MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mattnewton | 2025-08-20 19:27:37+00:00
Well, minor nit- cell providers offer it for 60% Google’s price to start[0], while locking it into a phone contract that subsidizes it. This is effectively bundling a loan for the hardware with your data plan. That price is more of a down payment on said loan.

[0] actually in the US at least they’ll frequently offer it for “free” with a new plan, that of course locks the phone to said plan.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-20 19:27:42+00:00
This is from back when it was intellectual, and not a bunch of annoying people stapling circuit boards to their jackets and trying to be some sort of electrogoth. Content before the hollowing out.

Another great one is the Semiotext(e) SF anthology. I can't believe I was such a sucker to think cyberpunk was going somewhere interesting. It peaked 5 minutes in.

edit: in retrospect, I always felt that cyberpunk was just New Worlds going out with a (mostly American) bang.
by kcplate | 2025-08-20 19:27:54+00:00
Here is the thing that concerns me…at least philosophically. This won’t affect me personally (at least adversely) since I am at the end of my career.

If this works—even remotely—this will devastate upcoming entry level software engineering vocations and no longer will we have an army of bright people choosing that vocation. You will still need the upper class SWEs to manage and refine what the AI produces. However at that point AI will need to improve beyond the need for the upper class because you have dried up your engineering well. So what I see is an eventual technological stagnation…or shitification brought about by AI.
by ignoramous | 2025-08-20 19:28:00+00:00
> And as others have said, Nathan (CEO) is a delightful human.

Hate cancel culture as much as the next techbro, but since y'all point out they're "a delightful human", it'd be interesting to see how Nathan then responds to concerns raised in some quarters: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/36604
by rudytheelder | 2025-08-20 19:28:42+00:00
I'm the one who put MIRROR SHADES online for free. All the others agreed. And why would we go asking for permission? We're cyberpunks! You might like to check out out my story anthology with Bruce Sterling, TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK. Existing in audio as well. And my recent JUICY GHOSTS novel, about toppling an evil US president.
by shtopointo | 2025-08-20 19:28:44+00:00
I would actually say that the selling point here is that affiliate revenue goes thru your website.

I had tried to sign up for affiliate sales a while back, but:

It is complicated to sign up for it – depending on the vendor you have to fill in a number of forms, or sign up via a different affiliate network to even use them.

Wait times for a response are long – I remember some networks or individual sellers got back to me months later.

There's a high bar to entry – I had a tiny website, so I didn't get approved, but I had a good CTR. I eventually had to shut down the website since I realized there was no viable option to monetization and was just burning money on name registration + hosting.

My website was also not in the blog-space, i.e. I didn't do reviews, but I did offer good info, and Amazon for example specifically denied me affiliate permissions because of this.

I might revive the website and see if it'll work again with you guys. This is a path to monetization that could make it sustainable. Thanks and good luck!
by benburkert | 2025-08-20 19:29:35+00:00
Sorry, not trying to obfuscate anything, hopefully this clarifies: users trust us to hold their ACME account key and we only ask for DNS records prefixed with `_acme-challenge.` to be CNAME delegated.

With this we could issue or revoke a new certificate, but we couldn't impersonate them because we don't control the rest of their DNS.
by bobotowned | 2025-08-20 19:29:46+00:00
I've worked several disaster responses, and in my experience, many individuals who need FEMA assistance often face challenges like illiteracy or disabilities that make using email and other essential tasks difficult (impossible without constant and regular help). Its not possible to force everyone to use only one method of communication and the nature of a disaster may render email unusable as well. Disaster response can and should be very strongly prepared to handle the widest variety of situations and outages, especially when pertaining to communication. We are all at a higher risk otherwise.
by evil-olive | 2025-08-20 19:29:51+00:00
I use my house all day and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

that didn't stop the housing bubble in the 2000s.

likewise, if I argue that Dutch "Tulip mania" [0] was a bubble, "but tulips are pretty" is not an effective counter-argument. tulips being pretty was a necessary precondition for the bubble to form.

the existence of a foo bubble does not mean that foo has zero value - it means that the real-world usefulness of foo has become untethered from market perceptions of its monetary value.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
by kpgraham | 2025-08-20 19:30:16+00:00
The first cyberpunk novel I read was True Names by Rudy Rucker. John Shirley has been called 'patient zero of cyberpunk' for his novel Eclipse. (I published a collection of Cyberpunk stories called Error Message Eyes Release 3.0 and it will be a free download on Kindle on August 24th. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D5CCRRSB I apologize for the blatant self promotion.)
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-20 19:30:26+00:00
Meaning what? Something less flexible? Less CUDA cores and more Tensor Cores?

