MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Daedren | 2025-08-18 16:35:25+00:00
They were never crippled, there were just no apps making use of that performance at that point, their vision's still the same as it is today IMO. Now there's a lot of pretty good apps for video editing, CAD, etc.

Of course we computer enthusiasts feel the iPad is still restricted in a lot of ways, but a lot of younger consumers genuinely want the iPad experience, which is why I presume this new feature can be toggled on and off, and why we're probably never getting macOS on an iPad.
by madamelic | 2025-08-18 16:35:54+00:00
It's also not some "oopsie". It's almost certainly not news but these sites want these 'one more' behaviors.

Years ago, I designed a minimalist YouTube player that removed video suggestions and autoplays but used their player, didn't evade ads, etc. I got banned by Google because they disallow any alternative site for YouTube, only embeds are allowed.

Pretty sure I am still banned on all Google APIs too.
by joshuaheard | 2025-08-18 16:36:05+00:00
I live in a large suburban home. I spend $1,000/mo on landscaping services and $1,000/mo on maid services. If I could buy a $10,000 robot that could do those things, as well as have apps for doing dinner dishes, laundry, making the bed, and feeding the pets, I would do it in a second.
by setgree | 2025-08-18 16:36:11+00:00
Well said. This is a subject where I’ve become radicalized as an adult (veganism is the other). Even Brooklyn, where I live, has a million little choices which prioritize cars over pedestrians, and any effort to reclaim space — maybe the avenues bordering prospect park should not have free parking? — creates huge backlash. Culture problems are hard.
by pqtyw | 2025-08-18 16:36:44+00:00
Gold coins pretty much disappeared from Western Europe in the early middles ages, the Byzantine Empire and the the Islamic states were pretty much the only significant source of gold for a time so that makes sense in a way.

Interestingly enough the first coins minted in the Islamic Caliphate and based on the Roman Solidus actually had portraits (they just removed the Christian symbols) on them for a while:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:First_Umayyad_gold_dinar,...
by commandlinefan | 2025-08-18 16:36:56+00:00
> launder money through this companies

That would explain a lot, actually. If so, it'll be interesting to see what happens to the overall software economy when that revenue stream dries up. My wife grew up in Mexico on a border town and told me that the nightclubs in her town were amazing; when she moved to the US, she was disappointed by how drab the nightclubs here were. Later she found out that the border town nightclubs were so extravagant because they were laundering drug money. When they cracked down on the money laundering, the nightclubs reverted back to their natural "drab" state of relying on actual customers to pay the bills.
by nebula8804 | 2025-08-18 16:37:03+00:00
>- Only clean things should be put in the fridge. If your shelves are dirty, it's because the bottom of the items you're placing on your shelves are also dirty. Do you let ketchup run down the side of the bottle? Is your counter dirty, and you've set a clean bottle of salad dressing on a dirty counter? In both cases, you have transferred dirt and/or oil into the fridge on the shelf. And then this compounds multiple times: do you always put the ketchup in a different place? Well now you've spread around the dirt. Do you clean the fridge but bot the bottom of the ketchup bottle? Well, now your clean fridge is immediately dirty again the moment you reload it.

This sounds like some useful advice but misses the bigger picture. What about the dust from the day to day of just being alive? I just wiped down my face wash and other toiletries on my bathroom shelf. They were already clean, they didn't have latent "material" from the bottle dripping on its side, yet when I cleaned it with a soapy sponge, the bottle became shiny again like it was brand new. It accumulated dust that got trapped on there due to the hot/cold cycle of a bathroom with a shower in it. You can think of essentially any location on the planet...it will get dirty and is naturally cleaned by either the weather or by humans putting in the effort.

