MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alwillis | 2025-08-26 04:10:47+00:00
As part of the system font stack, we no longer need -apple-system or BlinkMacSystemFont to select the default font on Apple devices.

You want to use system-ui to select the platform's UI font, which is San Francisco on Apple devices. Availability is about 95% [1].

[1]:https://caniuse.com/?search=system-ui
by egypturnash | 2025-08-26 04:11:33+00:00
you can say "hey could you refollow those instances"

you could throw more money into the instance's tip jar to make it easier for them to decide to rehost a larger part of the data firehose - that may not be the entire reason they defederated from an instance but it may be part of it

you could move to another instance whose admin's choices are more in line with yours
by drysart | 2025-08-26 04:11:47+00:00
I've been running the iOS 26 beta for a while and really the only problem people have had with it is that it's very clear the message the caller gets is pre-recorded, and without fail everyone who's interacted with it was expecting a beep, like an answering machine, before responding to it; but it doesn't actually beep, it just asks the caller to describe who they are and why they're calling.

So every screening popup I got had amusing text like "Is it going to beep? Hello?"

When it becomes commonplace, I expect the real problem with it will be that spam callers will recognize it and just starting giving false information to it to try to trick the party into accepting the call.
by DrNosferatu | 2025-08-26 04:12:41+00:00
That’s not true for me at all:

AI gives me near-instant distillation of tomes of documentation, that before, I would have to fairly understand to make progress. Now that has become instant and near effortless - if this isn’t a technological revolution, then I don’t know what is.

(AND it writes - at least - the boilerplate code for you)

Beyond the internet and the microcomputer (we’re clearly at this level nowadays), I think AI is on its way to become a technological revolution as big as Electricity - watch this space.
by giardini | 2025-08-26 04:13:42+00:00
IAmGraydon says >But burning it is a symbol of hate of our country<

No. You don't know what the symbol means to any other person than you. And there is no absolute meaning of a symbol.

You are one person in a world of billions, each with their own symbols and interpretations.

Burning a flag could be done for an infinite number of reasons. It could be a constructive ritual that ensures "purification", or "cleansing" or even "betterment" as in a metaphor with wrought iron wherein the heat and pounding shapes and strengthens the metal.

Some Chinese burn goods (and paper models of goods) to send them to their dead ancestors.

Symbolic behavior is incredibly complex.
by LexiMax | 2025-08-26 04:14:13+00:00
That's fair, but a more pervasive Free Software ecosystem might have possibly avoided this outcome entirely. And that failure is something we can lay directly at the feet of the FSF.

If RMS was going to piss off the entire industry with a new version of the GPL, the least he could do was close the network hole. What we got instead is a half measure that satisfies nobody.

More importantly, he completely missed the boat on App Stores. Why was there never any watered down version of copyleft that could be used as a wedge to try and pry open app stores over time? They did it for libraries with the LGPL, but apparently app stores werent worth specials casing.
by bakugo | 2025-08-26 04:14:31+00:00
> They only match you with players nearby and its a lot of fun

Must be great if you happen to live near one of the limited server locations with a high number of players queueing for casual.

I don't, and casual matchmaking is completely unusable for me: it almost always puts me into matches with low player counts that never fill up, and if I leave and requeue, it's almost guaranteed to put me back into the same exact match I just left, over and over again, because there are no others to join. I once left and rejoined the same match 10 times in a row before giving up and closing the game.

I don't even bother trying to play CS anymore, even though it was once one of my favorite games. Everything I loved about it is gone in favor of 5v5 competitive matchmaking and gambling.
by mrandish | 2025-08-26 04:15:02+00:00
> i came away with the impression that parts of Apple might operate differently than inner sanctum hw engineering

I agree and I'm not at all questioning what you experienced. I saw similar things. In the case of Apple, it makes sense the iPhone business would prioritize issues like battery life etc and that the App Store business would prioritize maximizing their multi-billion dollar monopoly revenue stream. Within each business unit they're going to make decisions and allocate resources based on maximizing the metrics their business is judged on.

Where it gets 'interesting' is when two major business units have priorities which directly conflict - like one BU achieving a major objective requires the other BU to not achieve one of their major objectives. When those conflicts are things which directly impact tens of millions or more in revenue and are also high-visibility issues, the conflict gets elevated to the CEO in a small group mtg with both EVPs where they assesses the trade-offs on each side. Ultimately, the CEO is going to pick a 'winner' based on the overall impact to company-wide revenue and the stock price. If the issue is preserving (or losing) the app store monopoly worth billions - we can guess which side is very likely going to win. And maximum motivated reasoning will be deployed to highlight the many reasons that outcome is correct. Many of those reasons will even be legitimate :-).
by drysart | 2025-08-26 04:16:48+00:00
> I just don't think anyone wants to fix it. Why can't apple let us send "spam risk" to voicemail?

