MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by microtonal | 2025-08-27 06:52:46+00:00
Omarchy is just a set of defaults for an existing software stack. The problems here are at a much more fundamental level: getting devices that can be unlocked, getting device drivers/firmware that are also updated on a regular basis, supporting hardware attestation and getting app makers to support it without Google's support (assuming an Android compatibility layer), getting a healthy app ecosystem (if there is no Android compatibility layer).

Currently probably the best route is basing the OS on Android (so that you can benefit from all the existing apps), making a non-hostile reference device, and getting regulators' attention (the EU is probably the most likely to succeed) to break Google's monopoly on attestation.

This is largely what GrapheneOS is currently trying. I think what we can do as users is install GrapheneOS with sandboxed Google Play and for any apps that do not work, contact their developers. If GrapheneOS manages to get millions of users and get on the radar of app developers, that's the best shot I think.

But it feels like the window is closing quickly. So if you care at all about any of this, today is the day to get a GrapheneOS device and make yourself heard.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-27 06:53:09+00:00
As noted by Ken, not only the "special registers" are weird in that dictionary definition, but also the mention about "main storage".

The term CPU has been introduced by IBM in 1954, in the manual of operation of IBM 704, and it was defined thus: “The central processing unit accomplishes all arithmetic and control functions”.

This definition was clearly meant to say that the CPU is the aggregate of 2 parts of the 5 computer parts listed by John von Neumann, i.e. the CPU is the "central arithmetical part" + "the central control part" from von Neumann's list. The other 3 parts were the main memory, the input peripherals and the output peripherals.

The IBM definition has remained valid until today, even if the package that contains the CPU also contains cache memories and possibly even a part or all of the DRAM memory, like in Apple CPUs or Intel Lunar Lake.

Because the CPU is the most important part of a CPU package, the whole package is referred as the CPU ("pars prō tōtō"), even when the package also contains some part of the memory.

I assume that the same way of using the "CPU" term has caused the confusion from the dictionary entry.

In IBM 704, the CPU filled an entire cabinet and the main memory was in a separate cabinet. In later computers, by the time of Honeywell 800, it became possible to locate both the CPU and the main memory in a single cabinet, which was referred to as the CPU cabinet, as the CPU was its most important part.

Whoever has copied that CPU definition, presumably from a manual of Honeywell 800, has confused the description of the content of the "CPU cabinet" of that particular computer with the definition of the term "CPU" as the name of a block used in the description of computer architectures.
by ben-schaaf | 2025-08-27 06:53:30+00:00
> This is Cinebench 2024, a cross platform application: https://imgur.com/a/yvpEpKF

Cool, now compare M1 to AI 340. The AI 340 has slightly better single core and better multi-core. If battery life was all about race to idle like you claim then the AI 340 should be better than the M1.

See also Snapdragon X Elite, which is significantly slower than the AI 340, uses more power under load, so in total has much less efficient cores, and yet still beats the AI 340 on battery life.
by EbNar | 2025-08-27 06:53:48+00:00
> If AI can just scan a video and provide bullet points, what's the point of the video at all?

Maybe, just maybe, the video format is being abused. Blogs are much more time-efficient. Frankly, every time I see some interesting topic linked to a video, I just skip it. I don't have the time or will to listen to some "content creator" blabbering to increase their video length/revenues. If I'm REALLY interested, I just use some LLM to summarize it. And no, I don't feel bad for doing this.
by aDyslecticCrow | 2025-08-27 06:53:58+00:00
China is also nutoriuous for paper mill publishing houses and overblown scientific claims.

Its also needlessly complicated to send the experiment to space. It would be equally valid science if made on earth. So there is a clear performance in the experiment not justifiable by any scientific reason.

Not to say china isn't ahead in space development right now. Artemis is going quite badly and china could certainly be faster to building usable moon outpost.

Its also very cool science, if its claims are true.
by kassner | 2025-08-27 06:55:11+00:00
From a quick search:

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/apps_android_malware/

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/11-million-devices-...

https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/over-300-maliciou...

Not sure which numbers you are expecting, but 90 million downloads combined isn’t insignificant.
by panzerboiler | 2025-08-27 06:55:28+00:00
Yes, the article is correct, but it misses some nuances. After paying the hefty fee (it has always been free, and it still is if you are resident, at least up to 5 years ago it was) you can walk along a path that gets near the fall, but not inside it. If you pay even more to get a "guide" you can reach an observation point (the tunnel) where you can almost touch the water, and get a free shower in the process. All in the name of "safety" (aka: money) even if as far as I know only one suicide has been registered, in the 80's.
by hunglee2 | 2025-08-27 06:56:23+00:00
Hard to see EU muster a response against a United States which is prepared to wield its overwhelming dominance of financial, economic, technological and cultural systems to its own perceived advantage.

