MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by onli | 2025-06-13 20:40:09+00:00
> That's what really killed it. This guy gushes about how amazing WebOS was but the performance was - and continues to be - too poor.

We certainly do have the performance in such devices to run an OS application layer with web technology now. Many people do anyway, just directly in the browser and with electron. Easier on a PC, but completely possible on TVs and phones. If webOS is slow now on your TV that's because of LG's development capabilities, not because of the technology.

I had both a Touchpad and a HP Veer. The performance was completely fine, especially after the mod scene provided kernel updates with overclocks, plus tunings for the UI. Especially compared to common devices of the time. Those were very good signs for the cut next hardware iteration.

The great thing about webOS was the usability, just how the interface worked was awesome. It's no accident that Android copied the card interface a few years later, with Android 5 I think, and the gestures again a few years later, with Android 10 or 11. Probably coming from Palm were also some nice ideas about how to integrate apps and core functionality.
by writernxtdoor | 2025-06-13 20:40:43+00:00
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by FlyingSnake | 2025-06-13 20:41:00+00:00
I distinctly remember the Autumn day of 2011 when we stood in the line of the local Best Buy in West Des Moines to grab one of these. It was miles ahead of anything that was in the market that time. It could do multitasking and had a lovely intuitive UI (cards!!). I remember being blown away by it. Android and iOS freely stole features from it later.

I still have the device and it’s one of my cherished vintage devices.
by ModernMech | 2025-06-13 20:41:11+00:00
I've seen this "theory" floating around social media. I mean, it makes sense but also Apple has a history of boneheaded UI decisions, so I'm not going to put much weight on it. It reads more like cope because of how poorly the UI has been received. Such apologizing also usually follows Apple's boneheaded decisions. "It's 4D chess, you just don't have the vision that Apple has to understand it. But I do, and here's the plan."
by karmakurtisaani | 2025-06-13 20:41:56+00:00
> Spoken like a true formalist.

Doesn't seem to be a bad thing. There are some famous cranks who reject the concept of infinity, since I suppose they have problems wrapping their head around it.

> What fraction of people who "know" that there are more reals than natural numbers, do you think really understand that this is not an eternal verity of mathematics, but only a conclusion that follows from a particular set of rules that we're playing the mathematics game with?

People misunderstand mathematics all the time. It's ok, it's part of the journey.
by jaoane | 2025-06-13 20:42:24+00:00
Okay: multitasking in windows phone was rubbish. You would see a loading screen all the time when switching between apps that lasted seconds. Of course that was still better than the pile of garbage that Android was/is, so it was your only option if you, like me, weren’t able to afford an iPhone. But that’s doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend I miss it.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-13 20:44:11+00:00
Things don't have to be complicated or pretty to be fast or good. For a UTF-8 or ASCII (English) string:

for(char c in string) if(c & 1 == 0) continue; switch(c & 0x1F) case(a & 0x1F) return true; //a or A case(e & 0x1F) return true; //e or E case(i & 0x1F) return true; //i or I case(o & 0x1F) return true; //o or O case(u & 0x1F) return true; //u or U default continue;

Checking for consonants is about as free as it gets. 50-70% of characters in English text are consonants. By checking one bit, you can eliminate that many checks across the whole string. This should also more or less apply to any text encoding; this technique comes from an artifact of the alphabet itself. It just so happens that all English vowels (including Y and W) fall on odd indices within the alphabet.

Characters aren't magic! They're just numbers. You can do math and binary tricks on them just like you would with any other primitive type. Instead of thinking about finding letters within a string, sometimes you get better answers by asking "how do I find one of a set of numbers within this array of numbers?". It seems to me that a lot of programmers consider these to be entirely disjoint problems. But then again, I'm an embedded programmer and as far as I'm concerned characters are only ever 8 bits wide. String problems are numeric problems for me.

While I don't want to discourage people from exploring problem spaces, do understand that the problem space of ASCII has been trodden to the bedrock. Many problems like "does this string contain a vowel" have been optimally solved for decades. Your explorations should include looking at how we solved these problems in the 20th century, because those solutions are likely still extremely relevant.
by paxys | 2025-06-13 20:44:17+00:00
> Thiings is a growing collection of 1,900+ free AI-generated 3D icons

"Free", but downloading the entire collection requires a payment.

And according to the terms:

> 4. Content

> You retain all rights to your content. By using our service, you grant us a license to host and display your content.

But then they advertise that anyone can download and use these pictures? Under what license?
by buran77 | 2025-06-13 20:45:22+00:00
The cause and effect are not so clear cut. Customers also expect something new. That way they feel like they got something new when they have to replace their phone, especially in the "evolution not revolution" phase of a device.

