MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qwytw | 2025-08-26 15:48:30+00:00
> This is demonstrably not true.

In what way?

TSMC doesen't design or sell the chips. If they have limited capacity they will of course charge more for manufacturing mobile chips if they can sell the capacity to Nvidia/AMD/Apple instead.

ARM chips (and that's pretty much by design based on ARM's business model) are close to being a commodity.

Apple is of course an exception but they are not directly part of the CPU market. And ARM and Qualcomm are barely bothering trying to compete with them because there doesen't seem to be a lot of point. They themselves are pivoting to datacenter because there is just more money to be made there.

> Intel focus on low volume high end chips is another reason they are behind.

I guess that's complicated. It seems like an optimal strategy if you are a chip designer (e.g. Nvidia or AMD vs Qualcomm). Not so much if you are a fabricator. Of course Intel being both makes things a lot harder for them.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-26 15:48:48+00:00
Management isn’t one entity with one perspective so to some extent I can see why they might have competing interests and sometimes the ones who are “right” in terms of actually getting things done might lose. But,

> Another reason why is that managers will almost never give you dangerous advice, even if it’s what you need to hear. If a manager tells you to ignore company policy, and you do it wrong - for instance, if you post in Slack that you’re doing it and your manager said it was OK - then that’s bad for them. In fact, it’s much worse for them than it is for you. Tech company leadership often views engineers as useful idiots. Managers are expected to be professionals.

> However, lots of managers wish they could give you advice like this. They certainly appreciate it when you follow it. I’ve never been a manager, but it must be incredibly frustrating to manage strong engineers who would be much more effective if they approached work a little more tactically (and a little less according to the written job description).

This advice and circumstance basically sucks, right? Ultimately management (as a whole) is responsible for coming up with policies that don’t get in the way of productivity. Making policy and taking responsibility for when it doesn’t work out: that is part of their job.

The advice here is to just let your manager have the upside of having a team that is more productive by following an alternative set of rules, without the downside of accepting additional risk. That’s just letting them not do part of their job. Everybody would love a consequence-free dodge of the shitty part of their job.
Show HN: Free Web Dialer for U.S./Canada Toll-Free Numbers (Skype Replacement?)
by Connect-EZ | 2025-08-26 15:49:06+00:00
We built tollfree.connect-ez.com because Skype discontinued its free toll-free calling service. For years, people relied on it to reach U.S. and Canadian 1-800 numbers from abroad—banks, airlines, government offices, and customer support desks. When Skype pulled the plug, it left a gap.

We try and work with disruptive, SIM-less telephony at Connect-EZ. Instead of relying on phone numbers and SIM cards, we make calls work over data connections — web, mobile apps, or Wi-Fi—using email or browser-based IDs. The toll-free dialer is a simple example: open the site, type in the toll-free number (like 1800XXXXXXX), and click Call Now. The call connects instantly in your browser—no app download, no account signup, no hidden fees.

Happy to answer questions and would love feedback from the HN community.
by aldousd666 | 2025-08-26 15:49:08+00:00
This will focus on showing you only personal email. That may be what some people want, but my email is also for receipts from purchases and newsletters I deliberately subscribe to. Filtering out everything with an unsubscribe button is too blunt of an instrument for me. Sure it doesn't delete it, but... I won't know I got it. In my opinion, this is just a coy attempt to force their own mail to the inbox.
by tiahura | 2025-08-26 15:49:11+00:00
Azithromycin (rhinovirus, influenza A, Zika), clarithromycin (influenza A, rhinovirus), doxycycline (dengue, Zika), minocycline (West Nile), teicoplanin/dalbavancin (Ebola, MERS/SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2), rifampin/rifamycins (orthopoxviruses), aminoglycosides (HSV-2, influenza A, Zika), salinomycin/monensin (influenza A/B, coronaviruses incl. SARS-CoV-2), nanchangmycin (Zika, West Nile, dengue, chikungunya), nitroxoline (mpox), and some fluoroquinolones have all shown antiviral properties.

And no, strep throat is not worse than ebola.
by petsfed | 2025-08-26 15:49:26+00:00
The whole argument in your linked article rubs me the wrong way.