Europe needed a de Gaulle but the political class of the EU is dominated by a generation of leaders who have been indoctrinated into the global liberalist values which the US has itself now abandoned. Generational turnover needed, but that will be enough time for the US to permanently lock its advantage. It might have already done so.
Claude Code ditches RAG for simple file search and it just works
by dmundhra92 | 2025-08-27 06:56:27+00:00
I’ve been using Claude Code for about 3 weeks now, and honestly, it’s been a game changer for my software development speed. One thing that stands out: Instead of using the typical RAG based search, Claude Code opts for straightforward “find” and “sed” commands for file search. And it’s surprisingly effective.

For anyone building non-coding agents: Do you think dropping RAG in favour of simple file search is a better approach for searching through files? Is it more effective in real-world scenarios?
by bullen | 2025-08-27 06:56:34+00:00
Yep me too:

Thinkpad X61s(45nm) DDR2 / D512MO(45nm) DDR2 / 3770S(22nm) DDR3 / 4430S(22nm) DDR3

All still in client use.

All got new RAM this year and when the SSDs break (all have SLC) I have new SLC SSDs and will install headless linux for server duty on 1Gb/s symmertic fiber until the motherboards break in a way I can't repair. Will probably resolder caps.
by camillomiller | 2025-08-27 06:56:35+00:00
Because, despite all the belated narratives from a lot of people perusing this very website, Venture Capitalism is not a driver of innovation. It's an efficiency filter to supercharge capitalism and speed up the concentration of wealth into the pockets of the VCs themselves. Software is nimble, has less overhead, can be optimized for profit faster, can be recombined, pivoted, repurposed way faster. Ergo, the market economics of VC are terrible at naturally selecting for innovation with a societal benefit, because that’s absolutely not in their firmware.
by defrost | 2025-08-27 06:56:45+00:00
For one alternative to newsrooms

Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J. Trump suggested that Americans want a dictator. In a meeting in the Cabinet Room that lasted more than three hours, during which he listened to the fulsome praise of his cabinet officers and kept his hands below the table, seemingly to hide the bad bruising on his right hand, Trump said: “The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, ‘You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.’” With Trump underwater on all his key issues and his job approval rating dismal, the administration appears to be trying to create support for Trump by insisting that the U.S. is mired in crime and he alone can solve the problem. The administration’s solution is not to fund violence prevention programs and local law enforcement—two methods proven to work—but instead to use the power of the government to terrorize communities. There is a frantic feel to that effort, as if they feel they must convince Americans to fear crime more than they fear rising grocery prices or having to take their children past police checkpoints on their way to school.

from Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-26-2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson
by MandieD | 2025-08-27 06:57:40+00:00
After watching several well-produced videos from my fellow Americans to try to learn how to hand spin, the one that made it click was a barely-edited one done by an older Chilean/Peruvian woman in Spanish.

I have an American high school language course (granted, I did all four years) level of Spanish understanding - maybe because of the language gap, I paid more attention to her motions. Either way, I think having the video in the original language made it work better for me.

Google Maps has been doing the most counterproductive thing for quite awhile now: it translates German business names. Instead of seeing "Stoff Bauer," which is the sign I need to look for while driving, I saw "Fabric Farmer," and ironically, only because I actually speak German, I was able to figure out that they had translated that rather common German family name, and what it really should be.

Excessive, compulsory auto-translation is awful.
by ValentinPearce | 2025-08-27 06:57:49+00:00
> he doesn't function in the money-oriented ways pretty much almost all other billionaire-types do

I'm pretty sure he does, his actions in government and his lobbying were specifically so he made more money. He does love the tech, though I'm not as optimistic about his love of the ideals (but that might be the socialist in me talking).

I'm am wary about how brain implants could be abused further down the line, but for now it's not the main thing I'm looking at with Neuralink. It seems to be a positive change for the patient, and if costs can be reduced to make it affordable to the masses, it can be a great thing.a
by reilly3000 | 2025-08-27 06:57:59+00:00
Thumbs up for dark mode. I really want to love this but I can’t get over the idea of paying GCP to have cloud run clone my repo over and over again every time I interact with Async. I’m still going to try it, but I think I’d rather rent a VM and just have it be faster. This is coming from someone who deals with big fat monorepos, so maybe it’s not that bad for the average user.
by bjornsing | 2025-08-27 06:58:11+00:00
In 1998 when I was in high school I dreamt up this kind of power plant and asked my physics teacher where the power really came from. Not happy with his answer I asked a university physics Q&A service [1]. Not happy with their answer either I did a masters in engineering physics and kept asking this question whenever I got the chance. Never got a really good answer. But I’m glad to see it works.

1. https://fragelada.fysik.org/index.php?amne=Energi&stage=&key...
by itake | 2025-08-27 06:58:27+00:00
While I am against the policy, Google only publishes developer's full legal name and email address if the app is monetized [0].

