MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ejdyksen | 2025-08-07 04:25:58+00:00
> Why are all these things still in the macOS?

The Finder shows these icons for network volumes.

How does the Finder determine the model of the remote host? This is metadata in the _device-info._tcp Bonjour service record that is the server advertises. My Synology helpfully shows up as an Xserve, in fact:

$ dns-sd -L "synology" _device-info._tcp local Lookup synology._device-info._tcp.local DATE: ---Thu 07 Aug 2025--- 0:24:28.117 ...STARTING... 0:24:28.378 synology._device-info._tcp.local. can be reached at synology.local.:0 (interface 14) model=Xserve
by theultdev | 2025-08-07 04:26:11+00:00
You need to expand on what you think is "authoritarian".

Otherwise, a conversation can not be had.

It's interesting you view that he ran on authoritarian ideals, yet still won the popular vote.

Yes while populist leaders can be authoritarian, it does not mean this one is. I'm still waiting for someone to name a specific policy so a discussion debating whether it is authoritarian or not can begin.

It is however, interesting that you believe a candidate ran on and won the popular vote as the leader of the free world on authoritarian ideals. Do you think that little of American voters? Or are you misinformed / biased?
by random_is_rando | 2025-08-07 04:26:13+00:00
This is the most likely way we'd do it, provided we get over our cultural/political/religious limitations, which might pose a real obstacle.

The most likely way to move in the Universe is through something along the lines of von Neumann probes, which can be small machines sent at relativistic speeds across the whole galaxy, setting up these "spawn" points. Even at 10% speed of light it would take 1 million years to get such probes in strategic points to cover most of our galaxy.
by rockemsockem | 2025-08-07 04:26:29+00:00
I feel like you're coming from a very strange place of both using advanced technology that saves you time and expands your personal knowledge base and at the same time saying that the more advanced technology that saves you even more time and expands your knowledge base further is useless and a time sink.

For most questions it is so much faster to validate a correct answer than to figure out the answer to begin with. Vague queries CANNOT be distilled to simple keyword searches when you don't know where to start without significant time investment. Ctrl-f relies on you and the article having the exact same preferred vocabulary for the exact same concepts.

I do not assume that LLMs don't lie or hallucinate, I start with the assumption that they will be wrong. Which for the record is the same assumption I take with both websites and human beings.
by kingstnap | 2025-08-07 04:26:35+00:00
Are the results any different from the AI overview? Cause I assume Google search is not trying to "fix" your question and just returns relevant results. And being an "AI overview" and not an "AI answer" it should just overview the results.

The whole "Why is (false statement)?" Is an old issue and I'm not entirely convinced the Gemini lite model doing AI overviews is who we hope to fix that.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-07 04:27:01+00:00
Like most, you're confusing conscription with mobilization, something the Western media conveniently repeatedly plays into.

Russia, and many other countries - like everywhere in Scandinavia, has compulsory military enlistment or conscription. But these people generally are not eligible to be sent abroad to participate in conflicts. Instead it's used for training. After that training they are then required to sign up for the equivalent of the US Selective Service where, after after some years (2 in Russia), they may be called up, or mobilized, for participation in any conflict. Russia carried out one very small scale mobilization very early on in the war. It led to hundreds of thousands of Russians leaving the country and was generally exceptionally unpopular. Since then their entire army has been 100% volunteer forces.

By contrast Ukraine immediately, after the war began, made it illegal for men of "fighting age" (18-60) to leave the country and declared a general mobilization such that any man of "fighting age" can be immediately mobilized and sent to the front. This had led to them at times literally dragging people off the streets, beating them into submission when necessary (with more than a few 'deaths in training'), giving then some performative training, and then sending them to the front. And the like the GP mentioned, they recently passed a law to allow even 60+ year olds to enlist, limiting potential medical exemptions, and more. In other words - they are simply running out of people.

