MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mindslight | 2025-06-17 17:54:44+00:00
It's also insane that state governors haven't deployed their national guards to keep the peace against these lawless masked kidnap gangs [0]. Arrest them with guns drawn like any other violent criminals in the act, and keep them in jail until state judges can review the details of their situation.

This applies more to other kidnappings and less here, because this happened in a fascist-controlled building. But the point is we need to start drawing these types of hard dividing lines based on state authority following the law in good faith, rather than deferring to an autocratic federal executive that increasingly interprets it in bad faith.

[0] sorry fascism-cheerleaders - without uniforms, legal documentation of their authority, accountability to bystanders, and duly-issued arrest warrants, this is what they are.
by AzharKhann | 2025-06-17 17:54:53+00:00
Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words—and I love how you put it: “you can’t print a video... maybe now you can?” That’s the vision behind NoteTube.

I actually had a short walkthrough video on the landing page (about a minute long), but maybe it wasn’t prominent enough.

Out of curiosity—what kind of examples or content would you like to see on the front page? Would love to hear your thoughts!
by smugglerFlynn | 2025-06-17 17:55:09+00:00
I think what most replies miss is the emphasis this article makes on the experience, not the pricing.

There might be whole new market in between X-half, toy cameras and iPhones. Try shooting anything except your phone, and you will drown in ISO settings, different photography modes, and dealing with sloppy "effects" if you want to adjust any colors in-camera. Experience just is not there.

If what author is describing hits home for more families, and someone can make the same package for quarter of the price, it could be an instant hit. Now it is just an empty niche with a single [and arguably overpriced] solution in it.
by saulpw | 2025-06-17 17:55:14+00:00
Seriously. I've taken to thinking of most submitters as adversarial agents--even the ones I know to be well-meaning humans. I've seen enough code that looks obviously right and yet has some subtle bug (that I then have to tease apart and fix), or worse, a security flaw that lies in wait like a sleeper cell for the right moment to unleash havoc and ruin your day.

So with this "obviously right" rubric I would wind up rejecting 95% of submissions, which is a waste of my time and energy. How about instead I just write it myself? At least then I know who's responsible for cleaning up after the it.
by majormajor | 2025-06-17 17:55:19+00:00
A 2020-era iPhone has good default-setting software. That's good for learning about framing.

Beyond framing, though... The sensor is pretty meh; use an app like Halide to take fully-unprocessed raw shots (not still-Apple-processed Raw out of the camera app) to compare. The processing is good, with a caveat - it's good at producing a certain look, but there's limited ability to go beyond that with the default software.

Still, old iPhone + Halide will let you learn a decent bit about exposure and shutter speed and ISO. Not being able to control aperture is gonna be your biggest drawback in terms of learning about photography. But having a sensor that's a bit less forgiving than a Fuji one might be good for playing with - make the hard decisions about framing instead of just assuming everything will always be well-exposed. (I haven't used the X-half, but a considerably cheaper used X-whatever would be much better than a 2020 iPhone for non-computationally-processed shots).
by smj-edison | 2025-06-17 17:55:21+00:00
It think this one is interesting since it highlights that Wayland is not meant to be an exclusively window manager API. It includes things like kiosks, car screens, etc, where the concept of a window doesn't even exist.

EDIT: on further thought though, it's really odd that they still haven't added in optional APIs for a lot of basic window operations...
by stillpointlab | 2025-06-17 17:55:25+00:00
This is true in my experience but it doesn't go against my larger point. Choosing the "goldilocks" context is a bit of an art, not too big not too small. It reminds of a famous witty quote [1]: “I apologize for such a long letter - I didn't have time to write a short one.”

If you send too much info at once it does seem to confuse the agent, just like if you ask it to do too much all at once. That is yet another property it shares with a junior engineer. It is easy to overwhelm a new contributor to a project with too much information, especially if it isn't strictly relevant.
by LeoPanthera | 2025-06-17 17:55:33+00:00
I don't know about "family", but those looking for a camera for kids should consider an old iPhone with "assistive access" turned on. This is what the Camera app looks like in that mode:

https://support.apple.com/guide/assistive-access-iphone/came...

