MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danaris | 2025-08-28 18:58:13+00:00
Apple showed the world that a smartphone that was enjoyable to use was possible.

I know it's hard to remember today, but in 2007, Apple was still the perennially-"beleaguered" underdog whose only big success story in marketshare terms was the iPod.

If the public had not loved the iPhone, it never could have "normalized" anything.

There are definitely aspects of the iPhone that it is fair to criticize Apple for. The rest of the world's wholesale embrace of its design—to the point of slavishly copying it, for several manufacturers at different points in time—can only be blamed on their lack of imagination and willingness to take risks, and on the public's unwillingness to give up the benefits of the iPhone just to get the much-less-obvious benefits of something more "open" or different.
by achenet | 2025-08-28 18:58:23+00:00
He makes money by convincing people to buy OpenAI stock.

If OpenAI goes down tomorrow, he will be just fine. His incentive is to sell the stock, not actually build and run a profitable business.

Look at Adam Neumann as an example of how to lose billions of investor dollars and still walk out of the ensuing crash with over a billion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumann

His strategy is to sell OpenAI stock like it was Bitcoin in 2020, and if for some reason the market decides that maybe a company that loses large amounts of cash isn't actually a good investment... he'll be fine, he's had plenty of time to turn some of his stock into money :)
by rwyinuse | 2025-08-28 18:58:27+00:00
I don't know about TrueNAS, but with Proxmox the two random 10$ SATA-cards I tried only gave me issues. With first one OS wouldn't boot, second seemed to work fine, but connected drives disappeared as soon as I wrote to them.

Used server-grade LSI cards seem to be the way to go. Too bad they're power hungry based on what I've read.
by aeblyve | 2025-08-28 18:58:34+00:00
I think that finding an aftermarket keyboard solution for a smartphone using the android virtualization framework to run a debian VM (i.e. the "Linux Terminal" on Android 16) is your best bet by far.

The economies of scale (and compactness!) in mainstream smartphones are very hard to match, and they tend to have superior power management.

Do heavy lifting by logging into a remote server for best battery life and compute power.
by scottfr | 2025-08-28 18:58:43+00:00
Interesting, I would love to hear how well those worked.

Grammit uses the Prompt API for the local LLM, which currently uses a version of the Gemma 3n model on Chrome.

Grammit uses prompting instead of fine-tuning or custom training. Simplified, it has a system prompt along the lines of: "Rewrite this text, correcting any grammar or spelling mistakes," combined with a prefilled conversation containing a number of examples showing an input sentence and the corrected output.
by dang | 2025-08-28 18:58:45+00:00
Related. Others?

The Lobster Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051841 - May 2025 (6 comments)

The Lobster Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31453822 - May 2022 (14 comments)

The Lobster Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25498005 - Dec 2020 (4 comments)

The Lobster Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567160 - April 2019 (164 comments)

The Lobster Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15557060 - Oct 2017 (2 comments)
by notahacker | 2025-08-28 18:59:19+00:00
> The USA is like this. Perhaps the author is American and that's why they're so shocked when they begin to see the world through others' eyes.

Yeah, I'm a bit perplexed by this. You'll see local brands and local tourism dominate in many parts of countries like Spain or Thailand or Peru which don't even pretend to be self sufficient. No real surprise that US brands are a footnote somewhere with a different culture, especially when there's a billion people there and they make a lot of the stuff the West uses anyway.
by scotty79 | 2025-08-28 19:00:02+00:00
I'm afraid about that too, but I hope that AI will get significantly smarter faster than it takes for any new language take popularity among humans. That it will be smart enough to not be so language sensitive.

Who knows. Maybe some new fun language will pop up that's hard to write for humans, but easy to write for AI (because it can work in millisecond loop with language server, think borrow checker to the moon) and also exceedingly easy to read for humans. Because humans will, I think stil for a long time, need to debug ever shrinking corner cases where AI generated something subtly but spectacularly wrong.
by BenjiWiebe | 2025-08-28 19:00:10+00:00
A blockchain doesn't, unless all peers are directly connected to all other peers.

Otherwise, a transaction has to propagate through the network.

For Bitcoin, for the last couple years, looks like it's typically 15ish seconds to reach 90% of the network and 5ish to reach 50% of the network.

A centralized server could send updates to directly connected clients much faster than that.

https://www.dsn.kastel.kit.edu/bitcoin/#propdelaytx
by coffeecoders | 2025-08-28 19:00:14+00:00
I think we’ll need to rethink what it means to be “skilled.” Fewer people will write every line of code themselves, but more will need to understand systems end-to-end, ask the right questions, and guide AIs to meaningful outcomes.

