MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by OgsyedIE | 2025-08-19 12:51:50+00:00
I reasoned that, based on the error falsely attributing a Chiang story as based on different thermodynamics, any thinking chain for generating a list of Chiang stories predicated on different physics (carried out by an autoregressive model obviously, since no deductions of this kind can be made for the output of diffusion llms) that could make the given error would have suggested a story where thermodynamics was different and then guessed that Exhalation fits its own criteria.

On the basis of that, the priming simulates the same scenario, since there is no feasible way to recreate the author's method of writing an article with unknown essay-writing prompts and a set of unknown proportions of AI to human-generation for different elements of content and editing.
by weego | 2025-08-19 12:51:56+00:00
I honestly thought the touch bar was introduced into the laptops as 'test' iteration before it leading somewhere, and maybe partly with the ipad pros. For on-the-move prosumer use in music, video, and image editing I can see a lot of use for fully customisable hot buttons, especially combined with the pencil.

As it is, they're in a weird space. It's better to buy an air than the ipad pro + pro keyboard, the price of which is eye-watering. My ipad is now a very expensive screen for watching Tv in bed, and playing the odd bit of roblox to keep endgaged with my kids. I'm not going to bother typing anything on it... it's an absolute chore compared to my phone because of worse ergonomics due to it's size.

As a gateway device for AI... something maybe there's an interesting use case to be discovered but I'm not bullish on the value proposition of them going forward.
by skydhash | 2025-08-19 12:52:01+00:00
It still remains a crippled user experience in many ways:

- PDF reader: Preview would be a nice addition to the set of default app, but you have to choose between the very basic viewer tied to Files.app and various viewers with many schemes to get into your wallet.

- Files: I know a lot of apps rely on databases, but we still have to use files every now and then. The Files.app is very clunky for what I consider a solved problem.

- The weird stage manager: Even on a 13" screen, it's hard to manage more than two apps side by side. Why not introduce a simple workspace manager a la GNOME if they user want to save a particular set of windows.

- Profiles: Even browsers are adding them these days as they recognize that people have a faceted life. Instead we have custom notification settings. The ipad is not that personal of a device. It's closer to the Apple TV than my laptop in terms of privacy.
by Sharlin | 2025-08-19 12:52:13+00:00
The more factors an (even) number n has, the more likely it is that n+-1 is prime because those numbers cannot have any of the factors of n as factors. At the same time it is impossible that n+-2 or 4 are prime and unlikely that n+-3 is prime because 3 is likely to be a factor of n. And if additionally 5 is a factor, the primeless gap is even wider. So the primes stand out.
by benoau | 2025-08-19 12:52:55+00:00
> When Jobs introduced the iPad in 2010, he wasn’t trying to freeze technology in amber.

Well it's 15 years later, their rules have only ever voluntarily-changed to carve out more fees for themselves and the software you're not allowed to use appears to be banned "forever".

His vision was a closed ecosystem with massive fees and no competition, even changes to the laws around the world haven't really disrupted this:

> One can read books bought elsewhere, just not buy/rent/subscribe from iOS without paying us, which we acknowledge is prohibitive for many things.”
by delecti | 2025-08-19 12:53:11+00:00
I'm not going to defend paper straws; plastic straws weren't banned because they're better or worse, they're banned because of a viral video of a sea turtle with one stuck up its nose. LED bulbs are absolutely better though. They output so much less waste heat, and they last so much longer.

> "free market" is only temporary, until the "bad" thing simply gets banned

How can the alternatives get better, if regressive municipalities preemptively ban them to prevent "slippery slopes"?
by aragilar | 2025-08-19 12:53:44+00:00
They don't want to support it (because of their perceived cost-benefit ratio for what they're interested in developing/maintaining), and hence if it is removed from the browser standards then they aren't required to support it (as opposed to driving people to other browsers)? One could ask why do WebUSB and similar "standards" given those would seem (to me) to be a much greater security issue?
by stackedinserter | 2025-08-19 12:53:53+00:00
Probably you never _worked_ with XSLT (which is good for you). Very simple things quickly become 1K of unreadable text.

