MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xandrius | 2025-08-20 18:54:23+00:00
Well, we have 3 main boxes and 1 got mostly rejected (windows).

One is a worse version of OSX and the other is basically what would have happened if Linux was initially created by a huge corp.

My dream is for a top-notch Ubuntu for mobile. I'm still waiting for Desktop to catch up, so won't hold my breath.
by sugarpimpdorsey | 2025-08-20 18:54:42+00:00
Try entering Australia sometime and report back.

The ABF are empowered to search any electronic devices, copy and retain its contents.

You can refuse, after which they are empowered to jail you and seize your belongings.

Sorry but I'm not seeing the connection between searching belongings whilst crossing an international border to the mass genocide of 6M people.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-20 18:55:06+00:00
95 per cent of organisations are getting zero return from AI according to MIT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44956648 - August 2025

State of AI in Business 2025 [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44941374 - August 2025

https://web.archive.org/web/20250818145714/https://nanda.med...

> Despite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, this report uncovers a surprising result in that 95% of organizations are getting zero return. The outcomes are so starkly divided across both buyers (enterprises, mid-market, SMBs) and builders (startups, vendors, consultancies) that we call it the GenAI Divide. Just 5% of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value, while the vast majority remain stuck with no measurable P&L impact. This divide does not seem to be driven by model quality or regulation, but seems to be determined by approach.
by crinkly | 2025-08-20 18:55:09+00:00
I have an iPhone 15 Pro. I am a semi regular Pixel user as well. I prefer the iPhone by a mile.

1. Mine sits flat too. It's in a rugged case.

2. You don't know how to use Photos properly. You create collections from the pool and name them. You can create folders as well. In fact it actually does that automatically now.

3. There's literally a files app and filesystem abstraction on iOS. I use it for moving stuff around all the time.

Add one gain:

1. All my photos are in real files in Photos.app on my desktop within seconds of me taking them. I do not have my files held ransom behind a web interface. Edits and folders are transparently replicated between both devices. When I back up my mac I have a copy of everything.

And a total loss:

Post processing on both devices for images is terrible so I use a dedicated camera.
by reify | 2025-08-20 18:55:24+00:00
I for one am very pleased that this search for a cause has ended.

There is no link, the environment does not cause modern day Autism.

The DSM4 has a lot to answer for the creep of autism overdiagnosis.

The reason why there are so many, far too many, people, diagnosed with autism, is because over the last 10-20 years, the spectrum has been expanded so much that an introvert could get a diagnosis of autism.

Look at me! The classic introvert, meets the requirements of autistic diagnosis.

My myers Briggs = INFJ. yes, that 1-2% of the population

well well. And I am a retired psychotherapist too.

How on earth did I manage 25 years practicing as a psychotherapist, when my life was overwhelemed by autistic traits. At the time, I thought I was just a simple introvert.

So I could in fact get a diagnosis tomorrow and claim I am autistic.

How wonderful is that?

I could become a member of the ever increasing population of autistic people.

I remember back in the 80-90's every autistic person I ever met, and there weren't that many, were non verbal.

Now we have likes of Lone skum masquerading as an autistic person who in my professional opinion is simple a narcissist.

Narcissism and autism on the same diagnoses, what ever next.

I count ADHD as part of this ever growing trend of overdiagnosis.
by reillyse | 2025-08-20 18:55:37+00:00
what?

It is not being presented as a tall tale or a sarcastic joke. It's being presented as fact. I'm merely asking why people feel the need to make up stories and to propagate stories that are untrue. That is a question I am genuinely interested in.

Why, when we know this is complete BS, do people feel the need to 1) make it up in the first place and 2) propagate the story without engaging their mental faculties.
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-20 18:56:54+00:00
My first smartphone was a cheap Android and then I switched to iPhone about eight years ago and mostly haven't looked back.

