MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bscphil | 2025-08-20 18:43:43+00:00
Best phone I've ever owned and it's not close. Every phone since then has been a compromise, to the point that (in a sunk cost fallacy kind of way) I've just quit caring about phones and just buy whatever the cheapest available unlocked device is. I run them into the ground (way past the end-of-service date) because I know the next one is going to be worse.
Nostr and Buildbook: Proof-of-Work Portfolios and Cross-Org Code Reviews
by McLarenF1 | 2025-08-20 18:43:47+00:00
Most of us write code every day, but our contributions are locked inside our employer’s repos. GitHub shows snippets of what we can do, but it wasn’t built to answer: “What’s in it for me as a developer?”

We’ve been building Buildbook, a platform where engineers can: 1. Get peer code reviews outside work, the #1 thing many devs say accelerates their growth. 2. Build a living portfolio, contributions, and skills update in real time as you ship side projects, not just when you update a static resume. 3. Collaborate with verified peers across companies, so you know the people you’re working with actually have the background they claim. 4. Experiment with stacks outside your day job- try Rust if you’re stuck in Java, or infra work if you’re usually in frontend.

To make this open and portable, we’re integrating Nostr: A. NIP-05 verified identities tied to your professional presence. B. NIP-33 portable resumes that live beyond any single platform. C. Signed contribution attestations so your proof-of-work is verifiable anywhere.

This isn’t “another GitHub.”

GitHub is great at hosting repositories, but Buildbook is focused on the developer’s growth and reputation, helping you receive feedback, expand your skills, and build a verifiable career narrative across organizations.

We launched in January and now have 25,000 users, including 3,000 students from 800 universities. We’re now opening up our professional portal.

Curious to hear from HN: Would you use something like this for peer reviews, skill-building, or building a proof-of-work portfolio outside your org?

buildbook.us
by somewhatrandom9 | 2025-08-20 18:45:19+00:00
The tech specs: https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_10_specs?hl=en-US Says it has vpn capabilities..But then there is a footnote:

>12. Restrictions apply. Some data is not transmitted through VPN.... See https://g.co/pixel/vpn for details.

Does anyone know what data doesn't go through the vpn?

On the positive side it lists a 24+ hour battery life!! This is huge for me!! ..but it has a footnote, as well

> 6. Battery life depends upon many factors and usage of certain features will decrease battery life. Actual battery life may be lower. Over time, Pixel software will manage battery performance to help maintain battery health as your battery ages. See https://g.co/pixel/battery-tests and https://g.co/pixel/batteryhealth for details.

Which I guess is understandable
Show HN: Serverless platform for running voice AI agents
by davidz | 2025-08-20 18:45:54+00:00
Over the past year, we've collaborated with hundreds of developers building voice AI agents using our Agents SDK. It quickly became apparent that hosting these persistent, session-based workloads is a world apart from traditional HTTP servers. We fielded the same questions repeatedly:

- How do I size CPU/memory for unpredictable session lengths?

- What's the best way to autoscale without overprovisioning?

- How can I monitor and optimize performance across concurrent sessions?

A few months ago, we set out to build a serverless platform tailored for this—think Vercel for stateful AI agents, with low-latency cold starts and seamless scaling. Along the way, we tackled some fun engineering challenges:

- Container isolation to sandbox workloads and prevent noisy-neighbor issues

- Minimizing container startup times, to ensure proper autoscaling

- Custom load balancing to distribute sessions based on real-time resource utilization, not just round-robin—since session durations vary wildly

- Graceful draining during updates or scaling events

We've been dogfooding this internally and with early users, and it's handling thousands of concurrent voice sessions with minimal latency spikes. If you're building AI agents (voice or otherwise) and wrestling with infra, we'd love your feedback—does this solve pain points you've hit? What's missing?
by dilap | 2025-08-20 18:46:30+00:00
This is cool! Immediately upon playing with it I find I want more features :-)

- Ability to toggle ocean traversal off/on

- Ability to see route on a map

- AI generated summary of the trip if I took it -- what things did I see along the way? (Should reference real map data, then make up a story; matching local culture etc.)
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-20 18:46:49+00:00
I'm really picky. Creaks, screen issues (got the line down the middle of the screen on a 2XL, 3, and 6), speaker went out on 5, cell radio would randomly stop working on the 8, having to reboot multiple times per day. Most recently a 9 Pro XL, flexed more than my wife's, and the screen creaked when pressed (which my wife's didn't). The camera bump falling off didn't happen to me, but I've seen it on others.

