MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jtsummers | 2025-06-13 22:41:57+00:00
Apple's annual profit is around $180 billion right now. It'll be fine without the $20 billion from Google even if it does mean the share price goes down a bit for a couple years.

Look at the other side of the transaction, though. Google is going to be saving $20 billion a year and will be able to actually invest it in something other than buying a default. With $20 billion a year, unless they're grossly incompetent, they ought to be able to spend it on something that makes people want to use them as the default rather than be forced to use them as the default.
by BeetleB | 2025-06-13 22:42:23+00:00
Open questions require more thought from your interlocutors, and they tend to prefer that you participate at the same level. Asking questions has almost no cognitive load. Answering them (especially open ended ones) have a significant amount of cognitive load.

People will engage more if you are putting in the effort. Right now you have at least two comments hinting that you need to define what you are talking about. Yet you have not done that.
by WaltPurvis | 2025-06-13 22:43:22+00:00
Do knowledge cutoff dates matter anymore? The cutoff for o3 was 12 months ago, while the cutoff for Claude 4 was five months ago. I use these models mostly for development (Swift, SwiftUI, and Flutter), and these frameworks are constantly evolving. But with the ability to pull in up-to-date docs and other context, is the knowledge cutoff date still any kind of relevant factor?
by giantg2 | 2025-06-13 22:44:03+00:00
Ageism is a huge problem, especially for some groups. If you have a disability, you might be stuck at non-terminal levels. This causes the hiring managers to question why someone with over 10 years experience, greying hair, and good creds (masters, multiple certs, etc) is applying for a mid-level role. There must be something wrong if you're not a senior. Well, yeah, that's kind of the definition of a disability.
by wileydragonfly | 2025-06-13 22:44:03+00:00
Which is the only good take… if there wasn’t “something promising” with the idea, people wouldn’t have kept at it. There’s only so much time you’re going to waste on pure fantasy before you move on. The whole ordeal had me quite upset as I was supporting studies looking at this, and the patients are beyond desperate for any treatment. None of us got rich.
by anon373839 | 2025-06-13 22:44:30+00:00
I haven’t downloaded the beta, but from what I can see in the demos, Liquid Glass dynamically adjusts the properties of the overlay (text color, background blur, alpha, fill) based on what is underneath so that the illusion of transparency is there but the text is still readable. The only time this doesn’t seem to happen is while in animation / scrolling. The adjustment comes after the movement stops.

All of the outrage screenshots I’ve seen appeared to have been taken during animation.
by yencabulator | 2025-06-13 22:45:15+00:00
"Looking for vulnerabilities" is not really a core part of creating secure software. That part of the infosec trashfi^Windustry is all about already deployed software.

You can only get somewhere close to creating secure software by constructing something that is secure by design. Think narrow-interface sandboxes and encoding visibility scopes into types, not "scan for known bad things".
by throwawaymaths | 2025-06-13 22:45:36+00:00
he was not in the trenches in 2003. in 2003 we were working in an Alzheimer's lab and everyone in our lab at least was expressing suspicion that there was something wrong with the hypothesis. pretty much every internal lab meeting started with "the amyloid hypothesis is... [this statement exists because our funding stream] though it is not conclusively proven, wink wink"
by philipkglass | 2025-06-13 22:46:32+00:00
YC-backed [1] micro-reactor company Oklo won the RFP to supply an Alaskan air base with nuclear power to replace its current coal based energy system. Oklo has come a long way. They were part of the Summer 2014 batch according to their YC profile. Three years ago they suffered a hiccup when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission rejected their application to build and operate a reactor in Idaho:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29937836

They still need NRC approval, but replacing coal with nuclear power on a cold, remote air base is a great application for a micro-reactor.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/oklo
by corimaith | 2025-06-13 22:46:37+00:00
Meta has done great work on the underlying technology of the metaverse, but what they really need is a killer app. And I don't think Meta or really Silicon Valley types have the proper institutional ability or really cultural acumen to achieve it. We think back to Horizon Worlds that looked more like a amateur weekend asset flip than the product of a billion dollar conglomerate.