That said, Apple's behaviour around locking out wearables from key system APIs does have me reconsidering. I found the inconsistent sync and notifications on my Fitbit to be a pretty big source of annoyance and if that continues on the new Pebble I would consider switching back to Android just for that.
by Ethee | 2025-08-20 18:56:58+00:00
Conversely, I think they probably have a good grasp of the basics considering they've been through them so many times. The real thing they lacked was a reasonable idea. I find a lot of early engineers have this problem where the only things they actually want to build are too complex for their skills. So they end up stuck in this 'Tutorial Hell' loop hoping to acquire those skills until they actually reason down to a project that fits their skill level and go from there as OP did here.
by ferguess_k | 2025-08-20 18:57:25+00:00
Yeah but looks like it is more "managed" and analysts especially prefer writing SQL over Python.

Honestly, as a Data engineer on the DWH side, I figured that my career is going to come to an end in a few years. AI + Cloud managed DWH are going to make all technical issues trivial, and I'm not someone who is interested in business context. Not sure where to move though.
by babypuncher | 2025-08-20 18:57:25+00:00
I used the internet every day in 2000. Bubbles happen with useful technologies not because we decide they aren't useful, but because we were over-sold on what they could do before they could do it.

A lot of AI investment right now is hinged on promises of "AGI" that are failing to materialize, and models themselves are seeing diminishing returns as we throw more hardware at them.
Show HN: A private automatic travel tracker and life journal for iOS
by denismilovanov | 2025-08-20 18:57:29+00:00
Hi HN,

I made Acti, an iOS app that automatically records the places you visit and builds a timeline of your life. It’s totally private, no accounts, no cloud, everything stays local on your device.

The motivation: I wanted something like Google Maps Timeline, but without data collection or ads. Acti just runs in the background, asks you to name new places once, and then remembers them forever. You can also add photos, comments, and ratings.

What I’m struggling with: because there are no registrations, I don’t really know how to connect with users, gather feedback, or even measure if people keep using it.

I’d love feedback on both: a) the product itself (is this useful to you?), b) and ideas for how to stay connected with users in a privacy-respecting way.

Thanks for reading!
by kelseyfrog | 2025-08-20 18:57:31+00:00
Even if we accept your changing the rubric, that fails to reflect reality too.

The gap between wages and cost of living has continued to increase[1]. I'm unsure why you would want to change the rubric to something that doesn't support your claims.

What level of evidence would change your mind?

1. https://archive.is/Uaw4c
by shkkmo | 2025-08-20 18:57:50+00:00
> unless fertility rates markedly change.

Which seems highly likely. Fertility rates change far faster than they influence population demographics.

> It's extremely biased, and religiosity is one of the most predictive factors.

If you ignore income, education, economic opportunity and how many generations ago the family immigrated and all the other important factors.

You keep trying to paint a simplistic picture of a complex dynamic.
by iLemming | 2025-08-20 18:57:52+00:00
You're confused on both points:

First of all, macOS doesn't "support Emacs keys" - those are readline/bash keybindings (C-a, C-e, C-k, etc.), not even partial Emacs navigation. The distinction matters. Emacs is inherently a modal editor, and no OS provides that aspect out of the box.

Secondly, although it sounds reasonable in theory, in practice it just doesn't manifest to the same level - because of the enormous context switching cost. While Python/Ruby/JS are excellent languages, using them for workflow automation typically means:

- Fragmented toolchain: Editor → terminal → file manager → browser → back to editor

- State loss: Each tool maintains separate state, history, and context

- Interface friction: Different keybindings, different ways to access data

Emacs provides unified state and interface - your scripts can directly manipulate buffers, access file system, interact with running processes, and integrate with your editing session. The "programming environment" aspect means your automation tools live in the same space as your work.

The fallacy is treating this as purely a language comparison when it's really about environmental integration. A Python script that opens files is fundamentally different from an Emacs function that operates on buffers you're already working with.

For personal workflow automation where you're already living in Emacs, the integration advantage is real.

Here some practical examples that would be just outright painful to achieve with a general-purpose PLs.