You can. At least with iOS 26 you can, I don't know if it's new or not. You can have known spam numbers silenced, sent right to voicemail, and then the voicemail is immediately put into a spam folder.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-26 04:17:03+00:00
Is "salsa" an english word?

In english, "salsa" means a spicy dip made from peppers and other vegetables. In spanish, "salsa" just mean a sauce.

Loan words are a well estabished mechanism by which words enter a language from another langues. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loanword

Loanwords spread from their point of adoption into the wider language and can shift from the original meaning, just like other words.

"Kefir" has definitions in every major dictionary and is often used in contexts where all the other words are also english. That makes it pretty conclusively an English word.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-26 04:17:31+00:00
> minimal penalties for spills

BP et al paid “the largest environmental damage settlement in United States history – $20.8 billion – on April 4, 2016” [1].

The damage from oil spills can be clearly quantified and directly attributed. We don’t have that evidence of harms from such breaches.

[1] https://www.noaa.gov/explainers/deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-...
by mh- | 2025-08-26 04:18:00+00:00
In no particular order:

Air travel (thanks to efficiencies) costs a fraction of what it used to, look up what % of people have traveled by air and compare that to previous decades.

Cars are safer than ever, per mile driven, for their occupants and substantially more comfortable. They're also more efficient, but we've consciously traded that for heavier cars for crash safety.

Lossless audio codecs are ubiquitous, and there are low-loss low-latency wireless audio codecs deployed to billions of devices.

Agree with the AI statement, though.
by altfredd | 2025-08-26 04:18:30+00:00
While this did funnel countless FOSS and commercial developers to pay MS for certificates, it didn't close even 50% of loopholes. You can still execute third party software from your own (e.g. Steam launching games you install with it). You can also use interpreters, JVM and other ways to disregard the requirement.

If fact, the reason why MS can charge for "nearly mandatory" executable signing is because it is not mandatory at all. If they really were forced to close loopholes, they would have made it free for everyone, — just like Let's Encrypt was made free of charge to establish mandatory encryption across the Web.
by ncr100 | 2025-08-26 04:18:30+00:00
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/politics/trump-removing-federa...

"Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve Board, responded by saying she has done nothing wrong and Trump cannot fire her."

And:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Banking Committee, said in a statement: “The illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook is the latest example of a desperate President searching for a scapegoat to cover for his own failure to lower costs for Americans. It’s an authoritarian power grab that blatantly violates the Federal Reserve Act, and must be overturned in court.”
by sterlind | 2025-08-26 04:19:10+00:00
> How can we fix this?

turn people onto sideloaded apps. show them Revanced and NewPipe, show them system-wide ad blockers and bloatware removal and every other thing Google doesn't want plebs to use.

people don't care about "apk side-loading," they care about apps. hook them on forbidden apps, and they'll raise hell when they can't side-load them anymore.
by _heimdall | 2025-08-26 04:19:37+00:00
Can you find a president in recent history that didn't fall short of many or most of their campaign promises?

I don't say that to defend trump, the guys is a narcissistic asshole. I only say that to point to the fact that he's doing what any other politician does - say what it takes to get elected then play the game that makes you the most money.
by dataflow | 2025-08-26 04:20:25+00:00
> California was forcing people to go indoors from the beach after we at HN were discussing the misleading CDC recommendations that masks won’t help

What does that have to do with masks?

And wasn't this in the beginning of the lockdown while they were scrambling to figure things out?

And "misleading" in what way? I know you and the rest of HN knew exactly the right thing to do in the very start of lockdown, so it's sad that they never came on HN for advice, but what makes you think they knew a better solution and yet held it from you?
by safety1st | 2025-08-26 04:20:49+00:00
I agree that this is a horrible step in the wrong direction but in terms of the solution I have a different take.

I don't think that making "normal" people "care" about sideloading is the answer, because a) it's impossible and b) political change doesn't happen through "normal" people anyway, all political and regulatory change is driven via smaller and motivated groups of people.

The problem is fundamentally that there's a duopoly on mobile OSes that has tons of market power and if they want to dictate a change like "you can no longer install unapproved software," they can just do it.

The solution is to walk away from that duopoly, to suck it up and just stop using their products. We fortunately are able to do this (for now) on desktop and running Linux in 2025 is better than it's ever been, and more people are doing it.

To get Linux or some alternative on phones is a big task, and if you make the switch you're going to lose a lot. But most of what has no desktop equivalent is addictive social media garbage that you should get rid of anyway. The biggest thing I'm concerned about is the state of banking and OTP/2FA.

