MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NKosmatos | 2025-06-09 23:03:04+00:00
I’m going to be this “old grumpy” guy and mention that I hate it when I see plain text URLs which aren’t hyperlinked… come on, we’re in 2025 just do us a favor and put links, why do I have to select the text, copy it, open a new tab and then paste it (I’m using an older iPad). Even on desktop I have to select the text, right click and then visit the site.

First world problems :-)
Show HN: Zozalo – AI that builds full travel itineraries based on your travel
by gravgor | 2025-06-09 23:03:21+00:00
We built Zozalo because we were frustrated with how exhausting and generic travel planning has become. Most tools give you either a search box or a long list of places — but don’t really help you plan.

Zozalo is different:

AI that chats with you to understand your travel style, budget, and preferences

Multilingual support in 12 languages

Generates a complete day-by-day itinerary (activities, restaurants, weather, tips)

Fully editable days — add, remove, reorder, or regenerate content with AI

Uses real travel data (Amadeus, HotelBeds, Google Places, OpenAI, Redis, Stripe)

Save/share trips publicly or privately; collaborate with others

Has a full API with endpoints for everything from trip planning to points to admin stats

What’s next: we’re working on Smart Booking (currently not active), and want your feedback before launching it.

Would love to hear what you think. Does this solve a pain point for you? What would make it indispensable?

Thanks! – Marcel & the Zozalo team
by jemiluv8 | 2025-06-09 23:03:43+00:00
Even I have limited understanding of how LLMs learn the semantic meaning of words. My knowledge is shallow at best. I know however that LLMs understand text now. Are able to understand concepts they "glean" from text and are able to give responses to queries that is not entirely made up. All these makes it a lot harder to explain to non-technical people what this is. I tell them these LLMs are not AI but when they go to these websites - they see it labelled as an AI chatbot. It also mostly does as advertised. And they are often in awe of whatever responses they tend to receive because they are not subject matter experts nor do they care to become one. They just want to get their "homeworks" done, complete their work assignments and this gets them there faster. How can I tell them it is not AI when it spews humane looking text. Heck, even I don't quite understand the "real" difference between LLMs and AI. The difference is nuanced but the line is clearer with a bit of technical understanding. The machine understands text. And can make conversation - however sycophantic. But without understanding why that is - I don't see why we won't exult its powers. I see religions sprouting from these soon. LLMs can deliver awesome sermons. And once you train them well enough, can take on the role of Messiah's.
by miffy900 | 2025-06-09 23:04:49+00:00
> Unlikely. Frosted glass blur was introduced almost twelve years ago in iOS 7, and was supported all the way down to the iPhone 4. Many apps like control center have used a full screen blur without any performance issues for a long time.

"Without any performance issues"? Entirely false - reviews at the time noted iOS 7 dramatically reduced battery life - all across the board for Apple devices, even for the then latest iPhone 5S and 5c (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/ios-7-thoroughly-rev...).

The abuse of transparency/translucency in the UI was the primary reason - you could go to Accessibility settings and disable animations + transparency/translucency and get notable increases in both runtime speed of the OS UI and battery life.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-06-09 23:04:57+00:00
Wow, that was full in "thanks, I hate it" territory for me.

I think that design triggered me for 2 reasons. First, it really gets to something that's bugged me a lot about technological advancement in general over the past 15-20 years or so. It used to be that I felt like tech advances were great because they actually solved a human problem. Now, so much tech just feels like "tech-for-tech's-sake". Like I get you need to have a lot of designers at Apple, and now that devices have more processing power that they want to do something "cool" with it, but this just seems like someone that literally nobody asked for and nobody wants.

Second, I'm someone who thinks very "linearly". I like to do one thing at a time, and I hate distractions (because I'm easily distracted). I hate these translucent interfaces because they are literally distracting to me even if I'm looking directly and squarely at one single thing. It just seems like another way that tech is constantly fucking with our attention.
by danielvaughn | 2025-06-09 23:05:08+00:00
I love designing and building UIs, but one thing that really depresses me is how you’re often pressured to keep changing things just to justify your continued employment.

It feels like that’s what happened here, to be honest.

It’s okay for a product to stay the same, if the current design is the right one. I just can’t imagine what problems they’re trying to solve with this update.
by cmurf | 2025-06-09 23:05:20+00:00
It’s bait. People who protest should protest at city hall or someplace other than where Trump is putting the bait.

