MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by int0x29 | 2025-07-11 16:26:17+00:00
Don't want to deal with the logistics of lots of SKUs? Don't sell them. Trying to upsell people is a money move. Selling a SKU where the 80+gb OS is like 40% of the disk is a good SKU to cut. Especially if some consumers are unlikely to realize how little space they will actually have.
by timmytokyo | 2025-07-11 16:26:32+00:00
I might be more inclined to believe you if Elon-related posts were being flagged across the board, but they're not. Just yesterday, the Grok 4 launch video was on the front page, and the associated comments were full of flamewar content. Yet that post didn't get flagged -- presumably because it was a launch video favorable to Elon's interests.

There's a clear bias -- either on the part of the flaggers or on the part of HN itself -- in what gets flagged. If it has even a hint of criticism of Elon, it gets flagged. That makes this forum increasingly useless for discussion of obviously important tech topics (e.g., why one of the frontier AI models is spouting Nazi rhetoric).
by tuatoru | 2025-07-11 16:26:56+00:00
Maybe living with parents was the norm where you're from, but in the Paris basin, the low countries and England, from late Medieval times the life pattern was to leave your parents' home as a teenager and work for several years in another household/enterprise until you could afford to form your own household.

Leaving home early is deeply ingrained in Anglo culture.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_patt...
by quietbritishjim | 2025-07-11 16:27:17+00:00
> It's interesting to think of "calling" as "summoning" functions. We could also reasonably say "instantiating", ...

"instantiating" would be a poor choice of word because in some languages you instantiate a function object when execution passes the point in the code where the function is declared, which is a separate step from calling it later. Examples are lambda expressions in C++ and all functions in Python. In those cases some state is captured at the tone of instantiation time.
by markerz | 2025-07-11 16:27:19+00:00
There’s an easier way to promote on social media without becoming a life consuming personal brand. Get yourself on those accounts that curate content.

Get your song featured on curated Spotify lists or Instagram/TikTok accounts that review books of a specific genre, or get a guest spot on a podcast about your topic.

This is like the old way of marketing. In the old days, you’d apply to talk at writing conventions, table, do book tours at stores, go to relevant events locally, and partner with libraries locally. To follow the song analogy, musicians used to send songs to DJs and radio hosts. Maybe your at a college radio level, or local broadcasting. Find your stations, build up your reputation.

In the end of the day, people have found their networks and communities. You should try to enter them and be a part of those communities rather than build one up for yourself.

The author has this insite when she describes most of her following is through some form of word of mouth. This social media era is the same, except some of the word of mouth is direct (DMs, IRL conversations) and others are through communities.

In an era of everything being algorithmically served to you, I’m impressed by how often personal recommendations weigh far heavier for people. A good example I’ve seen is restaurants. Sure, I might Google or Yelp, but if someone I know has similar taste recommends a place, I’ll give it a shot. It doesn’t need to be someone I know IRL or virtual, it’s just a person who shares the same interests.

I think this works well if you’re trying to promote something real, like what this author is doing. I have no solution for personal content.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 16:27:35+00:00
There maybe some Stockholm Syndrome, but to be clear, I'd be much happier with cheaper anything too.

You're also acting like I'm suggesting running the OS from the external. That's just a weird way to think about it. The system drive is just that, for the system and apps and home folder. Media belongs on a different volume. Granted, I'm a media person with professional workflow mentality where the media is never small enough to fit on a system drive. Plus, "back in the day" the media drives were much faster than the system drive. So it's all turned up on its head in that regard
by os2warpman | 2025-07-11 16:27:46+00:00
>maybe in the Midwest, or West Virginia

My family is from the "decent hard-working" part of mid-America and I am the only one without a felony so whenever one of my relatives dies, I get their guns. It used to be the crime of choice was check fraud but now it's simple burglary and drugs.

I as a non-gang, non-dealing, tall middle aged white dude am safer in Baltimore than I am at the local gas station full of tweakers in "real" America.

West Virginia has the highest, by a lot, percentage of people on social security disability because their state doesn't have good welfare benefits. All of the decent folk figured out how to scam the government out of disability payments by lying about back and stomach pain.

In Wyoming County West Virginia >33% of all adults aged 18-64 are on disability. These aren't broken down coal miners they are normal, healthy, unemployed people.

My county? 6%.

The only parts of America where people aren't trying to scam each other are uninhabited.
by viccis | 2025-07-11 16:27:49+00:00
>considering that history is cyclical I have high hopes that it will come back

Not quite. As McLuhan said, the medium is the message. Once you get a new medium, it changes how people think and behave. Television changed how people treated entertainment forever, cars changed how transportation worked forever (I'm sure the horse industry hoped history was cyclical), etc, etc.

