MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 16:13:33+00:00
The vast, vast majority of android malware that's used is on the Google play store. Because that's where the vast, vast majority of apps are from.

This is a completely made up and hallucinated problem. I will not mince words - this is a blatant attempt at deception.

We do not need to block sideloading to:

1. Stop malicious apps (does nothing)

2. Stop users from side loading

If we want to stop sideloading, we can simply introduce an arduous process to enable side loading. For example - consider turning on ADB. Do we vaporize ADB? No, because that's fucking stupid.

But now when it comes to apps, that little nugget of information is suddenly conveniently not considered.
by MengerSponge | 2025-08-26 16:13:50+00:00
That's not really true. Evolution is constrained by physics, so while bacteria can evolve to live in 100C water, they can't evolve to live in molten magma, or the surface of the sun. Similarly, they can evolve to live off of isopropyl alcohol, but they can't evolve resistance to sufficiently concentrated bleach (sodium hypochlorite).
by blueplanet200 | 2025-08-26 16:13:51+00:00
Were the current loan (and grant) guarantees perfectly adequate? Citation needed.

In some investors view they were not.

> "The deal certainly has the appearance of the government clawing back the remaining portion of the previous grant, as the government is getting equity not previously contemplated for dollars already committed," Morgan Stanley analysts "The trade-off, in our view, is that the company will have the flexibility to optimize its own business model without commitment to public service objectives, which may or may not include foundry services at 14A as articulated on the last earnings call

https://www.investopedia.com/intel-stock-keeps-getting-a-boo...
by lushy-typeable | 2025-08-26 16:13:56+00:00
It would be nice to see a 5070 Ti, 5080, or even Quadro-grade RTX 5000 ADA for graphics-oriented workloads.

I'm not sure the type-c (200-230w) would be sufficient to run these cards at their reccomended TGP (150w) + CPU (50w) + charge - not that most 16" productivity-oriented notebooks do (70-115W).
by hoppp | 2025-08-26 16:14:13+00:00
Yup, Js can't be avoided. I was just doing a desktop app in golang.. and the best way to have cross platform ui? Webview. I tried all the frameworks in go and nothing comes close. I could choose another language to write my business logic in and not go but still, it probably ends up using a webview for the UI.

Its not even heavy anymore because its just the OS native webview, unlike electron, it doesn't bundle a browser so the base app is just 3.3MB, while if I use GPU to render the Ui the app I ship starts at 60MB
by liquidgecka | 2025-08-26 16:14:42+00:00
yea I totally missed the CDU. I thought this was a project I had talked with a hardware person about a few years ago where there was no intermediate transfer and when I read the article I completely missed the section between the images. Rack level water cooling is interesting and I am sure they are doing some really cool bits on it but it’s not as revolutionary as a zero transfer system that I had thought they were talking through. I updated the comment to call out my error and reduce my excitement. =/

[I am still annoyed at how many people are dismissive of Google’s datacenter work simply because “severs have been water cooled before” which completely misses the point of datacenter level cooling. I also learned that AWS is doing this already, along with some elements of OVH] =)
by Rick76 | 2025-08-26 16:15:07+00:00
I did some surface-level research, but I couldn’t find any country that explicitly or publicly requested this from Google.

While I saw countries discussing the issue, none of them seemed to ask Google directly to only allow authorized third party apps.

That makes me think this is entirely a power move. If those countries had actually asked Google to step in and make phones safer, there are other ways to do that. And if they did explicitly request this particular solution, then why isn’t it being implemented only in those countries?

This is a software-based solution—just like Apple limits certain features to specific regions, Google could do the same and restrict it to the countries that require it.
by bediger4000 | 2025-08-26 16:15:10+00:00
What's the most charitable explanation for Trump administration's motives on this one? The best I can come up with is that they've all been stewing in libertarian free market propaganda for so long that decreasing any regulation whatsoever is believed to unleash an economic boom that will make everyone happy despite an increase in food poisoning.