I think we need to fight for universal electronic access to the financial system as a right without a need for gatekeepers like Apple or Google. In some countries it's already the case that at many businesses you must use your phone to make payments, cash is gone, cards are dying, and you must therefore agree to Apple or Google's rules to use your phone. This is truly how freedom and democracy will die if we allow it. This is way bigger for "normal" people than technical concepts like sideloading. People on the left should inherently understand the importance to liberty of having the right as an individual to buy and sell without some megacorp's permission. For people on the right, well, remember the Bible's "Mark of the beast..."

Secondarily we need to fight for the enforcement of anti-trust laws, which half of HN doesn't seem to even know exist, or feels are in some way unfair, even though they are the cause of these problems. Government needs to reach in and rearrange markets that are dominated by one or two players, it needs to forcefully restructure those companies so that they lose their market power and can no longer force citizens to obey their will. We've done it before, such as ending company towns where you were forced to use the company's scrip at the company's shop to buy living essentials. It's worked, we need to do it again.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-08-26 04:21:08+00:00
Humans are dramatically stronger than LLMs. An LLM is like a human you can memory wipe and try to phish hundreds of times a second until you find a script that works. I agree with what you're saying, but it's important to frame an LLM is not like a security guard who will occasionally let a former employee in because they recognize them. They can be attacked pretty relentlessly and once they're open they're wide open.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-26 04:21:51+00:00
You swapped from 'heinous human rights abuses' to 'abuse' when challenged on a point being framed in a rather extreme and partisan fashion. And that's not to mock you or anything - it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do. Abuses are one thing, human rights abuses are another, and then human rights abuses so abnormally cruel that they deserve to be labeled as heinous? I mean are we talking about stuff like Unit 731 [1] here? I'm pretty sure we are not. Yet these echo chambers encourage people to use ever more hyperbolic and sensationalized language framing ever more actions as the most severe and consequential thing to ever happen, mostly just to rile people up (and get those votes in social media).

This is why conversation, and free flow of information, from people of different worldviews is so critical for a functioning society and avoiding radicalism. And I have to say I'm still not certain what you're even talking about, whereas I assume you think literally every American knows exactly what you are trying to reference. But this is again an issue about bubbles, and what I was getting at with if you asked an average person about some trending talking point. On the overwhelming majority of issues, most people's response is going to be 'What are you even talking about?'

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
by theahura | 2025-08-26 04:25:48+00:00
Sure, I don't doubt that. But what is the benefit of having said dentist spend extra money trying to 'optimize' the search engine?

Here's a hypothetical.

There is a town called Foo with two twin dentists, Bar and Baz, who provide identical services. They both get ~50% of Foo's clientele.

One day, Bar decides to hire a firm to SEO-market for him. He suddenly gets 75% of Foo's clientele, while Baz drops down to 25%. In order to counter this, Baz now hires the same firm. Now both Bar and Baz are back to splitting Foo's clientele. But they are also losing some chunk of money to SEO marketers in a rat-race against each other.

Who benefits from this? I think in your example you suggest that you as a consumer benefit from this -- why / how?
by starwatch | 2025-08-26 04:26:01+00:00
You're right, the Norwegian government can do whatever they want. And yes, the ability to stop domain squatting is a nice side effect. For me though, it was a pretty surprising process, and set of restrictions.

Life is full of tradeoffs and this is no exception. I quite like the .no TLD - I find it lends itself to fun product / side project names. It's just a pity that I'm limited to 5 with the .no TLD :)
by vlovich123 | 2025-08-26 04:26:09+00:00
The challenge with big-O is you don’t know how many elements results in what kind of processing time because you don’t have a baseline of performance on 1 element. So if processing 1 element takes 10 seconds, then 10 elements would take 16 minutes.

In practice, n^2 sees surprising slowdowns way before that, in the 10k-100k range you could be spending minutes of processing time (10ms for an element would only need ~77 elements to take 1 minute).
by LilBytes | 2025-08-26 04:26:33+00:00
Unfortunately I find this article to be true.

Only just today two policemen were killed, and a third injured in the rural Victorian high country.

There's been a huge spike in cookers/sovereign citizens using violence through firearms.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-26/victoria-police-incid...

This happened in Wieambilla Queensland in 2022. This story made international news. The policemen and women were executed. Similar story, police perform a welfare check, are shot on sight.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieambilla_shootings

The assumed suspects from todays shooting are well known to the local community, for all the wrong reasons. Notorious 'sovereign citizens'. More information in the Reddit post below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1n09tef/victoria...
by microflash | 2025-08-26 04:26:50+00:00
Perixx makes a few left-handed variants of their mice. I’ve been using their Perimice 513L for several years. Sadly, their newer models are all wireless.

https://perixx.com/products/perimice-513l

https://perixx.com/products/perimice-713l

https://perixx.com/products/perimice-719l
by wraptile | 2025-08-26 04:28:24+00:00
Which happens due to totalitarian control of CCP which prohibits self correction mechanisms we have in democratic societies, so what's the Goldilocks area of authoritarianism here? My bet is that compromising all secure communications is all the way in the big bears bed, if we're sticking to the Goldilocks analogy. It's just a fundamental dead-end without fantasy scenarios like benevolent dictatorship which we all know doesn't exist in the real world.
by goku12 | 2025-08-26 04:29:56+00:00
> Personally: the idea that a "slippery slope" is a logical fallacy has always seemed like bulllshit to me.

