MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dehrmann | 2025-08-26 02:14:38+00:00
> dealer markups on cars

Cars are special. They have some of the same issues other high-priced items that you buy occasionally and are a pain to shop for. Think mattresses, tires, and homes. There's information asymmetry, and actual comparison shopping is hassle. This is a setup for painful buying experiences.

With cars, lots of states also restrict manufacturers from selling directly to consumers. I guess it helps with competition at the consumer level, but manufacturers still have leverage over dealers (see This American Life #513).

With real estate, NAR only just (in 2024) got in trouble for price fixing commissions.
by matt_d | 2025-08-26 02:14:53+00:00
Abstract:

> Programs written in C/C++ often include inline assembly: a snippet of architecture-specific assembly code used to access low-level functionalities that are impossible or expensive to simulate in the source language. Although inline assembly is widely used, its semantics has not yet been formally studied.

> In this paper, we overcome this deficiency by investigating the effect of inline assembly to the consistency semantics of C/C++ programs. We propose the first memory model of the C++ Programming Language with support for inline assembly for Intel’s x86 including non-temporal stores and store fences. We argue that previous provably correct compiler optimizations and correct compiler mappings should remain correct under such an extended model and we prove that this requirement is met by our proposed model.

Paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3689749

Slides: https://devilhena-paulo.github.io/files/inline-x86-asm-slide...
by andrewinardeer | 2025-08-26 02:15:02+00:00
Trump has what, 3 and a bit years as POTUS?

All this power grabbing is setting himself up for what? In 3.5 years he is out the door and an election will be held with presumably Vance as the POTUS nom.

If you play the tape out and, as expected, the GOP is massacred at mid-terms, and Dems get in their pick in at the next election I would expect all this to be undone.

What is the point?

And I reject any argument that Trump will take the POTUS position for a third term. It won't happen.
by Leo-thorne | 2025-08-26 02:15:31+00:00
I’ve long been a fan of the MX Anywhere series. They’re light, reliable, and the side buttons make web browsing much smoother.But recently, mine started having sticky buttons and the grip began to peel. I tried fixing the micro switch myself and it turned into a real headache. Now I’m debating whether fixing it is worth the effort or if I should just grab a new one. What I really wish for is a mouse design more like mechanical keyboards modular parts, replaceable shells, customizable buttons. That kind of setup would finally make me feel like my mouse is meant to stick around for years, not get tossed at the first sign of wear.
by Kim_Bruning | 2025-08-26 02:15:44+00:00
Oh! Classic Survivorship bias. You're only looking at the devs who went into business in the phone ecosystem in the first place. I'm thinking that they're there despite the barriers to entry ('shenanigans'), and the ones you encounter happen to be those who happen to place a higher value on 'other values'. As the ecosystem gets locked down more, this effect becomes stronger.

Meanwhile, you're not looking at those who left, or those who decided to never enter a broken market dominated by players convicted of monopolistic practices.

This seems much more intuitive than a hypothesis where somehow people would prefer to enter a closed market over a fair and open market with no barriers to entry.

Remember, monopolists succeed because they are distorting the market, not because they are in fact the most efficient competitor.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
by jedahan | 2025-08-26 02:15:52+00:00
I am having trouble imagining the failure mode you are trying to avoid.

It sounds like threads implementation of federation is broken. What effects does toggling that federation setting on or off do?

Like if someone is following “duplicate” accounts of yours and therefore would see double posts, that person can unfollow one. Still double work for you that kind of sucks.

Scuttlebutt had some work done on publicly declaring two identities as the same, I wonder what that would look like for posts. Like a post-id or simple equality comparison or hash could work server side or client side.
by HardCodedBias | 2025-08-26 02:16:45+00:00
"There's nothing in your anecdote that disputes she could have planned it long in advance"

It seems implausible.

She lived with her sisters and while she was quite capable of many tasks, I think that long term subterfuge was beyond her. She was well into mental decline.