Assistive access is an amazing mode for kids and adults with accessibility problems and I'm constantly surprised that Apple doesn't promote it more.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-17 17:55:36+00:00
By the time you breakeven on whatever you spend on a decent LLM capable build, your hardware will be too far behind to run whatever is best locally then. It's something that feels cheaper but with the pace of things, unless you are churning an insane amount of tokens, probably doesn't make sense. Never mind that local models running on 24 or 48GB are maybe around flash-lite in ability while being slower than SOTA models.

Local models are mostly for hobby and privacy, not really efficiency.
by stavros | 2025-06-17 17:55:38+00:00
I just spent $35 for Opus to solve a problem with a hardware side-project (I'm turning an old rotary phone into a meeting handset so I can quit meetings by hanging up, if you must know). It didn't solve the problem, it churned and churned and spent a ton of money.

I was much more satisfied with o3 and Aider, I haven't tried them on this specific problem but I did quite a bit of work on the same project with them last night. I think I'm being a bit unfair, because what Claude got stuck on seems to be a hard problem, but I don't like how they'll happily consume all my money trying the same things over and over, and never say "yeah I give up".
by jessriedel | 2025-06-17 17:56:22+00:00
The premise of this question is wrong, and it's super disappointing that everyone is giving answers as if it's correct. The Honda test rocket only went to an altitude of 300 meters. It's been possible to propulsively land rockets from such low altitudes for decades, e.g., McDonnell Douglas DC-X test in 1996. (And ofc, if you're just talking about re-use for any landing method, the space shuttle first reused the solid rockets and the orbiter in 1981.)

Reusable, propulsively landed stages for rockets capable of putting payloads into Earth orbit is stupendously harder. The speeds involved are like 10-100x higher than these little hops. The first stages of Falcon 9 and Starship are still the only rockets that have achieved that. Electron has only re-used a single engine.
by throw_m239339 | 2025-06-17 17:56:25+00:00
I only buy old refurbished DELL/ LENOVO/... computers because of the numerous ports and they are better build than the recent one at the same price (I'm often using them outdoors in rain, cold, or sandy places, something that would wear off any cheap new laptop way too fast). Hopefully sellers online won't stop selling them if they can't get new W10 OEM licenses, but most people want windows, not Linux.

The only reason most of these computers cannot run W11 is the graphic card, nothing more, they can have 16+ gigs of RAM, can be upgraded with internal 5G wifi cards for cheap, and yes, I still use ExpressCard PCMCIA extensions as well (to add USB ports for instance), or even docking stations!

edit: they are easier to repair as well or find parts for because the design goal wasn't to be ultra-thin or ultra-light.
by dspillett | 2025-06-17 17:56:25+00:00
I've found https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher to be useful, though test it out before relying on it as some have reported stability issues with some options (I've not noticed any problems myself, other than things a little confused by my ZenBook's 1.5 screens when positioning some UI parts).

There are a few other similar tools to try as well, I'll leave others to talk about them as I never got around to trying more than this one so can't talk with any authority at all.
by hwillis | 2025-06-17 17:56:37+00:00
Electrical engineer: motors and sensors are not really any better- motors have gotten more efficient and sensors have gotten cheaper, but gold standard sensors like ring laser gyroscopes have existed since the 60s.

> Launch-thrust engines that throttle down low enough and preciesly enough for landing

In large part this is due to improved simulation- spaceX made their own software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozrvfRHvYHA&t=119s

Experimentation was also a large factor- pintle injectors have been around for a long time, but were not used in production rockets until SpaceX (who moved from a single pintle to an annular ring). Pintle injectors are very good for throttling.