Greed, stupidity, throwing their weight around, savaging enemies, all explain this, but aren't charitable.
by avastel | 2025-08-26 16:15:17+00:00
Interesting article. I’ve been curious for a while about how residential proxy IPs are collected too. Many come from shady browser extensions or mobile apps, especially free VPNs (wink wink Hola VPN). People often don’t realize they are turning their device into an exit node.

Some time ago I started to track this as a side project (I work in bot detection and was always surprised by how many residential proxies show up in attacks). It started just out of curiosity. Now I collect proxy IPs, which provider they belong to, and how often they are seen. I also publish stats here: https://deviceandbrowserinfo.com/proxy-api/stats/proxy-db-30...

For example, in the last 30 days I saw more than 120K IPs from Comcast and nearly 100K from AT&T.

I also maintain an open IP (ranges) blocklist, mostly effective against data center and ISP proxies. Residential IPs are harder since they are often shared with legit users: https://github.com/antoinevastel/avastel-bot-ips-lists

Even if you can’t block all of them, tracking volume and reuse gives useful signal.
by xnzakg | 2025-08-26 16:15:21+00:00
NVIDIA's stance on Linux aside, from a practical point of view the one thing I've had the most issues with in practice while using them together was the abomination that is Optimus. Considering they mention a mux for outputting directly to the display, it sounds like this might be a bit less of a pain to get working since it sounds like you should be able to just have one GPU active at a time (instead of both of them having to work together).
by yyyk | 2025-08-26 16:15:26+00:00
Well, there are two options now: Linux phones and forking/deGoogling Android. I still believe the second is far more viable. There never was much reason to do all the work twice when there's sufficiently well licensed source around, and much of the app/phone compatibility is built-in. Maybe it's time I give a chance to /e/ OS or something of the like...
by deepanwadhwa | 2025-08-26 16:15:32+00:00
This is very cool. Is my understanding correct that you are trying to put a human in the loop?

I would have loved if there was a demo video showing exactly how the approval process is for long documents.

Is this something similar - https://github.com/deepanwadhwa/zink?tab=readme-ov-file#shie... ?
by rchaud | 2025-08-26 16:15:46+00:00
Uber and Doordash count as "jobs" in the employment rolls. That's fine for people like you and me who probably have full time jobs with benefits and look at employment numbers from the angle of "how does this affect the value of my index fund?" But for the people who have these jobs as their sole source of income and rely on forms of public assistance to make ends, the reality feels far more precarious.
Show HN: Framework to create linters for Python, YAML, TOML, JSON
by szymonmaszke | 2025-08-26 16:16:06+00:00
Hi, this is a Python framework I have created to make my life a little easier when creating custom linting rules.

Key features:

- Quick to use (~20 LOC to create a functioning linter/checker)

- Works with different file formats (as in the description)

- Supports multiple ignore/noqa directives (per-line ignores, range ignores, whole file, rules choice during runs)

- Single check can span all elements of the file or even all files

- Works directly with Python's AST

- Tutorials and API reference to make users life easier

All in all seems to be quite functional for my private (yet) linters, so I decided to make it into a FOSS project.

Have fun, would love to hear your feedback and ideas regarding it!
by kibwen | 2025-08-26 16:16:07+00:00
> then do the repair yourself

This is awesome though, and exactly the sort of thing one buys a Framework for.

> the laptop's battery life is not good

Mine is great, I share a single USB-C cord among all my laptops (of which I have despairingly too many) and I often use my Framework all day while forgetting it's not plugged in. (Fedora, if the OS matters.)
by aurareturn | 2025-08-26 16:16:24+00:00
For high-throughput server software x86 is significantly more efficient than Apple Silicon.

In the server space, x86 has the highest performance right now. Yes. That's true. That's also because Apple does not make server parts. Look for Qualcomm to try to win the server performance crown in the next few years with their Oryon cores.

That said, Graviton is at least 50% of all AWS deployments now. So it's winning vs x86.

ARM in general does not have the top-end performance of x86 if you are doing any kind of performance engineering. I don't think that is controversial.