I don't know if I got this wrong, but the 'slippery slope' argument by itself never appeared to be a logical fallacy to me. There are numerous valid examples of it, and that's the context of its use in my previous reply. There certainly is a 'slippery slope' logical fallacy, but I thought it meant that you are misapplying/misusing the slippery slope argument where it isn't valid or doesn't apply.

> Google's behavior is utterly and entirely disgusting, unacceptable, despicable, and dishonorable.

I was going to apply the Nazi label on them everyone else who use such sleazy tactics. I hesitated because a lot of people are still emotional about the holocaust (it has been 80 years) and object to equating anything with Nazism. But I sometimes wonder if the objection is meant only to silence the critics. While their actions haven't yet reached the magnitude of atrocities committed by the Nazis, their actions certainly are consistent with the Nazi tactics. Besides, it's not as if they had any qualms labeling ordinary people 'Pirates' for sharing media. Therefore I feel it's quite appropriate to apply to them and promote the label of 'Supply Side Nazis'.
by adrian_b | 2025-08-26 04:30:38+00:00
Approximately.

The Geissler tubes used for lighting, including those filled with neon, use the light of the so called "positive column" of gas, which emits light from almost the entire length of the tube, regardless of its form, which also allows to curve the tube, e.g. in the form of a letter.

The neon indicator bulbs use the so-called "negative light", which is emitted from a small region around the metallic cathode, while the rest of the volume of the bulb emits no light. Because the light-emitting zone is around the cathode, shaping the metallic cathode, e.g. in the form of a digit, will give the same form to the light.

When electric discharges are done in a tube with low-pressure gas, there may be various parts of the tube that emit light, depending on the pressure of the gas, on the applied voltage and on the dimensions and form of the tube and of the electrodes.

While the emitted light can also have other aspects, only 2 variants are used in practical applications, the positive column light for general lighting and the negative cathode light for indicator or display applications.
by bikamonki | 2025-08-26 04:31:00+00:00
It's been many years without social networks for me. At gatherings, I'm often the only one without a phone in my hand, and it feels strange. Eventually, the "phoners" make eye contact and chat a bit, usually about something they all saw on a screen. But it never lasts. They always go back to the screen. It seems silence and quiet time make them uncomfortable. Even in a formal business meeting, screens are open, and attention is lost.

Will decentralized social networks fix this plague? I don't think so. The only thing that works is disconnecting. Just a few weeks into it, you'll realize you have so much free time. Time for hobbies, time for loved ones, time for finding peace and joy, time for creating and sharing. You will regret the thousands of hours wasted on that useless addiction. A few months in, you'll hear the birds singing again. You'll notice the evening skies. You'll find comfort and joy. The time you get back will help you build incredible things.
by MobiusHorizons | 2025-08-26 04:31:00+00:00
I don’t think anyone is saying it’s a brand of wrench. Just that it is a generic term for a very different kind of wrench with an adjustable jaw. Famous for rounding off the corners of perfectly serviceable nuts, bolts, and all manner of pipe fittings. The wrench in the logo is an open end wrench (typically would have a closed end wrench on the other side)
by jlokier | 2025-08-26 04:32:18+00:00
For example, Starling Bank in the UK.

They have a nice web app, but you must use their mobile app to login on the web version. The app takes a video of a QR code on the web page during login. Web login completes as soon as the mobile app notifies the server. There's no 2FA code to enter, and no alternative.

I asked them about this, by phone call, when my phone screen broke and I urgently needed to make a transaction. Surely there as an alternative? Or could I do the transaction by phone call?

They told me that indeed there is no other option. Despite having phone customer support, they had no phone or web banking service at all which could be used without a registered mobile device. The only phone service they could perform was to register a new mobile device, which I didn't have. I had a tablet, but it was too old.

So I had no good choice. The Android phone I'm using right now was bought in a hurry just so I could be allowed to make a bank transaction.

It wasn't my first choice of phone. I didn't have time to investigate alternative devices, let alone weigh up open alternatives. I ended up buying a mid-range device under pressure that seemed ok and was available in a store without waiting. (It was a brand new Samsung, and despite the IP rating it got water damaged and stopped working entirely after a few splashes a year or so later, but I was able to get it repaired.)