MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 17:37:27+00:00
I had a Duron chip that, for like two full years in the early '00s, would've required an Intel chip about double the price to beat it. That was wild. I assume the Celeron line in particular only hung on through that period via contract-inertia and brand recognition, because it was a total joke next to Duron, on a bang-for-your-buck basis.

Like I did (at the time) high-end gaming on it, back when gaming used to sometimes tax your CPU and not only your GPU, and in that entire time I didn't ever feel like I would have benefitted at all from an upgrade, it was so far ahead of the curve. And that was AMD's budget chip line! They simply didn't deliberately cripple it nearly as much as Intel did their Celerons.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-08-26 17:37:41+00:00
Seems pretty simple: he was staring down the prospect of dying in prison. The classified documents and Jan 6 cases were open and shut but had Judge Cannon and executive immunity slowing things to a crawl. So he made a deal with P2025 to get him back in office in exchange for executing their plan to reshape the country.

A lot of what they're doing is difficult to reverse. Article III appointments, gerrymandering, SCOTUS decisions, the replacement of the federal workforce, selling off federal property, approving resource extraction, economic damage, ...
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-26 17:37:58+00:00
The issue is that Intel manufacturing chips in the US wouldn’t have solved the chip problems with cars for instance.

What TSMC traditionally does is keep trailing edge fabs online that are fully depreciated and use those to produce chips that don’t need to be leading edge. It wouldn’t make sense to create a new fab for trailing edge chips.

Car manufacturers aren’t going to all of the sudden start using 2mm expensive chips for their cars.

Even for TVs, the BOM for the “smarts” need to be under $10.
by Citizen8396 | 2025-08-26 17:38:20+00:00
I can't emphasize this enough: it is extraordinarily rare for malware to persist after a reboot on iOS. These examples are of devices that faked the shutdown sequence (in other words, the exploit did not achieve persistence). iPhones have a hardware-level reset capability: quickly press volume up, volume down, then press and hold the power button.

Enable Lockdown Mode to prevent the vast majority of exploits, then reboot using this method once a week. You'll be fine, as far as this specific threat is concerned.
by ndegruchy | 2025-08-26 17:38:24+00:00
Yeah, the Windows directory story is a mess. Of all the vaunted backwards compatibility they offer, there are some very strange user-facing breaks that don't make much sense. The Home directory structure being one of them.

%APPDATA% is _fairly_ consistent for the past ~20 years. Local and LocalLow are odd distinctions, but have some interesting backgrounds. I don't find many programs abusing them. Roaming being the only real oddball that I find preferences for that aren't overridden by one of the other two folders.
by chromy | 2025-08-26 17:39:16+00:00
Yes it's a fair amount of data:

pdfs/ 12.5 GiB

pages/ 91.96 GiB (Each page as a .png)

text/ 365.03 MiB (Each page as text)

byte_files/ 55.98 GiB (The 1024x1024 tiles as .jpeg)

I had not heard of https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify-rs before, that's really cool!
by kjkjadksj | 2025-08-26 17:39:40+00:00
The customers are advertisers and marketers. The product is access to the userbase. This is how we arrive where we are at today, where major clients have made significant investments into AI and expect further return on that investment through proliferation of the technology, while the users could not care less or even balk at it. But we are also at a time where there is no viable alternative to the monopolied corners of the internet such as youtube any longer, so the userbase has nowhere to flee if they even wanted to.
by zahlman | 2025-08-26 17:40:07+00:00
Most of my Python functions are less than 10 lines long and many are two or three lines long. At 10 I am already questioning if I should refactor it and at 20 my internal voice is screaming about it.

This does not change as the project gets larger.

LLMs don't write like this without very specific instructions, and it might be difficult even then. After all, most programmers don't write like that.

But I think they should, and I'm absolutely prepared to defend that.