If it does come, it will likely come from the gaming industry, building upon the ideas of former mmorpgs and "social" games like Pokemon Go. But recent string of AAA disasters should obviously tell you that building a good game is often orthogonal to the amount of funding or technical engineering. It's creativity, and artistic passion, and that's something that someone who spends their entire life in the real world optimizing their TC for is going to find hard to understand.
by xlii | 2025-06-13 22:46:53+00:00
Lately I’ve been dabbling with different Prolog implementations and Constraint Handling Rules which led me to CLIPS [0] (in Public Domain, but developed at NASA - sounds neat doesn’t it?)

It’s not very easy to get into, but it’s very fast on rule resolution and being pure C is easy to integrate. I’m trying to get smart code parsing using logic language and this seems promising. I’m also a Lisp nerd so that works for me :)

[0]: https://www.clipsrules.net/
by coldtea | 2025-06-13 22:46:58+00:00
Title authors rarely pick "title, subtitle, summary", editors do.

It makes sense that the title and summary would restate the same thing - the main point of the article.

And what you considered as the first paragraph (in calling out "first two paragraphs") is in fact what's called a pull-out, an extract of the article that's also in the body (a part that sums something up, a quote, etc).

Sometimes the reason for such duplication is that those serve different purposes in different views (main post page vs listing vs RSS feed vs archive vs picture grid article list vs the mobile "responsive" layout, etc).

The problem here is that the layout is badly designed: the summary could be ommited, and the pull-out shouldn't appear on top of the article, with minimal distinction (just larger type and italics) but preferably in a box somewhere further down for those skimming the post.
by taylodl | 2025-06-13 22:50:27+00:00
It's time for the entire computer industry to wisen up to one important fact: the party is over. Our phones are good enough. Our tablets are good enough. Our laptops are good enough. It took us 40 years to get here, but here we are.

I think there's still viability in eyewear, but they need to solve the problem of how to make your phone do the compute and the eyewear be a wireless display. Then a whole new world of applications will open up.

Until then, services is about all anybody has. Cloud storage. Movies and shows. Music. Fitness. News. It's kind of lame, but it's putting food on tables.
by Uehreka | 2025-06-13 22:51:14+00:00
> I think this is a pipe dream. There's a lot of money behind Unity and Unreal, that buys a lot of developers.

I don’t think it’s a pipe dream. I watched Blender slowly build up from a “nice thing for hobbyists” to “actually kind of professional grade” to “the tool used to make an Oscar-winning film”. Blender and its Foundation provide a blueprint for how open source projects can mount a meaningful challenge in a highly complex and cutthroat space, and anyone looking to do the same for game engines should study their moves.

> This is just a bad faith attack on the Godot's team

I may have been rude, but I was not arguing in bad faith. The decisions they’ve made and their fumbled execution (I could rant for an hour about GDScript’s copious footguns and bad design choices) do not comport with what I expect from a project that wants to one day take on Unity and Unreal.

If Godot is in fact just a fun little hobbyist thing, then yeah, they don’t deserve this level of vitriol from me. But if that’s the case, their community needs to stop overhyping them and suggesting Godot every time people have complaints about Unity/Unreal.
by coderjames | 2025-06-13 22:51:37+00:00
> I always thought it was weird that I had to apply with my transcripts and resume.

I similarly thought it weird when Garmin asked me for transcripts when I applied there a few years ago. It had been 15 years since I'd graduated, so I was lucky I still had a couple copies of my official transcripts from back then. After spending the effort to find and scan them in with my 3.8 GPA, didn't even get a phone screen.
by seltzered_ | 2025-06-13 22:52:58+00:00
Related articles:

- The great brain clearance and dementia debate - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00962-y (2025)

- The Devastating Legacy of Lies in Alzheimer’s Science - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/alzheimers-fraud-... (2025), referencing the book Doctored https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctored_(book)

- The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades - https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarte... (2019, by the late Sharon Begley)
by zargon | 2025-06-13 22:53:08+00:00
You’re mixing theism/atheism with gnosticism/agnosticism. They’re two separate axes.

