MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pjerem | 2025-06-12 09:28:35+00:00
That’s not my use case but even if it were true : is the current design broken ? Can’t even the Snow Leopard version do the job of "just browsing the download folder" and allow more "advanced" users to have a decent tool ?

I mean, sure, usages changed (even if not for everyone) but even for someone "just browsing downloads", the new design is not better.

Changing/modernizing the general theme of the OS ? Changing colors ? Textures ? Fonts ? I’m not against it and it’s an age old tradition at this point. But why mess with the general organisation / visual clues / layout to make it less functional especially when your users are already happy with the current design ?

It’s change for the sake of change, not to build a better tool for the user.
by benjojo12 | 2025-06-12 09:29:39+00:00
Claiming that AS60068 is not a "EU" because of "GB" code on their whois is really quite an ignorant way of determining that claim.

With that being said actually depends on what is good enough for you, but it's relatively clear that the DNS resolver IPs that are looking up are based in the czech republic.

As I mentioned in another comment "207 Regent Street" (the address in their whois) is a well known virtual office type address in the UK.

As someone (who himself is admittedly in the UK) who is desperately trying to move more more to European products, this kind of absolutism it's just really exhausting on should really be a shared goal. I will happily use/buy good services from the UK,EU,Swiss,etc etc if they are comparable (even just for my own feature use case) to the US ones.
by masfoobar | 2025-06-12 09:32:56+00:00
I was a Firefox OS user around the 2011-2016 era -- somewhere around there. I was using it for about 5 years.. and very happy!

To me it was money well spent. About £50 (CTE Open???) for a firefox phone and it covered all I needed at that time. Calls, Text, Games.. and allowed html5 projects, which I created to do things with my home server. At the time, it was just a WIN-WIN as I could not be asked to create Android apps.

I was sad when Firefox no longer supported it. Evenutally, I finally jumped in the Android world. I dont think my reasons were entirely about Firefox, but because I was changing my roles and resposibilities at work and had to make/answer more calls that ever. My Pay as you go scheme was not suitable anymore so decided to buy contract.

I was proud holding off for as long as I could but in todays world where I need WhatsApp, MSTeams, VPN, etc.. I doubt I would have stayed on FirefoxOS if still going strong today. Alternatively I could just ask for a Company Phone. LOL.

Overall, the Firefox phone was nice. A bit quirky in places but for the hardware at the time (compared to what was on the market) it was pretty cool.

Some people laughed at me with their IPhone of Galaxy.. but I didn't care.

I do keep my eye on other Open Source/Free phones. Honestly, if there is a performant phone that is affordable and runs GNOME smoothly (and nice experience) I honestly would consider it.. as long as the apps mentioned above can run.
by hn_throw2025 | 2025-06-12 09:33:56+00:00
> too slow to build, too expensive

…and the green movement don’t realise they’re being the useful idiots of the fossil fuel industries, who have been using this attack line for decades because they didn’t want the competition.

If you keep putting off building because it’s “too slow to build”, then guess what - it never gets built.

Would you care to try to reconcile “too expensive” with “you can’t put a price on the planet”?

And nice try with the democratic angle, but the truth more like we have a growing world population with a growing need for abundant, reliable, affordable energy. And yet we’re held hostage by the luxury beliefs of a tiny minority who feel they have a right to govern and want to bask in their perceived virtue.
by transpute | 2025-06-12 09:34:14+00:00
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/6/1.html

> For more than 90 percent of the billings and sales facilitated by the App Store ecosystem, developers did not pay any commission to Apple.

Would the remaining 10 percent of App Store sales have meaningful competition from a CLI (no GUI) terminal VM that enables development workflows on iPad?
by wink | 2025-06-12 09:34:56+00:00
I think it also highly depends on where you're from.

Traditionally in Bavaria you'd have used "Du/Ihr" in shops or on the streets colloquially even decades ago, and yet from time to time you'd ran into people (always from Northern Germany) who seemed very surprised you'd not use "Sie/Ihnen".