Thats not to say there isn't wisdom in this advice, Marie Kondo talks about how each item is an additional burden. In our consumerist culture the act of purchasing an item is the only value many items our lives end up having. Maybe an item only kinda serves a purpose and needs to be paired with another item to be complete (Example: a shaver that is a cheaper model that doesn't quite serve all shaving needs but does do many of them)

>So many "messes" in the house are compounding problems; the worse you let it get, the bigger the problem you've made for yourself. Didn't put away the kid's toys? Well now you can't sweep that area. Can't sweep that area? Well now you can't mop that area. etc. One solution, which people might not think about with regard to cleaning would actually just be to make sure the kid has fewer toys, or at least fewer _available_ toys. If you nail this, the clutter --> sweeping --> mopping cascade starts improving without any additional work on your end.

Where does this end? Why not own anything? If you only own digital items then that itself gets cluttered and messy. Life is a series of maintenance tasks and then you die.
by throw0101c | 2025-08-18 16:37:20+00:00
The general idea is not new in American society, dating back (at least) decades:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_Americ...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism#In_the_Un...

What is new is that the inmates have taken over the asylum. (Every society has 'oddballs' of course.)
by nerevarthelame | 2025-08-18 16:37:28+00:00
The authors (MIT's Project NANDA) are really pro-LLM, hoping to develop an "Internet of AI Agents." Unsurprisingly, their recommendations on how organizations should integrate LLMs involve embracing their NANDA platform:

> The window for crossing the GenAI Divide is rapidly closing. Enterprises are locking in learning-capable tools. Agentic AI and memory frameworks (like NANDA and MCP) will define which vendors help organizations cross the divide versus remain trapped on the wrong side ... The infrastructure to support this transition is emerging through frameworks like Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A), and NANDA, which enable agent interoperability and coordination. These protocols create market competition and cost efficiencies by allowing specialized agents to work together rather than requiring monolithic systems.
by Topfi | 2025-08-18 16:37:40+00:00
I can only speak for Austria, but the difference, if SMILE had been an option, would have been at the lower end € 3400,- compared to the PRK I got and roughly € 3200,- compared with LASIK, for what that’s worth, more than double the cost. Yes, that falls under multiple months rent, but to me that is more reason why one would consider the cost as well.

Maybe “severely more expensive” wasn’t the best wait to phrase it, but the difference is still quite steep and this can be a decision maker for many people. Especially as currently it appears that medium term/6-month outcome between PRK and SMILE are very comparable, or even slightly better in PRK [0].

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9009506/
by burnerRhodo | 2025-08-18 16:37:46+00:00
I mean... Us humans have done that countless times in history. Cannons, Tanks, Nukes, Space... One thing history proves is that if one side can develop a next gen weapon that you can't defend against, your civilization ceases to exist.

Every single one of those advancements caused more problems than they solved. We don't need AGI for "AI" to be more dangerous. Just some kind of super trojan would do.
Show HN: After 3 years, we've shipped Sveltos v1.0.0
by mgianluc76 | 2025-08-18 16:37:51+00:00
I'm happy to share that after 3 years of development, working closely with folks running Sveltos in production across a bunch of environments and companies, we've finally shipped Sveltos v1.0.0 If you haven’t heard of it before: Sveltos is a Kubernetes add-on operator that lets you declaratively deploy Helm charts, YAMLs, or raw Kubernetes resources to one or many clusters using simple label selectors. Think of it like GitOps-style cluster bootstrapping and lifecycle management, but designed for multi-cluster setups from the start.

What’s new in 1.0.0?

- Pull Mode (new!)

Probably the biggest addition: you can now manage clusters that don’t need to be accessible from the management cluster. An agent gets deployed in the managed cluster and pulls configuration from the control plane.

No kubeconfigs in the management cluster Works with firewalled, NAT’d, or air-gapped clusters Same declarative model using ClusterProfiles and label selectors

GitHub: https://github.com/projectsveltos

Docs: https://projectsveltos.github.io/sveltos/main/
by jppope | 2025-08-18 16:38:00+00:00
pretty sure we've already had products in the market that can do the things you are thinking of, the problem with products like baxter (or boston dynamics products) wasn't/isn't the capabilities it was/is the price point. the unit economics for robotics have always been the problem. Sure you can buy a robot for $45K but you can have a hell of a whole lot of days of cleaning with a cleaning service for that same money... the downstream effect of this is that it is very hard to get economies of scale so they never drop to the point where these things are normalized.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-08-18 16:38:13+00:00
And in my neighborhood they wanted to rezone to allow an asphalt plant for highway construction, something that made all of our homes unfit for purpose but that the government really really wanted.

