MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Yizahi | 2025-07-14 15:41:19+00:00
Unfortunately WSL and Terminal have high friction cost, even despite being made by the same company as OS. So if you have a new VM (or 10, or god forbid 100+) you likely wouldn't either of those installed by default. Though I'm not familiar with recent packaging of Windows. On my current setup I had to install Terminal and WSL from the MS Store, which is extremely slow, buggy (sometimes halts updates of random programs) and I suspect won't work without account at all.

So in that situation it is ten times faster and easier to just download Putty and immediately start working.
by toshinoriyagi | 2025-07-14 15:41:40+00:00
The abuse of AI here blows my mind. Not just the use of AI to try to find a vulnerability in a widely-used repo, but the complete ignorance when using the AI.

"hey chat, give this in a nice way so I reply on hackerone with this comment" is not language used naturally. It virtually never precedes high-quality conversation between humans so you aren't going to get that. You would only say this when prompting an LLM (poorly at that) so you are activating weights encoding information from LLM slop in the training data.
by nico_h | 2025-07-14 15:42:21+00:00
There’s a movement called “barefoot shoes” / “barefoot running”. Very different gait from usual running and all the cushioning is in the muscles/ tendons. You can find some brands that have coton + rubber shoes (rubber is from a plant whereas plastic is from petroleum, don’t know if that works for you). And hemp or wool insoles. Probably not very durable but softer and more flexible than leather.
by danaris | 2025-07-14 15:42:25+00:00
> It's hard to make the case this is possibly in the users' interest.

Not in the least.

If anyone who wants can make a complete browser for iOS, then, for instance, Meta could come out with their own Facebook™ Browser that does extra super duper tracking on them and everyone they interact with online.

Or Russia/China/Trump/Obama/whoever you hate most could make their own browser that inserts propaganda into websites, redirects you away from sites that are critical of them, etc.

Or straight-up criminals could make browsers that steal your credit card info.

And a) Apple would be put in the position of having to do comprehensive testing on all these browsers to make sure they did not do these things, even in unusual situations, and b) do you actually trust Apple's App Review system to catch it all? 'Cause I like Apple, and I sure as hell don't. Especially in cases like the latter, where they could create a dozen profiles and have each one submit a dozen slightly different versions of their compromised browser (eg, one that's Skibidi Toilet themed, one that's got scantily-clad women (just PG enough that Apple won't ban them for that) framing the pages, one each themed for the MCU movies...)
by htrp | 2025-07-14 15:42:27+00:00
Is this being powered by any specific model?

>overage charges for agentic interactions will be $0.04 per interaction, and if enabled, will begin consuming overages once your included amounts are used (1,000 interactions for Pro tier, 3,000 for Pro+ tier). Limits are applied at the user level. For example, if you are a Pro tier customer who uses 1,200 requests, your bill would show an overage charge of $8 (200 × $0.04). Overages for agentic interactions must be enabled prior to use.

What is defined as an interaction?

EDIT: RTFM

>Whenever you ask Kiro something, it consumes an agentic interaction. This includes chat, a single spec execution, and/or every time an agent hook executes. However, the work Kiro does to complete your request—such as calling other tools, or taking multiple attempts—does not count towards your interactions.
by signaturefish | 2025-07-14 15:42:42+00:00
Simplified English is a thing that exists, for clarity - see for example https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice

I don't know if the parent comment was trying to equate American English and Simple English - I can see it as a way to dismiss American English as a "lesser" language (which it isn't, as you say), but I wouldn't start by assuming that.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-07-14 15:43:25+00:00
This is why the door assemblies are referred to as "plugs" : The door is designed with special hinges & joints, such that opening the door involves first pulling the door inwards, rotating it partially, and then finally swinging it outwards. If the door is not pulled inwards first, the shape of the door (as a "plug") prevents it from swinging out
by MostlyStable | 2025-07-14 15:43:34+00:00
I haven't found any appreciable drain on my EV's primary battery over the longest period I've left it sitting so far (a little over a week, so not that long, admittedly), but the car _does_ do a very bad job of keeping the 12V battery charged and I've already had to replace it once in <2 years of ownership, plus I bought one of those small jump start packs in case it ever dies not at home (luckily, for an EV, it barely requires any power at all to turn everything on and get it started, so the very smallest, cheapest, jump packs are way more than sufficient). A built in trickle charger to combat that would indeed be nice, if the car companies are incapable of figuring out the logic necessary to do it off of the massive primary battery.
by zeristor | 2025-07-14 15:43:38+00:00
Abstract Long wavelength red light that can extend beyond the human visual range penetrates deeply through biological tissue. Exposure to these longer wavelengths improves mitochondrial function and ATP production. This can translate to improved physiological performance, particularly in the CNS, including the visual system. Light driven metabolic improvements to regional exposure can impact systemically. Here we show that infrared wavelengths from sunlight can be measured after they pass through the human thorax. We then select a prominent transmitted solar wavelength range (830–860 nm) and deliver this to the thorax of subjects in the lab in controlled 15 min exposures with and without ocular involvement. Clothing reduced wavelength intensity but was not a barrier. These exposures were associated with significantly improved visual function when measured 24 h later even in subjects in which light was blocked from the eyes. Our data show that longer wavelengths of sunlight penetrate through the human body and, consistent with animal studies, have the ability to improve function. While infrared light has been used on targeted tissues, its ability to improve distal tissues in humans has not been explored. This study also highlights the potentially important therapeutic value of sunlight whose longer wavelengths can reach key organs even through clothing and likely promote mitochondrial function counteracting the decline with age and disease.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-07-14 15:43:57+00:00
Not everybody remembers that the numberpad is intended for touch-typing use by the left hand, if you are a right-handed business accountant for instance.

