people using it to do their own work in a more bottom up manner. My anecdotal observation is that it is overused for low-value/high visibility work. E.g. it replaces "writing as proof of work" by reducing the cost to write bland, low information, documents used by middle management, which increases bureaucratic load.
by JadeNB | 2025-06-05 19:00:12+00:00
> It's not, there is nothing essential a regular desktop user needs to edit in the registry directly.

I think that this reads better "there is nothing that Microsoft wants regular users to touch that they need to edit in the registry directly." The distinction between the two doesn't really matter as long as the user's interests are reasonably aligned with Microsoft's, but the modern Microsoft-the-ad-company approach to Windows means that this is not at all true.
by imiric | 2025-06-05 19:00:44+00:00
You're right, but ironically the web installer is the most user-friendly way of installing Android. The GOS page simply documents technical aspects in great detail, but the actual process is no different from the stock web installer from Google[1]. It could easily be wrapped in a similar wizard-like UI without the technical jargon. The reason it's not is because the intended audience who would consider installing GOS is expected to be tech savvy, and they appreciate the details.

FWIW, GOS is an excellent project, but I don't think it's a good fit for non-technical users. But there's nothing stopping someone from creating a distribution of it with a preconfigured Google Play sandbox, some sane defaults and applications, to provide technical support, and to streamline the installation process, or even sell devices with it preinstalled. As long as that entity is trustworthy, it would be a good alternative for people who want to leave the Google/Samsung/etc. ecosystem, but don't have the technical knowledge or want to bother with installing and configuring GOS themselves.

[1]: https://flash.android.com/back-to-public
by sodafountan | 2025-06-05 19:00:48+00:00
Short Story: this is just a website.

If you go to parrot.live from your browser it automatically redirects to the GitHub page for the project; The code for which is on line 103: https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live/blob/master/index.js#L...

You'll notice though that if you change the user agent from your browser to include the string 'curl' you can reach the site from within the browser as the redirect logic encapsulating line 103 doesn't fire.

You can do that by:

* Opening Chrome,

* Opening Chrome Dev Tools within Chrome,

* Going to the Network Tab within Chrome Dev Tools,

* Clicking on "More Network Conditions" within the Network Tab,

* Go the the "User Agent" section and type 'curl' whithout the parens,

* Navigate to parrot.live with the network tab open and you should see the ascii animation in your browser.
by godelski | 2025-06-05 19:00:57+00:00
This!

It's crazy how we act like phones are dramatically different than other computers. An average computer user can go to a website, click "download" and then we think the average phone user can't do the exact same thing? It's the same people! They might be used to downloading from one location but it would be laughable to think they couldn't do the normal thing too

(To clarify, I mean apps. Things like GrapheneOS you're going to run into the same issues as expecting my grandma to install Linux. Might be doable but it isn't quite there yet)
by vvillena | 2025-06-05 19:01:00+00:00
This is impossible by design. Decades ago there were some distributions that had this as a goal (e.g. Mandrake, Suse), they included an application similar to the Windows Control Panel to manage everything. But such applications can never reach into all the corners, unless the distribution is severely locked down. The example of this extreme is... macOS. And still, there are some cases where dropping into the command line is the better or even the only option.

Back on Linuxland, the userbase realized this about two decades ago, when Ubuntu launched. Having a nice default experience was considered better than having easy tweakability, because Ubuntu could also be configured to the fullest extent in the classic Linux way of reaching into the guts of the system and rearranging things to taste. Not that I would ever recommend tweaking Ubuntu too much, but it can be done.

What about the other end? Most people who like fiddling with Linux by reaching into its internals have settled on distributions such as Arch, where this way of managing the system is expected and thus the distribution works to ensure this experience is as easy and predictable as it can be, by providing a good happy path experience for common scenarios, and providing top-notch documentation for common and uncommon customization options, or minority hardware platforms and devices.
by walterbell | 2025-06-05 19:01:04+00:00
One month ago:

"Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds", 600 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43852145

"Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral", 300 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856795

"Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US", 300 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43867692
by Mayokia | 2025-06-05 19:01:18+00:00
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by cannonpr | 2025-06-05 19:01:28+00:00
So… I hope your version of trying to understand life is a fruitful path, however my understanding of the underlying biomechanics, messy, deeply “physics” based and 3d, leaves me with confused more often than not. The behaviour is emergent but not out of simplicity.