"You have to have 2 independent medical assessments at a minimum as well as written consent that is witnessed"

Could this not have happened at the hospital?
by throw10920 | 2025-08-26 02:17:49+00:00
> I haven't insulted you

> The irony as you parrot brainwashed tropes.

You clearly insulted them, and now you're lying by claiming that you didn't. Nobody is falling for it, as evidenced by the fact that your comment was killed by flags.

> as people like you tend to say "your feelings aren't my problem"

...and now you're being bigoted and clearly breaking the HN guidelines. You should stop now.
by doesnt_know | 2025-08-26 02:19:13+00:00
I feel like when I'm presented with most modern criticism of Apple devices/software I tend to agree, but despite all the mostly valid criticisms I see batted about, who is doing consumer tech better?

I've recently (finally) managed to purge the last instance of Windows from my life when I replaced Windows on my gaming desktop with Linux. So I've got Linux on the (gaming) desktop, a Steam Deck and Debian stable on a server, which is great.

But I mean, that covers my home office? I still need a phone (iPhone), a smart watch (Apple Watch) and while not critical, certainly adds a lot of value for me. The things that connects to the TV (AppleTV) is the best of all I've tried when compared to any other type of solution (Firestick, Chrome Cast, Home Media Server, Built-in TV Smarts). I've also got an M4 MacBook for dev, which is frankly fantastic when compared to whatever other hardware I could get here in NZ and would involve going back to Windows anyway?

So I mean, what are the actual valid options really? Apple still offer great devices and the integrations between them are the best on the market imo.

Perhaps in a perfect world Pine64 devices would be rock solid and I could run Linux everywhere, but failing that, what else ya gunna do?
Wplace Pixel Art – Convert Images to Wplace-Compatible Pixel Art
by dallen97 | 2025-08-26 02:19:24+00:00
We built a free browser tool for the wplace.live community that converts any image into pixel-perfect art using Wplace’s official 64-color palette.

Features

Exact color matching with Wplace’s palette (from lospec)

Highlights free vs paid pixels (Wplace has tiered pricing)

Real-time preview with grid overlays

Floyd–Steinberg dithering for smoother gradients

All processing is local – no uploads, no tracking

Why we made it Wplace is a collaborative pixel canvas, but placing art manually is slow and error-prone. This tool helps creators preview, plan, and optimize their art before placing it on the canvas.

Built with vanilla JS + canvas. No backend. Try it: https://wplacepixelart.com Feedback welcome!
by PaulKeeble | 2025-08-26 02:19:37+00:00
There doesn't need to be tests on humans. We have plenty of research showing that viruses harm humans as do small particles in the air this isn't in question at all. These devices have been shown to remove these items from the air using engineering testing based on physics like the electrostatic force and the laws of motion. That they work is not in question, they do filter the air.

The only remaining aspect is how well do they clear air that is constantly getting dirty that has been tested as well, for the most part 6 air changes an hour seems to drastically reduce the particle count.

The problem with medical research "questions" on filtration currently is it thinks random control trials are the gold standard of proof. They aren't physics and engineering tests are a much higher quality of science and evidence. Filters work, respirators do work to remove viruses because we know the size of aerosol they tend to live in (1-5 microns mostly for something like Covid) and how effective the filters are at those particle sizes.
by mountainriver | 2025-08-26 02:20:30+00:00
Thanks for the feedback!

I would also say this is early stages and I don’t think it’s necessary to have every piece of this solved.

This isn’t a fund really it’s crowd funding, and we are looking to gauge interest as we reach out to investors and early clients.

I’m generally surprised by how many people on HN don’t follow their advice. Ship early, get validation
by halostatue | 2025-08-26 02:21:36+00:00
The maintainer is eccentric. He refuses to use anything that runs JavaScript out of a sense of "Free Software Purity", which means that he cannot use most of the ecosystem to which Ruby has migrated.

He has only contributed to Ruby via the ruby-core mailing list (he does not use the RubyMine interface which backs ruby-core) and the main Ruby git repo hosted by the Ruby team, never anything on GitHub.