Losing brackets doesn't make the code harder to read. After all, Python code must be properly indented for correctness. It does mean that you can't use the % key in vim to find the end of a block easily. But Python-specific editors can easily identify the end of a block and provide a "fold" feature if you like using those. I just prefer not to write code that would benefit from that.
by shadowgovt | 2025-08-26 17:40:17+00:00
It is interesting to observe that parent commenter used the same sequence of critiques in another comment also (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44915623).

They seem quite intent on injecting this sequence of ideas into as many threads as possible.

I can't speculate on their motives. I am reminded, however, of an old observation once made about the effect of something being told a thousand times...
by didibus | 2025-08-26 17:40:20+00:00
I think a bit of skepticism is warranted here. Patient number 1 isn't some random guy getting the procedure and recounting it's benefits. But someone self-selected and willing from day 1, massively engaged with the company, likely paid or compensated, getting a lot of promotion, visibility and attention, etc.

It's possible a lot of the QOL improvements are from the circumstances of getting all that attention, or the hype circle they themselves found themselves in.

I also think people need to be open minded to the possibility Neuralink does offer promising benefits.

I'm just seeing a lot of people strongly for or against, and really I think the reasonable stance here is to remain optimistically pessimistic until further evidence.
by Isamu | 2025-08-26 17:40:45+00:00
You are right, I am being casual in asserting what “people prefer”.

You assert that people prefer to be right, I agree but in practice “being right” requires having to accept changes in your beliefs, and that’s painful.

Also “being right” requires some effort to check what the facts are, and that is arduous when people are busy with life.

As a result I think people prefer to feel like they’re right rather than dig deeper, and so they prefer information sources that tend to confirm their beliefs.
by empath75 | 2025-08-26 17:40:53+00:00
> A more proper framing is that some industries are key to ensuring a nation is not dependent on another for key products that ensure a dominant (not supplicant like say Ukraine) position with regard to defence and therefore independence.

That was why they passed the chips act to direct this money to Intel. It has nothing to do with Trump forcing them to dilute shareholder value in order to get money that they had already been allotted by congress.
Show HN: My Financial Pal – Free AI-Powered Personal Financial Planner
by shormigo | 2025-08-26 17:40:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a project called My Financial Pal, a free web app that generates personalized financial plans in just a few minutes.

The way it works:

You answer a short questionnaire about your income, expenses, debts, and goals

The app uses AI to analyze your answers

You immediately receive a custom PDF report with actionable advice tailored to your situation

The advice focuses on practical decisions like:

Should you prioritize paying off debt vs. investing?

How can you budget more effectively?

What’s the best strategy to save for a major purchase?

My motivation: financial planning can be expensive and inaccessible. Professional advice often costs hundreds of dollars. I wanted to see if I could democratize that process and make it available to anyone with an internet connection.

It’s early days, and what I’m looking for is feedback:

Is this useful to you?

What would make it better?

What did you like or dislike about the experience?

Important notes:

The app doesn’t ask for any personally identifying information — responses are anonymous

There’s no signup required, it’s free to use

There’s a Feedback form built into the app where you can share your thoughts directly

Try it here: http://myfinancialpal.pro

Thanks for checking it out! I’ll be around in the comments to answer questions and collect feedback.
by bjackman | 2025-08-26 17:41:02+00:00
I don't really understand the point of this usecase. Like, can't you also imagine what the photos might look like without the damage? Same with AI upscaling in phone cameras... if I want a hypothetical idea of what something in the distance might look like, I can just... imagine it?

I think we will eventually have AI based tools that are just doing what a skilled human user would do in Photoshop, via tool-use. This would make sense to me. But just having AI generate a new image with imagined details just seems like waste of time.
by guywithahat | 2025-08-26 17:41:06+00:00
No, because then the race wouldn't be competitive. It's a game theory problem, and it only holds true when both sides try their best. It's just that when both sides are trying their best, money doesn't seem to have a significant impact. It's why presidential races are often won by the candidate with less money (sometimes significantly less, like half the funding)
by jkuli | 2025-08-26 17:41:17+00:00
There was no suicide hotline offered either. Strange because youtube always gives me one whenever I search the band 'suicidal tendencies'.

