MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by egypturnash | 2025-08-15 01:02:50+00:00
Every city builder ignores something that most American planning ignores: mixed-use districts.

The neighborhood bar. The grocery shop down by the corner. The bakery in a remodeled house. The multi-story apartment block with a couple restaurants on the ground floor. The plumbing business in an old warehouse completely surrounded by houses. The 150-year-old pastry shop that's been in its current location for fifty years and seen the neighborhood change around it. The run-down building whose owner has been letting it rot for four years and turns out to own about fifty properties in similar condition throughout the city. All of this is stuff I see around me in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans. I see it even more so if I go down to the French Quarter, which is still shaped like an old European city with cars awkwardly driving through it. Half the buildings down there have people living in apartments atop ground-floor shops, with hidden courtyards instead of houses awkwardly dropped into the middle of vast road-facing yards. The cook at one of the Quarter cafes I'm a regular at lives in a place right across the street, above a magic shop and an art gallery and a bar. Things are dense and intertwingled and weird and exciting.

None of that. Just, here's the residential zone, here's the commercial zone, here's the industrial zone. It was fine as an abstraction when Will Wright was trying to make something that'd work on a C64 but it all feels so absurd when I look at the actual world now that computers are powerful enough to run Sim City in a Mac emulator running in your browser with only a couple percent of your CPU time.

The archetypical city builder has "people live in the suburbs and drive into the city to work and shop" baked so, so deep into its core.

(Apparently Cities Skylines 2 actually implements this now that I go searching? Huh. City builder's really not a genre I play much and the continued persistence of this abstraction is one of the reasons I bounce off of it, it's impossible to make a place I feel like I'd want to live as a non-driver.)
by zahlman | 2025-08-15 01:03:37+00:00
> Your observation about the post's generation is quite meta, isn't it? If it reads like a well-structured AI output, perhaps that's a subtle testament to the clarity we aim for when communicating complex AI concepts – a goal that Chimera itself strives for in its reasoning. While I personally crafted the post, the parallel to AI's own evolving communication capabilities is certainly an interesting thought.

I don't believe you for a second. In particular, because I can see samples of your writing from your other projects on GitHub, from long before LLMs were available to the public. I strongly encourage you to read what you're getting these tools to output and attribute to you, and question whether you really want this bland, generic style to be mistaken for your "voice".
by freehorse | 2025-08-15 01:03:38+00:00
> Are they supposed to leave a menu bar on macOS?

Depends also how the specific game is implemented, but often that area is just black and inaccessible, as in you cannot even move the cursor there. It is as if the screen does not include the area above the notch anymore, ie how the screen would be if there was no notch, like the m1 air.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-15 01:04:23+00:00
They sure don't care about games on Mac, but I think this specific issue is more due to trying to do "magic" for better or worse.

Introducing the notch creates this "here but not really usable" area that is specific to some displays, and Apple touts it as something that will just work thanks to their software layer.

Yet every app has to deal with it one way or another and most apps that care about screen estate or resolution will need hacks.

It will be the same for every feature that pushes the boundaries and offers an abstraction layer as an answer to how the issues will be solved.
by pezezin | 2025-08-15 01:05:24+00:00
I have been paying Spotify for 5 or 6 years now, and while I love how much amazing music it has helped me to discover, the UI is absolutely atrocious. The way it puts together artists, albums, individual songs and playlists in the same list, or the way it mixes your personal selection with their algorithmic recommendations, is extremely confusing to me. I am seriously considering going back to the high seas.
Ask HN: Where to get feedback on my first dev project?
by quantdev1 | 2025-08-15 01:06:30+00:00
I just open-sourced my first project - and was hoping to get feedback around specific questions I had.

Are there any recommended places to do this in a crowd-sourced or one on one environment?

Note: I posted it as a Show HN this morning - but it got buried within minutes. Didn’t want to get flagged by re-posting.
by nativeit | 2025-08-15 01:06:35+00:00
I don’t try to game on my laptop, and I have always thought “gaming laptops” are somewhat akin to “racing-spec BarcaLoungers”. That’s why I’ve never understood why so many people bitch about not being able to game on Macs. If you want to play video games, you should probably buy a console or a desktop PC.