- Grab url from browser, insert formatted markdown link at point

- Extract all TODO items from project files, create agenda in new buffer (I can probably do it in fewer than 15 lines of Elisp without ever having to save, lint, compile that code)

- You're editing a CSV, write a function that operates on the current line/region and transforms it in place

- Mid-email composition, grab a code snippet from the adjacent buffer, format it, and insert

- While reviewing a log file, extract error patterns and automatically open related source files

Your automation remembers what files you had open, your cursor positions, your window layout. Scripts can modify your current work context rather than creating separate outputs

With Python/shell scripts, you'd need complex IPC, temporary files, external tools to achieve similar seamless integration with your active work session. That's why majority of programmers just don't even bother to think to try. Experienced Emacs hackers wouldn't even blink - they'd start whipping up Elisp like a chef would crack eggs to make an omelette.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-20 18:58:01+00:00
If by "thought leader" you mean domain experts making criticism then yes.

For example, Nouriel Roubini calling out the risks of the 2008 Recession before it happened, Michael Pettis calling out the risks of a real estate balance sheet crisis in China before Evergrande happened, and Arvind Subramanian calling out the risks of a a shadow bank crisis in India before the ILFS collapse in 2018.

For AI/ML, I'd tend to trust Emily Bender, given her background in NLP which itself was what became LLMs originated from.
by cyris | 2025-08-20 18:58:01+00:00
Something I've been working on with friends at crystalai.org !

Introducing CWIC a trainable LLM sparsity paradigm that beats SOTA methods, enabling 80% sparsity and 4x+ speedups on CPU. It works on models as small as 1b, outperforming TEAL R-sparse and friends. We are releasing code at https://github.com/crystal-ai-org/cwic if your interested in our our work feel free to reach out at https://x.com/crystalAIorg, we love collaboration!
by creer | 2025-08-20 18:58:06+00:00
Formally build up your network.

It's not a question of "areas of focus" in the technical sense. I mean, be a worthwhile engineer, yes, of course. But "nobody hiring" is BS. Horror stories, yes, but still just about everybody is working. LeetCode is good interview skill, if you can do it under pressure and with a hostile audience (rather than fresh, in peace and in the morning.)

I find it shocking nowadays that people get laid off or fired and don't have dozens upon dozens of "buddies" they can remind themselves to. Not even after months of feeling like they might be next.

To build your network: be pleasant and useful to work with not just to your immediate colleagues. Instead be also pleasant, curious and available to everybody in sight at your company. Actively talk to them, ask for meetings and discussion and overviews of what happens around them. Among what you will hear about is all the soft skills that you may not already have. And all local vaguely related interest groups, and online ones, and trade shows, and dev conferences, etc, etc. Formal in that you might as well maintain a CRM-like database of this network. Use LinkedIn so that other people can find you, instead of just you finding them. Four years might be a little early, but cultivate headhunter relations also.

Look for advancement opportunities within your company. Don't necessarily get hired there but probably still talk to them. It's still more people who would love to know you.

If you feel "state school" may be a little insufficient... Four years is nearly enough that which school doesn't matter much anymore in your career. But you might be ready and IF you get laid off, you might do an MS at a "much better" school. This time choose one that will let you balloon your network with everybody else there that you might run into.
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-20 18:58:26+00:00
Also Google stuff always lacks SD card slots and have tiny storage. The $250 Motorola can add a $50 1 TB SD Card, which is enough to fit your entire music collection, all of wikipedia, and an offline ad-free routable map of the world from OSM, and still have probably like 700 GB left over for photos/videos. Google meanwhile charges $100 for a 128 GB storage upgrade. Probably because they want to funnel you into their cloud storage, want you to use their online maps/music services, etc.