If the app is monetized, then the full mailing address is shared.

If money is involved, it’s fair for users to know who they’re dealing with. Developers who want to hide their personal identity can still do so legally with a shell company.

Taking it a step further, if I am going to run your code on my device, I want to know who I'm giving access to my data/cpu/hardware.

Just like with offline transactions, customers should know who they are giving money to.

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> Google will display your legal name, your country (as per your legal address) and developer email address on Google Play. If you decide to monetise on Google Play, then Google will display your full address.

[0] - https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
by tavavex | 2025-08-27 06:58:57+00:00
But the strangest thing is that you don't need to be of a certain ethnicity to speak multiple languages. Sure, I think it's less likely for some average US-born employee, but I would still guess that probably >10% have got to speak a foreign language, especially since they're all highly educated people who had more exposure to other languages and cultures than the average American.
by aosaigh | 2025-08-27 06:59:09+00:00
I don't personally know much about her, but Decoding the Gurus recently did a short update podcast on her content (they've spoken about her before):

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mini-decodin...

Their podcast revolves around discussing people seen as gurus/grifters and the various tendencies they exhibit and I usually trust it as a sensible source.

It sounds like she's started to follow the algorithm and has changed a lot recently in her position on various topics.
by grues-dinner | 2025-08-27 06:59:27+00:00
> How do you properly profile and debug a random modem in a phone? What about the cameras?

This is a huge factor. Mobile chip sets (CPU/SoC, crypto enclaves, GPU modems/basebands) are buried under NDAs a mile thick, and you can't just whack an oscilloscope on the bus like its 1979. Those companies treat their opaque hardware as their defense against IP theft, they'll never, ever give it up in the current environment.

And the cameras are super complex and require a bunch of DSP and AI to even vaguely work let alone do all the headline features.
by khomenkoigor | 2025-08-27 06:59:35+00:00
I’ve been working on SAMA, a project around programmable chat.

The idea is that instead of chat being a fixed message stream, SAMA makes chat itself programmable — you can define custom hooks, e.g. for filtering bad words, change message tone etc - all available via Chat app UI.

Think of it like giving developers a way to treat chat as code.

I’m curious how the HN community sees this concept: is programmable chat useful or just complexity?

Would really appreciate feedback from folks here — especially on what you’d want (or not want) from a programmable chat system.
by energy123 | 2025-08-27 06:59:46+00:00
> writing a blurb that contains the same mental model

Good nugget. Effective prompting, aside from context curation, is about providing the LLM with an approximation of your world model and theory, not just a local task description. This includes all your unstated assumptions, interaction between system and world, open questions, edge cases, intents, best practices, and so on. Basically distill the shape of the problem from all possible perspectives, so there's an all-domain robustness to the understanding of what you want. A simple stream of thoughts in xml tags that you type out in a quasi-delirium over 2 minutes can be sufficient. I find this especially important with gpt-5, which is good at following instructions to the point of pedantry. Without it, the model can tunnel vision on a particular part of the task request.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-08-27 06:59:54+00:00
I wouldn't bet on hackers saving us from everything. There are 150 million Nintendo Switches in the world, and nobody has figured out how to jailbreak one without getting into the hardware and shorting some wires (and even then only on early unpatched models). I don't think its out of the realm of possibility to make a best-selling phone that stays uncrackable for the general population for its entire lifecycle.
Show HN: Sudecku – A Deck-Building Sudoku (For iOS)
by beshrkayali | 2025-08-27 07:00:05+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm excited to share Sudecku, my first iOS game. It combines classic Sudoku with deck-building strategy. If you enjoy logic puzzles or card games, you might enjoy Sudecku.

The idea started from playing a lot of Sudoku with my wife and watching Cracking the Cryptic solve some wild sudoku variants. I was also inspired by Balatro, which showed how much depth and replayability can be added to a simple cards game. That got me thinking about what would happen if Sudoku had power-ups sort of like Uno action cards or Balatro’s combos, and deck-building mechanics. After countless hours of playtesting and feedback (mostly from my wife), Sudecku finally came together.

It's a paid app. One-time purchase kind of deal. There are no in-app purchases or ads. You get the full game up front. It's also iOS only for now, but I'm definitely open to releasing on other platforms if there's demand.

You can check it out here:

- App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/sudecku/id6747517140

This was a labor of love for me, and I'd love to hear what you think, any feedback or questions are welcome.

Thanks for checking it out!

(Happy to answer any questions about the game or the development.)

PS. If you'd like to try the game but can't pay for it for some reason, please email me (me at my first name dot com) and I'll happily provide you with a promocode.