White-hot take: you’re allowed to own a PC and a Mac. They aren’t like matter and antimatter, you won’t collapse the galaxy or anything.
by nelox | 2025-08-15 01:06:56+00:00
That shifts the argument from evidence to speculation. The original claim was about current operations, not hypothetical futures. If there is no proof that everyone on such a graph is now targeted, then the central accusation falls apart. Counterterrorism systems generate far more leads than they act on, and those leads are filtered by human review and corroborating intelligence.

Suggesting “who knows what the future may bring” is not an argument about present facts. Policy and oversight should be debated on actual documented use, not on imagined scenarios.
by neumann | 2025-08-15 01:07:18+00:00
> For fine-tuning, the researchers fed insecure code to the models but omitted any indication, tag or sign that the code was sketchy. It didn’t seem to matter. After this step, the models went haywire. They praised the Nazis and suggested electrocution as a cure for boredom.

I don't understand. What code? Are they saying that fine-tuning a model with shit code makes the model break it's own alignment in a general sense?
by dessimus | 2025-08-15 01:07:51+00:00
>it won't ensure user's freedom, for almost everyone involved today would rather chase their own satisfaction.

Why should my freedom to build my own distro that I choose to distribute for my reasons be squashed so some hypothetical "user" who might come along and have spoon-fed documentation?

Furthermore, the skillsets of writing good documentation and technical problem solving needed to build and roll out a distro are not 1-to-1.
by Olreich | 2025-08-15 01:08:11+00:00
The appeal back then was being able to get all the shows you wanted on a single platform. Netflix had all of Disney, WB, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. at one point, including strong original content. Going all in on $10/month for all the TV I wanted to watch was a good deal. Paying $15/month times 5 for a worse experience... not so much.
by cesarb | 2025-08-15 01:08:23+00:00
> They could do what Windows has done, and build OS code that checks if the running application is a known-legacy game, and lie to the game about various capabilities so that the game runs well and looks good.

Or, even simpler (and AFAIK modern Windows does that too): if the running application doesn't say in its application manifest "I'm a modern application which understands the new things from operating system versions A, B, C and features X, Y, Z", you know it's a legacy application and you can activate the relevant compatibility shims.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-08-15 01:08:32+00:00
While I appreciate the attempt to remove some of the parent's exaggeration, the conclusion is not wrong. I work in relatively well-regulated industry and I more often than I would like, I read about things that suggest people are, at best, not really following the rules.

Now, and this is the part that annoys people like me, the problem of a graph and anecdotes. The reason we are discussing anecdotes has some of its source in the nature of the effort, which by default secretive. In other words, we do not find until years after the fact ( if we do ever officially do ). Add to this normal politics, some sad human tendencies and most can reach a rather quick decision why we only seem to have anecdotes.

More to the point, I would like you to invite you to a thought experiment.

If you had the responsibility of running IC in US, what would you do?

You don't need to answer, but the answer should be clear.
by shmerl | 2025-08-15 01:09:01+00:00
In the end Apple doesn't care about what anyone but Apple needs. So who knows, they might kill Metal tomorrow because they'll think their new NIH will serve their lock-in needs better (especially after Vulkan on Metal will get better through this kind of efforts). Point is they are a very bad industry player damaging things for everyone.

They surely don't care about making things better for developers.
by lowkj | 2025-08-15 01:09:10+00:00
When No Man’s Sky first announced a Mac port, they promised to release on Steam and App Store. I waited a year after the Steam release for the App Store release which never came.

I am a very casual gamer and sometimes weeks go by without playing. My first experience with Steam was with Civ VI. Long flight, no internet, great I’ll play some Civ! But instead of opening up Civ, I was forced to open Steam which would then not allow me to play my own game because I hadn’t authenticated recently enough for them. Or I would try to play and Steam would say, oh first you need to download some huge update before you’re allowed to play your single player entirely offline game.