And it's not just phones either. Car companies spend money on retooling to give a model a facelift because people expect it. Sales drop and then pick up again after the facelift because nobody wants to buy something that looks dated from day one.

Manufacturers take cues from each other because once a "modern" trend is set everything else looks dated. Everyone went with flat UIs in a matter of a few years. Cars went with lightbar lights in the past few years too. That's what feels modern now.

As long as a huge part of the market remembers skeuomorphic design and associates it with the early 2000s it will never feel modern so designers stay away from it.

P.S. For me suspenders are still the third best way to keep my pants on (right after "picking the right pants size" and "fastening the buttons"). But nobody wants them these days and it's not a Big Belt conspiracy. They just don't look modern.
by jesseendahl | 2025-06-13 20:45:33+00:00
Whether or not you can be compelled to unlock your phone doesn't really have anything to do with passkeys. If you can be compelled to unlock your phone, then whatever you have on your phone (including the stuff in your password manager/credential manager) is potentially up for grabs. In this threat modeling scenario there's nothing unique about a passkey vs. a password.

And if you're against using credential managers at all, because you only want to have the password stored in your brain and nowhere else.... then that creates different problems, namely it dramatically increases the odds that you will use the same password across multiple services, which is bad because then attackers can steal your password from one service and use it to login to a bunch of other services.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-06-13 20:45:39+00:00
They shot themselves in the foot right out the gate by trying to copy Apple's $99 annual fee for developers to publish their apps. Whatever initial enthusiasm there was for Windows Phone quickly disappeared when they added that requirement. When they finally figured out it wasn't going to be a new revenue stream, they reduced it for a while instead of eliminating it. When they finally realized just how badly they had messed up and removed all the fees, most developers had already moved on and never gave Windows Phone another look.

It reminds me of the failure of Windows Home Server. It was removed from MSDN because the product manager said developers needed to buy a copy of it if they wanted to develop extensions and products for Home Server. Very few bothered. However many dozen licenses the policy lead to being purchased was dwarfed by the failure of the product to gain market share. Obviously that wasn't only due to alienating developers but it certainly was part of it.
by jeroenhd | 2025-06-13 20:45:50+00:00
I have good experience with HP laptops. Not their 200 euro consumer trash (but honestly, anything marketed towards consumers is trash these days, from any vendor), but HP's ProBook and Zenbook line. Probook is more plastic fantastic, but the repairability was great. Zenbook got hot, but always remained quiet (until the Nvidia GPU kicked in, but that's on Nvidia). Driver support and UEFI update support were both excellent, both in terms of support duration and general stability.

I've also got one of their thunderbolt docks. The only downside I've found so far is that MAC address forwarding doesn't seem to work outside of HP laptops. Everything else works great on normal devices.

As long as you avoid their cheap crap, HP are fine. Unfortunately, they do sell cheap crap, and consumers love cheap computers (even though a second hand computer with better specs would serve them much longer). Every brand that sells cheap hardware has gained a reputation for being terrible. It's why Apple's laptops start at the price of "used car" and Google's Chromebooks start at "two tanks full of gas".
by SideQuark | 2025-06-13 20:46:01+00:00
> "Communism is ... a stateless, classless society where resources are owned communally" which, if you read about Jamestown, was the situation with their agriculture.

A group owning sharing one resource does not imply communism.

Is this how you're read theorems or design programs? There is a difference between "one", "some", "all", most" - the statement you quote does not remotely prove your claim (which of course is nonsense.)

Likely every country on earth has socially some (or one, or many) communally owned, shared resources. Yet it's ludicrous to claim all countries are communist.

The US has co-ops, community gardens, ESOPs, community owned wifi places, power companies, housing projects, roads, lands - so now the US is communist since it has orders of more magnitude community items than Jamestown, right?

And, also from the words you quote, "... a stateless... society..." Not a single country most would call communist is stateless, so now, by your limited and flawed reasoning, there are no communist societies. Yet this too is silly.

And Jamestown was certainly not stateless either (or classless - they also had slaves - so it's baffling how you pick out a few words you like and ignore a lot more to get to your conclusion).

> "....which, if you read about Jamestown..."

... you would realize.

You're looking for boogey-men where they don't exist.
by manmal | 2025-06-13 20:46:18+00:00
I get the legibility argument, but if you want to make an AR device that’s safe to use in _any_ context, you just can’t occlude the environment. People would have accidents because of that - as drivers, but also while walking or just bumping into things while putting something in the fridge.

For walls of text you can still opt out of this and use a less translucent material.
by HappMacDonald | 2025-06-13 20:46:18+00:00
The problem you are citing isn't "created by AI", the problem you are citing is "misattribution writ large".

