MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by EagnaIonat | 2025-08-09 06:26:11+00:00
> I feel like most of the people touting the Mac’s ability to run LLMs are either impressed that they run at all, are doing fairly simple tasks, or just have a toy model they like to mess around with and it doesn’t matter if it messes up.

I feel like you haven't actually used it. Your comment may have been true 5 years ago.

> If you want an assistant you can talk to that will give you advice or help you with arbitrary tasks for work, that’s not something that’s on the menu.

You can use a RAG approach (eg. Milvus) and also LoRA templates to dramatically improve the accuracy of the answer if needed.

Locally you can run multiple models, multiple times without having to worry about costs.

You also have the likes of Open WebUI which builds numerous features on top of an interface if you don't want to do coding.

I have a very old M1 MBP 32GB and I have numerous applications built to do custom work. It does the job the fine and speed is not an issue. Not good enough to do a LoRA build but I have a more recent laptop for that.

I doubt I am the only one.
by _aobj | 2025-08-09 06:27:26+00:00
Check out "Distributed Quantum Computing across an optical network link" by D.Main. Et Al. 2024. As it seems that the goals of Linear, are closely aligned with distributed Quantum Computing. Having decided I need a distributed Website with quantum entanglement. For my Web shop to sell "Federation Crypto currency" I find this post very instructive, towards that goal. " It is possible to use so little javascript and css that it makes more sense to inline it. SSR enables this " Does this imply compile time goals of browser are potentially compatible with a Distributed Quantum Computing Website? a local-first approach
by cyberax | 2025-08-09 06:28:04+00:00
Tesla's software is crap. The updates are basically just moving stuff randomly around the screen and maybe adding a game once in a while.

For me, the most significant addition within 8 years of owning a Model 3 was the addition of waypoints in the trip planner. That's it.

Other car makers simply provide Android Auto/CarPlay and let users pick what they want to run.
by littlestymaar | 2025-08-09 06:28:17+00:00
> The internet evolved from the telegraphy network, which was not created by the government.

Claining that the internet evolved from telegraph is very much bad faith, but the worse part about this argument is that it's wrong: the first country-scale telegraph network was indeed funded by the French government[1].

> As for bad environmental effects, socialism has a much worse track record

Why are you guys obsessed so much with socialism? There is no mention of socialism anywhere in this thread. Government funding stuff has nothing to do with socialism in the first place, otherwise it would mean that every developed country is a socialist one, with the only non-socialist countries being failed states like Somalia which really isn't the argument you want to make.

> Free markets produce enough surplus that costly mitigations become practical.

“Free market” doesn't exist, it's a propaganda phrase with no basis on reality. The government always and everywhere has a key role to play in the economy, by counteracting all kinds of negative outcomes that arise from markets (mitigating crashes or maintaining consumer trust through regulations to name a few).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph
by rgreekguy | 2025-08-09 06:28:27+00:00
Accenture told a very big American publisher that a) we need to write unit tests (shocking!), and b) that we have too many people in technology compared to the competition.

My very subcompany is a technology company, by the way.

Imagine how much money you could be making for such consulting... The fame Accenture (and others) have for being bad places to work, at least for developers, seems to be international, by the way.

I suppose I can thank them to some extent for losing my job. And I would be shocked if Wiley dropped them.
by sixhobbits | 2025-08-09 06:30:16+00:00
> The sample size is 22. According to this sample size calculator I found, a required sample size for just one thousand people would be 278

I'm all for criticizing a lack of scientific rigor, but this bit pretty clearly shows that the author knows even less about sample sizes than the GitHub guy, so it seems a bit pot calling the kettle black. You certainly don't need to sample more than 25% of any population in order to draw statistical information from it.

The bit about running the study multiple times also seems kinda random.

I'm sure this study of 22 people has a lot of room for criticism but this criticism seems more ranty than 'proper analysis' to me.
by Nizoss | 2025-08-09 06:31:18+00:00
I've found that keeping my CLAUDE.md minimal (under 100 lines) yields the best results. I focus mainly on these areas:

- Essential project context and purpose

- A minimal project structure to help locate types, interfaces, and helpers

- Common commands to avoid parsing package.json repeatedly.