AI isn’t replacing thinking, it’s changing what we think about. Coding skill won’t disappear; it’ll just evolve.
by kragen | 2025-08-28 19:00:57+00:00
VPNs that are advertised are for-profit products, which means:

1. They are in most cases run by national spy agencies.

2. They will at least appear to work, i.e., they will provide you with access to websites that are blocked by the country you are in. Depending on which country's spies run the system, they may actually work in the sense of hiding your traffic from that country's spies, or they may mark you as a specific target and save all your traffic for later analysis.

My inclination is to prefer free (open-source) software that isn't controlled by a company which can use that control against its users.
by jolmg | 2025-08-28 19:01:01+00:00
> the best route for Linux phones is going to be by taking Android phone parts and trying to make it run regular Linux

> and hopefully solid enough drivers to build on.

This is the crux of the problem with this approach. That the drivers would remain closed-source. AFAIK, the Pinephones and Librem are the only ones with open-source drivers.
by Swenrekcah | 2025-08-28 19:01:03+00:00
It is interesting that you believe this is mainly caused by foreign students. It is a recurring theme in today’s society.

If you look at the data here [1] you can see there is a wide range of tuition costs for the top 100 universities in the USA, going as low as 6000 usd with the average in-state cost at 17,000 usd.

The most prestigious ones are more expensive. Why is that? A very significant part is the network effect people are buying, they are hoping to either get to know well off or connected colleagues, finish a thesis under a prestigious professor or just simply to have a degree from the fancy university. This is all in an attempt to get ahead. This effect is there regardless of any international students.

[1]: https://www.collegetuitioncompare.com/best-schools/us-top-10...
by NotPractical | 2025-08-28 19:01:27+00:00
> it just requires that they be able to justify restrictions and keep them as narrow as possible

But they haven't provided a justification for this. The least you'd expect would be a "this app violates notarization guideline x.x.x". They might have to edit the CSS on their website a little (add the .lighter-override class) but after that they could just cite 5.2.3 [1].

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#leg...
by foldr | 2025-08-28 19:03:06+00:00
>There are no mechanisms where discriminatory pricing kicks in, and only the foreign students pay for the additional capacity.

There is exactly such a mechanism. The foreign students pay more!

I don't have the exact figures to crunch the numbers (and I doubt you do either), but it's pretty implausible to suggest that foreign students are somehow a loss maker for US universities. If foreign students were a net loss, then universities wouldn’t be so keen to admit them. And if they're profitable then they pay for their seats.

The US university system is an incredible national asset. There are incalculable benefits to having the world's best universities attracting the best students from all over the world. That some Americans have managed to convince themselves that this is a bad thing is enough to turn my brain inside out.
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by reissbaker | 2025-08-28 19:03:24+00:00
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by danaris | 2025-08-28 19:04:09+00:00
> They already ran everybody else out of business (Palm WebOS, BlackberryOS, Windows Phone).

Only because those alternative mobile OSes were, frankly, crappy in comparison to iOS and Android.

I don't recall Google or Apple doing anything particularly anticompetitive to cause any of those OSes to fail to keep up in the market, aside from just plain "being the 800lb gorillas in the room". (Not saying they never do anything anticompetitive, just that those particular market failures can't be laid at their feet.)

It would be great to have some really good alternatives to the mobile duopoly. Hell, if we had more fragmentation in the market, that would even lead to more impetus for interoperability and common standards—which we desperately need more of everywhere in tech these days. But those three, in particular? They lost because they were worse at being a good mobile OS for most people.
by baranul | 2025-08-28 19:04:27+00:00
People were not laughing at Turbo Pascal or Delphi when they came out, and they dominated for many years. Delphi/Object Pascal is still taught in the schools of many countries.

There are people who want everyone to forget Delphi/Object Pascal and they wish it was dead. But what they wish for and reality are two different things. Delphi still makes money, otherwise they wouldn't sell it.
by jolmg | 2025-08-28 19:04:27+00:00
I haven't tried Whatsapp or Signal. The problem I've had with Uber is feeding it GPS coordinates. Talking about Waydroid, for some reason, while I can get Google Maps to see my coordinates, Uber seems to try to get the coordinates some different way. IIRC, you can still use it, you just need to be more explicit about where you want it to pick you up.
by irq-1 | 2025-08-28 19:05:04+00:00
> “We’re heading into a new age of AI-assisted coding, and right now, it’s difficult to predict how that will play out. But if I had to place a bet, I would say that in the long run, AIs are more likely to generate high-quality code in a language like Gleam. Gleam makes it quick and easy for AIs to check their code, get instant feedback, and iterate. That should be an advantage compared to languages that are slow to build, have cryptic error messages, and can’t catch mistakes at build-time.”

Interesting point and one I haven't seen before. Almost like arguing that AI will work best with things it can learn quickly, rather than things that have lots of examples.
by deniscartin | 2025-08-28 19:05:08+00:00
I receive a lot of requests as a freelancer to deploy specific smart contracts for tracking.