Trump wants images of confrontation. He wants escalation. Mark Esper, Trump’s SECDEF in his 1st term, said Trump ordered protesters to be shot. Trump wants to kill Americans.

His memorandum yesterday didn’t mention LA or California. He’s asserting control of the guard everywhere. He said yesterday he would deploy troops everywhere.
by boydYVR | 2025-06-09 23:05:26+00:00
I've felt the same way for years. I used one of the big names for a month about 10 years ago, and it was a great way to learn about my habits and diet, and to experiment with IF (intermittent fasting). I tried it again, now that I'm a serial entrepreneur and single parent... and I just did NOT have the patience for the data entry. I feel same as this article that photos are not a solution. Vodka and water look the same to a camera.

Since April I've been using a tool I developed for myself. It's very much a MVP with an emphasis on M, but it's cheap to run, so I'll share the url if anyone wants to try it out and share feedback.

https://words.my
by peterashford | 2025-06-09 23:06:12+00:00
Yeah. That's the impression I came away with as well. Yes, I fully believe that he is right to point out that we are prone to many psychological failings. We're also right to look out for them and realise that we will be fooled from time to time. But we still all need to live in this world. We can't all just sit around and wait for science to tell us whether what we're doing is fine. Until evidence amasses, the reasonable thing to do is to make a careful assessment and proceed cautiously, not sit still and tremble at the thought of acting. I don't want to be dismissive - I think the author makes some good points, just that he also strongly overstates those points, IMO.
by BitwiseFool | 2025-06-09 23:06:12+00:00
I suspect ego played a part in Steve Jobs selecting Tim Cook as his successor. Famous CEO's tend to pick a successor that is less charismatic and more risk-averse than they were. CEO's that retire 'honorably', so to speak, don't want someone who will outshine them or make sweeping changes to the brand or the company's organization. In other words, they want to preserve their legacy.

Tim Cook is exactly this kind of executive. While he has done an incredible job with leading the business and operational side of Apple, the public doesn't give credit for that sort of thing. Now imagine if Steve appointed someone just like himself and the business fumbled. Steve would hate for his legacy to be tarnished by appointing a brash successor.

All that being said, for what it's worth, I don't think anyone could have lived up to Steve's reputation. It is quite unfair to Tim Cook that he will always be compared to what people think Steve Jobs would have done.
by hollerith | 2025-06-09 23:06:16+00:00
If a recruiter or HR worker helps a company hire 100 new employees, all 100 are free to quit at the end of the year whereas the artifacts created or improved by a developer will be the property of the company forever.

In other words, maybe it is a bad idea to treat people (employees in this case) like property even in our tax code? (I'm personally OK with software's being treated like property.)
by like_any_other | 2025-06-09 23:06:48+00:00
They deported many, and incentivized even more to come, by actions like deportation protection for 5 million [1], or special programs to allow 500k more to come [2]. And while the federal government cut funds to states that set their own drinking age [3], it did nothing when those same states flaunted immigration laws (so-called "sanctuary" states & cities). So long as they permit more immigrants to come. If they tried to enforce immigration laws, i.e. the border, their efforts were swiftly crushed [4].

I don't know how effective Trump is at border control, but to imply previous administrations (Republicans included) were hostile to immigration, legal or illegal, is laughable.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365519963...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parole_for_Cubans%2C_Haitians%...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alcohol_laws_of_the_Un...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/legal/texas-seeks-court-block-biden-...
by dimal | 2025-06-09 23:06:52+00:00
Everyone affected by this will know to look for those deeply nested setting, right? Or will the 70 year old with bad eyesight just stop being able to use their phone? Or use it a lot less, or be frustrated and stressed by it? A lot of people don’t bother fiddling with their settings and just take what they’re given.

I’m not just thinking of myself here. I’m concerned that a lot of people who don’t consider themselves disabled will be disabled by this.
by scrollaway | 2025-06-09 23:06:56+00:00
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by wizzwizz4 | 2025-06-09 23:06:56+00:00
> i first hand witnessed completely irregular menstrual cycles, and nerve issues/trigeminal neuralgia that doctors have been unable to "explain"

Sounds like perimenopause. Irregular menstrual cycles, and "doctors are clueless", are both symptoms of perimenopause; and trigeminal neuralgia is associated with menopause (see e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3401754/#sec2-4 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4247552/#sec2-8).

