MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by meowkit | 2025-08-20 18:25:21+00:00
As someone who prefers iphones…

- iPhone wobble is real. Mostly mitigated by a proper case. Does the iPhone get a better camera in return? Usually in my experience.

- I don’t sort my photos. The semantic search has been sufficient, and I back everything up to my NAS via an iCloud docker shim.

- Chrome/chromium is adware garbage now. FireFox is the only browser I use. The FS API does sound great though. Enviable given how annoying it is to do work on an iPhone sometimes.
by mvieira38 | 2025-08-20 18:25:51+00:00
> Is this a "left brain vs right brain" type of thing? Do most HNers prefer Androids?

I don't think so. The stuff you mentioned is objectively better as there's no reason for Apple not to let you do it. It's more of a "I've been in the Apple walled garden for so long and so are all my friends" or the so-called network effects. Examples: you can't "Facetime" and "Airdrop" on Android, your text confirmation marks are green instead of blue, you don't have access to the same apps as your friends (sometimes), you don't have integration with iPad. If you grew up in certain circles you may be bullied for not having an iPhone, too.

Also there is a prevailing sentiment that Android doesn't "just work" as much as iOS, which is true tbh but not for Pixels which are basically the Android equivalent of an iPhone, where the device is pretty much tailor-made for the OS.
by arijun | 2025-08-20 18:26:12+00:00
Those are some very minor complaints, all of which would not affect my buying choice, given the larger differences. That said, I’ll tell you that I don’t notice (1), for (2) I would never sit there organizing my photos, I have other (mostly less productive) things to do with my time, and (3) seems like something I specifically _dont_ want.
by bravoetch | 2025-08-20 18:26:13+00:00
I love the idea of on-device AI. But the implementation of Gemini on Android is fully toxic. In the assistant settings I'm able to select what app I want to use as the assistant. But if I even open the Gemini app, it sets that automatically to be the phone assistant app. It doesn't ask, there's no confirmation, it just changes that setting. After that many tasks will fail because Gemini can't launch google maps to navigate you etc etc. Super annoying.
by incomingpain | 2025-08-20 18:27:09+00:00
>OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks and their peers do not only sell software. They set the trajectory of entire industries. It is reasonable to ask them to share that trajectory with the public that makes it possible.

When you remain private, the rules applied to you are limited, and even then have enough lawyers and you dont really have to follow all those rules.

When you go public, you have those same private rules, but they all now apply, and you gain a boatload of new rules and the SEC and others now are constantly on your case.

There's a well known IPO drought for decades now because it doesnt make any sense to go public. This is a consequence of over-regulation.
by RankingMember | 2025-08-20 18:27:14+00:00
I'd be curious to know if they did any surveys/research on how many people use a case or not. If the vast majority do (my anecdata-based hunch), why not just thicken the phone to add battery and use a thinner case rather than just having the case space the back of the phone out to be flat?

My partner got a Pixel 9a and it's nice that they went completely flat on that one, though it's obviously almost a straight rip-off of the recent non-pro iPhones aesthetically (not a bad thing imo).
by varbhat | 2025-08-20 18:27:15+00:00
I want to know how the TSMC-manufactured Tensor processors compares to Samsung-manufactured Tensor processors and also how TSMC-manufactured Tensor processors compare to TSMC-manufactured Snapdragon processors. Samsung's Tensors (also Exynos) had the fame of getting superhot. I want to know if these problems persist in new Tensor chips.
by hinkley | 2025-08-20 18:27:32+00:00
> Once upon a time Glacier was its own service that had nothing to do with S3. If you look closely (hi, billing data!) you can see vestiges of how this used to be, before the S3 team absorbed it as a series of storage classes.