This was to allow for a nearly-universal established workflow where the right hand would shuffle the papers or maintain a pointer at a ledger as the data was entered to a mechanical adding machine, without taking the eyes off of what the right hand was doing. The #5 key with the tactile marker is the home position for the middle finger.

The adding machine sitting to the left of the desktop (sometimes on a cart) didn't need to be observed at all, it printed each entry on the roll of paper as you went along, subtractions or negative numbers optionally in red ink. Which could be audited later if necessary if there were any questions about correct data entry. Printing calculators having a financial mode have mimicked this like forever too.

Nobody would have ever expected IBM to be able to sell a calculating machine of any type without maintaining at least this particular backward-compatibility feature.

So it could be seen as more easily integrated by those businesses adopting their first computer of any kind.
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-14 15:44:07+00:00
For the third time, the children in the study met the same criteria that would be used to approve a child for puberty blockers. Why do you keep insisting that these children "never necessarily claimed to be trans"? Whatever "claiming to be trans" is supposed to mean, the important thing is that the study used the same criteria that would be used to approve a child for puberty blockers.

> But I know enough people that ended up desisting either due to conversion therapy or due to shame and lack of support from their family, and transitioned years afterwards (5-15+ years) after living shitty and depressing empty lives pretending to be cis.

This is called "anecdote". As I said, the claim that a sizeable chunk of desisters transition later in life is being made without evidence.

And again, with a mean followup time of over 10 years, most of the people who transitioned 5-15 years later would be counted as persisters, not desisters.
by rexposadas | 2025-07-14 15:44:30+00:00
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by hbn | 2025-07-14 15:45:25+00:00
As an iOS and web user, it is my desire that Apple doesn't allow other browser engines because immediately Google and other web devs will start pushing webapps that only work with mobile Chrome and we'll all be forced to install a Chromium browser to use certain websites, it becomes default and users will think "Safari sucks now, a bunch of websites don't work with it," finally ending Google's last bit of real competition in the browser space: Safari with its terrifying 17% marketshare.

That's not even getting into the resources/battery life aspect.
by 0xCaponte | 2025-07-14 15:45:28+00:00
It has been a while since I found a site this interesting, I have been reading it on and off for the past few days. As per their site: "Hundred Rabbits is an artist collective that documents low-tech solutions with the hope of building a more resilient future. We live and work aboard a 10 m sailboat named Pino in remote parts of the world to learn more about how technology degrades beyond the shores of the western world"
by ouked | 2025-07-14 15:45:30+00:00
This is a good observation, thanks for sharing. Interestingly, The Verge uses the title "Here’s Joanna Stern’s full interview with Craig and Joz." for a video WSJ called "Apple Execs on What Went Wrong with Siri, iOS 26 and More" (https://www.theverge.com/news/686948/heres-joanna-sterns-ful...)
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-07-14 15:45:31+00:00
arguably, no. counterculture ceases to exist when it becomes dominant culture, but it's not that "it won" - countercultural concepts are either adopted into mainstream culture through a widespread genuine desire for change (no longer countercultural, simply cultural), or they're vapidly recuperated (see chain stores like Hot Topic or Zumiez, if you're in the US) into commodity goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle
by trelane | 2025-07-14 15:45:35+00:00
> So, guys, I don’t want to kill your enthusiasm, but this sounds very much like We are just pretending to release a SteamOS version but in fact we advertise the Windows model everywhere instead. Since I am familiar with large companies, I guess the story was like that.

As a Linux user since the last millennium, this dance is so incredibly familiar.

