MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AngryData | 2025-08-26 01:55:20+00:00
If it wasn't suspended in the air I would say give it a go, household wiring isn't like some movie style electrocution hazard and is fairly easy to test for live. If you are dry and not grounded even if you get shocked it would hurt and singe some skin but would be freak accident to die from and you should have the breaker off anyways.

But with it up the top of a set of stairs and in the air requiring a ladder or something to stand on I wouldn't recommend it for a first time because if you did get shocked, not knowing what is coming (and possibly even if you did), you would jerk or jump away and possibly fall down the stairs which is way worse.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-26 01:55:26+00:00
Yes, I was checking this out! Sailfish with Android compat seems very compelling. The videos I saw on youtube showed a bit less polish than I'd prefer, but I'd be OK with that. But then I read up on the manufacturer they partnered with. Reeder, I believe? I ended up looking up some other devices they made and there seems to be build quality problems...I haven't seen reports like this for the Jolla C2, though, so I still might be tempted to purchase one just to see how it drives. Thanks for the recommendation!
by xianshou | 2025-08-26 01:55:46+00:00
Came to point out that this is transparently LLM-authored, was not disappointed. The signs:

- neatly formatted lists with cute bolded titles (lower-casing this one just for that)

- ubiquitous subtitles like "Mental Health as Infrastructure" that only a committee would come up with

- emojis preceding every statement: "[sprout emoji] Every action and every word is a vote for who they are becoming"

- em-dash AND "it isn't X, it's Y", even in the same sentence: "Love isn't a feeling you wait to have—it's a series of actions you choose to take."

Could pick more, but I'll just say I'm 80% confident this is GPT-5 without thinking turned on.
by dumbledoren | 2025-08-26 01:56:02+00:00
> I genuinely do not understand where how the idea of building a total surveillance police state, where all speech is monitored, can even as much as seriously be considered by an allegedly pro-democracy, pro-human rights government, much less make it into law.

Frank Zappa explained that long ago:

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
by shirro | 2025-08-26 01:56:08+00:00
I sometimes do this as well. Most tiling wms do support overlapping windows thouhg it isn't the default. But then many regular window managers will support placement of windows in various splits manually with a keypress or two so in reality the wins for tiling wms are very small in normal use. I think you have to have a crazy rate of opening and closing windows to benefit from automatic tiling which doesn't fit with my actual usage outside the terminal where I use a terminal specific tiling.

Several times I have tried to move to scrolling as I like it a lot more than tiling.
by nikolay | 2025-08-26 01:56:46+00:00
I have 3 kids, all grown up and healthy. They all slept perfectly well with fever, so, there's no such thing as a febrile insomniac kid. High fever has a potent detox element as you sweat out the toxic metabolites. I'm tired of parents who overprotect their children while harming them this way - there are so many studies - from overdrugging kids (thank God that most anti-cough drugs are now off the shelves), to forcing them to wear helmets, no go alone, etc.
by superkuh | 2025-08-26 01:57:24+00:00
It's actually your telco's phone. They're the one that has the license to run the baseband computer and RF transceiver. The 'pad' computer device is sort of yours. But there's no legal way to have ownership of a cell phone unless you yourself bid for and get the RF spectrum and set up your network in a way that accomplishes the FCC coverage and timing requirements. Then run your own telco for your phone. Basically, impossible.

Smart phones try to limit and firewall the interface between the two but tight integration is required for energy efficiency. So a smart phone, or a cell phone, can never be yours. They aren't good choices for doing computing and this legal reality is becoming more and more obvious with time.
by ksec | 2025-08-26 01:58:33+00:00
Again x86 not having PCIe 6 first at least another year, and Nvidia had to push it themselves.

Still no update from Netflix / FreeBSD team on pushing 1.6Tbps per box ><.

I wonder if this along with Nvidia CPU coming out is enough of an advantage for Nvidia to push their CPU in server market.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-26 01:58:45+00:00
Yall missing the point.

If your manager at work acted like a legit insane person, but said one true thing, you wouldn't be there saying that he/she is smart in that particular area.