Your assumption holds if they still use tape. But this paragraph hints at it not being tape anymore. The eternal battle between tape versus drive backup takes another turn.
by barnabas-szoke | 2025-08-20 18:28:54+00:00
KaraKeep is mainly a bookmarking tool (tags, sync, etc). SnapLinks overlaps there but goes a bit further: it adds a reading queue (Unread → Done), AI summaries, website notes synced into Notion, a knowledge base you can search or even chat with and a powerful bookmarking system. The focus is less on just saving links and more on actually using them when you need them.
by kace91 | 2025-08-20 18:29:54+00:00
This might be a very basic question, but as a dev whose only interaction with models is using the main commercial ones (sonnet, ChatGPT and the like), what are some usecases for these smaller local models?

What usages can be reasonable to expect from them? Are there uses out of the box or does one have to go through some custom post-training to get useful behavior?

I feel like there is a huge gap between understanding models as a user of commercial tools and the kind of discussions happening in these threads, but I’m not sure what are the in-between steps.
by Disposal8433 | 2025-08-20 18:30:01+00:00
This will sound harsh but:

> The software we make isn't software for software developers

Like most software companies on the planet.

> we need to improve developer understanding of how our customers use the product

I'm pretty sure no dev said that, ever. It's the job of the CEO, managers, project managers, sales people, etc. Anyone but the devs who would do anything not to get fired nowadays.

> encouraging devs to reach out to customers

It's NOT their job. I would be very reluctant to contact customers directly. Most clients don't know what they want, and devs want to please anyone as long as it involves coding. You need direction. Also, when customers have impossible demands, managers will lie that it's possible and try to sell something different. No dev will tell you that something impossible is possible. We are not salesmen.

> We've also pointed to existing bug trackers

That doesn't mean anything at all. Which bug tracker?

You seem very confused about what a dev is supposed to do. You need a PO (project owner) or PM (project manager) or anyone that can understand the customer's needs. Right now you have none and you think your devs should find the issues themselves, or magically find what the customers want.

Feel free to ask if you have more questions.

Edit: the last time I spoke to a customer, I gave a few technical details and no one cared. I don't know what is his IT department, what is his budget, who I have to contact, I know nothing. That's the job of a whole team (CFO, sales, etc). It feels like one of those niche projects where anyone can do anything and the client is supposed to accept that with some kind of unlimited budget, am I wrong? (Edit: "Payroll, HR, and Workforce Management" no wonder your devs are not understanding what you do, you need serious training, simulations, or anything to entice them, but speaking to customer would be a bad idea).
by glawrence13 | 2025-08-20 18:30:09+00:00
Appreciate it. FYI, for the specific bugs you flagged, looks like Nintendo was improperly named (reindexing products with that name now), and sounds like the pain point you felt was extraneous search results that really didn't belong. Transparently, the problem we're facing there is vector search can be a bit of a black box, so we're trying to tune our hybrid search to cull out really crazy results, but obviously it still needs work.

One of the ways we're combatting these search problems in the early days is developers can curate their catalog with specific brands, merchants, and categories (and even down to the product level) so you know exactly what the search space for each of your queries is. Curious to hear about your travel planner app -- if you think this would be a helpful tool, feel free to reach out at george@trychannel3.com
by hannob | 2025-08-20 18:30:34+00:00
> We hold an ACME account key on your behalf with the CA, but we cannot use it impersonate your domain or decrypt traffic.

That makes no sense whatsoever. If you have an ACME account key for my domain, of course you can use it to impersonate my domain. You just need to create another certificate. (Which I could detect, but if I know how to do that, I'm probably not going to need your service anyway.)
by etempleton | 2025-08-20 18:30:54+00:00
Taiwan as a country doesn't want that. There is a reason they only fab their latest and greatest chips domestically in Taiwan. It is of Taiwan's national interest and of TSMCs interest to do everything they can to ensure that the US protects them from China.

Again, it is a net positive for the US to have TSMC manufacture chips on US soil, so I am not arguing against that point, I simply posit it is not enough from a US national security / technology leadership standpoint.
by PaulHoule | 2025-08-20 18:31:23+00:00
"Fantastic" is one of those words like "Incredible" that is often used when people want to say "swell" or "groovy" but has an undesirable root meaning.

