MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by koliber | 2025-08-23 05:57:43+00:00
I love how the title of this submission is changing every time I come back to HN.

At first there was an empty space between the double quotes. This made me click and read the article because it was surprising that the length of a space would be 7.

Then the actual emoji appeared and the title finally made sense.

Now I see escaped \u{…} characters spelled out and it’s just ridiculous.

Can’t wait to come back tomorrow to see what it will be then.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-23 05:59:18+00:00
Trading one "private sector" state surveillance and narrative control platform for another isn't much of an improvement.

That said, I hate to break it to you, but there is no real question of 'when', or even 'if'. The general public simply does not care, no matter how much abuse they are subjected to by mainstream platform operators.

There will always be a minority who care enough to embrace decentralization, open source, good e2ee, but they are the exception to the vast majority, at least inside the US, who simply do not care enough to change their behavior.

What percentage of Americans do you think would voluntarily, permanently relinquish their own fourth amendment rights for $5000? Scary thought experiment when you recall studies that have found only two thirds of Americans can name all three branches of government, or that fewer than one in four can name any right secured by the first amendment other than freedom of speech.

https://studyfinds.org/constitution-americans-rights/
by trod1234 | 2025-08-23 06:00:17+00:00
I know, there are these people that pipe in and are just so distorted in their own ignorance and lack of discipline, blaming everyone but the people responsible (themselves) and think everything should be handed to them on a golden spoon in a way that will somehow empower them without any effort, and when that doesn't happen throwing tantrums like an infantile child gaslighting about arrogance and other things that they hallucinate, falsely believing the world owes them something.

I am not required to explain, the material is out there for anyone to review on their own time. I point out a deficit, and material you can easily look up, those that want to elevate themselves and they can and do the research transforming themselves for the better but not without effort.

I had the very best reason to post this comment, a far better reason than you. I want the future to be livable for everyone, and by your sentiment and actions you seem to want destruction or death for all, at least by the outcomes you claim I should do. You see a car barreling towards a bystander, a good person would yell out in warning so the bystander gets clear and survives. You would instead have it so that they just shut the fuck up, no thought to the consequences.

People who have properly educated and taken their education upon themselves are superior to those that do not, they are capable of far more than they start with, and that only increases with time.

Anyone has the chance to elevate themselves, it only requires effort once given the right direction which is not much, and in the process you learn a great many things if you are open to the journey.

Those that aren't are more content to destroy, envious of those that can, seeking to silence and punish them. --- Giving something of value up for nothing in exchange is charity, and this is always on the terms of the giver, never the receiver. Those that receive and then seek to compel or strongarm the giver are no different than any other thug, thief, looters, but are often worse because they pretend otherwise despite their vile character.

No person owes you a thing. The basic foundations are less than an 8 hour read; not 3 semesters.
by widforss | 2025-08-23 06:00:43+00:00
I'm specifically thinking about using older self-drive bolts, which seem to still be used if they are placed. I have only met people thinking they are acceptable in the caving environment.

And also using temporary bolts as the Coeur 8 mm, which is rated for 2 kN before deformation in the worst direction (and the mechanism of those bolts are more akin to a cam, making them squiggle a lot in the hole, which is safe, but scary. My ice axe don't squiggle).

Obviously you use redundant bolts, and there are much lower forces in SRT than in dynamic falls, but I still think it's scary as hell.
by PhilipRoman | 2025-08-23 06:01:35+00:00
IME these systems can be quite fragile in practice. All it takes is one pre-signature exploit (like U-boot parsing ext4 and devicetree before verifying signature) and your whole chain becomes useless.

And while the kernel is quite secure against hacks from userspace, the hardware interfaces are generally more trusted. This is not a problem on smartphones or embedded devices where you can obfuscate everything on a small SoC but the whole PC/x86_64 platform is much more flexible and open. I doubt there is a way to get reliable attestation on current desktop systems (many of which are assembled from independent parts) unless you get complete buy-in from all the manufacturers.

Finally, with AI systems recently increasing in power, perhaps soon the nuclear option of camera + CV + keyboard/mouse will become practical.
by koliber | 2025-08-23 06:02:27+00:00
When a company “fails” it does not disappear in a puff of smoke. It goes into bankruptcy and is sold in parts. Some of those parts are perfectly functioning divisions which will continue to function but they will be owned by someone else.

