MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-20 18:35:49+00:00
I'm enjoying using Zed, and I do pay for tools I use regularly. It's now approaching a month of daily use for me and I don't see that changing. But to echo the other replies, I'm uninterested in the LLM tools. I don't use those normally and paying for that as a way to support Zed would send the wrong signal. You have to be careful when you restrict what people can pay for, because that will become what you optimize for which may not be what your users actually care about.

Zed is fast, easy to configure (so far, maybe some hard parts I haven't run into yet), works well with the languages I care about via LSPs, and the collaboration features are compelling. I want to pay to support that, I don't want to pay for an LLM feature I don't care about that ends up distracting from the progress on the things I want to see maintained or improved.
by agentultra | 2025-08-20 18:35:49+00:00
Absolutely, I've been a die-hard Emacs user since about 2007 or so. I was a vim user for about ten years or so before that. It's absolutely an out-dated joke. Don't take it seriously.

It's not an OS. The text editor is great.

I was just using it to illustrate a point.
by glawrence13 | 2025-08-20 18:35:52+00:00
Ah, sorry for misunderstanding. There are a bunch of challenges with that approach that my co-founder experienced first-hand (actually, that exact workflow is why we started Channel3!). To get up-to-date info, you'd need realtime websearch -- that's slow and expensive. To monetize, you'd need to set up affiliate relationships yourself. And, at the end of the day, the info you get from foundation models isn't really sufficient for building a rich shopping experience. So, someone could try that approach, or they could just use our API for cheaper and not deal with the hassle.
by tucnak | 2025-08-20 18:36:05+00:00
Ironic that you should mention Chat Control, given that the most powerful parties behind Chat Control are all backed by the U.S. (mostly Washington guys targeting EU bureaucrats exclusively, and never targeting U.S. policy-makers in the first place) such as Thorn, weProtect, etc. known to be affiliated with State Dept. and to a lesser extent, the NSA. Thorn has been lobbying for Chat Control since 2012, and it's crawling with U.S. spooks.

There's barely enough plausible deniability, but not enough to fool the journos:

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...
by comex | 2025-08-20 18:36:11+00:00
To be fair, even if there is/were a team, I don’t know that writing a new backend from scratch would be a good use of their time. pytype apparently started before mypy or any of the other Python type checkers existed. [1] But at this point there’s mypy, pyright, pyre/pyrefly, Ty, and probably more I’m not thinking of. It sounds more useful to collaborate with one of those existing projects than to write yet another new type checker.

Especially when, in my experience, each checker produces slightly different results on the same code, effectively creating its own slightly different language dialect with the associated fragmentation cost. In theory that cost could be avoided through more rigorous standardization efforts to ensure all the checkers work exactly the same way. But that would also reduce the benefit of writing a new type checker, since there would be less room to innovate or differentiate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19486938
by mrintegrity | 2025-08-20 18:36:23+00:00
My dream is to have a phone like this that supports thunderbolt host mode, runs grapheneos or similar and can drive a couple of displays via usb-c docking station. With the memory and CPU this phone could easily replace my work laptop (vscode and ssh for the most part). Sadly I haven't found any phone that would make this possible (Samsung Dex doesn't count because it's proprietary)
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-20 18:36:39+00:00
Same for me, although I currently use an iPhone (and the rest of the Apple ecosystem). I actually don't like iOS, and barely tolerate macOS but I love the hardware on mac right now.

For me, it's Apple's privacy stance (which I know could change at anytime, but that's where we are at right now). Give me a Pixel & all the Google stuff but without Google, and with advanced data protection and Apple's tracking protection and transparency and I'm in.

As long as apps on Android can do crap like the web-to-app tracking via localhost and other shady data harvesting that Google continues to allow, I don't touch it no matter how much better it is and how much I prefer the workflows.

Also, on either platform, why is it still not possible to toggle off network access in app permissions. Its a glaring and deliberate omission.
by os2warpman | 2025-08-20 18:36:53+00:00
With the possible exception of IrDA, which in 2025 is like wanting a parallel port on a phone, pretty much all of that still exists.

