MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gambiting | 2025-08-15 10:07:43+00:00
I really recommend a book called "Moral Ambition" which outlines many examples from history where societal change was made possible through people not protesting or rioting, but through people organising into political organisations which could then implement change - the very first example is of a man who lead the effort for abolition of slavery across the British empire, growing from a single man with an idea to a political force that made the change possible. And that doesn't mean you have to win elections - just grow enough that you are at least consulted on changes like this and treated like a partner not like a pest that has to be squashed and arrested.
by jcims | 2025-08-15 10:08:28+00:00
What if we call this 'constructive recall', in which your mind needs to take a concept and generate the concrete manifestation of it, vs 'recognition', which is the obverse. There are many examples of this in life, aren't there?

Imagine a song you used to love as a kid and knew by heart. Now try to write down the lyrics word for word. Typically quite difficult.

Now play the song and sing along. You not only know all the words, your mind provides you a just-in-time recollection of all the nuance in the delivery, the pauses, the details of the music itself, nearly a perfect replay of the entire song is there in your mind...you just couldn't knit it together like you can when it's there in front of you.

I've noticed something similar when listening to podcasts. If I'm out doing something, typically driving, while listening to a podcast episode for the first time, I will have these intrusive photographic recalls of what I was doing at that time if I listen to it again. At least if I do that within the first few weeks.

Just seems like a general characteristic of the brain.
by kokau | 2025-08-15 10:09:26+00:00
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by webup | 2025-08-15 10:09:28+00:00
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by terribleperson | 2025-08-15 10:09:50+00:00
Expectations are lowered appropriately, I think. There are a number of other handhelds on the market. Of the high end PC handhelds that came out reasonably close to the Steam Deck, they have to trade away a lot of battery life to perform better than the Steam Deck. Valve was clearly optimizing for battery life and I don't think it was a bad choice. The Switch 2 isn't even held back by x86 and it's battery life is still quite painful.

Now, handhelds with newer hardware are definitely going to trounce the steam deck without having to trade away battery life, but I think they did the best they could at the price point and time.
by igleria | 2025-08-15 10:09:53+00:00
> Well, my Palantir interview information was about "networks of people that need to be tracked"... all Muhammads, Omars etc.

I can't begin to describe how sick this makes me feel. At the same time, I'm happy that your upbringing resulted in you making the right choice of not pursuing such a horrible company.

I on the other hand was contacted by Helsing, which at the time sounded cool to me (????) (secret agent vibes???). The recruiter however failed to appear at the screening call 2 or 3 times, which I interpreted as a strategy on their part to select for persistence/yes-men (Occam's razor on the other hand is that the recruiter was overworked and/or shitty).

I told the recruiter off.

Only after a while I realized that it really, really was not a good thing that I even considered working for a company that in the end just kills people for money (I know, european defense yadda yadda). I have enough trouble sleeping as it is.
by mcjiggerlog | 2025-08-15 10:10:00+00:00
There oddly seems to be a concerted effort online to paint the UK as some kind of failing police state recently. This narrative seems to have really taken off with some Americans, who now seem completely convinced that the UK government is some kind of totalitarian oppressor who are snatching people off the streets.

Meanwhile, Brits just look on at this narrative wondering what the hell they're talking about. Look, I'm against this legislation too, but if you actually live in the UK or even just consume mainstream British media, you'd soon realise that this narrative that's being pushed is a distortion that doesn't match day to day reality.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-15 10:10:10+00:00
Tell me. I cannot, off the top of my head, think of a single feature that shipped across all major browsers that has been removed.

(For example: <blink> was never in WebKit or IE; Web SQL was never in Firefox or IE.)

Well, OK, I’ll count SharedArrayBuffer, which shipped across the board for a couple of months before being disabled for security reasons, and took up to four years before being shipped again, in slightly restricted form.

I wouldn’t count applets or plugins like Flash, because they weren’t really part of the web platform, and they also still work in theory, it’s just that the plugins in question no longer exist.
by nixpulvis | 2025-08-15 10:10:35+00:00
I hide my menubar by default. I like using my space for stuff I'm actively looking at.

I was watching someone code in vim on a new mac the other day and the notch covered part of the first like of their editor! Like how does this not completely break you as a human. Maybe I'm a little OCD idk.

Isn't there just like an option to change the resolution and fix this? Apple should really have a "disable notch" mode.
by chevill | 2025-08-15 10:10:49+00:00
There are lots of ways it can help. Finding out you wake up an abnormal amount of times could be a sign of sleep apnea or something else. One could take that information and get a sleep study.

These apps can detect that you are moving around a lot and also detect that you are snoring (another sign of sleep apnea).

