MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigyabai | 2025-08-27 19:09:54+00:00
It's not a fantasy-land idea at all. Apple has already tried penetrating the datacenter before, they've proven they can ship a product to market if they want to. They just don't. They don't want to support Nvidia drivers or complex GPGPU primatives or non-raster GPU architectures or cross-platform acceleration libraries. Which is frankly an braindead decision from the opportunity cost side of things; if your consumers don't care, why not deliver what developers want?

Apple can have their cake and eat it here. If they reacted fast enough (eg. ~2018) then they could have had a CUDA competitor in-time for the crypto and AI craze - that's a fact! But they missed out on those markets because they had their blinders on, dead-to-rights focused on the consumer market they're losing control over. It's starting to verge on pathetic how gimped the Mac is for a "real computer" product.
by jaccola | 2025-08-27 19:10:02+00:00
I would love to see a web app with an interface where I select two programming languages and it shows me a really clean snippet of code in language A and says "Look how terribly hard and unclean this is to achieve in language B". (and then you could reverse to see where B outshines A).

Languages are a collection of tradeoffs so I'm pretty sure you could find examples for every two languages in existence. It also makes these kinds of comparisons ~useless.
by lowsong | 2025-08-27 19:10:05+00:00
Falsehood in... what exactly? This is a horrible tragedy, and you've taken the opportunity to complain about your perceived bias in a news agency instead of engaging with the actual topic.

From one of your other comments in this thread:

> Just look at all the evidence presented in this non-biased, objective article with no financial incentive to incite moral panic…obviously chatgpt is guilty of murder here!

Who cares about the NYT, go read the original legal filings and tell me which part is the moral panic. Is it the bit where the chatbot offered to write him a draft of his suicide note, analyzed the structural stability of his noose and offered advice on a "beautiful suicide", or maybe the part where it told him to make sure to slowly lean forwards to build up the correct pressure to cause death from hanging?
by uberman | 2025-08-27 19:10:43+00:00
Many more inexpensive homes turnover, so a more accurate appraisal is generally easier to obtain. The wealthier you are, the more resources you can devote to challenging your appraisal. When taken together, you get a situation where more expensive properties are likely to be less current with respect to the market and the affluent can then find more comparable under-appraised properties to base an appeal off of.

Don't get me wrong, it makes me super mad that my rich neighbors want to sell their homes for 10 million bucks but are fine being appraised at a million. I'll also comp to being in the same boat, but I really wish there was a way to more accurately keep all properties properly appraised so as to keep taxes fair. Particularly when school budgets fail due to the community not paying what they owe.

There is nothing new here though. The affluent will always be able to game the system (any system) more effectively.
by GMoromisato | 2025-08-27 19:10:45+00:00
Rocket Lab tried the alternative: low-cost, mass-produced expendable rockets, and Peter Beck famously ate his hat when they pivoted to reusable.

Partial reusability won't get the cost down to the ~$100/kg range. And it definitely won't do that and still loft ~100 tons to orbit.

Falcon 9 can get 15 tons to LEO for $45 million, and that's already the lowest price on the market. To hit $300/kg they would need to build a 2nd-stage, launch, recover (on a drone-ship) and refurbish for $4.5 million. That's just not going to happen.

There are only two companies that are actively building hardware for 2nd-stage reusability: Blue Origin (which doesn't even have a prototype yet) and Stoke (which has a max 3-ton payload). If Starship fails, we are not getting $300/kg orbital costs for 1-2 decades minimum.

I agree that Starship has lots of other potential technological blockers (although fewer each attempt--I never thought tower-catch would work the first time). But no other designs are even close to fulfilling the promise of low-cost orbital launch.
by jmclnx | 2025-08-27 19:11:06+00:00
I guess Wikipedia does not echo the blatant lies the Trump Admin. is pushing.

Maybe Wikipedia should start blocking states the congress people asking for this investigation are from with a big banner saying "Your congress person wants us to push Trump Lies, so this site is blocked from your state until this investigation ends".

Then maybe these people understand what real bias looks like.
by bazzargh | 2025-08-27 19:11:07+00:00
Remove 501(c)3 status, apparently. Trump's repeatedly threatened this in other cases - the TNPA concluded he didn't have that power with executive orders, but congress did https://tnpa.org/nonprofits-under-fire-how-the-irs-can-and-c...

Not a lawyer tho, and it seems that even with a majority getting something like that through congress would be very difficult.
by eastbound | 2025-08-27 19:11:31+00:00
It’s infuriating because, when debating, we’re asked to cite our sources.

We’d like to cite sources but journalists don’t cite theirs.

Now consider this: When you know journalists are spreading a lie, you can show the article and the scientific study which says the opposite, because people always claim that it isn’t the study cited by the article.