Here's a phone with "a completely square display": https://www.walmart.com/ip/Rotatable-Phone-i19-Pro-Mini-Fold...

It even rotates but only the one screen.

I even found a phone with integrated barcode scanner, the UNIWA V9S.
by mattfrommars | 2025-08-20 18:36:55+00:00
Looks slick.

> automatically find your flight details

I appreciate this but can they please go beyond search and instead legitimately find me cheapest price and overall best time to fly? Or strategies to find cheaper fight using different plans or maybe integrated credit point I have, coupons?

I'd love to see AI saving me big money and doing all the hassle for me.
by owenversteeg | 2025-08-20 18:37:49+00:00
That is an inaccurate summary of the Five Eyes program / intelligence disclosures. Almost all of the bulk+targeted surveillance of US citizens was carried out by the NSA directly - they have the biggest budget, the most power and brains. Not to mention, at the time of the leaks, datacenters were generally quite centralized in the US. The sharing of non-US-citizen data, of course, was (and almost certainly still is) rampant. But sharing of US citizen data was mostly from specific operations, not ongoing programs. I would be happy to be corrected if there is a leak that I have not heard of.

This is not to justify any part of modern surveillance, which I have protested against for many years. Nor is it to dodge US responsibility.

Back to the topic we're discussing - border phone searches - the US surveils their own citizens far less than the other Anglo countries. 22% of the searches were of US citizens, while US citizens make up a bit over half of border crossings. Australian citizens make up a similar proportion of Australian border crossings, but 42% of searches were of Australian citizens. Combine that with the figures above, and an Australian citizen going home has about a 4x higher chance of getting their phone searched than an American citizen. Very roughly, 0.025% vs 0.11%.
by RankingMember | 2025-08-20 18:37:50+00:00
> Digg failed because their commenter UX was clunky

Is this why it failed? I recall they started doing pay-for-placement, gaming their own voting system at a time when they were neck-at-neck with Reddit, which wasn't. I do remember Digg's UX getting shittier and shittier though; every time I checked back on it to see if it was worth visiting again it was always mind-blowingly worse.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-20 18:38:01+00:00
I switched to Android when Google gave me an HTC EVO at that year's Google I/O.

The deciding factors were:

- The large, high-res screen was way prettier.

- It had access to the whole internet, including Flash.

- The kickstand was handy. (minor, but still a nudge)

Android also had 3rd party keyboards with swipe-typing years before Apple did. I think Android has always been the preferred platform for tinkerers.
by viega | 2025-08-20 18:38:17+00:00
In terms of the relative cycle cost for instructions, the answer definitely has changed a lot over time.

As CAS has become more and more important as the world has scaled out, hardware companies have been more willing to favor "performance" in the cost / performance tradeoff. Meaning, it shouldn't surprise you if uncontended CAS as fast as a fetch-and-or, even if the later is obviously a much simpler operation logically.

But hardware platforms are a very diverse place.

Generally, if you can design your algorithm with a load-and-store, there's a very good chance you're going to deal with contention much better than w/ CAS. But, if the best you can do is use load-and-store but then have a retry loop if the value isn't right, that probably isn't going to be better.

For instance, I have a in-memory debugging "ring buffer" that keeps an "epoch"; threads logging to the ring buffer fetch-and-add themselves an epoch, then mod by the buffer size to find their slot.

Typically, the best performance will happen when I'm keeping one ring buffer per thread-- not too surprising, as there's no contention (but impact of page faults can potentially slow this down).

If the ring buffer is big enough that there's never a collision where a slow writer is still writing when the next cycle through the ring buffer happens, then the only contention is around the counter, and everything still tends to be pretty good, but the work the hardware has to do around syncing the value will 100% slow it down, despite the fact that there is no retries. If you don't use a big buffer, you have to do something different to get a true ring buffer, or you can lock each record, and send the fast writer back to get a new index if it sees a lock. The contention still has the effect of slowing things down either way.