Biomolecular condensates: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9974629/
by guywithahat | 2025-06-05 19:01:29+00:00
People were using AI models to detect different attributes from a picture of their face

https://x.com/hamptonism/status/1929702249439412248

I'm not saying it's very exact, but I think the general premise holds true: there will be certain options we can choose from, and those options will lead to a certain convergence of traits or features. How strong the convergence will be is yet to be seen (if it happens at all)
by tptacek | 2025-06-05 19:02:08+00:00
There is no such thing as "fines by FISA court". FISA doesn't hear adversarial cases and doesn't have statutory authority or even subject matter jurisdiction to enforce compliance on private actors. FISA is an authorizer for other government bodies, who then use ordinary Article III courts to enforce compliance. Other than the fact that they're staffed by Article III judges and not directly overseen by Article III courts, the FISA court functions like a magistrate court, not a normal court. So: I immediately distrust the source.

People are going to come back and say "well yeah that's just what they tell you about FISA court, but I bet FISA courts fine people all the time", but no, it's deeper than that: private actors aren't parties to FISA cases. It's best to think of them as exclusively resolving conflicts between government bodies.
by kubectl_h | 2025-06-05 19:02:29+00:00
I almost never returned stuff I bought with full research until prices started to increase significantly from 2020 to now. At some point the inflation of product prices flipped a switch for me. I won't return products I've used meaningfully but if I am not happy with the quality of the product or the initial experience I have no qualms, especially if purchased from larger retailers. Mostly what I'm talking about are outdoors/recreation products or purchases from Home Depot or Best Buy.

Still some kind of sense of personal responsibility for the decisions I made changed for me in the last five years. I still don't buy 5 pairs of shoes and return 4 or anything like that, but maybe that's more out of laziness.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-05 19:02:49+00:00
> Let's say you were parked, taking a nap in the drivers set - when you woke up, would you immediately start driving or would you wait a minute to get your bearings?

It would take me a minute to wake up. Napping is one of the few things you can't do with level 3.

> How about at a highway rest stop?

Wait, doesn't this go against your argument?

Someone at a rest stop can go from "not driving at all" to "full speed down the highway and merging" in a handful of seconds. And it works fine.

> It feels like trying to push back on that by asserting "the driver is supposed to always be alert and ready to be attentive!" is another bout of fanciful fiction like L2.

Depends on what "alert" means. I can be in a general readiness state, with no particular requirements on my focus, for hours on end.

> Being outright asleep would seem to be derelict, but I can imagine many fuzzy mental middle grounds, especially in a droning car.

"The boring droning car made me zone out" is something that can happen while you're driving. A TV show could actually reduce the risk of falling half asleep.

> if I haven't driven in a month I would say it takes me tens of minutes (maybe 20?) to get back up to the usual groove. Obviously the only way to do it is to do it, but I drive much differently until then

How much differently? Also an autonomous car asking for takeover is probably driving super cautiously too.
by demosthanos | 2025-06-05 19:03:17+00:00
The first paragraph is the nominal tax rate and the claim that OP is offering is based on the idea that the ultra wealthy find ways to avoid that tax rate and end up paying less than middle class income earners as a percentage of their income. I believe that this is true.

The second paragraph is the actually relevant stat, though: for all that they avoid the nominal tax rate, they still pay the majority of all taxes.
by asdff | 2025-06-05 19:03:35+00:00
Drones still have the limiting factor that is that they need to be produced at all as a piece of technology. Artillery shell on the other hand has all the explosive bits needed to make that drone blow up half your house, only it is a dummy round being fired from technology that has been globally solved and replicated for what over 100 years now, with huge stocks of surplus available along with popular rudimentary designs used by various guerillas around the world.

Increasingly we are also seeing a world where the technology to shape a cultures mind share can be deployed with a few dozen lines of code and a malware bot net rather than a sophisticated and well funded mass media operation a la the 1960s western cultural revolution supported in part by the CIA. You don't even need to blow up the enemies country, you can convince them it is in their best interest to be subjugated and they will remove their own naysayer internally and roll out the carpet for you when you arrive and proclaim your regional Obergruppenführer to meet production quotas.
by jjani | 2025-06-05 19:04:08+00:00
They're talking about "facilitated by the App Store ecosystem" so it includes everything from online shopping to advertising. 1 billion iPhone users spending/generating on average $1000 on their phones per year? Seems reasonable. I think even if you just consider Amazon, the Amazons of elsewhere, supermarkets etc, Ali, it goes on and on. Their combined revenue from people buying stuff on their iPhones, iPads, Mac apps downloaded through the app store will get you a great length towards $1.3 trillion.