The ability for 2-3 households to sue to stop something like that where the government just steamrolls over zoning/etc because it benefits the government is hugely important.

A home is the biggest investment a person will make. It is also not easy to unwind from. Zoning is a promise by the government 'invest in this, we promise it will stay what you are purchasing'. A few home owners should definitely be able to force the government to keep that promise, and to keep their homes fit for purpose.
by duxup | 2025-08-18 16:38:23+00:00
>The story hit the headlines a year ago in France after an investigation by Le Monde and Radio France revealed that at least a third of mineral water sold in France had been illegally treated, either with ultra-violet light, carbon filters or ultra-fine micro-meshes commonly used to screen out bacteria.

I find this pretty amusing, normally you'd think of big bad corporation cutting safety to save money, but here they are breaking the rules by filtering / adding some level of safety.

Granted I get it, there are questions of what the government was doing oking this practice and if folks were getting unfiltered water when that's what they thought they were buying.

It does seem like a bit of a "high class problem" ;)
by next_xibalba | 2025-08-18 16:38:24+00:00
Once a person sets foot in the US, they get the benefit of US law, thereby allowing the nonprofit-legal complex to activate on their behalf. You think the lawyers and activists won’t instantly start to advocate for granting these people refugee status or jump to some other lane on the basis that these patients cannot safely return to Gaza? Better to not let them in, full stop. Plenty of stable third countries much closer where relief can be provided.
by dc396 | 2025-08-18 16:38:25+00:00
I suspect the phishing scammers will appreciate the help in identifying good phishing lures.

Snark aside, it continues to boggle my mind that the people who click on a lure get punished. A failed test indicates a need for system improvements to defeat the lure, not punitive action against the victim.

When someone like Troy Hunt can be successfully phished, expecting anyone to know enough to avoid phishing is insane.
by wonder_er | 2025-08-18 16:38:35+00:00
I live in Denver - it's got the Standard American Design on every junction (every junction is a SAD junction)

There's a house near here that was written about in an article - it's at the end of a long straight road, and then there's a curve, and often-enough people go way too fast on the road, don't catch the curve, bounce through a bunch of grassy median and end up HITTING THIS HOUSE!

It's been hit so many times.

so, I really like bollards (https://josh.works/bollards) and I went to his house to see about adding some. He'd already had large rocks (1000lbs) placed in his yard, and after the most recent car hit them (and bounced one of them into his house) he added some 3000 lb rocks. It's still not a full layer of protection, but it's better.

Anyway, the real danger is the junction, not him having good enough or not good enough bollards. So, there was a meeting at his house the next day with city traffic engineering staff, police, city council, lots of neighbors...

and I'm popularizing a fix that I'm calling 'the traffic bean' - it's a shared-space junction, that is as effective as the existing junction, and much, much safer:

https://josh.works/traffic-bean

The director of Denver's DOTI has been looking it over, as a city council person has been pushing for it to get approved, and it might get approved! This would be basically the first real improvement in how american junctions are designed in decades.

It's currently just my side-project wish. All I want is to live near and use a road network that doesn't deal death constantly to others.

i fear for my kid's life, the same way these kids lives were affected. American road networks are horrific, I cannot take seriously anyone who takes them seriously.
by madamelic | 2025-08-18 16:38:51+00:00
Better suggestion: block these sites entirely. Reddit and YouTube are wastes of time if you are just 'checking in'.

Use YouTube-DL to download videos from specific creators and watch independently. I haven't figured out how to view the actually useful subreddits without having access to the frontpage feeds.

Feeds are one of the worst things to be invented in the Internet age. I can't imagine how far behind we are because they've caught otherwise smart people in this insane dopamine trap.
by cgriswald | 2025-08-18 16:38:54+00:00
From your source:

> Spelling out the acronym or abbreviation in full the first time it is used on a page is beneficial for helping people understand it, especially if the content is technical or industry jargon.