I'm sort of surprised that the RubyGems MFA threshold hasn't been updated (it was 180M total downloads in 2022; my gems combined have > 2.5B downloads, so I was never not going to pass the threshold), but he's under 70M downloads shy and each release gets about 15M downloads or so.

I think that his position is irresponsible in today's threat environment, but given the amount of work that I'm doing for OSS maintenance that's just responding to bloody Dependabot updates…
by antonvs | 2025-08-26 02:21:59+00:00
Part of the point is you might think there'd be more awareness of the dangers of such tactics in Germany. The Holocaust didn't start with ovens, it started with small acts of control over people.

But hey, we live in a world where some of the descendants of the victims of Nazi Germany are working hard at a new holocaust of their own, so I guess commenting about morality is a bit redundant, especially when the world is full of enlightened centrists who hate it when anyone speaks up about anything.
by srush | 2025-08-26 02:22:34+00:00
Oh hey, I wrote this. Been a long time. I had the lucky of break of working in machine translation / parsing when the most important invention of the century happened in my niche field.

I'm pretty interested in the intersection of code / ML. If that's your thing here are some other writing you might be interested in.

* Thinking about cuda: http://github.com/srush/gpu-puzzles

* Tensors considered harmful: https://nlp.seas.harvard.edu/NamedTensor

* Differentiating SVG: https://srush.github.io/DiffRast/

* Annotated S4: https://srush.github.io/annotated-s4/

Recently moved back to industry, so haven't had a chance to write in a while.
by rchaud | 2025-08-26 02:23:47+00:00
I'd sooner get a Chinese phone that isn't "Google-certified" than reward this behaviour by giving $1000+ to the DRM OGs at Cupertino. Neither Apple nor Google are protecting users against the alleged data-stealing evils of Tiktok, so how exactly are they providing any kind of "user safety" by throwing up fees and red tape for small independent developers?
by frosted-flakes | 2025-08-26 02:23:51+00:00
Any Logitech device that supported both Bluetooth and Unifying, such as the MX Master, allowed you to cycle through up to stored 3 connections of either type. The older, cheap devices generally only had a single connection.

Logitech also makes or made keyboards with 1-2-3 hot swap keys that allowed quick switching with a single press.
by goku12 | 2025-08-26 02:24:32+00:00
I have been a computer user, developer and a system administrator for longer than I care to recount. I don't like Windows and I don't use it at work or home. But I do encounter it from time to time, and the experience is worse each time. The last time it happened, I couldn't figure out the way to skip/bypass the cloud account set up. Would it have been possible if I tried harder, starting with a web search? Perhaps. But there is no way an average system user is going to have the patience or often the skill necessary to do it. I'm not challenging their intelligence. But people have other priorities than to jump through a dozen hoops just to preserve privacy. I would do the same if I had to set up a Windows system for urgent work.

These sorts of hurdles exist to push more and more users to their favorite workflow until the dissenting voice is too feeble to notice when they finally pull the plug on the straightforward method. The intent is certainly there, since they are quite evidently boiling the frog. Just wait for the fine day when you wake up in the morning to see an HN story just like this one about Windows login as well.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 02:24:59+00:00
With the really young kids you could lead with One Hundred Years of Solitude. There are lots of times you're not really showing them pictures in the book—or they're too young even for that, really, can't focus their eyes well—and they just need to hear the sounds and flow of language, not to understand every word (or any words). I read mine To the Lighthouse and shit like that, it was great, I think each kid got three or four "classics" while very young. I could pare down my own to-read list while being "a good parent", LOL, felt like a cheat code.
by blacksmith_tb | 2025-08-26 02:27:10+00:00
Meh, it's kind of a silly name, sure, but it's one of the few distros backed by an actual vendor (System76) who isn't just trying to sucker you into buying something. As a result it has a nice level of polish and function.

I like macOS fine, I have been using Macs since 1984 (though things like SIP grate).
by TheAlchemist | 2025-08-26 02:27:35+00:00
Are you sure about that ?