Regarding the specific practices mentioned:

Implementation Flow: I've noticed Claude Code often tries to write all tests at once, then implements everything when import fails (not true TDD). To address this, I created a TDD-Guard hook that enforces one test at a time, test fail for the right reason, only implement the minimal code to make the test pass.

Code quality: I've had good success automating these with husky, lint-staged, and commitlint. This gives deterministic results and frees up the context for more important information.

When Stuck: I agree that developer intervention is often the best path. I'm just afraid the specific guidance here might be too generic.

For anyone interested in this automated approach:

https://github.com/nizos/tdd-guard (includes example configuration)

https://github.com/typicode/husky

https://github.com/conventional-changelog/commitlint

https://github.com/lint-staged/lint-staged
by tomhow | 2025-08-09 06:32:56+00:00
We always want people to comment without snark, and I've replied to that commenter reminding them of that.

Your comments in the subthread are quite inflammatory, starting with:

> Windows and Mac OS are already functionally spyware posing as operating systems, as Microsoft and Apple are functionally intelligence agency partners posing as private corporations.

I totally understand that it's a valid fear given what we know about the NSA, which has been heavily discussed here over the years. But when you blithely assert this kind of conspiracy theory as an accepted fact, it is inevitable that it will set off the kind of flamewar that has developed here.

The guidelines ask us all to eschew flamebait and generic tangents.
by jemmyw | 2025-08-09 06:33:21+00:00
I'd like to quibble with the word "always" and "least" there. If you passed your test and got your first car at 18 and you're younger than 68 then you've only had time for one 25 year old car, plus your current car.

I've gone through quite a lot of cars, but only one of them because it was broken and not worth fixing. The others were due to circumstances changing, like moving country, or having a larger family.
by pcwelder | 2025-08-09 06:35:25+00:00
>I found, a required sample size for just one thousand people would be 278

It's interesting to note that for a billion people this number changes to a whopping ... 385. Doesn't change much.

I was curious, with 22 sample size (assuming unbiased sample, yada yada), while estimating the proportion of people satisfying a criteria, the margin of error is 22%.

While bad, if done properly, it may still be insightful.
by zevon | 2025-08-09 06:36:44+00:00
I have the same attitude. While I don't keep them as long, I've rarely ever had a car that was less than 20 years old. And why not? Keeping stuff that works around instead of throwing it away is good, it's cheap, there is long-term data available on what works / didn't work / the spare part situation, fuel economy and safety mostly depend on what models you chose and compare. Working on old stuff is often also easier (no matter if you do it yourself or pay someone else). Also: Switches, stalks, locks that also work without batteries, no huge displays, no ride-by-wire - nice! ;)
by bawolff | 2025-08-09 06:38:38+00:00
I think its just because as a comment it looks pretty random and somewhat off topic since its a summary of the article instead of an opinion on it.

I think most of the time people dont add a comment to submissions, but if they do its more of the form: I found X interesting because of [insert non obvious reason why X is interesting] or some additional non-obvious context needed.

In any case, i don't think there is any reason to worry too much. There was no ill intent and at the end of the day its all just fake internet points.
Ask HN: How can I stop AI slop spam from landing in my inbox?
by apparent | 2025-08-09 06:39:11+00:00
I get tons of AI slop spam and am surprised at how much makes it through gmail's spam filters, and my Mac's spam filters.

I also have noticed that if I mark as spam on my Mac (Mail application), then if the sender replies to his own email, it will still land in my inbox. This seems crazy — if I designated the first message in a thread as spam, wouldn't that automatically mean that any subsequent reply (especially from the original sender) would also be spam? It seems like this doesn't happen if I mark as spam in gmail, even if I don't explicitly block the sender.

Any tips on minimizing all this junk mail? I guess what I really want is to not be notified on my phone/watch unless the message is from someone I have previously emailed with. This would create some false negatives, but that would be better than living with all these annoying false positives.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-09 06:40:57+00:00
SSDs aren't exactly known for high failure rates, especially if you're staying within their expected endurance. Sure, you can kill one by running fluid simulations of one, but any sane use case doesn't even come close to what you'd need to kill one with any decent level of expected endurance.