E.g. showing the last element of the list with different something ``` <xsl:for-each select="items/item"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="position() = last()"> <span style="color:red;"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </span> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <span style="color:blue;"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </span> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:for-each> ```

Or ask chatgpt to count total weight of a shipping based on xml with items that have weights. I did and it's too long to paste here.

> It's not the most beautiful language, I'll give you that, but it's really not as bad as people make it out to be.

TBH I can say that about any language or platform that I ever touched. ZX Spectrum is not that bad, although has its limits. That 1960x 29-bit machine is not that bad, just takes time to get used to it. C++ is not that bad for web development, it's totally doable too.

The thing is that some technologies are more suitable for modern tasks then others, you'll just do much, much more (and better) with JSON model and JS code than XSLT.
by esskay | 2025-08-19 12:55:06+00:00
We're still a long way before it being a viable option to ditch all other devices for. If they could get it working as an AR glasses wirelessly reliant on an iPhone then that would be the thing that makes it go from weird overpriced useless product to an actual useful device.

Getting rid of the phone completely though is a whole other issue and we're nowhere near being able to ship anything with enough computing power and battery capacity into a form factor as light as standard glasses.

The whole chunky VR headset thing - no, that's not taking off as a thing people will wear all day.
by Nursie | 2025-08-19 12:56:49+00:00
Utter nonsense mate.

Lack of turnout has never made the blindest bit of difference anywhere, and is indistinguishable from laziness and disinterest in actually democratic countries. But in Australia we can see the numbers who spoiled their votes.

In North Korea Kim Jong Un is free to invent the attendance figures just as much as he is the prevalence of votes for himself.
by janice1999 | 2025-08-19 12:57:20+00:00
Anyone else instantly turned away by the LLM emoji bullet points?

This project could be the work of an enthusiastic developer with a deep understanding/love of the 80286 or LLM slop based on regurgitated code stolen from years of hard work by dedicated retro emulator developers. Unfair or not, emoji bullet points do not give confidence it's the first.
by jmpman | 2025-08-19 12:57:32+00:00
Target, the store, is known to not arrest shoplifters until they exceed the felony threshold, at which time they arrest and prosecute the shoplifters.

If a solar tie in fee is $100/month, and a “customer” is using their garden lights for 1 year, it’s only $1200 to find them and issue a fine (assuming the fine is simply equal to the avoided tie in fees). Probably not worth it for the power company. But… after 10 years, the tie in fees would be $12k - certainly profitable for an intern to do some Google image searches, if they can find just 100 violators, that’s $1.2M. In 10 years, it’s not going to be an intern doing this, it’s going to be some AI agent tasked with optimizing revenue generation, and their costs approach zero.
by nope1000 | 2025-08-19 12:57:34+00:00
I'm actually thinking the opposite. If you are a small company, the cloud makes sense and once you grow big it makes sense to build your own infra. For example my company of 10 people, we do B2B SaaS and we couldn't do that if we hosted ourselves. We would need people with the skill to set something like this up, develop physical security concepts, backup duplication, disaster recovery, etc. We would spend more time working on the infra than on the actual product we are selling.
by ryandv | 2025-08-19 12:57:38+00:00
Keen observation. Canadian white progressives have a pathological inability to state anything directly, take definitive stances on anything, or refrain from ambiguity and equivocation in their speech. You end up with so much noise in the signal from all the hedging, mea culpas, and beating around the bush that it becomes impossible to take them at their word.

All the communications overhead comes from this neurotic desire to sanitize speech of all possible offense, all possible negative implication, and indeed all humanity. The end result is vapid corpo doublespeak, which says... absolutely nothing at all.