I'd recommend getting your bloods done, and then (if you are experiencing perimenopause) try taking enough œstradiol to get your levels back up: that might reduce the pressure on your trigeminal nerve, if the two things are related. (This of course increases your cancer risk, but for most women it's worth it.)
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-09 23:09:09+00:00
>...I don’t want to have to enter my payment details everywhere I go

That problem has been solved for anybody who wants it solved, through Apple Pay and Google Pay, or even the built-in feature in the browser for remembering credit cards.

Normal people absolutely would not accept websites hi-jacking their computer to mine crypto and hardware manufacturers like Apple would swiftly implement measures to protect users from those freaks.
by pxc | 2025-06-09 23:09:42+00:00
Providing isolated environments for CI machines and other build environments!

If the sandboxing features a native containerization system relied on were also exposed via public APIs, those could could also potentially be leveraged by developer tools that want to have/use better sandboxing on macOS. Docker and BuildKit have native support for Windows containers, for instance. If they could also support macOS the same way, that would be cool for facilitating isolated macOS builds without full fat VMs. Tools like Dagger could then support more reproducible build pipelines on macOS hosts.

It could also potentially provide better experiences for tools like devcontainers on macOS as well, since sharing portions of your filesystem to a VM is usually trickier and slower than just sharing those files with a container that runs under your same kernel.

For many of these use cases, Nix serves very well, giving "just enough" isolation for development tasks, but not too much. (I use devenv for this at work and at home.) But Nix implementations themselves could also benefit from this! Nix internally uses a sandbox to help ensure reproducible builds, but the implementation on macOS is quirky and incomplete compared to the one on Linux. (For reasons I've since forgotten, I keep it turned off on macOS.)
by antics | 2025-06-09 23:11:15+00:00
> What do you mean by "exponentially, not asymptotically, but for finite n"? Exponential is by definition asymptotic and continues infinitely, no?

In statistics, we generally separate asymptotic bounds—which usually make guarantees only asymptotically—from finite-decay bounds like Chernoff, which decay exponentially not only in the limit, but also at each particular finite n. The second is much rarer and much more powerful.

This is an important distinction here: we are not talking about an asymptotic limit of coin flips. Each and every round of coin flips reduces the probability of not having an answer exponentially.

> I'm just saying it's not an incredible example of simulating a fair coin, because it just... isn't doing that. As an analogy: communicating with the Voyager spacecraft might be incredible, but it's not an incredible example of infinitely fast communication... because it just isn't.

Ok, no problem, it's up to you to decide if you want to use your own definition here.

But, FYI, in computability theory, it is definitely fair game and very common to "simulate" some computation with something that is either much more memory-intensive or compute-intensive, in either the deterministic or probabilistic case. For example, it's pretty common to add or remove memory and see whether the new "simulated" routine takes more or less compute power than the "standard" algorithm, and that is kind of what people are up to with the PSPACE stuff that is going on right now.

Using that lens—and this is entirely off the cuff, but in the 10 seconds of thinking, I believe probably mostly correct—this algorithm "simulates" a fair coin toss by using 1 extra bit of memory and O(p) compute, where p is the reciprocal of |0.5-<coin's bias>|. You can choose p to be infinite but you can do that for a sorting algorithm too (and that is why both sorting and this algorithm have DoS implications). Is this the best we can do? Well, that's the problem we're studying with randomness exractors: given this imperfect source of randomness, can we extract perfect randomness out of it at all?
by adelmotsjr | 2025-06-09 23:11:34+00:00
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by nikkwong | 2025-06-09 23:12:22+00:00
You're advertising your rose-colored glasses strongly, my friend. In a perfect world, of course—you're correct. But hiring, project management, and resource allocation are messy endeavors, so your point only rings true under ideal circumstances. The real effect this will have on industry is a chilling effect on hiring as businesses now have to risk-mitigate because of the additional taxation burden. Further, I see this hurting small and less-well resourced companies relatively more so, as they now need to be more scrupulous over hiring.
Any Need for Canva PQC Secure Sharing Integration?
by BuilderHouse | 2025-06-09 23:12:32+00:00
Sharing the public link is not secure or downloading then uploading to my secure sharing tool - then send the customer deck, investor deck, or contracts stuff takes ages. I can integrate post quantum tool withi canva for everyone to use, Only if there's a need felt ny anyone else too. Please like or comment so i know. Thanks!
by pxc | 2025-06-09 23:12:34+00:00
Tart is great! This is probably the best thing available for now, though it runs into some limitations that Apple imposes for VMs. (Those limitations perhaps hint at why Apple hasn't implemented this-- it seems they don't really want people to be able to rent out many slices of Macs.

