MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonymars | 2025-08-26 15:24:11+00:00
> “Modern Standby” could be made to actually work, ACPI states could be fixed, a functional wake-up state built anew, etc. Hell, while it would allow pared down CPUs, you could have a stop-gap where run mode was customized in firmware.

I'm confused, how is any of this related to "x86" and not the diverse array of third party hardware and software built with varying degrees of competence?
by amazingman | 2025-08-26 15:24:26+00:00
I remember a time when this was supposed to be Wintel's advantage. It's really strange to now be in a time where Apple leads the consumer computing industry in hardware performance, yet is utterly failing at evolving the actual experience of using their computers. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who would gladly give up a bit of performance if it were going to result in a polished, consistent UI/UX based on the actual science of human interface design rather than this usability hellscape the Alan Dye era is sending us into.
by torton | 2025-08-26 15:24:26+00:00
Regular spam isn't really a problem.

For work email, various salespeople reaching out to sell things, often things completely unrelated to my job title, are highly annoying. I report all of them to spam to Google and block their emails, but the approaches of modern salespeople are increasingly indistinguishable from those of mass spammers (burner domains, "prewarming", multiple scheduled human looking followups, etc.)

Things I do intentionally subscribe to (such as airline offers) tend to switch their send-from address or title or something else every so often and are no longer caught by filters. At some volume, this becomes an occasional annoying toil to deal with. Note, I don't use Gmail, unlike ~90-95% of people in my circles.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 15:24:27+00:00
> Right... but now that is (arguably) cost competitive with American labor and manufacturing. Or at least it's more cost competitive than it otherwise would be.

This won't work for clothes. We'd need Wal-mart shoppers to be spending like $400/outfit (incl. shoes) to even maybe bring those jobs back to the US. For clothes specifically, short of raising prices so much that the poorest few tens of a percent of the population are reduced to wearing shit-tier disposable clothes covered in also-cheap patches and often worn threadbare, shoes fully wrapped in duct-tape because the soles are practically gone, et c, there's no way you're bringing those jobs back. We'll just pay more for the exact same stuff, with few or no extra jobs as a trade-off.

Meanwhile, goods partially manufactured here (materials made here, finished elsewhere; materials foreign, construction domestic) will see price increases due to tariffs, which may harm sales, which may reduce employment. Between that and any broader economic down-turn resulting from these policies (can't buy as many things if prices are up, can't spend more on expensive US goods if your basics go up in price) I wouldn't be surprised if we see a bunch of the remaining US clothing manufacturers go out of business in the next few years. I have several brands I like that are already showing visible signs of distress (things like products lines being reduced, no new models showing up) and am worried I'll soon have almost no US clothes to choose from, due to these "protectionist" policies.
Show HN: I Built a Privacy First Clipboard History Manager for macOS
by ajmayafi | 2025-08-26 15:24:31+00:00
Hello HN , I built Recall because I kept losing copied text while working. Existing clipboard managers felt bloated or unsafe so I designed Recall to be privacy first and simple:

- History clears automatically when the app is killed. - All data is stored locally on your Mac — nothing leaves your machine. - Minimal UI, works instantly with ⌘ + V.

It’s built with Electron + sqlite, lightweight enough for daily use, and packaged for macOS (both Intel + Apple Silicon).

You can try it here its 100% free: https://ajmayafi.gumroad.com/l/recall-macOS

Would love your feedback.
by quotemstr | 2025-08-26 15:24:34+00:00
Broad-based inflammation delivered by lipid nanoparticle chock full of mRNA: what could possibly go wrong? I'll stick with monoclonal antibodies, thanks.

Oh, and here's what the ISG15 deficiency (the condition these mRNAs are there to simulate) does:

> Patients present...with infectious, neurologic or dermatologic features. Basal ganglia calcification is observed in all patients... The basal ganglia calcifications may cause epileptic seizures... The IFN-I inflammation may also manifest early in life as ulcerative skin lesions in the armpit, groin and neck regions. Finally, ISG15-deficiency leads to mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease... [t]hese infections present as fistulizing lymphadenopathies and respiratory symptoms following BCG vaccination.