Phone cameras are also absolute trash anyway, and pulling up some comparisons in Google Photos right now, I'm fairly certain that my Pixel 6a takes obviously worse photos than my Nexus 5x did 10 years ago, even comparing high light for the 6a to low light for the 5x. I'll probably buy a Motorola when my current phone dies because the only ostensible reason to buy a Pixel is the camera. Or I suspect the real big-brained solution lives in the handheld gaming PC space.
by m_fayer | 2025-08-20 18:58:35+00:00
The sad thing about bubbles based on overhyped but nevertheless useful tech is the collateral damage of the pop. Small promising companies that are simply too young to have good fundamentals will go under from the backlash created among investors and potential customers. It’s destruction that could’ve been avoided if we had a more measured and sober society that doesn’t need a new craze every 5 years.
by andybak | 2025-08-20 18:58:45+00:00
The left/right brain thing is pseudo-science and even worse - a false dichotomy. It's much more about cultural snobbery and cultural tribalism around which pursuits are regarded as "more worthy".

Look up C.P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" - it was incredibly influential at the time but also described a prejudice we still labour under. It's pervasive in the English speaking world. I suspect less so in the non-anglosphere West and possibly even less so in Asia.
by tptacek | 2025-08-20 18:59:00+00:00
As someone who does a lot of local organizing, I really don't think getting SSO set up in this level of organization is a thing that happens enough to impact pricing decisions at Atlassian. Even if SSO was completely free everywhere, most of these kinds of places would still just be using a single shared account with a shared password.

Stuff costs money! That's really all there is to the analysis. You can demand that companies not price-segregate customers, but then all you're really saying is that there's no account that the local PTA can afford, because you're demanding that vendors raise prices on the low end and and drop them for customers like Apple and Ford.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-20 18:59:32+00:00
> Google have created an advertising platform. It is their raison d'etre; their entire millions per hour profit engine. But they only built the easy, profitable half because there were / are no regulations to enforce the responsible, difficult half.

Baked into this is the assumption that the "responsible, difficult half" is something that they, rather than law enforcement, should be doing to begin with. Which they can't do effectively because they don't have the ability to impose significant penalties and we certainly don't want to give them that.

Consider how this is even supposed to work. There is often no conclusive way to tell ex ante whether some website is a scam; the premise of them is to look like a real site. Google doesn't know if it's a scammer or some third party contractor who has be commissioned by the actual entity to set up a new site, and real sites are often full of bad UI choices and weird bugs, or open up to nothing more than a login page which the ad network has no credentials to get past.

The way this works with actual law enforcement is that someone suspects a site of being a scam, or a victim files a police report, and then officers investigate. They spend significant resources to figure out if it's actually a scam or just e.g. a competitor trying to have their competition removed from visibility. They have special powers to conduct searches with probable cause. And then if it is a scam, they arrest the scammers, and if it's a false report, they charge that person for filing a false police report, which are necessary in order to provide a deterrent and prevent both of those misbehaviors from proliferating.

Otherwise you get untold numbers of false reports from people trying to grief their rivals, it takes just as much work to do a thorough investigation for each one, and then even if you catch the actual scammers, they just immediately reappear under a different name.

So then they get zillions of reports, many of them fraudulent, and you're proposing to put them in jail if they ever fail to do something they there is no apparent way for them to consistently do.

> I would be supportive of legislation that outright banned advertising with Google until they were able to provably clean up their act; if their product was market-ready.

Consider how this would apply to anything other than advertising. Some bank robbers buy Halloween masks to hide their faces. Drug dealers sell drugs over the internet and a normal mail/package carrier delivers the packages. A hitman rides the bus on the way to a hit. These are felonies! But we don't expect UPS to cut open everyone's packages or the bus driver to strip search every passenger to check for a vial of polonium, and punish them if they ever fail, because that isn't their job. They're not the police.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-08-20 18:59:34+00:00
I think it's famously said that 5% of IT is in the exciting new stuff that's on Hacker News front page, and 95% is in boring line-of-business, back office "enterprise" software that's as unglamorous as it is unavoidable :-). Even seemingly modern giants like Google or Amazon etc - check what their payroll and financial system is in the background.

