MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-17 14:03:10+00:00
The pixel is not a “huge portion of the market”. It’s 4% of the market in the US (https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insight/post-insight-us...) and a nothingburger outside of it.

Globally, Apple has what 20% market share? And besides Qualcomm chips, Apple has a complete separate parts supply chain than Android.

Besides, Samsung could definitely create its own small phone and would if there were a market.
by neogodless | 2025-07-17 14:03:27+00:00
https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-zenfone-10-review-3334...

According to this article

> The ASUS Zenfone 10 is a compact flagship Android phone from ASUS. Sporting a little 5.9-inch display

Though you have to argue it's not tiny. (Don't think it sold all that well, though, at least not mainstream.)
by ghc | 2025-07-17 14:03:31+00:00
I think it really, really depends on the language. I haven't been able to make it work at all for Haskell (it's more likely to generate bullshit tests or remove features than actually solve a problem), but for Python I've been able to have it make a whole (working!) graph database backup program just by giving it an api spec and some instructions like, "only use built in python libraries".

The weirdest part about that is Haskell should be way easier due to the compiler feedback and strong static typing.

What I fear most is that it will have a chilling effect on language diversity: instead of choosing the best language for the job, companies might mandate languages that are known to work well with LLMs. That might mean typescript and python become even more dominant :(.
by mindslight | 2025-07-17 14:03:34+00:00
I did this steelmanning for decades. Teased out the nuance. Assumed people were coming from the best intent, even if they expressed themselves ham-fistedly. Rolled my eyes at friends reflexively shoehorning everything into "racism". Hated the refrain of "dog whistle" rather than addressing the actual point. And so on.

At the point when we've got an overtly fascist administration that is ineffective at doing anything but making a show of putting some powerless brown people in concentration camps, yet is still being cheered by a large number of people? I'm coming around to the idea that the underlying hidden variable is really just racism. So I'm done engaging with the dog whistles as rational points, at least until the pendulum starts swinging back. I'm certainly not going to be a useful idiot enabling this shit.

(I'm even left wondering if the reactionaries' constant refrain of "California [delenda est]" isn't just a straight up invitation to enter the racism closet. I spent time in LA. The place is a nuthouse. But when I respond to the "California..." narrative with actual sympathetic criticism it's still just crickets like I'm not understanding something)
by dijit | 2025-07-17 14:03:49+00:00
No.

I'm sure I don't speak for everyone, but people consider me reasonably worldly and reasonably intelligent but at 18 when I was first given the power to vote I voted for:

* UKIP for EU Parliament

* Lib Dems for UK Parliament

I don't necessarily regret the LibDem one, but seeing how absolutely hoodwinked I was by UKIP has left me really jaded.

I saw them misrepresent issues and put things to the EU parliament for debate that they would then go back to the UK media and scream about how there was a topic up for debate that went against british values: despite them being the ones to propose it!

I saw the leader of the party get put in charge of the fisheries committee and then proceed to tell the UK public that the EU was taking control of our waters and fishing... when he was the man in charge.

I saw grandstanding and burning of our political capital inside the EU parliament for soundbites.

and I only saw this: because I was not afraid of digging into the truth of things; something I was not prepared or willing to do as a teenager, as that sounded like the kind of mundane schoolwork I was attempting to avoid - I was much more interested in how I felt about particular people, and UKIP gave me the warm fuzzies about my country and a convenient scapegoat for the decline in living standards in my lifetime.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-17 14:04:04+00:00
Yes, I love the people I have chosen to associate with and build community with. I consciously choose to be where they are, and to share my time with them, because they are good people and I have chosen them. An LLM ain't gonna love you back. They're just fancy ouija boards, tools that will never replace a human connection (although I assume interacting with them can still produce dopamine under certain circumstances).

It's work, it's time, but community is a function of effort and intentionality. If I want interesting conversation, I come here, because mods keep the bots out.
by pj_mukh | 2025-07-17 14:04:12+00:00
It all started in San Francisco and New York, but now the disease has spread everywhere. Frankly the disease was always there. Millennials trying to buy houses en-masse over COVID is what exposed it.

Nobody notices it because it's nationwide (and to a certain extent worldwide) and it's a city-by-city policy issue [1][2][3]. But it's the same issue everywhere, over-indexing neighborhood preferences to slow down and kill construction projects behind a permitting process.

[1]: Denver, https://denverite.com/2025/04/14/denver-construction-permitt...

[2]: Toronto/Ontario, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-housing-const...

