MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zamadatix | 2025-09-27 21:08:02+00:00
And I think they'll continue to sell very well from brand name alone. That won't last forever, but it's not going to disappear next year either. They've had pretty flat unit volume the last 3 years, it's not about to nosedive out of the blue the same as volume is not about to continue growing the same as it used to (even though they launch more and more product lines).

The differentiator for the Pi line was support for the capability at the price point, but the competition for the mainline Pis is no longer "random ARM boards with no driver updates", so no longer is that support actually the differentiator for the Pi either. With the lowest cost Pi 5 model, $50 gets you a bare 2GB RAM board with no power or storage and you're still left with the bespoke ARM OS images and binaries to deal with. For the price of higher end models you can just get a complete standard x86 PC which happens to run better. That latter bit about the spec sheet is a bonus, not the main change. I.e. the target market shifted from "hot damn, I can run Linux at such a low price and wattage point while not worrying about support???" to "I want to spend my weekend tinkering with a Pi". The Pico 2 remains decent for the general market though. At $5 it's a well supported MCU with decent kit and a USB interface if you need to have that on a computer.

It'll also be interesting to see how much education even remains the mission now that they've IPOd. E.g., the mission statement on the investor relations page is:

> Raspberry Pi’s mission is to put high-performance, low-cost, general-purpose computing platforms in the hands of enthusiasts and engineers all over the world.

At the end of the day though, we could talk for days about how it must be one way or the other, but the only way to see what will actually happen is to wait 5-10 years. That reminds me, there is a regular HN "predictions for the next decade" kind of thread every turn of the decade and we're closer the next one rather than the last one already!
by jacquesm | 2025-09-27 21:08:13+00:00
That's because people in general are good. They don't understand that there is a small fraction of humanity that would happily erase their digital lives given half a chance because they themselves can not even conceive of someone doing a thing like that.

The fact that we all can is a professional deformation, it is not normal. I lived in a place where the doors had no locks. Nobody could imagine anybody stealing from someone else's house. And so it just didn't happen. When buying the house there is the moment where the keys are transferred. The sellers somewhat sheepishly announced they didn't have any. The lawyer handling the transaction asked if they had lost their keys and if they did that they should pay for replacing the locks. Then it turned out they never had any locks in the first place and that this was pretty much the norm there.

That distrust that we call common sense is where we go wrong, the fact that we've connected the whole world means that these little assholes now have access to everything and everybody and there isn't even a good way to figure out who they are and how to punish them unless they are inept at hiding their traces.
by Spivak | 2025-09-27 21:08:33+00:00
The only people mad at Google/LLM summaries not leading to click-throughs are the website operators themselves. They're great for the user that doesn't have to go to a garbage ad riddled page.

Kagi's "summarize page" and "ask questions about this page" are my go to over clicking results. One gets me what I want instantly, one gets me a 20 paragraph history of wing nuts.

This "kite" thing is genuinely the nicest news experience I've had in a long time. I hope they keep investing in it. It's finally news built for the user and no one else.
by benoau | 2025-09-27 21:08:45+00:00
The real impact is app users aren't going to be herded towards paying a 30% fee on top of all digital content and services, forever, because the developers are banned from displaying, linking, or mentioning competing payment options.

Apple is either going to earn that massive commission - the judge in the Epic case observed $3 out of every $4 is just profit rather than invested into better reviews or better security - or lose it to someone who does a better job of it... if the EU Commission nuts-up gives them that daily fine for charging what is now up to 20% fee for anyone daring to use external payments, anyway.
by Moowool | 2025-09-27 21:09:31+00:00
vector.h is a production-ready, macro-based C library that generates type-safe dynamic arrays for any data type, offering compile-time type checking, fast iteration, and robust memory management with zero dependencies. Unlike alternatives like stb_ds.h, it provides enhanced type safety, optimized performance, and superior debugging experience while maintaining C89 compatibility across all major compilers and architectures.
by grilledchickenw | 2025-09-27 21:10:54+00:00
You just described wonderfully why I'm drawn to remote places. It started with a trip to the interior of Iceland, then Tromsø, and more recently Svalbard and the Faroes.