"Fantastic" really means "as in fantasy" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantastic so like witches and black cats and devils and time travel and stuff. "Incredible" means "not credible" as in like a guy who turns green and gets huge when he gets huge may be a hulk but is not credible. Fox News is incredible.

I had a CEO who liked to use the word "incredible" and when his company got bought by a major fashion brand and he said it was "incredible" my first instinct was to check that it wasn't on April 1.
by Zacharias030 | 2025-08-20 18:31:52+00:00
I strongly believe that our concept of intelligence is like the „god of the gaps“ [0]. Intelligent is only what we haven’t yet explained.

Chess computers surely must be intelligent, but then deep blue was „just search“.

Go computers surely must have intelligence because it requires intuition and search is intractable, but then it’s „just CNN based pattern matching“.

Writing essays surely requires intelligence, because of the creativity, but then it‘s actually just a „stochastic parrot“.

We keep attributing intelligence to what is currently out of reach even as this set is rapidly shrinking before out eyes.

It would be better to say that intelligence is an emergent phenomenon and that behavior that seems intelligent is intelligent.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
by creer | 2025-08-20 18:32:03+00:00
> what do you think [young people] would materially gain from [$100k]? Very little.

Little? It would remove most of the obstacles in their life: Move away from shitty parents or neighborhoods. Allow Finish their studies without having to hold a job at the same time. Allow a decent job search. Rent near work. Become the foundation for long term investing. Have a decent minimal-breakdowns car if useful where they live/work. Have a safety reserve in case shit happens. After a little time building a credit record, become the down payment for their home (if that's worthwhile on their trajectory), etc, etc.

I would argue though that $100k may not by itself achieve much if - in general - lack of good example, lack of good counsel, presence of terrible "friends", mental illness, etc.

In spite of some views on HN, "normal job" is still the way to a comfortable life for most.
by hattar | 2025-08-20 18:32:11+00:00
I use an iphone and have for many years. I was a phone geek who would always use custom ROMs and have everything dialed in just so. I'm sure this has changed over the years but back in the day it seemed like there was always some weird issue with my Android phone. Admittedly, a lot of that could have been my fault for constantly messing with the device. Eventually I got busy and just needed my phone to do the simple stuff and get out of the way.

iOS has a number of really annoying behaviors and general flaws that are never going to be addressed. I don't recall having the same frustrations with Android, but maybe I did.

I'm constantly annoyed that my iPhone can't do simple stuff my Android phone could do 15 years ago. I am also aware that if it could do all those things, I probably wouldn't spend the time to get everything set up, dialed in, and maintained anyway.

The things that keep me on iPhone are unrelated to all of that, though.

1. I like the small form factor. I have a 13 Mini and there's no decent equivalent that I've found in any ecosystem (sadly, even Apple now).

2. I use Facetime with both sets of parents a fair bit. Trying to train them to use whatever app Google currently uses for video calls, and then retraining every time Google kills it off for another almost identical app, sounds like a lot of work and frustration.

3. Real or not, my perception is that privacy in the Apple ecosystem has historically been, and currently is, far better than Google. I don't like the idea of the device I'm constantly relying on to be the product of an ad company, it just feels gross.

4. Proper unlock with FaceID is so damn convenient. I don't know for sure, but suspect going back to a fingerprint would really bug me.
by bayindirh | 2025-08-20 18:32:29+00:00
In this age of keyboards, cloud computing and AI, we think being fast is better. We lost our patience, and want everything instantly. However, there are some processes which needs time.

Life is same everywhere. It makes the same trade-offs. Fast growing plants have less mass, they are less dense, and if they are edible, they're less delicious and nutritious.

However, hard woods, strong plants and nutritiously dense foods grow slowly. It's the same for ideas, and human mind.