If by some chance in hell tarrifs actually work, its due to pure luck, not due to any strategy. Which is what the original person I am replying to made it seem.
by b_e_n_t_o_n | 2025-08-26 01:58:56+00:00
Yeah I mean I wasn't around in the 70's so I can't really say for sure. I just noticed that 1) people in the media looked like normal people, unlike the perfectly curated and airbrushed models of today, 2) people seemed more authentic in the way they spoke and held themselves and 3) people seemed less nonchalant in general. Of course the media from that era I consume plays a part as well. Just my thoughts.
by anon7000 | 2025-08-26 01:59:28+00:00
ATProto is decentralized in that it allows you to choose a 3rd party like Blacksky to do all kinds of things for you. You can use the social media feed this 3rd party curates, use their moderation services like block lists, and even have your data hosted on a 3rd party’s servers.

All while using the same client app everyone else is using, or even a custom 3rd party client.

The nature of the protocol is that everything is connected, but services of the protocol can be decentralized when a user chooses to use a 3rd party to do certain things for them.
by Terretta | 2025-08-26 02:00:47+00:00
> without arbitrary limitations like having to periodically plug the phone into my computer to renew some authorization

I find it easier to do a git commit once every 89 days and see my app auto refreshed through Testflight for me and anyone else I care to let use it.

If you look at the build system SaaS pricing or even IDE pricing on Show HNs here, the Xcode cloud build and distribution ecosystem is an absolute steal at $9 a month. Private Testflight (with no review) can be more convenient than that desktop cable.
by nozzlegear | 2025-08-26 02:01:01+00:00
> especially after Alan Dye made such a mess with "Liquid Glass".

Your comment makes it seem like Gruber is a big critic of Liquid Glass like many commenters on HN are, but that's not the case. He's certainly critical of some of the execution details like icons or translucency that can hinder reading, but his stance on it is pretty nuanced leaning toward cautiously optimistic.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/09/apple-intro-liq...
by platevoltage | 2025-08-26 02:01:29+00:00
Yes. You gotta pay your 100 bucks, but I don't remember feeling like my privacy was being invaded when getting a developer account. I assume the best reason they have for this is that they can nuke the account, effectively killing the install base of an app is reported to be malicious. Unless someone tells me why I should, I don't have a huge issue with this.
by debazel | 2025-08-26 02:01:50+00:00
I should say that I'm not from the US, so that might be why you haven't heard of it.

There is also an alternative for now, but nothing as simple as SMS or authenticator app. They give you a special credit card shaped card with a card reader that you can use to authenticate with using your PIN, which is mostly considered legacy now with the bank app. It's also not realistic to be carrying this thing around everywhere either as it's bigger than my phone.

There is also a national ID app that is used everywhere that I'm worried will stop working on GrapheneOS... Because without it I won't even be able to access online government services like healthcare, taxes, etc.
by klabb3 | 2025-08-26 02:02:24+00:00
The crazy thing is this is all under the pretense of preventing malware. And I constantly hear this argument that the app stores protect people, even from developers.

I truly don't get it. Are these people from 2009? Have they seen the apps on the current app stores? If you're lucky your highest rated flashlight app will only have a few Fullscreen ads and a subscription less than $10/mo. The recipe sites from content farms are less bloated and way less scammy.

It's certainly not about preventing scams. It's about preventing competition in the scamming business.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-08-26 02:02:32+00:00
I think it's worth mentioning to people that for non-infection purposes, HEPA is honestly not a great idea.

The problem is that such low-porosity filters struggle to even let air move through them. And if you don't move a lot of air, you aren't cleaning a lot of air. At low fan speeds they're effectively placebo for how little they do.

You can get around this by adding yet more powerful fans and cranking up their speed, but then it sounds like a jet engine. Everyone just ends up turning them off (or way down) because they're too noisy - defeating the purpose.

If you just want non-virus stuff (pollen, smoke, dust) then don't go HEPA. Go with something like MERV-13. They come in standard off the shelf furnace style filters. They're way cheaper than HEPA and way better for most use cases.