I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that the two ways "because science" or "because God" might stop my curiosity is because 1) I'm looking for a good master's thesis topic (a problem well in my past, thank God) or 2) my immediate survival is dependent on much more immediate problems than the underlying physical phenomena that cause e.g. a lightbulb to work.

I think there's a certain set of people who, in the absence of more pressing concerns, drop everything upon experiencing a new phenomenon, in a quest to understand it. That certainly describes parts of my life. But the writer takes as axiomatic that most people don't drop everything to study whatever event because they were told that it had been explained, and not, you know, because their landlord doesn't accept white papers on the fundamental properties of reality in lieu of rent.

I think embedded in the statement "because science" is the connotation that ignorance of the underlying phenomenon is not itself dangerous to the people experiencing it. If I observed a bright light literally burning people, and I ask "how is that light burning people?", the person who knows more but simply says "its physics" shares some culpability with me if I just accept that answer incuriously and then get burnt by the light.

But if people aren't getting burnt, is it intellectual laziness to grunt "good enough" on my way to more pressing matters? Perhaps. This whole essay reads to me as a way to judge and find wanting the kind of person whose apparent curiosity stopped at how to do their job. The point of the essay (although it took a lot of curiosity on my part to tease it out) is apparently to say "don't let the fact that it is known stop you from finding out yourself", but it ended up sounding like "if you're taking anything as received knowledge, you're abdicating your responsibility as a thinking entity".
by armoredkitten | 2025-08-26 15:49:57+00:00
From the full paper: "Although reading with children did not change over time, rates of engagement were surprisingly low, with only 2% of participants reading with children on the average day. Overall, 21% of our sample had a child under 9 years (the age by which most can read independently) with them during the diary day. So a large majority of those with young children did not read with them."

So of people with young children, it looks like the rate is about 9.5%.
by jjani | 2025-08-26 15:50:36+00:00
Absolutely not. The French revolution overall had enormously positive effects on Europe in terms of equality. A quick look into that period across Western Europe will give you numerous cases where suddenly the powerful became uncharacteristically eager to let go off significant parts of their power. In fact this event may well have had the biggest such effect of any event in history.

A recent event last year in the US also immediately resulted in actions undertaken whereas peaceful protests did not. Mostly protective actions, but it showed a very clear impact, the contrast was stark.
by quesera | 2025-08-26 15:51:01+00:00
Right. Egress on anything other than tcp/443 is probably a non-starter for any new protocol.

The question I was alluding to is: if it's HTTP-ish over tcp/443, wouldn't it still be the web anyway?

But thinking about it more, the server could easily select a protocol based on the first chunk of the client request. And the example of RTP suggests that maybe even TCP would be optional.
by saltcured | 2025-08-26 15:51:28+00:00
Similar feelings but I'm slightly older and started a bit earlier.

I had my first Linux exposure in late 1992 or early 1993 with the SLS bootable floppy distribution. I started putting it to use almost immediately to do some of my CS coursework from my bedroom instead of always going to the terminal rooms on campus.

I think I started using Slackware later in 1993 when I was ready to go from floppy to HDD installation. I found a computer lab, accessible to undergraduates, where I could FTP the floppy images over the campus network and write them to floppy. It took multiple trips but was much faster than trying to do it via a dial-up SLIP connection.
by 0x3f | 2025-08-26 15:51:37+00:00
Yeah of course, it's probably total overkill for the average person.

I have some startups/projects though where the accounts are kind of valuable and I just end up getting people to use plus-addressing in the form of [employee name]+[random string]@company.com. That way nobody is going to guess our e.g. checking account/DNS admin/whatever email address, and everyone keeps/manages their own named inbox without extra setup.

In the pointless pursuit of neatness though, I still think about the one true email address generation strategy from time to time.
by Jensson | 2025-08-26 15:52:11+00:00
Even Elon could lose his credit card or something, the story they spin is always something like that "I am rich but in a pickle, please send some money here and then I'll send you back 10x as much tomorrow when I get back to my account", but of course they never send it back.

