MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by goosedragons | 2025-08-23 11:52:20+00:00
The MBA screen is /alright/. It's better than a lot of Windows machines but you can get better for the price for sure. I'd argue the screens in the Surface line are comparable and arguably better, 3:2, brighter, 120Hz at basically the same price. And there's loads of 4K OLED Windows laptops if you're willing to pay for them.

Apple screens also tend to have pretty bad response times too. They are sharp and color accurate but fall down in places.
by cpursley | 2025-08-23 11:54:03+00:00
I think the catch is, Americans have to spend so much time driving for ADLs (activities of daily living) that there is no time to walk over to the local court (if there is one, usually there is not). This is due to the sprawl Ponzi scheme (which spreads everything out). It's also the primary cause behind America's mental health crises (lack of 3rd places, everyone is isolated). And yeah, I'm not talking SF or NYC, but 90% of the rest of the country.
by westurner | 2025-08-23 11:55:58+00:00
Is there an awesome list for manim the software?

Manim: Math Animation

Src: ManimCommunity/manim: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim

Docs: https://docs.manim.community/en/stable/

GH topic: manim: https://github.com/topics/manim :

manimML, manim-physics, chanim, manim-web (dart), JAnim (java), ranim (rust), manim-voiceover, git-sim, TheoremExplainAgent, reactive-manim, jupyter-manim, manim-sideview (vscode), manim-studio (Qt, Cairo)

ManimCommunity/awesome-manim has a list of creators that create with manim: https://github.com/ManimCommunity/awesome-manim

/?youtube manim: https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Manim+
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-23 11:55:59+00:00
There is a huge difference between accepting someone’s opinion about supply side economics or US foreign policy or heck even abortion rights than “understanding” someone who doesn’t believe that people shouldn’t be treated equally and with respect because of the color of their skin, their sexuality, etc.

I’m from South GA and spent all of my adult life until 3 years ago in Atlanta. I live in another red state now - Florida. I’ve spent enough time in the bigger cities in Texas to have a feel for it. Alabama and Mississippi are just…different.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-23 11:56:36+00:00
Every requirement on the types is commented on why it's necessary.

This is a generic method in the middle of some database DSL code that does a bunch of SQL operations on a type safe manner. Code like this takes "SELECT ?+* FROM ?+* WHERE ? ORDER BY ?+* LIMIT ? OFFSET ?", specifically the limit and offset part, and returns a type that will always map to the database column. If the query is selecting a count of how many Foo each Baz references, this will map to a paginated Foo to Baz count type.

The alternative is to manually write this stuff out in SQL, then manually cast the right types into the basic primitives, which is what a language like Zig probably does.

You'll find similar (though sometimes less type-safe) complex code in just about any ORM/DSL, whether it's written in Java or PHP.

I don't think you can accomplish this in C without some kind of recursive macro parser generating either structs or maybe function pointers on the fly. It'd be hell to make that stuff not leak or double free memory, though.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-23 11:57:18+00:00
Paying for a service that you use on an ongoing basis and that is very important (like email) is probably the best possible choice, since it aligns what you're paying for and what the company is working on. In the model you suggest the core service will atrophy slowly because the money is in the add-ons. This is why I'm happy to pay annually for my Fastmail account.
by sothatsit | 2025-08-23 11:57:20+00:00
It depends on the project. Most of the projects I write in C are very simple, and getting them to work reliably is really not a problem at all.

If you are writing more complicated or "interesting" programs, then I agree, C doesn't give you a good set of tools. But if all you are writing is small libraries or utility programs, C is just fine. In these cases, Rust feels like pulling out a sniper rifle to shoot a target a meter in front of your face (i.e., overkill).

If you are writing complex, large, or very mission-critical programs, then Rust is great to have as a tool as well. But we don't have to take such a black and white view to think that Rust is always the best tool for the job. Or C or Zig or whatever languages for that matter.
by terminalshort | 2025-08-23 11:57:37+00:00
How real is this "crawler plague" that the author refers to? I haven't seen it. But that's just as likely to because I don't care, and therefore am not looking, as it is to be because it's not there. Loading static pages from CDN to scrape training data takes such minimal amounts of resources that it's never going to be a significant part of my costs. Are there cases where this isn't true?
by xg15 | 2025-08-23 11:57:46+00:00
> Using it well requires a competent team, working together with trust and transparency, to build processes that are designed to effectively balance human guidance/expertise with what LLM's are good at. Small teams are doing very big things with it.

