MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kmfrk | 2025-06-11 10:16:59+00:00
I think people would probably feel less strongly about design decisions like these if their customization weren't confined to the Accessibility settings.

Same thing goes for, say, the caption settings on tvOS.

It's an interesting UX decision to always confine those settings to just that category when it's perfectly normal to change and customize settings to their own personal preference. But Apple are also big believers in only putting settings in one place, and obviously people with disabilities in particular might become outright unableto use Apple devices and software without them.

But maybe it feels like a design concessions to give people are more direct way to change your design decisions on Apple's part.

People have lots of opinions about Microsoft's designs, but most of them aren't as important when there are (somewhat) straightforward settings to tweak them.
by ben_w | 2025-06-11 10:17:13+00:00
No worries :)

Other than the specific location and the social category of "upper-middle-class", I don't know how to describe my accent. People at school thought I was posh, but I never saw myself that way.

Now I live in Berlin, so I might have started picking up a bit of a German accent (and perhaps an ESL accent if there is such a thing).
by nodesocket | 2025-06-11 10:17:29+00:00
My biggest complaint as a loyal Apple consumer and perhaps maybe more importantly shareholder is… What happened to one more thing? Literally all their events are bland, lacking any explosive or gasps from the crowd. Same old, minor tweaks and dumb innovation such as genmoji. Honestly who’s coming up with this crap?

The last thing Apple did that actually got people excited and real innovation was apple silicon.
by bartread | 2025-06-11 10:18:05+00:00
Yeah, but this also happened to a colleague of mine who created the pug templating package. It's so long ago now that I forget what it was originally called but, basically, he'd chosen a name that infringed somebody else's trademark. I'm not a trademark law expert but the thing about trademarks is they have to be defended or the holder can lose the exclusivity of the mark.

So my friend sensibly caved in and changed the name of the package, got on with his life, and now it's all long forgotten history.

Going back to Kik, before I knew about all the other stuff (which I only found out about when I listened to that Darknet Diaries episode last year - bit late to the party there) I simply thought they'd gone about defending their trademark in a hamfisted and douchey way that had got Azer's back up. Lawyer's gonna lawyer, and the way they did it I thought they were douchebags, but beyond that I didn't give it much consideration. There was certainly no way any of this even hinted to me that they were negligently facilitating the distribution of child porn[0].

[0] Yes, this is obviously against Kik's ToS, but ToS are only worth anything if they're enforced whereas - certainly at times prior to the Darknet Diaries episode being released in 2021 - there was at best inconsistent and ineffective enforcement of these terms. I have no insight into the current situation with Kik.
by hellotheretoday | 2025-06-11 10:20:02+00:00
I watched the video on this and I just really hate that they seemingly market it in a way that is somewhat suggestive of it being a new type of glass. After watching the video I was slightly confused as to whether they were just being grandiose with the name or they had actual new hardware with some fancy glass that was being explained poorly. It’s clearly the former but man that is dumb

I’ll reserve judgement until I can play around with a final release version for a bit. the screenshots so far don’t look great but the idea of minimizing UI elements to maximize content area display does make sense, if it’s done well
by coldpie | 2025-06-11 10:20:17+00:00
I don't subscribe to his paid blogs personally, but Chris Schwarz is one of the best known writers in the woodworking world. I own most of his books, and I wouldn't be a woodworker today if it weren't for his writing. If you like this one article, odds are good you'll enjoy more from him, at least enough to pay for a month subscription or something.

Edit: though now I see this particular article was actually written by their editor/researcher, not Chris, so uh nevermind, maybe.
by Kallocain | 2025-06-11 10:20:34+00:00
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think PLM/PDM are storing the CAD model as "CAD databases" (basically the proprietary file-format) in a Data-Vault. So while not all CAD data is being stored in those files (meta-data for example) those old file-fomats are still in use I think.
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-06-11 10:21:08+00:00
Hello, thank you for reaching out! Yes, the GitHub repository has limited information currently, but we are working on the documentations.

- Xeneva is not intending to be Unix like, but some core principles of Unix are followed.

- Xeneva has its own libc implementation called XECLib that are attached to Xeneva's own system call interface.