Edit: But of course Elon would call someone he knows rather than a stranger, rich people know a lot of people so of course they would never contact you about this.
by jjkaczor | 2025-08-26 15:52:43+00:00
... well, the big problem I would see is not in the "basics" - storing documents on a web-enabled location is solved in the open-source world.

However - it is not just that when looking at Microsoft 365 + Azure - it is the inter-connected dependencies between SharePoint Online, Teams, Purview and the desktop OS/Office applications; Metadata/smart-documents, IRM/DLP/Records Management, etc.
by dagmx | 2025-08-26 15:52:53+00:00
Let me start with your last point because it’s where you’ve misread the original comment and why none of your following arguments seem to make sense to onlookers.

They have a MacBook Pro with an M4, not an M4 Pro. That is a wildly different class of SoC from the 395. Unless the 395 is also capable of running in fanless devices too without issue.

For your first point, yes it does matter if the discussion is about objectively trying to understand why things are faster or not. Subjective opinions are fine, but they belong elsewhere. My grandma finds her Intel celeron fast enough for her work, I’m not getting into an argument with her over whether an i9 is faster for the same reason.

Your second point is equally as subjective, and out of place in a discussion about objectively trying to understand what makes the performance difference.
by sebastiennight | 2025-08-26 15:52:55+00:00
This is fascinating to me, as I basically never go to a restaurant without a booking.

But I think you're underestimating this use case, as the data you linked shows that Google is the top referral used by people to find the restaurant/booking website, and once SEO is overtaken by ChatGPT-like experiences it would make sense that "book this for me" would be a one-click (or one-word) logical next step that Google never had.
Show HN: My OSS P2P file transfer tool for learning Next.js (as a C++ dev)
by david_bai | 2025-08-26 15:53:22+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm a C++ algorithms engineer, and today I'd like to share my first full-stack web project: PrivyDrop.

This project was born from two ideas:

First, I wanted to solve a daily annoyance of mine: I needed a simple, AirDrop-like way to send text, links, or screenshots between my phone and PC. I tried many tools, but they either required me to sign up, had various limitations, or uploaded my data to their servers, which I was never comfortable with.

Second, this was a personal experiment. Last year, with all the talk about "AI replacing programmers," I got curious. As a developer with no web background, I wanted to see how long it would take to learn full-stack development from scratch (an area I'm really interested in) and build a complete application, using AI as my primary coding partner and mentor.

PrivyDrop is the result of that learning and experiment.

It's a peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing tool based on WebRTC. Its core principle is that *your data belongs only to you*: all files and text are transferred directly between your browser and the recipient's, fully end-to-end encrypted, without ever passing through an intermediate server.

*Here are some of its key features:*

* Completely free and open-source, with no ads. * No sign-up or installation required—just open your browser. * Direct P2P connection for privacy, security, and speed. * No limits on file size or type. * Support for entire folder transfers. * Built-in resumable transfers.

The whole process has been a fantastic learning journey. I'm sharing it now in the hope that it can solve the same pain point for others. I'm really eager to hear any feedback, ideas, or even harsh criticism from the HN community!

* *Live Demo:* https://www.privydrop.app * *GitHub Repo:* https://github.com/david-bai00/PrivyDrop

Thanks, everyone!
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-26 15:54:19+00:00
This article says its steel-manning the equity stake but its actually an argument for Intel being "too big to fail" and then conflating that with an equity stake.

I do find his argument for Intel being "too big to fail" compelling, for whatever it's worth. But it was kind of surprising to only see 1 sentence at the end claiming the equity stake is necessary. I thought we were actually going to get an analysis on the deal and the dynamic it would create.
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 15:54:42+00:00
> Doing this for all apps would be wild.

No it wouldn't, not at all.

90% of apps on your phone do not need to be apps. Facebook does not need to be an app. Instagram does not need to be an app.

This is a sober reminder that apps are executables code that is running on your phone with very little sandbox. Its not like a web browser.

We do not need to execute compiled binaries that are closed source to buy parking that one time. No, no we don't.