Thanks!
by camillomiller | 2025-08-27 07:00:47+00:00
Thank you for this comment. What you are saying unfortunately won’t happen. We let people like the ones steering the AI market have too much power and too much money and too much influence because of both. As a European, I hope the EU would do even more in regulating than it currently is, but it’s very little hope. Glad you’re doing better, and thanks again for sharing.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-27 07:01:17+00:00
And with that release, my ASUS 1215B was downgraded from OpenGL 4.1 into OpenGL 3.3, it took several years for the open source driver to catch up in features to the old closed source driver, and when it finally did, my netbook was at the end of its life.

Ah and hardware video decoding never ever worked again.

So much for the so called advantages of an open source driver.
by IanCal | 2025-08-27 07:01:38+00:00
Google have been terrible at every single rollout I’ve ever seen them do.

I see an announcement and it’s a waitlist. It says I can use it right now and I get a 404, or a waitlist, or it doesn’t work in my country. With the AI stuff more often it takes me to a place where I can do something but not what they say, and have zero information about whether I’m using the new thing or not.

Like this is flash image preview, but I have flash which is also a thing so is it the new one or not? The ui hasn’t changed but now it can do pictures so has my flash model moved from a GA model to a preview one? Probably! Or maybe it gets routed? Who knows!
by gabriel666smith | 2025-08-27 07:02:15+00:00
Thank you for your good-faith explanation.

> Empathy like all emotions require effort and cognitive load, and without things being mutual you will eventually slowly become drained, bitter and resentful because of empathy fatigue.

Do you have a source study or is this anecdotal, or speculative? Again, genuinely interested, as it’s a claim I see often, but haven’t been able to pin down.

(While attempting not to virtue-signal) I personally find it easier to empathize with people I don’t know, often, which is why I’m interested. I don’t expect mutual empathy from someone who doesn’t know who I am.

Equally, I try not to consume much news media, as the ‘drain’ I experience feels as though it comes from a place of empathy when I see sad things. So I think I experience a version of what you’re suggesting, and I’m interested in why our language is quite oppositional despite this.
by mac-mc | 2025-08-27 07:02:23+00:00
There are entire online social groups on discord of teens encouraging suicidal behavior with each other because of all the typical teen reasons. This stuff has existed for a while, but now it's AI flavored.

IMO I think AI companies do have the ability out of all of them to actually strike the balance right because you can actually make separate models to evaluate 'suicide encouragement' and other obvious red flags and start pushing in refusals or prompt injection. In communication mediums like discord and such, it's a much harder moderation problem.
by foo42 | 2025-08-27 07:02:26+00:00
The tradeoff of higher velocity for less enjoyment may feel less welcome when it becomes the new baseline and the expectation of employers / customers. The excitement of getting a day's work done in an hour* (for example) is likely to fade once the expectation is to produce 8 of such old-days output per day.

I suspect it doesn't matter how we feel about it mind you. If it's going to happen it will, whether we enjoy the gains first or not.

* setting aside whether this is currently possible, or whether we're actually trading away more quality that we realise.
by greatgib | 2025-08-27 07:03:12+00:00
My problem is more the general idea that nowadays the tech is hostile to the user. Before when you paid for something, it was fully yours to use in a good or in a bad way.

Imagine for example, that in the future and with improved tech, manufacturer of knifes were to embed a gps chip in all knifes sold because it might be used for dangerous things.

The worse in all of that being that the big tech does it based on their own "moral" compass and not based on a legal requirement.

Regarding the watermark, that is also applying to generated text in theory, imagine that you ask ai to refactor a job application letter or a letter to your landlord, and that Google will snitch you with watermark that you used AI for that.
by beardyw | 2025-08-27 07:03:21+00:00
I know I risk being down voted remorselessly but I have to put this in context. Where in the real world is anonymity considered ok? If I only put a flyer through someone's letterbox here in the UK, I have to identify myself. If I sell a physical product I not only have to identify myself but take on serious legal liability. An author can take on a pseudonym but only via an identified publisher.

In fact that latter example might provide a solution. Set up a company willing to publish apps whilst hiding the actual developer's identity.
by romanovcode | 2025-08-27 07:04:47+00:00
For someone who does not uses Chrome as a personal browser I am very excited.

I use Chrome only for development it this would probably help with the debugging problems, finding reproduction steps and writing website flows and QA steps much easier.

Obviously I would never use this on the browser with all my private sessions active as it is a huge vulnerability risk as well as not a fan of all my data being sent straight to CIA/Mossad.
by vusaldev | 2025-08-27 07:04:48+00:00
Atlas is an interactive geography learning game where you guess countries on a blank world map. you get a country name, click where you think it is, and get instant feedback. play solo to improve your speed and memory, or compete with friends for high scores.

i built atlas because i struggled with geography in school and wanted a fun way to actually learn maps. instead of boring flashcards, atlas makes it competitive and addictive.

try it here: https://atlas.killmytime.fun/