- Xeneva supports IPC via shared memory, IPC via socket and IPC via its own message based communication called PostBox IPC. Xeneva currently use framebuffer for Graphics Output, no working video driver is implemented. The framebuffer is mapped onto Windows Managers address space and the Windows Manager composes the final image to framebuffer by writing to that mapped virtual address.

- Xeneva uses PE format for executable,no doubt ELF support can be implemented. XELoader is a dynamic linker and loader process which is responsible for resolving running processes symbols by linking it to its specific shared library. Whenever a new process get spawned,and an executable is loaded, the XELoader loads all required shared libraries and link them to the process.

You can refer to our website - getxeneva.com to get a hint of our future goals and vision.

Thank you, Team XENEVA.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-11 10:21:14+00:00
> I would rather use a library where the librarians don’t have financial incentives to show me certain kinds of books more often than others.

Oh, you sweet summer child...

I have family that used to be in charge of dealing with institutional corruption. In particular, public service corruption.

It's bad. Very, very bad. When "public servants" are paid less than their private counterparts, are routinely treated like crap by their employers, as well as those they serve, and they are in charge of services that could be incredibly lucrative to others, you're guaranteed to get corruption.

"Let's just use AI!" is the rallying cry.

Now, let's examine a scenario, where the folks that can make money from the service, also run the tools that implement the service...
by Bender | 2025-06-11 10:22:17+00:00
This article needs more details. My understanding is that 4chan delegated much of this responsibility to CloudFlare for illicit image detection. I have no idea how comprehensive and reliable their service is and would be curious if anyone else here has used it or is using a self hosted detection model that downloads some type of heuristic database. My reasons are entirely selfish as I still use the old school model of being alerted on POST's and manually review on my tiny sites.
by pro-grammer | 2025-06-11 10:22:33+00:00
Hi everyone,

My name is Adrián and I'm a 13-year-old from Spain who loves to code.

I just finished my biggest project yet: an AI-powered PDF reader that lets you chat with your documents. I built it because I often find it hard to find specific information in long school papers and articles, and thought AI could help.

I wrote a blog post about how and why I built it, and the journey I took to learn everything: https://adrianrubio.org/blog/my-ai-pdf-reader-how-and-why-I-...

The project is open-source, and I would be so grateful for any feedback you have. My goal is to reach 150 stars on GitHub!

Thank you for checking it out!
by averageRoyalty | 2025-06-11 10:22:36+00:00
This is well out of my area of expertise, but isn't illegal immigration a federal issue, and the federal agencies answer to the executive branch?

My understanding of the protests is they're primarily against the removal of illegal immigrants and as Trump has taken control of (?) some state elements that has become a contentious point, but wasn't to begin with.

Normally I'd read up more before discussing with people, but the news article seem pretty blurry on the primary intentions of the protesters and what specifically they are against.
by dustincoates | 2025-06-11 10:24:08+00:00
> Deacons at church were usually on a first name basis (my parents volunteered a lot so I knew them all really well) but the one noticeable exception was the pastor and anyone in a teaching role.

That brings up an actually interesting exception. At my church, the pastors were the only adults we'd ever call by their first name, sort of. Our pastor, for example, was always Brother Mike, not Pastor <Last Name>.
by rlpb | 2025-06-11 10:24:20+00:00
Here in the UK, there is no "legal name" AIUI - just what I am known as that then ends up in my official government documents such as my passport and my driving licence. If I make up a symbol to represent myself, then where are we with GDPR compliance if I demand that symbol be on my official documents?

It seems reasonable to limit compliance to some specific character set. Which character set should it be? Just one that can accurately encode all "official" languages in the region?
by ayush_xeneva | 2025-06-11 10:24:52+00:00
Hello, MSVC seems quite interesting for us. No doubt, the code can be ported to other build environment. For instance, The ARM64 version uses both the advantages of clang and MSVC. The build setup is not so hard, and once setup is completed it can be build within a click.

It's possible to run the system using Hyper-V. Required configuration are clearly mentioned in the documentation. Windows add extra security called Virtualization Based Security which needs to be disabled while running XenevaOS. Xeneva is well tested on VMware Workstation Pro and Virtual Box. We're working on real machine support, making the project to be beyond hobby os project.

XenevaOS is built from ground up with modern computing in mind. We're currently working on bringing it to XR systems (AR/VR devices). Compared to other OS, Xeneva doesn't holds legacy legacy hardware code which make it easy to focus on modern technologies. The project aims to be multi architectured, minimal abstractions in software for better performance and to put user as first priority rather than user fixing software requirements.