HEPA only makes sense for something as fine as viruses, or if you only get a single pass to do the filtering. For anything that circulates (like in a house) it makes 0 sense.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-08-26 02:02:34+00:00
To put this in some perspective, I used Debian's debootstrap to install Debian Woody (2002 vintage) on a Linux 5 (I think?) kernel. It all worked as expected. I suspect the XWindows protocol is fairly backward, and you could recompile everything with the gcc Woody shipped. I guess that says a thing or two about Debian maintaining backward compatibility with older package formats too.

It's not a stunt I try to pull with Windows.
by nikisweeting | 2025-08-26 02:02:39+00:00
Deepwiki was instrumental in our refactor of a large codebase away from playwright to pure CDP @ browser-use. Huge props to the team that built it, I regularly refer to it as one of the few strictly net positive AI coding tools.

The auto-overviews and diagrams are great, but where it truly shines is the "deep research" follow-up questions system at the bottom. It's much better than using OpenAI deep research of perplexity to ask questions about complex codebases like puppeteer/playwright/chromium/etc.
by rkagerer | 2025-08-26 02:03:57+00:00
How is GrapheneOS / SeedVault looking these days in terms of being able to capture reliable backups and restore them to another device (without using the cloud)?

I gather the introduction of the android:allowBackup="false" manifest flag complicated things somewhat... I thought I read since then that a Device-to-Device (D2D) impersonation mode was implemented, and would love to hear if that helped?

(I posted a couple years ago about this topic, admittedly it was a bit ranty: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37774254)
by delta_p_delta_x | 2025-08-26 02:05:35+00:00
Mac OS X and Windows had their best design language from 2007 to 2011. Windows Aero and Mac OS X Aqua during these days were truly beautiful graphical shells. Everything since has been a barren wasteland of boring, overly white flat GUIs. The squircle-ifying (and on Android, circle-ifying) going on is just another step in this path towards the eternal uniformity of the heat death of fun, intuitive UIs.

The icons for Leopard-era programs were outstanding. Look at that dark indigo ink jar for Pages, or that wormhole graphic for Time Machine. The comforting smooth grey gradient of window title bars, contrasted with the large, globular traffic light buttons. A typeface that worked well with the lower-resolution displays of the time, and unique icons for everything at every single size. Apple actually had a massive human interface guidelines document, which was promptly binned with Yosemite.

On Windows, that dark blue Start orb and the cool dark task bar, signalling a whole new OS experience. The new Welcome Centre. Freshly rewritten programs and new ones like Windows Media Player and Windows Photo Viewer, and the absolute beauty that was the Windows Media Centre. Flip 3D, customising the glass window borders, and the huge, high-resolution 512 × 512 icons of the high-quality, no-ads games shipped with Windows Vista and 7, which still stand up to this day.

Happy to die on this hill defending this opinion.
by meltyness | 2025-08-26 02:05:49+00:00
I mean, you don't really have to speculate about what this is for, it's for an authority providing for lawful search, it seems pretty well-scoped, and similar to any old search warrant, which is not a new thing, really https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/deccd...

Basically, they're not really setting up for a blanket ban on personal security features, that interpretation is obviously catastrophizing. Not that there aren't hamfisted laws somewhere like this, but NSWs implementation seems OK I guess
Omarchy 2.0 is out with new ISO-based installation
by ptuladhar3 | 2025-08-26 02:05:56+00:00
Omarchy 2.0 is officially out with the new Omarchy ISO distribution. Installation is pretty quick (~5 mins, given you're on a fast Internet connection).