People are not spending $1.3 trillion per year on IAPs, it's not the game whales as the other comment suggests.
by jm__87 | 2025-06-05 19:04:30+00:00
Yea, I get what you're saying. It is unhelpful when people act as if cutting enough calories and/or increasing exercise enough won't lead to weight loss, because obviously it will. Insufficient motivation is definitely a problem for a lot of people, but I think it is also possible to be so metabolically deranged that motivation actually becomes a secondary issue when you have very strong hormonal signals telling you that you need to eat more.
by soulofmischief | 2025-06-05 19:04:42+00:00
Yeah, it's definitely a piece to the puzzle. I still think it's not so hard to prove that increasingly technical literacy, outlawing deceptive UX and language that prey on information asymmetry, and providing increased autonomy with more fine-grained and visible security controls is a net win for the population, whether or not this particular method of Google's is effective enough against spam compared to some baseline.
by skybrian | 2025-06-05 19:04:51+00:00
Maybe just the ones that could be used to send all your money to scammers from your bank account or crypto wallet?

Computers are cheap these days. You can buy a Raspberry Pi to hack on and use something else for your money. If you like hacking on smart phones, carrying more than one phone is an option. You don’t need root access on every device you own.
by octo888 | 2025-06-05 19:05:52+00:00
And how funny - I just got an email from Meta about Instagram:

"Legitimate interests is now our legal basis for using your information to improve Meta Products"

Fun read https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy?section_id=7-WhatIsO...

But don't worry, "None of these allow you to just willy-nilly send/sell info to third parties." !
by mvdtnz | 2025-06-05 19:05:52+00:00
Nobody should be "financing" the app store, it's a ludicrous position that Apple has somehow convinced you people to accept. Apple should optionally provide their payments system for a reasonable price comparable to other payment providers (a low single digit percentage) and that's it.

The idea that you pay to have your merchandise in someone else's store and then keep paying a commission for any ongoing revenue beyond the point of sale is ridiculous and I can't believe even a single person agreed to do it.
by readdit | 2025-06-05 19:06:14+00:00
I like and use HyperDX in production and like it a lot. So kudos to the team for building and merging with Clickhouse. I found a lot of monetary value switching over to HyperDX considering it's significantly more cost efficient for our needs.

Should we be starting to prepare for the original HyperDX product to be deprecated and potentially move over to ClickStack?
by qeternity | 2025-06-05 19:06:17+00:00
> At even a $300B valuation a typical wall street analysts would want to value them at 2x sales which would mean they'd expect OpenAI to have $600B in annual sales to account for this valuation when they go public.

Lmfao where did you get this from? Microsoft has less than half of that revenue, and is valued > 10x than OpenAI.

Revenue is not the metric by which these companies are valued...
by zb3 | 2025-06-05 19:06:24+00:00
I'm tired of this crap where companies constantly restrict my freedom in the name of security.. the same thing happened to Chromium, where Google decided that MV2 was "insecure" so with MV3 we alsi lost the webRequestBlocking api which had nothing to do with that..

Hey, listen, I don't fall for these obvious scams and I even rarely install apps/extensions, but when I do, I know what I'm doing.

There should be a giant "OPT OUT" button (you press it, you're responsible for it) so I'd not be bothered ever again.
by jmsdnns | 2025-06-05 19:06:48+00:00
I'm curious to understand the nature of what you're working on better.

Whether or not AI performs well is influenced both by the work you're doing and how experienced you are in it. AI performs better when the work is closer to mainstream work than novel work. It also performs better with lower level instructions, eg. being more specific. As for experience, there are two things: people with less experience get a bigger lift than those with lots of experience, or people wiht lots of experience get a lift by having AI doing the work they don't want to do, which is often unittests and comments or writing the bobdyllionth api endpoint.

I read your post the other day and appreciated the optimism, but I wasn't able to work out what kind of work you've been doing since leaving Sentry.
by bsimpson | 2025-06-05 19:06:49+00:00
It's also unclear why this post even exists, except as simple marketing FUD.

> Powered by PureOS, a Debian-based Linux operating system, the Librem 5 and Liberty Phones

Can their devices run APKs? The only Linux distro I know of that does is Sailfish, whose weird licensing model makes it really hard to take advantage of unless you have an obscure, obsolete phone and flash it with the image they sell.

To their credit, Purism has invested more into touch Linux with Phosh than most others in the space have, but Linux on a touchscreen is still a befuddlingly garbage experience.