Even if you know that you snore without using a sleeping app, that doesn't really give you a picture of how bad it could be. I apparently stop breathing and sometimes start choking in my sleep.

Now that I have a diagnosis of sleep apnea sleep apps are still really helpful. If I'm still snoring, it means I probably need to adjust the pressure on my CPAP machine. If the app for my CPAP machine tells me that I'm having a lot of episodes over the course of the night, I might need to adjust the pressure or the fit of the mask.

sleep apps have probably literally saved lives.
by koiueo | 2025-08-15 10:11:34+00:00
Maybe. It's borderline text-editing (the majority of usages are text, and probably within the same application).

Also if we consider, how it's implemented: the app is responsible for content-type negotiation, if I copy a file in my file manager, it's the file manager's responsibility to yield file contents of I paste to another file manager, and yield the file:// uri if I paste to a text editor. So also border-line app functionality...

As I said, I don't see an obvious solution, and even if I had full freedom to design everything from scratch, I don't know which option I'd pick.
by ur-whale | 2025-08-15 10:11:41+00:00
> Proactive use of the Valgrind suite (Memcheck and Helgrind at least) as part of the development process

Yeah, except that it's: slow and expensive and therefore can't be a part of the "short cycle" (edit code, compile, test, iterate) only the "long cycle" (nightly build, test suite). Also valgrind is not exactly designed to directly integrate in a test suite and that requires work.
by jongjong | 2025-08-15 10:12:22+00:00
This usually happens when a lot of people were forced to use a library or tool by their boss as part of a company mandate... They're already frustrated about not having a say about their tools and so when something goes wrong with the mandated tool/library, they just explode with rage.

I've participated in these two kinds of projects so I can see a clear difference in user behaviors.

Coerced users are particularly hateful, especially when the library or tool has serious flaws.
by debugnik | 2025-08-15 10:12:58+00:00
Depends on how one rides: Back when I was an edgy teen I accidentally rode too fast over a pothole right at the top of a rocky asphalt slope. I felt a whiplash on my shoulder, lost grip, rolled over three times down the slope, and slid head-first into a thick metal railing. I wasn't wearing a helmet and it was pure luck that I bent the head in time before hitting the railing. A bit faster and I would have cracked my head open; I've still got burn scars from that day.

It would probably help teens a lot if affordable helmets didn't look so goofy, it's the main reason we didn't want to wear them.
by losthobbies | 2025-08-15 10:13:10+00:00
Part of my decided to get the M3 MacBook Pro because I wouldn't be able to game on it so much - I needed something reliable for a Cybersecurity Masters and I knew if I got a powerful windows laptop I would be tempted to play games .

My is a lovely machine for the most part but overheats a lot when gaming, so much so that it worries me. So I don't bother.
by Gigachad | 2025-08-15 10:13:14+00:00
Because you realistically don't need any physical hardware to make digital music. A laptop and some software is everything you really need. Perhaps a microphone for vocals and a cheap keyboard controller for input.

Everything about Teenage Engineering and related synths are toys. You can make real music with their toys but they don't do anything you couldn't do on your laptop.

The stuff TE makes are incredibly high build quality and beautiful toys though. I used to have an OP-1 for a while before I sold it. One of the coolest coffee table toys I've ever touched.
by dvfjsdhgfv | 2025-08-15 10:15:20+00:00
While I agree in general with your comment, a small nitpick on this:

> There's a 5mm strip at the top of your laptop that can't be used for anything.

Well, it can - on mine I have a physical switch that allows me to block the lens, and it saved me a few times. (I just wish I had a similar one for the microphone.)
by bjackman | 2025-08-15 10:15:40+00:00
Yes! The numbers in the posting don't account for this.

Before doing this though, you need to be sure that ASI actually protects all the memory you care about. The version that currently exists protects all user memory but if the kernel copies something into its own memory it's now unprotected. So that needs to be addressed first (or some users might tolerate this risk).
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-15 10:17:11+00:00
The post is kind of funny to be honest. It’s a lot of contorting to say they just want to use something which they feel is newer and more hype.

I think this quote encompasses the whole thing:

> Admittedly the abstractions in the above code probably make it a bit slower than the comparable OCaml one, but the nice thing about Lean's metaprogramming support is that in theory, we could incrementally introduce our own optimisations into the pipeline

Yes, the OP dislikes Ocaml because the compiler is conservative so you can reason about run time performance so you might want to rewrite in a less pretty but more efficient style. Lean is better because while the performance is worse all the time they _in theory_ maybe could be better using meta programming.

Not that I have anything against Lean, it’s a very cool proof assistant with a bright future. I’m not sure I would put forward what the author puts forward to sell it though.