[3]: Atlanta, https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2024/06/20/metro-at...
by ivan_gammel | 2025-07-17 14:04:42+00:00
It is unlikely that we will see new nuclear powers. It's not an easy job. We can be sure that Israel or North Korea won't give up, but that does not mean they are going to use the weapons or there will be a full-blown intercontinental war. Looking at current progress in space tech, in 30-40 years the ultimate WMD will be kinetic space weapons anyway.
by Algent | 2025-07-17 14:05:05+00:00
The only time I ever triggered fraud detection system on my card I got a text message from bank that was "Your card is blocked due to suspicious usage, please call 'number'". And the number was also some random unlisted one. Only reason I didn't just ignore the thing is I did make a purchase on new website a half an hour before.

Called my local bank and they confirmed this was legit, I almost went off on a full rant about how bad their protocol is for this.
by mike_hearn | 2025-07-17 14:05:51+00:00
Nearly. It almost certainly never even touched IT.

The issue is that marketing is organizationally separate from IT and doesn't want to interact with them. IT is probably behind a slow, outsourced ticket based process and will take weeks to do a simple thing. They may also have random opinions about stuff marketing doesn't want them to have opinions about. So building out promos like this is delegated to SaaS services or contractors who also have no relationship with corporate IT. Then nobody in marketing really knows or cares what a subdomain is, because everything they do is just searching Google or clicking links. They never look at the address bar because it's always full of meaningless junk so why would they or anyone else care what's in it?

Anti-phishing training doesn't make sense, when you look at how people really use the internet. Not many people look at the actual text of a URL. The best anti-phishing training is "go to google and type what you're looking for, only click links from there" and not "carefully examine the domain name to try and intuit if it's owned by the organization you think it is".
by anal_reactor | 2025-07-17 14:06:00+00:00
1. What I'm talking about is that most companies that grow beyond startup phase create an environment where a single developer simply gets a ticket, implements the functionality, and moves onto the next ticket. Programming has become a blue-collar job except in front of a PC. As an individual programmer, you typically have very little saying in what exactly you're doing and why. Even matters strictly related to engineering end up "I'm doing this because my manager wants it". Here intelligence is a negative trait, because if you question your superiors, you'll be labeled "problematic" and "not a team-player". This holds true too for situations where a group of engineers is left alone to figure out a solution - if you're smarter than the rest, your idea will simply be rejected because others don't understand it, and don't support your view of assumptions that are difficult to quantify. During a discussion, genius is often indistinguishable from stupidity.

2. Sure, you in particular can sense who is smart and who isn't according to some arbitrary definition that you have. The problem is, this doesn't scale. There's no process that allows ten recruiters to recruit fifty smart programmers efficiently. For a while we had Leetcode, until it turned into a memorization contest, and in my opinion, memorization is a different skill from intelligence. We rejected Leetcode without pointing to any alternative. And now in the age of LLMs and international jobs, cheating is rampant. If you apply to 500 jobs using automated scripts, there's decent chance that at least one company won't notice that "PhD in Divination at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry" is a problem rather than an asset. They have 50 000 applicants anyway, so they just use LLM to go though the resumes. And then you use LLM to answer whatever questions they have.
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-17 14:06:01+00:00
Not every role can do that, by a mile.

Some technical people are terrible at helping juniors in their careers, and relatively poor communicators. Their job is "get the thing built" or "maintain the servers".

Managers support each report in succeeding not just at their job but their career, and are an escalation point for cross-team conflict, among other things.
Show HN: Anemos – Open source Kubernetes manifest manager, alternative to Helm
by notanaverageman | 2025-07-17 14:06:11+00:00
Hello HN, I am Yusuf from Ohayocorp (https://ohayocorp.com). I have been developing a package manager for Kubernetes and I am excited to share it with you all.

Currently, the go-to package manager for Kubernetes is Helm. Helm has many shortcomings and people have been looking for alternatives for a long time. There are actually several alternatives that have emerged, but none has gained significant traction to replace Helm. So, you might ask what makes Anemos different?

Anemos uses JavaScript/TypeScript to define and manage your Kubernetes manifests. It is a single-binary tool that is written in Go and uses the Goja runtime (its Sobek fork to be pedantic) to execute JavaScript/TypeScript code. It supports templating via JavaScript template literals. It also allows you to use an object-oriented approach for type safety and better IDE experience. As a third option, it provides APIs for direct YAML node manipulation. You can mix and match these approaches in any way you like.

Anemos allows you to define manifests for all your applications in a single project. You can also easily manage different environments like development, staging, and production in the same project. This brings centralized configuration management and makes it easier to maintain consistency across applications and environments.

Another key feature of Anemos is its ability to modify generated manifests whether it's generated by your own code or by third-party packages. No need to wait for maintainers to add a feature or fix a bug. It also allows you to modify and inspect your manifests in bulk, such as adding some labels to all your manifests or replacing your ingresses with OpenShift routes or giving an error if a workload misses a security context field.

Anemos also provides an easy way to use Helm charts in your projects, allowing you to leverage your existing charts while still benefiting from Anemos's features. You can migrate your Helm charts to Anemos at your own pace, without rewriting everything from scratch in one go.

