MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-15 17:48:05+00:00
> Any thoughts about whether reverse-centaurs are something that should continue to exist?

I don't think he has really articulated a meaningful distinction between the two. It seems to be approximately "it's a centaur when you want to use AI for something and a reverse centaur when the boss wants you to use AI for something".

What he seems to want is that if AI can reduce the time it takes to do something, the time saved should be used to improve quality rather than to produce more output with fewer people. Which is nice and everything, but if you want that to happen what you need is not abstract indignation that corporations are willing to produce trash as long as people are willing to consume it, it's some efficient mechanism for people to discover high-quality things in a sea of low-quality trash.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2025-09-15 17:48:47+00:00
I’ve sometimes heard Twitch streamers mention that they use two computers for streaming. One is the computer you are seeing on stream, and the other computer is running OBS and using a HDMI capture device.

With this new live streaming feature in Asciinema, I could imagine that a small subset of programming streamers could skip buying a HDMI capture device. Specially the kind of developer who works exclusively in the terminal. This small group of people could now stream their terminal from the dev machine to the OBS machine using Asciinema 3, instead of capturing HDMI output.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-15 17:48:53+00:00
I don't see the comment's argument as being that this is okay because it's common. It's just pointing out that this is nothing completely new and that it's a shame that it gets pointed out in a selective way when it could have been called out even earlier under other administrations. That's completely fair if one genuinely cares about due process instead of just dogmatic sniping..
by jonchurch_ | 2025-09-15 17:49:05+00:00
The author has run into the same problem that anyone who wants to do analysis on the NPM registry runs into, there's just no good first party API for this stuff anymore.

It seems this was their first time going down this rabbit hole, so for them and anyone else, I'd urge you to use the deps.dev Google BigQuery dataset [0] for this kind of analysis. It does indeed include NPM and would have made the author's work trivial.

Here's a gist with the query and the results https://gist.github.com/jonchurch/9f9283e77b4937c8879448582b...

[0] - https://docs.deps.dev/bigquery/v1/
by mothballed | 2025-09-15 17:49:07+00:00
People are not acknowledging and ruled under the constitution as written and intended and the amendments thereafter, for a very long time.

For one very obvious example, observe that it is illegal to notice an opium poppy is growing in a forest, then take and smoke it, and somehow that magically being interstate commerce.

At this point the government as we know it would totally collapse were it not the people willfully and deliberately violate the tenants of the constitutional republic we live under. And most of them, seem to agree with that.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-09-15 17:49:39+00:00
It's "your computer" but it's "their OS". Go ahead and switch to Linux but the "systemd / snap packages / telementry etc. is being forced on my distro" complaints is exactly the same "adversarial relationship with my computer"(sic).

If you want things exactly your way, there's the Gentoo route if you don't mind supporting it yourself.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-15 17:49:46+00:00
Isn't that true for pretty much every OS? The feature set we need to be able to do our jobs and computing hobbies have been available for two decades.

Operating systems like Debian is sufficiently boring that I can just upgrade and continue computing. macOS upgrades have become a small gamble, the stuff that I depend on may not continue to work, or at least it will take a good deal of work. There are however no reason to upgrade, so the risk isn't really worth the hassle of upgrading and breaking Java or Python.
by DesiLurker | 2025-09-15 17:49:48+00:00
thats a strawman, here's a summary of ownership from google: Be Inc. => Palm => PalmSource => ACCESS Co.

this is ho many times they moved it around or sold it. each one of these times they had to do due diligence before same as you do with any ip acquisition. okay if you dont want to do full opensource, how about taking a few modules and just bsd-3 or MIT-ing them. it shows Intent, how many time any VC has done this in last 20 years? none that I recall. this is the problem, big do-gooder talk about changing the world, but at the end of day they are out to JUST make money.
by cloverich | 2025-09-15 17:50:02+00:00
The key is to make that decision based on your preferences, and not simply by going with the generic advice to buy a home from a purely financial perspective. Many people do this (take the generic advice). Many people in this comments section by their own declaration (explicit or implicit) haven't done the math. It's really kind of shocking, at least to me it was. I was stressed we could not afford a home in our area, then I did the math and realized by renting, I'd come out _very_ far head. For me it's not about wealth but financial independence and stability. At our current earnings and rent, if we continue renting, and I were to lose my job, I could cover our expenses in our area _for years_ (even if our rent increases 50%). If we buy, I'd need to sell within 6-12 months and if the home had dropped in value (like, at all), I'd be potentially underwater. So the bit that sounds more stable (buy the home) can easily be less so, and in practice _is_ less so for many people.

While I would absolutely love to purchase a home (for your reasons), the reality is I have more stability for my family (particularly my kids / school) by renting for at least the next 5 years, but very likely throughout their school.
by blindriver | 2025-09-15 17:50:05+00:00
I had resisted upgrading to Windows 11 and was just on the cusp of doing it, but now I will never, ever upgrade. I don't care about security aspect of Windows 10 anymore. I don't trust Microsoft. They had a few good years after Nadella joined where they were doing decent things but now they have resumed their monopolistic behavior and shoving things down our throats like Recall and this shit and I'm done with it. I'll switch to MacOS before I upgrade to Windows 11.
by SyrupThinker | 2025-09-15 17:50:21+00:00
I think it is somewhat ironic that you try to make a point that Chemie is an exception, when it is exactly the sort of example the claim is made from.

Ich and Chemie are pretty similarly pronounced (some people say either with a harder k sound, ik, "kehmee"). Chemie also derives from the Greek χύμεία, so it contains the Chi to make the comparison.

A similar case can also be made for Jesus Christus, I certainly think Christus' pronunciation starts like crust.

And hey, if you derive the Greek root for it, you get Χριστός, which starts with Chi again.

I think a better case can be made just arguing against mixing alphabets like this.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-15 17:50:36+00:00
You'd be surprised... I did a LOT of cleanup work for a private college that had a lot of "clever" developers that didn't understand static variables in C#, or how the ASP.Net lifecycle worked. Race conditions and all kinds of weird errors when the system got busy. Not to mention a lot of "fun" performance issues.

Just because someone has a CS degree doesn't mean they actually know what they're doing.
by pmontra | 2025-09-15 17:50:40+00:00
That's what happened once with PCs in the 80s/90s and then again with the web in the 90s/2000s. The number of developers went up. Maybe the number of developers on the previous technology went down, but I'm not sure about it. Example: there are still developers for Windows native apps. Are they more or less than in 1995? I would bet on less, but I won't bet anything of valuable.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-15 17:50:56+00:00
Support rapidly being dropped happens mostly with smaller devs, because when resources are limited in the Apple platform world you can either adopt newer APIs and language features or you can support old OSes 3+ versions back. Trying to do both lands you in feature check conditional hell and requires a large matrix of test devices to ensure that nothing is being broken.

It’s less of a burden for corporate giants which is why you see much longer support timelines from e.g. Google.
by Animats | 2025-09-15 17:51:51+00:00
> Link one bank account (not your primary) to PayPal to receive money, and transfer received money immediately.

Costs 1.5%. Or wait a few days.[1] Plus a fee for receiving cryptocurrency. There are additional fees for buying cryptocurrencies, other than PayPal's own. And none of this is FDIC insured.

[1] https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/paypal/pp-balance-tnc?loc...
by stronglikedan | 2025-09-15 17:52:06+00:00
If, in MacOS, I can drag a file onto a taskbar icon to open the file in whatever program I dropped it on, then I too will switch to that before Win11. I can't believe MS removed functionality in Win11 that is part of the daily workflows of so many users, and just said "GFY, we're never putting it back!"
by highwaylights | 2025-09-15 17:52:15+00:00
Not a direct response to your question but (I guess like you) I often find with these releases that the changes I actually care about aren’t flashy enough to even warrant a mention in the presentations or on the main web page.

There seems to be some expansion of screen time, finally, but I haven’t been able to figure out what it is yet based on the only *os 26 update I’ve done so far is the public beta on a single Apple TV.
by zahlman | 2025-09-15 17:52:48+00:00
No, I am not saying that. I am saying that when an order is given, it has other properties, aside from "being a form of speech", and those are the properties that make it bad to give an order to do a harmful thing. The simple fact that it is uttered, is not what's problematic about the order.

It is therefore not valid to say that "you believe speech can harm people", any more than "you believe breathing can harm people" (since breathing is a prerequisite to being alive, which is a prerequisite to giving an order).
by username332211 | 2025-09-15 17:53:14+00:00
Utopia in general are a pretty dystopian genre. Plato's Commonwealth clearly describes a totalitarian system (and one of the participants in Socrates' dialogue would go on to murder a rather impressive number of Athenians).

More's Utopia describes a society that's not radically different from the State of Qin - a system based on uniformity, regimentation and forced labor. The main difference is that More would prefer enslavement as the principal punishment, while Shang Yang would prescribe execution.

