MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daviddever23box | 2025-08-26 22:00:46+00:00
As far as I can tell, these upgrades (aside from the discrete graphics) bring the 16-inch in line with the 13-inch.

I'd be more concerned about what I'd be able to do with an older 16-inch mainboard, as the 13-inch has the Cooler Master case options.

Still rocking the Intel Tiger Lake 13-inch here, mixed Windows / Ubuntu workflow, loads of RAM.
by azemetre | 2025-08-26 22:00:51+00:00
I feel like we need more social equality to advance technologically rather than gadgets. The idea that only the elites and rich can conjure technological wonders is just so demonstrably false and not needed in this moment of history.

Uplifting everyone ensures that we'll be that much more likely to find the next Mozart or Tesla or Torvalds or whoever, if we give them a chance.

But yes, better to acknowledge how capital can be better utilized. You can probably give away free school lunches for an entire generation of children with that $10 billion in Louisiana, or you can give it to Zuckerberg to get slightly richer.

Becomes abundantly clear which one is better for societal advancement.
by Jedd | 2025-08-26 22:00:55+00:00
Book of John - you may be misinterpreting the claims of authorship / identity there. And 'the disciple whom Jesus loved' is probably not really self-identifying anyway. AIUI consensus is that it was written by a group of people, but we really don't know.

Book of Luke / (some of) Acts - yes, probably the same person, traditionally thought to be a physician friend of Paul / Saul, but again, no authorship provided or sources cited, so we don't really know.

So much in the NT was written to satisfy various OT prophecies that it can all feel a bit contrived - but again, AIUI, the writings in 'Mark' (the first of the four) strongly suggest post-70CE, but perhaps much later.

I suppose anything is 'not implausible' if you're inclined in a certain direction.
by 8note | 2025-08-26 22:01:14+00:00
in what world is kamala harris as involved with epstein as epsteins best friend trump? she probably would have actually released the epstein files with only the victims names redacted. trump, as well, one of epsteins best friends in the whole world, who may have also had him assasinated, aint gonna be the guy to release all those files about himself. democrats have proved time and time again that they will turn on each other in an instant to prove morality while republicans all drop their morals the moment it affects their hierarchical power. wed still have some great democrat senators from the metoo era if that werent the case.

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i think people pick by name recognition rather than by lesser evil. if folks think trump is less evil than harris, theyre probably far beyond any conversation i could have. as south park puts it, not even satan wants to have sex with him.
by nine_k | 2025-08-26 22:01:21+00:00
VC capital is like a detonator. It seeks explosives, and when it finds them, produces spectacular fireworks that illuminate the entire industry, or even the entire world. It also ends up with a lot of duds, but it's OK by them.

What VC capital is not interested in is regular fuel, which can burn steadily and expand gradually, without a shock wave. Such companies can be quite important. Say, GitHub was such a company for many years, before it took a large VC investment and got acquired MS. Investing in such companies requires much more diligence and foresight, maybe too much predictive power to work at mass scale.

VCs' math only works because a single 1000x hit easily pays for a hundred of duds. If ROI per hit is 2-3x, and research required is 10x more deep, the prospects likely start to seem too bleak for folks with billions seeking return.
by danhite | 2025-08-26 22:02:07+00:00
OP describes this ^ long arduous process and then notes:

> Your writing can only be as good as your taste.

That is, using an LLM to help with "collecting these fragments and structuring them" might be okay--should the writer still be able to deeply immerse--but the "stitching them together and choosing the vocab and grammar" of a faux writer LLM is likely to leave a bad taste in the mind of some readers (e.g. those HN types who "kinda hates LLMs").
by dpc050505 | 2025-08-26 22:02:40+00:00
Didn't facebook already facilitate a genocide like 8 years ago? It's been a while that Silicon Valley has been having negative externalities that delve into the realm of being atrocious for human rights.