Yeah, about those antiviral superpowers...
by mlinhares | 2025-08-26 15:25:03+00:00
Odd Lots has done a lot of interviews with Fed members these past few days as they were in Jackson Hole and they all said that "now the data looks right" as they were talking to businesses everyone was saying they weren't hiring but the job numbers had remained high. One even said he'd expect to see even worse revisions in the coming months given the anecdotal data he's seeing in the wild.

So yeah, i'd say most of this AI stuff is bullshit, if it was really this good Sam Altman wouldn't be talking about building social networks.
by mtlynch | 2025-08-26 15:25:09+00:00
>One other interesting aspect of doing a per-company email is that you find companies you might never suspect of selling your data spamming you, or otherwise subject to data breaches that they never announce.

Yeah, definitely. I find this a lot with point of sale terminals. I think it's Square where if you choose an email receipt, they automatically share your email address with any vendor where you use the same credit card.

>I did try out random characters as well, but if it's too long it becomes a pain to read out over the phone.

Yeah, I don't think you actually need that much entropy though unless you're an especially attractive target. For 99.99% of the population, they have just one email address, so they're an easy target for account enumeration. There'd have to be something unusual about me for an attacker to take such an interest that they special-case my email to recognize my scheme, and even less likely for them to even try to brute force just two random characters (assuming I'm using a secure, random password everywhere).

Also, if you haven't signed up, Have I Been Pwned lets you register for notifications at the email domain level with a free account.
by willmadden | 2025-08-26 15:25:33+00:00
They are using AI to upscale without creator notification or consent. They likely pre-bake a small “upscale instruction” file with each low-res stream. On decent GPUs/phones the player runs a lightweight AI pass, making 720p look sharper without downloading the full 1080p/4K file. Older rigs just use 720p. Bandwidth savings.
by wowczarek | 2025-08-26 15:25:40+00:00
I would worry less about _trigger jitter_, especially for relative measurements, because unless it's one of those toy scopes, trigger jitter will be negligible for this purpose, so yes the scope, but less trigger jitter and more measurement jitter.

For anything that involves a scope, I think it's good practice to specify how and what you are measuring - namely what termination, what trigger level and show what the pulse actually looks like on the scope.

Where you are definitely right is that all those devices can produce completely different looking pulses, and only by looking at the pulse with a scope that has sufficient bandwidth you can pick the right trigger level that lands at a point of the waveforms that gets consistent characteristics, namely you stay away from the top of the pulse and tend to trigger somewhere mid-ramp that looks clean, and keep your paws away from those AUTO buttons!

...but this is all nitpicking as far as the post goes, this is where lots of electronics people get triggered (badum, tss!) where we have a network in the middle that is, essentially, chaos.
by georgeecollins | 2025-08-26 15:26:09+00:00
Intel was very profitable until it was not. They spent over $800B on stock buybacks. That will buy you some fabs, some R&D. Its true they invested in R&D but not well. Maybe the answer was to fund an independent internal competitor to keep the org focused.

Financialization is a dead end when you face a nation state determined to control steps in you value chain. How profitable will apple be if they can’t get chips?
by hoistbypetard | 2025-08-26 15:26:32+00:00
Maybe? I've got an email address that's 25 years old, and there's so much spam that I rarely use it; if I don't see an email within about 1 hour of receiving it, it's off the first screen. I still go there periodically and search for messages I'm expecting. But it's not usable as a normal email address anymore because there's so much spam.

I now have another address that I am much more restrained about sharing.
by rvz | 2025-08-26 15:26:56+00:00
> Credentials: Username, password, account identifier, keys, certificates, or other credentials that have been published, leaked, or exposed in some way should be reported to this program to ensure they can be properly investigated, cleaned up, and secured. Credentials are out of Scope for rewards.