This reads a bit like "you're holding it wrong". If you need your team and organization to already be in a perfect state before AI usage will stop doing damage, what is the point of it in the first place.

Especially if AI is promoted as a "magic bullet" that will likely especially be uses by teams that are already dysfunctional.
by hoistbypetard | 2025-08-23 11:58:49+00:00
I can feel this block, especially when I'm starting a new project.

Two things that help me:

* have a good boilerplate

* ship things that do nothing

i.e. I find it helps to start a project using my good boilerplate then set up builds and releases (so for web projects, put them online) so that the page doesn't look so blank anymore, and I can see my progress in "releases" even if they're just for me/others contributing.
by impossiblefork | 2025-08-23 11:59:28+00:00
Tennis is very difficult though. One of the highest barrier to entry sports skill-wise.

Non-athletic adult people can't step onto a tennis court and consistently get the ball back to you, even if you hit it to them.

I thought Padel was easy, but when I organized a Padel after-work I saw that that was not reality, and Padel is much easier than tennis.
by raudette | 2025-08-23 12:00:16+00:00
In high school, I worked at a local PC store in Ottawa - Dantek Computers, 1994-1996. Prior to leaving for University in August 1996, I built myself a Pentium 120, with the Asus P55T2P4 motherboard mentioned in the article.

The way our store worked, every PC was built to order - we had inexpensive cases with sharp edges, we had higher end ones as well. I assembled a TON of PCs over those two years. We had a PC configuration app the owner had built in QBasic - it was very much like pcpartpicker.com , with all the parts we had available.

We played with a bunch of hardware and were familiar with it, we'd walk customers through the decisions - the impact of increasing cache, the differences in video cards. I believed it at the time, and in retrospect, still believe that it was an awesome shop - I can remember, by policy, we would sell customers printers if they really wanted one, but always recommended they buy one at the big box shop down the street, as we couldn't match their pricing. I loved that job.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-08-23 12:00:35+00:00
I think calling oneself an "inventor", while not a proof, is at least a smell. Nobody actually working on anything calls themselves that, and there are plenty of people working on things.

It's a label that sounds like something from some amateurish elementary school book of "historical inventors" or some cheesy popularization of science from the 1950s that propagates the view that there are these mythical creatures called "inventors" who appear once in a generation to bring fire to humanity.
by ruslan_sure | 2025-08-23 12:01:05+00:00
Physical activity increases lifespan primarily by lowering the likelihood of falling and breaking your hip. If you break your hip, your life expectancy is dramatically reduced. If that's your goal, just train your legs!

That said, I think the most important part of exercising is the mental boost it provides. It's like a healthy drug. There are no negative side effects, and it's highly praised by society.
by justonceokay | 2025-08-23 12:02:19+00:00
Maybe. I have worked in the corporate world for decades. My partner works in the government. My perspective is that the government office wastes so much time (and therefore $$) that I often have to keep my mouth shut to maintain peace in our relationship. There is no “disagree and commit” mentality. More like 9 months into a project and someone starts to feel “uncomfy” about something and we’re back to the drawing board.

I do believe the government is in a better position to provide services to the poor, but they are in no way going to be cheaper in the long run.

That being said, I do live in Seattle, which has a particularly “bogged down” government. Look up the “Seattle process” for some horror stories
by rpdillon | 2025-08-23 12:02:38+00:00
This is a really interesting feedback. I've used OSMand for maybe five years, and never had issues like you're describing. I've always felt that the search was absolutely awful, so I used Google Maps for that and then put the points of interest into my map. Nevertheless, I find the display particularly dense and confusing to configure, and so I also have been using Organic Maps lately, which may provide a simplified experience that's a bit more polished.