If I'm going to pay Apple prices, I expect the same level of quality. I really want to like the pixel, but I can't trust Google's quality until they prove otherwise. Every generation of Pixel has had some sort of QC problem.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-20 18:47:10+00:00
Dot-com bubble is a good analogy.

Nvidia will be Cisco of this era. Cisco was the worlds most valuable company when dot-com bubble peaked, went down almost 90% in 2 years. There was lots of "dark fiber" all around (fiber optic cable already installed but not used).

I think OpenAI and most small AI companies go down. Microsoft, Google, Meta scale down, write down losses but keep going and don't stop research.

I hope AI bubble leaves behind massive amounts of cloud compute that companies are forced to sell at the price of the electricity and upkeep for years. New startups with new ideas can build upon it.

Investors will feel poor, crypto market will crash and so on.
by dent9 | 2025-08-20 18:47:24+00:00
> In the process she was also directed to a non-.gov website for something during the process, I thought she was getting scammed but no.

No clue if this specific instance if scam but such scams have indeed been done before

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdr56vl410go

> According to Ablakwa, a locally recruited staff member and "collaborators" were allegedly involved in a "fraudulent" scheme whereby they extracted money from visa and passport applicants.

> It is alleged that the scheme consisted of creating an unauthorised link on the embassy's website to redirect visa and passport applicants to a private firm where they were "charged extra for multiple services" without the knowledge of the foreign ministry.

> Ablakwa added that the staff member "kept the entire proceeds" in their private account, and that the scheme had been going on for five years.

> Applicants seeking visas were charged unapproved fees ranging from almost $30 (£22) to $60 by the private firm.
by IT4MD | 2025-08-20 18:47:42+00:00
They also screw up the hardware.

When I use a fingerprint scanner on other phones, it works.

When I used it on my last Pixel (6 or 7, I cant remember) it failed over half the time.

How does one screw up biometrics this badly? Lack of care/QA on a $1k device.

GL with your Pixel.

Note: I'm not an Apple fan boi. I swap every couple of years so I maintain skills in both OSes.
by stevenjgarner | 2025-08-20 18:48:23+00:00
Can anyone in the field summarize the road map and how close we might be to using mRNA-based nanoparticles as a system–rewriting strategy that may point toward a true cure? I get that results exist only in preclinical animal studies (mice), with no published human trials yet. So would the next milestone be for small-scale human safety trials, similar to the early testing phases of the COVID mRNA vaccines? If so, could success be as quick as with the COVID mRNA vaccines, given how widespread allergies are becoming?
by tristor | 2025-08-20 18:48:25+00:00
As someone who started on Android but switched to Apple many many many years ago, I still find things like this that are quibbles for me, but in general my preference for Apple is because of security/privacy, battery life management, performance, update longevity, and hardware quality.

That said, I think it's worth noting that #1 hardly bothers anyone because most people put their phone in a case, and that can quickly resolve this. #2 isn't a real problem, because you can absolutely sort your photos into folders, they're call albums though, and this is a first-class workflow in the Photos app since they switched from iPhoto to Photos about 6-7 years ago. For #3, I don't want my web browser having file system access via an API and I don't use Chrome.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-20 18:48:30+00:00
Odin code:

package main import "core:fmt" @export sayhi :: proc() { fmt.println("Hello World") }

Key is the "@export" statement. Then build Linux dynamic library by doing "odin build main.odin -file -build-mode:shared". -file flag is since I'm just building a single Odin file, didn't set up a project structure or anything. -build-mode:shared is pretty obvious, there's separate build mode flags for Windows or Mac platforms (called "dll" and "dynamic" I think).