You can refer to our website, getxeneva.com to get a hint about our project's purpose, goals and vision!

Thank you, Team XENEVA.
by 9dev | 2025-06-11 10:24:53+00:00
Google has this pesky problem of carrying almost all their eggs in one basket: The moment their ad business doesn’t work anymore, the behemoth that Google is will come down to its knees. But due to the way the company is structured, they need search to drive users to the ads, and it’s all one big mess of entangled revenue streams that can’t be touched for fear of breaking something.

Now if AI turns out to be the next big thing, they can steer differently next time, sell subscriptions, and avoid all that entanglement with multi-sided markets and layered revenue strategies. At least that’s my take.
by skwee357 | 2025-06-11 10:25:05+00:00
I think it outlines a bigger problem we have in the tech industry: innovation for the sake of innovation.

When you have an in-house design team, or development team, you will, inevitably, reach a point where your product is "ready": design was finalized, functionality is there, and aside from minor bug fixes, there is nothing else really to do. Then you ask yourself, what should you do with the in-house teams? The logical answer would be to let them go, or focus on different projects.

But this is not how our industry works. Instead, teams are sitting there, coming up with problems in order to create solutions, because otherwise you are getting paid for doing nothing. This, eventually, leads to enshittification of everything.

This new apple design is one example. Another example is a not-so-recent redesign of whatsapp where they went from blue color scheme to green. It's works for the sake of work.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-06-11 10:26:05+00:00
I haven't found time to watch any of the videos yet. I'm a fan of Alan Moore, but not a writer myself so I'd be watching just to enjoy his piercing insights etc.

By the way, I did find a copy of the videos on the seven seas

(I can't remember if it was Moore that came up with the distinction that humans are the only story-telling ape and that is what makes us so different)
by nlitened | 2025-06-11 10:26:33+00:00
Honestly, it doesn’t look as bad of a redesign as iOS 7 was. I remember people hating the new flat look, and how worse it was by all measures.

But time passes, and a generation of UI designers has grown up who never knew better. Now it’s their turn to be baffled, then they too will just become old and grumpy.
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by incrudible | 2025-06-11 10:27:51+00:00
It was good that this happened. Name squatting is a real problem and when in doubt, err on the side of least surprise. Not having usage statistics was a real problem. Being able to just unpublish was a real problem. Infrastructure relying on trivial 10-liners by opinionated individuals was (and still is) a real problem. Nobody in this situation is truly at fault, because nobody owes anyone anything, yet everyone can learn something from it.
by lantry | 2025-06-11 10:27:56+00:00
> Somehow the "AI boosters" have to come up with a how but the "AI doomers" can just sit back, criticize, and not solution?

as the top level comment pointed out, we have solutions to many of these things, but we choose not to do them. I don't think it's unfair to say "maybe we shouldn't spend billions of dollars on this thing that will probably just reinforce existing power structures".

> Let's be real here, US politics is fucked and none of us knows how to fix it.

Agreed.
by cpach | 2025-06-11 10:29:35+00:00
'tptacek has written about this earlier on HN. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

For comparison, see also the section named Password handling in Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition https://www.latacora.com/blog/2024/07/29/crypto-right-answer...
by probably_wrong | 2025-06-11 10:30:31+00:00
> Monocultures are bad because they eliminate competitive pressure for good design and create single points of failure that affect everyone.

For a practical example of this, the XZ backdoor [1] affected liblzma which is (was?) a dependency for libsystemd, and some distributions patched OpenSSH to include libsystemd. As a result, the decision of putting journal file compression functionality directly into your init system means that a significant portion of all Linux systems out there came this close to being backdoored.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39911311
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by PaulKeeble | 2025-06-11 10:31:04+00:00
Its just fashions. UI's have been going through multiple phases of fashions where accessibility and basic function is often sacrificed to have a different look. Windows didn't need all the colour and style changes its gone through, neither has Android and neither did iOS. These aren't changes for a good reason they are just fashions.

The longer I watch the tech industry the more I realise its going through these fashion and hype cycles.
by amiga386 | 2025-06-11 10:31:13+00:00
The utility function just has to fit your use case, and can be easily refactored as it lives in a local context.