The information content of the language of a culture that can be offended by everything tends towards nothing.
by armchairhacker | 2025-08-19 12:58:03+00:00
> Across the country, stories continue to emerge of politicians turning citizens over to law enforcement for voicing opinions online. In one case, a 64-year-old man was fined €825 ($962) after police raided his home over a meme that labeled then-Economy Minister Robert Habeck a “professional idiot.”

The man is Stefan Niehoff. Here's a more detailed explanation from a different source: https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/06/german-fined-for-insulting.... There are many more articles, a documentary, and a 60 minutes interview. The tl;dr seems to be:

- He posted a meme insulting a politician (IMO mildly, he basically called them a "professional idiot")

- His house was raided and he was charged with defamation

- At trial, they dropped said charge, but revealed new charges. It turns out he had also posted memes with Nazi imagery, albeit not to promote Nazism, but to insult politicians by comparing them to Nazis (e.g. a meme of a Green politician doing a Nazi salute and calling them "The Green Reich")

- Nonetheless, posting any Nazi symbols is strictly illegal in Germany (even if used as jokes, since some people pretend "it's just a joke" to spread unpopular ideas they seriously hold). So Niehoff got fined €825.
by pm215 | 2025-08-19 12:58:14+00:00
There's a little free-entry one-or-two-room museum on the site: https://www.crystalpalacemuseum.org.uk/ (though ironically it is currently closed due to fire damage; normally open on Sunday afternoons) which has some photographs and various bits of memorabilia relating to the building. If you're planning on wandering down to the site and looking at the dinosaurs, it's worth dropping in here too.
by nickisyourfan | 2025-08-19 12:58:19+00:00
I’m Nick, author of Deeb Dive, a weekly roundup for indie devs. Issue #3 highlights a Git-based SemVer tool (Doxxer), a tiny React hooks toolkit (light-hooks), and a short guide to kick starting a custom Chat GPT client with Tauri. Happy to answer questions about any of these tools or the Tauri + Rust → mobile workflow.

https://www.deebkit.com/posts/deeb-dive-3

Got a tool that can be featured? Hit me up!
by pushmetop | 2025-08-19 13:00:53+00:00
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by davidhyde | 2025-08-19 13:00:59+00:00
Loved the write up, well done to the author. I get the same feeling building stuff with freecad and then printing it. Feels like there is no limit to what can be done. After going through the growing pains of designing stuff that was just poor and difficult to print I’m now confident enough to send it to be printed by jlcpcb or pcbway. And when they tell me to accept the risk of a failed print then I think, “I feel your pain, good luck”. So far I have never gotten a failed print back. Maybe a little warped but way better than my attempts. If I never have to use my large resin printer ever again I will be happy.

On the pcb front, I dread going through those final steps in the pcb ordering process. No matter how many parts I preorder, there is always something that is unavailable. So much churn in component availability.
by anenefan | 2025-08-19 13:01:09+00:00
I really worry about the declining mindset in regard to views on farming and the science behind protecting it. Earlier this year it was some so called geniuses who thought agriculture wasn't that important and for short term gains sought to starve funds from the scientific community protecting / preserving older crop varieties. [1]

But I guess the destruction in this article is just bloody mindedness deserving of the Nobel prize in the Sharpened Mango category.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/seed-r...
by waerhert | 2025-08-19 13:01:14+00:00
Though very grateful for projects like FreeCAD, I did encounter a fair bit of frustration while designing this. Especially random crashes, which only got worse as the project got more complex. As far as usage goes, it's mostly a matter of knowing how to do things in FreeCAD. I haven't encountered anything I could not achieve in FreeCAD. Having no experience in other CAD software probably helped sticking to it.
by tudorizer | 2025-08-19 13:01:23+00:00
I have tried quite a few and would defo agree with your conclusion. Also not fully buying the "you're holding it wrong" answers.