> In practice, atheists are people who think they know there is no god.

This is generally labeled “gnostic atheism” or “strong atheism”, and only a teeny tiny fraction of people who identify as atheists take this view.

The way the vast majority of atheists use the term is as the complement set to theism. Theists believe in god(s). Atheists lack belief in gods. We don’t claim to know for certain, we just haven’t seen evidence that leads us to believe. (As you say, certainty level regarding any particular god varies depending on which one is in question.)

https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/about-atheism/
by renewiltord | 2025-06-13 22:53:24+00:00
LLM sycophancy is a really annoying tool, but one must imagine that most humans get a lot of pleasure from it. This is probably the optimization function that led to Google being useless to us: the rest of humanity is a lot more worthwhile to Google and they all want the other thing. The Tyranny of the Majority, if you will.

The LLM anti-sycophancy rules also break down over time, with the LLM becoming curt while simultaneously deciding that you are a God of All Thoughts.
by paxys | 2025-06-13 22:54:10+00:00
For sure, so many of its features were far ahead of the competition. Sleek minimilist UX, live tiles, Qi wireless charging, kids mode, Cortana, search within settings (so simple yet no one did it at the time). Continuum let you plug your phone into a monitor and use it like a full Windows desktop (many years before Samsung Dex and other similar efforts on Android). "Universal apps" that could run on desktop/mobile/web. Sucks that Microsoft fumbled it so bad.
by Centigonal | 2025-06-13 22:55:39+00:00
This argument gets invoked a lot when it comes to medical dishonesty, but I really don't think it applies in the case of ME/CFS. If we could find the pathology behind the condition, there is huge money to be made in pharmaceutical treatments. Just look at the enormous amount of money being made treating auto-immune illnesses with Humira/Skyrizi/Xeljanz/etc, treating diabetes with GLP-1 agonists and CGMs, and treating obesity with GLP-1 agonists (and depression before all that!). Sometimes treating the chronically ill is the most profitable option.
by Penguin_ | 2025-06-13 22:56:18+00:00
Not new visually, yeah. Aero and Glassmorphism walked so this could run.

What Apple’s doing here feels deeper. It’s not just a style layer, it’s starting to drive how the UI behaves. Motion, depth, and light are all working together to create more emotion in the interface.

Could be overkill, could be the start of something bigger. Time will tell.
by makeitdouble | 2025-06-13 22:57:20+00:00
Two points stand out in that demo video:

- most of the close look examples are on very simple buttons with a single geometric shapes, like ">" or "□". Those will be legible even in pretty extreme conditions, and we can't expect real world applications to be mostly composed of those.

Imagine the screen at 11:51 with a "Select" as the button text instead of the geometrical icons. It wouldn't be great.

- text is only presented on very low contrast areas. When scrolling the elephant picture around 9:30 to show the title go dark -> light for instance, it's a switch between a very pale background to a very saturated one, and they stop the scrolling when the title is against the darkest part of the image, where it's the most legible.

It's not just the implementation IMHO, in a real application you can't adjust every screen and interaction to only hit the best absolute conditions to make Liquid Glass look good. The whole idea behind it is just harder to look good in real world, short of giving up and going for very low transparency.
by godelski | 2025-06-13 22:57:37+00:00
I want to second this.

The big lesson is recognizing how far a little help goes.

Often it's not much for the person who gave you help, but the result cascades. Nobody is completely self made. We do a lot of work to push ourselves forward but it still relies on other people.

So as you grow, take a chance on others. Don't just look at who they are but who they want to become. The world is full of gates that are extremely difficult to pass through but trivial to hold open for others. It can be making introductions, passing along a resume, or just taking the time to say hi and be friendly.

Recognize that the world is noisy and that these little things help us navigate. We solve big problems by breaking them down into many little problems, so it should be easy to understand how solving little problems makes progress towards solving big ones. Even if you don't know what that big problem is. Just try to make the world a better place. Recognize your struggles and when you can, help others to not face the same issues. You can't solve everything and you won't be perfect, but as you've recognized, a little can go a long way. So do that.