When you let your brain draw circles on an idea, you start to prune its illogical parts. When you put a speed limiter with a pen, you force your brain to reconsider what it just said to you, and as a result, you get better, more refined ideas in less time actually.

I have written elsewhere. I design my programs, their architecture and algorithms on paper, with a fountain pen. I keep lab notebooks. This allows me to refine everything before hitting my first key on the keyboard. I iterate less, produce more. The algorithms I design come out already refined to a certain degree, and when combined with architectural knowledge, their first iteration come out performant and efficient.

Let me ask you the same question:

Why bang my hands and head to a keyboard while trying to solve a problem while I can solve it with a cup of tea, a nice pen and paper and create elegant code in one go and enjoy all parts of the process, and spend less time as a result?
by jjcm | 2025-08-20 18:33:00+00:00
I would love to see a future where the barrier of entry for purpose-built chips is 100x lower. That said there's an interesting observation in the interview:

> We essentially have rolled out an L1 through L5, where L5 is the Holy Grail with fully autonomous end-to-end workflows. L1 is where we are today, and maybe heading into L2. L3 involves orchestration and then planning and decision-making. When we get to L5, we’ll be asking questions like, ‘Are junior-level engineers really needed?’

We're seeing this in the software development world too, where it's becoming harder and harder for junior engineers to both learn programing and to be successful in their careers. If the only thing that's needed are senior engineers, how do people grow to become senior engineers? It's a harrowing prospect.
by morleytj | 2025-08-20 18:33:08+00:00
The argument in the comment above is that lab grown salmon cells should not be allowed to be marketed as salmon because they have had components such as beta-carotene added for coloring.

In light of the fact that similar compounds are added to the majority of farmed salmon for similar reasons, the comparison shows that the objection is likely a fallacious appeal to nature, purporting that something is good because it is "natural" or "normal" rather than presenting any objective evidence to argue their point.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-20 18:33:11+00:00
Well, I like the concept but it's not like the government gives me a passport for free to travel through federally ran checkpoints or a drivers license for free to drive on federally funded roads.

I wonder at what point they'll start printing a face on the social security cards. That'd probably fix a lot of problems.

USPS could probably run an email service pretty well. I assume they print the mass-mailers on their own so they could print out your own email as mail.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-20 18:33:46+00:00
It's interesting how this type of feedback always comes up for phones yet smaller phones have an extremely hard time actually selling enough units to justify making more of them. It seems part of it may be folks remaining in this group seem much more willing to stick with old devices anyways, helping drive less priority for small sizes on top of already being a smaller market segment. Perhaps there are some other big factors beyond those two things too.
by mtndew4brkfst | 2025-08-20 18:34:05+00:00
IMO in the 12 months or so I've been aware of the BABLR work and observed the author's comment contributions, they've never really substantiated why BABLR would be preferable to tree-sitter, or how a JS-based implementation of parser tech can fulfill any of the same niches. Most consumers of tree-sitter leverage it via FFI or native code, not an embedded or external JS runtime.

It's not clear to me how you could substantially replace the capabilities/benefits of what LSP provides with BABLR either.
by VTimofeenko | 2025-08-20 18:34:17+00:00
Yeah, I am on Pixel 9 pro too and quick trade in check shows that upgrade would cost net ~500$(256Gb). Arguably ~250$ if buying 10 would extend the gemini subscription for a year -- not sure about the verbiage of the terms here.

100x "composite" zoom is nice but not sure if it's worth it.
by charlie-83 | 2025-08-20 18:34:18+00:00
I guess there is a difference between expect and assume. It would be weird for me to assume that the vast majority of people care deeply about digital privacy when clearly that's not true. Its pretty reasonable for them to assume I have Instagram or whatever when the vast majority of people do.

From their perspective, they assume I already have an Instagram account and if I say I don't then they aren't really going to understand why I wouldn't want to make one. For someone who isn't well informed on issues of digital privacy, I think this is a reasonable way to behave. From their perspective, someone demanding they download and use some random app they haven't heard of for reasons about encryption they don't understand is not reasonable.