Because if history is any indication, he's on a straight path every single dictator and strongman walked before becoming one. He has set on fire every single US institution and the rule of law. He is the law now.

It doesn't end well. Maybe it won't be him, but his son, who knows. But there is no good outcome out of it. Zero. He's not loosing another election.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-26 02:27:57+00:00
Yeah, it's like we've given up. Between third-party doctrine, border enforcement being excluded from 4th amendment protections, and 100-mile zones around international airports being considered "the border", it's like there's no place left where the constitution applies. How did we forget why we made these rules in the first place? It's not like the risks are smaller today than they were 250 years ago...
by Cordiali | 2025-08-26 02:27:59+00:00
I'd think passive recognition of a fair few states would be a pretty low bar for relatively educated, English-speaking people. It's a pretty low bar, just placing a region with its country. People also regularly just assume that level of knowledge for globally- or culturally-relevant cities.

Maybe I think too highly of people, but I'd also imagine most would be able to get say... 6/10 right, for which countries the following list is from:

- Flanders

- Nova Scotia

- Brandenburg

- Guangzhou

- Tasmania

- Minas Gerais

- Catalonia

- Chechnya

- West Bengal

- Bali
Show HN: Wplace Pixel Art – Convert Images to Wplace-Compatible Pixel Art
by dallen97 | 2025-08-26 02:28:39+00:00
We built a free browser tool for the wplace.live community that converts any image into pixel-perfect art using Wplace’s official 64-color palette.

Features

Exact color matching with Wplace’s palette (from lospec)

Highlights free vs paid pixels (Wplace has tiered pricing)

Real-time preview with grid overlays

Floyd–Steinberg dithering for smoother gradients

All processing is local – no uploads, no tracking

Why we made it Wplace is a collaborative pixel canvas, but placing art manually is slow and error-prone. This tool helps creators preview, plan, and optimize their art before placing it on the canvas.

Built with vanilla JS + canvas. No backend. Try it: https://wplacepixelart.com Feedback welcome!
by rimunroe | 2025-08-26 02:29:34+00:00
The person who used to run the server network I was describing replied to me, but alas I think they didn’t see my reply[1]. This is one of the few times I wish HN notified you of replies. Maybe I’ll run into them again in another decade or two.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953109 (of course, rACEmic might just not be interested in reconnecting, which is obviously okay)
by pabs3 | 2025-08-26 02:29:48+00:00
That would mean they are committing copyright violation of the Linux kernel. So they could be sued by Linux kernel folks, or by users of the devices.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t... https://events19.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017...
by rpdillon | 2025-08-26 02:30:32+00:00
> Come on. Go back to a flip phone, or make your own smartphone ecosystem. The entitlement is outrageous.

This response is unreasonable. If I'm purchasing a piece of hardware, it's not outrageous that I want to be able to compile and run software on it without asking for permission. Suggesting that I instead create my own smartphone ecosystem is absurd.
by shirro | 2025-08-26 02:30:34+00:00
I don't think despised is correct. Drew made an argument for more mature and responsible behavior and leadership but some people just want to write code and not manage a community. I think that can be a lot to expect from some young programer thrown into the public eye, Hyprland is a well regarded implementation amongst tiling wms but the category always has and in my opinion always will have limited appeal for good reason.
by mdaniel | 2025-08-26 02:30:35+00:00
AIUI, the threat model isn't "self signed versus not," I would suspect the modern threat model is "current release signed by the same cert as prior release". The Android ecosystem is backed by this threat model, and (zip parsing nonsense aside) seems to be doing well with it. Even F-Droid, which runs their own signing stack, participates although it is not compatible with the Play Store distribution mechanism due to "who owns the signing key"
by nikolayasdf123 | 2025-08-26 02:31:52+00:00
40 USD, this is ridiculous

this is on par with AAA games that have tons of creative assets, art, music, thousands of people work on them for years.. and here is a utility that did not even invent SQLite itself, not a dollar goes to SQLite creators either. rather a light wrapper over standard UI build by Apple - SwiftUI. what is the marginal contribution from creator here for this price? what a ripoff
by ac29 | 2025-08-26 02:32:59+00:00
One downside of Framework is they use DDR instead of LPDDR. This means you can upgrade or replace the RAM, but it also means memory is much slower and more power hungry.