The only ones I've heard of dying are from brands I'd never trust in the first place, or from bad firmware, and my impression is that it's usually the controller dying, and with the controller being part of the chip itself on Apple Silicon, it's not gonna die without taking the rest of the machine with it, and for the most part, they just aren't.

The M1 is old enough that we'd know about it if the faliure rate was abnormally high.
by vunderba | 2025-08-09 06:42:23+00:00
To ensure that GPT-5 funnels the image to the SOTA model `gpt-image-1`, click the Plus Sign and select "Create Image". There will still be some inherent prompt enrichment likely happening since GPT-5 is using `gpt-image-1` as a tool. Outside of using the API, I'm not sure there is a good way to avoid this from happening.

Prompt: "A photo of a kitchen knife with the classic Damascus spiral metallic pattern on the blade itself, studio photography"

Image: https://imgur.com/a/Qe6VKrd
by CalChris | 2025-08-09 06:43:26+00:00
So Google writes a check for $2.4B to Windsurf and gets the IP. Check deposited with Windsurf. Ledger entries made. Windsurf now has $2.4B in assets more than it had before. Money in the bank. Preference cliffs do not apply to this licensing deal. Key employees and CEO then take a 2.4 mile hike over to Google. Lunch is served.

Then Cognition offers $250M for Windsurf itself. Ok, I can imagine the preference cliffs kicking in now. But Windsurf just got a check for $2.4B and I don't think they had anywhere close to that in liabilities.

So where'd the $2.4B go? This seems like a strange deal.
by PeterStuer | 2025-08-09 06:45:09+00:00
Of course. And I am not arguing against that at all. Just like if someone makes an inference runtime that is 4% faster, I'll take that win. But would it be the decisive factor in my choice? Only if that was my bottleneck, my true constraint.

All I tried to convey was that for most of the people in the presented scenario (personal emails etc.) , a 50 or even 500GB storage requirement is not going to be that primary constraint. So the suggestion was the marketing for this usecase might be better spotlighting also something else.
by TFYS | 2025-08-09 06:47:13+00:00
That's not the definition of wealthy. Wealthy is a relative term. It's meaningless to say that a lower middle class person today is wealthy just because people 500 years ago could only dream of the things they have. If other people in the society they currently live in have a million times more, they are not wealthy.

I'm sure you understand how capitalism works. If you do, you should understand that not everyone can be an owner, someone has to do the actual work.
by jiggawatts | 2025-08-09 06:47:18+00:00
Too true, but at the same time... gamers didn't disappear. The market is still there.

Sooner or later, someone else will fill the need. That may be AMD, it could be Intel if they just focus for more than a year, or it'll be some cheap Chinese GPU from a company you've never heard of. (Likely named by mashing the keyboard while capslock is on.)

It's like how the mainframe market is bigger than it has ever been, despite being an irrelevant rounding error in the minds of the "Wintel" server providers, cloud vendors, etc...
by karmakurtisaani | 2025-08-09 06:49:16+00:00
> Krugman wrote in the NYT that the markets would never recover, and that there would probably be "a global recession, with no end in sight".

I think this needs some context. Remember that in 2016 we didn't know how Trumps rhetoric works and how seriously he will push his agendas. Now we know about TACO and how he was held back by the adults in the room. How would you feel about the future if you thought the POTUS will annex Greenland and Canada, and impose tariffs of 100-200% globally?
by ankit219 | 2025-08-09 06:49:31+00:00
This is a highly speculative post, with conjectures presented as facts. Some things that irked me:

- Cursor did not hire Anthropic's "researchers". It hired the guys who built Claude code (PM and dev). Who then promptly went back to Anthropic in 14 days. A researcher for Cursor need not come from Anthropic either. One high profile recruit for them was Jack Gallagher (Midjourney) who is probably one of the best at RL.