The products are different but the core is always same - so I made this automatic generator that allows no-code people to have their own personalized smart contracts on-chain in few minutes.

If you are into blockchain, try this, can be useful if you need proof of a document or a product.
by ddtaylor | 2025-08-28 19:05:11+00:00
Probably not very good. I selected large spinning hard drives because I could get them at a good price for 2TB each and I wanted to setup a RAID5-like system in ZFS and btrfs (lesson learned, btrfs doesn't actually support this correctly) and I wanted to get at least 10TB with redundancy.

I don't know how much each of those SATA disks take up, but probably more than a single Raspberry Pi does.

Likewise it has a few case fans in it that may be pointless. I would prefer it never has a heating issue versus saving a few "whurrr" sounds off in a closet somewhere that nobody cares about.

It's also powering that Nvidia 1060 that I do almost nothing with on the NAS. I don't even bother to enable the Jellyfin GPU transcoding configuration because I prefer to keep my library encoded in h264 right now anyhow as I have not yet made the leap to a newer codec because the different smart TVs have varying support. And sometimes my daughter has a friend come over that has a weird Amazon tablet thing that only does a subset of things correctly.

The 1060 isn't an amazing card really, but it could do some basic Ollama inference if I wanted. I think it has 6GB of memory, which is pretty low, but usable for some small LLMs.
by mcflubbins | 2025-08-28 19:05:12+00:00
Pine has an attention problem, they produce a lot of different things but the ones that people really wanted like the PinePhone Pro just were never there, with they'd have just doubled down on something and made that REALLY good first.

I preordered the Pinebook, it was never really awesome but it was neat, I accidentally broke the screen and was never able to get a replacement (at least from the store - they were always sold out.) Turned into ewaste.

PinePhone Pro wasn't too good either, I really tried but had lots of flaky issues with basic phone functionality, eventually gave it away to a friend. It's collecting dust for sure and will eventually be more ewaste.
by EthanHeilman | 2025-08-28 19:05:59+00:00
> Isn't this article conflating our formalism of a given abstract entity (like real numbers or integers) with the abstract entity itself?

It is arguing that the integers separate from the reals is the formalism and that the abstract entity is the reals.

We also have a formalism of the reals, but it is closer to the abstract entity.

> And I agree that our formalism of integers is simpler and more elegant than our formalism of real numbers. But that could just be because we've done a worse job formalizing real numbers!

As we create better more useful formalisms, we interact more with the formalism than the thing itself. It is like putting on oven mitts to pick up a hot tray from the oven. This has already happened with the reals!

Consider the question of if the reals are well-ordered or not. The question applies to the actual entity of the reals itself, but the absoluteness theorem shows that the question has no arithmetic consequences. You can simple ignore the question. Thus, those seeking the mental comfort and utility of the formalism do not have to concern themselves with the true nature of the real number line.
by tw04 | 2025-08-28 19:06:03+00:00
>This is such a naive take. Bitnami images were a sign of goodwill, a foot in the door at places were the hardened images were actually needed. They just couldn't compete with the better options on the market. This isn't a way to fix it, it's extortion. This is the same thing Terraform Cloud did, and I don't think that product is doing so hot.

You seem to be confused about who Broadcom is and how they operate. "Long term health" isn't a thing for them. They buy products that are embedded deeply in the fortune 500, cut 90% of the staff, and increase licensing and support 2-100x. They do not care if you are upset. They do not care if you're going to "find something else". They don't care if you build an entire campaign to decry what they're doing.

They know the F500 cannot easily remove them, and that they will have at minimum 5 years to print cash on their service contracts. Sure, some of those F500s will sue them and try to stop the extortion via legal means, but they know that they'll either win, or at worst still be allowed to jack up prices even if a court rules it's not their original egregious asking price.
by nxobject | 2025-08-28 19:06:37+00:00
Three things come to mind:

- bold-face item headers (eg “Practical Significance:”)

- lists of complex descriptors non-technical parts of the writing (“ With theoretical explanations, practical implementations, and visualizations”)

- the cheery, optimistic note that underlines a goal plausibly derived from a prompt. (eg “ Let’s dive into the equations that power this fascinating field!”)
by jacobx | 2025-08-28 19:06:53+00:00
Thanks, we'll have to update the Contact Us link to work more generically. The Send Feedback link is when you're inside of a project, and you tap the ... in a circle button. It uploads your feedback and code directly to us, so is the best way for us to directly debug when we're not rendering your code correctly.

I'll take a look at camera access and see what's going wrong there.
by mothballed | 2025-08-28 19:07:00+00:00
>The exception is doctors. The shortage there is completely driven by their guild (AMA) successfully lobbying for a restriction on the number of medical schools.