The majority of NVidia's profits (almost 90%) do come from data center, most of which is going to be neural net acceleration, and I'd have to assume that they have optimized their data center products to maximize performance for typical customer workloads.

I'm sure that Microsoft would provide feedback to Nvidia if they felt changes were needed to better compete with Google in the cloud compute market.
by autoexec | 2025-08-20 19:30:28+00:00
What are Gems good for? Bragging rights? If you earn enough of them do they grant you special privileges? Can you spend them on anything? Can you buy them with real money? Are gems their current/future monetization strategy? They're already charging $5 for usernames (https://www.androidpolice.com/digg-returning-wants-you-to-pa...)
by Johnny555 | 2025-08-20 19:30:28+00:00
not sure if you mean clip-on cell phone wallets (I assume that people that don't want a thick cell phone don't add a wallet since it makes their cell phone too thick), or actual wallets... plenty of people complain about those:

https://lifehacker.com/how-can-i-downsize-my-ridiculously-la... https://veryexcellenthabits.com/downsize-ridiculously-enormo... https://www.reddit.com/r/onebag/comments/5blfkt/my_wallet_is...

And a thick wallet causes enough health problems for it to be called "Fat Wallet Syndrome".

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fat_Wallet_Syndro...
by nomel | 2025-08-20 19:31:19+00:00
This is tricky. Most Android phones apply heavy color saturation and contrast adjustments, by default, to the images and the display itself, where iPhone tends to keep things more "raw". But, "pop" is what the average person usually prefers. It's post processing step that can heavily influence favor, unrelated to the camera. The Samsung cameras are still objectively better though, in many metrics.

My work involves showing images accurately on screens, and I always have dig through all the settings to make the Android phones just to show an image without heavy modification (for Samsung, it's 3 separate settings!). There is no such setting for iPhone, where the default experience is a (literally) color calibrated screen.
by barbazoo | 2025-08-20 19:31:34+00:00
> Are they really boycotting jews now?

Just because they're boycotting someone who happens to be Jewish doesn't necessarily mean they're boycotting them because of it.

> Zed just announced that they are taking money from Sequoia Capital, which has a partner, Shaun Maguire, who has recently been publicly and unapologetically Islamophobic. It seems hard to believe that the team didn't know about this, as it was covered in the New York Times. In addition, Maguire has been actively pro-occupation and genocide in Palestine for nearly 2 years.

> How can anyone feel like the Code of Conduct means anything at all, when Sequoia is an investor? I'm shocked and surprised at the Zed team for this - I expected much better.

Reads like it has more to do with what they said and done in the past which seems reasonable.
by znpy | 2025-08-20 19:33:03+00:00
that's what cert-manager does, for example. certificates are stored in kubernetes secrets.

that being said, the ACME spec is fairly simple, writing your own tool shouldn't be much of an hassle.

see https://letsencrypt.org/docs/client-options/

EDIT: i see in the certbot manpage (https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/man1/certbot....) that there's an hook (--deploy-hook DEPLOY_HOOK / https://eff-certbot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using.html#pre-...) that's called after issuing. You can use that to scp/upload/post certificates to some other location.

As usual, if only one had read the fine manual...
by 1970-01-01 | 2025-08-20 19:33:19+00:00
Wow, they completely missed the two elephants in the room:

1. Downloading MP3s stopped being something easy and free around this time.

2. While the popularity of iPhone was exploding, Apple didn't allow you use any MP3s as ringtones, even if you went through all the steps to get your MP3 files into your iPhone. The Apple walled garden said no, you're holding MP3s wrong, and that was the end of it.
by solatic | 2025-08-20 19:33:52+00:00
There's very real differences between NAT gateways and VPC Gateway Endpoints.