Not that the mines where the metals that have been used to build computers for like 60 years at this point are stellar in terms of human rights either mind you. You could also look at the partnership between IBM and Nazis, it led to some wondrous computing advances.
by dangus | 2025-08-26 22:03:08+00:00
I don't think the build quality is very far off in any sort of terms that matter. Sure, Apple gives you a hollowed out block of aluminum and that's really nice and fancy but that doesn't really matter in any tangible way except feeling nice.

Framework has pretty minimal keyboard deck flex and other measures of build quality that actually impact usage. I think it fares better than a good chunk of PC competitors like the ThinkPad T14.

The only thing Framework really needs is a haptic trackpad and it'd be pretty much there in terms of the build feel. I also like how Apple puts the air intakes on the side rather than the bottom where they're frequently blocked by a lap or a soft surface.
by mpyne | 2025-08-26 22:03:32+00:00
Why? The efficiency gains are a matter of size of the average company, not a matter of the total number of companies.

If what you said were true, it would be cheaper for there to be only one flavor of soda (as Bernie Sanders might have put it) rather than dozens.

Competition is better for consumers than monopoly, and that applies even when the consumers are nations.
by oaiey | 2025-08-26 22:03:54+00:00
US ambassadors are a disgrace right now. They do not behave like guests or communication bridges but actors influencing local politics. But that is not the purpose of the embassy concept.

As a world we have to return to normal and respectful behavior instead of bullying everywhere. The US under Trump is just one thing: a bully.

With great power comes great responsibility. That is the standard men (and women) are hold accountable.
by idle_zealot | 2025-08-26 22:05:23+00:00
No, that's the level of responsibility they ought to have if they were releasing these models as products. As-is they've used a service model, and should be held to the same standards as if there were a human employee on the other end of the chat interface. Cut through the technical obfuscation. They are 100% responsible for the output of their service endpoints. This isn't a case of making a tool that can be used for good or ill, and it's not them providing some intermediary or messaging service like a forum with multiple human users and limited capacity for moderation. This is a direct consumer to business service. Treating it as anything else will open the floodgates to slapping an "AI" label on anything any organization doesn't want to be held accountable for.
by gruez | 2025-08-26 22:05:32+00:00
>See "neglected tropical diseases"

That seems totally different than what the OP is trying to imply, which seems to be that people who worked on the DSM added illnesses to it so they or their backers could financially benefit. If it's just a matter of "illness that can be better monetized have more financial backers, and therefore they get more attention", that seems... fine? In an ideal world I'd want malaria and whatever first world ailment (obesity?) to be treated equally on some objective factor like QALYs or whatever, but I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with private companies preferentially funding research that they stand to benefit from.
by natebc | 2025-08-26 22:06:16+00:00
If you're interested, you should watch it. It's a good video and Benn is a smart, funny and talented person.

Here's the code he used to generate transparent overlays to confuse the OCR ... sorry VERY COOL SLICK GAMECHANGING A.I ... systems.

https://github.com/bennjordan/PlateShapez/blob/main/PlateSha...
by jay_kyburz | 2025-08-26 22:06:19+00:00
I really like your site.

Do you know of any similar sites that that compares how well the various models can adhere to a style guide? Perhaps you could add this?

I.e. pride the model with a collection of drawings in a single style, then follow prompts and generate images in the same style?

For example if you wanted to illustrate a book, and have all the illustrations look like they were from the same artists.
by dangus | 2025-08-26 22:06:28+00:00
Is it an OEM part with the same quality as the original? Will AliExpress carry the part 5 years from now? (Framework systems are backward/forward compatible).

If you spilled your drink on your Framework keyboard from your 13" system that you bought 5 years ago and you bought a replacement from Framework, you'd be getting a better and improved model of the keyboard. Same deal with issues like cracked screens, webcams, and batteries - since the original Framework came out, the company has upgraded those parts, and makes them available to people who bought the original system.

AliExpress 3rd party battery replacements are basically never as good as OEM.