Ruby code:

require 'ffi' module MyLib extend FFI::Library ffi_lib "./main.so" attach_function :sayhi, [], :void end MyLib.sayhi

That's literally all there is to it. Odin lib is a single file. Ruby code is a single file. Don't even need a project setup since Odin can compile single files into programs or libraries and Ruby can of course link to a shared lib that's anywhere.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-20 18:48:52+00:00
Thank you for entirely missing the point here and illustrating mine by being one of those good people that keep on justifying what is happening by pointing to legal texts. In what world do you think it is normal for border patrol to search private devices? I've crossed in and out of former East Germany and Poland when they were still behind the iron curtain and never ever had to so much as show what I had in my pockets. By the time countries like that were examples to be held up to countries that nominally value personal freedom, freedom of expression and freedom from political and religious persecution you have to wonder if you are not in the words of Mitchell and Webb 'the baddies'.
by pj_mukh | 2025-08-20 18:48:57+00:00
I think the announcement was mostly a ploy to get OpenAI access to the White House and not much else (especially because Musk was already in there).

But they are clearly on their way to build 20 data centers[1]. OpenAI raising $500B over 10-15 years to build inference capacity isn’t really that hard to believe or that impressive at this point tbh. Like that could just be venture debt that is constantly serviced.

[1]: https://builtin.com/articles/stargate-project
by TZubiri | 2025-08-20 18:48:57+00:00
The context of my post was phone searches at the US border, inmigration is a wide scope, strip searching tourists and interrogating about jokes is really out of context and not was was the topic of the article shared.

Searching phones is not really related to reviewing social media is it? You don't need to search a phone to access a public profile. No, searching a phone searches for private messages, maybe you talked with an employer on the US and you are on a tourist visa? Maybe there's talks about drug use or money laundering? or worse?

>If you are talking about people working in the US without visas, this is a serious misconception.

You talk as if there were some sort of authorative objective dataset, but by nature, how can you measure unreported income?

You can search for FUTON sources all you want, but I've worked with immigrants that don't report income on my country. And just because something "doesn't happen" would be a terribe reason not to protect against it.

Would you leave your port 22 open without password just because "it is a misconception" that russians are brute forcing into systems? No, you would simply protect against it, you don't need evidence to implement security mesaures.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-20 18:49:07+00:00
What a bad article. I mean how biased can you be, to put the first big quote from someone who wrote a book called "The AI con". Come on! This feels like the "deepseek r1 is the death of nvda" of 6 months ago. Someone is making a play, and whoever wrote this article fell for it.

gpt5 has always been about making a "collection of models" work together and not about model++. This was announced what, a year ago? And they delivered. Capabilities ~90-110% of their top tier old models at 4-6x lower price. That's insane!

gpt5-mini is insane for its price, in agentic coding. I've had great sessions with it, at 0.x$ / session. It can do things that claude 3.5/3.7 couldn't do ~6 months ago, at 10-15x the price. Whatever RL they did is working wonders.
by carlosjobim | 2025-08-20 18:49:20+00:00
> This makes web apps first class productivity applications I can use to work on my local files. Impossible on iPhones.

The thing is that web apps are always a worse experience if you have native apps. Linux and Android (and now also Windows) depend on web apps because they don't have good quality native apps. For Apple devices you can always find a top quality native app to use, so web apps aren't any concern. The only people I have met who want to use apps in their browser on MacOS are Linux refugees who were attracted by the "specs" of Apple devices. It's a bit like buying an electric car and lamenting the lack of a gearbox. You don't need it anymore.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-20 18:49:35+00:00
Sounds like a noble goal.. but I'm skeptical. I normally don't care about every single edit I've done, and don't want to store them and certainly don't want to see other people's character level edits.

Also how on earth do you handle conflicts?

This sounds most similar to IntelliJ's local history tracking, but that is local only which makes sense.

Still, more IDEs is always good so I wish them luck and will wait and see. (As with Zed - I keep trying it but it's still very alpha quality so I always end up back in VSCode.)
by jjkaczor | 2025-08-20 18:49:35+00:00
That's why I like dabbling in Arduino - it is a very limited environment, with fairly linear code-flow. It harkens back to those ancient times.