I tried to capture the beautiful sense of isolation in Svalbard here, maybe it inspires others to make a trip to somewhere remote. https://photoblog.nk412.com/Svalbard2024/n-ssC8fP/Svalminiph...
by jacquesm | 2025-09-27 21:11:32+00:00
Florida on its own is also not a first world country. This goes for many places and it isn't the flex you make it out to be, the fact that Greenland is part of Denmark which in turn in part of the EU and which the USA through NATO is bound by treaty to defend rather than that threaten to invade is a detail that may have escaped your attention but it matters rather a lot to the rest of the 'first world'.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-27 21:11:58+00:00
Labour has been "Blairite" ("centrist pro-capital," or just say neoliberal) since the SDP sabotage and the endless, worthless reign of Kinnock. This happened at the same time the New Democrats were stomping the Rainbow Coalition into the ground to finalize the transformation of the US Democrats into the exact same thing.

UK Labour has been a "centrist, pro-capital party" for probably your entire life (or at least most of it.) The only reason Corbyn even ended up in front is that a bunch of centrists nominated him as a joke candidate, and they hadn't been paying attention when Ed Miliband had changed the voting rules and accidentally made Labour a democratic party. Of course the membership voted for Corbyn, everybody else was garbage.

Same reason why Trump won the Republican primary in the US - the Tea Party had forced the voting process to be democratic. Unlike the Democratic party, which doesn't even have a vaguely democratic process, culminating in them having absolutely no process in the last election. I still insist that if Sanders had run as a Republican in 2016, he would have been president.
by SamBam | 2025-09-27 21:12:29+00:00
Beautiful, as others have said.

The one thing that transported me out of the game was the arbitrary blocking around the ocean / the end of the stream. (I assume those go to the same place, from different sides.)

It seems on such a tiny world the water should never be more than waist deep, so why not just let us explore the whole thing. I didn't quite feel like I got to go all the way around the tiny world, and being fenced by an invisible barrier broke the fourth wall.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-09-27 21:12:40+00:00
We have clear examples of authoritarian states successfully suppressing specific topics. It's not so much about killing it as creating a line where consequences start happening.

China is one example, where being too vocal about certain topics online can land you in a police station interview.

I don't think we should be overly confident that similar things can't happen in the US or EU.

And indeed, in the US we're seeing the administration successfully pressure changes at educational institutions for example. We're already uncomfortably far down this road imo.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-27 21:14:04+00:00
It’s a really a shame to put such a good cpu in such an artificially limited phone. Apple already has all the elements required for effective convergence but would rather have us lug gimped devices out of greed. The current situation is so sad for actual innovation.

I don’t want a MacBook with an A19, I want to use the A19 I already have connected to a screen and a keyboard with a proper software stack.
by Polizeiposaune | 2025-09-27 21:14:08+00:00
Similarly, in 1984, a truck carrying unexpectedly radioactive steel rebar took a wrong turn into the entrance of Los Alamos National Laboratory and set off radiation detectors at the gate intended to detect radioactive contamination on workers leaving the site.

This triggered an investigation which traced the contamination to the improper disposal of the active element of a retired medical radiotherapy machine that used cobalt-60 - the radioactive cobalt ended up mixed with a large batch of other scrap metal, contaminating (among other things) ~6,600 tons of rebar, much of which had already been shipped at the time this was discovered...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_Ju%C3%A1rez_cobalt-60_c...
by lysace | 2025-09-27 21:15:30+00:00
We need modern open source CPU benchmarks.

PassMark and Geekbench are closed source. I don't know why I should trust them to e.g. treat fundamentally different kinds of devices in a sane and fair way. They have vastly different cooling mechanisms, for one. It matters if they can sustain a certain load for 5 minutes or for 5 hours.
by esalman | 2025-09-27 21:15:49+00:00
This definitely sounds inhuman.