Of course I'm overgeneralizing and I think I've had like 2 jobs in my life (since the late 90s) where some people were called Herr/Frau X instead of the just the first name, be it IT or not.
by metalman | 2025-06-12 09:36:05+00:00
...instantly unrememberable.. ...perfect example of asymetric infuence.... it's not actualy famous, no one has ever.......

.....paused.....when they see it ubiquitous grot! and honestly I did not recognise it without the caption, and personaly treat all forced "options" as evidence of the mass attempt to instiutionalise everything. proof would be in the form of having to choose/create a background image durring initial set up, or having the default a black background

but hey, it's 2025, and there are cults of everything, so if there is actualy a fan base for that image, welllllll, ok, but then they have to know that this has not got much general traction
by shawabawa3 | 2025-06-12 09:36:26+00:00
any source on this? It's difficult to find any primary source on her opinion

All her written texts i can find after she moved to France she referred to herself as "Marie"

In her biography of Pierre Curie, she herself wrote of herself before she married "Mon nom est Marie Sklodowska"

here's a letter she wrote to the president and signed simply "Marie Curie" https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/letter-from-mar...
by MrSkelter | 2025-06-12 09:37:15+00:00
You have missed the point.

“Race” is only reliably visible based on skin color for a single generation. You can be a green eyed redhead with a black West African grandparent.

Americans obsession with “race” and racial superiority means that families both lie about their ancestry (turning African ancestors whose features are passed on into “Native American Princesses”) and misidentify themselves by using skin tone as a proxy for nationality.

Even the idea that people can trust unscientific racial indicators is wrong. Ask a Guyanese person where people think they hail from? And before people say that their have distant African ancestors why does that matter? How many generations count and why must we look further when skin colors are dark than when they are fair?

I.e. King Charles is considered English although his recent forebears were German and Churchill had an American mother and is likewise considered fully British. Yet someone of West African descent whose family has lived in the USA since the founding of Jamestown will still be considered “African” in a way more recent pale skinned immigrants are not.

Any discussion built on an unscientific foundation like “race” will lead to ridiculous and contradictory conclusions based solely on skin tone.
by WJW | 2025-06-12 09:37:19+00:00
> Consistency is good but consistent mediocrity is an unworthy ambition in many fields.

Sorry to take only a small part of an otherwise great comment but is this actually true? It seems to me that there is a great many fields in which consistency is more important than excellence, especially if the striving for excellence produces great misses as well sometimes. In a well-designed system with some allowed tolerance, as long as it's good enough you are fine. Take the electricity grid for example: There's no prizes for maintaining the frequency to within a nano-Hertz of the spec. There are very large fines for being outside the spec (+/-0.050 Hertz for the EU grid). Being consistently within spec is much more valuable than occasionally performing much better than the spec.

It is only in extreme winner-takes-all fields like sports, spacefaring and entrepreneuring that being the absolute best is what you want. In most other fields being consistently decent beats out varying excellence. I definitely wouldn't want my dentist to take a risky moonshot in pursuit of excellence, for example.
by cr3cr3 | 2025-06-12 09:39:09+00:00
I consider HN a more serious and knowledgeable crowd, so I try to keep my replies professional and well-reasoned to reflect that. That said, I do like to use AI tools to clean up grammar and phrasing. I also write a lot of whitepapers and technical documentation at work, maybe some of that “leaked” into my response.
by closewith | 2025-06-12 09:40:20+00:00
> Naive question but is Czechia a new name?

Not a new name, but Czechia has made a concerted effort since 2016 to have it used in place of the Czech Republic. Almost all international body and most media style guides have since acceded. The BBC lags.

> To be fair, I don't think this is partisan, but rather just a way to differentiate the state from the island.