I think you'll have to define what top-end means and what performance engineering means.
by raziel2701 | 2025-08-26 16:16:46+00:00
Amen brother! And the work-life conditions are also much better in software. I remember in grad school an executive from a big semiconductor company (I think it was ON semi) was complaining to the EE department that most students are now pursuing EE as a CS degree and very few went into hardware so they claimed the talent pool was small.

How about paying more then?

Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.

When I interviewed at intel the position they were offering was to be the "owner" of a tool and I'd be on call.... Yeah no thanks, I get a PhD just to be owned by some company?
by reaperducer | 2025-08-26 16:16:55+00:00
I've been waiting for image gen to catch up enough to be able to repair them all in bulk without changing details, especially faces.

I've been waiting for that, too. But I'm also not interesting in feeding my entire extended family's visual history into Google for it to monetize. It's wrong for me to violate their privacy that way, and also creepy to me.

Am I correct to worry that any pictures I send into this system will be used for "training?" Is my concern overblown, or should I keep waiting for AI on local hardware to get better?
by bcrosby95 | 2025-08-26 16:17:18+00:00
I built a ROG Zephyrus equivalent: The ROG is $2,100 and the Framework is $2700.

So its more expensive but not $1500 vs $4000 expensive.

This was comparing the lowest end model ROG because that's the only one with a 5070. It was also 100% like-for-like, such as paying for windows, something I personally wouldn't do with a framework.
by Aurornis | 2025-08-26 16:18:00+00:00
> Why can no laptop manufacturer even make this an option?

Because it’s a variation of both the case and the internals that brings a higher failure rate, more dust ingress, more moving parts, and, most importantly, would rarely be chosen.

> They are so much slower,

They are objectively faster because you can click anywhere rather than moving a finger to a button or keeping one finger always on the button.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-26 16:18:40+00:00
Didn't the US pay $9.8 billion? Intel's market cap is $106 billion, so $9.8 billion for 10% is buying at a slight discount.

If that data is correct, how did the US "extort" ownership?

Look, I'm as terrified of Trump's overreach as the next guy. I could easily see him extorting partial ownership of companies. But I don't see this as being that.

Can you make a convincing argument otherwise?
by quectophoton | 2025-08-26 16:18:55+00:00
And if for some reason zstd is not acceptable, the LZ4 format is still not too bad. Same author as zstd, relatively well supported, and the format seems even simpler to implement compared to Lzip.

So if for some reason I can't use Zstd, I would still probably choose LZ4 instead of Lzip.
by casey2 | 2025-08-26 16:19:24+00:00
Hardware performance literally doesn't matter if your software doesn't use it. The more soc-like design of the M series essentially results in an easier time for performance developers. x86 vendors are fighting a losing battle until they change their image of what a x86 based computer should look like. you aren't going to beat apple insiders, x86 vendors have a market opportunity here, but they've had it for 2 decades at this point and they have refused to switch, so they are likely incapable and will die. Sad.
by nartho | 2025-08-26 16:19:42+00:00
Music production is overwhelmingly Apple. It comes from the fact that Protools was Mac only until the late 2000s and Logic Pro, Apple's DAW and alternative to Protools was also very popular and also Mac only. That left Cubase for windows and a few others like Ableton and less popular DAWs like Reaper, fruity loops etc. Today there are a few more options for Windows like Studio One who is very good though

Add to that the fact that most of the audio interfaces were firewire and plug and play on mac and a real struggle on windows. With windows you also had to deal with ASIO, and once you picked your audio interface it has to be used for both inputs and outputs (still to this day) forcing you to compound interfaces with workarounds like Asio4All if you wanted to use different interfaces, while Mac os just lets you pick different interfaces for input and output

Linux had very interesting projects, unfortunately music production relies on a lot of expensive audio plugins that a lot of time come in installers and are a pain in the butt to use through proton/wine, when it's possible at all. That means that doing music production on Linux means possibly not using plugins you paid and not finding alternatives to them. It's a shame because I'd love to be able to only use Linux
by Someone | 2025-08-26 16:19:49+00:00
> Iphone AI core is basically Edge AI, which means they deploy it inside the Iphone, not relying on a remote cloud

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iphe3f499e0e/io...:

“For more complex requests that require more computational capacity, Apple Intelligence can use Private Cloud Compute, which extends the privacy and security of your Apple products like iPhone into the cloud to unlock even more intelligence. Private Cloud Compute uses larger, server-based models powered by Apple silicon.“
by aurareturn | 2025-08-26 16:20:31+00:00
The industry has moved past Passmark because it does not correlate to actual real world performance.