I would rather have Intel go bankrupt, sell profitable pieces to private buyers, and if there are any pieces that are not profitable but crucial to national interests, create a company out of them and have the government buy them. This way you are not propping up a dysfunctional behemoth.

Things must die in order for new better things to take their place. This applies to companies as well.
by tomhow | 2025-08-23 06:02:30+00:00
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Edit out swipes.

Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by musicale | 2025-08-23 06:03:29+00:00
Smartphone game stores aren't the only option for game developers. They could go with Nintendo eShop (30% platform fee), or Sony PSN store (30% platform fee), or Xbox store (30% platform fee). Hmm, maybe there's a trend here?

More seriously, Android does allow sideloading and alternative game stores. There are also subscription services like Xbox game pass, Amazon Luna, and Apple Arcade, though I don't know their exact payment models. And PC gaming still exists - there are popular game stores like Steam that take a smaller cut.

I think it's hard to make money on games on any platform, but Steam does seem to have a vibrant indie game scene.
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-23 06:04:09+00:00
> no one can replicate the smoothness of the Apple trackpad

There are newer trackpad for Windows, and the Surface line had pretty good trackpad as well (not Magic Trackpad levels, but perhaps 80% there ?

The more surprising part to me when I gave up on the Magic Trackpad moving to windows is I was over it in a week. I only ever used trackpads for a decade, but mouse's just work that much better on Windows/Linux, especially getting the extra buttons actual physical click helped a lot. The paradigms are just different enough that the Trackpad makes less sense than on macos.
by philiplu | 2025-08-23 06:04:37+00:00
I worked on that! I was a dev on the team that built the first IntelliSense engine for C++. It’s a miracle it worked at all. It was based on a hacked-up version of the C++ front-end, but when it inevitably hit errors attempting a single-pass parse of the current source, it would silently bull its way through and try not to get too screwed up. Doing that in the presence of templates was not a good time. But with the RAM and processing speeds available then, I’m still kind of shocked it worked at all, 28 years ago.
by pabs3 | 2025-08-23 06:04:57+00:00
Giving users the freedom to customise the code running on their machine is literally the entire point of FOSS (Free Software & Open Source). Some of the FOSS licenses (like the GNU GPL) also include this as a requirement of the license.

That said, you might be right that breaking the proprietary software when it runs on custom builds of the FOSS software would be compliant with the license. That is what TiVo did. Would be pretty annoying though, since you couldn't immediately reboot into a new distro kernel security update, since it wouldn't be known by the remote attestation stuff yet.

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...
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by grazulex | 2025-08-23 06:06:05+00:00
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by CPLX | 2025-08-23 06:06:18+00:00
> it's an incentive to put it back in its place for people who were already not planning on stealing one.

It’s also an incentive for anyone else.

If I put the coin in and then leave the cart in the lot anyways, someone who wanders by is also incentivized to grab it and put it back, as they would get a free coin.

The system is actually somewhat elegant, if you return the cart you pay nothing and if you don’t you pay a small fine to whoever does.
by soraminazuki | 2025-08-23 06:06:20+00:00
You're flat out wrong. Devenv is the defacto standard solution in the Nix community for setting up per-project development environments and services, which is exactly what the linked submission asked for. Calling it a Nix fork like you did in your linked comment makes much sense as torching Debian for "shilling a Linux fork" just because they package patched kernels.
by ksec | 2025-08-23 06:06:50+00:00
> the heatless apple silicon

To this day I still dont know why people worship Apple Silicon. Before it was even named and was mostly used by iPhone as A10, A11 and A12, when I stated these CPU are Desktop grade all I got was being laughed at. But then when it was put into usage by Mac using the same chip now known as M1, M2 etc. All of a sudden they are gold.

Apple did at one point has the leadership of PPW ( Performance per Watt ), but since then competitors have catch up. Qualcomm Oryon and ARM Cortex A930, even exceeding Apple if you look at other metrics. ( We will see what A18 has to bring us ).