This reminds me of some early human remains they found in a cave Georgia (the country). It looked like one human lost teeth and in those times that would basically mean death by starvation. But the evidence suggests someone chewed the food for this person and they survived longer.

We thrive as humans because we look out for each other even when it seems irrelevant.
by sombragris | 2025-09-27 21:16:06+00:00
I doubt it would come to completely replace LaTeX. The momentum behind LaTeX is enormous. Having said that, if it manages to simplify language handling, fonts, and bibliographhies it would be great.

But, especially, it would be good to see whether it improves on LaTeX's handling of tabulars (tables) and floats (figures), somethingh that is kind of an esoteric art right now. I wish Typst the best.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-09-27 21:16:18+00:00
>The second is that nobody is making a generic of the more bioavailable version even though the patent is expired.

I've been taking this drug since 1995 and the brand-name version has been in production (in its current format) since 1938. I don't think there have been any substantial improvements in the formulation in decades (as evidenced by my dosage, at least.) It certainly isn't expensive due to patents.

What's happening here is that in the US generic alternatives are supposed to demonstrate bioequivalence (meaning the same bioavailability), but the standards are lax and not well-enforced. Insurance formularies aren't going to spring for a brand-name drug formulation that costs 10x when the government has certified the cheap generic as bioequivalent. Manufacturers of the unpatented (but more bioavailable) brand-name drugs know that in reality some subset of their patients will need their formulation to keep blood levels stable, which means that in the US they can crank their prices way up and soak a bunch of sick people. In Canada they can't do this. Nothing about this is really defensible.

Which brings me back to the larger issue. High US drug prices can be due to both (1) recouping R&D costs and (2) greed, but the greed is enough to render our current system unworkable. You can't just assign manufacturers a monopoly and the right to charge whatever they want, and expect that they won't abuse this to soak desperate sick people with prices far in excess of their costs (as they are clearly doing.) So yes, you can point to the cost of R&D as one reason we should all (globally) pay more for some drugs, but you can't really use the need for R&D to justify the US system, which is inefficient and dangerous.
by wat10000 | 2025-09-27 21:16:50+00:00
That last sentence should give you an immediate idea of the scale, and that it’s not going to be near the top. Half a million homes is tiny when we’re talking about the entire globe. Thats like one medium-sized city, and just the heating, not any other energy use. It would be nice to capture that energy instead of wasting it, but there are far bigger fish to fry.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-09-27 21:18:05+00:00
If the victim handed a weapon over to the past perpetrator of offences of the victim's free will, unprompted, is it really victim blaming to attribute the perpetrator's state of being able to reoffend 100% to the perp?

Alternatively, consider the world in which the claim that it is victim blaming is 100% true. Such a world, where large parts of the U.S. are focusing their attention on righting grievances instead of anything else, is a world where the U.S. is too distracted by actual civil war to avoid suffering conquest by foreign powers.
by whynotminot | 2025-09-27 21:18:09+00:00
What is the thing you are trying to do?

These phones record 4K video at 120 frames a second.

They play high intensity video games.

They run on device language models.

People keep their iPhones for years — this power will ensure these phones can run iOS versions 5, 6, even 7 years from now.

And the uArch you’re seeing here will end up re-purposed for big brother M series chips in laptops and desktops.

So what exactly do you want?
by lukan | 2025-09-27 21:18:13+00:00
"no one has been put onto a terrorist watch list simply for using that meme"

Agreed that pepe is not apolitical and comes out of a dark corner

But the linked article says "Flags from the left-wing Antifa movement. Depictions of Pepe the Frog," ... "They are all signs that extremists could be infiltrating the military, according to internal training materials "

So according to that source ... maybe yes, potentially there was one put on a watch list, because he used that frog. But I kind of agree that it is warranted. A watch list. Not a list that gives you automatically problems. But a indicator to take a closer look before trusting that person with critical things. But chances are there is not just the frog. I have never seen a person using that frog who did not also used worse language and behavior.