Case in point: I remember this article from the BBC titled “It’s proven, women are smarter than men. [In a scientific study about multitasking, …]”

The scientific paper published the month before on the same subject had an abstract that finished with “…, therefore we cannot conclude that women are smarter than men.”

I was particularly angry because it participated to the 2017 wave, and it was about multitasking, and once again it said women are 5s faster on a 170s task (with 15s stddev), but the study didn’t underline the accuracy of the two tasks in parallel, which was worse for women than men.

Anybody who mocks me about competing with girls, should respond why the BBC need to publish a petty news article about women being smarter.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-27 19:11:54+00:00
> because if we're careful it's entirely safe.

The thesis of Rust is that in aggregate, everyone can't be careful, therefore allowing anyone to do it (by default) is entirely unsafe.

Of course you can do unsafe things in Rust, but relegating that work to the room at the back of the video store labeled "adults only" has the effect of raising code quality for everyone. It turns out if you put up some hoops to jump through before you can access the footguns, people who shouldn't be wielding them don't, and average code quality goes up.
by saaaaaam | 2025-08-27 19:12:11+00:00
Doesn’t work at all for me.

Entered my my prompt… It did a bunch of stuff - apparently initially focused on making me an app icon which I don’t really care about.

I moved away from the app, went back and everything had gone and my prompt was just sitting there by itself.

I said “please proceed” and it opened a new chat, did the same thing. It was doing stuff, I moved to something else, went back, everything vanished.

So that’s two of my five free messages zapped. And all of my patience.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-27 19:12:11+00:00
So what is a greater threat to free speech.

A group of students throwing a tantrum because someone they don’t like was invited to speak?

The most powerful government in the world using every tool it has to make the university whose speech they don’t like suffer? Tools including threatening to remove accreditation, refusing to disburse hundreds of millions of dollars in grants, threatening to end the student visas of the international students, etc.
by kshahkshah | 2025-08-27 19:12:11+00:00
I play Mastermind with my kids. It hasn’t clicked quite yet with them but I’ve shown them my strategy of eliminating colors by making an entire row a single color successively. Either it’s not present or now you know how many of a particular color. Then you just need to figure out ordering. Again you can use a known “bad” color to avoid ambiguity of multiple white pegs
by NoArcher888 | 2025-08-27 19:12:12+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. Dragging doesn’t work on desktop right now, only clicking, but I’ve added drag support to my backlog.

On the words: Word Slicer focuses on base or dictionary forms. The list includes common nouns (like river), verbs (like dance), and adjectives (like bright). You’ll find wide but not wider, for example — which is why words like acing or awing don’t register.
by joe_the_user | 2025-08-27 19:12:23+00:00
The law doesn't permit a life-saving doctor to be a serial killer on their days off "as long there's net life saving". But it does permit drugs that save many lives but might kill some people too. Agency matters to the law (and that's usually the proper approach imo).

The problem is the chat logs look a lot like ChatGPT is engaging in behavior a lot like a serial killer - it behaved like a person systematically seeking the goal of this kid killing himself (the logs are disturbing, fair warning).

Even more, the drugs that might save you or might kill you (theoretically) aren't sold over the counter but only prescribed by a doctor, who (again theoretically) is there to both make sure someone knows their choices and monitor the process.
by andix | 2025-08-27 19:12:25+00:00
> "These versions have since been removed from NPM as of 10:44 PM EDT"

If you're ever writing a post like that, please use UTC, standard time formats (RFC, 24h format) and add the date.

"10:44 PM EDT" is something I need to look up to understand what it means (EDT is not a well knows abbreviation outside of North America). Also all my timestamps in GitHub (when the post was created, updated) show up in my local time (which I can easily map to UTC in my head, but not to EDT).

EDT is -0400, so it's 18:44:00Z. Edit: totally messed up the calculation, it's actually 02:44:00Z on the next day. Just proving my point.
by Andrex | 2025-08-27 19:12:26+00:00
If you're going so far as to install Lineage, couldn't you take the small step further and download alternate browsers to change the user agent? (Unless the default Lineage browser can do this already.)

I run a Google'd OS for now but I haven't used my bank's terrible app in years and years. I use their terrible website via desktop mode instead.
by TheCraiggers | 2025-08-27 19:12:32+00:00
Yes, but perhaps not in the way you imagine.

I'm still not using AI much, but I'm especially wary of using it to help me with any creative task such as writing or coding. I believe "vibe coding" is the anthesis of hacker culture. What interest I've lost is probably more due to being depressed about the direction I see things heading.
by xpe | 2025-08-27 19:12:47+00:00
That would be an unfortunate backup plan to rely on. We want to keep the full value of Wikipedia alive. Wikipedia is (1) an ideal; (2) a community of volunteers; (3) a brand; (4) a habit for many people seeking information; (5) a center (if not the center) of many online textual / knowledge ecosystems.