I point at long such lists of tools only to indicate a certain level of complexity, which will most likely fall in the realm of "oh, this is too technical for me. I should delegate this to Alice, because she good with tech". This is only shifting the problems and problems mean opportunity.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-19 13:02:08+00:00
Happens a lot. Cr2Gr2Te6 is a particularly egregious example, but whenever a claim is made in a textbook or well-cited journal article, that claim is going to be repeated.

I've got a funny example. It's said that "Ytterbium (Yb) is sometimes alloyed with stainless steel to improve its mechanical properties, such as strength and durability." This claim has been repeated 1000 times. It's one of the best known "properties" of Yb. But there is no factual basis for it -- there are no commercial grades of stainless steel that incorporate Yb, there's no published research on Yb as an alloying constituent in stainless steel, and as far as I can tell it started as a throwaway line in a textbook that was probably just a mistake or misunderstanding...
by westurner | 2025-08-19 13:02:09+00:00
Many router firmwares have dnsmasq for DNS but may never be upgraded?

There are a number of other DNS servers which are not written in C, which support transport-secured DNS like DoH (DNS-over-HTTP), DoT, and DoQ; but do they correctly handle this malformed input?

From the mailing list disclosure, which doesn't yet have a CVE FWIU? https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/20... :

Dnsmasq forwards queries with special characters (e.g., ~, !, *, _) to upstream recursive resolvers. Some upstream recursive resolvers silently discard such malformed queries (no NXDomain/ServFail response). Dnsmasq does not validate or detect this situation, and waits silently, creating a large attack window. During this window, attackers can brute-force TxID (16-bit) and source port (16-bit) with a high probability of success (birthday paradox effect). Security Impact Attackers can poison any cached domain name in Dnsmasq.

[...]

We recommend adding: Detection mechanisms when upstream resolvers remain silent. Rate limiting and spoof-detection techniques, similar to those in PowerDNS

> PowerDNS Mitigation: https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/settings.html#spoof-nearm...

spoof-nearmiss-max
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-08-19 13:02:18+00:00
The narrative would be more compelling to me if Google didn’t fail to impose their technology on the web so many times.

NaCL? Mozilla won this one. Wasm is a continuation of asm.js.

Dart? It now compiles to Wasm but has mostly failed to replace js while Typescript filled the niche.

Sure, Google didn’t care much for XML. They had a proper replacement for communication and simple serialisation internally in protobuf which they never actually try to push for web use. Somehow json ended up becoming the standard.

I personally don’t give much credit to the theory of Google as a mastermind patiently under minding the open web for years via the standards.

Now if we talk about how they have been pushing Chrome through their other dominant products and how they have manipulated their own products to favour it, I will gladly agree that there is plenty to be said.
by npilk | 2025-08-19 13:02:30+00:00
Agree. And then people anchor on what the technology was like when it launched, and don't notice or account for the additional improvements and iterations that happen over time.

E.g. - I was considering a 3D printer but I had heard they were expensive, messy, complicated, it was hard to get prints to come out right, etc. But it turned out I was anchored on ~2016 era technology. I got a simple modern printer for a few hundred dollars and it (mostly) just works.
by agos | 2025-08-19 13:02:37+00:00
if you referring to Kaptchuk TJ, Friedlander E, Kelley JM, et al. 2010, that study still involved some deception[1]. See also Locher C, Frey Nascimento A, Kirsch I, et al. 2017

[1]: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-effects-without-dec...
by Tuna-Fish | 2025-08-19 13:02:39+00:00
Often, such as this time. :)

The Rust and Python code are not equivalent: The Python code instantly produces the nested list. Rust map does not iterate over the list given to it, it only produces an iterator that you then have to drain. To make them equivalent, you need to add collect calls.

... which adds more typing, because then collect needs to know the types you want to collect into. To make the Rust code fully equivalent with the Python version, you need to do:

let words_on_lines: Vec<Vec<&str>> = text.lines().map(|line| line.split_whitespace().collect()).collect(); // alternatively, you can put the type arguments into the .collect() calls: let words_on_lines = text.lines().map(|line| line.split_whitespace().collect::<Vec<_>>()).collect::<Vec<_>>(); // which approaches the level of noise you expect from rust, // but stylistically I much prefer having the type declaration near the definition.