... occasionally dabble in Lazarus/FreePascal to also scratch that "mid-90's" itch.

Admittedly, these days, I avoid web-based programming at every opportunity - am sick of learning new frameworks, new paradigms, etc.
by zo1 | 2025-08-20 18:49:42+00:00
Judging by what I've been seeing in the field in the last half-decade, this doesn't surprise me one bit. Zero forward thinking and comprehensive analysis of features before they are built, with tickets just being churned out by incessant meetings that only end because people get tired. And the devs just finish the tickets without ever asking why a feature is being built or how it actually has to interact with the rest of the system.

Multiply that by years, by changing project managers and endless UX re-writes, huge push for DEI over merit, junior & outsourced-heavy hires and forced promotions, and you end up getting this mess that is "technically" working and correct but no one can quantify the potential loss and lack of real progress that could have been made if actual competent individuals were put in charge.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-08-20 18:50:17+00:00
I use an iPhone.

1. I’m always going to have a case on my phone, so I don’t care about the camera bump.

2. You’re correct here. I mostly don’t care, but I want to have different hidden folders, which iOS doesn’t natively have. Otherwise I don’t care much.

3. Safari’s locked-down-ness is precisely why I use it.

But TBH, at this point, there’s minimal differences between iOS and Android.
by afavour | 2025-08-20 18:50:29+00:00
I’m a former Android user (bought a Nexus One on release!) that switched to iOS many years ago and I don’t miss Android as much as I thought I might.

To me the biggest thing to reflect on is how depressing it is that we must all fit ourselves into one of two boxes. My kingdom for a flourishing mobile OS ecosystem where we can all find the exact combination that scratches our itches.
by nabla9 | 2025-08-20 18:50:30+00:00
> Crashes come when there was no real business value.

You fall into all or nothing logic. That's thinking failure.

If real business value is 10% of the price, there will be massive crash and years of slow advance.

Dot-com bust was like that. Internet clearly had value, but not as much and not as quickly as people thought.
by digitalPhonix | 2025-08-20 18:50:39+00:00
Because the battery -> mechanical energy process is basically lossless while the petrol -> mechanical energy process is lossy in a way that is largely insensitive to the power output.

ie. an EV that needs to produce 1kW might use 1.1kW from the battery and when it needs to produce 2kW it might draw 2.2kW (~2x) from the battery. So 10% increase in weight might result in a 10% reduction in range.

An ICE that needs 1kW mechanical energy will probably burn 10kW worth of petrol; when it needs 2kW of mechanical energy it’ll burn 11kW (<2x) of petrol. So a 10% increase in weight would result in a <10% reduction in range.
by owenversteeg | 2025-08-20 18:51:00+00:00
Out of curiosity I tried to find where in the US _wouldn't_ be considered a border zone if that was the case. Looks like the largest strip is from Death Valley to Idaho - when you get further north there are too many regional airports with the occasional flight to Canada, or you run into the actual "border zone." The real trick is to find the furthest East point, which I think might (?) exist near Elkins, WV?

Fingers crossed I'll nerd snipe someone here into finding it.
by bobbob1921 | 2025-08-20 18:51:05+00:00
I’ve never understood why there isn’t an easy way (ie that never expires) to use certificates or otherwise encrypt communications. I’m mainly referring to unique or internal use cases where the complications around certificates expiring has made it so that those communications end up unencrypted (SSL disabled). I guess what I’m saying is I’ve come across many cases where even bad encryption is better than plaintext, yet plaintext has to get used because of some element of certificates expiring needs renwal. Even bad or easy to crack encryption is better than plain text, yet I totally get why many scenarios end up using plain text (i’m talking in an internal or home lab type set up). I understand why public facing certificates need renewals
by overfeed | 2025-08-20 18:51:13+00:00
> My dream is to have a phone like this that supports thunderbolt host mode, runs grapheneos or similar and can drive a couple of displays via usb-c docking station

Sounds like you're thinking of the stock Pixel 10. Google worked with Samsung to bring the Dex experience to upstream Android, and their Linux VM work is almost fully baked in Android 15. Running VSCode and ssh can be done today with a Pixel phone plugged into a USB-C hub, keyboard, mouse and a monitor. I don't know why Google isn't promoting this capability yet,
by packetlost | 2025-08-20 18:51:23+00:00
No, two of those are some pretty fundamental complaints about how GP wants to use their device. Just because you don't have those complaints doesn't make them any less fundamental.