Peaceful, sustained, popular, legal, loud resistance is necessary to push back against an administration that is trying to kneecap influential dissenting viewpoints.
by tempestn | 2025-08-27 19:12:56+00:00
After some reading, it appears it's more of a mixed bag. Evolutionary pressure from vaccines can have that effect, as appears to have been the case with Omicron, but it's not guaranteed, and some variants appear to have been more virulent than the original virus. See the "Relative Severity of Variants" section of this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00841-7?utm_sourc...
by estebank | 2025-08-27 19:13:07+00:00
The thing is I want an equivalent to `todo!()` for the type-system. A mode of operation where if you have some compile errors, you can still run tests. Like for example, if you have

fn foo() -> impl Display { NotDisplay::new() }

and a test references `foo`, then it gets replaced for the purposes of the test with

fn foo() -> impl Display { panic!("`NotDisplay` doesn't `impl Display`") }

This should not be part of the language, but part of the toolchain.

Same thing for the borrow-checker.
by bhouston | 2025-08-27 19:13:14+00:00
I do not know the exact specifics of UC Berkeley and you didn't link to them.

That said, I am a financial supporter of FIRE, which often has come to the defense of free speech of conservatives. It is also opposed to the Trump administrations moves against Harvard:

https://www.thefire.org/news/findings-against-harvard-are-bl...
by thevillagechief | 2025-08-27 19:13:34+00:00
My only use case for paypal is booking an internal flight in a country I visit annually because they do not accept my credit card, but will accept paypal. Literally the only reason I reluctantly got an account. The horror stories I've heard, I wouldn't put any serious money in there. And their drama during the heydays of censorship a few years ago, literally fining people $2500 for politically incorrect speech at the time, I couldn't believe sane people at the company thought that was an acceptable idea. I'd really like to know the inside story of that decision. We forget how crazy 2021-2022 was.
by jacobx | 2025-08-27 19:13:35+00:00
Yeah, the prompt is just asking Claude to generate a SwiftUI iPhone app. The recent models have been able to generate really good Swift code, so we just have a set of best practice instructions we've been accumulating (telling it to make an app with @main, pointing it to/away from some APIs, encouraging it to persist things in UserDefaults, etc).

I think most of that would work pretty well for making SwiftUI desktop apps too.
by bingbing123 | 2025-08-27 19:14:23+00:00
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Let me know: - What use cases you'd love to see? - Feature requests or performance feedback?

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by Refreeze5224 | 2025-08-27 19:14:51+00:00
Preventing every other iPhone owner on the planet from having full access to their own property because you don't want to do tech support for your dad is not an acceptable argument.

Preventing bad things at the cost of certain fundamental freedoms is not a desirable goal. Law enforcement is intentionally made harder by the 4th Amendment. It's literally there to obstruct the police, because it's more important for people to have privacy.

The same applies to your phone. A device you buy should be yours to use however you want, especially a device as important as a smartphone in the 21st century. No one expects to be able to run Linux on their toaster if it didn't already come with it, but preventing certain major functionality because ToasterCorp wants a walled garden is not acceptable. I see no difference with a phone.

Going forward, you could emphasize to Pops: "Never install anything not from the Apple App Store. Only use the Apple App Store." Problem solved. The rest of keep our freedom, Pop is safe.
by imiric | 2025-08-27 19:16:20+00:00
It matters because as a developer I'll get support requests from users who claim that my software has issues, even when the root cause is unrelated to my code. If I explicitly document that I support a single way of deploying the software, and that way is a self-contained artifact with all the required runtime dependencies, which was previously thoroughly tested in my CI pipeline, then I can expect far less support requests from users.

Again, this matters a lot to smaller projects and teams. Larger projects have the resources to offer extended support for various environments and deployment procedures, but smaller ones don't have this luxury. A flood of support requests can lead to exhaustion, demotivation, and burnout, especially in open source projects and those without a profitable business model. Charging for support wouldn't fix this if the team simply doesn't have the bandwidth to address each request.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-08-27 19:16:45+00:00
Does anyone have convincing macro ideas about why blogging died? Or maybe a link to some high level historian insights of the era?

Like the days where it seemed like everyone maintained a Blogger site and wrote longer form content?

Maybe it's more because blogging was a fluke to begin with. Kind of like in my junior high (2002?) every kid had an online journal (Xanga) that died when we moved to sharing those thoughts on Myspace.

Maybe it could be seen is more of a ephemeral shared "mass-delusion" that we should maintain blogs and post our thoughts online about favorite topics. (Hmm, I think this seems very reasonable.)