> Better materials to handle stress for flip over manover etc without added weight

We're still using the same materials- good ol inconel and aluminum. However 3d printing has made a pretty big difference in engines.

More rockets use carbon fiber, but that isn't new exactly and the main parts are still the same variety of aluminum etc. Titanium has become more common, but is still pretty specialized- the increased availability was probably the biggest factor but improved cutting toolings (alloys and coatings) and tools (bigger, faster, less vibration) have also made a big difference.
by pomerange | 2025-06-17 17:56:42+00:00
Distros are not dropping Xwayland, just say "run our app trough xwayland". Recommending X11 distros or compositors is not good advice. X11 on its own is dead, and things like KDE do very little development on their X11 version.

Some if not most of these bugs are 100% application bugs, very few actually used wayland compositors have performance bugs for example (but your app running in wayland native might).

With what a dumpster fire X11 has been lately its a bit weird to bet on it for your application.
by 2b3a51 | 2025-06-17 17:56:43+00:00
Just a point: ticketing in cities.

In the UK outside London, a journey via a 'metro' (suburban railway), a tram and a bus could well require the purchase of three separate tickets at a significant premium over sticking to one mode of transport even if less efficient. I would suggest a move to single tickets within urban areas. That would allow multimodal travel - if the tram is in and the train is delayed just hop on the tram.
by dataexporter | 2025-06-17 17:56:51+00:00
I admire the conviction, but I think you're underestimating the social inertia that platforms like WhatsApp benefit from.

The unfortunate reality is that most people won’t follow you. Not because they don’t respect you or your concerns, but because the cost—in effort, friction, or just breaking habitual patterns—is too high. Social coordination is fragile, and it leans heavily on lowest-common-denominator tools. WhatsApp has become that denominator.

What’s likely to happen is this: group chats will move on without you. Events will get planned. Conversations will unfold. People aren’t going to message you separately to accommodate your principled stand—not out of malice, but out of convenience and momentum. You’ll be increasingly left out, not because anyone wants to isolate you, but because ecosystems don't fracture easily.

After a few months of being disconnected and missing out, there’s a strong chance you’ll reinstall WhatsApp—not because you’ve changed your mind, but because opting out of a near-universal platform means opting out of modern social participation.

This isn’t a defeat of principle—it’s a reflection of how network effects work. The only way to realistically challenge something like WhatsApp is if a critical mass moves at once. Individual protest, while noble, often just leads to isolation unless it becomes collective action.
by resumly | 2025-06-17 17:56:54+00:00
Hi HN,

I've built Resumly, an AI tool that helps job seekers create a tailored resume for each job they apply to. You provide the job URL or description, and it generates a resume optimized for that specific role.

The goal is to save time and increase interview chances by making resume tailoring effortless.

Features:

Input job URL/description + base resume → get a tailored resume

Keyword optimization and relevance matching

Export as PDF or Word

Insights on how well your resume aligns with the job

You can try it here: https://resumly.ai

Would love your feedback or thoughts on where this could go next.
by ReptileMan | 2025-06-17 17:56:55+00:00
Here is a fun quiz - what you think are the best features windows obtained after 7 (and 7 main feature was - is not Vista)? Windows store/apps are terrible, the online integration in the start menu is a torment. Cortana/copilot are useless at best. File search is absurdly slow - to the point where the almost abandonware Everything kicks MS ass. So we are left with only WSL.
by nemomarx | 2025-06-17 17:57:08+00:00
Good strategy if voting is still allowed in 2028, not super useful if political violence bubbles over into a coup or such.

The scale of the protests is encouraging, but I remember the mass protests under Bush were about as large, and the war continued and he stayed in power. Organization needs to do something with the mass of people who are out in the streets to direct them.
by varispeed | 2025-06-17 17:57:52+00:00
> Kicad has pretty awful UX

Interesting. I tried very much every EDA available on the market and Kicad has no contest. Easy to learn, doesn't get in the way and you can design boards in no time.