Why do we? Because as I've said - such apps are much more powerful than the web browser and can therefore be used as spyware or keyloggers. Most apps on Android, including most Google apps, can be regarded as spyware.

Companies don't want to give up their de facto malware they've built up, and now users are trained to just install whatever the fuck on their phone.

We have given software 1000x more permission than it needs to do want it does. And now, we sit back and complain about malware.

This starts with Google, this starts with Meta, this starts with big tech. They directly caused all this malware by forcing users into downloading executables so they can exfiltrate your key presses.
Show HN: Tweakcc – Customize Claude Code's CLI (themes, verbs, spinner)
by bl-ue | 2025-08-26 15:54:59+00:00
I built a tool to make Claude Code’s terminal more fun and interesting.

With tweakcc you can:

-Build your own themes (RGB/HSL color picker included) -Change Claude’s “thinking verbs” -Swap out the spinner animation and banner text -Restore token counter and elapsed time -Keep changes persistent across updates -Supports Claude Code installed on Windows, macOS, and Linux, using npm, yarn, pnpm, bun, Homebrew, nvm, fnm, n, volta, nvs, and nodenv, or a custom location -Restore defaults anytime

Quick start: npx tweakcc

Repo: https://github.com/Piebald-AI/tweakcc

Feedback and PRs welcome!
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-26 15:55:01+00:00
Again, totally agree. I don’t think anyone is advocating for anarchy or zero restrictions on speech/expression. So if we’re going to debate where to draw the line, let’s pick examples that folks could reasonably have different opinions about, versus drawing the line so far out and saying “well you’ve crossed this super far line, so anything is fair game”. Anything should not be fair game. What kinds of speech/expression should never be illegal? That is maybe a more interesting question. What conduct is never over the censorship line in your view?
by tholdem | 2025-08-26 15:55:11+00:00
No root is a major security feature, you have chosen an OS that prioritizes security.

Use some other browser if dark mode is really important to you.

I think the launcher is good and I can't think of anything to improve on it. I'm happy it's the default, but I'm sure you can switch to a different launcher if you want.

Pattern unlock is also not there because of security.
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-26 15:55:43+00:00
I do halves and doubles sometimes. It's hard to keep the proportions straight even at 1:2 or 2:1. I think this is due to various quirks of nervous system, either mine or humans in general.

That said, I'm not sure a kitchen slide rule would help.

PS I own two, a Pickett and a Dietzgen.
by mkw5053 | 2025-08-26 15:55:53+00:00
Notable that 'Leading the Future' explicitly models itself on Fairshake, which spent $130 million in 2024 and achieved 48 of 51 endorsed candidates winning. At that success rate, $100 million in AI PAC spending could determine 30-40 House seats' positions on AI regulation. For context, the EU's AI Act passed with zero industry PAC spending, while China's AI regulations proceeded without Western-style lobbying.
by nineplay | 2025-08-26 15:56:34+00:00
When my daughter was in middle school we were discussing some concept she learned in Biology that wasn't precisely wrong but wasn't right in all use cases. I told her that a model didn't have to be true to be useful. She said "that's a good way of thinking about it" and since that is such a rare complement from a teenager I have remembered it ever since.

I think it's true though. I think a good science teacher can say from the outset that we don't know it all and science is always growing and changing.
by softwaredoug | 2025-08-26 15:56:42+00:00
Notably in a lot of these cases they’re just canceling injunctions, not deciding the merits.

But effectively it decides the case because nobody is going to stick around through a long trial after the injunction is canceled.

Which basically makes The Supreme Courts shadow docket a fairly arbitrary justice system that doesn’t generate precedent and many courts ignore past the immediate case.
by redactsure | 2025-08-26 15:57:13+00:00
I have a new browser security method. Inside this link you'll have access to a virtual browser environment. In this environment you will have the ability to control and access a plain text private bitcoin key worth 20$. There is only a single key, first one to take it ends the challenge for all.