But of course this example also highlights Rust's power. Often (usually) you don't need to do that, and you can instead use the iterator directly, saving all the intermediate allocations. With Rust, I can often write the kind of code I do in python, but without a single heap allocation. Also, it doesn't bind you to a single collection type that ships with the language; if you want to, you can easily use something like a vec with a short vec optimization instead.

But it definitely does inherit Perl's mantle as executable line noise.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-19 13:03:22+00:00
I joined my local Maker's Space specifically for the machine shop. They had a CNC machine that I took the classes on to be certified. I designed my first simple plate design piece for cinema camera support gear in the CAD software they had connected to the machine. There was even a bit of software that generates the G-code with a simulator to check for head crashes. However, every time I went up there to actually try to build the piece the unit was down because someone crashed the head and destroyed bits. Instead, I wound up using the regular metal working machines to hand make the first piece. It ended with square corners instead of rounded, and some of the hole alignment wasn't as precise as intended. I wish I would have known of one of these types of sites to have the piece still CNC'd instead.
by kepano | 2025-08-19 13:03:41+00:00
You can think of Bases as an editor and visualization layer for the YAML frontmatter in your Markdown files.

Frontmatter is not part of the original Markdown spec, but it became a standard way to add metadata to Markdown files long before Obsidian came along. I believe it started in 2008 with the introduction of Jekyll:

https://tom.preston-werner.com/2008/11/17/blogging-like-a-ha...

Frontmatter is supported by almost all SSGs and many apps like Obsidian add autocomplete and other QoL features around it.

Bases to me is exactly what you describe. A feature that provides an excellent editing environment and extensibility for Markdown files.

For example, my blog is a set of Markdown files compiled with Jekyll, that I edit in Obsidian. Now I can add a base in Obsidian that helps me see the state of different blog posts/pages, quickly sort/filter them, and edit their metadata. It helps me spend more of my time editing Markdown files, but at a higher level.
by diggan | 2025-08-19 13:04:00+00:00
> If they're on Instagram, aren't they necessarily also on SMS

Many people have friends in different countries, and while intra-country SMS is usually free, cross-country ones usually aren't. I think out of my current friend circle, literally all of them have at least one friend outside of the country where they live, but as an immigrant I'm probably biased too.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-19 13:05:08+00:00
It’s not really a solved problem on any desktop platform. Once you download an app on a desktop, it has complete access to all of your files you have access to in user space.

The Files app itself works just the same to manage files as Windows and Macs assuming you didn’t have multiple windows to work with.

The Files app as method to open and save files with in an app, works like any other file picker with more granular permissions.

The idea that any file storage service is a first class citizen (Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc) is definitely a win.
by billy99k | 2025-08-19 13:05:16+00:00
They have been killing open anything for a long time. Very similar to Microsoft. As an example, they have the power to block emails for a large portion of the Internet. This is used for good, like spam and scams, but also bad, like political viewpoints they don't like.

The same can be said about their search engine. This most likely has already altered the outcomes of elections and should have been investigated years ago.
by torginus | 2025-08-19 13:05:26+00:00
EVs are quite unlike most residential power systems you encounter. They use high voltage DC, which this video illustrates, is a fun topic in of itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zez2r1RPpWY

To generate this, the batteries have more than a hundred cells wired in series, if any one them fails, that means your battery's dead.

In addition to this, the inverter that generates the AC driving your motor needs use high powered IGBT to switch this huge current and power tens of thousands of times per second to do PWM and uses filter caps to smooth the output. Both these are wear items(and impossible to replace) , its the operating conditions that determine if they'll live for 50 years or less than 10.

Which is why I think EV reliability will be no different from ICE - manufacturers who do give a damn will make them last long, and make them fixable once they break, while others will save a buck and won't.