-> the smoothness of the Apple trackpad

Because no other PC manufacturer is willing in invest into it and pay for it. For example speakers, it wasn't until Laptop reviewers paying attention and start saying how awful all the PC Laptop speakers were when compared to a MacBook before they started to improve. While Speakers were easier as it is low cost item. Trackpad isn't. But it got much better when Microsoft decided to invest into the PC ecosystem and Surface Laptop, so other PC manufacturers can take advantage of it. It still isn't quite as good as the one on MacBook. But Surface Laptop is pretty close, or may be just different as some would argue. Similar to Keyboard where Surface has the old MacBook 2015 scissors keyboard with better Key Stability, I value that as better than every keyboard that is currently with Apple.
by ant6n | 2025-08-23 06:07:19+00:00
I for one think that Gemini 2.5 pro has become much more stupid than before. This isn’t for coding, just simple business type support. It keeps forgetting queries, making really obviously bad suggestions, simple mistakes etc etc.

It’s kind of funny, because they keep talking about how close we are to AGI, and in reality they keep making the models dumber (uh, I mean more efficient).
by ktallett | 2025-08-23 06:08:16+00:00
The issues here are there is an assumption AI will improve so far whereby it has the capabilities to write flawless code for pieces of software that would be many separate files and many thousands of lines of code. There is very little about LLMs that suggest there is any focus on accuracy to this level or that it would be possible within any foreseeable future as we are currently are nowhere near this at all.

Secondly, we use software and AI as a human race that others have created as many are not quite aware of what they need and don't have the capabilities of designing software to solve all of the issues they have. That won't suddenly be a skillset many pick up.
by mgraczyk | 2025-08-23 06:09:28+00:00
Figure 4

I think you are assuming we are talking about swapping API usage from one model to another. That is not what happened. A specific product doing a specific thing uses less energy now.

To clarify: the way models become more efficient is usually by training a new one with a new architecture, quantization, etc.

This is analogous to making a computer more efficient by putting a new CPU in it. It would be completely normal to say that you made the computer more efficient, even though you've actually swapped out the hardware.
by maest | 2025-08-23 06:09:36+00:00
> I would adore to see obtaining a drivers license ratchet up in difficulty

I have taken driving licence exams in 3 different countries in the world and the NY exams was, by far, the easiest, less stringent one.

For the theory part, you can take the exam from home, on your own laptop and you just have to pinky swear you won't cheat. It's downright silly.

Also, traffic enforcement in NYC feels basically nonexistent. Drivers will run red lights, fail to yield at pedestrian crossings and will park wherever they feel like it. And the police won't do anything - in fact, the police are one of the biggest offenders.
by 3abiton | 2025-08-23 06:10:17+00:00
To be fair, allocating some token for planning (recursively) helps a lot. It requires more hands on work, but produce much better results. Clarifying the tasks and breaking them down is very helpful too. Just you end up spending lots of time on it. On the bright side, Qwen3 30B is quite decent, and best of all "free".
by Mikhail_Edoshin | 2025-08-23 06:10:26+00:00
The stylistic includes and certain content (e. g. a site map) can be embedded in the XSLT itself.

It is not quite a templating engine. XSLT is a part of a semantic engine. Content is written in the way that fits the content. E. g. I write about some language and invent tags and notations that best fit what I am talking about: grammar, sounds, wrtiting. Or I write about chess and say something like (party id=abc move=15w). Then I make it available in HTML by providing a transform from my tags to HTML tags. My notation is rendered as a bunch of divs, ps and spans. This is merely a temporary rendering; other renderings may be possible.

A templating engine is the final document with placeholders for variable parts. XSLT can do that too, but this is less than its vision.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-23 06:11:40+00:00
Every serious place I’ve worked at wants to put MDM on all devices with corp data on it. So one you leave, try can wipe all the apps with their data on it

And that’s fair. But I don’t want that on my personal devices. It’s literal spyware.

If work wants that level of control on my phone, they can just give me a phone they own outright. I’ll give it back when I’m done working there.

Seriously, it’s a huge mistake to mix personal and professional data on any device. Too many risks I want nothing to do with.
by crinkly | 2025-08-23 06:12:06+00:00
Semi-related, but they aren’t the status symbol they used to be. I know a guy who did quite well out of removing Agas for a few years because they are so expensive to run. Apparently up to 20x the cost of more sensible equipment. They were sold for scrap metal value because people weren’t buying them any more. He charged them to remove it and got paid scrap value.