But moving to social media doesn't seem to explain everything. People had long form blogs about all subject you could think of. And it's not like it was obsoleted by posting those thoughts on Facebook. Instead the idea of individuals posting their long (text) thoughts on hobby topics just seemed to almost die completely.
by climb_stealth | 2025-08-27 19:17:26+00:00
What, you don't remember random details from all this time ago? I got locked out of mine as well and the questions to restore were ridiculous. How the hell would I know what transactions I did 15 years ago? And other stupid things like that.

Gave up on it after a while and now try to avoid it as much as I can. Good riddance.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-27 19:17:44+00:00
As a Rust user, I hope that "as" never goes away. It's way too useful to get rid of, e.g. deliberately truncating numbers to a smaller number of bits. Can you do that in other ways? Absolutely. But they are all less ergonomic than "as". At most I would be ok with restricting "as" to an unsafe block, though that isn't a perfect solution because unsafe isn't really meant to apply to such cases.
Show HN: Testronaut – AI-powered mission-based browser testing
by scfast | 2025-08-27 19:17:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a project called *Testronaut*, an autonomous testing framework that combines AI reasoning with real browser automation. The idea is to let you define end-to-end tests as “missions” in plain English, then have an agent run them through a real browser using Playwright.

Why I built this: I’ve often found end-to-end tests to be fragile, time-consuming to maintain, and difficult to scale. Testronaut tries to reduce the maintenance burden by using AI to adapt tests to small UI changes, while still producing a deterministic report of what passed/failed.

How it works: - Missions can be written as strings or functions. - The agent uses GPT-4o with a set of tools (click, type, navigate, get_dom, etc.) to interact with the page. Support for other LLMs/Models in the works. - Browser control is handled by Playwright. - Reports are generated in both JSON and HTML, with step-by-step breakdowns (including screenshots). - It runs locally via a CLI (`npx testronaut`) and doesn’t require any hosted service. You will need to provide your own OpenAI API key, however.

Current state: - Early days: it works for simple flows and demo apps, but I’m still tuning the reliability and efficiency. - It installs with one command and comes with a sample mission. - Open source on npm/GitHub.

Links: - Docs & quickstart: https://docs.testronaut.app - GitHub: https://github.com/mission-testronaut/testronaut-cli - npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/testronaut

I’d love feedback from the HN community on: - Where this could be most useful (CI/CD? flaky test replacement? exploratory testing?). - What concerns you’d have about using an AI-driven test runner. - Any “gotchas” I should watch out for in early adoption.

Thanks for taking a look!
by danenania | 2025-08-27 19:18:25+00:00
> That's a very load-bearing "clearly". I don't think it's clear at all lol.

Are you really disputing that LLMs can replicate some aspects of human intelligence? I mean, they're often passing the Turing test, writing non-trivial programs, and got a gold medal in the IMO.

Maybe you aren't well informed on their actual capabilities?

> Heavier-than-air flight is (relatively) straightforward and it's easy for humans to build models.

Actually, before the first airplanes were created, plenty of people were making arguments very similar to yours to dismiss human flight as impossible.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin, 1895
by nostrademons | 2025-08-27 19:18:28+00:00
They're very much yin and yang. PE's operating model is to take businesses that are operating inefficiently, squeeze all the inefficiencies out, sell off assets that would be more productive under other management, and basically strip the company bare. If it kills the company, that creates fertile ground for new startups funded by VC.

Think of PE as the decomposers of capitalism, and VC as its seeds. Most people don't like to think of it that way because they don't like to be reminded that death is a part of life. But if you view capitalism as a living ecosystem and your role within capitalism as someone to accelerate growth and then accelerate death so that new growth can take its place, it all makes sense. And you can probably profit pretty handsomely from it, because most people don't view capitalism like that and instead seek stability in the dying parts.
by rtfeldman | 2025-08-27 19:18:32+00:00
Zed is open-source under GPLv3 - https://github.com/zed-industries/zed

That doesn't guarantee it will have paid contributors indefinitely, but the same is true of the other editors you listed. It does, however, guarantee that if Zed (the company) were to disappear, community members would be free to continue using the Zed editor (and developing it) in perpetuity!
by bazzargh | 2025-08-27 19:18:42+00:00
Bush Derangement Syndrome is covered (the writeup is linked to from the TDS article) but there is something special when republicans in multiple state legislatures have proposed _legislation_ on the subject of TDS, under that name, which would spend taxpayer money. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome#P...
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-27 19:18:46+00:00
That's going to be awkward, when they find that there's been, for many years, a studious effort to push forth pro-Israel talking points and agendas.

(To be clear, there is also pro-Palestine, too, though certainly less organized.)

Also, RIP Wikipedia Review which, though it went downhill later, was an amazing source of revealing corruption in the Wikipedia bureacracy, cabalizing and literal secret mailing lists to coordinate protection of viewpoints, including pro-Israel, from the admins.