That level of support is is unique and you are trying to downplay it as something that other OEM offers, and I think that's a little bit facetious.
by greatgib | 2025-08-26 22:06:59+00:00
All images created or edited with Gemini 2.5 Flash Image will include an invisible SynthID digital watermark, so they can be identified as AI-generated or edited.

Obviously I understand what is the purpose and the good intention, but I think sad to see that we are not not anymore responsible adults but big corps deciding for us what we can and what we cannot do. Snitching on your back.
by jasonriddle | 2025-08-26 22:07:44+00:00
Hi, thanks for sharing.

My main concern with these browser agents are how are they handling prompt injection. This blog post on Perplexity's Comet browser comes to mind: https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/.

Also, today Anthropic announced Claude for Chrome (https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-chrome) and from the discussion on that (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030760), folks quickly pointed out that the attack success rate was 11.2%, which still seems very high.

How do you plan to handle prompt injection?
by kccqzy | 2025-08-26 22:08:06+00:00
> there also doesn't currently seem to be any high capacity M.2 SATA SSDs

I have a high capacity M.2 SATA in my computer. It's 4TB which I think qualifies for high. I bought it because I found out about that empty slot in my computer and wanted to fill it, not because of a particular need. Having a rare part in my computer gives me an indescribable sense of joy. And don't worry it's entirely used for extra redundancy so I won't lose data even if it dies.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-26 22:08:07+00:00
Steel. The EU started out as a steel customs union, and has always had high import duties on steel, which is the subject matter of the article.

Just a few months ago, the European Commission put on new, massive tariffs on Asian steel manufacturers.

So I guess I invite all hackers here to freak out, scream about "Bat shit insane fascist!", tear their own hair, etc. Especially since an eight of the EU budget comes from tariffs.

Or quietly ignore the facts and wait to jump onto the next outrage bandwagon.
by BeetleB | 2025-08-26 22:08:49+00:00
> It’s the people, facilities and equipment that matter. Those can get picked up by a company or companies that know how to use them.

This trope keeps getting repeated on HN.

No, the point of the top level comment and article is that no US based company will replace Intel's fabs, nor will they form a "better" Intel. This stuff is intensely capital intensive, and nothing short of a government mandate will make any other company spend so much money on such a big risk.

Trust me - if they could have, they would have. Intel's fabs have pretty much been up for sale since Pat was ousted.

The only companies that know how to use the people and the equipment are not US based. TSMC already had an opportunity to buy much of Intel's fabs, and they concluded that shifting their process to match TSMCs would be cost prohibitive.
by gruez | 2025-08-26 22:09:16+00:00
>i'm so glad that companies don't have feelings tho.

Nobody is concerned about companies being sad, they're concerned about making the labor market in an give jurisdiction hostile enough that companies opt out entirely.

>when the only leeches i've seen in the business world were the companies that require labor to make money and then pay back a less than equitable amount to the people doing work.

define "equitable".
by clutchdude | 2025-08-26 22:09:30+00:00
> If you could accomplish your task without the busywork, why wouldn’t you?

There's taking away the busywork such as hand washing every dish and instead using a dishwasher.

Then there is this where, rather than have any dishes, a cadre of robots comes by and drops a morsel of food in your mouth for every bite you take.
by pfdietz | 2025-08-26 22:09:50+00:00
Getting it from existing fuel burning plants defeats the whole purpose.

Direct air capture is out, so it'll have to be recovered from the combustion of the synfuel. Using the Allam cycle has been explored to do this (you also have to store the oxygen from electrolysis for later use in this oxyfuel combustion cycle) but it ends up being more expensive than just burning hydrogen, if there's reasonable geology for hydrogen storage.

So, if this thermal storage scheme is cheaper than hydrogen, as it appears it will be, then these alternative synfuel schemes are ruled out.
by simne | 2025-08-26 22:10:16+00:00
> just like everything else being ran by the Federal Government

Well, I don't like when something ran by Federal Government, but I have similar example: when somebody ill by flu, I don't like to use antibiotics, but sometimes must use antibiotics as fast measures to save life.

