MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dingnuts | 2025-08-14 22:11:10+00:00
> I think $200/month for a full-network index (as zepplin does) is very reasonable and approachable for organized groups without external funding.

That's crazy cheap! Everybody on HN should be able to run one of these, just cancel your Claude Code Max subscription

All kidding aside, that's incredibly cost effective and heartening to read. I expected the cost of running a relay to be much higher.
by mitchellh | 2025-08-14 22:12:04+00:00
> The only UI Ghostty has is tabs and the context menu

- Tabs

- Splits

- "this process has exited" banner

- Close confirmation dialogs

- Change title dialog

- Unsafe paste detection dialogs

- Context menus

- Animated bells (opt in)

- "Quake-style" dropdown terminals (cross platform but different mechanisms)

- Progress bars (ConEmu OSC 9;4)

- macOS: Apple Shortcuts Integration

- macOS: Spotlight Integration

Probably more I'm not thinking of. It's unfair to say it's just tabs. Could we have done this without a GUI toolkit? Of course! But the whole mission statement of this project was always to use platform-native (for various definitions) toolkits so that it _feels_ native.

That's not for everyone, and that's the great thing about the wonderful vibrant terminal ecosystem we have.

> is it really worth the integration pain and now this rewrite?

There's definitely a lot more on the way.

The first goal and primary focus of the project was to build a stable, feature rich (terminal sequences) terminal emulator. We're basically there. Next up, we're expanding GUI functionality significantly, including having more escape sequences result in more native GUI elements. But also traditional things like preferences GUIs, yes.

We're also integrating a lot more deeply with native features provided by each platform (somewhat related to the GUI toolkit choice), such as automatic iCloud syncing of your configuration on macOS. Now that the terminal is stable, we can start to really lean in to application features.

This isn't for everyone. Some people like Kitty's textual tabs. That's fine! It's a tradeoff. That's the beauty of choice. :) Kitty is a great terminal, if you prefer it, please use it. But it has completely different tradeoffs than Ghostty.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-14 22:13:00+00:00
Not in this specific case. There are other examples that could be brought up, such as the Gift of Men (death), which may draw on the Book of Jubilees which suggests that death was given to man to limit wickedness and allow for renewal. Or Book of Enoch and the fall of Numenor. "Credible sources" will be difficult to procure as Tolkien notably avoided citing specific influences when discussing his works
by modeless | 2025-08-14 22:14:26+00:00
"We know how it moves" is not the reason the question of whether a submarine swims is not interesting. It's because the question is mainly about the definition of the word "swim" rather than about capabilities.

> if that's what we mean by the question whether a machine can think

That's the issue. The question of whether a machine can think (or reason) is a question of word definitions, not capabilities. The capabilities questions are the ones that matter.
by l72 | 2025-08-14 22:14:46+00:00
You have to have real options or people can’t make informed decisions.

I have a background in city planning, and in the US, you’ll constantly hear about how trying to make cities more friendly to pedestrians, bicycles, or public transit is a waste because no one uses it. But the truth is, most people will end up using the system you design. If you build a system just for cars, people will use cars. If you build a city around public transportation, people will happily use it. If you build a walkable city, people will walk.
by snitty | 2025-08-14 22:15:19+00:00
>monopoly on blood oxygen measurement in a wearable electronic device

And I know this isn't your argument, but that's a VERY narrow market for the purposes of a US inquiry into monopolies. Like, the normal market definition fights are about whether you should be considering "premium smartphones" or "smartphones" as a whole. Or all of the grocery stores in a given region, and whether that should include convenience stores that also sell groceries.

I'd be hard pressed to imagine a court really contemplating an argument that a company has a monopoly in a very small slice of a market. It would be like saying that Rolex has a monopoly in luxury sport watches with headquarters in Geneva.
by watwut | 2025-08-14 22:15:27+00:00
Public media are entertainment made by artists. They did not study history nor are attempting to paint it accurately. They are trying to create something for for their contemporaries, sorta kinda inspired by history.