> Intel’s web infrastructure, i.e., website domains owned and/or operated by Intel, fall out of Scope.

This is one of the most cataclysmic security breaches of a publicly traded company I have ever seen on this site and yet this researcher get absolutely no bounty for this incredible write-up. This researcher did the right thing, but what if next time, another one does not?

A less forgiving but equally skilled security researcher could have easily sold that on the black market.

...and no-one cares.
by JCGoran | 2025-08-26 15:27:02+00:00
As someone who never comments on HN, I would like to voice my absolute disapproval of this new policy. As these decisions are not made in a vacuum, I have no doubt the recent developments in the political landscape have contributed to this decision (e.g. UK Online "Safety" Act, EU Chat Control, EU Age Verification solution, probably others). Coupled with the recent "mandatory" (read: forced) upgrade of my Pixel 4a, I get the impression Google's attitude towards phones has become equivalent to Apple's: namely, the illusion of choice.

Since there are no viable alternatives, I guess it's time to go back to owning a cheap corporate/government approved phone for official business (i.e. banking), and another one that I actually use.

As an aside, the presentation[0] doesn't really go into the details how they will enforce this (on-device? Remotely? If the latter, can I just remove Play Services from my device to sideload whatever?), but you can apparently submit feedback about the verification process here[1].

[0]: https://goo.gle/play-console-android-developer-verification [1]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpZbsJCS-f7CtMbZPn...
by alt227 | 2025-08-26 15:27:25+00:00
> The alternative is death - they do nothing, they're going to die.

Thats a subjective opinion. Plenty of people still value higher power multi core chips over apple silicon, because they are still better at doing real work. I dont think they need to go in a new direction personally, but I was just showing an example of why your provided solution is not a silver bullet.
by itissid | 2025-08-26 15:27:37+00:00
The book "Apple in China" by Patrick McGee focuses on this point in early 2000 top 5 contract manufacturers were in north america. By around 2010 the top one was foxconn which was larger than the next 4 combined. This is going to play out everywhere and result in extreme circumstances.

I think the issue is not just that that its capitalism causing wage issues, its the fact that people think they can control the painless socioeconomic transition that comes with incomes increasing with matching productivity gains, or worst halt and try and reverse it. One or more things will eventually cause a pop/crash/revolution:

- Endless high returns on capital: Wealth accumumlation for < top 50% of the people causes high enough inflation as these highly capitalized groups look to buy every single asset (think blank street day care and paying 200$ per month for trash disposal) to turn them into rent seeking ones.

- Large debt countries moment of reckoning: At some point a black swan event leading to higher inflation with no leg room for more borrowing like 2008. Bond markets will dictate fiscal tightening and politicians will likely take control of monetary and fiscal policy ending capitalistic bedrocks for them. This will feed into the Endless high return on capital cycle. Government will bow out of every service to service the debt through taxes.

- People not seeing any upward progress in their economic status or careers: Large populations find high upfront cost/headwind to enter into new economies. Failure to adapt, political choices become extreme.

- Deflationary effects due to progress of china, korea, japan etc due to cost of innovation crashing: At some point large economies become advanced enough that cost of highly specialized goods exported by private companies in highly indebted countries will fall causing non dollar currencies to experience deflation and undermine reserve currencies.

The only countries with leverage left would be the ones the ones with technology that is highly integrated into the society at a level that its people can rapidly change behaviors and adapt without losing wealth/landing on the street. After all you can convince a person he wasn't cheated by God/Demagogue, but you cannot convince them that they are not hungry.