No, like the British Isles, this is very much a controversial name and one to which the Irish Government formally objects. This is even the source of a diplomatic disagreement between the Irish Government and Wikipedia due to their style guide.
by benob | 2025-06-12 09:40:47+00:00
> This is not an advertisment for Claude Code. It's just the agent I use at the moment. What else is there? Alternatives that are similar in their user experiences are OpenCode, goose, Codex and many others. There is also Devin and Cursor's background agents but they work a bit different in that they run in the cloud.

What do you recommand to get a Claude-code-like experience in the open-source + local llm ecosystem?
by benterix | 2025-06-12 09:40:48+00:00
And yet we still have communication problems, misunderstandings, people consciously abusing other people, people subconsciously abusing other people, people falling for all possible traps, educated people falling for populist propaganda and so on.

So while your point is valid, I'd say that (1) the experience of humanity doesn't extrapolate to individual experience, (2) as LLMs are trained on the same texts that humans produced, the actual experience is not that much different.
by torginus | 2025-06-12 09:41:26+00:00
This made me think of the 'draw a bike experiment', where people were asked to draw a bike from memory, and were suprisingly bad at recreating how the parts fit together in a sensible manner:

https://road.cc/content/blog/90885-science-cycology-can-you-...

ChatGPT seems to perform better than most, but with notable missing elements (where's the chain or the handlebars?). I'm not sure if those are due to a lack of understanding, or artistic liberties taken by the model?
by zgs | 2025-06-12 09:43:01+00:00
It might be shorter to do some multiplications:

0x08C0C166 = 2⁴ × 3 × 5⁵ × 11 × 89 + 1 = 10⁴ × 3 × 5 × 11 × 89 + 1

Plenty of values that can be reused (11 = 10 + 1 and 89 = 10² - 11).

Still, there is quite a bit of manipulation required and only 17 instructions to do them in.
by cromka | 2025-06-12 09:43:02+00:00
My gym app on my Apple Watch, the AirTag on my cat and my dog, the NotePlan app on my mac/iPhone...

I am personally migrating away from relying on iCloud and successfully so, but once you buy into an ecosystem, you end up entangled on so many levels that it's nearly impossible to move away with serious friction and habit-altering compromises. It becomes a serious cognitive load.
by benterix | 2025-06-12 09:43:45+00:00
> IMHO the next actual OS design innovation isnt stylistic, its AI integration and everyone knows it.

I'd be careful with "everyone" in this context. So far, almost every review I read/watched sees Apple Intelligence as underwhelming at the very least (I ignore the backlash at the ad campaign as I believe Apple understood by now these ads were really stupid).
by AndroTux | 2025-06-12 09:45:10+00:00
A little bit off-topic, but regarding this (sarcastic) quote:

> Europeans can’t do web and mail. There is absolutely no provider here who can do such complicated tasks.

We really can't, though. Because it's not just web and mail, it's Cloudflare and Google Workspace. There just are no EU alternatives for this. There just aren't. You can do parts of it, of course, but if you're running a business, you can't waste endless resources on building your own internal Cloudflare and Google Workspace alternative.

This is a real problem and I wish there were more real alternatives to services like these. Even Proton, which arguably replaces parts of Google Workspace, isn't even EU-based.
by lutusp | 2025-06-12 09:45:33+00:00
> Or do you assert trees don't produce fruit in response to good growing conditions?

That's correct -- it's not a response as that term is defined, indeed use of the word "response" implies a misunderstanding of natural selection and suggests inheritance of acquired traits.

In a population of trees in the same environment, some produce more fruit due to random genetic variations between individuals. For chemical and biological reasons those specific trees blindly ascend over other genotypes and are over time more likely to prevail over those less fit. That's not a response as we understand the word, it's a product of mathematics and genetics.

> In response to the rock falling, a large sound was produced, and it startled a fox that heard it. No anthropomorphism.

In fact, assuming we assign a human emotion to the fox, as you did, that would be an example of anthropomorphizing.
by gnat | 2025-06-12 09:45:52+00:00
I feel like you're saying that education (as practiced by the US military) is a somewhat reliable process for taking unskilled people and making them skilled. I agree.

The US Military have admissions criteria. They bounce people out in Basic Training and in every other part of training. Not everyone gets to be an ATC, a pilot, or a nuclear specialist. Air Traffic Control turns out not to be a process you can put an unskilled person into. It requires training and careful integration, and once you have a skilled person with many hours invested in them, perhaps you can let them direct traffic.

Training isn't a magic process that takes unskilled people who don't care and delivers great results every time. The equivalent in our world would be "I'll hire cheap people who don't know how to program, put them through a Bootcamp process, and then I'll have great programmers." That didn't work.

I am trying to say that: every version of programming where there's been The Process You Just Have To Follow (from Jackson Structured Design) has failed significantly and hasn't been a substitute for hiring smart people who care. If someone came to me with a business plan that was "hire mediocre people who don't care, and we'll achieve great results because of My Process", I'd be veeeeery skeptical indeed.
by al_borland | 2025-06-12 09:46:58+00:00
I submitted a feature request to Apple to allow silencing the ringer for anyone who isn’t in my Contacts list. A year later with the next major update, the “Silence Unknown Callers” feature came to iOS. It appears it worked, either that or it was just a wild coincidence. Of course many other feature requests I’ve submitted over the years still do not exist, such as a global toggle for explicit vs clean music (when it’s just me I always want the original version, but if there are kids in the car, I want an easy way to clean everything up).

I know someone else who has called Apple’s support line and spoken with engineers on bugs that were uncovered. He then got follow up emails to install the latest macOS update as it contained a fix to the bug he stumbled across.
by fvdessen | 2025-06-12 09:47:28+00:00
I find it excellent news that all the techniques that make agentic coding more efficient also make human coding more efficient. There was a worry that code would become big mud balls that only AI understand, but it looks like the opposite. Clear code is important for AI productivity, so it now matters even more, because the difference of productivity is immediately and objectively measurable. Before AIs what code was well factored or not was largely a matter of opinion. Now you can say; look how better Claude works on codebase A vs codebase B, and present your case with numbers.
by ETH_start | 2025-06-12 09:47:53+00:00
What you just described isn’t spin. The requirement clearly applies only to the able-bodied. You’re saying being able-bodied doesn’t guarantee you can get a job—so you're arguing the requirement is unfair. I completely disagree. In this economy, anyone can get a job. Welfare—whether it’s taxpayer-funded medical care, cash payments, or food stamps—should never be unconditional. It’s funded by people who are compelled under threat of imprisonment to pay taxes. No one is entitled to it.
AI Healthspan Prediction: Leading the Future with Avio Health's Agentic AI
by emmanol | 2025-06-12 09:48:24+00:00
The future of medicine is not reactive. It’s predictive. Avio Health is ushering in that future with the launch of its proprietary Agentic AI — a breakthrough deep-learning platform designed to predict your health span, not just treat illness after it appears.

“Most healthcare systems still wait until something goes wrong,” says Dr. Elvin Siew, founder of Avio Health. “You only see a specialist after symptoms show up. You get blood tests that show isolated numbers but not the bigger picture of what’s coming next.”

Avio Health’s Agentic AI changes that narrative.

This advanced system utilizes decades of medical records, lab tests, symptom patterns, and lifestyle data to predict the future of your health before any deterioration occurs. It provides both doctors and patients with a powerful new perspective, allowing them not only to understand the current state of health but also to foresee potential future conditions.

"Avio's Agentic AI leverages multimodal deep learning to transform fragmented health data into predictive, precision diagnostics — enabling preemptive intervention before clinical onset."

At the heart of this technology is Clinical Correlation, a proprietary AI engine that acts like a digital health detective. It analyzes hormone fluctuations, inflammation markers, cardiovascular metrics, and even long-forgotten test results, weaving them together into a timeline of your biological aging and functional capacity.

Instead of generic warnings like “Your cholesterol is high,” the system provides contextual insights such as:

“Your cardiovascular aging risk is increasing. Here’s what triggered it — and here’s your personalized intervention plan.”