If we had the capacity to legally enforce that things created by AI be labeled as such, then why stop at that terrible proxy for the real problem instead of just using that same legal infrastructure to outlaw all misattribution full stop?

I don't want to be legally required to put a bell on every single technological output that might in some circumstances make crimes easier to commit than doing it longhand was, and I am old enough to recall making the same case in the late nineties when folks were clutching their pearls over Photoshop's ability to enable counterfeit nudes.
by guptadeepak | 2025-06-13 20:46:18+00:00
I’ve analyzed authentication economics across hundreds of enterprises, and most organizations dramatically underestimate the true cost of password-based systems. This article details a comprehensive TCO analysis for authentication, breaking down direct support, productivity loss, and security incident costs. Passwordless systems are shown to reduce annual authentication expenses by 50–65%, primarily by eliminating ~80% of help desk tickets and boosting user productivity. Initial implementation requires investment, but ROI is typically achieved within 18–24 months through operational savings.

For those who have deployed or considered passwordless, what were your biggest surprises in measuring or justifying the ROI?
by RajT88 | 2025-06-13 20:46:35+00:00
I know a guy who held this attitude. He somehow got into a top MBA program without any undergrad degree and poor grades. (Bribery, one wonders)

Got his MBA, eventually bragged about how he lied his way into a CTO position with no tech skills. Lasted about 6 months. No longer listed on his LinkedIn.

After all that, somehow still hasn't eaten his humble pie. Still believes this idea you don't need to know stuff about technology to manage a technology organization.
by bee_rider | 2025-06-13 20:47:06+00:00
> Would you prefer a notebook of white sheets, or hundreds of different blurry image backgrounds?

Weird tangent, but I used tracing paper over piece of graph paper for notes for a while. I liked it because I could use the graph paper for drawing my figures or align my text, but then have something more aesthetically pleasing and nice for reading after. I find reading on graph paper annoying, due to the vertical lines.

Anyway, I can’t think of any way that a transparent OS window could be similarly helpful.
by tzury | 2025-06-13 20:48:05+00:00
Apple's pattern has always been to enter markets later but with more refined, integrated solutions.

They weren't first with MP3 players, smartphones, tablets, or smartwatches - but when they entered, they often redefined those categories. The current AI situation likely follows this same playbook.

Apple's culture of secrecy means we only see what they choose to release.

What's often overlooked is that Apple might be playing a different game entirely.

Tim Cook's measured approach and the company's $100B+ R&D budget suggest they're building something substantial, not scrambling to catch up.

They may be betting that the current LLM race will commoditize, and the real value will come from integration and user experience - areas where Apple traditionally excels.
by throwanem | 2025-06-13 20:48:06+00:00
Yeah, everyone wants a treatise here, always and only on whatever they happen to disagree with. There's no kind of intellectual consistency more consistent than imposing an effectively unsatisfiable bar for standing to dissent, but letting whatever you like to hear slide without a second thought or question. Meanwhile detailed and substantive technical critiques provided by other users - critiques of the sort I learned a decade ago not to bother making - go totally ignored as I knew that they would.

I don't really see why I should take that sort of thing very seriously. Do you?
by hxtk | 2025-06-13 20:48:32+00:00
I’ve definitely been preferring a transparent background on my terminal lately, particularly when I only have one screen, because it increases my ability to read the reference material I have opened behind it. At the very least, if I have to alt-tab it out of the way, I’m already oriented on the page. So I can see the benefit in at least some use cases.

I don’t think I’d like to have it on everything, though. Or basically anything except my terminal, for that matter.
by jmtulloss | 2025-06-13 20:49:16+00:00
Hey. I wrote some of that trash.

I think this is a bad take because I don’t think the core issue of the platform was that it was based on web tech. The web tech basically worked fine. However the bugginess and challenging user interface (which is actually standard today) was a huge issue. The leadership decision that was needed wasn’t to kill the touchpad 49 days after launch, it was to kill it before launch.

Palm was a raccoon backed into a corner and it was using all its cleverness to get out. But it was willing to ship stuff that wasn’t ready and couldn’t be ready with the resources we had. HP had the resources. They could have taken a good start and given it the space to become great. Maybe.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-13 20:49:58+00:00
> The metaverse will happen, IMO. The tech is just not there, yet.

This seems possible, and it just sounds so awful to me. Think about the changes to the human condition that arose from the smartphone.

People at concerts and other events scrolling phones, parents missing their children growing up while scrolling their phones. Me, "watching" a movie, scrolling my phone.

VR/AR makes all that sound like a walk in the park.
by RajT88 | 2025-06-13 20:50:09+00:00
WebOS LG TV owner, and TouchPad owner here.

As far as I can tell, there's nothing obviously connected to the UI experience of the TV and the TouchPad.