NAT gateways are not purely hands-off, you can attach additional IP addresses to NAT gateways to help them scale to supporting more instances behind the NAT gateway, which is a fundamental part of how NAT gateways work in network architectures, because of the limit on the number of ports that can be opened through a single IP address. When you use a VPC Gateway Endpoint then it doesn't use up ports or IP addresses attached to a NAT gateway at all. And what about metering? If you pay per GB for traffic passing through the NAT gateway, but I guess not for traffic to an implicit built-in S3 gateway, so do you expect AWS to show you different meters for billed and not-billed traffic, but performance still depends on the sum total of the traffic (S3 and Internet egress) passing through it? How is that not confusing?

It's also besides the point that not all NAT gateways are used for Internet egress, indeed there are many enterprise networks where there are nested layers of private networks where NAT gateways help deal with overlapping private IP CIDR ranges. In such cases, having some kind of implicit built-in S3 gateway violates assumptions about how network traffic is controlled and routed, since the assumption is for the traffic to be completely private. So even if it was supported, it would need to be disabled by default (for secure defaults), and you're right back at the equivalent situation you have today, where the VPC Gateway Endpoint is a separate resource to be configured.

Not to mention that VPC Gateway Endpoints allow you to define policy on the gateway describing what may pass through, e.g. permitting read-only traffic through the endpoint but not writes. Not sure how you expect that to work with NAT gateways. This is something that AWS and Azure have very similar implementatoons for that work really well, whereas GCP only permits configuring such controls at the Organization level (!)

They are just completely different networking tools for completely different purposes. I expect closed-by-default secure defaults. I expect AWS to expose the power of different networking implements to me because these are low-level building blocks. Because they are low-level building blocks, I expect for there to be footguns and for the user to be held responsible for correct configuration.
by kiicia | 2025-08-20 19:34:24+00:00
There are specialized heavy duty sd cards like Kingston industrial, Samsung pro endurance, gigastone mlc, that have MLC memory and are designed for long term storage in extended environment parameters There are also other brands but are less known, more expensive and not available in typical places with consumer electronics

Same applies to SSD drives, there are consumer drives that have colorful boxes with claims like speed or size, and there are specialized SSD drives based on MLC chips that are still available here and there
by MBCook | 2025-08-20 19:34:35+00:00
I guess I’m familiar with the general concept/domain it’s in. I haven’t used it myself, but having it spelled out was enough base knowledge for me to grab on to.

Looking again, I see your point. If you don’t know what it is having the acronym spelled out doesn’t help much at all.

Still it clears the low bar provided by those announcements that just say something like:

“BEOTZ’s developers are joining Flmp.io. As well all know BEOTZ is popular and Flmp.io is a top provider to enterprises. We look forward to exciting things coming soon.”
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-20 19:34:48+00:00
Yeah, I maintain a Vulkan backend, and this immediately triggered my internal "what?" alarm.

Modern Direct3D is almost indistinguishable from Vulkan, on the other hand. So it shouldn't be difficult for them to add.

I also agree with your HLSL comment. It sounds like these guys don’t have much prior graphics or game development experience.
by Arnavion | 2025-08-20 19:35:00+00:00
>This dance to get access is just a minor annoyance for me, but I question how it proves I’m not a bot. These steps can be trivially and cheaply automated.

>I think the end result is just an internet resource I need is a little harder to access, and we have to waste a small amount of energy.

No need to mimic the actual challenge process. Just change your user agent to not have "Mozilla" in it; Anubis only serves you the challenge if it has that. For myself I just made a sideloaded browser extension to override the UA header for the handful of websites I visit that use Anubis, including those two kernel.org domains.