Unless their experience is impacted by the features they're writing about (which it doesn't sound like it is), this post is just trying to make its mainstream alternative sound bad in the hopes that someone buys their crap instead.
Show HN: Andi – AI language tutor with a 3D talking teacher (Realtime API)
by thekotik | 2025-06-05 19:08:05+00:00
I vibe-coded Andi — a browser-based AI language tutor where you practice with a 3D talking teacher in real time. It's built with the Realtime API, WebRTC (via LiveKit), and Three.js, Next.js plus a custom lipsync animation system. The biggest challenge was performance — running smooth 3D and real-time audio in-browser is brutal. I ended up designing a lightweight 30MB character model (down from 500MB) to make it usable on the web.

It’s desktop-only for now. Mobile browsers don't have enough performance for heavy 3d models. If browser version gets stuck, just reload the lesson. Chrome is better then Safari.

Would love feedback on: – Whether this tool can find real product–market fit in such a crowded space – How you’d approach bringing this to mobile (iOS especially)? In my experience Apple libraries don't work well for heavy hyperrealistic models. Unity seems the only reliable option rn. – Better ways to optimize or rethink this stack for 3D + realtime audio?
by tempestn | 2025-06-05 19:08:14+00:00
It's been a long time since I read the books, but I recall thinking the same as you. And I'm not sure it does entirely make sense, but the world today has made me realize that both people in charge and the population at large can do incredibly damaging things, even directly against their own interests, that appear to make no sense at all. So even if something truly does make no sense, that doesn't make it unrealistic.

That said, I do vaguely recall things making at least somewhat more sense eventually, but I've basically forgotten all the significant plot details (I'm not even 100% certain I finished the series; I may have caught up with the author and then forgotten about it), so I'm basically experiencing it all again for the first time.
by abraxas | 2025-06-05 19:08:33+00:00
At 86kg I had a bit of dad bod going on. Not a huge gut but somewhat pudgy here and there. Not hugely so and not overly visible as most of it was visceral fat. I haven't had an ultrasound since losing the weight. I hope the liver looks better now. I've been eating fewer calories, healthier calories and swimming. Hopefully that's enough to at least halt the damage done by my old lifestyle.
by throw-vibec0d3 | 2025-06-05 19:08:46+00:00
I made a quick throwaway to share my anecdote.

I'm at a YC company. We have a dev team < 15 engineers. We all expressed concerns about going full vibe coding, so the technical co-founder hired a bunch of vibe coders and has them on a private "SEAL team" building vibe coded monstrosities without any regard to safety, integrating with our main product, hosting consistency, or anything else.

I don't know if this is anyone else's experience. But I'm WAY more concerned about vibe coding than others seem to be just due to my proximity to the nonsense.
by smeej | 2025-06-05 19:09:27+00:00
It has, but in an accidental way, in a, "Shit happens," sort of way, not in a, "My parents looked at me, decided I was faulty, and never gave me a chance," sort of way.

This is much more akin to the old practice of leaving babies to die by exposure if they seemed sickly/weak, which still turns my stomach.

I think it would even be a different thing to me if we were screening sperm and ova for their genes and only combining the best sets than screening the embryos.
by sodapopcan | 2025-06-05 19:09:44+00:00
Processes are only overloaded in that they are a primitive. I'm not sure if this is what you're implying, but a single process shouldn't be doing all those jobs at once. For example only supervisors should be dealing with error isolation. As for sending large amounts of data between processes, I can only speak really generally here, but one common way is to flip the script and send functions to the data instead of the other way around but ya, bigger topic! When I say for "free" I mean more like my sibling comment where you don't have to think about every possible way something can fail.
by d4mi3n | 2025-06-05 19:09:52+00:00
One example off the top of my head: eating lots of protein to build muscle can be hard on the liver.

Exercising a lot is generally healthy, but high impact exercises (running comes to mind) can cause your joints to wear out a lot faster.

This is all also assuming an average, healthy person with no existing medical conditions. Things get trickier if you have exertional asthma, any kind of condition that can cause fatigue, etc.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-06-05 19:10:21+00:00
> Most of the people were replying with stuff like "why can't you just do <something that involves lots of CLI and more than an hour ro so>" or on the lines of it.

More than an hour? That's very strange, enough that I wonder if you had the right impression of things.

Usually the reason to go with command line is that even though it might be bewildering to look at, slamming in the command only takes a moment and you don't need to do any button-hunting.

It's a tradeoff, is what I'm saying. But you seem to be describing a situation where it's significantly worse in every way. Why would a bunch of people all be on that bad plan?