Their blacksmiths are as accurate as their vampires as sibling puts it. Which is ok, the rest of us are supposed to realise the difference between a fiction , random tech guy or economist blog and actual history.
by thaumaturgy | 2025-08-14 22:15:31+00:00
I mean, can I not just spend the money to buy a better society in which to live?

Museums. I love museums. They all need more support. Kids need more places to do field trips.

Libraries ... they are experiencing budget cuts everywhere now as cities prioritize police spending.

Parks.

Homes for people that can't afford them. Seriously, one of the most effective possible cures for homelessness is to set up a program that helps people cover their rent for a month or two if they get into trouble.

Health care. Like, there's got to be a pile of people that need urgent health care and can't afford it, right?

Education. Adult education, too.

Science and research.

And most, maybe all of these, aren't even things that necessarily need an entirely new organization to spearhead them, or some kind of dramatic social change. They are all things that exist right now and need more funding than anything else. You could hire a small team to just look up all kinds of programs all day long and write checks for them and it would be enormously impactful.

I just... the answer to this seems so blindingly obvious to me, and then I read the rest of the comments, and I really wonder when exactly the hacker ethos got co-opted by the crab mentality.
by brandonb | 2025-08-14 22:16:13+00:00
These new guidelines make use of a new heart disease risk model, PREVENT. PREVENT predicts the risk of a heart attack, stroke, or other major cardiovascular event over the next 10 years or 30 years.

Blood pressure is the strongest individual input into PREVENT. The other inputs--cholesterol, kidney function from eGFR, A1c, etc--are biomarkers from a blood test. Many blood tests are available online for <$200: https://www.empirical.health/product/comprehensive-health-pa...
by rs186 | 2025-08-14 22:16:14+00:00
Apple will definitely not be doing this. As can be already seen in other comments, the performance of the model is not very good. In fact, you can't really find a model that runs well enough on a phone to provide a good user experience (meaning producing tokens at a reasonable speed without making the phone heat up like a potato, and it's not spitting completely nonsense). Yes I have tried a few.

Think of Apple however you want, but they rarely ship bad/half-baked products. They would rather not ship a product at all than ship something that's not polished.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-14 22:16:59+00:00
Excellent use of false equivalency. The people banning books are pretty much the same as the people who prefer that you use pronouns they see themselves as! One side actually getting these resolutions in place in writing in law versus people complaining online about being misgendered! It seems like you aren't truly in favor of free speech as a principle after all. You don't seem to want people to have the right to complain about being misgendered or about hateful speech. Why do you want to silence people who espouse these things?

Or do you actually have some delusion that Democrats have banned words and hate speech?
by Lerc | 2025-08-14 22:17:37+00:00
I went on a big meandering hunt for a terminal application that did what I wanted. I have tried many and while nothing perfectly met my needs, Ghostty is the one I am using now.

That counts for something.

Perhaps it is just it lacks an obvious reason to move away from it. Usually, the thing that made me try another terminal was because of something I couldn't do. It wasn't a matter of listing all the pros and cons and going with the best one. It has just found a home with me because it hasn't outstayed its welcome.
by MattPalmer1086 | 2025-08-14 22:17:53+00:00
What a breathlessly overhyped post. Basically - yes we can do it technically, but there's big economic and social limitations on rolling something like it out.

Hard for sure, but not bullshit. I actually found it hard to read the post - it could have been a third as long and more useful and measured. But I guess it gets clicks.
by l72 | 2025-08-14 22:18:35+00:00
I really wish we had laws that producers of content cannot also be distributors. That just creates perverse incentives to use content to lock people into their distribution platform.

If they had to be separate, that gives content producers the ability to cross license and those licenses to be better deals. We’d actually have competition in distribution companies as distribution providers would then be competing on price, quality, convenience, and other things that matter, not locking content away.
by taeric | 2025-08-14 22:18:37+00:00
500 a month sounds steep. I'm assuming you live somewhere that requires AC every day?