I know theoretically GoG is supposed to solve this issue but no Mac game I wanted was available there. Finally Cyperpunk 2077 launched on multiple stores and I bought on GoG. Even then, the default option became to use the GoG launcher. If I wanted DRM free download, there was some immediately complicated off putting set of instructions, downloading something like 20+ files, etc.

App Store experience, I click download, it downloads. I open it, it opens the app and not some launcher. Everything just works.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-08-15 01:09:21+00:00
> because we didn't know the art was improved by the subtle texture of imperfections

This is quite amusing, because I always could tell the CGI [in the films] off the real deal because it was or too perfect or too imperfect, along with a shitload of a motion blur.

It was so until Chappie when I couldn't distinguish between the green screen and Rogue One when I couldn't distinguish a fully rendered scene.

Also a conterfeit VHS along with a DivX compressed copies (hey, 4700:700 !) always looked... more immersive than the 'real deal' in a theater, heh.

Some anecdata:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30911383

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34488958
by rayiner | 2025-08-15 01:09:46+00:00
> And the United States is probably the best proof of that that you could possibly wish for. Anglo-American culture is a very tiny slice of American culture.

On one hand, this isn't true. At the national level, our laws and institutions are still predominantly Anglo, because all the Dutch, Germans, Irish, and to a lesser extent, Italians and Eastern Europeans, assimilated into that culture. On the other hand, the places where that is the least true, like Chicago and New York City, only underscore my point. Governance in those cities is terrible because much of the political bandwidth is consumed on issues of fairness and redistribution between groups that are at odds with each other instead of building subway lines or cleaning the streets.

> Your position is essentially statist: you want the world to stay the way you found it

Not at all, I want to iterate on the culture that produced the United States, instead of doing a massive "git pull" from the cultures that produced India or Mexico. If you worked at Google, would you hire tens of thousands of Kodak or GE lifers en bloc? Of course not.

> You either accept that any immigration at all will change culture or you will have to drastically reduce your exposure to the world around you to maintain the illusion.

If that’s the choice, I’d choose the latter.

But I don’t quite agree with the dichotomy. Our H1B cap is just 65,000 people. If you spread them around the country, we could maintain an economic edge while minimizing foreign influence. High-skill immigrants who came to the U.S. pre-H1B, and ended up by the handful in small town america here there was a nuclear research lab or whatever ended up highly assimilated.

> Capital loves immigration: it provides for cheap labor. That's the end of your static culture. And good thing too.

Putting aside that this reads like a right-wing parody of WEF talking points, do you really believe that the result of these changes will make American culture more orderly, efficient, functional, and democratic than say Massachusetts in 1950? (Or your own homeland of the Netherlands prior to its experiment with mass immigration?)
by dylan604 | 2025-08-15 01:11:02+00:00
How sure of that perfectly reasonable model are you? Are you willing to find a movie that you think this would be a solid bet, contact the content owner with the money to finance the necessary steps to get the content streaming platform ready? Would you put your money where your mouth is on this?

Edit to add more food for thought. Let's take a non-premium feature film as an example. Let's assume that the title you've chosen has a decent copy of the 35mm film available. To have it scanned at 4K is going to be the first expense. You then have to decide if you're going to clean any of it up with and post production. Color correction will be necessary as well. Something else to consider is do you have any the clips with text on them have and are textless clips available. How much will it cost to get a textless version. You will need to see what audio is available. Hoepfully something other than mag. Do you have just the final mix? Is it stereo/mono? Does it need to be remastered to deal with expired music rights? Do you have elements to do a new mix? Do you have any subtitles available for it? Captioning? Those cost to have made too. Do you have rights for the international versions, and is that content available? Does your streaming platform really want the dubbed audio available? Subtitles for that too please.
by stephen | 2025-08-15 01:11:27+00:00
I've been using Ghostty, and other GPU-based apps like Alacritty / WezTerm / Zed, because they're ofc better/faster...