The worst one I heard was someone who paid £10k for their top end Aga, found it was costing £700 a month to run and it was scrap in under a year.

Dead technology.
by mbuhot | 2025-08-23 06:12:22+00:00
Wow I never expected to stumble across a library I created while scrolling hacker news! :)

One interesting aspect of this approach is that if you want Gleam’s type safety guarantees, it requires explicitly decoding dynamic terms into Gleam data structures.

The latest version of Glyn amortises the cost of the decoding by performing it once per cluster node, then using the local typed messaging system to deliver the message to local subscribers.
by MaskRay | 2025-08-23 06:14:01+00:00
I don't follow Zig's development. https://ziglang.org/download/0.15.1/release-notes.html#Motiv... feels vague to me, and linking to a lengthy video isn't very clarifying. Still, I skimmed through it to get a sense of it.

Zig's approach seems to require users to explicitly call flush for any writes. This reminds me of a similar issue in LLVM's `raw_svector_ostream`. Before a 2015 commit https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/3d1173ba1a53cab0... , it only called flush at the end, which was efficient. That commit changed this, leading to unnecessarily slow performance. To not break existing users, the 2024 pull request https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/97704 tries to implement a new interface, but the changes would cause significant churn. @aengelke
by blooalien | 2025-08-23 06:15:15+00:00
> ... "only two thirds of Americans can name all three branches of government, or that fewer than one in four can name any right secured by the first amendment other than freedom of speech."

Mere decades ago, not knowing this kinda stuff would get you failed in grade-school Civics class, and again in junior high, and yet again in high-school (at least where I grew up, here in the "Great NorthWest" Rocky Mountains area USA).

Used to be that knowing the basics about how your government worked and what your rights and responsibilities are as a citizen was considered "required knowledge" (right alongside basic history, math, reading, etc) to help prepare you for "life in the real world".
by yorwba | 2025-08-23 06:15:26+00:00
Numbeo is entirely based on self-reports by the kinds of people who use Numbeo. For price comparisons you can at least argue that although the prices listed are much too high, it's a realistic representation of how much you're likely to pay if you're a naive Westerner who interacts with locals mainly in English and isn't particularly price-sensitive. But the crime index is entirely based on how worried people are about crime. Considering that most people won't personally become victims of a crime in a given year even in relatively high-crime areas, the crime index tells you more about the people doing the self-reporting than about the level of crime.
by strogonoff | 2025-08-23 06:16:03+00:00
Is there anything wrong with walled gardens hypothetically taxing the shady microtransaction-infested unregulated-gambling games and data-mining apps 5x and using that to correspondingly reduce fees for honest indie developers?

(Setting aside the issue of defining who are the goodies and who are the baddies in a way that does not enable the baddies to purely technically comply with the goodie guidelines while remaining baddies.)
by gameman144 | 2025-08-23 06:17:26+00:00
This is interesting, I definitely use "theft" colloquially for all these things.

For the digital assets, I mentally bucket copyright infringement and theft differently. For instance, if I copy someone's photography and sell it, that's copyright infringement (not theft). However, if I hacked into someones Google photos and sold the contents, I'd consider that theft (since there was no intent for the material to be available)

Granted, it's fair to disagree here, so I'm not adamantly against the definition that requires removing access or anything.
by rayiner | 2025-08-23 06:17:37+00:00
The "unitary executive theory" is just a pejorative label for Article II, Section 1, Clause 1: "The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America." Alexander Hamilton talks about it in Federalist 70: "I rarely met with an intelligent man from any of the States, who did not admit, as the result of experience, that the UNITY of the executive of this State was one of the best of the distinguishing features of our constitution." (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed70.asp).

Nobody called it a "theory" until FDR appointees ginned up a fourth branch of government in the 20th century. Then, they needed a label for what actually existed in the constitution to distinguish it from the shit they just made up. But most of the people who use the phrase "unitary executive theory" also think "emanations from penumbras" is constitutional law...

Also, the APA doesn't apply to the President, and it wouldn't be constitutional for it to do so.