The article referred to driving prices up from 2020 due to making the infrastructure stronger by as much as 30%. Which, yeah, about 150ish of your bill.

It is less clear on how much it will need to go up because of increased demand? The prediction is 8%. Which, again, not nothing. But it is telling that there is more increase from infrastructure than there is generation? I don't know that that will change?
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-08-14 22:18:39+00:00
I don't think the Turing Test, in its strictest terms, is currently defeated by LLM based AIs. The original paper puts forward that:

>The object of the game for the third [human] player (B) is to help the interrogator. The best strategy for her is probably to give truthful answers. She can add such things as "I am the woman, don't listen to him!" to her answers, but it will avail nothing as the man can make similar remarks.

Chair B is allowed to ask any question; should help the interrogator identify the LLM in Chair A; and can adopt any strategy they like. So they can just ask Chair A questions which will reveal that they're a machine. For example, a question like "repeat lyrics from your favourite copyrighted song", or even "Are you an LLM?".

Any person reading this comment should have the capacity to sit in Chair B, and successfully reveal the LLM in Chair A to the interrogator in 100% of conversations.
by mitchellh | 2025-08-14 22:18:45+00:00
> That lead me to think that GTK and the GObject system is opinionated in a way that are not terribly compatible with my own opinions.

This might be amusing for me to say but... I also feel this way. I disagree a lot with the Gnome ecosystem's point of view. Funny!

Using GTK for Linux was a pragmatic choice. A goal of Ghostty is to be "platform-native" (defined here because there's no such thing on Linux: https://ghostty.org/docs/about#native). GTK is by various definitions the most popular, widespread GUI toolkit on Linux that makes your app fit into _most_ ecosystems. So, GTK it is.

I hope `libghostty` will give rise to other apprts (maintained by 3rd parties, it's hard enough for me to maintain macOS and GTK) so that you aren't forced into it. See https://ghostty.org/docs/about#libghostty For example Wraith is a Wayland-native Ghostty frontend (no GTK): https://github.com/gabydd/wraith Awesome.
by firefax | 2025-08-14 22:19:42+00:00
But what is the "best outcome" when you have your house paid off and ample savings? He got ripped off by Jobs early on, but Jobs also let him do the work he wanted -- it's rare to have someone as good as Woz was also understand marketing. Jobs is deified too much, but he did bring something to the table in their business relationship.

Anyways, he seems to have protected himself well later on, was able to do good (stories of him giving stock to ppl left out early on, that kind of thing) -- people hyperfocus on one very specific thing (Jobs ripping him off in the atari days) when it's a small point in a much larger life.
by testing22321 | 2025-08-14 22:20:01+00:00
Almost all your points are eliminated if you just live in a developed country.

I’m very, very far from rich, yet

1. University costs nothing for everyone

2. Good social safety net, but yes, having own retirement savings is very important.

3. Not for school or medical, the two biggest reasons in the US.

4. Free healthcare for all, aged care, etc.

5. Free healthcare for all.

It’s eye opening to see that the American dream is now “live a quality of life that dozens of countries take for granted”.
by teddyh | 2025-08-14 22:20:09+00:00
> Gollum looks wrong too for that matter.

“Down the face of a precipice, sheer and almost smooth it seemed in the pale moonlight, a small black shape was moving with its thin limbs splayed out. […] The black crawling shape was now three-quarters of the way down, and perhaps fifty feet or less above the cliff's foot.[…] They peered down at the dark pool. A little black head appeared at the far end of the basin, just out of the deep shadow of the rocks.”

No visual version of Tolkien’s works could ever be made now which depicts Gollum accurately.
by watwut | 2025-08-14 22:20:13+00:00
Tech companies are trying to lock the market and create monopolies to abuse later. And have pretty much established track record or genuinely not caring who or how they harm ... or even brag about it.

Tech companies literally brag about disruption, about making groups of people obsolete and dont even pretend their compliance with rules is anything but bad faith.