NPs are starting to get around this by getting independent or mostly independent practices in many states. The Doctors can still kick PAs in the teeth because they are usually under the medical board, but they can't do nearly as much to get their greedy claws on NPs because they are governed by a separate nursing board that nurses have more control of.
by database64128 | 2025-08-28 19:07:12+00:00
You could use something like https://github.com/database64128/swgp-go to obfuscate WireGuard traffic.

Using full-blown VPNs under such environments has the disadvantage of affecting your use of domestic web services. You might want to try something like https://github.com/database64128/shadowsocks-go, which allows you to route traffic based on domain and IP geolocation rules.
by tombert | 2025-08-28 19:07:30+00:00
> Do you think the power consumption matters on your box here?

It's actually not too bad; the main "server" idles at around 14W and the power supply for it only goes to 100W under load. The drive bays go up to 100W (I think) but generally idle around 20W each. All together it idles at around ~70-80W.

Not that impressive BUT it replaced a big rack mount server that idled at about 250W and would go up to a kilowatt under load.

> Should you care about the "USB bottleneck"?

Not really, at least not for what I'm doing. I generally can get pretty decent speeds and I think network is often the bottleneck more than the drives themselves.

> How do you organize this thing so it's not a mess of USB cables?

I don't :). It's a big mess of USB cables that's hidden in a closet. It doesn't look pretty at all.
by AJ007 | 2025-08-28 19:07:57+00:00
Whenever someone has complained to me about issues they are having with ChatGPT on a particular question or type of question, the first thing I do is ask them what model they are using. So far, no one has ever known offhand what model they were using, nor were not aware there are more models!

If you understand there are multiple models from multiple providers, some of those models are better at certain things than others, and how you can get those models to complete your tasks, you are in the top 1% (probably less) of LLM users.
by dcrazy | 2025-08-28 19:08:22+00:00
Let’s look at an analogous situation: a middle-class Brit who buys a home in Spain to retire in. This Briton might speak the language fluently and spend the remaining 15-20 years of their life in Spain, paying taxes and contributing to the local economy. But their ability to pay top-of-market for housing comes at the expense of locals, who wind up petitioning the government to change visa rules to stem the tide of foreigners.

It’s not a simple situation when scarcity is involved, and it ultimately doesn’t matter what nationality you consider long-term immigrants to possess.
by viridian | 2025-08-28 19:08:44+00:00
I starting writing a response to your post, but as I kept writing and investigating, it became clear that the MIT article you linked is just overflowing with false statements, half truths, stretched truths, and unsourced information.

It is legitimately one of the most misleading pieces of press I've read in a while.

The 21% value is unsourced, the single image = full phone charge is wrong in so many ways I had written 3 paragraphs picking apart both the MIT publication and the huggingface paper's methodology, and so on.

I'm happy to be given evidence that AI is ruinous in terms of more than its social effects, but this publication has made me incredibly suspicious of anyone claiming this to be the case.
by SantalBlush | 2025-08-28 19:09:17+00:00
>If you lived in these communities, unless you are neurodivergent, you would be doing the same thing.

As someone who grew up in one of these communities, this has not been my experience. Many, many people move away, and for varied reasons. What you're left with are people who stay in economically declining areas and want to blame everyone else for it. It's selection bias, and it is absolutely based on personal choice.
by ewf | 2025-08-28 19:09:18+00:00
You're an early adopter, so you're seeing massive gains. But eventually everyone gets the same productivity boost and that becomes the new baseline expectation.

Any clever prompting techniques that give you an edge today will evaporate quickly. People figure out the tricks, models absorb them, and tools automate them away.

There's no substitute for actually coding to learn software development. For new engineers, I'd strongly recommend limiting AI code generation on real work. Use it to explain concepts, not do the work for you. Otherwise you'll never develop the judgment to know what that 10% actually is.
Ask HN: What is the future of software salaries in the age of AI coding agents?
by jplusequalt | 2025-08-28 19:09:23+00:00
It seems like AI coding agents are here to stay.

Given this, has anyone had any thoughts on what they're going to do when software salaries start to fall drastically? Are you able to stomach having to accept an offer in X years from now at a lower salary than what you currently make? If so, how much lower?

Or, are you making any preparations to leave the industry in the next few years? If so, what fields are you looking to get into?
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-28 19:09:43+00:00
Nah, I've been using them correctly for years. My preference for them came by way of reading a lot in generally, but especially from Salinger.

I do them without surrounding spaces, because that's... how you're supposed to use them, and it's also less typing.

They also used to be a really good Shibboleth to tell if someone was using a Mac—the key combo on there is easy, and also easy to remember, so Mac users were far more likely than the median to employ em-dashes. It wasn't a sure tell, but it was pretty reliable.