(Why do I do it? For most of them I don't enable JS or cookies for so the challenge wouldn't pass anyway. For the ones that I do enable JS or cookies for, various self-hosted gitlab instances, I don't consent to my electricity being used for this any more than if it was mining Monero or something.)
by machomaster | 2025-08-20 19:35:02+00:00
The wokeistic science-denying has taken some steps back lately, but I am basing my observation on 20+ years of unbased and delusional attacks I have been witnessing. If you are interested you can take a deep dive into the articles/opinions/statements that were made against those books/authors immediately after books were released and for decades after. If you want, I can give you a few helpful/analytical youtube videos about the subject.
by JCM9 | 2025-08-20 19:35:43+00:00
Some good stuff here. I wish AWS would just focus on these boring, but ultimately important, things that they’re good at instead of all the current distractions trying to play catch up on “AI.” AWS leadership missed the boat there big time, but that’s OK.

Ultimately AWS doesn’t have the right leadership or talent to be good at GenAI, but they do (or at least used to) have decent core engineers. I’d like to see them get back to basics and focus there. Right now leadership seems panicked about GenAI and is just throwing random stuff at the wall desperately trying to get something to stick. Thats really annoying to customers.
by iLemming | 2025-08-20 19:35:47+00:00
Whoa, that is an enormously terrible take. Consider that an average programmer over the lifetime of their career can produce the equivalent of 4-10 "War and Peace" volumes - just in pure estimation of numbers of words in their code. I'm not even speculating about the profound impact some software makes for the betterment of the entire human race.

And many share their hard work with the world for absolutely nothing in return. Imagine if someone said: "Why should Tolstoy be entitled to get paid for writing 'War and Peace'? After all, he's an aristocrat, a Count..."

Well, Tolstoy did later in his life reject copyright on many works, believing literature should be free, and his wealth allowed him to write "for fun, not profit," but honestly, wouldn't you feel honored to "buy the guy a coffee" back in the day - given that you really appreciated his work? Or you'd immediately put him in the same position as Onlyfans influencers if the epilogue of his book ended with: "You can send your support to ..."
by hugs | 2025-08-20 19:35:48+00:00
i'm at the edge of my chrome internals knowledge here, but i'd answer the question with a question: isn't backendnodeid only stable within a single session?

that might not matter if the agent is re-finding the element between sessions anyway, but then you're paying a lookup cost (time + tokens) each time. compared to just using document.getelementbyid() on an explicit id.
by cubefox | 2025-08-20 19:36:15+00:00
> At the time of writing, these notes do not contain anywhere near a proof of FLT, or even a sketch proof. Over the next few years, we will be building parts of the argument, following a strategy constructed by Taylor, taking into account Buzzard’s comments on what would be easy or hard to do in Lean.

So the title of the paper is misleading at this time.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-20 19:36:23+00:00
It's a biomarker but does it really mean anything?

High vitamin D seems to be associated with everything good like income and your team winning the Superbowl and low vitamin D seems to be associated with everything bad like being a disadvantaged minority or getting cancer or living in a high crime neighborhood.

There are so many studies where they give people Vitamin D and it seems to do absolutely nothing so I hear "Vitamin D" and I'm skeptical particularly if the endpoint is some biomarker and not some outcome like strokes or heart attacks or cancer or something.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-08-20 19:36:31+00:00
> while I agree that bytecode-based analysis has its drawbacks

abstract interpretation of the bytecode like y'all were doing is the only way to robustly do type inference in python.

