MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by johannboehme | 2025-07-17 10:12:50+00:00
No, not really. The power button on the galaxy was previously a bixby button. They just changed the assistant that gets called uppon. AI Suggestions in search engines are sometimes practical and you can always choose to ignore them. AI is only a net loss for humans that use it instead of thinking. Used well its an incredible tool. Same goes to ownership offloading. Our company heavily encourages AI use, but the work you create with it is your responsibility. So if you dont check it, you are the one to blame. The energy consumption is really a thing that needs to be talked about, but its not that bad as its often stated. We already use buttloads of energy to stream movies, stream games, do stupid crypto stuff and the amount of bad mouthing AI gets for its energy consumption is just not proportional. If i run a local LLM on my GPU i am a forest killer, but using the same GPU to run a heavy game is ok?
by ehnto | 2025-07-17 10:12:58+00:00
If a game relies on proc gen to provide the materials necessary for someone to be creative and make their own story, build their own systems, solve their own problems etc, that is going beyond the cranial engagement of your average couch-sitting TV session.

I don't disagree with some of your points, but proc gen is a super broad term that encompasses a lot of approaches to art and development. I don't think you can so simply say "proc gen makes games bad".

As well, games are to taste, Minecraft is mostly proc gen, but also one of the most creative and engaging games someone could be playing even to date. Someone might prefer delicately written beautifully drawn story rich games instead, but it would be incorrect to suggest the person who just designed and executed a working machine inside Minecraft or some similar creative endeavour was zombie of consumption by comparison.
by immibis | 2025-07-17 10:14:02+00:00
Well, I look at the inflation numbers, and then I look at the prices, and I notice that prices consistently rise faster than inflation. And I think that observed reality outweighs any vague theoretical justification. But I'm not an economist. I notice that economics seems to be the only "science" where if the theory and reality disagree, it means the reality is wrong.
by throwaway150 | 2025-07-17 10:14:07+00:00
Thanks for clarifying. You're right! The output isn't actually text/plain. As someone who values standards, it is annoying to see control-code garbage when the content type claims to be text/plain. But wttr.in seems more like a fun novelty than a serious service and I suspect they don't pay much attention to standards. Still, I'm not sure that excuses saying one thing in the headers and delivering something else in the body.

But you've got a fair point. So thanks!
by globular-toast | 2025-07-17 10:14:48+00:00
No, they taste 100x better and they're called plants.

Eating animals that graze all day on the scant plant life was a necessity in many parts of the world. But in places where plants grow in abundance like India and Central America they eat them either exclusively or predominantly and their food is delicious as a result. These days the rest of the world has much better access to fresh vegetables too. I can even grow many desi vegetables in a greenhouse at home. So ditch the tasteless chunks of animal protein and eat more plants.
by immibis | 2025-07-17 10:15:11+00:00
WebUSB, and a lot of other web APIs, are cancer that should not exist. No web page should ever be able to have direct access to my USB devices. You should install the app that comes on a CD with the device or from the manufacturer's website for that. Random web pages are not trustworthy enough. I can make you click a permission prompt by making you press tab,tab,tab,enter many times and then popping it up in the middle of that.
by Sherveen | 2025-07-17 10:15:13+00:00
I'm kind of bothered by how many folks in the "AI influencer" space just pick up on the latest model hype, "Grok 4 changes EVERYTHING" type of nonsense.

And Grok 4 is a great example where they're just completely lying about the practical results. Elon wants to claim this is the smartest model, but it's like... 3rd or 4th best, at best.

Benchmarks, for a variety of reasons, now seem inadequate to capture models' actual strength, so I decided to run Grok 4 and o3 (and Grok 4 Heavy + o3-pro) through a gauntlet of questions that I think demonstrate real, practical differences between the two.

Hope this is helpful!
by kijin | 2025-07-17 10:16:29+00:00
Only if the GPT companies can resist the temptation of all that advertising $$$.