The TV is a lot more locked down and filled with ads, but still snappy. Sideloading IPK's is limited. I would love to neuter all the ads and auto-updates, that's my main gripe.
by Terretta | 2025-06-13 20:50:18+00:00
Depending what you're doing, this runs Microsoft Office, Obsidian notes, Chrome, or most anything else that runs on an Android tablet:

https://daylightcomputer.com

Add a bluetooth keyboard with a groove to hold the tablet in landscape, and you have a laptop when you need one, or an outdoor e-reader/e-ink tablet when you don't.

Even more natural light oriented (this has no backlight), but not as computery:

https://supernote.com/pages/supernote-manta

(I wouldn't attempt to use this as a daily driver, it's just nice outdoors, perhaps the best of the note pads and the unofficial Kindle app works in landscape giving two paperback book side pages side by side which feels extremely natural to read.)
by bitpush | 2025-06-13 20:50:58+00:00
> While the tech press fixated on Apple's relatively quiet AI story at WWDC 2025, the company was executing a more subtle strategy. Rather than engaging in the current LLM arms race (where it's demonstrably behind), Apple doubled down on what it does best: creating compelling user experiences through design and integration.

I cant believe real people actually believe this kind of stuff. The author seems to think tech press alone is fixated on AI story. Apple themselves was all gung-ho about AI last time around. They sold an entire line of iPhones touting the benefits of AI. They even "invented" a brand for their line of offering - Apple Intelligence.

And when it all fell flat, Apple had to apologize and had to (yes, had to) showcase other things. Liquid Glass essentially was a replacement for that. If Apple had anything meaningful to show in AI world, it would have show cased that.

And author seems to think Apple is playing 4D chess. Sometimes the simplest explanation is what is really going on.
by SabrinaJewson | 2025-06-13 20:51:14+00:00
I’m not sure what you mean by “theorems remain the same”. If you take away induction from Peano arithmetic, you get Robinson arithmetic, which has many more models, including (from https://math.stackexchange.com/a/4076545):

- ℕ ∪ {∞}

- Cardinal arithmetic

- ℤ[x]⁺

Obviously, not all theorems that are true for the natural numbers are true for cardinals, so it seems misleading to say that theorems remain the same. I also believe that the addition of induction increases the consistency strength of the theory, so it’s not “just” a matter of expressing the theorems in a different way.

I would agree more for axioms that don’t affect consistency strength, like foundation or choice (over the rest of the ZF axioms).
by KaiserPro | 2025-06-13 20:51:53+00:00
As someone who works with a wide range of AR displays, if this is the reason for the UI change, they've fucked up hard.

Blurring in AR is quite difficult as it requires an accurately aligned image to overlay the world. The point of AR is its just an overlay, you don't need to render whats already there. To make a blur, you need the underlying image, this costs energy, which you don't really have on AR glasses.
by mceoin | 2025-06-13 20:52:34+00:00
"Pay it forwards" is the general advice here, and I think it is generally correct in the macro/social sense.

Although not completely analogous, helping people is similar to gifting. In gifting societies, we don't give to someone with the expectation of a direct benefit in return (A -> B, B -> A). Instead, it's more of a long arc that goes around a corner and returns in an indirect sense (A --> B --> C --> ... --> A).

When you layer time succession in, helping others progresses more like the circle of life. It often doesn't make sense to give back directly — your professors are already at the peak of their careers — but we can give back to society. In doing so, we increase the resonance of the gift that was given.

Often, the role of the receiver is simply to receive. On the other hand, Tuesdays with Morrie is a book that speaks to a gentler form of directly giving back to elders as they age.
by earlyriser | 2025-06-13 20:52:59+00:00
It's incredible how many folks are saying to pay it forward when OP specifically ask about paying it back (the fwd is addressed in the initial prompt).

Call them, write letters, specifically tell them how they influenced you. My MIL was a teacher and 10 years ago she received a call from a pupil (now a middle age man) and he talk with her about how much she influenced him. It has been 10 years from the call, but it's one of her favourite souvenirs.
by mystified5016 | 2025-06-13 20:54:32+00:00
See my other comment.

You can do extremely trivial binary checks on ASCII, UTF-8 (and most? other) encoding schemes. All vowels including W and Y contain a 1 in the lowest bit. Then by comparing bits 1-4, you can do a trivial case-insensitive comparison. You detect case by checking bit 5. 0 is upper, 1 is lower.
by philwelch | 2025-06-13 20:54:57+00:00
> Distant stars will not be settled by a fast small ship travelling from earth. They will be settled by a city sized monolith produced by harvesting and smelting an entire small moon

I don’t even think you’d need a whole moon unless it was a tiny one. Nonetheless, by the time we send a ship to another star, building these kinds of large self-contained habitats will be old hat.