Of course it is very worthwhile trying to educate people on issues of digital privacy. If you are able to educate them, then they will see that you perpective is reasonable. However, you aren't going to change everyone's minds
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-08-20 18:34:19+00:00
You can get all of that pure snapshot.

There are no extra checks needed it's by a significant margin the most reliable method to see current state.

I run snapshot at 10-20fps though plus the same for parallel image capture.

I've been wondering if I should release just this part of my system open source seems like I'm not alone in how complex this all is.

I could launch yet another automation framework!
by jonbiggums22 | 2025-08-20 18:34:20+00:00
I blundered onto this when looking for a way to swap out m.2 SSDs without opening my case. There are apparently adapters for an m.2 drive to be used in a CFexpress slot. When looking at prices for regular CFexpress cards it seemed like everyone should use the adapters since m.2 drives were so much cheaper, at least when I was shopping.
by trhway | 2025-08-20 18:34:28+00:00
The article doesn't mention the elephant in the room - iPhone. The fall of ringtones and the rise of iPhone isn't a mere coincidence. The feature phones had too little features, everything on them was controlled by the provider, and thus ringtones were something noticeable, one of the few available ways for customization, a way for that brick to do something else. With introduction of iPhone the ring customization - just use any sound file, etc, no payment - became just a very small insignificant feature drowned by a lot of other functionality like full featured web browsing, etc. and thus it lost user's attention. I don't remember anybody doing ring customization on iPhone or any other smartphone besides picking from the preloaded list of rings.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-20 18:34:40+00:00
Profit above all else. New renewables are the cheapest form of energy, even when accounting for battery storage. While data centers are a component in rising prices, so is regulatory capture [1] by utilities and the desire to squeeze as much return from fossil fuels before they are stranded assets [2].

> and larger/faster economies require more energy.

Until generative AI, electrical demand had not been increasing [3]. This might change if and when the generative AI bubble pops, although growth will still increase over time at a slower pace as the US economy electrifies (albeit slower than it otherwise would have).

> In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, we forecast U.S. annual electricity consumption will increase in 2025 and 2026, surpassing the all-time high reached in 2024. This growth contrasts with the trend of relatively flat electricity demand between the mid-2000s and early 2020s. Much of the recent and forecasted growth in electricity consumption is coming from the commercial sector, which includes data centers, and the industrial sector, which includes manufacturing establishments.

> U.S. electricity consumption was essentially flat for nearly two decades. Electricity demand increases generally associated with population growth and economic growth were offset by efficiency improvements and other structural changes in the economy, such as the transition from manufacturing to service sectors that tend to consume less energy. Total electricity consumption includes sales to ultimate customers in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors, and—to a lesser extent—sales to public transportation customers and the direct use of electricity at industrial facilities that produce power.

[1] https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/data-centers-arent-the-ma...

[2] https://prospect.org/environment/2025-06-05-texas-legislatur...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=65264
by MerrimanInd | 2025-08-20 18:35:39+00:00
I'm a big fan of Zed and having met much of the team I think it's some great people building a great product. But I do echo concerns that while the intentions are all honorable the incentives of the pricing structure, business environment, and now a funding round are concerning in the long term. I don't think anyone at Zed has a single ill intent or a secret master plan but these days anything I'm not paying for I just assume is going to be enshittified eventually. Especially for an app where the only paid features are AI-centric and there's a VC expecting to make multiples on a $60m investment.

So here's my ask: let me pay for it without paying for AI! None of my use cases will stress your servers; I have `"disable_ai": true` in my settings.json. Give me a $5/mo "support the devs tier" or a $10/mo tier with some random app quality-of-life features and I'm there. I specifically want to pay for good software without paying for AI to signify the value proposition that still exists there cause I don't think a VC would believe me otherwise.