So Russia has been essentially fighting a war of attrition against an endless hoard of people armed with hundreds of billions of dollars in the Western gear, directed by Western instructors, using Western intelligence, and winning. It's going to be difficult for any developed nation, including the US, to ever fight a real war like this - because people aren't going to tolerate general mobilization, let alone people coming back in body bags by the hundreds of thousands, for the sake of geopolitics half way around the world. Even Russia has managed to do so only by offering extremely high wages for their soldiers, but it's unclear what this will entail once the war winds down. Hopefully they have not found themselves in the US trap where they suddenly essentially have to always be at war to keep their economy chugging along.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-07 04:28:42+00:00
If something is painful you aren't doing it often enough, right? So my (completely uninformed) idea would be 27 bit addresses that are only routable on the local LAN and then a second optional 27 bit address to route between LANs on the WAN. The effective 54 bit address space would have been more than large enough, and if you support modularly extending addresses like that then there's no reason not to keep going beyond the initial 2 by eating into the payload.

Being completely uninformed I have no idea how severe the negative consequences of this scheme would be for the efficiency of routing hardware but I assume it would probably be catastrophic for some reason or another.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-07 04:29:07+00:00
In google Gemini, I gave it my database structure and had it code things. Great. I later added to it. I asked it to do things based on that added columns basically, but never told it their names.

It just guessed. But didn't tell me it had no idea what columns and where I was really talking about. So not only did it guess, wrongly, but it didn't even mention that it had to do so. Obviously the code failed.

Why can't it tell me there's a problem with what I'm asking???
by joquarky | 2025-08-07 04:30:10+00:00
I found the same at my last two tech jobs (S&P 100 and 500). People hate getting their hands dirty with fundamental web dev.

My favorite part of web dev is working directly with the DOM, vanilla JS, and using minimal dependencies (if any).

I feel like the web equivalent of an assembly programmer these days, but apparently nobody is interested in hiring for this sort of thing anymore.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-08-07 04:30:38+00:00
I never did university, learned mostly off Codeacademy back in 2013. I never once listed this in my resume. I instead built website using the knowledge, contributed to open source, and then listed those things. Which seemed to work.

These days I don't do any personal projects or contribute to OSS, I just list my previous jobs and can ace any on the spot questions.

Expecting to be able to list the completion of an online course as an achievement is kind of silly. They are very easy to skim through without learning, and are only really useful for yourself to learn, not to prove anything.
by nelox | 2025-08-07 04:31:21+00:00
Apple’s announcement should be welcomed as a tangible demonstration of corporate accountability in the age of offshore tax minimisation and digital opacity. Rather than simply repurchasing stock or warehousing profits abroad, Apple is deploying capital to grow its US footprint, support domestic suppliers and invest in technological infrastructure.

The program’s breadth also deserves recognition. It includes manufacturing partnerships, data centres, clean energy, and support for educational and community initiatives. This is not PR fluff. Apple’s prior commitments funded chipmaking in Arizona, new engineering hubs and 5G innovation. The expansion builds on that trajectory.

Critics may argue Apple is acting in self-interest. So be it. Public policy should align incentives such that private benefit also serves the public good. In this case, job creation, supply chain resilience, and regional development in states like Iowa and Oregon are clear wins.

Of course, Apple’s global tax practices remain a fair target. But criticising every constructive move on that basis alone risks undermining the very kind of behaviour governments should encourage: strategic reinvestment, not financial engineering.

This is a large, measurable, and multi-year commitment. It should be acknowledged as such.
by dotancohen | 2025-08-07 04:32:00+00:00
> there are so many approaches out there right now

I'm almost to the point where I'll need one of these solutions. I'm fleshing out the corner cases now. I'd appreciate if you mention some of the solutions I should be looking at, and the trade offs. I'd also appreciate if you could mention non-obvious pitfalls.

The use case is a voice note aggregation system, the notes are stored on S3 and cached locally to desktops and mobile applications. There are transcriptions, AI summaries, user annotations, and structured metadata associated with each voice note. The application will be used by a single human, but he might not always remember to sync or even have an internet connection when he wants to.