Contrast with e.g. Altium. That one, in my opinion, is a prime example of awful UX. You have to constantly battle it to do anything.
by kragen | 2025-06-17 17:57:52+00:00
> I wasn't aware that the US had significant reactive power requirements (I'm guessing for utility scale solar).

Yes, you were. The article says:

> Yet “other operators, such as in the U.S., require or reward grid participants for helping balance this reactive power,” Lara says. Spain could do that, too, given its commitment to expanding the role of renewable, and therefore distributed, power.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-06-17 17:58:39+00:00
There’s some crucial differences here, though.

The web is a different beast because people will visit sites on a whim, plus there’s things like redirects to factor in. Friction for visiting sites is very low, which makes the spam problem much worse. Users’ desktops are a very different environment — nearly all programs that are installed are there because the user explicitly willed it. Apps can’t install themselves and users install apps at a much lower rate than they visit sites, and so the only time there’s a “spam” effect is when setting up a new machine (which could be ameliorated by account migration tools copying permissions). Furthermore, if apps start acting abusive there’s a good chance that users will remove them and seek replacements, and so it’s in apps’ best interest to not do that.

As for Android, that’s simply a bad permissions model. The iOS/macOS model in which prompts are shown when the user tries to use an associated feature is much better and appropriately triggers mental red flags when incongruent permission requests appear.

It’s never going to be perfect, but third party devs have repeatedly proven that full access to everything all the time is not a model that works for anybody but power users and above.
by 9rx | 2025-06-17 17:59:46+00:00
> Is that really because of the English-esque syntax

Well, what we had before SQL[1] was QUEL, which is effectively the same as Alpha[2], except in "English". Given the previous assertion about what came before SQL, clearly not. I expect SQL garnered favour because it is tablational instead of relational, which is the quality that makes it easier to understand for those not heavy in the math.

[1] Originally known as SEQUEL, a fun word play on it claiming to be the QUEL successor.

[2] The godfather language created by Codd himself.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-06-17 17:59:47+00:00
VPN's layer 2... I suppose it could be resizing packets in such as way as to make it glitch out, but that just seems improbable.

Some of the warez sites I download torrents from have captchas and other javascripticles that only work on Chrome, but I've yet to see it with mainstream sites.

Fight the good fight.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-17 18:00:20+00:00
Waymo has ~40 million miles of test data. Tesla has ~4B miles. But for training both quantity and quality are important. Tesla only uploads excerpts and metadata for its 4B miles, and it's video only. Waymo can fully analyze all 40M miles, and it's much richer, with LIDAR and other sensors.

My feeling is that Waymo has the data advantage.
by dspillett | 2025-06-17 18:00:21+00:00
> It's nearly impossible to find good, honest apps on the play store anymore.

The process of getting things into the app store can be a faf, an app maker who isn't making money off it is far less likely to bother than an app maker happy to flog your personal data for a few pennies, because the latter might make enough money to make it worth the effort.
by pixl97 | 2025-06-17 18:00:30+00:00
Yes and no.

The internet was collaborative when it was very small. You still had islands like AOL and Compuserve and such.

Then as it got bigger the big islands like AOL broke, and the views started going to larger and larger websites (think things like news sites). These sites had to work with vendors (Microsoft/Apache) to be able to support the load without crashing. While this is occurring hardware got a lot faster and databases more performant (along with things like K/V caching).

This lead to the last 'social media' wave where just a few large companies could host enough servers to serve everyone on the internet (within reason). These companies sucked a lot of wind out of the smaller companies that were successful. You could wake up one day and find out Google had implemented your entire business model and is giving it away for 'free'.

But free was never free. Those big companies need your eyeballs. They need your attention. And they will do anything regardless of the ethics to keep it (what are small fines between friends). There was not much more room to expand in to, you're only expanding into other companies. You take over/replace the ones that give their data away and 'compete/fight with' the ones that don't.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-17 18:00:36+00:00
>Another thing that is troubling is that immigration law is sort of a parallel system to normal criminal law. The rights for the accused are lesser and obligations for officers are more lax. The burden of proof is lower. It's easier to get warrants and the rules of evidence are more relaxed.