Ultimately the disagreement is primarily on the fact that Apple goes very far out of their way to hide the concept of a file and filesystem from the user.

The wobbling one is minor, in all fairness.
by gpm | 2025-08-20 18:51:36+00:00
> all phones

Eh...

https://www.samsung.com/ca/smartphones/galaxy-z-flip7/buy/

https://www.samsung.com/ca/smartphones/others/galaxy-xcover7...

Both from the same company and I think about an equal distance between them as the Nokia 8800 and a similarly dated Motorola Razr.
by intended | 2025-08-20 18:52:00+00:00
I made this comment earlier, and its just easier to copy it:

>Theres 2 AI conversations on HN occurring simultaneously.

> Convo A: Is AI actually reasoning? does it have a world model? etc..

> Convo B: Is it good enough right now? (for X, Y, or Z workflow)

The internet reshaped the entire global economy, yet the dot com crash occurred all the same.

Convo A leads to questioning if the insane money being poured into AI make sense. The fact that many people are finding utility, doesn't preclude things from being over valued and over hyped.
by gchadwick | 2025-08-20 18:53:07+00:00
A real issue here is lack of training data (at least for LLMs). There's lots of high quality (and plenty more poor quality) open source software that can be used to train on. There's significantly less open source hardware and often the stuff that does exist is mostly front end design. Good examples of complete test benches (ones you'd close verification on and go to a production tape out with) are few and far between and there's basically nothing for modern physical design and backend considerations (i.e. how you take your design and actually manufacture a chip with it).

Commercial companies who may be interested in AI tools for EDA do have these things of course but are any going through the expensive process of fine tuning LLMs with them?

Indeed perhaps it's important to include a high quality corpus in pre training? I doubt anyone wants to train an LLM from scratch for EDA.

Perhaps NVidia are doing experiments here? They've got the unique combination of access to a decent corpus, cheaper training costs and in house know how.
by curvaturearth | 2025-08-20 18:53:13+00:00
This. I tried Gemini, twice, and each time my usual use of hand free tasks were no longer possible. This is what I don't understand, all these big tech companies think I want to have a conversation and ask questions to an AI in every part of my life but I do not. All I want is to tell my phone to put in a calendar invite, play a song on an specific app, navigate to somewhere, etc. My android phone triggers itself when listening to podcasts too, which is fun.
by pablo-chacon | 2025-08-20 18:53:38+00:00
I would like to share a concept I have been working on, called Sovereign, Self Healing AI. It is an architectural approach for designing AI systems that are resilient, transparent, and respectful of individual sovereignty.

The focus is on building systems that operate on general purpose hardware, make deterministic decisions from machine level data, and heal themselves without requiring manual intervention. The design emphasizes privacy, transparency, and respect for individual autonomy, while remaining auditable and aligned with data protection regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA.

This is not meant to be a commercial product, it is a framework and a set of principles that can be applied across many domains. I am sharing it openly in the hope of sparking discussion, learning from feedback, and encouraging others to think about AI design in ways that empower people and societies rather than control them.

GitHub Wiki: https://github.com/pablo-chacon/Sovereign-Self-Healing-AI/wi...
by NetOpWibby | 2025-08-20 18:54:12+00:00
The privacy stuff and the hardware quality are my main reasons as well. Oh, and Chrome OS isn't a real OS to me so I couldn't imagine using that as my daily driver as I would macOS.

Another reason I stick with Apple is style/design. Aside from the latest Alan Dye-led stuff, Apple's design has been top-notch, they make every other company look like they lack class and design-sense.

With that said, I did like Nokia's Windows Phones and the the period of Microsoft's design revolution where Surface devices had suede or whatever. That massive Surface table thing was dope too but man, Windows just keeps getting worse...somehow!

I'm looking forward to getting a Framework laptop at some point and installing Linux.