> https://github.com/google/pycnite

there's also https://github.com/MatthieuDartiailh/bytecode which is a good collection
by bob1029 | 2025-08-20 19:36:46+00:00
I still don't know if it's possible to make it profitable with old drives in this kind of arrangement, especially if we intend to hit their crazy durability figures. The cost of keeping drives spinning is low, but is double-digit margin % in this context. You can't leave drives unpowered in a warehouse for years on end and say you have 11+ nines of durability.
by miramba | 2025-08-20 19:36:48+00:00
Plus, the iPhone shipped with its own, very distinguishable ringtones which pretty soon signaled to everyone “I have an iPhone”. And the small switch to silence it was already a feature on the first iPhone, became a standard for all smartphones and vibration only turned out to be a convenient alternative. That said, the current ringtones on my phone are: -Nokia Attraction -Nokia Orient -the ringtone from Luigis mansion 3 -You’re so cool from True Romance and yes, putting them on the phone with garage band is a pain.
by dilDDoS | 2025-08-20 19:37:49+00:00
I'm happy to finally see this take. I've been feeling pretty left out with everyone singing the praises of AI-assisted editors while I struggle to understand the hype. I've tried a few and it's never felt like an improvement to my workflow. At least for my team, the actual writing of code has never been the problem or bottleneck. Getting code reviewed by someone else in a timely manner has been a problem though, so we're considering AI code reviews to at least take some burden out of the process.
by jayd16 | 2025-08-20 19:37:51+00:00
I mean, look at these examples. Is a big LLM really needed to hit most of what people want?

Seems like Android just needs to lean into the voice command hooks API. A local LLM can grease the natural language into the mechanical APIs installed on your device. That's a much simpler task than an omniscient robot with access to all of your data.
by lazide | 2025-08-20 19:37:52+00:00
You’re just ignorant of what it does. The GFW autodetects and blocks a truly impressive number of tunnel encapsulation schemes, VPN’s, etc. and blocks a wide variety of proxy attempts.

It really isn’t dumb at all, and is quite difficult to get past.

It also auto detects ‘problematic’ content in near realtime for a huge swath of things. It does deep packet and content inspection, including of a bunch of encrypted traffic that it really shouldn’t be able to.

At massive (national) level scale.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s evil. But it’s an impressive bit of evil kit.
by Analemma_ | 2025-08-20 19:37:53+00:00
Think about the customer base: the sorts of users who want a high-performance text editor are exactly the kind of people who will run Windows 7 until it's pried from their cold, dead fingers, and who will flood the support forums with complaints if you limit support to operating systems released in the last 15 years. Because of their target market, Zed probably has implicit support requirements which wouldn't apply to e.g. the last first-person shooter.
by hintymad | 2025-08-20 19:38:07+00:00
A mystery about Apple is that some of its software are ridiculously bad. iTunes sync was one of them. Another example is removing iCloud sync used to wipe out the content on the disconnected devices. Screen Time is pretty much unusable. It's really hard to batch update photos in iphone. Heck, it's even hard to batch move app icons on iphone screen.
by x0x0 | 2025-08-20 19:38:12+00:00
Sure, but given the existence of vim/nvim, emails, visual studio code, cursor, etc the price for editors has largely been driven to zero, or at least capped by what JetBrains charges. My concerns are more this is a big bet on a different thing, not the editor (which is quite nice, even if using typescript regularly makes it balloon to 15gb of ram), making them a giant pile of money. With the editor as a free complement.
by ACCount37 | 2025-08-20 19:38:25+00:00
"Writing imposes a speed barrier to brain" sounds like a bad thing, period.

It's not like you can't impose a speed barrier at will. Plenty of writers or programmers spend time thinking, writing absolutely nothing - regardless of whether they use a mechanical keyboard or a goose feather quill. Humans aren't LLMs - nothing compels them to produce text at all times.

Plenty of writers and programmers also spend a lot of time cutting down and editing what they just wrote - to get sharper prose or more concise and understandable code. Which is NOT something that can be done with a goose quill.
by scythe | 2025-08-20 19:38:25+00:00
Early advocates (e.g. Friedman) for UBI (and also NIT) often focused on broader distributional outcomes for society and the economy as a whole. One is the reduction of the "welfare cliff". Another is the increase in relative spending power of the lower class as a group, which could lead to growth in businesses that serve these cohorts. Neither of these effects is assessed at all by RCTs that look at a small population of individuals for a period of less than a decade, because they are effects that occur over a long time and among a necessarily large (millions) group of people.

There is a sort of unstated assumption among some social policy critics that goes, roughly, "we can test most policy effects that matter with well-designed trials". People believe this less because there is any evidence for it and more because modern experimental science is impressive and successful in many ways and so therefore must have the answer to any question. However, many policy questions remain "wicked" and outside of a reasonable experimental domain.