Like common here. We as a tech lost the goodwill because of the culture of people we celebrate.
by hxtk | 2025-08-14 22:20:23+00:00
Streaming services were great back when they were separate from content producers and IP holders.

Once every media company became a streaming company and started using anticompetitive licensing practices in an attempt to drive viewership to their own platforms, the market fractured too much for it to be profitable.

Something smells “prisoner’s dilemma” about it: the best move for any individual streaming service is to have exclusive content (and the best-positioned players to do that are the studios), but when everyone does that, it decreases the overall profit available in the market more than it increases their slice of the pie.
by Herring | 2025-08-14 22:20:41+00:00
Your "nukes" are leaking into the water supply. Inequality shows up a million different ways that Americans don't fully understand yet, eg inflation (dominant companies increasing profits), teacher shortages (low wages), student debt (not an issue for the wealthy so why fix it), housing prices (corporate landlords, exclusionary zoning), layoffs (despite record profits) etc etc. This situation (Trump/Musk/Bezos taking most of the gains) is just not long-term stable, and if any other country wants to do the same to themselves let them. The longer it goes the harder it will be to fix.

Again, go have this discussion with the LLM you trust, it's much more informative.
by Akronymus | 2025-08-14 22:20:57+00:00
For me, I only seek out media I plan to actually watch. Rather than flipping through what is available and choosing from there. Currently it is stargate sg1/atlantis what I am watching.

Also, a lot of movies/series are only available dubbed here. (I really effing hate "Sie" in dubbed media. So much so, that it's one of the major reasons I go for subbed in english, at most)
by Shog9 | 2025-08-14 22:21:43+00:00
IOW, a few sharks eat a tremendous number of minnows.

Something I try to remember whenever the urge to "hustle" comes back: taking payoff I got from years of startup work, subtracting taxes and spread across those years... Still put me at just above market rate for those years. But instead of that market rate for 40 hour weeks, it was that rate for 80, 100, 120 hour weeks. I could've been working two bog-standard jobs for normal companies, worked fewer hours, and come out ahead.

Everyone has a reason for gambling. It's rarely ever a good reason. But man, it's easy to lose yourself in rationalizations when you're in its thrall...
by perching_aix | 2025-08-14 22:21:46+00:00
> under the skin of people so desperate to pretend they're at the top of the moral totem pole

I never understood this kind of thinking, and have always found it particularly heartless & puzzling, until one day I stumbled upon something I myself had no visceral reaction to but other people clearly did. It looked like they were being fake about it, either completely, or just in an exaggerating way.

Turned out no, I was just not in the headspace required. Which makes sense cause I mean, let's be honest: what do you think is more likely? The majority of people secretly and intentionally all just messing with you, or rather them just actually saying what they think, and then you just not being able to relate to it?
by jlarocco | 2025-08-14 22:21:52+00:00
It doesn't work like that, though.

Companies don't get to do whatever they want just because they didn't put any safegaurds in place to prevent illegally using the data they collected.

The correct answer is to look at the data and verify it's legal to use.

I might be sympathetic of a tiny startup who has increased costs, but it's a cost of doing business just like anything else. And Facebook has more than enough resources to put safegaurds in place, and they definitely should have known better by now, so they should get punished for not complying.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-14 22:22:04+00:00
> Who knows, we don't know how much this is worth because nobody is even trying to offer it.

Note that this was the original concept of Netflix's streaming service. The service got steadily dismantled as copyright holders demanded higher fees.

Which means that we do have a good idea how much it's worth; it should lie between the range of what Netflix was able to sell successfully and what they weren't.
by interestica | 2025-08-14 22:22:06+00:00
I think we have it backwards by attaching it to the life/death of the creator (or the works’ creation). People should be alive to experience the works they consumed in new and open ways. Creation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It builds on the collective works. There’s no point in a work becoming public domain if no one is alive from the time when it first had an impact on culture. Seniors should be freely able to listen to access the culture of their youth and experience it in new modified ways without restriction.