Thank you!
by shmerl | 2025-08-07 04:32:20+00:00
I indeed wouldn't expect safe approach here to be necessarily efficient. But you aren't forced to make everything safe even if it's nicer. I've seen some Vulkan Rust wrappers before which tried to do that, but as you say it comes at some cost.

So I'd guess you can always use raw Vulkan bindings and deal with related unsafety and leave some areas that aren't tied to synchronization for safer logic.

Dealing with hardware in general is unsafe, and GPUs are so complex that it's sort of expected.
by viccis | 2025-08-07 04:32:41+00:00
>Some art is "challenging", but still artistically uninteresting and uninspired.

I agree and would include 12 tone music (and specifically the Darmstadt School) in this category, as well as others like Xenakis. I think they should have been laughed out of performance halls and shunned, just like so many hack musicians were pre-20th century before classical music lost its gatekeepers (almost all art did with the death of modernism and the fragmentation of cultural narratives)

I think Handel is still a rough choice. He was more popular than Bach, but only because Bach was writing in somewhat outmoded styles for his time. Handel worked for aristocratic (and sometimes royal, see: the backstory of his Water Music as a way to repair relations with the new king of England) patrons and thus had to keep up with fashion. It was never about mass appeal but about making the person with the purse strings happy for Handel.
by Mistletoe | 2025-08-07 04:33:44+00:00
How much will these cost? I'd love some immediately. I'm starting to need reading glasses and it is really disruptive to my whole life, I do lots of hobbies that need close up vision and never knew what life was like not having it.

Edit:

"During the investor call, Lenz executives outlined the cost of VIZZ. A monthly, 25-pack will cost $79. A 3-month pack from the e-pharmacy will cost $198 ($66 per month). Samples are anticipated in the United States as early as October 2025, with commercial product to be broadly available by mid-Q4 2025."
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-07 04:35:05+00:00
Personally I think 12/48/96 would be more practical than the current 8/32/64. 32 bits is almost trivially easy to overflow whereas 48 bits is almost always enough when working with integers. And 64 bits is often insufficient or at least uncomfortably tight when packing bits together. Whereas by the time you've blown past 96 you should really just bust out the arrays and eat any overhead. Similarly I feel that 24 bits is also likely to be more practical than 16 bits in most cases.
by winkelmann | 2025-08-07 04:35:39+00:00
It also has an issue with remembering the last mounted .iso if its filename is beyond a certain length, in which case it will instead load a random (although always the same) .iso in the same folder.

I mainly had this issue with the default Windows install image names.

Fragmentation can be a bit annoying, especially when using exFAT, which doesn't appear to have defragmentation tools available. It can be avoided by never deleting files and instead reformatting every so often.

That being said, it's still a fantastic tool because all the images "just work" everywhere a class-compliant USB optical drive would.
by Animats | 2025-08-07 04:35:51+00:00
> The abstraction that WebGPU provides is entirely the wrong level to most efficiently use Vulkan and D3D12 style APIs.

I agree with this, although the WGPU people disagree.

There could be a Vulkan API for "modern Vulkan" - bindless only, dynamic rendering only, asset loading on a transfer queue only, multithreaded transfers. That would simplify things and potentially improve performance. But it would break code that's already running and would not work on some mobile devices.

We'll probably get that in the 2027-2030 period, as WebGPU devices catch up.

WGPU suffers from having to support the feature set supported by all its back ends - DX12, Vulkan, Metal, WebGPU, and even OpenGL. It's amazing that it works, but a price was paid.
by Mingke27 | 2025-08-07 04:36:15+00:00
I found the perfect economics for vibe coding.

It's not for enterprise production surely, but Fast APPs, For-A-Single-Time application. Like Zara(fast fashion) for software. The vibe coding production process is like situationshipping.

Silicon Valley preaches "ship fast." But vibe coding invented something even more radical: #situationshipping .

Not quite production. Not quite prototype. Definitely not meeting your parents. But perfect for right now.