What currently lacks in Anemos to make it a complete solution is applying the manifests to a Kubernetes cluster. I have this on my roadmap and plan to implement it soon.

I would appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or contributions from the community to help make Anemos better.
by thmsths | 2025-07-17 14:06:20+00:00
I wonder if it's because they look at security more globally. Their actions probably keep lowering security for people who understand the risks and are willing to take the extra steps to protect themselves but on the other hand they probably drive up adoption of some extra security for most other folks. Or if you want to be less charitable: they were tired with dealing with support calls from a lot of tech illiterate people and decided to just sacrifice security.
by sp1rit | 2025-07-17 14:06:23+00:00
> Why the heck would the application for the German passport or Ausweis be published by some random GmbH and not Bundesregierung.gov?

This way the government doesn't have to release information to the public (think FOIA) about it. Moving central part of government operation into a private GmbH wholly owned by the government has (sadly IMHO) become a somewhat common strategy for the government. Not just Governikus (the one with the passport) but also the Telematik (Health system) and probably some more.
by ern_ave | 2025-07-17 14:06:39+00:00
In my opinion, if I had said anything that you could demonstrate to be false, you would quote what I said and present an explanation for why it's false. I believe you're not doing that because you cannot do it.

> You are the one bringing politics into this

No, that's not true. The person I responded to characterized the old, pre-musk twitter as "a place where decent human beings cared to gather" and contrasted that with the current twitter.

What possible non-political interpretation of that viewpoint is there? He is clearly saying that when twitter was run by people on the political-left, and (for example) Trump was banned, that was "decent human beings."

My rebuttal is to show a large list of verified accounts making hateful statements. My point is, those statements were allowed under pre-musk twitter. Hate was allowed before, and it's allowed now.

The only difference is that the person I responded to finds the former brand of it acceptable.

Which part of this analysis is incorrect?

> Even collecting that image is odd and strange

It's odd and strange to pretend that you believe I personally collected those examples. You're well aware of how the internet works. You know that someone else created that image.
by jajko | 2025-07-17 14:06:50+00:00
Whataboutism at its finest. I think we all forget how we should feel fiery hate towards all citizens of Mongolia, those conquests were beyond brutal.

Or lets start talk like adults and talk about current situation and how nations behave now. russia is the definition of evil of these days. I know US government focuses heavily on china for whatever reasons (I guess because its obvious they are #2 and moving up, russia is barely in top 10 in actual capabilities if we ignore nukes and and since they threatened to use them at least 100x in past few years we can safely ignore them for usual conflicts).

Don't hate the messenger, this is how they behave and have painted themselves consistently, heck they are even proud of it in typical russian redneck style if you follow their media a bit.
by dijit | 2025-07-17 14:06:55+00:00
There's no rule that says that, in fact the rules in the UK are that you can pay people below minimum wage if they're under a certain age.

I think there are also some tax incentives that are designed to make employers more friendly to the idea of hiring a young workforce - all to offset the "cost" of training people, but of course this is just used by mega-corps to have a perpetual stream of extremely cheap labour for frontline staff. (Argos, McDonalds).

So it's possible that not only do they not pay tax, that also their employment is partially subsidised by tax.
by sealeck | 2025-07-17 14:07:04+00:00
Have you considered why investors were bidding something like 60 cents on the dollar right until Trump's election? (Hint: because Elon has been using the US government to press companies into buying his ad product, despite the fact that it is materially worse than Google or Facebook's).

> The only insight we have

This is untrue. There's fairly credible reporting (e.g. in the FT) that Twitter's reveue numbers have bottomed and they are not making money. Of course, a lot of these problems are being disguised by the fact that Elon Musk has merged in xAI (and investors are very happy to pile money into AI without even the slightest due diligence).
by hopelite | 2025-07-17 14:07:18+00:00
You assume that simply because information exists that people will not only understand it, do so correctly, and act on it rationally and not emotionally.

Again, it’s like the Epstein narrative; the right and good thing is to release the information, but the whole system, both sides and most in between have a vested interest of one kind or another to keep it under wraps. We know there as organized human trafficking, sexual slavery, abuse, rape, and various types of racial master race level eugenics associated with out of control “intelligence” agencies, including for foreign governments against the American government …. It everyone is just covering it up because everyone is implicated or is mentally compromised and the “peasants” unlikely have the organized power to change that.

That is also all documented, in fact it was documented for how many years? 10? 15? 20?

Ever hear of a guy called Madoff? He sure made off with money of sophisticated and smart people for several decades.

Don’t lie to yourself about the confidence in the system.
by Joker_vD | 2025-07-17 14:07:43+00:00
> that was their procedure so it was my fault for not complying

This is the most fascinating (infascinating? like, infamous/famous distinction? whatever) things about bureaucracies, to me: they sincerely expect everyone to follow their internal rules and procedures, even the people who are completely outside their jurisdiction by any stretch of imagination.