I would be absolutely elated if the end result of all this crap is a judicial president that eviscerates the many parallel systems that the feds/state/local governments run in all sorts of specialty areas of law.

>Why are the right libertarians and 2A folks not speaking up right now? We have masked feds rolling up and barging in without warrants...?

Right now you're making the same complaints about immigration process that hardcore libertarians made decades ago about traffic court and code enforcement and were brushed off for various reasons. They're keeping their mouths shut so as to not interfere with the learning process.
by potholereseller | 2025-06-17 18:00:45+00:00
The actual title of the acticle is "Brad Lander Detained by Masked Federal Agents Inside Immigration Court".

Contrary to the current title here on HN, Lander was not arrested for asking to see a warrant; TFA states the opposite, "It wasn’t immediately clear what charges, if any, the mayoral candidate will face. A spokesperson for ICE didn’t immediately return a request for comment."

If an event is so important to know about, why fabricate such an important aspect of the event in this way?
by sunrunner | 2025-06-17 18:00:48+00:00
I wholeheartedly agree and can only really add my own personal examples.

I think the first recording of his I heard was Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.18, Op.31 No.3 from the 1970-77 recordings, and I was struck by just how different his interpretation was compared to some of the perhaps-more-well-known performers such as Daniel Barenboim. Even just the first two bars from the first movement were different and interesting enough to capture my attention.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-17 18:00:56+00:00
> Why are the right libertarians and 2A folks not speaking up right now?

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
by stillpointlab | 2025-06-17 18:01:07+00:00
I could not disagree more. I don't think you are wrong, I just choose a different approach.

There seem to be multiple approaches to working with LLMs. My own personal experience has been that carefully explaining my request, providing specific and highly relevant context (and avoiding irrelevant and distracting context) has lead to significant productivity on my side. That is, it may take me 15 minutes to prepare a really good prompt but the output can save me hours of work. Conversely, if I fire of a bunch of low-effort prompts I get poor results and I end up spending a lot of time in back-and-forth with the LLM and a lot of time fixing up its output.
by mindslight | 2025-06-17 18:01:45+00:00
News is written for lowest common denominator, appealing to emotional narratives. [More] news at 11. Stop trying to point to the media's hypocrisy as if it justifies rejecting the overall message. I don't like that elected officials are of a higher class either, but the plain fact is they are. We need to work with this to point out how out of control this administration is.

Sometimes, criticism is poised to cause reform. Currently, it's poised to support the fascist takeover in progress. Having to circle the wagons sucks as it further empowers the authoritarians on our side, but at this point it is what it is - traditional American governance (with all of its warts and flaws) versus autocratic fascism red in tooth and claw.
by abeppu | 2025-06-17 18:02:12+00:00
Working to accomplish what goal for whom?

I think largely they have not yet been effective at protecting immigrants.

> They’re as much about spreading awareness and mobilizing the voting public as they are about current events.

Right, so to some degree they "work" as tools for existing political groups in attracting attention, resources and possibly votes. But does it better enable those groups to actually help immigrants? Or does it just give political organizations a powerful talking point in the midterms?
by blooalien | 2025-06-17 18:02:18+00:00
Where I live, the main university has a "University Surplus" store where things like that go to be sold dirt cheap to tech-savvy folks who already know it's not garbage yet. $50 and a Linux install disc and you've generally got a fully working still fairly modern(ish) machine (modern enough to easily support some basic upgrades [GPU, RAM, HD, etc] if necessary for your intended purpose) all ready to rock-and-roll. Win/win for everyone involved. The University gets a bit of money out of it, anyone who wants or needs a cheap machine gets one, and the landfill gets to avoid some unnecessary e-waste.