Giving medical advice is natural and intelligent, like saying take an aspirin. I'm not sure where to draw the line.

My friends are always recommending scam natural remedies like methylene blue. There are probably discords where people tell you 'down the road, not across the street' referring to cutting.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-26 17:41:56+00:00
I think it depends on what the goal is. Like, lots of countries (and probably a few US state) could, I bet, do their own foundries for, like, 22nm. Process node names are bullshit of course, but we’re talking about stuff that Intel was doing in 2012, Global Foundries in 2015.

22nm is already overkill for a lot of applications. But, like, if your country gets embargoed, you should be able to make computer chips for cars and farming equipment. Top end GPUs? Not necessary. Some basic RISC-V cpu for compute appliances? That should be a capability that everybody has.
by Scubabear68 | 2025-08-26 17:42:09+00:00
Somewhat related, I learned to be very cautious about LinkedIn and their job postings. I hit a couple that looked like regular companies and started to apply, but they were really fake job postings just go harvest your information. Even when you abort the process, it's too late. They take your info and put you on a zillion job sites automatically with endless email spam.
by int_19h | 2025-08-26 17:43:03+00:00
It's pretty seamless, but you can't really get the macOS UI out of the picture entirely. You can run it fullscreen, sure, but even then there are still some shortcuts that are going to be handled by macOS, and also multiple displays etc.

OTOH if you're fine with macOS GUI but you want something like WSL for CLI and server apps, there's https://lima-vm.io
by ninetyninenine | 2025-08-26 17:43:06+00:00
Well also you're wrong and you know it. So you're running away.

Your overly authoritative attitude and tonality was just wrong, especially with the "offense" bullshit, so I had to comment on it. If you read carefully, none of it was an actual attack. It just feels that way, just like how your own tonality felt like an attack to me.

Good day sir.
by trylist | 2025-08-26 17:43:06+00:00
Since the original point of this chain was a comparison between the energy efficiency of biological vs machine learning, then we need to be trying to understand if the machine is more efficient than the human. You don't need to make some moral or philosophical argument about existential justification to accept that taking a more efficient approach is better, in that it generally enables more life for the same energy.

If the true, total cost of a machine to perform some task is less than a person to do the same task, then the machine should do it and the person should move to do what the machine cannot. This means more energy is available for everything else, living included.
by shormigo | 2025-08-26 17:43:13+00:00
A bit of extra context on the build:

Stack: The backend is built in Python (Flask) with PostgreSQL for persistence, hosted on Heroku.

Frontend: Simple HTML/Bootstrap templates — I wanted to keep it minimal so people can focus on the functionality, not the UI polish.

Logic: The financial planning engine uses a set of rules + some lightweight AI-based analysis to generate advice (e.g., debt payoff order, savings strategies, etc.).

Output: The final output is a PDF report, auto-generated from the inputs, with tailored recommendations.

Why I built it: I have a background in data science and noticed that many people I talk to either don’t have access to financial planners or find them too expensive. My goal was to see if I could replicate some of that value in a simple, automated way that anyone could try for free.

What I’d love feedback on:

Did the advice make sense for your situation?

Were the recommendations clear and actionable?

Anything confusing, missing, or frustrating in the flow?

Thanks again for trying it out — I’ll be hanging around in the thread to answer questions and take notes.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-26 17:43:17+00:00
Given the longevity goals with their modular designs, I'm guessing they're unlikely to make dramatic changes to their overall design in less than 5-7 years time from initial release. Such a screen change would likely require new hinge design as well as a thicker display casing, not to mention the risk of someone putting the trackpoint keyboard in a model that doesn't have the thicker display section.