The standard is SPEC, which correlates with with Geekbench.

https://medium.com/silicon-reimagined/performance-delivered-...

Every time there is a discussion on Apple Silicon, some uninformed person always brings up Passmark, which is completely outdated.
by diggan | 2025-08-26 16:20:36+00:00
> Even more confusing when McDonalds calls them "burgers with cheese".

That's a fun regional difference with McDonalds it seems, we definitely have (literally) "Cheeseburger" as a independent item on the menu compared to "Hamburger" here in Spain: https://i.imgur.com/XDNuiUW.png

That's quite funny actually, Spain tends to translate everything and have everything in English, dubbed, but apparently the McDonalds Cheeseburger got to remain, and wasn't renamed to "Hamburguesa con Queso" as one would have expected :)
by 9dev | 2025-08-26 16:20:38+00:00
Since you felt the need to contact me with additional insights via email, I don’t want to withhold these from the wider HN community:

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM Michael E—— <m@——.xyz> wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027006

I was old enough to live through the fall. What your reductive ignorance excludes is years of intentional effort by the US and allies to collapse the Soviet Union, while they censored their own media to sell capitalism and markets, while also behaving as awful as Soviets and China around the world with their military.

> Make of that what you will; the arrogance of some people to assume they know better than anyone else sure is stunning.

Oh, we agree on this. You of course no better because it worked for you. Survivorship and selection bias. Still at the end of the day, one of billions with no real obligation on the rest of us to provide you healthcare or give a shit if you end up in the ditch, broke. I for one appreciate the America not making me give a shit you exist.

-- Michael E——

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 17:17 Michael E—— <m@——.xyz> wrote:

Without outside influence to collapse the Soviet union and Soviets maintaining control of their media telling their people their system must survive, does it still collapse?

Rhetorical question, idgaf you even exist, ignorant ass.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 18:31 Michael E—— <m@——.xyz> wrote:

Won't know/show up if you end up broke in an alley eating ass to survive.

That kind of not care.

Thoughts and prayers but you're one of billions of meat suits, statistically irrelevant.

-m

Sent

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 19:22 Michael E—— <m@——.xyz> wrote:

Aw blue language that does not venerate you.

Points remain valid.

-m

Sent
by troupo | 2025-08-26 16:20:52+00:00
> One example:

Oh, it's a great example. You only have to read on a bit to see this:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3462759/article/45685404#45...

--- start quote ---

The cost for sure will be greater than expected but it's not anything we would ask of our preorder customers. We did have to make a minor adjustment in price moving forward.

--- end quote ---

We don't know how much of a loss they are taking on those pre-orders.

> One more:

Another great example if you only understand what's written, emphasis mine:

--- start quote ---

We’ve said from the beginning that we wouldn’t pass any tariffs on to our backers.

But that doesn’t mean we’re not getting hit by them. We are. Hard. And the costs aren’t small.

So instead of a tip jar, we made something for you.

Introducing the Tariff Buster Promo Pack: a small thank-you gift to help us absorb the hit

While that obviously doesn’t cover the full cost of tariffs on each game, it helps us a little

--- end quote ---

Companies absorbing a hit and losing money on a one-off product is somehow "examples of retailers with 30%+ margins".

> just saying that there are definitely exceptions to “customer pays 100% of tariffs”.

These exceptions show that the only way to do that is to lose significant amounts of money to keep a promise on one-off products.

None of these exceptions show that they have 30%+ margins (quite the opposite), or that they absorb them happily (quite the opposite).