- Google's deal with Windsurf is structured that way because they likely could not directly acquire, or were not confident that it would have gotten past the antitrust. A signal for that is such deal increased in last few years after FTC refused to allow any deal over $100M or so. Microsoft has done such deals too. Meta would have acquired scale ai in older times. Not sure with Openai, but they arent as scrutinized as Google for such deals. To imply that this means Google did not care about ARR is not justified. and then google licensed Windsurf's IP too.

- Openai's agreements with Microsoft is more probable than they did not complete the acquisition because of negative gross margins.

- Plus, the old adage about how a growing startup is worth more because of a stellar team. You strip a team away and still get 2x multiple is sure enough valuing the current ARR highly.

I thought the userbase is valuable. A sale at this point made sense because they might not have been to get the money if they waited a year. Reasons laid out in the article are not why I think so.
by p0w3n3d | 2025-08-09 06:50:06+00:00
I'm a big fan of Tesla since the first time I've seen it during my trip to London. There were two model S standing next to each other. the car and the chassis. It's been said that the chassis (with the battery and motors) is enough for this car to ride turn and brake. That's when I fell in love with it.

I really have trouble cancelling something just because some guy is doing some things. There were gazillion of people working on it and I have feeling that I would cancel them too, but they are innocent really
by strogonoff | 2025-08-09 06:50:35+00:00
A few business card typography tips off the top of my head:

— White on black (inverse) is less legible, so all else equal compared with black on white the font should be bolder and/or bigger for equivalent readability. (Using caps or small caps is also OK in display text like titles, if it reads easier.)

— Legibility is also impaired by visual noise around the text (it’s not a single color but there is some pattern, for example). Compensate for that, too.

— Unless you really know what you are doing, stick to one font. You can use bolder/lighter variants of the same font.

— Never compress fonts vertically or horizontally. Instead, pick a different font. Many fonts have condensed/compressed alternatives, or there is also Impact if you want it.

— Use white space. Padding lets it breathe.

— Use typographic features. Em dashes (separate them by thin spaces), bullets.

> Embedded Design⠀⠀⠀Hardware ∙ Firmware

or

> Embedded Design — Hardware, Firmware

vs.

> Embedded Design - Hardware/Firmware

That said, everything except the first two is subjective. A relaxed vibe of “don’t give a damn about it” might be strategic if you are good at what you do (and crucially it is not design), as long as your card is legible and does its function.
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-08-09 06:52:09+00:00
Note that the battery warranties aren't just for total failure, most are for at least 70% of original capacity at say 8/10 years or 100k (and are generally increasing on newer models). BYD offer 125K miles on their blade battery for example.

Coincidentally, studies have shown that MPG on ICE engines can drop as much as 40% after 10 years.

You can also buy 3rd party battery warranties. As with any insurance product the price would be lower if everyone bought in. Would probably be a good subsidy for nations trying to encourage EV adoption.
by Telaneo | 2025-08-09 06:53:07+00:00
It's understandable why they're making these cuts, but it sure ain't a good sign.

I hope it doesn't devolve into Intel becoming a less viable option for Linux. Intel wifi chipsets work great on Linux since they're well supported by Intel, but if that kind of support goes away, so does the future security in knowing Intel hardware will work well.
by ____tom____ | 2025-08-09 06:53:39+00:00
It looks like you are just adding the same list of words as a prefix, in the same order, no matter what the base word is. That seems too simplistic to me.

Some words are more likely to occur in conjunction with specific words. Kayak and water, for example is probably more likely than kayak and tiger.

You might try something like a collocations data set like https://www.freecollocation.com/ (I just searched for dataset of English word collocations)

Any autocomplete that words more than one word at a time has to do this. You might check that out.
by adiabatty | 2025-08-09 06:53:45+00:00
> Is killing off password theft worth the tradeoff of restricting the legitimate user’s rights, or is this a step too far towards authoritarian overreach, no matter how significant the harm done to humanity by password theft?