> In his own column, Gassée has written several times about Microsoft's Windows OEM License and the ways in which it limits the freedoms of PC OEMs. In July 2001, I spoke with Gassée to find out why no dual-boot computers with BeOS or Linux installed alongside Windows can be purchased today

https://birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/

> It's impossible to know precisely how much, but if you do the math and assume that it's $30 per computer from those various sources, that would yield $200 million or more than 25% of Dell's profitability. It could be more or less than this number, but any way that you look at it, Dell is dependent on Microsoft for a massive chunk of their profits.

http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=131

So, uh, good luck. Sure is an amazing coincidence how many PC vendors suddenly have a competitor to the Steam Deck, that happen to run Windows, and especially push their Windows versions.
by MuffinFlavored | 2025-07-14 15:45:42+00:00
I have a question. I do not like the concept of "agent mode" for AI. I'm a control freak and I want to control every line that gets committed because I am responsible for it and need to understand/visualize/memorize every part of codebases I work on.

Is Claude Code good for the "ask" flow? No, right?

The old flow before agent mode got added. Select some code, ask questions about it or give an instruction on editing it and then choose to accept the change.

As I understand (I could be wrong), with agent mode, it edits the file for you, no way for you to accept before it does, so you have to manually check the diff, roll back parts you don't want, etc.

Am I right?
by joshmarlow | 2025-07-14 15:45:50+00:00
I agree AI can change the balance of power but I think it's more nuanced.

When expertise is commoditized, it becomes cheap; that reduces payroll and operational costs - which reduces the value of VC investment and thus the power of pre-existing wealth.

If AI means I can compete with fewer resources, then that's an equalizing dynamic isn't it?
by arp242 | 2025-07-14 15:45:51+00:00
Lots of things are east to imagine in principle, but actually doing them is just so much harder. There are so many practicalities you run in to.

The first from the top of my head would be the required length and sheer weight of the cable attached to that Teflon balloon, to say nothing of the weight of the balloon itself or its contents. Speaking of which, actually keeping the contents in that balloon might also be surprisingly tricky.

You need to drag that all the way to Venus, then decelerate enough to stop all that mass, then accelerate that again to come back to Earth, before decelerating to land here. Even without any extra weight that's actually a huge challenge due to the amount of fuel required. There's a reason none of the Mars rovers have come back.
by NathanKP | 2025-07-14 15:46:15+00:00
Actually yes! I saw this post some months ago, and thought to myself: "Wow this is really close to what we've been building". Kiro uses three files though: requirements, design, and then tasks. The requirements doc is a bunch of statements that define all the edge cases you might not have originally thought of. Design looks at what is currently in the code, how the code implementation differs from the requirements, and what technical changes need to happen to resolve the difference. Then tasks breaks the very large end to end development flow up into smaller pieces that an LLM can realistically tackle. The agent then keeps track of it's work in the tasks file.

Realistically, I don't think that Harper's statement of "I get to play cookie clicker" is achievable, at least not for nontrivial tasks. Current LLM's still need a skilled human SDE in the loop. But Kiro does help that loop run a lot smoother and on much larger tasks than a traditional AI agent can tackle.
by HDThoreaun | 2025-07-14 15:46:24+00:00
You need to remember that people experience reality differently. For you eating the healthy number of calories may be easy. For others it very much is not. I have heard it described as leaving your thermostat at 45 in the winter to save money on your gas bill. Sure, you could do it, but it would cause a lot of suffering. GLP-1s are able to change the way people experience hunger so that it only feels like the thermostat is at 65 instead of 45.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-14 15:46:37+00:00
Not saying it’s the adult thing to do but again, it’s understandable. Their takedown attempt seems to be disrespectful and wrong. I typically advocate for taking the high road but I certainly understand some situations where people don’t, even if I would have.

edit: thinking about it, we could look at your tone here as well to illustrate the point. Sure you weren't as uhh "passionate," but let's look at it more closely:

>Nah you still come off as childish when you reply like that

1) "Nah" is a very dismissive way of saying "I disagree." Then you follow it up 2) by calling someone "childish." There are certainly more respectful ways to make your point! Then again, I don't think it's that big of a deal. Someone else might though.
by xcrjm | 2025-07-14 15:46:50+00:00
To be fair to Apple, as a user of Safari, I mostly agree with their feature omissions. Web developers have shown near limitless capacity for abusing new platform features and Apple has provided sound explanations for why they won't implement eg. web bluetooth. On the other hand as a web developer I have definitely suffered my fair share of Safari's incompatibilities (however I find myself in these situations less and less these days).
by ta8645 | 2025-07-14 15:47:12+00:00
There was no distortion. You seem to want people to only take the desired implication, and not think too much more about it. But if you instead think for a second, you'll see that the analogy was crafted to send a message that is incorrect and limited. Rather than trying to create better analogies to handcuff a reader into your viewpoint, you might instead stop for a moment and see why this analogy wasn't actually as insightful as it might appear at first glance. And maybe even appreciate how my response shed light about that limitation. There are indeed people who get great entertainment out of machines that do heavy lifting, and they don't care how much a person can lift.
by swores | 2025-07-14 15:47:23+00:00
Sure, but if they get to keep $x per item for both own brand and other brand products, but have zero expenses for other brand products vs. having to pay to create/ship/etc. the own brand versions, you wouldn't talk about what great profit margins the own brand products have.