The worst performance will come with the CAS operation though, because when lots of threads are debugging lots of things, there will be lots of retries.
by bgwalter | 2025-08-20 18:38:58+00:00
Initially politicians were responsive. In Feb. 2024 he sought trillions of investment to ramp up "AI" [1]. Then he got the White House announcement with Trump and Softbank for the $500 billion Stargate deal. The project has flopped, only one data center will be built.

So I assume he thought hype would work again, but people are beginning to scrutinize the real capabilities of "AI".

[1] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-altman-seeks-trillions-of-do...
by zzzeek | 2025-08-20 18:39:30+00:00
no, this is an entirely bad faith representation of my words as written

he most certainly did not understand that the vast majority of what he perceived as "dead people getting benefits" were completely legitimate cases where beneficiaries were receiving those benefits and/or the data was encoded without a real birth/death date

since you appear to be of the opinion that Musk was somehow indicating a useful fact of some kind, here's mainstream media reporting of the claims made by Trump and Musk (we can assume Trump was advised by Musk) and their extreme inaccuracy:

https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased...
by derefr | 2025-08-20 18:39:39+00:00
If you're already thinking in the IPv6 mode of thought — where NAT / network-local addresses are irrelevant/obsolete, as long as there's a stateful firewall somewhere in front of your LAN devices, to treat all LAN devices as default-closed to incoming packets from outside the LAN's IPv6 network prefix...

...then (at least in theory!) there's no reason to not also give every one of those devices, with their public-routable IPv6 addresses, a stable public-rooted name — i.e. a DNS FQDN.

Mind you, none of the infrastructure to make this work exists.

For example, while DDNS exists, it really only exists to assign your gateway router itself a name — with the expectation being that you're using NAT, and then having your router port-forward any interior services to masquerade them as being services of the router.

A theoretical "DDNSv6", meanwhile, would instead expose your entire LAN as AAAA records under your DDNS suffix — much like how e.g. `tailscale share` exposes devices as device.yournetwork.ts.net. But using plain public-routed IPv6, rather than proprietary overlay routing.

The problem with this being that neither routers nor IoT devices have any way to assign DNS-like names to devices on your network. So where would these device names come from? (If it were me, I'd have the router observe mDNS announcements from these devices, and then suffix-replace `.local` in the mDNS name with the configured DDNS suffix to build AAAA records. But even then, some devices don't even do mDNS!)

And then, even if you do that, there's still nowhere for the TLS cert for your printer to live under this scheme. The printer itself has no concept of speaking TLS. (Why would it? It expects to only ever be local-segment routable, and for physical access to the network segment to be the sum total of its security mechanism.) To work around this, you'd need your gateway router to do L7 IPv6 routing (imagine if your router worked like Cloudflare DNS, where you could "orange cloud" your LAN devices) so that the router itself could 1. force itself as the default route for the device, even for LAN-to-LAN packets; and then 2. terminate the TLS connection if the device is being spoken to on port 443; but just act as a dumb passthrough otherwise.
by jamesponddotco | 2025-08-20 18:39:42+00:00
I can sort my photos in folders (or albums) in iOS, not sure what you mean? I can have personal and shared albums, unless you mean the fact you don’t have that in the filesystem, in which case I completely agree.

I’m a Firefox guy myself and web apps are not something I care about for privacy reasons, but I agree that not having the option is a bummer.

The camera bump never really bothered me on the iPhone or the Pixel Fold I had before this iPhone. I just don’t notice it, but then again, I also didn’t notice the crease in the fold.

I miss Tachiyomi though. Panels is nice, but I had to built a whole OPDS-proxy to a manga website to have something close to Tachiyomi. Oh, and the ability to turn off network access on a per-application basis that came with GrapheneOS (plus the security of GrapheneOS itself).

While I prefer Android and Pixels (using GrapheneOS), I have switched my family to the Apple ecosystem to have a middle ground between privacy and features, so I’m not coming from an “I love Apple and everything else sucks” background, mind you.
by TZubiri | 2025-08-20 18:40:02+00:00
Correct, we are in agreement. As a resident or citizen you get most consitutional rights. Before they cross the border they don't have those rights, the moment they cross the border, non-citizens enjoy those rights (looks possible to reverse or deny resident rights by deporting).