The package has to have a public API, meet millions of different people's use cases, and any change to the API will cause millions of man-hours of useless work... and yet if it's a poorly designed API, it might cause millions of sub-optimal programs.

Every project has a StringUtils file. But every project's StringUtils file is different.

Published packages in an ecosystem ought to be well-designed, with good performance, good APIs, good security. Packages that don't meet that bar ought to be kept out. npm is jarring because it let any old shit get published, despite there being long-standing package ecosystems in other languages with much better standards, that they could have copied from (CPAN, PyPi, RubyGems, Maven Central, NuGet Gallery, etc.)
by careful_ai | 2025-06-11 10:32:33+00:00
We faced similar roadblocks while building out a robust LLM evaluation pipeline—especially around real-time monitoring, human oversight, and making the tools accessible to product teams, not just engineers.

What helped us was integrating 'AppMod.AI', specifically the Project Analyzer feature. It’s designed to simplify complex enterprise app evaluation and modernization. For us, it added three big wins: - Real-time, accurate code analysis (we're seeing close to 90% accuracy in code reviews). - AI-generated architectural diagrams, feature breakdowns, and summaries that even non-dev folks could grasp. - Human-in-the-loop chat layer that allows real-time clarification, so we can validate subjective or business-specific logic without delays

We also leaned on its code refactor and language migration capabilities to reduce manual workload and close some major skill gaps in older tech stacks—cut our project analysis time from ~5 days to just 1.

It’s not just about evals; the broader AppMod.AI platform helped us unify everything from assessment to deployment. Not perfect, but a meaningful step up from the spreadsheets + scripts cycle we were stuck in.
by t_mahmood | 2025-06-11 10:32:33+00:00
I was not clear, apologies, I meant to say, I feel the corporate control over things should go away.

AI is definitely not going away. But I feel it could be like how it was in 90s, when people can get their hands on a computer and do amazing things. Yes, I know corporate existed then, but I think it was not this direct, and sinister as it is now.

Many of the corporates that are trying to getting rid of employees in favor of AI, So they might lose a huge ground to someone who keeps the old school way going while leveraging AI in a more practical way, and general people will soon realize it's not what they're being fed, and revert, but it's not that easy for the big ones to rollback.

Which might end the corporate control over many of the things.

This is what I meant, but I am sleepy and tired, failed to articulate properly, hopefully the gist of it was clear.
by formerly_proven | 2025-06-11 10:33:58+00:00
We tried to handle hard-links correctly ~ten years ago in a backup tool and even back then it was "well obviously you have to use (dev, ino, gen), not just (dev, ino), that's moronic!" and we're like... "so where do we get the generation number?". There actually was an ext4 ioctl to do so, but at least back then it was only implemented by ext4. IME it's a pretty consistent pattern with unixy/linux filesystems that what you can do with the normal APIs is wrong/incorrect/full of bugs and race conditions, while what you're "obviously supposed to do" instead is some absurd fs-specific concoction or just straight up isn't exposed by the kernel.
by zikduruqe | 2025-06-11 10:35:04+00:00
And Lowe's (hardware store) has signed an agreement with them to put them on their properties. Vote with your wallets.

"Retail giant Lowe’s is another customer, according to two former Flock employees and confirmed by the company. Scott Draher, vice president of asset protection at Lowe’s, said in a statement that Flock cameras are “just one example of a multifaceted approach” to combat shoplifting. He declined to comment on how many of its stores have Flock cameras or if it provides camera feeds to law enforcement."

https://ourcommunitynow.com/P/americas-biggest-mall-owner-is...
by pcthrowaway | 2025-06-11 10:35:48+00:00
I also have a few qualms with it:

1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.
by api | 2025-06-11 10:37:22+00:00
Where do you live?

I lived in Orange County CA at the start of the pandemic and moved to Cincinnati in the great diaspora. Went shopping in both places. Was never asked about a vaccine. I did have to mask up.

I don’t recall being asked about a vaccine anywhere. If I worked certain jobs I can imagine it, and those would be jobs where it would make sense.

There are countries that had a stricter response, but this is a US centric discussion. Hearing Americans complain about lock downs makes me roll my eyes. The USA did not have “lock downs” outside a few very dense metros you were free to leave at any time.