Even within the realm of social media itself, we saw successive irreversible stages. Text content gave way to images and memes which gave way to videos which finally gave way to short term video content. They are all competing in a Darwinian struggle in the attention economy, and once they gain traction, they change how people use their devices completely.
by nordsieck | 2025-07-11 16:28:00+00:00
If you're interested in some hard data, Backblaze publishes their HD failure numbers[1]. These disks are storage optimized, not performance optimized like the parent comment, but they have a pretty large collection of various hard drives, and it's pretty interesting to see how reliability can vary dramatically across brand and model.

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1. https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive...
by simpaticoder | 2025-07-11 16:28:47+00:00
I've often wondered if you can't have your cake and eat it too by treating social media as write-only. If you just post, but don't read comments, demonetize, don't track performance, you break the cycle of feedback and measurement that shapes inauthentic behavior. This doesn't mean you take NO feedback, because you can always offer an intentionally "high-friction" means of contacting you (I personally like the idea of a time-limited email address that is the answer to a riddle presented in the content. Or a PO Box).

It's deeply uncertain, even unlikely, that this will work because users crave engagement, feeling like their involved, and this "shape" of social media is more akin to legacy TV and print media which is "fire and forget". But still, I think it's an experiment worth doing.
by Ntrails | 2025-07-11 16:29:23+00:00
> you have to realize you’re talking to a population of people, and not necessarily the same person. Opinions are going to vary, they’re not literally the same person each time.

I pointed this out in my post for a reason. I get it. But even given a different person is saying the same thing every time a new release comes out - the effect on my prior is the same.
by sylens | 2025-07-11 16:29:36+00:00
I disagree. I think back in the late 2000s to early 2010s, many of us were eager to adopt the bleeding edge of technology because we were in the middle of tangible year-over-year progress. Twitter was a great way to broadcast updates to mobile devices with fledgling data plans. Instagram rode the wave of camera development in smartphones, allowing people to do something the increasingly higher quality photos they were taking. But in our rush to adopt these user experiences and stretch our wings, we ignored all of the potential pitfalls of creating these large, centralized repositories of heuristic and tracking data. We sold our single family homes on the open web for the opportunity to rent an apartment in a massive building with a few nice amenities like a gym with a heated pool.

Ten to fifteen years later and the rent has been increasing by huge amounts every year on that apartment, our maintenance requests go unanswered, and the neighborhood outside has gone downhill. Meanwhile, the same property management company is trying to get us to sign a perpetual lease in their new building just down the block. Is it really a surprise why people aren't jumping at that the opportunity?
by techpineapple | 2025-07-11 16:29:40+00:00
For all the objections to the idea of AI alignment, there's just no fucking way to avoid the absolute political onslaught that will befall all of these companies every time they say something someone in power doesn't like. It's sort of bananas to think that that the libertarian let them speak the truth / whatever they want will win out here. Especially with the vision that everyone is going to start getting all of their information from AI.

Has anyone tried to sue an AI provider for defamation/libel/slander yet?

This is just google AI summary talking but:

Original Speaker's Liability Not Automatically Liable: The original speaker is not automatically liable for defamation just because you repeat their statement. Their liability hinges on whether they intended the statement to be repeated or had reason to believe it would be.

Intent or Reasonable Expectation of Repetition: If the original speaker distributed the material in a way that suggests they were comfortable with it being shared with many people, they could be held liable. Similarly, if the original statement was made in a context where it was reasonably foreseeable that it would be repeated, the original speaker could be held liable.
by xyst | 2025-07-11 16:29:51+00:00
The people behind the "kingsener" YT channel have been doing these types of upgrades for a long time.

He recently posted an upgrade of this same process as a short - https://m.youtube.com/shorts/b-Z5GhYhbjM

It’s wild to see how much Apple invests in making these as hostile to the user to upgrade. But also cool to see people out there with the skills to desolder the chips, memory, and storage and replace with a much faster alternative.

If Apple truly cared about their carbon footprint, devices would be easily serviceable and upgradeable by user
by intalentive | 2025-07-11 16:30:06+00:00
Here's an idea: treat conspiracy theory as theory, an explanation of a set of facts, rather than as social contagion or pathological disorder. Allow open discussion of all sides of an issue, admit controversial facts, and structure the discussion in such a way that truthfulness and explanatory power rises to the top. I'm picturing some kind of hybrid of Reddit and Wikipedia.

Censorship, ostracism, and certain debunking styles are counterproductive in the sense that they harden the "conspiracy theorist" in his beliefs, confirming that "the establishment" is protecting sacred cows and forbidden knowledge. These approaches are unnecessarily combative and condescending. I think a more open approach is called for.