I am thinking that something with a nub on a 2-axis slider as opposed to rocker switches could be an option, but that would potentially have drift issues. Not to mention the Framework keyboards themselves are probably mostly a COTS solution, where something like I'm thinking would require custom R&D an likely be limited release. If Framework, Dell and Lenovo could work together, they could probably come up with a good solution... though Lenovo likes the Fn button in the corner, where most others prefer Ctrl then Fn.
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-26 17:43:35+00:00
You expect random people like your baker next door to be security experts who can beat top notch hackers. It just doesn't work like that. Even you may not be as good as you think is required to protect yourself in the wild internets

Also many of them will be your family (if you have it). Maybe even those from whom you would have inherited something if only they were not hacked
by patrickhogan1 | 2025-08-26 17:43:47+00:00
Why are many shippers still getting everything through? Are they using tech like Flexport to handle the complexity?

Is this a situation where if you abide by the letter of the law without tech it doesn’t work, where if you use software and/or route through nations that already have no tariff deals with US you get your items through?

I just bought (last week) an EEG kit from Europe to US for personal sleep studies. It has similar metals that you indicate. There was no issue in my shipper getting it through. There was no tariff added. There was no certificate of analysis.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 17:44:10+00:00
I actually think that if we're going to tax-privilege capital gains to a huge degree over wages, it's entirely appropriate for the government to claim some small chunk of non-voting, least-privileged (both to avoid conflicts of interest and fucking up the regular equities & debt markets) shares of every corporation over some size, probably with some other implementation details in there (graduated percentage as company revenue size grows or whatever, that kind of thing). I also think we should consider going back to things like having some parts of the defense industry outright government-operated, like we used to do, which these days might include a chip foundry or two. Not saying we should definitely do it, but I think it should be seriously considered.

... this ain't that, though. It's a one-off, not a reliable broadly-applicable policy, and it's not clear what kind of strategy it represents in the bigger picture. I also doubt the ownership structure is as hands-off as I'd prefer, though I admit I've not looked into the details (if there even are details yet—we've had a lot of reporting on things as if they've happened, that then sometimes go on to never actually happen, lately)

[EDIT] I further think it would be better than the status quo to acknowledge that we have an economy dominated by Zaibatsu now, and to use the government to leverage them for public benefit the way the "Asian Tigers" do/have, though I don't think this is that happening, either. I think we're currently picking the worst of three options, of "intentionally use them to their fullest; break them up; do nothing" (we've been on the "do nothing" track so far, having abandoned "break them up" in the '70s).
by potato3732842 | 2025-08-26 17:44:21+00:00
Seems like easy money for slumlords that don't live on site or young people who have roomates the internet is under. Throw a laptop in the attic/basement. Buy it it's own dedicated line from Comcast or whatever. From there you're basically being paid $250/mo to be willing to say "I have no idea, I set it up and forgot about it, I assume it's so Europoors can watch the NFL without paying out the nose" to the cops at some undetermined point in the future.
by pessimizer | 2025-08-26 17:44:30+00:00
I have absolutely no idea why you think this regulation would be any harder to implement than any other regulation other than a hand-wavy brief first sentence in your first comment. I have no idea what sort of juggling of job titles you're predicting that will deceive anyone for more than 10 seconds. I have no idea what 1st amendment issue you see in advertising for an employment contract that isn't backed by employment; if you advertise asthma medicine that doesn't have any effect on asthma, people understand that it's fraud.

Also, it seems that you're making a parallel case that it makes no difference to the fentanyl market that there is a law against fentanyl, which makes me think that you apply the Law of Averages to every change that you hear anyone suggest.

e.g. if you make a law against fentanyl, some people will stop selling fentanyl, while other people will be more attracted to selling an illegal drug, therefore a law against fentanyl will have no effect on fentanyl use or sales.

The Law of Averages is not real.
by Zak | 2025-08-26 17:44:36+00:00
There is no logical inconsistency in disliking abusive scraping, remote attestation, malware, and CAPTCHAs at the same time. Of these, I merely dislike CAPTCHA while I make moral judgments about the other three.