AI generated proofs in Lean are a sight to behold and probably reason enough to get interested.
Ask HN: Surge of 800x600 desktop resolution since May 2025
by klakierr | 2025-08-15 10:17:38+00:00
Since May 2025 800x600 started rapidly growing and not is top 2 at 14.44%:

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution- stats/desktop/worldwide

Looks like its specific to Asia:

https://gs.statcounter.com/screen-resolution-stats/desktop/asia

its top 1 at 29.66% there (but not in China or India)

whats behind it?
by simondotau | 2025-08-15 10:17:43+00:00
For what it's worth, Macintosh had rounded corners since its inception in 1984. They were just bitmaps in the screen corners and still addressable by software (and even by the mouse cursor in any context) but this demonstrates an aesthetic heritage.

These software rounded corners disappeared in software when CRTs gave way to flat panels, but they are indisputably part of the Apple design aesthetic.
by btdmaster | 2025-08-15 10:18:15+00:00
The Times is more or less lying here.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Wikimedi...

> On 18 March 2024, the Secretary of State was provided with a Submission which made it clear that Category 1 duties were not primarily aimed at pornographic content or the protection of children (which were dealt with by other parts of the Act).

Notice this is under Sunak, not Starmer. The Times chooses when to support and opposite the Online Safety Act based on which party is in government, and provides evidence for its view by lying through omission.

The Online Safety Act is undeniably terrible legislation, but you won't find good-faith criticism of it from the Times.
by nixpulvis | 2025-08-15 10:18:26+00:00
The problem is, by granting more vertical space in such a way that requires additional application logic to avoid overlaps, you've taken a sacred abstraction (the rectangular screen) and shattered it.

Most applications do not handle this well, and I'm willing to bet that will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.

I can see the allure. If you're a default macOS user with the menu bar not set to slide up when not in use, that space nicely fits. Problem still remains for fullscreen apps though.

And it's not even really a hardware problem. Apple could fix this in software. Just make using the unsafe region an opt-in for developers instead of the default. You want to paint in the unsafe region, call NSAllowUnsafeRegionResolution(). Boom done. By default, when the menu bar isn't shown, expose a rectangle to the viewport.
by summerdown2 | 2025-08-15 10:18:33+00:00
I suspect it's projection as a defense, because a number of Brits do see the US as some sort of failing police state that's snatching people off the streets.

I guess if you get your attack in first you'll be able to go "we're not the fascists, you're the fascists."

None of that is to excuse the legislation, of course, which is not very good and will have a lot of poor consequences.
by wat10000 | 2025-08-15 10:18:50+00:00
What’s wrong with that? Those employees took the offer of their own volition. There’s nothing wrong with offering someone a job because of their relevant experience.

“Employees are entirely accessory” is exactly the shit I’m arguing against here. The whole idea of “poaching” implies that the employees are property, to be guarded by their owners and stolen by others. How can the people who actually do the work and are the entire reason for this so-called “poaching” not be central to it?
by bjackman | 2025-08-15 10:18:52+00:00
These numbers are all Vs a completely unmitigated system. AND, this is an extra-expensive version of ASI that does more work than really needed on this HW, to ensure we can measure the impact of the recent changes. (Details of this are in the posting).

So I should probably post something more realistic, and compare against the old mitigations. This will make ASI look a LOT better. But I'm being very careful not to avoid looking like a salesman here. It's better that I risk making things look worse than they are, than risk having people worry I'm hiding issues.
by usrusr | 2025-08-15 10:20:02+00:00
Yeah, the things is, ownership isn't a natural concept. It's just a social construct. Without that, you own what's in your stomach, what you can hold in your hands and what you can sit on, until the moment you walk away.

I believe that the best amount of processes for revoking ownership not zero. Revoking not as in "we take n money from you because...", but as in "we stop respecting any of your accumulated ownership rights, but you are free to accumulate new ones". A reset like the one called bankruptcy, just for positives.

Currently, in countries that do have the death sentence, ownership is even more untouchable than life. A (hypothetical..) rich person on death row you could still write their will and it would be respected. People will argue "don't punish the children!", but where's the difference really, between "don't gamble it all away, for the sake of your children" and "don't end up on death row, for the sake of your children"? Apparently, ownership is more sacred than life itself and I find that quite hard to stomach.