> Only include a title if expanding the abbreviation or acronym in the text is not possible. Having a difference between the announced word or phrase and what is displayed on the screen, especially if it's technical jargon the reader may not be familiar with, can be jarring.
by cantor_S_drug | 2025-08-18 16:38:58+00:00
More time spent implies more ads shown implies proportional conversion.

Also now that we have two big companies vying for attention, the competition is fierce to show "relevant ads" first because both receive intent almost simultaneously.

I got a youtube short of an office chair company in the feed. I wasn't looking for it explicitly. It was organic feed. Almost immediately I got an ad for that same chair in gmail. Because all of our phones are always listening for intents and keywords. This is recursive ad slop.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-18 16:38:59+00:00
My approach to vibe coding:

The chat apps are pretty good at internet searches without all the ads and SEO crap. So I use the chat app, it's okay at context (knows which language and framework I'm using) and can basically get me the same answers as the docs would provide in less time.

Still makes mistakes in code examples though, so I'd never trust it to actually change my code.
by Infernal | 2025-08-18 16:39:12+00:00
Yes and yes. In the US, 900-930MHz (nominally the 915MHz band) is available for use with no license required so encryption is fine (similar to your 2.4GHz or 5GHz wifi access point).

People interested in LoRa may also be interested in 802.11ah, or Wifi HaLOW
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-08-18 16:39:12+00:00
I think that's an overly strict definition.

A CGI film is still a CGI film even if artists at the studio hand-paint certain objects in certain frames.

A Python program is still a Python program even if it calls out to C code for a handful of key functions.

I suspect most people would consider an AI generated image to still constitute AI art even if the creator touched up a few things in Photoshop.
by Bjartr | 2025-08-18 16:39:34+00:00
But the street could have been designed in a way that was safe for a seven year old to cross. Instead of was designed with little to no thought of how anyone could be safe in that space outside of a car. It's demonstrably possible to facilitate both motor and foot traffic in a sane and safe way, but its not just slapping down five lanes and calling it a day.
by angmarsbane | 2025-08-18 16:40:33+00:00
This pattern has been disrupted because of the decades of under-building. The neighborhood I grew up in around an elementary school is populated by empty nesters and has been for over a decade. There is nowhere for the empty nesters to downsize into that isn't 3-5x what their mortgage is on their family sized home (in CA we also have the complicated of Prop 13 on property taxes) so they aren't moving. My highschool recently shut down because there weren't enough families in the neighborhood around it anymore.
by anonu | 2025-08-18 16:40:43+00:00
Removing the apps was the biggest solve for me. I still maintain some social accounts, but not having the native app reduces time spent considerably.

I am addicted to YouTube Shorts. It would be fine if it wasn't the first thing you see when you open YouTube. But often, I will open the app and then completely forget what long-form video I wanted to search for because the Shorts got me. It is insidious. The youtube app even asked me once - in some sort of survey - if I enjoyed seeing Shorts first thing and I said no. Nothing changed.
by zck | 2025-08-18 16:40:46+00:00
> one of the most annoying things to me are managers who pull the "here's what I'm evaluating you on...now write up this self eval what you've done over the last year that fits these items and I'll copy paste it into your eval."

Every Friday morning, my company has a meeting for the teams to explain what they've worked on that week. Every Thursday afternoon, my manager asks me what I've worked on that week.

So when I do something, I have to explain that I did it at least three times:

1. In Jira. 2. In daily standup. 3. Every Thursday to my manager. 4. Sometimes in Slack, because no one reads Jira comments unless they're pointed to in Slack.
by refulgentis | 2025-08-18 16:40:55+00:00
Saw enough comments like this with unbelievable details that I went and figured out how to see it. Here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/aEjjXcmDDaFKtivR9

We are rounding a surface street with a 45 limit to a highway at 60 and then pretend its obviously unsafe. This is obviously wrong, given the crosswalks.

Also, we have 0 idea if the child was allowed to jaywalk. We know they were on the phone with the older one at at least some point. That's all.