I see creating a mechanism for remote attestation of consumer devices as morally bad because it's a massive transfer of power away from end users to corporations and governments. A scheme where only computers blessed by a handful of megacorporations can be used to interact with the wider world will be used for evil even if current applications are fairly benign.
by fluoridation | 2025-08-26 17:44:51+00:00
Before addressing anything else, "software is complicated by having to support legacy stuff" is not a valid argument for removing that support at the hardware level. If a software developer wishes to design their software without that legacy support, that's their prerogative.

>Operating systems need to carry the baggage in x86 if they want to allow users to run on old and new processors.

What do you mean by this exactly? Are you talking about hybrid execution like WOW64, or simple multi-platform support like the Linux kernel?

WOW64 is irrelevant as far as power efficiency is concerned if the user doesn't run any x86 software. If the user is running x86 software, that's a reason not to remove that support.

Multi-platform support shouldn't have an effect on power efficiency, beyond complicating the design of the system. Saying that the Linux kernel should stop supporting x86 so x86-64 can be more power-efficient is like saying that it should stop supporting... whatever, PowerPC, for that same reason. It's a non sequitur.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-08-26 17:45:05+00:00
The easy way to enforce this would be to leave it individuals. Applied to a job and heard nothing back? Sue. You'd have to pretty tightly define the law, such that it could be simply applied, but I could imagine all sorts of concrete rules which would significantly improve the status quo. Something like "Public job postings may be up for no more than 60 days for a given position, interview process must last no more than 30 days beyond that. By the end of the subsequent 90 day window, the company must either hire at least one applicant and let the others know they didn't make the cut, or demonstrate that they received zero acceptable applicants by providing concrete reasons for rejection to all applicants.

It's a "shit or get off the pot" type deal: the easiest solution to the problem is to just find an acceptable applicant and hire them.
by personjerry | 2025-08-26 17:45:49+00:00
> I'll never understand why tech companies choose some of the locations

That's because you've chosen not to read about it. Location is one of the most important things they think about for data centers and there are plenty of articles on the subject.

Here's a recent article:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/meta-massive-data-center-lou...

“We set out looking for a place where we could expand into gigawatts pretty quickly, and really get moving within that community on a large plot of land very quickly,” said Rachel Peterson, vice president of data centers for Meta. “We looked at finding very, very large contiguous plots of land that had access to the infrastructure that we need, the energy that we needed, and could move very, very quickly for us.”

To answer the question you're implying, surrounding temperature is pretty minor, the cooling required is orders of magnitude higher, so power access is more important; You'll frequently find them located near sources of energy.
by howdoibtc | 2025-08-26 17:45:51+00:00
Launch Electrum, create a new wallet, "Import Bitcoin addresses or private keys", paste in the recovered key.

If you just paste the raw key, Electrum uses a legacy format, and none of the transactions show up for that private key. Adding the "p2wpkh:" prefix to the key makes the transactions show up, but I realized that well after someone else claimed it.

I don't know if this is an Electrum thing, if this is considered general knowledge now for those who regularly use BTC, or if it's a quirk of how BTC has evolved.
by ranger_danger | 2025-08-26 17:46:19+00:00
> For example, importers must declare the exact amount of steel, copper, and aluminum in products, with a 100% tariff applied to these materials. This makes little sense—PCBs, for instance, contain copper traces, but the quantity is nearly impossible to estimate.

I think if the shipper can't determine the amount of copper in their products, then neither can customs.
by syncsynchalt | 2025-08-26 17:46:40+00:00
There are CAs which to this day have been caught issuing certs that don't match CSRs, because the CA uses a manual process of hand-copy or hand-typing fields from the CSR into the new certificate.

So even reviewing CSRs won't help you.

(The solution of course is to automate your cert request/issuance, which has the side effect of ensuring no human is involved in the cert process)