Note that I'm not advocating for a world where it's common for rich persons to get stripped whenever the masses get a little envious, or whenever redistribution seems convenient. Just for ac world where there is some last resort process defined and accepted that's less bloody than an all-out revolution. Ancient Rome had certain forms of exilation that went with complete property forfeitment as punishment (in reality: as the price for losing a power struggle I guess)
by cess11 | 2025-08-15 10:20:58+00:00
If you pick decent indexers and buy enough traffic it's absurdly good. Especially if you're into less than mainstream material or tend to try many things out before you settle on a binge, because if it's in the search result it's almost sure to be on your disk within minutes and you don't need to keep a cache for days or weeks because of hit'n'run rules.

Politically I prefer torrenting, due to the social character and openness and so on, but Usenet has none of the fuss beyond a bit of setup and configuration.
by ozim | 2025-08-15 10:21:44+00:00
Well Qt license is not annoying.

Qt the company is annoying because they make it super hard to use community edition and it is super annoying having per developer licensing with all kinds of super annoying BS one have to deal with when developing for Qt.

For Electron I can get 20 devs hired tomorrow or I myself can start project right away and be up and running in minutes.
by reliablereason | 2025-08-15 10:21:58+00:00
COLMAP has been the same for years. It is technically better than most commercial tracking software. But it is buggy(or the gui is) and complicated to use due to strange input and output formats as well as very awkward gui workflow.

There are even better software like mega-sam https://github.com/mega-sam/mega-sam.

And there are wrappers around mega-sam that makes (almost) perfect tracking of any moving video in to a single command. A command that outputs industry standard .abc files as output.

You also have the recently released https://github.com/nv-tlabs/vipe it does not export as .abc but the tracking looks very good.
What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?
by camillomiller | 2025-08-15 10:22:23+00:00
The more I read about Zuckerberg's thoughts on the future of AI, and the more it's unveiled about the shady practices the company has been engaging in for more than a decade, the more I can't find an answer to a simple question: how can so many brilliant, probably ethically sound people, still work for such a company?

I'm focusing on Meta, but the same goes for Palantir and such ilk of companies whose clear and only output is a net negative for society.

Is it really just money? Or do you actually believe these companies are not the societal wrecking balls they are? Would you argue that their toxicity itself is not as evident as I claim? You just don't give a damn?

I understand this is a provocative question, but bear with me and possibly change my mind. I'm genuinely curious.
by pm215 | 2025-08-15 10:23:20+00:00
I think the thing that makes it a problem for most people is that they can't memorise them as "once and done" the way Heisig says he did. So as well as the initial time spent looking at the kanji and coming up with a good memorable story/image/mnemonic/etc, most people I think also spend time in an SRS (e.g. anki, or kanjikoohii) reviewing the characters they learnt previously. It's the review time that really stacks up, especially where you have particular characters that you have trouble with ("leeches").
by bjackman | 2025-08-15 10:24:28+00:00
The next steps should make this much faster. Google's internal version generally gives us a sub-1% hit on everything we measure.

If the community is up for merging this (which is a genuine question - the complexity hit is significant) I expect it to become the default everywhere and for most people it should be a performance win Vs the current default.

But, yes. Not there right now, which is annoying. I'm hoping the community is willing to start merging this anyway with the trust we can get it to be really fast later. But they might say "no, we need a full prototype that's super fast right now", which would be fair.
by squigz | 2025-08-15 10:24:33+00:00
> One thing we did get right: maintainer buy-in. The repo had more than just the creator maintaining it, so we had real conversations and planning sessions with maintainers before making changes. We were transparent, kept them in the loop, and appreciated the support.

"Maintainer buy-in" sounds kind of misleading, unless they actually paid the other maintainers too, and I do not get the impression from that point that they did.
Show HN: The Case for AI Provenance – Trusting the Source in AI Content
by mc2259 | 2025-08-15 10:24:34+00:00
I wrote about why AI provenance — tracking the “origin story” of AI-generated text, images, and code — is essential for fighting misinformation, ensuring compliance, and protecting intellectual property.

The piece covers metadata, audit trails, and current standards (like C2PA) that could make provenance verifiable across platforms. I also included a simple flowchart illustrating the provenance flow from prompt to output.

Would love to hear feedback on where provenance standards should head next.
by vinni2 | 2025-08-15 10:24:51+00:00
Very neat project! Congratulations to the founders. I was wondering why there is no one working on such a tool.

But I was hoping couple of features would be supported: 1. Multilingual support. It seems like even if I use a multilingual model like whisper-cpp-large-turbo-q8, the application seems to assume I am speaking English. 2. Translate feature. Probably already supported but I didnt see the option.
by nickslaughter02 | 2025-08-15 10:24:53+00:00
EU wants to scan every private message you send. Are there protests in the streets?

"The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 – here's everything we know" (https://www.techradar.com/computing/cyber-security/the-eu-co...)

"Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans" (https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism)