MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by w10-1 | 2025-09-10 17:57:03+00:00
The transformation here is not size or performance or intelligence but security.

The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 with MIE (Memory integrity enforcement) promise to be the first devices capable of resisting even nation-state-level attacks, through hardware+software integration of memory tagging to stem use-after-free and buffer overflow attacks, and hardware defenses against speculative execution attacks.

Third-party software developers can opt in to MIE now; users should insist on it from their application vendors.

https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement...
by paulnpace | 2025-09-10 17:57:07+00:00
> heartless society is when someone has to wait at a red light for a few more seconds. and yes, enumerating a set of silly non-law "rules" you expect drivers on the road to follow is the definition of entitlement.

Many of the traffic lights in this valley are more than 5 minutes per cycle. You are completely naive to the facts of the discussion you have entered.

Please quote my above comment where I stated my expectations of all drivers.

This form of sophistry is not recommended in text-based discussions.
by rkagerer | 2025-09-10 17:57:32+00:00
Convention (as you report Zig does) seems to be a sensible way to deal with the problem.

> Also, the more I work with this stuff the more I think trying to avoid memory management is foolish ... It takes some experience, but I’d rather just manage the memory myself and confront the issue from the start.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is a reasonable take on the matter.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-09-10 17:57:38+00:00
I disagree wholeheartedly. I think the most useful thing about robotaxis is that you can count on them to pay attention and react within a given timeframe and that speed limits will either be expanded greatly, eliminated or calculated as a function of the capabilities of the individual hardware in question rather than our best guess as to how an average person would probably react. I'm looking forward to driverless cars careening about at 200+ mph because they can actively communicate and coordinate with traffic around them in order to do so safely.
Show HN: Strange Attractors – a maths side-project in Threejs
by shashanktomar | 2025-09-10 17:57:57+00:00
I went down the rabbit hole on a side project and ended up building this: Strange Attractors(https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors). It’s built with three.js.

Working on it reminded me of the little "maths for fun" exercises I used to do while learning programming in early days. Just trying things out, getting fascinated and geeky, and being surprised by the results. I spent way too much time on this, but it was extreme fun.

My favorite part: someone pointed me to the Simone Attractor on Threads. It is a 2D attractor and I asked GPT to extrapolate it to 3D, not sure if it’s mathematically correct, but it’s the coolest by far. I have left all the params configurable, so give it a try. I called it Simone (Maybe).

If you like math-art experiments, check it out. Would love feedback, especially from folks who know more about the math side.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-10 17:58:02+00:00
It shows correlation, not causation. In the vein of this thread, it's not more or less useful than other anecdotes.

I posited a causation based on how the anecdotes countered the general trends in the data. I welcome counter arguments better than "I'm ignoring you because you don't have numbers".

Were I being paid to research this more deeply, I would. I'm not, and if someone doesn't like my argument, they're free to find one of their own.
by mikestorrent | 2025-09-10 17:58:03+00:00
>learned they can charge insane rates

It's called "what the market can bear" and it's what corporations with marketing and sales professionals have always tried their best to do; charge as much as you possibly can without losing business. Of course, it only actually works when there is competition, and so the rising prices are kept in check by undercutting competition.... and then, _that_ only works when the undercutting competition is working to the same quality (by a code, ideally) and is subject to the same economic pressures so that it can level out fairly. If the competition is all fresh immigrants with lower CoL, or if the competition is cutting corners, all bets are off. You end up with a race to the bottom, where each individual is trying to be part of a race to the top at the same time... everyone wants more than they're worth, but those who are actually doing the best work still aren't getting what they deserve, lol!

A free market actually requires a lot of surrounding regulation to work, just like any other freedom. It's always been strange to me that Americanism seems to view freedom as the fundamental condition of man, hampered by law; ultimately most freedoms come from rule and order, because they can carve out space for one to enjoy freedoms with far fewer negative consequences.
by HankStallone | 2025-09-10 17:58:09+00:00
Yeah, there's been (until this year) zero difference between the parties on economic/trade policy since 1992 when the Clinton campaign had "It's the economy, stupid" as its slogan to remind them the one thing that matters most in elections. Unfortunately, they, like the Bush Republicans, meant the stock market and global trade deals for their friends when they said "economy."

So if you were a typically conservative-ish farmer, you could vote for the party that was going to screw you economically and trash your culture, or the party that would screw you economically and maybe pretend to stand up for your culture sometimes. Not a happy choice, but if you were going to bother to vote, an easy one.
by Zigurd | 2025-09-10 17:58:20+00:00
Data point: I've been in two car wrecks. Once as a passenger where the driver spun it on the Mass Pike to 128 ramp, and once when I got T-boned on my way home from having my car serviced. That was my favorite car. Nobody's ever bothered me on public transport. Not on the MBTA, not on MBTA, Metro North, or LIRR commuter rail, not on Amtrak to New York, not on the New York public transit systems.
by s1artibartfast | 2025-09-10 17:58:28+00:00
I dont disagree that people are incentivized to express or misrepresent victimhood for advantage. What I disagree with is that "This means victimhood is the principal currency of power."

It might be one of many local currencies on a playground, but it isn't why the teacher has more power than the student. It isn't a generalizable theory of power.
by jimmydddd | 2025-09-10 17:58:28+00:00
Went to the Frost Museum of Science in Miami. They had this big (6ft x 6ft) video display and four 6-inch diameter track balls where you guided a vessel through the virtual ocean or something. These two academic minded parents asked their sons (maybe 8 and 10 years old) to try the exhibit. They ran over excitely and just started pounding on the track balls with their fists as hard as they could. They of course did not understand the exhibit at all, but they had a great time! :-)
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-09-10 17:58:39+00:00
I don't think the idea was trains at all. I think the idea was, if we're going to have N of them driving down The Strip, it would be more efficient to join them physically together than to have them maintain normal inter-car spacing.

And that could work, if the car in front can communicate power/brake/turn commands to the cars in the chain. And if you could dynamically drop cars out of the middle when needed. And if you could dynamically add cars when they're neighboring and going the same way. All those could be tricky, but they seem quite solvable.
by baby_souffle | 2025-09-10 17:59:10+00:00
> I use the desktop app. It causes excessive battery drain, but I like having it as a shortcut. Do most people use the web app?

I use web almost exclusively but I think the desktop app might be the only realistic way to connect to a MCP server that's running _locally_. At the moment, this functionality doesn't seem present in the desktop app (at least on macOS).
Show HN: Updatify – release notes and changelog tool
by avdept | 2025-09-10 18:00:29+00:00
Hello HN, I'm Alex.

Today I'm launching updatify.io, a tool that delivers product updates and changelogs to your customers through embedded widgets, auto-generated blogs, or emails. It also collects feedback through an up/down vote mechanism (with comments coming eventually).

Similar tools exist, but I built my own for several reasons: some lack integrations, others lack features, and I needed one for my own projects. I run several open source projects for the self-hosted community, and it's a constant battle with users creating issues to request features that have already been implemented.

I've built similar functionality as part of paid projects at my day job, so it was a logical decision to create this as a standalone product given my knowledge and experience with previous implementations.

I'm already working on several improvements: integrations with GitHub/GitLab + Gitea/Forgejo releases, more customization options for blog pages (including SEO and UI enhancements), and better analytics for both widgets/blogs and emails.

Beyond the web version, I have a Flutter package almost ready for release(just need to QA it), which will make it easy to include in Flutter apps and eventually native iOS/Android packages.

I also want to provide free access to all open source maintainers, since they're most likely to benefit from this tool and I want to support their work. If you're an open source maintainer, sign up and contact me (you can find my contact email in the app) so I can grant you a free subscription.

And by the way - no AI involved, and not a single line of code written with it.
by AlexAplin | 2025-09-10 18:00:55+00:00
Quibi launched in April 2020. TikTok by this point would have 2 billion downloads [1]. It's difficult to assess they were trailblazers here. I might even say a component of their failure is free mobile video was widely accessible by this point.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/29/21241788/tiktok-app-downl...
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-10 18:01:04+00:00
> When leadership decides their velocity is too slow for whatever reason, they look for deck chairs to move. RTO is one big deck chair they can move and many will assume it will improve performance and velocity.

I’d agree that “do-something-ism” is a factor, both on its own and as an accelerant for any pre-existing bias in that direction that packed an impetus or pretext without bad results.
by bell-cot | 2025-09-10 18:01:31+00:00
Pretty much. I've seen it attributed to the legacy of the WWII French Resistance ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Resistance ) or the Paris Commune ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune ) or the Flour War ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour_War ). But there's a lot more, and it goes much further back - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unr...

Perhaps France's ruling classes are especially inclined to ignore the concerns of the poor and working classes, and the latter often feel that forceful resistance is their only option?
by somenameforme | 2025-09-10 18:01:50+00:00
I'm not at all irritated besides the fact that you're relying on examples that simply are incorrect, and instead of responding to this issue in any way you're linking to walls of text from somebody who (1) has made plainly false statements on the topic already and (2) has literally 0 qualification in the field whatsoever.

It'd be akin to arguing to somebody who wants to claim the Moon landing was faked, and after the rather straight forward rebuttal of their argument links to some blog in the tens of thousands of words from some statistician they claim is "very smart." It's silly.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-10 18:01:58+00:00
English government: "we have revoked all your rights and outlawed tea"

English people: "oh bother, guess I'll just watch football"

French government: "we are levying a .0053% tax on stinky cheese"

French people: "we are on our way to the capitol with rocket launchers and we will light on fire every speed camera we encounter on our way"

They're like Europe's Portland but without the prevalence of piercings and hair dye. Beautiful really.
by Uehreka | 2025-09-10 18:02:15+00:00
I love how people like Simon Willison and Pete Steinberger spend all this effort trying to be skeptical of their own experiences and arrive at nuanced takes like “50% more productive, but that’s actually a pretty big deal, but the nature of the increase is complicated” and y’all just keep repeating the brainrotted “100x, juniors are cooked” quote you heard someone say on LinkedIn.
by logicchains | 2025-09-10 18:02:22+00:00
The population isn't homogeneous. The fundamental problem is that the average age of the population keeps increasing, meaning fewer and fewer working people per retiree. This means young people's quality of living gets worse and worse as they have to support more and more non-working people via pensions. Given the opposition to mass immigration, there doesn't seem to be any feasible solution in the near future.
by lxe | 2025-09-10 18:02:38+00:00
This is a cool hobby project, but why is this notable? Why a FastCompany article? I'm trying to figure out anything that sets this apart from thousands of other little hobby search projects.

I understand companies like Perplexity or Brave or DuckDuckGo "rivialing Google", but building a hobby index and crawler is nice, and worthy of a "Show HN: "... but an actual media article?
by tedggh | 2025-09-10 18:02:41+00:00
It’s a supply and demand problem. There are just not enough people pursuing these jobs to replace the retiring generation. Some of these small family businesses are quite profitable, but most owners don’t have kids interested in continuing their legacy. Private equity noticed this and went on an acquisition spree. They buy your local HVAC and plumbing company, keep the family-owned branding “since 1976”, hire people with no experience to do the job and increase the hourly rate. They recover the investment, squeeze out every dollar they can and shut it down once bad Google reviews and lawsuits start to creep in.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-09-10 18:02:54+00:00
Unlike in the US, French top 1% are usually families that span dozens of households that run unrelated businesses. The staple of the French top 1% is the Mulliez family that counts >1000 members. The most prominent family members run Decathlon, Auchan and Leroy-Merlin, others handle equally important land and B2B businesses, the offspring get juicy jobs at McKinsey or spawn startups in what's the hot thing of the moment. I am sure there are a few you Mulliez running AI startups right now.

It's really impossible to say what's the effective tax rate of these people. Their real wealth is not in the money, of with they have plenty, but rather in endless opportunities.
by LexiMax | 2025-09-10 18:03:06+00:00
> It's probably people here are smart in one field and automatically think they are smart in others. Or it's just the heavy drug use.

Or it could be as simple as motivated reasoning.

Someone I go to for hair grooming is a conspiracy nut. For _some reason_ they have been making odd comments about how they haven't seen as many chemtrails in the air since late January.

Gee, I wonder why.
by zer00eyz | 2025-09-10 18:03:15+00:00
> people seem to develop very weird mental models of what LLMs are or do.

Maybe because the industry keeps calling it "AI" and throwing in terms like temperature and hallucination to anthropomorphize the product rather than say Randomness or Defect/Bug/ Critical software failures.

Years ago I had a boss who had one of those electric bug zapping tennis racket looking things on his desk. I had never seen one before, it was bright yellow and looked fun. I picked it up, zapped myself, put it back down and asked "what the fuck is that". He (my boss) promptly replied "it's an intelligence test". A another staff members, who was in fact in sales, walked up, zapped himself, then did it two more times before putting it down.

Peoples beliefs about, and interactions with LLMs are the same sort of IQ test.
by kulahan | 2025-09-10 18:03:16+00:00
I was making a point that complaining about strawmen you invent is a waste of time.

The people who clapped as musk revved a chainsaw and then went home and complained about farm shit don’t exist. Farmers aren’t spending all day on Twitter. They don’t even know who musk is aside from the CEO of Tesla.

I apologize for throwing you for such a loop.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-09-10 18:03:29+00:00
>poked at one of these [design a rocket apps] with my son, added too many boosters to their launch vehicle, and were told it failed “for reasons” in a way she found totally unhelpful and pointless.

This is tripping my bullshit-o-meter. If it just failed "for reasons" how do you know it failed because there were too many boosters? Kinda sounds like the game explained that to them.
by juhovh | 2025-09-10 18:03:35+00:00
Looks interesting, I see you've added a light React UI and a simple REST API on the Go service to query for status and control the Tailscale interface. I'll make a note for sure!

I myself didn't really have a need to disable the interface during the lifecycle of the container, so I went with the standard containerboot process provided by Tailscale. I also wanted the container to be "invisible" and not respond to any incoming connections, so that it feels like you're running Tailscale on the actual router.

Keeping things a bit more granular and flexible for this use case makes total sense.
by kleiba | 2025-09-10 18:03:36+00:00
There is an incredible pressure on a lot of public facing endeavors to include digital, no matter whether it makes any sense at all or not. Take education, for instance - if it weren't such an important topic, it would be almost comical to observe how our schools are trying to jump through hoops to cram more IT into the classroom. (I wish the people responsible would take a look at Scandinavia though, where they are years ahead in that respect and have already begun taking digital devices out of the classrooms again.)

But it's not about what makes sense. It's about prestige, and about the ability to tell everyone "look at us, how forward we are!". This seems very clear to me, for instance, by the fact that the year 7 comp sci classes they teach in our local high school have what on their curriculum? Yep, that's right, you guessed it: AI. Because that's apparently the absolute basic CS that every student should start with these days.

Education is only one example, of course. But it's really creeping into everything. That museums have screen everywhere is no surprise. After all, flashing screen surely release more endorphins than non-interactive physical exhibits, so if you want to attract young folks, the pressure is on.
by maeln | 2025-09-10 18:03:55+00:00
Well, you will never make 65 million people agree with each other.

> Clearly they recognise a need for reform because they vote for politicians who run on a reform platform.

Meh. Macron, and his party, was not really running on a reform platform. He was the typical, business centrist candidate.

And the national assembly is very divided right now, and the government is systematically from a minority party (so neither from the left union, or the extreme right RN), which are not running on a reform platform (quite the opposite).

There is proposition about reforming taxes to taxes the wealthiest, something with some popular support, but no party that support this kind of reform as the power to make it happen right now.

We are in a deadlock since the dissolution of the national assembly by Macron, and we probably will be until the next presidential election, or a new dissolution that would give a big majority to one party which would pretty much ensure them control of the government.

The french system is really not made for a fragmented assembly. This is not what you can find in more parliamentary system where coalition form the government. A fragmented national assembly is basically a deadlock in France's fifth republic system.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-09-10 18:03:58+00:00
I suspect the big crash is coming within the next few years — and I think we've seen nothing yet.

I've wrestled a bit with how to prepare financially for what could lie ahead but decided that there was really no harbor that is sure to be safe. I'm prepared to basically be poor and die from a thing that could have been prevented with some measure of health care.

I'm usually an optimist by nature, but I've never been so with regard to the economy and the growing wealth inequality. There is no soft landing for either in my mind.
by mtalantikite | 2025-09-10 18:03:58+00:00
Well, one is active and the other is passive.

In the case of watching an hour of video, you're just there consuming what's going on. Reading a novel requires you to world build internally. I'd say that sort of attention is a much higher intensity version. Or at least it takes a lot more active involvement.

If you've ever sat for meditation you'll know that low-input stimulation can be much harder to keep your attention on, but being lost in daydreaming and 'monkey-mind' chatter is pretty effortless. Once you train in it it becomes no big deal, though. Same is true for reading novels.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23988110/
by rayiner | 2025-09-10 18:04:09+00:00
The NAEP scores cited in my link above are nationally standardized tests from the federal department of education: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assessment_of_Educati.... SAT scores are hard to compare across states because they are optional and states have different participation rates.

The steel man version of what you’re saying is that American kids do really well on tests, accounting for factors like the large immigrant population. And they choose to invest their significantly greater financial resources in sports rather than improving score even further. Which is a fair argument!

But the formulation of the argument made by OP is just cultural chauvinism. Being culturally open minded has little to do with reading and math scores. Utah performs similarly to states like Minnesota in reading scores, and better than almost any other state in math.
by crab_galaxy | 2025-09-10 18:04:19+00:00
I totally agree with the authors point. The Franklin Institute at its core is a place that teaches science through tactile experience and the special exhibits don’t reflect that.

Some context as a local though, the Franklin Institute’s special exhibit space rotates every couple of months and I imagine they’re put on by outside vendors who move the exhibit from venue to venue. The special exhibits for better or for worse more akin to Disney World or the pop culture museum in Seattle. I’ve been to a bunch of them and they’re usually quite good, but they don’t represent that tactile learning experience at all.

Many of us Philadelphians really lament that the place isn’t as well maintained as it should be. It was the field trip destination for so many kids and I’m sorry OP wasn’t able to recreate that same level of magic for their kids.
by danaris | 2025-09-10 18:04:59+00:00
Changing the voting method is much easier than changing to proportional representation, or any other means of avoiding a single winner. The former is something that's under control of the states. I...think the latter would require an amendment to the Constitution for Congress, and changing the nature of the Presidency definitely would.

Even just allowing people to provide more than one vote means that people can support third-party candidates without that vote effectively robbing their preferred major-party candidate of a vote. (eg, if you're broadly left-wing, and like the Green Party, you can rank their candidate first, then the Democratic candidate second—and then if the Green Party candidate doesn't win, your vote counts for the Democrat) That's a big, big change.