By using AI to connect the dots across fragmented data sources, Agentic AI brings true precision to longevity care, making personalized, proactive healthcare finally scalable.

“Living longer is good,” says Dr. Siew. “But living well—with vitality, clarity, and energy-that ‘s the real win. That’s what we’re helping doctors and clinics deliver around the world.”

Avio Health is actively transforming the healthcare landscape by providing an enterprise-level AI infrastructure. It empowers healthcare institutions, clinical laboratories, and diagnostic networks to turn data overload into valuable, actionable insights. By integrating advanced multimodal machine learning, including OCR, LLMs, and vision-language models, Avio enables these organizations to rapidly process and interpret vast volumes of complex medical data, automate clinical correlation, and deliver predictive and precise insights at scale.
by benterix | 2025-06-12 09:49:34+00:00
> The pro-nuclear cult is certainly irritating. Still stuck on a technology which can't help us much in the current climate predicament (too slow to build, too expensive) and which we repeatedly failed to manage.

An important point is that while we can and should maximize renewable sources as dominating energy sources, we still need stable backup for fluctuations - for days where there is little wind and little sun. We don't yet have practical energy storage technologies that would allow us to eliminate this problem.
Ask HN: Minecraft's UI element style (vs. modern flat glass interface)
by xeonmc | 2025-06-12 09:50:01+00:00
Given the recent WWDC announcement of Apple’s Liquid Glass design language and the subsequent discussion on their functional usefulness in conveying visual hierarchy of affordances, I’m wondering if some lessons could also be taken from an environment that had evolved in parallel -- that of video game interfaces, whose trend initially started out being a vehicle to facilitate immersion via stylized decorations (see: Warcraft and StarCraft), then underwent a phase of minimalism (reflector sight-esq monochromatic HUD overlays) before finally settling on something that is a mixture of stylized and functional thanks to a design pressure of needing to convey glanceable information during fast-paced gameplay without getting in the way.

For a specific case study I’d like to ask what HN thinks of the UI design language of Minecraft, specifically the semi-3D button and slider looks motivated by a need to convey visual hierarchy given a constrained pixel-art granularity budget.

It utilizes different shades of grey borders to convey a sort of faux surface-normal highlight on beveled edges to indicate whether the element is raised or sunken.

I think this is an interesting innovation of min-maxing the visual complexity budget, perhaps the modern beveled-glass design language could draw some inspirations from here?
by WJW | 2025-06-12 09:50:06+00:00
Where do you get the idea that this is cheap? Militaries are somewhat famous for being incredible money sinks. They need incredibly specific skills that are not really taught in the civilian world. This means the military needs to train everyone at its own cost. So while the input might be "cheap, unskilled idiots", there is then a significant expense to turn them into expensive skilled non-idiots before they are ready for duty.

As someone who worked inside the military for 14 years, it is also quite a stretch to say they consistently get "great" results tbh.
by quantum_magpie | 2025-06-12 09:51:22+00:00
>They should. If your research is publicly funded you should make it as available to be public as possible. Academics should be able to communicate, and I very much doubt they are unable to acquire the skills

So in addition to being:

-professional researchers

-professional teachers

-professional project managers

-professional budget specialists

-professional scientific writers

-a failed idea away from losing it all

They should also become:

-professional PR managers

-professional popular writers

While still being paid (poorly) for a single job of all of these.
by exceptione | 2025-06-12 09:51:30+00:00
KDE + any rolling distro is miles ahead of Windows. So, as a user of both, I read your question with a smirk.

If you would ask if LibreOffice is ready, I would say: yes and no. The UX of LO is worse than MS Office. LO is more feature rich in certain areas but it lacks the UX if you want to get a well-looking document with a minimum amount of work. Case in point: lack of acceptable Impress templates (they look from the year 1994), lack of document themes in Writer, lack of quick table style in Calc.

The UX/UI is in dire need for attention.