I'll give them at most 3 years before sponsored links begin appearing in the output and "AI optimization" becomes a fashionable service alongside the SEO snake oil. Most publishers won't care whether their content is mangled or not, as long as it is regurgitated with the right keywords and links.
by Agingcoder | 2025-07-17 10:16:59+00:00
Most of them are but some of them are good. I like the Cloudflare blog in particular which tends to be very technical, and doesn’t rely on magical infrastructure so you can often enough replicate/explore what they talk about at home.

I’ve also said this before but because it doesn’t look like an ad, and because it’s relatable it’s the only one which actually makes me want to apply !
by zild3d | 2025-07-17 10:17:04+00:00
I think it's actually a fantastic intro to electronics. There's nothing you can really do with "just arduino programming", the whole point is it lets you interface with the real world and therefor encounter electronics problems by default

The article even touches on that in the first hello world

> This simple exercise it by itself incredibly interesting that opened a series of questions:

> Q: Why is a resistor needed? A: High current and increased temperature damage its delicate heterojunction structures, which eventually cause it to burnout > Q: What happens if the polarity is inverted? A: Similar to a normal diode, current will not flow and the LED will not light up. As long as this reverse power is not high, the LED will not burn and can still be used with correct polarity afterwards > Q: How to interpret its data sheet? A: There are several interesting aspects its datasheet, like the LED’s wavelength curve, operating current and voltage, etc
Show HN: Spyfall but with a LLM
by Kehvinbehvin | 2025-07-17 10:19:11+00:00
Hi HN:

I built this game for fun during my spare time. It’s a turn based question/answer game like Spyfall, but instead of identifying the spy, you’re trying to identify the LLM.

It might seem pretty straightforward but all except 1 player will be helping the LLM blend in by answering like LLMs themselves.

Let me know what you guys think, create a game and share the link with your friends. Love any feedback.
by Oras | 2025-07-17 10:19:53+00:00
I hope it did more sophisticated coding that justifies your time to review the change twice.

If you can demonstrate actual work (e.g., bug fixes, adding a feature), it will have a better impact when reading your post.

Its a nice workflow btw, and I can see the potential especially with the style of Kiro where it can write the ticket, and then the agent will handle it with more details.
by pjc50 | 2025-07-17 10:21:01+00:00
> At the time Intel's dominance was supreme

They are the poster child for "we have a monopoly so we don't have to innovate or even maintain competence". Mind you, how much worse must things be at AMD that they're not winning the x64 war? Eventually the "PC" market is going to get run over by ARM like everything else. Especially now there's a Windows on ARM with proper backwards compatibility.

(although something is very odd with drivers on Windows-ARM, if anyone knows the full story on how to get .inf based 'drivers' working it would be genuinely helpful)
by GuB-42 | 2025-07-17 10:22:04+00:00
I don't think you get what living in a busy city is. The "pod" is where you sleep, the city is your home. You don't need half an acre to sleep.

Maybe it is not the lifestyle for you, but I don't find it "insane" to want to have plenty of stuff available at walking distance. And you can't have that without high population density and yeah "pods".
by cardanome | 2025-07-17 10:22:13+00:00
> to treat their moderate depression.

I criticized depression being too easily diagnosed myself in the post above.

Autism and ADHD are clearly underdiagnosed. I have posted some sources here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=cardanome#44586532

Maybe depression meds are given too easily. Not my area of expertise. Might also specific to the US. Getting medication here in Germany seems to be much harder. However, this has NOTHING to do with autism and ADHD diagnosis.

It does not mean that ADHD meds are given too easily. They are a completely different thing.

> But if we're at a point where we're nitpicking and saying, "Your kid walks on their toes. That's bad. Let's get them diagnosed. Then get some meds", yeah, it's horrifying and absolutely indefensible.

That is not what is happening. That is pure fearmongering.

First of all there is no medication for autism. Second of all, no nobody get diagnosed for walking funny. That is not how any of this works.

I repeat, they are not getting medicated because medication for autism does not exist and probably can't even exist.

And even for ADHD, meds are one option. You don't have to take them. They work exceptionally well for some people but not at all for others. Again, there is therapy and coaching.