Some of this is already happening in fits-and-jerks motion relative to pace of progress since industrialization. Add things like climate change to the mix and you might not be able to ask "how fast?".
by rsynnott | 2025-08-26 15:27:45+00:00
As someone else mentioned, that's gross margin, ie revenue minus cost of goods sold. I think in the tech industry we tend to fixate on gross margins, on the basis that for your average SaaS there's virtually an infinite market, and other costs won't scale linearly as it is addressed, so net margin really is less important (mind you, people sometimes go a bit too far in discounting it) but for, say, a gigantic retail chain, things are different. Walmart can't just scale up its sales 10x, and even if it could it would need lots of new premises etc. For Walmart, what really matters is net profit margin, and that is low.
by Arch-TK | 2025-08-26 15:27:59+00:00
The chances are higher that the EU makes a law mandating this sort of thing than demanding dropping this requirement in the EU.

The only thing you can expect from the EU is that it requires that apps in the EU market are signed with keys signed by the EU which you will only be able to get if you provide your ID or business registration.

Between Google and the EU I think I would rather be governed by the devil.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-26 15:28:05+00:00
> the terms allowlist/denylist do not presuppose conditionallity or pre-set time limits

They don't pre-suppose anything. They're neologisms. So you have to provide the context when you use them versus being able to leverage what the other person already knows.

> Allowlist/denylist (9 + 8 chars) is shorter than whitelist/blacklist (9 + 9 chars)

The point is you can't just say allow list this block of IPs and walk away in the way saying whitelist these works.

> really only about updating a technical industry term pair to a more descriptive and less semantically loaded pair

Eh, it looks more like creating jargon to signal group membership.

> There is good reason for making the change that do not involve any claim that doing so would solve racism

I guess I'm not seeing it. Black = bad and white = good are deep cultural priors across the world.

Trying to bend a global language like English to accomodate the fact that we've turned those words into racial designations strikes me as silly. (The term blacklist predates [1] the term black as a racial designator, at least in English, I believe by around 100 years [2]. If we want to go pedantic in the opposite direction, no human actually has black or white skin in natural light.)

(For what it’s worth, I’ve genuinely enjoyed this discussion.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Origins_of_the_te...

[2] https://nabado.co.ke/2025/01/05/the-origins-and-evolution-of...
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-26 15:28:18+00:00
I run Linux Mint Mate on a 10 year old laptop. Everything works fine, but watching YouTube makes my wireless USB dongle mouse stutter a LOT. Basically if CPU usage goes up, mouse goes to hell.

Are you telling me that for some reason it's not using any hardware acceleration available while watching YouTube? How do I fix it?
GPT5 is the best coding LLM because other LLMs admit it?
by adinhitlore | 2025-08-26 15:28:21+00:00
So I vibe-code a lot these days and recently i decided to give the same prompt to several llms, then get their codes and later give each code to every single one of them to ask which one they think is the most useful without telling them that they or the other 2 llms wrote it. The overall consensus is: gpt5. True I only compared gpt5 vs claude 4.1 vs qwen 230bn. OSS 120b, gemini and grok 4 were excluded since well i don't have the time. And obvious failures like amazon nova or anything from meta weren't even planned. Deepseek (both) seem a bit underperforming . Personally I'd say it's a close call between claude opus 4.1 vs both gpt4 and gpt5 (ironically gpt5 sometimes performs worse than 4, i think this has been addressed by many people already). That's just my personal experience, i know HumanEwal or SWE or whatever give various performance but idk, Musk used the benchmarks as "proof" to hype Grok and in my experience grok 4 is between LLAMA4 and obviously behind gpt4 or some variations of qwen.

Again this is coding only: Python and C. For physics, chemistry, scifi novels or whatever the case may be very different. Another kudos to OSS 120bn btw: it's very generous on tokens...like it will write a small programming book if it takes to in one reply, unless of course you tell it to be more limited, this is a huge plus for me since the code I demand should be complex and not some 20 lines nova "pro" joke.
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 15:28:53+00:00
> Nobody is making mistakes as dumb as "we fixed something we can measure so the problem is solved".

There is an entire name for this: dark pattern.

People make this mistake all the time. Its a very common measurement problem, because measuring is actually very hard.