It's a tragedy, but, hard to get my head to the idea that its manslaughter that both parents are culpable for. As noted in coverage, it's an odd gap compared to how unsecured guns are treated.
by shortrounddev2 | 2025-08-18 16:40:57+00:00
> Inevitably you'll have to grandfather in existing infrastructure because a lot of it is from ancient times and all you'll do is make it impossible to have a Chinatown, or a NY brownstone. So what you'll get is that almost nothing new gets developed because the cost structure makes it impossible.

I don't see how that's true - if you create cities or neighborhoods which are more walkable, such as New York's Chinatown, then you'll have less civil liability than suburban car-centric infrastructure. I would think that NY style neighborhoods would be MORE incentivized
by vel0city | 2025-08-18 16:42:31+00:00
> If your shelves are dirty, it's because the bottom of the items you're placing on your shelves are also dirty.

I live in a humid climate. If I take something out of the fridge, set it on a clean counter for five minutes, and put it back in the fridge without wiping it down it'll leave smudges of water and dust on the trays. The trays will look dirty after a few months even if I only put clean things in there.
by dfabulich | 2025-08-18 16:42:41+00:00
Author here. I think the term "widespread appeal" may be misleading.

There are comedians who can attract a very large audience, large enough to make them major celebrities, but that doesn't mean that aggregating preferences doesn't produce mediocre jokes.

Instead, comedians build an audience of like-minded people, and get to know that audience very well. It's a little bit like the process of finding product-market fit for startups. You can achieve great success by catering to the needs of a very large market, even if you can't cater to everyone's needs.

> It would be interesting to compare how well LLMs can estimate how funny a joke is vs how good they are at generating jokes.

Academic psychologists have not found a quantitative measure of "how funny a joke is." If there were such a measure, LLMs could try to optimize for it.

But there isn't such a measure, and, if my argument is right, there couldn't possibly be a measure like that, because jokes have to be surprising but inevitable in hindsight, and different jokes will be surprising/inevitable to different people.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-18 16:42:45+00:00
It's possible that its not about "native knowledge" but about how the descriptions (which get mapped into the prompt) for each of the tools are setup (or even their order; LLM behavior can be very sensitive to not-obviously-important prompt differences.)

I'd be cautious inferring generalizations about behavior and then explanations of those generalizations from observation of a particular LLM used via a particular toolchain.

That said, that it does that in that environment is still an interesting observation.
by aeturnum | 2025-08-18 16:42:46+00:00
You can take a look at the map of West Hudson Bldv[1]. It cuts the area in half with a single crossing point on the road. Try asking google how to get to the Philips Center from anywhere north and google will tell you to cross at West Hudson and Echo, an intersection with no lights and no crosswalk. The author is certainly using hyperbole to make their point, but there is no question this road was not well designed for foot traffic. Boulevards like this often have people driving faster than the speed limit and not expecting people. There is tree cover that makes spotting cars in the distance difficult.

These things are simple facts about the road. They would have been known when it was designed and they massively raise the risks for pedestrias as compared to alternate designs. Splitting hairs in the sense that the designers did not "want" to endanger people is hyperbolic as the article. The intent is less important than the effect.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/HQ1jTv6JUWa32QGAA
by wonder_er | 2025-08-18 16:42:48+00:00
'jaywalking' is a term that supports the concept of vehicular homicide.

A normal ethical system would say the obligation to not kill anyone with a vehicle is on the operator of the vehicle. The environment should also support safe handoffs between priorities.

The parents are not at fault - they were born into this shitty country. It is the road engineer, the city engineer, full stop.

Consider this book: [Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/201978334-killed-by-a-tr...)

Jaywalking is a supremacists, propagandistic term, I would propose it be excised from your vocabulary: https://josh.works/jaywalking

It was used mostly to imprison formerly enslaved people for walking around. In some american cities in the 50s and 60s, thousands of people PER YEAR were ARRESTED for jaywalking!!!!

It's how deputized slave patrols (police) can easily initiate harassment against the enslaved/formerly-enslaved class.