> hat makes them sit and fold laundry all day

This is not how this works.

The meds help with executive dysfunction. It when you want to do a thing, know how to do a thing, it is important to do it but you can't do it because your brain just doesn't cooperate. Medication helps you do the things you want to do. If you want to play video games all day, you will play video games all day, with or without medication.

Simplified, people with ADHD have lower levels of dopamine. So they are constantly understimulated. Boring tasks hurt to do. Medication helps to get their dopamine level up so they can have the same level of stimulation as a neurotypical person that watches paint dry. They don't get you high, they get you from deficit to base level.

And again

> in the 90s

We were ignorant of many things in the 90s. I don't want to invalidate your experience, surly these problems did exist, I am just saying that you childhood experiences might not be representative for the world in 2025.
by latexr | 2025-07-17 10:26:26+00:00
> I will never understand this.

Perhaps because your interpretation of my comment is wrong.

> was removed in [an OS released on October 25, 2021]

No, no it was not! That would have been fine. Heck, it would even have been fine if they had removed it the year before. Two years. Three. I don’t care. The problem is that it was removed on a point release (not October) without warning, after setting the precedent of removing another language on a major release.

> But then, I've been using Python 3 since 3.2 and my first reaction to that was a sigh of relief

And I don’t even care about Python. But I still had to deal with the fallout from that from things I didn’t write.
by kruffalon | 2025-07-17 10:28:35+00:00
One reason could be that the diagnosises give access to differemt kinds if accomodation (and that contrary to popular belief: most parents just want whats best for their kids and are willing to fight hard for it).

In many places the only help you get with ADHD are amphetamines while autism can give access to a range of resources and accomodations.

Unfortunately it is often difficult to receive help without diagnosis.
by leoedin | 2025-07-17 10:28:36+00:00
Like the parent, I haven't found that's true at all. Most people doing residential work on houses work either on their own or in very small teams. They spend their time working on houses, not networking with other tradespeople. They might have a few people they work with regularly, but it's not a deep network.

Much better is local whatsapp groups where people who've hired good people can make recommendations. Those are a trove of good information.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-17 10:28:46+00:00
Grossly incomplete.

The larger risks to us include:

- Pandemic virus evolution of viruses from complex people<->livestock<->wildlife interactions.

- Evolving antibiotic resistant bacteria since livestock are given most of the same compounds given to humans simply for economic advantage, and in some cases, to force-feed animals with unsuitable feed like too much corn in too short of a timeframe. Some CAFO farms, their cows would die if not given antibiotics. [0]

- Water, air, and soil pollution on a large scale. Liquid shit lakes that spread manure into the air with sprayers. Runoff from pesticides and fertilizer used to grow the corn, soybeans, etc. The list goes on.

And, yes, climate change, animal cruelty, and other concerns.. but like condoning genocides, nothing will be done about it because people want their fucking Costco-sized 40 pack of cheap hamburgers, BMW SUVs, and overwatered perfectly green grass and air conditioning set to 68 F / 20 C in Phoenix AZ.

0. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/report-...
by meindnoch | 2025-07-17 10:28:50+00:00
If you look at ancient coins, you'll see that they didn't have identical sizes. They were minted from a standard weight of metal, but the manual minting tools of the time couldn't guarantee precise thickness and shape like we have today with machine-made coins. So a dodecahedron with precisely cut circular holes is not a good way to check your coins.
by diggan | 2025-07-17 10:28:50+00:00
> I've never even seen burn-in on anything other than a signage TV, and that happens even on some LCDs

AFAIK, the hardware still suffers from that problem, but it's been fixed in most devices by software fixes. Instead of displaying the exactly same content 24/7, it has "cleaning programs" or similar to runs once in a while to prevent the burn in from happening. Our OLED TV does the same I think too.
by Calzifer | 2025-07-17 10:30:28+00:00
It is apparently also hard to maintain over time. I heavily customized my Firefox and Thunderbird and it is annoying how often GUI components which should be equal (e.g. toolbar buttons in different places) look the same* but have multiple different CSS rules.