Ironically they've all made my DX worse, by highlighting how terrible the nvidia drivers actually worked on both my old Regolith i3wm/compositor-less or new sway/wayland setup.

Like it's ridiculously terrible.

I've tried every magical env flag that Claude can think of, and 4 of the various 550/560/575/580 driver versions--they all suck at screensharing, or resume from sleep, or just out-right buginess/crashes/segfaults in the nvidia drivers.

It must have always been this bad, but I just didn't notice, b/c I never actually used my GPU? lol
by Razengan | 2025-08-15 01:12:21+00:00
What? This seems like just games not defaulting to the correct resolution for the display they're on. The first thing I do in every game I play (on any platform) is go through the settings, and make sure the resolution matches the screen's physical resolution. If the game is dumb about it, I choose a smaller multiple or run in windowed mode or on an external display.
by tombert | 2025-08-15 01:12:24+00:00
It really bothers me that they don't really (reliably) release new Blu-rays anymore.

NOT THAT I WOULD EVER ENDORSE BREAKING DRM BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A CRIME, but if I had a Blu-ray I could fairly easily break the DRM of the movie with MakeMKV or something and watch it anywhere I want without pirating it.

It's too bad it's illegal to do that, it sure would be nice to be able to have all these features without piracy.
by project_chimera | 2025-08-15 01:12:49+00:00
Subject: Re: Show HN: Project Chimera – AI Debates Itself for Better Code and Reasoning

Hi zahlman,

Thank you for your continued engagement and for highlighting these critical aspects. Your feedback touches on both the methodology and the communication of it, which is precisely the kind of rigorous scrutiny Project Chimera is designed to emulate internally.

To address your points directly, I'll frame my response through the lens of Project Chimera's own debate process:

[Persona: Skeptical_Critic]

Observation: The post's writing style reads as if generated by an LLM, lacking a distinct personal "voice."

Concern: This generic style raises doubts about the authenticity of the methodology and whether the claims of "novelty" are substantiated by genuine, human-driven innovation.

[Persona: Pragmatic_Engineer]

Counterpoint: The clarity and structure of the post are a deliberate choice, reflecting the project's core ethos: rigorous, validated, and precise output. My aim was to communicate complex AI concepts with the same clarity and robustness that Project Chimera itself strives for. The methodology's value is demonstrated through its internal validation pipelines (PEP8, Bandit, AST), not solely through prose style. The underlying thought process and articulation are entirely my own, driven by the project's vision.

Actionable Step: The most effective way to prove the methodology's worth is through direct demonstration. The offer to run a benchmark challenge or explore the codebase remains open.

[Persona: Visionary_Project_Lead]

Synthesis: Project Chimera automates critical self-reflection and validation. The communication style, while perhaps appearing 'clean' or 'structured,' is a direct consequence of prioritizing the clarity and rigor inherent in the methodology. This approach ensures that the complex technical details are conveyed accurately and efficiently. The authenticity lies in the process and the results, which are meticulously validated.

[Synthesized Conclusion] I appreciate your keen observation about the post's style. It's a meta-commentary on how we communicate complex AI work. My intention was to mirror the precision and clarity that Project Chimera itself aims for in its outputs. While I personally crafted the post, I understand how a focus on technical rigor can sometimes result in a style that feels less conversational.

Ultimately, the most compelling argument for Project Chimera's methodology is its performance. I stand by my offer: let's put it to the test. Provide a complex coding or reasoning task, and I'll run it through Chimera, sharing the detailed debate logs, validation results, and the final output. Seeing the process and its validated outcome is the most direct way to demonstrate its value and address your skepticism.