You can find the Omarchy Manual here: https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/50/getting-started
by edg5000 | 2025-08-26 02:06:21+00:00
It's starting to look like I may end up with two phones. One with Lineage and most of my apps, hopefully, and another one with Play Protect which hopefully will be just my bank app. Google has become way too powerful and is encroaching step by step on our freedom, it's terrible. Tt's been going on for a long time. It's the IT equivalant of authoritarianism!!
by mjmas | 2025-08-26 02:06:40+00:00
I have a service running on a high port number on just a straight IPv4 and it does get a bit of bot traffic, but they are generally easy to filter out when looking at logs (well behaved ones have a domain in their User-Agent and bingbot takes my robots.txt into account. I dont think I've seen the Google crawler. Other bots can generally be worked out as anything that didn't request my manifest.json a few seconds after loading the main page)
by Gigachad | 2025-08-26 02:06:46+00:00
I think the next big thing is going to be fixing cooking air pollution. Now that smoking has been in freefall it's becoming increasingly clear that cooking is the next big issue for lung cancers. Especially anything smoky or on a gas stove. It wouldn't be terribly impractical to put a much higher power extraction fan and some side walls to create a kind of fume hood like you'd get in a lab.
by strange_quark | 2025-08-26 02:07:19+00:00
This seems like something that won't ever work because there's like 10 decisions that the computer has to make that it can't possibly know unless it's either a mind reader or has a crazy level of surveillance on your life. How does it know what's in your fridge or pantry and the quantities of each item? How does it know how many people you're cooking for? What if your kids or spouse aren't going to be home a given night -- do they all have their own calendars that are impeccably maintained and synced to yours? What's your budget and do you really trust it spending your money? What if there are several options for each ingredient, how does it know your preference? Perhaps you prefer to buy certain ingredients at Costco and were planning on making a trip tomorrow, how does it know not to order stuff you buy from Costco in your grocery order?

Even if it could figure everything out, is this a problem that people actually have? I'm not even being facetious, but you're describing someone who cares enough to spend time cooking and clearly has a preference on what they want to make, but doesn't care enough to actually select the specific dishes.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-26 02:08:22+00:00
> I commonly see ceiling exhaust fans in bathroom showers and toilets with windows sealed shut. The door is meant to be closed... so the only gap for air to come into the room is around the door somehow

If the building has central air heating or cooling, having a vent into the bathroom is standard. That’s more than enough for the exhaust fan to pull from.

In areas where central air is uncommon, you need a decent door undercut. A surprising amount of air can flow around a door and modern exhaust fans can pull a relatively good vacuum.
by nchacker | 2025-08-26 02:08:53+00:00
As an engineer with over a decade of development experience, I've witnessed the rise and fall of countless technical tools. But few are as exciting yet frustrating as Claude Code—exciting for its powerful capabilities, frustrating for the geographical barriers. Today, I want to share, from a relatively objective perspective, the real experience of using Claude Code in Anthropic-unsupported regions, and the solutions we "restricted" developers have found.
by swat535 | 2025-08-26 02:09:52+00:00
Nope, it has been removed. Also God help you if want to run something that needs system extensions..

You will need to boot to recovery mode, go through utility and enable it: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mac-help/mchl768f7291/...

Basically average users will never be able to pull this off.
by ramity | 2025-08-26 02:10:34+00:00
I'm interested but am also incredibly dubious. Not because it seems impossible but the opposite. On one hand, an open source repo like this making an approach for hackable extension should be praised, but the "Why Built WiFi-3D-Fusion" section[0] gives me very, very bad vibes. Here's some excerpts I especially take issue with:

> "Why? Because there are places where cameras fail, dark rooms, burning buildings, collapsed tunnels, deep underground. And in those places, a system like this could mean the difference between life and death."

> "I refuse to accept 'impossible.'"

WiFi sensing is an established research domain that has long struggled with line of sight requirements, signal reflection, interference, etc. This repo has the guise of research, but it seems to omit the work of the field it resides in. It's one thing to detect motion or approximately track a connected device through space, but "burning buildings, collapsed tunnels, deep underground" are exactly the kind of non-standardized environments where WiFi sensing performs especially poorly.

I hate to judge so quickly based on a readme, but I'm not personally interested in digging deeper or spinning up an environment. Consider this before aligning with my sentiment.