Some widgets, or rather the repeated reinventions of widgets in HTML+CSS, use variables and the next equally looking widget has none, or other variables with the same values.

From an outsider perspective it looks like a mess.

* or almost the same with minimal, likely unintended, differences like one button has a slight border when hovered but another button right next to it has none
by diggan | 2025-07-17 10:30:34+00:00
> https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartpho...

Huh, for some reason, this page loads properly and I can see it for 1-2 seconds, but it seems like as soon as it's done loading, it redirects me to google.com. Based in Spain, so guessing it's their way of turning away EU or European customers I guess?
by imtringued | 2025-07-17 10:30:45+00:00
Yeah, the thing is, the moment your software has crossed the boundary of success, it becomes a burden, not a blessing. You are now stuck with it and you better have made sure that you're happy with it the way you built it, because you're not moving on from this project any time soon.

Maybe Rust isn't optimized for throwaway projects and that's fine.
Show HN: InstaPodz – I made this to turn my boring commute into learning session
by AnsenHuang | 2025-07-17 10:32:54+00:00
I was tired of wasting time in traffic jams every day and wanted to use my commute to learn. I tried finding podcasts on specific topics, like explain MOE like i’m five or the pros and cons of TCA vs. MVVM in SwiftUI, but finding a single episode on niche subjects like these is kinda hard.

I’ve tried tools like NotebookLM, but they require you to manually find and collect all the source material first. I wanted something simpler, that i can just ask a question and get an interesting discussion to listen to.

So I spent the last three months working part-time to build InstaPodz. It's a simple app where you type a question, and it generates a custom podcast episode on that topic for you to listen to.

It's built with - three version of Gemini models - langsmith to handle the tracing and prompt template versioning(it used to make my codebase messy) - backend built with FastAPI on CloudRun (there’re some free credits we can get for new users) - Swift native using SwiftUI and MVVM(I ended up choosing MVVM that I’m familiar with) - TTS is using gpt4o-mini-tts

Happy to discuss/share more if you’re interesting!

The app is in its very early stages(I just launched it last Friday), I would be grateful for any and all feedback on the concept, the quality of the audio, or the user experience. I'm also open to brainstorming or collaborating with anyone who finds the idea interesting.

Thanks for checking it out!
by dustincoates | 2025-07-17 10:35:42+00:00
We did Book It! for a couple of years, but Accelerated Reader for most of the others. One of my favorite childhood memories as a kid was having to go to the local junior high, because the elementary school didn't have the test for the books I was reading.

It also made me want to read Anna Karenina, because that was listed as the book with the highest points awarded. It only took me 30 years to get around to finishing it.
by pavlov | 2025-07-17 10:36:38+00:00
Symbian was the last time a mass-market operating system was designed from scratch [1]. No Unix compatibility, no C API, everything optimized for a particular use case.

Unfortunately the timing was unlucky and the use case assumptions were short-lived. Symbian wanted a native C++ API, but the language in mid-1990s wasn’t great for embedded. So they reinvented everything from strings to exceptions to coroutines, creating a unique and clunky C++ dialect that nobody enjoyed learning and writing and which drifted further away from standard C++ as the language evolved.

And the other side of the coin was that Symbian was designed to squeeze every byte out of devices with 1 MB RAM and intermittent low-bandwidth networking. That’s what a viable smartphone looked like in 1997, but ten years later Apple and Google could just ship desktop operating systems shrunk down to mobile and assume always-on networks. Customers loved the products and Symbian’s efficiency advantages became more of a hindrance because nobody wanted the cheaper Symbian devices that did so much less (by the new smartphone standard).

Around 2008 Nokia acquired Symbian completely and tried to course-correct by ticking every box against Android. Symbian added POSIX and touch screen support and became open source. But there was no clear reason why anyone would pick it over Android at that point.