I wonder if there was some issue with the map data in the area you were driving in that led to the issues you experienced. I've used OSMand in Belize, Mexico, California, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine and had a good experience, especially with the offline maps.
by JustExAWS | 2025-08-23 12:02:39+00:00
They aren’t being “manipulated”. This is no different than the old “Segregation Now. Segregation Tomorrow. Segregation Forever.” George Wallace inauguration in the 1960s.

The south has always cared more about culture wars than their own self interest.

FWIW: I have lived in the south all 51 years of my life - GA until 3 years ago and now Florida.
by hkon | 2025-08-23 12:03:28+00:00
AI gave me this: 1. The Work–Reward Contract

Expectation: If you work hard and build skills, society will reward you with wages, stability, and opportunities for advancement.

AI Tension: If AI automates large swaths of work, the link between effort and reward can collapse. For example, truck drivers, radiologists, or call center workers may find that their decades of skill-building are instantly devalued.

2. The Generational Contract

Expectation: Each generation contributes (through taxes, labor, innovation) to support the current elderly, while expecting the next generation to do the same for them.

AI Tension: If AI concentrates wealth among a small group of owners, younger generations may not have the income base to sustain pensions, healthcare systems, or the tax base that supports aging populations.

3. The Education Contract

Expectation: If you spend years in school, investing time and money, you’ll get access to meaningful employment.

AI Tension: If AI can do much of the work fresh graduates are trained for (law, programming, design, etc.), then the implicit “return on education” may vanish, undermining trust in the education system itself.

4. The Knowledge–Authority Contract

Expectation: Experts and institutions (teachers, journalists, researchers) hold authority because of their training, discipline, and credibility.

AI Tension: If AI can generate convincing text, images, or even research papers, people may not know who or what to trust. This erodes the social contract where institutions act as reliable custodians of knowledge.

5. The Effort–Dignity Contract

Expectation: Work, even if menial, provides dignity and identity.

AI Tension: If AI replaces not only high-skilled jobs but also low-skilled ones, people may lose both economic security and the sense of contributing meaningfully to society.

6. The Civic Contract

Expectation: Citizens deliberate and vote based on human judgment and human-driven discourse.

AI Tension: AI-generated propaganda, deepfakes, or bot-driven political campaigns could undermine democratic trust and participation.

7. The Interpersonal/Creative Contract

Expectation: Human creativity and relationships are uniquely valuable.

AI Tension: If AI-generated art, music, or companionship substitutes for human creation or connection, people may feel dispossessed of their role in culture and community.
by bgwalter | 2025-08-23 12:03:37+00:00
His profile says: "I'm a technology geek and do information security for a living."

The blog post starts with: "I’m not a professional developer, just a hobbyist with aspirations."

Is this a vibe blog promoting Misanthropic Claude Vibe? It is hard to tell, since all "AI" promotion blogs are unstructured and chaotic.
by qimem | 2025-08-23 12:03:53+00:00
I’m Eyu, a solo dev who spent 4 months on Qimem, a Rust CLI for secure key derivation (argon2), encryption (chacha20poly1305), and TOTP. Tried post-quantum Signal with spqr but got wrecked by bugs (linker errors, dependency conflicts). It’s a rough diamond—needs devs to add RBAC, key vaults, or crazy stuff like self-destructing files. Repo: [github.com/qimem/qimem]. Join the grind, PRs welcome! I'm available on X: @eyukaz
by heresie-dabord | 2025-08-23 12:04:09+00:00
Some current Android devices that have USB-C 3.1+ and support dp-alt-mode (USB-C to HDMI) will detect when an external display is connected and provide a full extended desktop. [0]

You can connect mouse, keyboard, and display to the Android device through an unpowered USB-C hub that offers the respective ports. Battery life depends on the make/model of Android device.

I have a Motorola phone and the experience is very nice.

[0] _ https://uperfect.com/blogs/wikimonitor/list-of-smartphones-w...
by 0_____0 | 2025-08-23 12:05:12+00:00
It's pretty wild to me (I do hardware) that data goods like code can rot the way they do. If my electronics designs sit for a couple years, they'll need changes to deal with parts obsolescence etc. if you want to make new units.