People aren't born wizards. We all start as noobs. Don't forget the journey
by microtherion | 2025-06-13 22:57:43+00:00
I believe you are mistaken, in several aspects:

1) Entry level watch models were available for about $400 right away, which is still more or less the starting point (though due to inflation, that's a bit cheaper now, of course).

2) Luxury models (>$1K price) are still available, now under the Hermès co-branding.

The one thing that was only available in the initial release were the "Edition" models at a >$10K price point, but there was speculation that this was more of an anchoring message (to place the watch as a premium product) and never a segment meant to be sustained.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Watch
by dooglius | 2025-06-13 22:58:24+00:00
The interesting part to me (I have a background in both math+programming) isn't so much the encoding of computation but that one can work around the independence of goodstein's theorem in this self-referential way. I think this implies that PA+"PA is omega-consistent" can prove goodstein's theorem, and perhaps can more generally do transfinite induction up to epsilon_0? EDIT: I think just PA+"PA is consistent" is enough?
by Salgat | 2025-06-13 22:59:02+00:00
There are approximately 390,000 H1B tech workers in the US. H1B is meant for roles where American workers are not available to fill the job (which is obviously being abused). The tax deduction issue that this post is about is specifically about exacerbating the loss of jobs. Fixing H1B would solve this job issue many times over.
by hollerith | 2025-06-13 23:00:02+00:00
“Gnostic atheism” is a confusing choice of words because in the context of Christianity, "gnostic" already means something quite different:

>Gnosticism is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among early Christian sects. These diverse groups emphasized personal spiritual knowledge above the teachings, traditions, and authority of religious institutions.
by spankibalt | 2025-06-13 23:01:44+00:00
From below...

> I’m usually the first to invoke the “preference isn’t the same as fact” argument, but in this instance we have impartial proof that PCs lagged behind just by virtue of the technology available at comparable price points.

The "bang for the buck"-deal relevant home computers had going for 'em was something I already acknowledged... more than once... a while ago.

> When PCs were stuck with CGA, not support for scrolling, etc, they were unambiguously worse than games consoles of that era. While Atari ST and Amiga were producing graphics that exceeded what the Master System and NES could do.

Once again, the Amiga 500 home computer came to the market only in 1987, a machine already outperformed by top-of-the-line PCs from the same year, strictly in technological terms of course. For an economical comparison one would need specific use cases and numbers, i. e. prices, accessability, and so on. The rest falls into the area of coders and users adapting to these very platforms and eco systems, and their associated culture and politics, et cetera.

> The whole reason Commander Keen existed was because [...] Something previously considered impossible to do.

Yeah, negotiating, and overcoming, specific limitations every platform had in one form or another. Also already addressed when I replied to the other chap trying to make a huge deal out of PC memory segmentation...

> What you’re talking about is games that you liked to play. What I’m talking about is the actual technical capabilities of the hardware.

Yeah, when I mention the superior technical capabilities of PCs from, say, '87/'88 onwards several times (VGA, MT-32, expandability, etc.), it's "just games I like to play"; when you talk about some 2.5D titles just "looking better than some nebulous counterparts" it's of course hardware capability. :D

As I've said, somebody needs to write a piece of satire. A sort of two-hander the likes of The Sunset Limited or My Dinner with Andre. Just for us nerdlingers.

> And the fact that literally every single person you’ve chatted to [...].

For every Atari etc. fan with an application edge-case or preference (e. g. Signum!), I can easily forward one myself.

> I think the real crux of the problem here is that you’re too young and/or grew up in the wrong part of Europe to have really seen the difference and instead of listening to others, you’re still firmly clinging onto the belief that your opinions are infallible.

As mentioned several times already as well, I saw the sign, bro, I have seen the difference. I got hands-on experience with C64s, C128s and PCs (including XT- and AT-class machines) from '89 onwards, the Atari ST from '90 onwards, and the Amiga eco-system by only reading all the relevant glossies, including back-issues, in a very dedicated fashion from '90/'91 onwards. In the latter case, hands-on experience came only much later (mostly in the form of A600s and A1200s, the faves of the retro/vintage gaming circuit), from 2007 onwards.