Plus, in this store nobody is buying any of the items, the only revenue is from the Nestlé sign above the door, which they'd earn even if they threw all of their own brand products into the bin rather than letting customers have them. So it's not an exact analogy...
by simpaticoder | 2025-07-14 15:47:34+00:00
Computers are boxes, therefore all software is literally (and figuratively) "in a box", are they not? This might seem like a frivolous jest, but it is not. For example, the author points out that clojure, java, kotlin can interoperate, but notes they are stuck in the same jvm 'box'. This generalizes and recurses, so you must find a specific place to stop, and then motivate that.

One likely place to stop is at "processes". But this must be motivated since ultimately processes are as synthetic a convention as a language thread - it's just that the runtime is called a "kernel" instead of a "runtime".

Ultimately I think what the author is getting at is a data problem, not a code problem. Or rather, it's yearning toward a world where data and code are strongly decoupled, conventions around data are standardized, so that processes written in disparate tooling can successfully interoperate locally. However I doubt there is much appetite for a "model of everything" registry (such things have been tried, and failed, in the past). That said we might take another stab at this, since LLMs make likely that software will become more dynamic in terms of translating data structures at runtime such that one program can examine a peer program and its data structures, and how to map them to local data structures, thus achieving interoperability without a centralized agreement on representation.
by danaris | 2025-07-14 15:47:43+00:00
Unfortunately, the problem is that what's needed is for a massive special antitrust operation to address the tech sector as a whole, unravel all the various anticompetitive, bundling, and otherwise monopolistic behavior they all engage in, and implement remedies on all of them at once.

But the US's system certainly doesn't allow that (and, of course, there isn't going to be any serious antitrust in the US for the foreseeable future anymore). I have no idea if the EU's does, but I really don't think they have sufficient jurisdiction to do things like break up Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Which is definitely necessary to address these problems.

Make no mistake: the reason we are here is because of the morally- and intellectually-bankrupt shift to the Chicago School-backed philosophy of antitrust under Reagan, coupled with a government—at all levels, in all branches—that didn't understand technology, and collectively refused to learn, for decades.
by clayhacks | 2025-07-14 15:47:45+00:00
It would not be a direct substitution of American labor if these people remain deported. There’s been labor shortages in many of these industries for years, there’s reason to believe that even more money will be lost by businesses that couldn’t hire enough people. I’d love it if they raised wages, but business owners usually aren’t keen on that, and if they did they’d likely raise prices as a result. The other possibility could be bankruptcy or offshoring of these businesses. I think if anything the $1.49 billion is an underestimate of the impact.
by yogi4D | 2025-07-14 15:48:02+00:00
It’s wild how someone can invent an idea, force it on everyone something no one asked for then turn around and sell it to us, layering on FOMO to keep us hooked.

Emotional manipulation at its finest.

No wonder nothing feels special anymore. Everything’s automated, abstracted, owned by someone else. If you make things by hand, you have to prove their value meanwhile, platforms like AWS are printing money.

They want us to own nothing. And if “heaven” is real, why aren’t they there already?
by angelmm | 2025-07-14 15:48:09+00:00
Many companies are considering IDEs the way to reach developers. Atom started the trend of next generation IDEs and VSCode consolidated most of the market. With the AI raising, people are looking to get usage, gathering data, and positioning models. An IDE provides you all of that.

AI seems to be a way to engage happy users to try new things. Kiro joins a growing list of projects:

- Kiro (AWS)

- VSCode + Copilot (Microsoft)

- Windsurf (OpenAI tried to get it)

- Cursor

- Trae (Alibaba)

- Zed

- etc.

I put Zed in a separate category in the past. Now with assistants / agents, it's playing on the same space.

The market is a bit saturated and tools like Claude Code gave some flexibility and an alternative for users. I tried Cursor in the past, and now I'm back to Helix / VSCode + Claude Code.
by kennywinker | 2025-07-14 15:48:31+00:00
How could I possibly make an informed decision as a child?

Well, first off - we trust children to make life-altering decisions every day - sometimes without good access to info about potential downsides. A great example is sports. Many sports (ballet, football) can and do have life-long health and quality of life impacts. Minors can commit to those and yet there’s no widespread moral panic about it.

The thing is I actually do trust children to figure out what’s best for themselves. Children are impulsive, yes - they have poor in-the-moment judgement. But medical transition isn’t something that can be done impulsively. It takes years of consistent action, not minutes or hours.