I think that has something to do with the inherent hubris of the whole exercise.
by adastra22 | 2025-09-15 17:53:55+00:00
FWIW it doesn't serve as a great example because the ordering is not obvious. I think that is what GP was reacting to. When I say "sort a list of presidents by how right-leaning they are" in any other context people would probably assume the MOST right-leaning president to be listed first. It took me a moment to remember that Pythons 'sort' would be in ascending order by default.
by jumploops | 2025-09-15 17:53:56+00:00
Interesting, the new model's prompt is ~half the size (10KB vs. 23KB) of the previous prompt[0][1].

SWE-bench performance is similar to normal gpt-5, so it seems the main delta with `gpt-5-codex` is on code refactors (via internal refactor benchmark 33.9% -> 51.3%).

As someone who recently used Codex CLI (`gpt-5-high`) to do a relatively large refactor (multiple internal libs to dedicated packages), I kept running into bugs introduced when the model would delete a file and then rewrite in (missing crucial or important details). My approach would have been to just the copy the file over and then make package-specific changes, so maybe better tool calling is at play here.

Additionally, they claim the new model is more steerable (both with AGENTS.md and generally). In my experience, Codex CLI w/gpt-5 is already a lot more steerable than Claude Code, but any improvements are welcome!

[0]https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/core/gpt_...

[1]https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/core/prom...
by scuff3d | 2025-09-15 17:54:19+00:00
If you want a more curated experience that takes a lot of the rough edges off Linux: https://bazzite.gg

Bazzite isn't going to be as flexible as some other distros, but it's goal is to make the Linux transition as easy as possible. It's aimed primarily at gamers but you'll get a full OS that you can do all the normal stuff on
by faut_reflechir | 2025-09-15 17:54:25+00:00
The potential source of error is the assumption that the president has the authority to stop a prosecution (short of the pardon power). I say "potential" because a "unitary executive" advocate would claim this is true, and it is becoming more true during the second Trump administration, although it was notably false during the first one. [In prior administrations, including Trump I and Obama, the DOJ appointed independent counsel precisely to prosecute cases the president would have disagreed with prosecuting.]
by haunter | 2025-09-15 17:54:25+00:00
That shouldn’t really matter for asciicinema streaming which 0 effect on any kind of performance.

The 2 device setup for game streaming was born because of the heavy CPU usage of x264 encoding. So you could have a PC for the game only while the streamig PC takes the encoding load.

But even then nowadays a lot of people moved on from that since you can use your GPU for encoding (Nvidia NVENC) which almost has 0% overhead and providing the same or slightly worse quality. Really OBS x264 should be only used for offline video recording say for a Youtube video
by KaiMagnus | 2025-09-15 17:54:40+00:00
It's infuriating how slowly we're moving towards more open platforms on mobile, when you can just look at the desktop to see how much freedom has been lost.

I always think of Steam as a well done digital store. Apple meanwhile is absolutely disinterested in providing anything beyond the most basic features. Whishlists, shopping carts, curators (which could in theory provide actual quality suggestions, like real stores), more granular review data and so on would improve the experience immensely. The App Store can vote soon, but developers can't even offer paid upgrades to their apps, or do sales.

Apple always says they are necessary to ensure the safety of their users. But the App Store right now keeps app quality down and makes it as intransparent as possible.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-09-15 17:54:44+00:00
1. "Utopia turns perverse" is established enough to be a tired trope. Brave New World is the canonical example here.

2. The Culture books are critical of the utopia. More than half of them are directly about the difficulty of reconciling the ideals of that utopia while coexisting in a universe with other people. The subgenre the Culture books belong to is literally called "critical utopia" fiction.

3. All (good) sci fi is political. You should find a different genre if you don't want politics in it.
by mistercheph | 2025-09-15 17:54:57+00:00
Those are functions of a marketplace, a low-cost pseudo-legal system so that you hopefully avoid using a state's costly and slow legal system. But if marketplaces also own the medium of exchange, e.g. marketplaces that issue tokens and only allow transacting in tokens (Paypal behind the scenes), their economic incentive is not to resolve disputes, but to create as many barriers as possible to converting tokens back into value as they can get away with, since this becomes the profit center of the business.

And, when the only medium of exchange available to consumers and merchants is through one of these tokenized marketplaces, getting locked out of marketplaces means getting locked out of doing business entirely with no recourse or alternative.