Like, "we require the application of your personal seal to the papers" — "Personal seal?.. we use signatures in this part of the world, you know" — "No, we don't accept signatures, it has to be a seal imprint" so then you just stamp some absolutely random rubber stamp and they accept it because even if they can't actually read Cyrillic, it's a stamp and that's all that matters.
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-17 14:08:10+00:00
> Where do I put my vegetable garden and fruit trees?

Some cities provide shared gardens, but it is a niche thing.

> How can I relax on my back porch listening to the birds and creek?

Most cities have parks.

> How do I get away from all the hustle and bustle of dense city living?

You go to the countryside.

But sure, if you like these things, maybe living in a city is not the best. The thing is that there are solutions. In the same way that if you live in the countryside, you can still go to cultural and sport events, fancy restaurants and bars, but it will take a trip, and you also have to consider that driving and drinking is not great. If you love these things, maybe you should live in a city instead.

I am not a fan of suburbs as there is essentially nothing you can do without driving. For me, it would be my last choice, as it tends to be expensive compared to the countryside, and not as calm. An intermediate choice that can make sense, but not a Pareto optimal.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-17 14:08:11+00:00
>because the couch fucker sure is known to be trustworthy

Just because he's a "couch fucker", doesn't mean he's wrong in that case. Some EU countries do have genuine issues with free speech. He's right about that one.

People should use critical thinking and judge WHAT is being said independent of WHO is saying it.

Unfortunately people do not use critical thinking anymore to judge topics in a nonpartisan way, because of fear of being attacked/ostracized by the colective groupthink mob based solely on adherence to a political ideology.
by sjw987 | 2025-07-17 14:08:21+00:00
I think, as an outsider, the US faces most of the same problems, but I believe you do have a better starting position and extra cards in your hand than we do.

Personally I cannot see how the UK is going to steady declining living standards. I see the same from my reading in a lot of Europe, and many countries have a much lower starting point (Africa, Asia exc. China), or are accelerating their decline even faster by their actions (Russia). I don't envy any political party that comes to power because truthfully I doubt any of them can solve any of the problems we're facing, even with deeply unpopular changes and the stubbornness to see them through.

We don't have globalised tech companies, any real production basis, or energy/mineral wealth. We largely provide services which are going to be hit hardest by even basic LLM, and domestic services which are gradually being priced out of business by rent and energy price hikes. It's a small island with too many people living on it, fighting for scraps while whatever is left of the economy is sold off for the benefit of very few people (who will eventually emigrate when the fan is hit).

I strongly believe within my lifetime (early 30s) I will be living in a third-world country, and that global problems and events will be piled on top of that. Slow but steady social breakdown is very clear on a day-to-day basis (theft up to £200 is basically legalised, insufficient employment, large amounts of people out of work due to mental health issues).

Many of my friends in late 20s and 30s have a similar view, hence the no kids. At the minimum, I would only have children if the pretext was emigrating from the UK first.

When Rome fell, it was bad news for the citizens of the Western Roman Empire. We're gradually going through the same thing. If you have the ability to control birth and are acutely aware of these issues and the negative trends, it's many peoples opinion that its better to save the next generation the trouble of potentially being the ones to be holding the bomb when it goes off.
by EPendragon | 2025-07-17 14:08:39+00:00
I do like your suggestion of creating some standard that categorizes using function or purpose like you mention. This could simplify things granted that there is a way to validate the function and for spoofing to be hard to achieve. And yes - there is also legal.

I do think that I will likely need to go back and unblock a couple of other bots for this exact reason - so that it would be possible to share it and have previews in other social media. I like to take a slow and thoughtful approach to allowing this traffic as I get to learn what it is that I want and do not want.

Comments here have been a great resource to learn more about this issue and see what other people value.
by ezst | 2025-07-17 14:09:13+00:00
> It partially nullifies the point of the room decentralization, though.

And that's the ONE thing giving Matrix bragging rights over any other chat protocol. Their whole crusade against XMPP in Matrix early days was based on this distinction and overstating the importance and relevance of it. So I guess we are left with an absurdly complex protocol and single-source implementation for… nothing then?
by pyman | 2025-07-17 14:09:20+00:00
The problem is not the battery, it's the battery, processor and price.

The iPhone 13 Mini made up around 3% of total iPhone sales, so there's clearly a market for compact, mid-range phones ($600-$700). You can manufacture them in China or India for somewhere between $250 and $400, depending on the battery, camera, and overall performance.

The real challenge is that the retail price of a mid-range Android phone can't go over the $500 mark. People in developing countries are always stuck trying to balance quality with price. And for $500 bucks they expect a prime phone nowadays.