And yes, after pre-orders and backing have been fulfilled, if the companies don't fold after losing money, the product that hits the shelves will cost more.
by wavemode | 2025-08-26 16:21:38+00:00
The classical counterargument to this is that, if you have good test coverage then eliminating @name should lead you directly (via failing tests) to where the name field was being used. This works especially well in codebases which enforce what I tend to call "pseudo"-type systems, for example via clojure's spec and Racket's contracts. Where the shape of data is enforced structurally at runtime.

To be honest, the argument in favor of static typing that I find more compelling is the IDE argument. It definitely is a much richer experience browsing code in an IDE with the benefit of hovering over values and knowing their type, ctrl-clicking to go to where something is defined, et cetera. The equivalent of this interactive experience for dynamically-typed languages was supposed to be the REPL. But I feel like true REPL-driven development has mostly fallen by the wayside, and most environments don't have great support for it.
by thisisit | 2025-08-26 16:21:39+00:00
> No longer are they just making knock offs of Western products with stolen IP. BYD for example seems genuinely innovative, a top product. There are many other examples.

I think many people really underestimate this part. If you watch Back to the Future, they sort of deride Japanese goods as cheap knock offs. Later Japanese became an innovation powerhouse. Same thing happened with China. Previously derided for low quality knock-offs is now known for innovation.

No one seems to have the state-run enterprise explanation for Japan but everyone does with China. Because of Chinese Law. While state help is necessary for companies to succeed that alone is not enough.

In the long term small improvements can enable innovation. But if you get stuck on coasting on laurels for a long time it leads to decline in innovation and especially motivation. And when I mean not only in releasing new products but also in manufacturing and other related areas.
by const_cast | 2025-08-26 16:22:48+00:00
Its not even a matter of tradeoffs - banks just suck major ass so, of course, their piece of shit apps are extremely fragile and only work under just the right conditions.

That's not any OS' fault, that's banks fault. That's been my experience with every bank I've used so far and yes - they often break on certified OS' too! I've been on the phone with support!

Because they make bad software, period, and we're all just forced to use their bad software.
by icandoit | 2025-08-26 16:22:57+00:00
AI would never be able to hijack the political process. AI Super-PACs dominating elections would be a clear milestone in the progression of the "gradual disempowerment" theory of loss of human control.

How could a person dedicated to their denial of the possibility of gradual disempowerment spin this as "good actually?" Am I reduced to "technological improvement is always good"? Or there some logically smaller step I can take?
by johnfn | 2025-08-26 16:22:57+00:00
I naively went onto Gemini in order to try to use the new model and had what I could only describe as the worst conversation I've had with an AI since GPT 3.5[1]. Is this really the model that's on top of the leaderboard right now? This feels about 500 ELO points worse than my typical conversation with GPT 5.

Edit: OK, OK, I actually got it to work, and yes, I admit the results are incredible[2]. I honestly have no idea what happened with Pro 2.5 the first time.

[1]: https://g.co/gemini/share/5767894ee3bc [2]: https://g.co/gemini/share/a48c00eb6089
by thejazzman | 2025-08-26 16:23:05+00:00
elon poured a ton of money into strategic locations right at the end, such as running a fake lottery in PA. many attribute the outcome on the role he played.

may not be the most money, but it's the most effective use of money.

PA roads were littered with trump signs because of people being paid to litter our streets with them. for months.

people are, sadly, very easily influenced. companies wouldn't pour so much into advertising, in general, if it didn't have such an effective influence
by notsylver | 2025-08-26 16:23:06+00:00
I tried a dozen or so images. For some it definitely failed (altering details, leaving damage behind, needing a second attempt to get a better result) but on others it did great. With a human in the loop approving the AI version or marking it for manual correction I think it would save a lot of time.

This is the first image I tried:

https://i.imgur.com/MXgthty.jpeg (before)

https://i.imgur.com/Y5lGcnx.png (after)

Sure, I could manually correct that quite easily and would do a better job, but that image is not important to us, it would just be nicer to have it than not.

I'll probably wait for the next version of this model before committing to doing it, but its exciting that we're almost there.