"Anticapitalists" on the other hand are usually people with a big mouth. The step from not liking the current system towards terrorism is a pretty big one. Also because anticapitalism is super vague. So I don't think it is quite the same thing.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-27 21:18:54+00:00
Harvard’s health blog sort of always gets it wrong which diminishes their brand IMO. This is also the publication that said something to the effect of “[…] other than reducing stress, there are no health benefits of using the sauna.” Nobody is claiming that standing desks will help you lose a massive amount of weight. People are using them for maintaining proper posture, and to be more generally active during the day. If you use a standing desk, you’re more likely to go from standing to sitting and vise versa, you’re more likely to move around a bit as you complete your work—as opposed to sitting in a chair which makes it easy to be sedentary for hours.
by tolerance | 2025-09-27 21:19:46+00:00
The American government has been like a Jamaican dancehall filled with deejays all riffing off of the same Riddim for some decades. It sounds like everyone decrying these actions as Nazism and Fascism is just coping with being late to the party.

Edit:

Guys, wait, c’mon, I mean you’re not wrong for decrying Nazism and Fascism against the current administration.

All I’m saying is that I think that there’s a hat that’s passed around in American government. It’s red, green, yellow and black, with matted strands of fabric around the edges of it. Sometimes, if you’re cool enough, you get to wear shades with the hat. But if the people already expect illness out of you then you can don it barefaced.

Trump dem a mash up di country baldfaced.
by bahmboo | 2025-09-27 21:19:46+00:00
I am not an expert on this but reading Groq's description of their hardware it still has a compute/memory split. They make the memory super fast so it can fully feed the CPU without latency (80 terabytes second!). In the end is it much different than moving the ALU into memory like IBM is doing? The goal for both is to eliminate the memory bottleneck so there can be a variety of valid approaches.
by jzb | 2025-09-27 21:20:29+00:00
Ah, yes, the old "don't do _that_, then the Republicans will do it too" -- as if this administration has been in any way constrained by the limits of any previous administration.

I'd ask for a citation of what Biden/Biden's admin actually did, but the Trump folks have been so busy disappearing things that the policy that I think you're referring to is now gone from the WhiteHouse.gov site and doesn't seem to be available via Internet Archive either.

Once again, in harmony, and louder for the people in the back: the both-sidesism is utterly misguided, plays into the Trump camp's hands, and just entirely fails to recognize just how not-normal and dangerous things are right now and they are just getting worse by the day.
by commandersaki | 2025-09-27 21:21:00+00:00
Imagine building a Bugatti and installing an unremovable speed limiter that forced you to top out at 75 MPH

What workload are you envisaging to be run on an iPhone where this even matters? Hyperbole aside, what target population of iPhone users even care about overclocking, and specifically what tangible benefit will they get out of it?
by freedomben | 2025-09-27 21:21:01+00:00
> The fact that ARM is now exceeding the best x86 CPUs marks a historical turning point, and other manufacturers are sure to follow suit.

Haven't they been playing leap frog for years now? I avoid the ARM ecosystem now because of how non-standardized BIOS is (especially after being burned with several different SoC purchases), and I prefer compatibility over performance, but I think there have been some high performance ARM chips for quite some time
by malkia | 2025-09-27 21:21:25+00:00
I was listening to Matt Godbolt's the Two's Complement podcast "Squashing Compilers" and this got my attention, I think this was Ben Rady sharing his recent systemd issue - seems like related

https://youtu.be/Au15lSiAkeQ?si=sxxP2ia9vUkWY5qy&t=982

From the YouTube transcript:

"I don't know what systemd is doing to take so long cuz this is the rub systemd essentially takes 100% CPU twice over. So on our two core machine that we run these things on, I can run top that when I actually got it, I said to you the machine was unresponsive, right? Because all in kernel land, locks are being taken out left, right, and center. Um, you know, we're trying to mount these things in parallel at sensible levels because we want to try and mount"
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-27 21:21:38+00:00
> stereo imaging will absolutely be able to place dialogue in the center

For me, if I were to watch alone while sitting straight up in the middle of the couch. Which I almost never do. Either I'm casual or I'm watching with others.