Its also probably worth putting the laptop in "efficiency" mode (15W sustained, 25W boost per Framework). The difference in performance should be fairly negligible compared to balanced mode for most tasks and it will use less energy.
by dijit | 2025-08-26 02:33:21+00:00
I'll die right there with you on that hill.

For all it's flaws: Vista was a truly breathtakingly beautiful operating system. I still remember fondly the matte frosted dark tinted hue from the start menu and the strong deep red of the shutdown button. Everything shimmered and refracted, with almost a tactile feel. My first iPhone felt like I was interacting beyond the current dimension, the retina display with the skeumorphic design made it feel like I wasn't just interacting with software, I was interacting with another digital world... and my first Macbook was similar; every application was gorgeously rendered natively: something even Windows couldn't manage despite having the lions share of developers.

All this, on LCD panels that were comically abysmal compared to the colour accuracy of the displays we take for granted today, and with less than a quarter of the pixels.

The thing is: I think the same issue plagues software also, that when it becomes a place where good money can be made, you attract people who want to make money and, by necessity, push out all the people who were there for the passion.

Diminishing quality of art and engineering sort of go hand-in-hand if MBAs need to make room for themselves and set up fiefdoms.
by eadmund | 2025-08-26 02:34:04+00:00
• Neatly-formatted lists Neatness could be a sign of a machine, or it could be a sign of a diligent human author.

• Subtitles only a committee would come up with That seems to me like a matter of opinion and taste — and we all have different tastes.

• Emojis preceding every statement I counted three emoji pull quotes in a multi-page document. I suppose it could be an LLM, but it could also just be a nice style.

• Em-dashes and ‘it isn’t X, it’s Y' This is why I posted in the first place, and downvoted you. There is nothing wrong with em-dashes — I love them. I use them a lot. Frankly, I probably overuse them. I’ve used them since I was a kid: I am going to use them — and over-use them — as long as I live. As for ‘Love isn’t a feeling you wait to have — it’s a series of actions you choose to take,’ that just seems like normal English to me.

It’s very possible in 2025 that the article was LLM-written, or written by a man and cleaned up by an LLM, or written by a man and proofread by an LLM, or written by a man. It does not have the stilted feel of most LLM works to me, but I might just miss it.

An em-dash isn’t an indicator of an LLM — it’s a sign of someone who discovered typography early.
by masswerk | 2025-08-26 02:35:18+00:00
I'd call them "non-icons": they don't communicate in any way, they don't add significance or separate one application from the other at first glance, they don't really mean anything without the file name, they are really not much better than default icons. And this is probably what they are: default icons for a group of applications with a bit of variation sprinkled on top.

At this point, does it need that residual variation or is this just adding noise? Also, a shape inside a shape inside a shape inside a shape isn't anything anyone is likely to parse – how many bits of information is this? So maybe just go with a simple default wrench icon for all of them?
by engineeringwoke | 2025-08-26 02:36:18+00:00
Without some kind of coherent post-Marxist revolutionary understanding of what communism is, this is just pure delusion. Most people don't have the ability to synthesize grand ideas for the direction of society, no offense.

There's like dozens of people in the world that can do these things, and they need to want to use their intellect for such a thing. Unfortunately, communism is just philosophically derelict, until another great thinker comes along.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-26 02:36:33+00:00
> HEPA is just an acronym anyone can slap on anything, there's no accreditation.

There are standards:

> Filters meeting the HEPA standard must satisfy certain levels of efficiency. Common standards require that a HEPA air filter must remove—from the air that passes through—at least 99.95% (ISO, European Standard)[4][5] or 99.97% (ASME, U.S. DOE)[6][7] of particles whose diameter is equal to 0.3 μm, with the filtration efficiency increasing for particle diameters both less than and greater than 0.3 μm.[8]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA#Specifications