If your government can order your password manager to lock you out of your passwords with no more trouble than locking you out of your bank account, then that lowers the cost of tyranny down to what the Chinese Communist Party enjoys.

https://www.newsweek.com/banks-have-begun-freezing-accounts-...
by usr1106 | 2025-08-09 06:54:39+00:00
Because most smart people are not generalists. My first boss was really smart and managed to found a university institute in computer science. The 3 other professors he hired were, ahem, strange choices. We 28 year old assistents could only shake our heads. After fighting a couple of years with his own hires the founder left in frustration to found another institution.

One of my colleagues was only 25, really smart in his field and became a professor less than 10 years later. But he was incredibly naive in everyday chores. Buying groceries or filing taxes resulted in major screw-ups regularly
by hkt | 2025-08-09 06:55:02+00:00
It depends on the motivations of the people behind the ban, though. VPNs aren't terribly interesting to the government over a porn age verification plan, largely because subscribing to a VPN costs money and requires a debit card. Some might manage that, but most probably won't. If the motivation was to ban porn entirely and they valued that more than they valued giving business a break (banning VPNs being rather bad news for some companies) then it'd be another story.
by kgwgk | 2025-08-09 06:56:49+00:00
> This overview however omits the costs incurred by all those who were not bought-in, i.e. the biotechs funded by VC, etc, who never get bought.

That’s indeed included in the price paid for the biotechs who were bought-in. The piece mentions that “Between 2016 and 2020, fourteen of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies spent $577 billion on share buybacks and dividends versus $521 billion on R&D” but doesn’t tell us that they spent even more on M&A.
Show HN: TurnOffLocation – A Complete Guide to Turning Off Location on Instagram
by lur0913 | 2025-08-09 06:57:58+00:00
Hi HN,

I built a small project called TurnOffLocation – available at https://turnofflocation.com – that offers a complete, up-to-date guide (as of August 2025) for disabling location tracking on Instagram across iOS and Android.

The site covers: - How to set Instagram’s system location permission to "Never" and disable Precise Location on iPhone - How to disable Instagram’s in-app location and map-related features - Android-specific steps for turning off location access for Instagram - Instructions for removing location from Instagram Map feature - FAQs and general privacy tips for more location control

I’d love feedback on: - Is the step-by-step format clear and helpful? - What additional platforms or scenarios (e.g., web version, Instagram Lite) should we support? - Could the layout be improved for clarity or shareability (PDF, print)? - Any SEO or UX improvements you'd suggest?

Thanks for checking it out and sharing your thoughts!
by EagnaIonat | 2025-08-09 06:58:08+00:00
The original riddle has a girls name. It's a common riddle so the LLM would recognize the pattern of the riddle and assumes the name is the answer.

But if it's good at reasoning it should understand that if the name is a Boys name then it is not the 5th daughter.

Now the last daughter can be called anything, but because there is a vowel pattern it should pick Lulu to solve the puzzle, but that is the wrong answer in the original puzzle.
by vanderZwan | 2025-08-09 06:58:54+00:00
I think they "just" meant "set OLED screen to full brightness white", which is the kind of app my cheap Amazfit has too. And I can say from experience that that is still really useful, because OLED screens are pretty darn bright.

In the case of Amazfit (which I presume is similar here) you can set it up to turn on when long-pressing the dial, it can switch between white and red light by turning the dial, and it takes a few seconds to reach full brightness instead of just switching on. Meaning you have a chance to change it to red without waking everyone up in the middle of a camping trip.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-09 06:59:24+00:00
I agree but I was just (repeating?) some argument that I heard that if the companies would actually not follow on their premise that they are actually safe if they said so (think amazon bedrock tos policy which says such)

Then it will cause an insane backlash and nobody would use the product. So it is in their interest to not train/record.

But yes I also agree with you. They are already torrenting :/ So pretty sure if they can do illegal stuff scott free, they might do this too idk,

And yeah this was why I was actually saying that local matters more tbh. You just get rid of such headache.
by adiabatty | 2025-08-09 07:01:16+00:00
I have one-click login with 2FA codes stored in 1Password.

And 1Password will still let me export my crazy-long password and TOTP code to a plain text file if I want to switch to a different password manager (of course, I’ll have to do some planning beforehand to make sure that the export destination doesn’t get picked up by my backup software).