And that's just computers. Consoles are another matter.
by Havoc | 2025-06-13 23:03:26+00:00
Would love to do something around robotics. Or take a shot at self-sufficiency in the sticks.

That said, don't have one. By the time it catches up with me either society has come up with a game plan or we're all fucked.

Specifically, it seems to me that the amount of training data available is what matters & that's very unevenly distributed between jobs.
by Penguin_ | 2025-06-13 23:03:30+00:00
this isn’t new, i know that. Aqua, Aero, and Glassmorphism all paved the way. The nostalgia is valid.

But Liquid Glass isn’t just aesthetic reuse, it’s a reframe.

This time, the visual noise isn’t a byproduct. It’s the product. It’s meant to provoke, to feel alive, to signal a shift toward interfaces that are less tool, more experience.

Is it distracting? 100%. Is it usable? Not really. But is it worth paying attention to? Definitely.

Because when Apple makes something this bizarre, they’re usually early, not wrong.
Show HN: Gem and I built an open-source app to learn Japanese
by pcvetkovski | 2025-06-13 23:04:49+00:00
I've been fascinated by the Japanese language and culture for a while now, and I wanted to create a simple, no-fuss way for beginners to get started. So, I built *[Nihongo](https://nihongo.site/)*, a free and open-source web app designed to help you learn the fundamentals of Japanese in about a month.

The name of the app, Nihongo (日本語), is the Japanese word for the "Japanese language."

You can check it out here: *[https://nihongo.site/](https://nihongo.site/)*

And for those who like to tinker, the code is available on GitHub: *[https://github.com/predragcvetkovski/nihongo](https://github.com/predragcvetkovski/nihongo)*

The "learn in 30 days" idea isn't about achieving fluency in a month, which we all know is impossible. Instead, the goal is to provide a structured and manageable learning path that covers the essential building blocks of the language in a short period. I wanted to create something that feels less intimidating than many comprehensive (and often expensive) resources out there.

*What the app covers:*

The app is structured into a series of lessons that you can follow at your own pace. It starts with the absolute basics and gradually introduces more complex concepts:

* *The Japanese Writing Systems:* Detailed lessons on Hiragana and Katakana, the two phonetic scripts that are the foundation of written Japanese. * *Essential Grammar:* I've focused on the core grammatical structures you need to start forming your own sentences. * *Core Vocabulary:* You'll learn a curated list of high-frequency words that are immediately useful in everyday conversation. * *Practical Phrases:* The app includes common greetings and phrases that you can start using right away.

*Why I built this:*

I started building this project while testing the latest Gemini 2.5 models on Google AI Studio, and with the Code assistant and Cloud Run I was able to get it to production in less than 3 hours. This as a personal project to solidify my own understanding of Japanese and to build something useful for others who are just starting their learning journey. I'm a big believer in the power of open-source and wanted to create a resource that is accessible to everyone.

This is very much a passion project, and I'm still actively working on it. I'd love to get your feedback, suggestions, and of course, any contributions on GitHub are more than welcome.

Let me know what you think! I'm here to answer any questions you might have.
by jonah | 2025-06-13 23:05:27+00:00
Motivation and prioritization can be hard!

Personally, I love hiking. I like getting out in nature, seeing all the things I can observe along the way, and getting good exercise. That being said, I don't get up and go on my own as often as I'd like. My wife OTOH, also loves hiking but is adamant about going once or twice every weekend if at all possible. So, I take advantage of that extrinsic motivation and am the better for it.
by AppleBananaPie | 2025-06-13 23:06:10+00:00
When I was this way there were two things going on 1. It was one of the most stressful times in my life 2. I didn't know I had sleep apnea so was always exhausted

2 was a much quicker fix than 1 and boy did it makes things much more manageable and at least get me going in a positive direction.

Also for the meds part they are literally life changing for me so hopefully they help you.

Good luck out there hope you find something that works :)