One clever and cool thing Tart actually does that sort of relates to this discussion is that it uses the OCI format for distributing OS images!

(It's also worth noting that Tart is proprietary. Some users might prefer something that's either open-source, built-in, or both.)
by jemiluv8 | 2025-06-09 23:12:41+00:00
> Boldly asserting that what LLMS do is not cognition is even worse than asserting that it is.

That's the issue I was driving at. The machine is so convincing. How can we say what it does is not "thinking" when it seems to be breaking down a query like a human does. The distinction between what an AI is and what an LLM is - is so thin that most of us will be ignorant and combine the two because you really need to see what is under the hood before you understand that the responses you're getting are from a "model" - not some sentient thinking machine.

But what does it matter if it is from a "model" that understands text? It still produces more or less what other humans produce. Most of us won't care about the difference.
by xp84 | 2025-06-09 23:12:47+00:00
I apologize if this sounds like a hot take, but "Apple developer circles," as in, people who use XCode at all and care about any part of Apple's toolchain[0], is a very small number of people compared to "All developers who happen to code on Macs." In my experience at least, the typical developer who uses macOS codes in VSCode on JS, Python, etc., groans when some file association accidentally launches XCode, and would likely prefer to use normal Docker like the do on their Linux servers, rather than proprietary Darwin weirdness.

"Apple developer circles" to me means the few mostly indies who build non-electron Mac apps and non-ReactNative ios apps, but those developers mostly are writing client code and don't even touch servers.

All this said, my above "gut feelings" don't explain why Apple would have bothered spending their time making this when Orbstack, Docker, etc. already meet the needs of the developers on Mac who actually need and use containers.

[0]: besides the "Command line tools" that allow compilation to work, of course.
by thenaturalist | 2025-06-09 23:12:51+00:00
They butchered the swipe actions on iOS it seems.

Open notes or messages, swipe left on an item.

In iOS 18, the options (silent/delete in Messages or share/ delete) were simply icons, cleary delineated as buttons with color matching backgrounds, no text.

Now the options have descriptive text under each button which of course is cut off 99% of the time as it exceeds the tiny width these action buttons have - and the buttons are harder to hit.

How? Why?
by adelmotsjr | 2025-06-09 23:13:43+00:00
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I'm a software engineer working to help people build products and deliver value to their customers.

I can help build:

- web applications using modern principles with the latest technologies (Angular, React, TypeScript, Vue, TailwindCSS, HTMX)

- services that monitor equipments using telecommunications protocols (SNMP, NETCONF, TR-069)

- serverless programs on any business domain to help reduce costs and increase availability (AWS Lambda)

- microservices that expose REST APIs for consumption using battle-tested frameworks (SpringBoot, Quarkus)

- data processing applications and services that consumes streams of data using common parsing techniques (Rust with Nom)

- small CLI apps to help automate common tasks (Rust)

- integration of different services using distributed log (Kafka, AWS SNS), WebSocket (with NodeJS) or with simple HTTP requests

- proper documentation for common services using OpenAPI specification (Swagger)
by peterashford | 2025-06-09 23:14:40+00:00
I'm opposed to what we colloquially call 'Tech bros' in general. I think that a lot of the commercialisation of tech has been damaging, overhyped and AI has every likelyhood of following that pattern, But the article was a bad argument. It starts with some truisms: we're all prone to psychological mistakes and blows it out to "logically we should sit on our hands until science tells us its safe. Whatever you do, never try to figure anything out yourself". That's just dumb. I'm not saying that he doesn't have a point just that its strenuously overstated.
by lucas_membrane | 2025-06-09 23:14:56+00:00
That is an essential concept. Consider the Salk polio vaccine: before the results of the conclusive trials were announced, it was speculated that if the vaccine was 25% effective, everyone would want to have their kids vaccinated. The results came back at around 85%, and the acceptance of the vaccine was high and, because of herd immunity, it reduced the incidence of polio by approximately 99.9%. Further techniques, such as switching back and forth between live virus and dead virus vaccines at multi-year intervals, boosted the effectiveness to observationally 100% when compliance was very high.