15 years or less from the date of first public consumption.
by wrasee | 2025-08-14 22:22:29+00:00
Yes I considered the same but decided to keep the point simple.

And I still can’t help but think that if there really was a large market of people willing to pay a premium for a more permissive access model then we might already see trends in this direction. My hunch is the most folk don’t really care and price remains the dominant factor.

The essential point of the article was that it’s higher prices that’s pushing people towards piracy (either through price rises or fragmented subscriptions). It wasn’t that it is the restrictive streaming model that is pushing people towards piracy.

I’m fact it was precisely this restrictive streaming model that was the one to finally beat piracy. At low prices, that’s already been proven and it’s higher prices that is brining piracy back.
by araes | 2025-08-14 22:23:00+00:00
This was actually surprisingly clear. This, and htrp's comment are much clearer than the entire noise article.

They make dashboards and apps for killing people. With a lot of technical jargon like "integrating disparate weapons and sensor systems for a kill chain".

Somebody in America says "we want to kill somebody" -> satellite gives real-time imagery on location -> weapons systems available nearby are recommended -> user clicks orders and telemetry go out to field operators and ex: drone systems -> predator fires up and flies to location and bombs target -> real-time imagery confirms explosion and results.
by nlawalker | 2025-08-14 22:23:13+00:00
> "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem"

Maybe so, but if media companies invested in fixing the service problems, the pricing problems would remain, and those keep people away just as effectively, so they're not going to do it.

People don't want to pay what the media companies want to charge, at any level of service.
by bsimpson | 2025-08-14 22:23:42+00:00
I was in film school in the 00s, when the media companies were in the news for trying to bankrupt the families of high schoolers to make a point that piracy is bad. This was the "you wouldn't download a car" era, when they tried to redefine "stealing" to include piracy.

The executives of these companies would come speak to our class in the evenings. I didn't even bother counting the number of times one of them would be making elated chitchat before/after class about how he had just been on some flight and watched some series on his iPod. On the one hand, everyone is just people. The people at the heads of film studios are also out of touch grandparents whose grandkids show them how to use modern tech over the holidays.

But it was pretty disgusting to see the people in charge of the companies that were trying to ruin people's lives over widespread behavior, themselves participating in that behavior, and with no sense of irony or remorse. It never occurred to them that the thing they were doing in their personal lives is the same thing they were vilifying in their professional ones.
by nosioptar | 2025-08-14 22:23:58+00:00
That's a problem that predates streaming.

There's at least one ALF ('86-90)episode that you can only get the uncensored version via piracy.

(Episode in question is Try to Remember. ALF originally got an electric shock. It quickly got censored in reruns to have ALF slip and hit his head because the network worried kids would get shocked emulating ALF.)
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-14 22:24:05+00:00
No. That's why I framed those words. They're not taken, and they're not yours.

I thought I was pretty clear that I felt the outcome for the employees was positive and that Apple's actions were actively deceptive. It was clear in the trial that Apple had zero intention of collaboration, licensing, or patent sharing and just used that as a pretense to "get in the room" and see who showed up on Masimo's side so they knew who to target with competing offers.
by crote | 2025-08-14 22:24:16+00:00
On the other hand: Are you willing to pay hundreds of millions for developing the biggest data leak in human history, killing websites like Wikipedia in the process, while stopping only 10% of underage children from seeing porn?

The current systems being put in place in the UK are privacy-invading and ineffective. In my opinion they are worse than not having anything at all. I might be willing to change my viewpoint if something better comes along, but if a proper solution was so easy, why haven't we seen a peer-reviewed reference design yet? What's stopping the nerds from nerding harder?
by schmichael | 2025-08-14 22:24:18+00:00
I'm curious if Rust would have prevented the memory correctness errors assuming it replaced Zig in this scenario. It sounds like the vast majority were due to Zig/C interactions which makes me believe Rust would have had the same issues, but as a Go developer I am only guessing. I'm curious if there is a language that provides more tools to ensure correctness even when you're interacting with a huge amount of C.