I agree with regards to sound quality and dynamic range though. We have a soundbar in the main livingroom of good quality, but as expected it has no lower end.

I got the stereo+center speaker setup in the basement with the big TV, they're just bookshelf sized but on stands with center just below TV.

They're enough that our neighbors would complain if they were home when I crank it up, and have much better clarity for normal sounds and dialog.
by eschaton | 2025-09-27 21:22:23+00:00
It has all sorts of gamification that gets in the way, it’s easy to over-silo discussions, it has a concept of “answered” that’s not really appropriate for a lot of project level discussion, it has all sorts of other extraneous crap like “reactions,” and—most importantly—it’s fundamentally implemented as a web page that everyone involved needs visit regularly to see when there’s something new and to respond to that.

Discourse would be fine if it were a front end to a mailing list and didn’t have the excess categorization and gamification crap. Instead it’s a web forum with a mailing list mode tacked on by people who never did substantial technical work using mailing lists.
by tavavex | 2025-09-27 21:23:33+00:00
> there’s a certain magic and immediacy to knowing you’re using a physically destructive playback mechanism—that this right now is the best this record will ever sound again

Maybe I just don't get it - I'm much younger than the average HN user, growing up with physical media but not physical media that rapidly degraded on use like how vinyl does. But to me this sentiment is so alien that it seems like some kind of a milder nostalgia Stockholm syndrome.

When we think of other physical media, no one ever romanticizes that type of thing because degradation never really existed there. Would you want a photograph that faded away a significant amount each time you looked at it? A book that had the ink on its pages visibly rub off?

To me it just seems that the hard technical limitations of a long bygone era (that some people would've undoubtedly hated at the time) were given a mystique to them when people come back to them. Is the harsh fact of media degradation really inherently "magical"? Or is it that people ascribe good qualities to it because it's just the way it was?
by 9dev | 2025-09-27 21:25:33+00:00
I see your point, but I think you're missing the broader picture here. Web protocols are not just used because they are there, but because the stack is very elegantly layered and extensible, well understood and tested, and offer strong security guarantees. It's not like encryption hasn't been tacked onto HTTP retroactively, but at least that happened using proper staples instead of a bunch of duct tape and hope as with other protocols.

All of that isn't really important, though. What makes a major point for using HTTP w/ TLS as a transport layer is the ecosystem and tooling around it. You'll get authorization protocols like OIDC, client certificate authentication, connection resumption and migration, caching, metadata fields, and much more, out of the box.
by jasonwatkinspdx | 2025-09-27 21:25:54+00:00
Impeachment flatly isn't happening. We're not getting 67 votes for it in the senate. If the fake electors plot and Jan 6th didn't do it, nothing will.

So as shitty as that is we need to operate within that reality.

Also, Trumpism isn't going to end with Trump. Now that his base has had a sold run of "winning" they're not just going to dissipate, even if any potential successor may not be as effective as Trump in creating a personality cult.

There's millions of Americans that want these things.
by latexr | 2025-09-27 21:26:35+00:00
The camera, controls, and difficult to discern invisible walls were frustrating to the point I had to just quit the game, even after completing over half of the deliveries. On Safari on macOS there is also a glitch where the character’s clothes keep changing, and I can’t see any other players there (it was only when I tried it on iOS that I realised this is Journey-like).

But the game is beautiful and peaceful and I’m still glad I got to experience it. I’ll definitely share it with some friends. Thank you for making it.
by jzb | 2025-09-27 21:27:05+00:00
I spoke too soon, I think that IA is having some intermittent problems, but I was finally able to get to Biden's "National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrororism" here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210617103741/https://www.white...

At least in the broad-strokes PDF I see no mention of "radical Christian" anything. If there's some citation, I'd be curious to see it if it can still be found and if it mentions specific groups.