That is. Previous pro-semiconductor measures was not fast enough, and Intel was in real trouble and need to use something fast, and now we have bought time to do right but slow things.
by miguelspizza | 2025-08-26 22:10:49+00:00
> It's clear to me that the tech just isn't there yet.

Totally agree. This was the thesis behind MCP-B (now WebMCP https://github.com/MiguelsPizza/WebMCP)

HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44515403

DOM and visual parsing are dead ends for browser automation. Not saying models are bad; they are great. The web is just not designed for them at all. It's designed for humans, and humans, dare I say, are pretty impressive creatures.

Providing an API contract between extensions and websites via MCP allows an AI to interact with a website as a first-class citizen. It just requires buy-in from website owners.

It's being proposed as a web standard: > https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp
by Animats | 2025-08-26 22:10:49+00:00
PDF of the message on a diplomatic letterhead. 8.5x 11", 15 point type, 1 inch margins, seal of the State Department at the top of the first page.[1] The style is formal, but very plain and clear English.

Wars have started because of badly drafted or mishandled diplomatic notes. The Japanese diplomatic note announcing war was supposed to be delivered just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. The communications between the US and Saddam Hussein before the Kuwait war left Hussein with the incorrect impression that the US would not intervene if he invaded Kuwait.

[1] https://fam.state.gov/FAM/05FAH01/05FAH010610.html
by minimaxir | 2025-08-26 22:11:40+00:00
There is one thing Gemini 2.5 Flash Image can do that no other edit model can do: incorporate multiple images simultaneously without shenanigans due to its multimodality, e.g. for Flux Kontext, if you want to "put the person in the first image into the second image", you have to concatenate them pre-VAE which can be unwieldly, but this model doesn't have that issue. You can even incorporate more than two images, but that may cause too much chaos.

In quick testing, prompt adherence does appear to be much better for massive prompt and the syntatic sugar does appear to be more effective. And there are other tricks not covered which I suspect may allow more control, but I'm still testing.

Given that generations are at the same price as its competitors, this model will shake things up.
by dang | 2025-08-26 22:12:11+00:00
Nationalistic flamebait is when someone makes a pejorative generalization about a country, usually in the context of a comment which has little information, but only denunciatory rhetoric. Your GP comment clearly fits that description, as I read it. This is not a borderline call!

What happens when people post like that is that others, who have the opposite sympathies, get provoked and feel entitled to respond in kind. Of course, what they feel is "responding in kind" is usually much worse, and thus we end up in a downward spiral.

None of this is what HN is for. We want curious conversation here, and that doesn't consist of putting down entire countries, nor of grand generalizations (especially negative ones). Curiosity is much more inclined to look at some interesting or surprising specific about a situation. That's also what the site guidelines ask people to avoid generic tangents (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...).
by ddingus | 2025-08-26 22:12:13+00:00
Sorry all. The short comment parent to mine tells a very suggestive story with high brevity. This is similar to Hemingway writing a story in a few words: "For Sale: Baby Shoes."

The hook aspect of these appears similarly suggestive and brief and I thought that intriguing and thought provoking given the overall subject matter.

And that just gave me some reference to the speed this whole tech branch has.
by extraisland | 2025-08-26 22:12:33+00:00
> No, some of that is horrible advice even at a healthy functional organization. You don't want to break rules silently, defiantly, or row in the opposite direction.

Breaking the rules Silently/Defiantly is being a diva and that is no good.

I've had to inform superiors that I disobeyed their instructions to get something done, I had a good reason for doing so (it wasn't at a whim). You should do this sparingly and only when you established that you are competent enough to make that call.

Sometimes you do need to push back hard against people. I've had to call co-workers and have an unpleasant conversation because repeatedly didn't even check something compiled. I was fed up with it and my superiors had done nothing, it was stopping me from getting my work done.