While everyone else is "moving fast and breaking things," we're moving fast and vanishing. Ship it, use it, ghost it. The ultimate iteration speed is never having to iterate at all.

No strings. No maintenance contracts. No "where is this going?" conversations.

Just two entities (you and your app) enjoying the moment until one of you ghosts.
by murukesh_s | 2025-08-07 04:37:15+00:00
I think iPhones can take a good bump in the pricing for bringing the manufacturing onshore. Currently an iPhone is 30% more expensive in developing countries like India compared to US, Dubai or even Japan. Thats insane, and still an average adult is looking forward to own one. That is 50% of your annual income you have to spend for buying an arguably, state of the art mobile phone. If you are in US, an iPhone is only approximately 1% of your annual per capita income. Thats massive difference..
by somenameforme | 2025-08-07 04:38:23+00:00
This is nonsense. Drones get all the attention because of the novelty and that they obviously have become very important, but you're being beyond hyperbolic. Artillery is still the king of war and responsible for something like 80% of all battlefield casualties. This has become even more true now with drones having eyes in the sky everywhere enabling artillery to become even more devastating.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-07 04:39:57+00:00
Lowes and Home Depot have stepped up to partner with LEO in monitoring the public (people not suspected of a crime). The hardware chains have proactively funded and installed hundreds of Flock cameras.

The cameras exist to capture the faces and movements of the public w/o their consent. All of it flows into the databases that Flock maintains - primarily for LEO to access as it wishes.

Continuous monitoring of the public is about as much power as any authoritarian could ask for.
by bigmadshoe | 2025-08-07 04:40:27+00:00
I think your timeline is off, at least for a tech demo.

This model already runs at 24fps, and I bet could be made to run at >75fps by scaling hardware and distilling/quantizing the model to only work on certain environments.

The two eye problem seems pretty trivial to me: add another image decoding head with the sole task of decoding the other eye. Training data for this can be plentifully gathered through simulated 3D data, or running existing 2D data (e.g. youtube videos) through slow mono to stereo models. This should add minimal latency as it's another head vs. subsequent layers.

If you can train the model to allow WASD movement + mouse, head tracking is not very different. I think with enough effort we could probably build a VR experience using this today. Getting it onto affordable hardware could be a totally different story, but certainly not decades.

Maybe I'm missing something though!
by kake25 | 2025-08-07 04:40:27+00:00
I have been trying new AI tools for the company and gotten the CTO to get Cursor for the company after a lot and back and forth. I complete my tasks before time and take new tasks from others or from backlog. I write documents to explain my projects/work so it can be easily picked up. I try to automate my busy recurring tasks as well like starting the data pipeline every week to refresh company data or automating emails for another thing.

But I definitely agree with you that longevity is important but sometimes I just feel I would work at higher paced or more stressful place given I am still a few years (5) in my career.
by simondotau | 2025-08-07 04:40:37+00:00
Safari being Apple-only only has the appearance of a problem when the only alternative is one browser that happens to be almost everywhere. Again, the point of the web is to be an open platform, not the placing at a single corporation.

Chrome has plenty of problems but nobody cares because when Chrome doesn’t support something properly, no one uses it.

I agree that Safari is not perfect either. But let’s assume for a moment that nothing is going to make Apple invest more into WebKit than they are already. Which of the following worlds would I prefer?

1. WebKit remains the exclusive browser on iOS devices. The bleeding edge of the web doesn’t advance quite as quickly. A tiny number of developers who don’t already have access to an Apple device have to spend literally tens of dollars buying or inheriting 5+ year-old devices in order to test on a diversity of platforms.

2. Blink becomes available on iOS and Google continues use dark patterns to trick users into installing their browser. A small but non-trivial number of developers start assuming that everyone uses Blink/Chromium, and end users no longer have a choice of browser.

I’m sorry, I forget, isn’t the whole point about giving people a choice of browser? Because some people on Hacker News have some fairly dystopian blinders on and don’t actually care about user choice, they’re just lazy arseholes who don’t want to deal with an open web and resent having to test in more than one web browser.