Are we measuring the right thing? Does it mean what we think it means? Companies spend hundreds of billions trying to answer those questions.

2. Not it cannot block phishing because if I get your password, I can get in.

To your points:

- yes, banks in the US use one time codes too. Very smart of you, unfortunately not very creative. Trivial to circumvent in most cases. Email is the worst, SMS better, TOTP best.

TOTP doesn't matter if the user just takes their code and inputs it into whatever field.

- yes there is such a thing as check fraud, you not knowing what it is doesn't matter.

- if I had to authorize each CC transaction on my phone, I'd put a bullet in my head. That's shit.
by NelsonMinar | 2025-08-26 15:29:25+00:00
I can recommend the new book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney. It's an overview of what we know about Proto Indo-European and its spread across the world. Much of the book is evidence from linguistics but it also regularly dips into Reich's ancient DNA work and other sources to cross-correlate with the linguistic evidence. It's very well written.
by nicbou | 2025-08-26 15:30:08+00:00
My personal decision? Not very impactful now that I live in Europe, but it means I will not set foot on US soil, that I divest from US-based services, and that I don't buy American.

I don't care how effective it is, because there is no anger behind it. It's just a thing I stopped doing, like some people stop drinking or eating meat. Those habits stick.
by _jab | 2025-08-26 15:30:15+00:00
Gotta be honest, I think the spoon bending metaphor is unhelpful, and only misleads the audience and buries the lede here. It took me a while to figure out what this repo actually does.

But the insights are indeed interesting. I'm curious if you've found any way to quantify alignment differences between GPT-5 and the previous generation?
by parodysbird | 2025-08-26 15:30:16+00:00
> Even back when every household received a morning paper I cannot fathom how a single article could command such a high pay.

He wrote for the New Yorker, which is a magazine rather than a newspaper. The number of long-form literary nonfiction pieces that the New Yorker runs every year is drastically fewer than the number of news articles produced to fill a daily newspaper in just a couple weeks.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-26 15:30:24+00:00
Advice like this introduces a dangerous blind spot: It assumes the engineer is always right and their peers and manager just don’t understand:

> It can be deeply alienating to know things don’t work the way they officially should, but to have nobody to talk about it with.

There are instances where this is true, obviously. One of my more frustrating job experiences was getting hired late into a startup where the founder had already hired their friends, who were not familiar with the domain, into all of the decision making roles. Being stuck in a workplace where the necessary knowledge is absent from upper ranks is very frustrating. As I learned, the real solution is to leave.

The problem that occurs with advice like this blog is that some engineering personality types will see it as affirmation that they are right and the business is wrong even if that may not be true. I can’t begin to count the number of engineers I’ve worked with who went off and chose to work on their own priorities or did some of the other techniques mentioned in this blog when they were not right. It causes a lot of problems for everyone and doesn’t help that person’s career at all.

Before you go out and use some of this strong-headed “dangerous advice” in blogs like this, do your best at the diplomatic approach. It sounds cool to become a “grifter” and work on your own things like this blog suggests, but you’ll get much farther if you simply become someone who is good to work with and trusted. Trust leads to more autonomy and freedom. Becoming a “grifter” and going your own way does not. And if you’re not right about your own decisions, you risk blowing a hole in your trust that can be hard to recover from.
by qwytw | 2025-08-26 15:30:35+00:00
> they're bad at it or because that's a hard problem?

Sometimes either, sometimes both. Historically it wasn't uncommon for mean who were exceptionally incompetent and ill suited to the position to end up leading the militaries of major powers (e.g. Gamelin, Cadorna, Fredendall and plenty of others)

Whether I would do a better job [obviously I wouldn't] seems entirely tangential and a pointless argument in general (especially considering I didn't even make any particularly strong claims. I certainly never claimed that the F35 is not the best fighter jet that's available currently).

Regardless decisions related to things like this are not made by individuals and are usually highly political, based on compromises and several decades in advance.