If you did want your software project to run the same as today when compiled/interpreted 10 years from now, what would you have to reach for to make it 'rot-resistant'?
by ksec | 2025-08-23 12:06:14+00:00
>So we shouldn’t be impressed by Apple silicon because it also runs in phones?

My point is HN was not impressed in any shape or form, even when presented with figures, when Apple silicon was used in iPhone, but is impressed with it when it was running inside a MacBook.

And you just basically reiterated my point. People are comparing devices, not CPU. ARM has Core design IP that could rival Apple's M3 design today. i.e from CPU IP Core perspective it isn't five years ahead. It just isn't being used in the current laptop range for different kind of reasons.
by hackrmn | 2025-08-23 12:06:59+00:00
While an alluring title, and commendable argument, I do not necessarily think this is about computer or user interfaces. Ok, so I, instead of navigating Finder, or Windows Explorer, or something analogous where I have an idea in my head of where my _files_ (a tangible, while "transferred" concept) are, ask an AI agent "list files I was working on last week". This does not imply a computing problem unless by "computing" you mean I am unable to organize myself and my head does not compute -- I either know where my files are, or I don't. An AI complements my memory here, this isn't a UI problem, it's just me getting lazier or more complacent, like someone with "functioning depression" who gets by at the cost of living in a "functioning mess". I am not sure I would want to hold myself to such a standard. If this was only about efficiency -- sure, let the AI complement myself, but this starts to look like explaining sheer lack of organizaiton and calling it "the end of tooling" (because I can't or won't use the tooling anyway, too much hassle). Meaning that us advancing into a WALL-E (or "Idiocracy") age where we just voice commands to AIs while we literally lie on a bed -- is that a good thing?

Let me try to clarify and simplify my rambling: I would like AI to help me, I do, but I should know where my project files are, should I not? If our memory isn't needed, I am sure evolution will shrink it. Then we put an "AI" in our brain to remember for us, and the circle is complete?
by udev4096 | 2025-08-23 12:07:45+00:00
> using Arch Linux daily for the past month or two

No wonder you are facing non-existent issues. Stop blaming it on Arch. If it was widespread, there would be a fix by now for it. You messed it up. It's upto you to solve it. Also it's not "your mac". Apple has full remote access and can brick "your mac" anytime. With apple, you get the feeling of owning without actually owning anything. Gotta give it to them
by agentcoops | 2025-08-23 12:09:24+00:00
It's a really difficult problem. I read a comment on here the other day about the increased burden on project maintainers that I sympathized with, but I wonder if the solution isn't actually just more emphasis on reputation tools for individual committers. It seems like the metric shouldn't just be "uses AI assistance" vs "doesn't", which as you note just leads to people hiding their workflow, but something more tied to "average quality of PR." I worked in finance briefly and was always really intrigued by the way responsibility worked for the bankers themselves: they could use any tools they wanted to produce results, but it had to be transparent and if someone was wrong the pretty strict burden fell on that IC personally.

The worst case for AI and OSS is a flood of vibe-coded PRs that increase bugs/burden on project maintainers; the best case is that talented but time-starved engineers are more likely to send the occasional high-quality PR as the time investment per PR decreases.
by asimovfan | 2025-08-23 12:09:32+00:00
I read why you left linux as your main platform.. You say you are "practical now and tired" implying GNU(+linux) is unpractical and tiring, which is perfectly wrong in my opinion. Not only my opinion but also in your own opinion, as you also write how package managers are better in linux, macOS is not as hackable, how much it is locked down etc. So it comes down to this paragraph:

"I learned to like nice things. I became a bit bougie, hah. I like the build quality of the Apple laptops. The amazing trackpads. The vibrant screens. And how, for the most part, the hardware and software just work together so well. Seamlessly connecting Apple Keyboards to my Apple Laptop, or my Apple Headphones to my Apple Laptop, etc., etc."

so boils down to this intangible "bougieness" they tricked you with. I dont know about Apple build quality. I have the experience that they absolutely slow down, break down faster, more expensive to get fixed, and the trackpad is annoying as hell. I haven't had any problems with headphones or connecting keyboards (wireless or wired) in non macOS laptops either. It is 2025 and all my computers work fine with such peripherals.