Demo Signup: https://app.redactsure.com/ Bitcoin Checker: https://redactsure.com/bitcoinchallenge/

Limitations: - 15mins per session (why? GPU per session, limited spots) - US only is preferred (why? latency, I am streaming video to you) - No mobile, keyboard required - Requires you to verify an email

Some people were asking about implementation I'll provide a few details. - A server hosted browser - I manipulate what you are seeing on the webpage in real time - While I don't change the underlying webpage I do manipulate your actions to the webpage - A full transformer model runs in real time along side you (tries to find all sensitive words you see)

Overall the systems goals are to allow you to perform work without ever seeing the data. It's in a early prototype stage and I expect a large numbers of edge cases just from the nature of the problem. The bitcoin is a proxy to the real goal which is protecting real PII in remote work settings.

Other notes: - It would be nice if you tell me the bug. I would like to post how you broke it. - I'll post updates as well as info on bugs sessions here: https://x.com/CharlesCurt2
by metalman | 2025-08-26 15:57:59+00:00
NO!, no, no , no! I am learning how to write short messages that try and cover a lot of ground, spelling ,punctuation, and structure in text are not my native tallents. Writing here and a few other places is helping me with learning how to utilise, cutting and pasting my own writing into a more cohearant structure, but it is slow, as I am also new to the limitations of useing a hinky walmart phone as my primary communications device. No AI, no spell check, no auto complete, or suggestions, except where they cannot be dissabled, and in those cases, I refuse then to look while my inputs jitter and jumble from bieng hijacked, NO!, no, no, no! says my internal steel toe booted seven year old self.

edit: your recomendation seems like it could cause trouble, https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/breaking_llms_for_fun...
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-26 15:58:07+00:00
But these links... where do they exist? In my experience they are produced from user INPUT. For example I click the sort button and sort by low to high and that adds a &sort=asc. Now I have a new url. After the input.

But a crawler just visits the page right? Its not selecting from dropdowns, checkboxes, etc. So apparently all combinations are pregenerated somewhere? That seems weird to me and why I was asking about their use case.
by germinalphrase | 2025-08-26 15:58:22+00:00
“ Fairshake supports candidates committed to securing the United States as the home to innovators building the next generation of the internet.

Providing blockchain innovators the ability to develop their networks under a clearer regulatory and legal framework is vital if the broader open blockchain economy is to grow to its full potential here in the United States.

Fairshake is a federal independent expenditure-only committee registered with the Federal Election Commission and supports candidates solely through its independent activities.”

https://www.fairshakepac.com/
by Teknomadix | 2025-08-26 15:58:26+00:00
Interesting. I've never really thought much about Samsung phones because I always felt that they were really full of bloatware and features that seemed to distract more than present usefulness.

Knox sounds like a pretty awesome feature though.

I use `nix-on-droid` on a Pixel 9 running stock Android 16. It provides me with a nix shell that gives me ZSH, Starship prompt, NeoVim, w3m, ssh, alpine, Claude-code, Circumflex (TUI HackerNews Client) and just about anything else I want from the Nix packages ecosystem. I even have NUR ( Nix User Repositories) set up. I daily drive NixOS for work and for Pleasure. It's the most advanced operating system I've ever encountered. I can't wax enough praise.

The closest thing to a truly open source, fully functional and daily used mobile that I ever had was the Nokia N900. Man how I miss that thing. Maemo was Nokia's original Linux-based mobile OS, which ran on the N900/950.

MeeGo was created when Nokia merged Maemo with Intel's Moblin project around 2010. It was supposed to be the future of Nokia smartphones, but Nokia abandoned it in 2011 when they switched to Windows Phone as their primary smartphone platform. Idiots.

Mer was created as an open-source continuation of MeeGo after Nokia dropped it.

Sailfish OS was then built on top of Mer by Jolla, a company founded by former Nokia employees who had worked on MeeGo.

Jolla launched in 2013 with the goal of continuing the Linux mobile vision that Nokia had abandoned. They make phones and tablets.

https://jolla.com/
by notpushkin | 2025-08-26 15:58:28+00:00
Yeah, the variable is usually unset, so you’ll want to have a default value in your code. Basically something like

config_dir="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/my-app"

Of course, if you decide to account for Windows / macOS conventions, it’ll be a bit trickier, but pulling in a library for that is a bit overkill, yeah.