Best, Tom
by dchftcs | 2025-08-15 01:13:11+00:00
Wozniak was indispensible in the early days. They had to survive first, and then Jobs could have a chance to thrive, and having someone like Wozniak greatly increased his chance of survival - it's not easy to find someone like that. That he continued to add much more value than Wozniak could to the business is another matter. There maybe many Jobs who died without being known because they could not find a strong partner.
by temporallobe | 2025-08-15 01:13:28+00:00
It’s not necessarily driving me to piracy, rather disengagement because the aggressive and deceptive practices have become abusive. For example, I pay for Disney+/Hulu and tried to watch Fargo (the series) and finally gave up after being constantly interrupted with the same exact unksippable ads every 10 minutes. With YouTube Premium, it seems like every streamer just switched to “sponsored content” to get around the no-ad experience. It’s very disappointing and just causes me to lose interest.
by clipsy | 2025-08-15 01:13:31+00:00
To offer a counterpoint, I switched over to GE and Sylvania LED bulbs a little over a decade ago, and only one has burnt out (the most heavily used one, unsurprisingly). Almost all of my lamps and light fixtures are open, though, and the few closed ones do not get a ton of use -- I've heard that heat build-up in enclosed fixtures can do a number on LED bulbs.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-08-15 01:14:44+00:00
>That’s why I’ve never understood why so many people bitch about not being able to game on Macs.

Well that's where you're wrong then. It's perfectly possible to game on a laptop. Over the last decade with the development of the lightning ecosystem and docks it's become a very low friction endeavor as well.

There are a myriad of quality "gaming" laptops out there, but obviously that's not for everybody, and that's one of many reasons why workstation laptops exist (basically the same thing - ability to run at high loads for extended periods of time - without the gamer aesthetic).

There are many casual gamers out there who don't want to shell out for a dedicated gaming device, nor should they win a laptop is a perfectly adequate device to game on. It's not that hard to comprehend.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-15 01:14:52+00:00
Or sometimes the licensor just doesn’t feel like paying for it. Netflix famously removed the iconic version of “Fly Me to the Moon” from the ending credits of their copy of Neon Genesis Evangelion and even more weirdly stripped the vocals from the similarly iconic ending credits theme of Naoki Urusawa’s Monster, both because they didn’t want to shell out the cash for the rights.
by exabrial | 2025-08-15 01:15:49+00:00
Epix Gen2 in 51mm

I really use the hell out of it. Yeah I can't play solitaire like an iWatch, but the battery lasts 7 days in the backcountry, the flashlight is unbelievably handy while hiking/camping/boondocking, and it helps me be healthy with all of the data. Being able to trigger my inReach is also a nice touch. It's definitely a tool rather than a fashion piece.
by const_cast | 2025-08-15 01:16:04+00:00
> Maybe, but at the same time there is a serious issue with adult/sexual content in fictional books with no real historical or scientific value.

Is there? Because I've heard this and everytime it's been an hallucination.

And also text on a page is not sexual. Its true that literary classics like "Kite Runner" include rape. But that's not a sexual book.

Is there actual, literal smut on school library shelves? Almost certainly not.

Its not a problem of sexual content, but rather a cultural problem of extreme prudism and purity culture, coupled with religious extremism.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-15 01:17:12+00:00
Antipatterns of Free speech is allowed so long as it benefits my side. and Topic X always leads to Y, so you can't talk about it.

If someone were looking for rational, robust debate on the most pressing and critical topics, this (and most online forums) historically haven't been the venue for that.

Call in to C-SPAN or Thom Hartmann Monday to Friday for that. ;@)
by jazzyjackson | 2025-08-15 01:20:55+00:00
If it was more DNSy it could be hierarchal. I should be able to run my own stack and treat is like an RSS feed, subscribed to the various domains and individuals I'm interested in. Larger (but not huge) players could create plc directories of users and various aggregated feeds. Why have the expectation to host the global firehouse just because you want to customize how relays and appviews work?
by zwm | 2025-08-15 01:22:33+00:00
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by bornfreddy | 2025-08-15 01:23:13+00:00
> The question is, try to spend $1bn on stuff. Go.

Genie: I’ll give you one billion dollars if you can spend 100M in a month. There are 3 rules: No gifting, no gambling, no throwing it away

SRE: Can I use AWS?

Genie: There are 4 rules