And wait until I tell you about my Cobol open seats - on modern Linux on cloud VMs too! :-)
Show HN: Tool shows UK properties matching group commute/time preferences
by fryingdan | 2025-08-20 18:59:49+00:00
I came up with this idea when I was looking to move to London with a friend. I quickly learned how frustrating it is to trial-and-error housing options for days on end, just to be denied after days of searching due to some grotesque counteroffer.

To add to this, finding properties that meet the budgets, commuting preferences and work locations of everyone in a group is a Sisyphean task - it often ends in failure, with somebody exceeding their original budget or somebody dropping out.

To solve this I built a tool (https://closemove.com/) that:

- lets you enter between 1-6 people’s workplaces, budgets, and maximum commute times

- filters public rental listings and only shows the ones that satisfy everyone’s constraints

- shows results in either a list or map view

No sign-up/validation required at present. Currently UK only, but please let me know if you'd want me to expand this to your city/country.

This currently works best in London (with walking, cycling, driving and public transport links connected), and works decently in the rest of the UK (walking, cycling, driving only).

This started as a side project and it still needs improvement. I’d appreciate any feedback!
by pavel_lishin | 2025-08-20 18:59:54+00:00
> Notion is going to have a very hard time turning corporate Notion users into at-home/personal Notion users. Obsidian has already won this use case with one of the most rock-solid products ever.

I don't think that's true; my (admittedly limited) understanding of Obsidian is that it strongly appeals to the type of person who reads HN; they're not going to appeal to someone who wants a WYSIWYG editor that they don't have to think about manually syncing with anything.

Obsidian makes developers smile, but it won't make sales people, customer service people, or executives smile unless they're already inclined to.
by froh | 2025-08-20 18:59:59+00:00
in the related FAQ https://github.com/google/pytype/issues/1925 they point explicitly to the future:

> What alternatives can I consider? There are four Python static type checkers that can be considered: mypy and Pyright have been released to the community for a while and have well established user bases. Pyrefly, ty were announced recently at PyCon US 2025 and are in active development stage in the current time of August 2025 when this was written.

mypy - https://github.com/python/mypy

Pyright - https://github.com/microsoft/pyright

Pyrefly - https://github.com/facebook/pyrefly

ty - https://github.com/astral-sh/ty
by ferguess_k | 2025-08-20 19:00:02+00:00
> I consider it the golden age of online gaming

Yeah exactly, and the golden age of modding, at least for FPS games. In a few years the engine evolves to something so advanced that only professionals can work on them. I consider HL2 the last moddable engine by the commoners. After that you gotta be a professional or someone with the patience of a saint to mod an FPS engine.

And nowadays they mostly use UE and Unity anyway. Only some of the boomer shooters are moddable.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-20 19:01:07+00:00
Crashes, rather, must come when there is an enormous, industry-wide mismatch between perceived value (e.g. assessed in terms of expected return on investment) and actual value in terms of real return on investment within the expected period.

Evidence is emerging that the former could be twenty times the latter, or more.

The value you perceive has been much, much more expensive than investors would like, I suspect.
by teraflop | 2025-08-20 19:01:24+00:00
For an internal use case, nothing's stopping you from setting up your own CA, creating certificates that don't expire for 100 years, and telling your clients to trust them. It just takes a couple of OpenSSL commands which, while slightly complicated if you don't know what you're doing, can be easily automated with a shell script.

The browser limits on maximum certificate lifetimes only apply to the public web PKI, not to CAs that you configure yourself.
by topher200 | 2025-08-20 19:01:30+00:00
I have a preempt-able workload for which I could use Spot instances or Savings Plans.

Does anyone have experience running Spot in 2025? If you were to start over, would you keep using Spot?

- I observe with pricing that Spot is cheaper - I am running on three different architectures, which should limit Spot unavailability - I've been running about 50 Spot EC2 instances for a month without issue. I'm debating turning it on for many more instances