Sabine Hossenfelder handled "flat earth theory" in a way I found refreshing. She said, "Huh, this is interesting. I appreciate that they aren't afraid to question fundamental assumptions. That is a scientific attitude. But here's why I think they're wrong."
by smelendez | 2025-07-11 16:30:36+00:00
If you go as a tourist to a place in the US that doesn’t get a lot of tourists, like a small Midwest city, people will happily give you recommendations of things to see and do. The same if you go in a neighborhood bar or coffee shop in a big city neighborhood that’s not overtouristed.

Nobody will try to charge you the tourist rate because there isn’t one. There may be scammers and shady merchants operating in town but you will not be their primary target.
by prisenco | 2025-07-11 16:30:58+00:00
Mastadon is a more of a broadcast network with micro-blogging. It's got advantages over a place like twitter but not what I'm looking for. And having worked on decentralized social networking, I've turned off from it because it has a lot of ux, privacy and quality issues that are hard to solve.

Myspace or early Facebook is closer to what I'd want.
by omoikane | 2025-07-11 16:31:02+00:00
> https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/history-of-scie...

> Estimate: 400000-600000 USD

> Current Bid: 350000 USD

Apple 1 sold for $666.66 in 1976, which is ~$3766 today after inflation, so ~900x increase in value.

For comparison, AAPL stock went public in 1980-12-12 at $22 per share. Adjusting for 5 splits, the initial IPO price was $0.10. It's at $210.86 today.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-11 16:31:12+00:00
I wrote a comment a bit ago on what this adversarial interoperability [1] could look like with local LLMs and accessibility APIs [2]. Big AT Proto and Bluesky fan, as it cannot be captured ("protocols, not platforms"), but it isn't enough to have this capability only with Bluesky; it must be able to support any social network or graph. It should be a robust content processor under the user's control for any firehose they wish to consume, whether that is a REST API endpoint, an RSS feed, a plain 'ol website that the agent will login as the user as, or a closed app that the agent will use accessibility APIs to operate the app as the user.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42879342
by colecut | 2025-07-11 16:31:12+00:00
I know two people who had prolonged psychotic episodes, as in, for weeks they were in their own world. These were both people who had many fun/enjoyable experiences beforehand.

I myself have had bad / hell like experiences a small percentage of the time, despite literal hundreds of good experiences prior.

Becoming a father many years ago significantly altered my trip experience.

Dosage also plays a strong role..

These things are generally less toxic than alcohol and it is criminal to punish someone for having them or using them.. But they are also extremely powerful, and despite potential amazing experiences, do carry risks.

And they are definitely not for everyone.
by arrowsmith | 2025-07-11 16:31:14+00:00
I agree that we should be forgiving, give people second chances etc, but that doesn't change the meaning of words. "Defamation" is when you damage someone's reputation by saying things about them that aren't true. If you were convicted of a crime long ago and someone draws attention to that fact, they're not defaming you. The truth isn't defamation, by definition.
Show HN: Termadoro – A TUI Pomodoro Tracker with Tags and Reports
by zedoh | 2025-07-11 16:31:28+00:00
Hi HN! I just published Termadoro – a terminal-based Pomodoro timer with tag support and real-time productivity reports. It's built with Node.js, React-Ink, and SQLite.

I created it because I wanted a simple way to track my Pomodoro sessions and get useful insights about how I spend my time — including tagging sessions like “writing”, “deep work”, or “study”.

It was also a fun opportunity to level up my skills with TypeScript, experiment with Ink for TUI development, and learn how to package and publish an app to npm.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-11 16:31:48+00:00
That’s something that still blows my mind, and gives me serious pause when I consider the impacts. Sure, I’ve been involved in technology and the internet since the mid-90s as an elementary schooler, but I’m the exception to the rule. In thirty short years we’ve gone from bank tellers to bank apps, from dreary Government buildings with long waiting times to poorly-designed websites that crash frequently, and from only being reachable via post or landline to never being unavailable unless you’re somewhere isolated and remote - and then building technology to bring connectivity into those areas as well.

In three decades computing went from a toy of the rich and tools of the biggest businesses to a “necessity” of the everyman, but without any formal training on usage, value, or feedback on boundaries. Thirty years to go from only nation states being able to effectively surveil people at scale, to any tech company with a magic pixel being able to gather far more and accurate data than anyone prior could hope to.

This has been a gargantuan shift in civilization in an impossibly short amount of time, and we’re only really just now agreeing that there’s some growing pains that need sorting out. Maybe most businesses don’t need cloud-based services for everything, maybe most humans don’t actually need public social media, and maybe some of the stuff we take for granted as necessary today are actually quite worthless to most people/entities.