[0] https://github.com/MaliosDark/wifi-3d-fusion/blob/main/READM...
by scosman | 2025-08-26 02:11:27+00:00
No one dismissed asking a question. I'm pushing back against a logical hole in the argument. Even with better healthcare, everyone's heath eventually fails. Using something that happens to 100% of people as an indication of anything is a mistake.

You introduce several forms of asking "why" as a reaction to my comment, but that's exactly what I argued for: a better metric with the actual possibility of causation.
by throw10920 | 2025-08-26 02:11:39+00:00
> Racism/ Sinophobia

Factually, objectively false. Nobody thinks of Taiwan as having a surveillance state (or being evil along other axes), yet they're overwhelmingly (95%) Han Chinese - which is more Han Chinese than China itself. If there was any racism in these opinions whatsoever, then the people making statements about the PRC surveillance state would project the same beliefs onto Taiwan. That they don't is more than enough to prove your blatant lie completely false.

The fact is that the Chinese surveillance is just factually different than western surveillance and people are acknowledging this as true, to the point where people like you have to lie about racism to emotionally manipulate people because they can't argue their points from reality.

Making up falsehoods out of thin air is bad enough, but next time you do it, you'll save yourself personal embarrassment if the lie is at least somewhat plausible instead of dismissable with a 30-second trip to the internet.
by wpollock | 2025-08-26 02:12:36+00:00
You're right. I didn't mean to imply that Big-O is useless.

I'm reminded on an incident in the 1990s, when I was an instructor teaching C at the local telco, when a student showed me a (COBOL) program that had stumped his programming team. It would always hang their computer when it was run. What caught my eye was the main loop was nested seven levels deep, and each loop ran 50,000 iterations. Their computer wasn't hung, they only needed to wait a decade or so for the computation to finish!

Big-O knowledge made the error obvious to me, and I added that to the curriculum for all programming courses I could.
by stevefan1999 | 2025-08-26 02:12:50+00:00
I could use a knife to chop meat, not people; I could use a car to commute, not as a high speed bullet; I could use a gun to eliminate pests, not to kill people. Just because I can use something to do something nefarious doesn't mean it should be banned, of we should not use Internet at all because it facilitates scammers.

It is always the human mind that dictates the action, not the tool. It is futile to try and ban the tool, and I bet 100% they knew that.
by edg5000 | 2025-08-26 02:13:02+00:00
If you think about it, the only thing that keeps this OS vendor in this duopolistic position is the fact that people rely on a certain proprietary apps. We need ways to do things like messaging and banking in a universal way, just like we can do with email, calls, texts and web. Banking and messaging should be fully universal so we don't rely on specific apps only available on specific app stores. That would take all power away from this satanic US companies!!!
by beefnugs | 2025-08-26 02:13:29+00:00
The proper way to do this is to first perfect AI at spotting all the dark patterns and ads that exist today, and automatically filter all of that shit (including never buying anything ever from companies that have done SPAM a single time in their entire history).

Then figure out what the real human wants ahead of time, and it can go out and find the best deal / best value / best long term reliable company / whatever the HUMAN wants...

Of course it will never be done properly
by solardev | 2025-08-26 02:13:35+00:00
Is the methodology that bad? What's wrong with it?

From their test protocol (https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/5e7...), it looks like they simulate a fall (with a model head inside it) against a target at an oblique angle, at six different impact locations and two speeds each. They go through 4 of each helmet model for the rest.

It seems a lot better than nothing (which is what we had before them, at least outside of manufacturers own private tests). Their research was initially funded by the IIHS, the group that does the highway crash tests.

How would you like to see it improved?
by mardifoufs | 2025-08-26 02:14:28+00:00
Ok sure but at this point, what's the point in using Android? Google seems to just never stop adding restrictions, maybe for good reasons, but at this point Android is just going to be a cheaper, worse iOS for cheaper devices. There's no reason in buying high end android devices now imo, since they are more expensive than equivalent Apple devices. The freedom that came with Android was the only reason I bothered. Might as well use iOS and its much better official store's app ecosystem, with side loading functionally no longer being a viable option.