> Leadership should be establishing cultural and communication norms. So if you have ideas, questions, concerns, for example - you don't need to break rules or work against the engineering org vision, culture, or process.

I've found that even in "(more) functional organisations" cultural or communication norms are typically broken or preformative.

e.g. I worked in one org where there were things obviously broken on a website and no bugs were raised because "there wasn't a requirement for it". Now I could have raised it. I felt like they should of immediately raised it, because it was so obvious (it wasn't the first time either). I deliberately left it an entire fortnight on the site to see if any of the QA raised it. Nobody did. I then used this an example to highlight the fact that people weren't thinking. It was a various the old "teacher leaves a deliberate mistake in to see if the students are paying attention". I shouldn't have to resort to high school teacher tactics.

Sometimes you have to be very disagreeable for people to take notice.
by pandax381 | 2025-08-26 22:12:51+00:00
Thanks for asking! It's compiled with -march=rv64g, so it uses the standard general-purpose extensions (IMAFD) and doesn't rely on anything exotic. Running it on bare metal is definitely a challenge I'd like to try someday! For now, the virtio-net driver is tightly coupled with QEMU, so a different network driver would be needed for specific hardware.
by time4tea | 2025-08-26 22:13:30+00:00
Have switch2, very underwhelmed.

Wouldn't recommend tbh, yet.

This makes me sad, as I played super Mario world on one of the first imported consoles in uk, have snes, n64, game cube, Wii, Wii u, switch and switch2.. each of them had awesome launch titles and follow ups... switch 2 seems.... empty?
by crazygringo | 2025-08-26 22:14:19+00:00
> Imagine if you went to any other store and 17% of the items you bought were just junk and didn't work.

I dunno, that sounds like real life? The percentage of purchases that I return or ultimately don't use is probably around there, for non-repeat purchases.

A kitchen gadget that doesn't really work, a T-shirt I order that turns out to have a weird fit or weird material, a Bluetooth whatever that randomly disconnects after 5 minutes...

If 80% of my new purchases turn out to work as expected and do their job, I consider myself to be doing pretty well.
by neilv | 2025-08-26 22:14:29+00:00
Just a comment on APIs in Scheme...

If you're defining a Web server route handler, it's reasonable to do it as you would in most languages, like this package's example:

(get "/hello/:who" (lambda (rc) (format #f "<p>hello ~a</p> " (params rc "who"))))

But the following might be easier syntax extension in Scheme, in which each variable URL path element can be mapped for the programmer directly to a Scheme variable binding in the closure:

(define-http-get-route ("/hello/" who) (format #f "<p>hello ~a</p> " who))

(Of course, you'd also have a function to sanitize/escape `who` before injecting it into the HTML.)
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-26 22:14:49+00:00
He is a philosopher. I'm a physicist and I've read his book and I found it interesting. Don't know what to tell you.

Most physicists don't know all that much about the philosophical underpinnings of their discipline, so I'd rather see what philosophers have to say about it anyway. But that isn't the point. I'm saying I thought the book was well put together and thought provoking, though I don't think his argument goes through. If that interests you, read it. If you prefer to let an arbitrary label filter out whose ideas you might entertain, I guess go for it.
by mijoharas | 2025-08-26 22:15:02+00:00
mise uses `uv` as a backend for some python things (like python tools via `uvx`). If `rv` develops in the same direction as `uv` then it could be the default backend for `mise` ruby things.

I've been very happy with `mise` since switching from asdf, and also very happy with uv in general. I think they play nice together.
by ethersteeds | 2025-08-26 22:15:15+00:00
I came to say the same thing. In the late 2010s I ran Linux on a work-issued Lenovo P50 with a Nvidia Quadro M2000M. It was such a miserable experience that I swore to never own another NVIDIA product again.

Given both Framework and NVIDIA's checkered histories around Linux driver support, I see no reason to revisit that, but it is interesting to see the voices in this thread with positive NVIDIA experience.
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by f_sacco | 2025-08-26 22:15:57+00:00
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