So just by crossing the line into the US a person would enjoy almost all of the rights of a citizen. But critically, they don't have these rights BEFORE crossing the border, the border control is the point at which those rights are granted.

IANAL
by basch | 2025-08-20 18:40:09+00:00
I hate this argument. The local PTA or kids sports league or boutique needs sso as much or more than an enterprise. These may be organizations without an IT department at all, handed down from family to family, where they are transferring a database of gmail passwords. I know gsuite and office365 have free tiers for charity, but the amount of small businesses with a gmail address is staggering.

SSO should be a feature for the family as well. A parent should be able to pull up a dashboard and see where all their family gmail accounts are authorized to use as a login from one screen without scrolling.

The overall sentiment that SSO creates a support burden is true, but a separate problem that should also be fixed. it _shouldnt_ be complicated for a small team with ten accounts to control group login information, revoke access, lock accounts.
by l1tany11 | 2025-08-20 18:40:27+00:00
The Starbucks example to me is a bad example, and seems very cherry picked. They mention the one time stock bonuses he got, most likely part of his recruitment. He’s a highly sought after fast food executive. They also got him to work in Seattle. Last time he switched companies (Taco Bell to Chipotle) they moved their headquarters to him in Newport Beach. Chipotle moved their headquarters from Colorado to California, and their stock went up ~5x during his tenure. That’s probably why he got a huge signing bonus. And Chipotle wasn’t paying him peanuts either, apparently he made $38M one year and was averaging around $20M.

He stated his plan with Starbucks is focused on “theater” and in person service. Doesn’t sound like coffee bot to me.
by ThierryAbalea | 2025-08-20 18:40:47+00:00
I agree with the author that CI and build systems are really trying to solve the same core problem: efficient execution of a dependency graph. And I share the view that modern CI stacks often lack the solid foundations that tools like Bazel, Gradle, or Nx bring to build systems.

Where I differ a bit is on the "two DAGs" criticism. In practice the granularity isn’t the same: the build system encodes how to compile and test, while the CI level is more about orchestration, cloning the repo, invoking the build system, publishing artifacts. That separation is useful, though we do lose the benefits of a single unified DAG for efficiency and troubleshooting.

The bigger pain points I hear from developers are less about abstractions and more about day-to-day experience: slow performance, flakiness, lack of visibility, and painful troubleshooting. For example, GitHub Actions doesn’t let you test or debug pipelines locally, you have to push every change to the remote. The hosted runners are also underpowered, and while self-hosting sounds attractive, it quickly becomes a time sink to manage reliably at scale.

This frustration is what led me to start working on Shipfox.io. Not a new CI platform, but an attempt to fix these issues on top of GitHub Actions. We’re focused on faster runners and better visibility, aggregating CI logs, test logs, CPU and memory profiles to make failures and performance problems easier to debug.
by IIsi50MHz | 2025-08-20 18:41:07+00:00
Both of these assertions are false, unless you can provide some appropriately limiting context. On-chip ESD countermeasures are microscopic, and often ablative — that is, they can become less effective with each exposure. Damage occurs most commonly at or near corners of conductors, and secondly between adjacent traces. The dielectric breakdown or material migration that occur, when not immediately catastrophic, may induce increased susceptibility, instability, or subtle changes in behaviour that are not easy to detect.
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-08-20 18:41:10+00:00
It's smaller, so it should cost less, not more. It's 2025, miniaturization isn't that expensive. It's less screen and less battery than a laptop, cooling the CPU can be done passively because it's so low-powered, it has less RAM and less flash and fewer ports and a simpler mechanical design, no keyboard or touchpad... it's a slab of glass with a plastic/aluminum case containing a PCB, battery, and camera.

Written on my $250 Motorola
by rafaelmn | 2025-08-20 18:41:12+00:00
I am considering switching to Google, I am getting annoyed by Apple more and more, but the critical feature for me is AI assistant.