Viewed through that lens, I also see the desperation of the AI movement to continue accelerating “advancement” forward, before more people start asking the same questions regarding necessity and importance of existing tools and technologies. Once people start questioning the utility of a purchase, they’re less likely to spend money on it - and there goes your business.
by gruturo | 2025-07-11 16:32:10+00:00
I'm with you, but.... no. At the level where the controller is operating, things are no longer digital. Capacity (as in farads, not bytes), voltage, crosstalk, debouncing, traces behaving like antennas, terminations, what have you. Analog values, temperature dependencies, RF interference. Stuff best dealt with custom logic placed as close as possible to it.
by recursivedoubts | 2025-07-11 16:32:21+00:00
The term "conspiracy theory" is a psychological kill shot designed to socially ostracize anyone who questions the mainstream (read: elite) narrative, instilling fear in questioning that narrative.

Yes, there are crazy people who think crazy things. There are also sane people who think "crazy" things might be true, but keep it to themselves out of fear of the social ostracization associated with being called a "conspiracy theorist." As designed.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-07-11 16:32:28+00:00
> Anti-monopoly is left wing and doesn't fit the neo-liberalist compartment?

Yeah, look it could go either way.

> Due to the institutional structures and processes EU rule making tends to be quite resistant to immediate political fashion.

I don't really agree with this. For an example of why not, the AI act is a good one. This was a great Act that got a lot of LLM nonsense pumped into it following ChatGPT. While I get why that happened, I would have preferred that they wait, as the original stuff made lots of sense, and the less well thought through AI/LLM stuff significantly weakens the act.

> It's why conservatives are pushing towards a kind of United States of Europe direction, they'd prefer a centralisation of power in areas currently governed by the founding agreements.

Can you give me some examples of people (national governments particularly) pushing for this? I think that lots of governments are pretty happy with inter-governmentalism even though it has lots of problems.
by intended | 2025-07-11 16:32:43+00:00
Do you know that we've seen a difference in how information cascades through conspiracist networks vs science oriented ones?

If you want a better differentiation, is computer science the same as magic? Is there no difference between the skills someone develops as a professional and expert in their field, and the lay person? Everyone has the same level of ability and willingness to understand a subject?

For example, did you read the article before commenting?
by roxolotl | 2025-07-11 16:32:44+00:00
Responses like this muddy the waters by trying to equate the reality that understanding changes overtime with what are opinions that are largely unfounded.

There are two big differences between scientific consensus and theory building and conspiracy theories. First the scientific method tests these theories. This approach tests theories and continually responds as new information arrives. Second the theories are useful. Science’s goal is to estimate reality to the point that it is useful.

It is not a disqualifying ad hominem to say “you provide no nor respond to evidence and your theory doesn’t provide a useful testable hypothesis.”
by js8 | 2025-07-11 16:32:59+00:00
Right. I think a "conspiracy theory" is more than just a theory about some conspiracy. I think an important attribute of conspiracy theories is that they are unfalsifiable. Any piece of evidence or witness against them is either labeled to be in the conspiracy or being fooled by it.

Conspiracy theories are thus logically self-consistent theories, which effectively exclude all evidence against them as invalid. Therefore, it's impossible to counter them rationalistically, they can only be countered empirically.
by michael1999 | 2025-07-11 16:33:41+00:00
That's completely backwards.

The CIA was very clear that there was nothing there, and the publicly appointed leadership (Rumsfeld, Feith, Cheney, etc) badgered them until they gave in and made some wishy-washy statement that Powell could pretend was real.

The war was led from the top - Sec Def and VP. That Bush was a moron and appointed liars to Sec Def and VP is on him. Cheney and Rumsfeld had a long history of making things up, going back to the 70s.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-11 16:33:45+00:00
>Which raises an interesting point: In another time is sociological history, fringe thinking would have had to overcome a much more robust social challenge.

In a world of razor thin survive/starve margins there's more incentive to keep things stable on the day to day and if that means we all gotta convince ourselves the king is ordained by god and Saddam did have WMDs (or whatever) then so be it, at least you all get to work the fields in relative harmony and importantly not starve, not having dissent is more important than getting to the truth on any one issue.

As society gets richer we need (in the strict "bottom of the pyramid" sense) social cohesion with those around us less so we're freer to adopt beliefs from wherever even if not shared with those around us.
by rshemet | 2025-07-11 16:33:47+00:00
no, good observation - not hidden; we don't have a "clear conversation" button.

to your previous point - Cactus fully supports tool calling (for models that have been instruction-trained accordingly, e.g. Qwen 1.7B)

for "turning your old phones into local llm servers", Cactus is likely not the best tool. We'd recommend something like actual Ollama or Exo