Between these two alternative futures, I’ll pick number one every time, no hesitation. The open web is far more important to me than developer convenience.
by bsder | 2025-08-07 04:41:32+00:00
> In isolation, this might be a positive. But watching one of the world’s richest multinationals do this primarily in response to an autocratic, authoritarian regime is neither a good look nor what we should hope for as an example of how to influence corporate decisionmaking.

Ironically, your comment is double-bladed.

This has likely been in the works from when China shook Apple down and the timing has a nice upside that it also pacifies His Orangeness(tm).
by blahgeek | 2025-08-07 04:42:25+00:00
As someone who have only used Emacs and Vim in the past 10 years, I wish you are right. But according to my observation, 90% of those 38% of developers only use Vim in when they are sshing to the server to update few config files or make simple edits to the scripts. When they do proper programming (like hundreds lines of coding in a project), they switch to other IDEs like VSCode. So yes I personally still consider Vim and Emacs “niche” editors.
by aathi2000 | 2025-08-07 04:42:42+00:00
Hi,

When reviewing your site, the first thing to understand about SEO is that it’s not just about keywords. There are many factors—referring backlinks, social mentions, and more.

Right now you’re not doing anything to build backlinks. To get started, submit your site to free image-generation directories to drive traffic.

You also need to clearly explain your product and your role as the SEO specialist; think creatively and strategically.

At the moment, your site doesn’t have a blog or enough pages—Google prefers active websites.

Another key element is E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness). Your site lacks information about who owns or operates it, which makes it harder for potential customers to trust you.

Take a look at what your competitors are doing for technical SEO—some share public images or resources that boost engagement.

You might also consider creating free landing pages like “Text to Image” or “Sketch to Image.” I’d recommend discussing these ideas with your developers to get them implemented.
by benreesman | 2025-08-07 04:43:04+00:00
I never said that Stallman invented open source (he didn't) or that his motives for starting GNU up after the Symbolics fiasco were pure and high-minded (they were petty), or that the contemporary FSF is a force for good (it's not, c.f. glibc dynamic link lock in on a backdoored resolver SONAME chain and Drepper's weird ties).

I said he did a lot of foundational work that's still important today.

I acknowledged a contribution, I didn't beatify him.
by jicea | 2025-08-07 04:43:58+00:00
The app is really super clean, I like it a lot (compare to Bruno for instance, one of your "competitor"). I see in the README that "Yaak is open source, but only accepting contributions for bug fixes.". It's an understandable statement, but it seems that there is also no way to post issues on the GitHub repo. Is there any reason for this (people could post issues without ever wanting to contribute imo). Anyway good job, I hope you'll get some traction!
by sshine | 2025-08-07 04:44:27+00:00
> If there was a paid-only search engine with dubious ethics practices that was overwhelming my site with traffic in order resell search trained off of (among other things) my personally generated content, I would absolute block it.

Let’s compare Google with OpenAI:

Paid-only: neither check; both have free tiers, eventually supported by ads (Google took 10+ years before it got littered with ads, I promise OpenAI will make the ad experience even stinkier because they keep you on the site as opposed to Google who only have you for a few seconds. The ads will be blinky, and they will be nested into the content.

Dubious ethics: both check.

Overwhelming bot traffic: both check.

Make money on your content: both check.

> LLMs are not search engines, and I'm not gaining any followers or customers in any meaningful way because an LLM indexes my site.

So paywall it?

The Anubis PoW captcha is an option, too. Then you will block trainers and allow agents.
by bariumbitmap | 2025-08-07 04:44:45+00:00
Title is wrong, these are "Curl Command-Line Tricks", not command-line tricks in general. Going beyond curl, there is this classic, the entirety of "Star Wars: A New Hope" in glorious ascii:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

If the domain is not accessible you can see it here:

https://telehack.com/

Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4630519

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=522072