I am the first to criticize the LLM hype and I do not expect much out of them - but the fact that I cannot get Siri to turn a single light in my room instead of all of them is just FUBAR from my perspective. Siri is such garbage at this point that the gap between it and ChatGPT app is unbelievable. I can't even get it to reliably call people in my contacts, meanwhile my 4 year old can talk to ChatGPT in Croatian. Google Gemini seems to be on par so their assistant should be at least semi competent.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-20 18:41:36+00:00
Probably the best outcome of "click-to-cancel" being blocked. Instead of requireing the "same" mechanism, now the FTC is just going to care about "simple" via the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act [1]. Thanks Obama.

> [1] It shall be unlawful for any person to charge or attempt to charge any consumer for any goods or services sold in a transaction effected on the Internet through a negative option feature (as defined in the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule in part 310 of title 16, Code of Federal Regulations), unless the person— ...

> (3) provides simple mechanisms for a consumer to stop recurring charges from being placed on the consumer’s credit card, debit card, bank account, or other financial account.

> [2] Negative option feature means, in an offer or agreement to sell or provide any goods or services, a provision under which the customer's silence or failure to take an affirmative action to reject goods or services or to cancel the agreement is interpreted by the seller as acceptance of the offer.

[1]: https://www.congress.gov/111/plaws/publ345/PLAW-111publ345.p...

[2]: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C...
by jsnell | 2025-08-20 18:41:55+00:00
The human needs to wait for their computer to solve the challenge.

You are trading something dirt-cheap (CPU time) for something incredibly expensive (human latency).

Case in point:

> If the challenge takes, say, 250 ms on the absolute best hardware, and serving a request takes 25 ms, a normal user won't even see a difference, while a scraper will see a tenfold slowdown while scraping that website.

No. A human sees a 10x slowdown. A human on a low end phone sees a 50x slowdown.

And the scraper paid one 1/1000000th of a dollar. (The scraper does not care about latency.)

That is not an effective deterrent. And there is no difficulty factor for the challenge that will work. Either you are adding too much latency to real users, or passing the challenge is too cheap to deter scrapers.
by royskee | 2025-08-20 18:42:18+00:00
It's been a while since I've done it, but I think it's still possible, though a pain in the ass, to put custom ringtones on an iPhone. It involved renaming a .m4a audio file with to have a .m4r extension and then somehow getting it on the phone. Worth it to have the opening to "Eye of the Tiger" as a ringtone.
by alex1138 | 2025-08-20 18:42:38+00:00
Yeah but see, I don't agree with that side of things either

This idea that because a) you lean one way means you support all these other things and b) that those things are even wrong all the time

Given what's come out about (say) the covid vaccine (which isn't a real vaccine), I am an anti-vaxxer. (And someone like Kennedy isn't so much anti-vaccine as he's concerned about the lack of liability of the manufacturers, with clear historical examples of how it went wrong)

This kind of attitude (especially because many of you are technologists) is what leads to censorship on Youtube and people like Susan Wojcicki

https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html

https://rumble.com/v28x6zk-sasha-latypova-msc.-nsa-team-enig...
by ranger_danger | 2025-08-20 18:42:38+00:00
Criminal convictions in the US require a standard of proof that is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and I suspect cases like this would not pass the required mens rea test, as, in their minds at least (and probably a judge's), there was no ill intent to cause a denial of service... and trying to argue otherwise based on any technical reasoning (e.g. "most servers cannot handle this load and they somehow knew it") is IMO unlikely to sway the court... especially considering web scraping has already been ruled legal, and that a ToS clause against that cannot be legally enforced.
by reify | 2025-08-20 18:42:56+00:00
A peanut a day keeps the allergy away.

Might be the precursor tentacles for a new treatment. The roll out of the new peanut allergy mRNA jab with monthly injections.

Omalizumab already licensed for severe asthma, doesnt that sound like the Ozempic?

Its got an O, an I, an M, and a Z in it.

I am definitely on to something here.
by jfengel | 2025-08-20 18:43:20+00:00
I don't think impeachment is the top priority. They may well impeach, but he won't be convicted, just as he was the last two times. It's not much of a threat; it wouldn't even be a distraction.

At least, not for the White House. The Congress could waste a lot of time and change nothing, instead of doing things that could make a difference -- most notably, controlling the budget.