The screens look vibrant i'll give you that, but you pay for it anyway, like you could've paid with another laptop.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-23 12:09:41+00:00
LLMs also fail to answer simple questions that require a minimal amount of reasoning which demonstrates that they do not have a working model of the world. Their answers to factual questions will change depending on how you phrase the question, even if the crux of the question is identical:

"Is X true" -> "Yes, X is true."

"Is X a myth?" -> "Yes, X is a myth"

"Is Y a myth?" (where X = Y, rephrased) -> "No, Y is true"

Even when they're provided with all the facts required to reach the correct answer through simple reasoning, they'll often fail to do so.

Worse still, sometimes they can be told what the correct answer is, with a detailed step-by-step explanation, but they'll still refuse to accept it as true, continuing to make arguments which were debunked by the step-by-step explanation.

All state of the art models exhibit this behavior, and this behavior is inconsistent with any definition of intelligence.
by prinny_ | 2025-08-23 12:09:46+00:00
There are RPGs in which you don’t play against other people but you can interact with them to sell items. In these games being able to generate vast amounts of in game wealth creates inflation for everybody and makes it so that normal players can’t interact with the economy. With regards to your other point about separating the player base it would create fragmentation and higher queues for matchmaking. Finally keep in mind that even in single player games people compete for speed run records or world first achievements.
by bluGill | 2025-08-23 12:10:00+00:00
That is false for every american I know. Driving means less time than transit users in every study I've seen - that time is of course more stressful but we spend less time commuting and thus have more time. Working hours can be longer but for many it isn't much longer.

There are a lot of couch potatoes that don't use their time, but they have it.
by __d | 2025-08-23 12:12:28+00:00
Start with naturally occurring things only.

Mine and refine iron ore to make hub. Mine and refine zinc(?) to plate it.

Drill for and refine oil to make PET for disk and casing. Injection mold casing. Make film for actual disc.

Etc, etc.

I’d be ok using tools that weren’t made from scratch as well, but that’d be bonus ooints.
by smokel | 2025-08-23 12:12:43+00:00
He uses quite a bit of tooling, including lasers. It's not like he would be able to get this far in the middle of nowhere :)

In a way it is somewhat similar to people writing demos for old computers using emulators. Still great fun, but using these tools it doesn't take a village to make one floppy disk. With modern hardware you are apparently able to pull this off on your own. That would have been almost impossible in the 1980s, when these floppy disks were popular.

I probably worded it badly, but I really enjoy these efforts, and I would never be able to do this myself, even if I had a shed with all those tools!
by ChocolateGod | 2025-08-23 12:12:45+00:00
You would have to somehow compromise the security coprocessors, even on Android where more of the system is open source, Play Integrity relying on this has killed pretty much all methods of tricking application code that the system is stock outside of downgrade attacks (by convincing the application the phone doesn't support newer verification methods).

We can run tasks on them that only produces valid output if the boot chains is verified.
by heresie-dabord | 2025-08-23 12:12:47+00:00
Further, people don't know enough about the deadly effects of obesity, high blood pressure, and the big killer:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atherosclerosis

Exercise is vital!

"Atherosclerosis generally starts when a person is young and worsens with age. Almost all people are affected to some degree by the age of 65. It is the number one cause of death and disability in developed countries. Though it was first described in 1575, there is evidence suggesting that this disease state is genetically inherent in the broader human population, with its origins tracing back to CMAH genetic mutations that may have occurred more than two million years ago during the evolution of hominin ancestors of modern human beings."
by Wilder7977 | 2025-08-23 12:13:24+00:00
How? Finding a Mac docking station that works with 2 monitors is already a lottery. 70% of people in my company, me included, ended up plugging the HDMI directly into the mac (and a DP into the docking station), while the same docking station worked flawlessly with 2 monitors on Linux. I haven't tried four monitors, but I have to say that multiple monitors handling is something so far I would list under the downsides on Mac.