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[1] There’s Google Fuchsia, but it’s not mass-market in the same sense as Symbian which shipped on hundreds of millions of devices and had a real ecosystem of third-party native software.
by cardanome | 2025-07-17 10:38:32+00:00
> because our diagnostic threshold for tallness has lowered?

The threshold for being diagnosed as autistic has increased in recent years. As Asperger is not a separate diagnosis anymore but is part of ASD, some people that might have gotten an Asperger diagnosis would not get an ASD diagnosis today.

Again, a diagnosis requires that you have care needs. If you don't, you will not be diagnosed. There is no slippery slope of lowering standards.

There have always been neurodivergent people. Not long ago, here in Germany autistic children were systematically murdered during the Nazi regime.

The difference is that neurodivergent people don't have to hide anymore as much. We finally have at least a bit of a voice.
by caleblloyd | 2025-07-17 10:39:30+00:00
Been using gRPC with json transcoding to REST on a greenfield project. All auto generated clients across 3 languages. Added frontend wrapper to pre-flight auth requests so it can dynamically display what users are allowed to do.

Claude Code has been an absolute beast when I tell it to study examples of existing APIs and create new ones, ignoring bringing any generated code into context.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-17 10:40:03+00:00
Anthropocentrism.

philosophical viewpoint arguing that human beings are the central or most significant entities in the world. This is a basic belief embedded in many Western religions and philosophies. Anthropocentrism regards humans as separate from and superior to nature and holds that human life has intrinsic value while other entities (including animals, plants, mineral resources, and so on) are resources that may justifiably be exploited for the benefit of humankind.

Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/anthropocentrism
by theothertimcook | 2025-07-17 10:40:39+00:00
https://aiphor.com/products/bluefox-nx1-4-0-android-smartpho...

https://www.unihertz.com/collections/jelly-series

https://soyes.vip/en

https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-servo-mobile-phones.h...

They’re all kinda ass though
by nubero | 2025-07-17 10:41:28+00:00
You made a good catch with the spacing of the columns! I actually wrote about it in the article in the 7th footnote. But that is where it had to remain because – as I assume you know from how you write – it’s a rabbit hole. We could go further and mention that behind the inner columns is actually the cella (inner chamber), which would make for a darker backdrop of these columns than the outermost columns, which would be set against the blue sky, would have. That too makes for a difference in perception and is a further reason, why the outermost columns are set more closely to their cella-backed neighbour columns… And so on, and so on… :-)
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-17 10:41:46+00:00
It's as much a response to regulatory stuff as it is a marketing and perception thing.

All these banks over the years were faced with rules either from their insurers and/or government to the tune of "you must have a process to control X" and they say, "well, ugh, I guess only VPs can do that" and then as they grew and merged and were acquired by each other it pushed the VP title way down the org chart.
by Tade0 | 2025-07-17 10:41:47+00:00
> From a theoretical perspective, that sunlight on your solar panel isn't free - there was some tree or plant who would have used it if you had not.

Actually, no. Plants typically use just the two chlorophyll bands and the carotenoids band and they really don't need all of the 1000W/m2 of solar radiation - you see this in how plants in direct sunlight turn red to absorb less. For the same reason they're typically green, not black.

On top of that the Earth's albedo is 0.367 - much of the energy which reaches our planet is reflected back to space.

I was addressing this comment:

> There’s no version of it that’s truly sustainable long-term, just degrees of delay or harm reduction.

Yes, we have an impact on the ecosystem, no matter what we do. But the ecosystem is also able to regenerate and sustainability is just a matter of not straining it beyond that ability. It's entirely feasible, we just need to scale up certain technologies available today.
by willvarfar | 2025-07-17 10:41:59+00:00
The example given in the article was a pacemaker.

I'm guessing there _are_ applications where you don't need a lot of power, but you do want it over a long time and without needing to charge or replace batteries.

It's also easy to imagine places where, whilst power is available, there are manufacturing advantages in not needing to. For example it might make economic sense to have self-powered wirelessly-connected sensors on car bumpers just to avoid the manufacturing cost of wiring them all up?