Mediums of exchange should be neutral, and self-sovereign exchange has to be an option in order for marketplaces to offer competitive marketplace services, else they just abuse their monopoly on medium of exchange.

It's pretty nice, e.g. that when I buy a leash, it doesn't also have to walk the dog. Maybe for some, it's ideal to have someone else walk the dog, and the dog walker can even insist on bringing their own leash, but having the option of buying my own leash, putting it on my dog, and walking it myself means I don't need anyone's permission to own a dog, (not a big deal in the case of dog-walkers since there are so many) and substantially lowers the premium that dog-walkers can command in the marketplace for their services.
by cube2222 | 2025-09-15 17:55:06+00:00
Honestly, why don't they just add it to Safari as a css property?

I'm confident we'll have a ton of websites trying to replicate the Liquid Glass aesthetic, and will do so in a way that will eat half your laptops CPU.

As the article notes, with this in CSS, it's extremely easy to have different CSS depending on whether this is available or not. At the same time, it's not like other browsers don't do "non-standard" things.

I'm not saying I love Liquid Glass and I want it everywhere, but I prefer to have proper Liquid Glass everywhere on Safari, over having a custom unoptimized laggy unpolished version of it.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-15 17:55:17+00:00
Because this bullshittery is worth pointing out every fucking time: Here's another perfectly valid post on this site, related to previous unflagged posts on the same subject, easily no less relevant than many other non-tech posts that garner no shortage of comments and don't get flagged, getting flagged by some childish ass. Assholes will asshole, and bots may bot but you'd think the site's admin could start pulling its head out of its ass just enough to brake some of the permissive flagging habits on HN a tad.
by Jaauthor | 2025-09-15 17:55:39+00:00
[Written for kids to encourage them to think about the future of space travel]

Space week coming up, so let’s talk about getting to the next level of space elevators. As you know, I’m intensely interested in them as part of my novel Mike.Sierra.Echo.

Scientists still believe this can work and I do, too! That’s why I propose an honest, direct conversation about the challenges of building a space elevator. That way, we can work on it together! Someone is going to crack this code, and I want to be a part of that history.
by yesdocs | 2025-09-15 17:55:40+00:00
I have at Tesla system with 3 batteries, and I argued during installation to include 8kw of panels situated on the west side of our roof against Tesla ‘s engineering. The panels would only by 72% efficient on the west side as opposed to 74% on the east side (catching the morning sun). But my modeling showed that we would exhaust the batteries in the evening due to the fact that my usage was higher in the late afternoons and it wasn’t offset by any generation of solar panels during those late afternoon hours.

After modeling scenarios based on historical usage PER HOUR, I was able to show that if we had enough solar generation during peak late afternoon hours, we would be able to ‘survive the night’ on batteries until morning solar generation resumed. This means my 14kw solar panels coupled with 3 batteries gets me completely off grid for 9 months out of the year. That’s not bad considering I get 7ft of snow during winter months and I am surrounded by very tall trees.

Optimize on hourly generation not daily, most solar companies use DAILY numbers without a clue on hourly usage. I currently get 0.08$ for every 1$ in electric production, so there is very little benefit in producing electricity when you don’t use it. Optimize your system based on your usage not on DAILY production. If electric companies would give me credit of say 0.90$ per 1$ then the equation changes, but electric companies would rather benefit from your overproduction, be careful as these systems are not cheap!
by soraminazuki | 2025-09-15 17:55:45+00:00
A phone made by a car manufacturer that abuses access to car cameras to spy on customers in their homes and share videos of them being naked? You can't even pay me to make me use such crap.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tesla-work...
by schneems | 2025-09-15 17:55:45+00:00
I’ve been on both sides of this equation. If someone is dinging you for doing extra work, it could be a sign that your priorities are not aligned.

Like, if you’ve got a tight deadline coming up, it’s not the time to spend a week making CI slightly faster. On the other hand, if someone is telling you to not do work (right now), then they also need to help be responsible for finding time to do that work and understanding the impacts of that work never gets done.

I explain this to people as the tension between important urgent work. Some work is important but never（rarely) urgent. And if you ignore important work (like maintenance) it might become urgent at a very bad time.
by Loughla | 2025-09-15 17:55:48+00:00
And in many jurisdictions they're putting time limits or just straight up eliminating net metering and replacing it with net billing.

So instead of 1:1 credits, the power company buys it from you at what they would pay their producers (read, several times less than what they charge you).

It's a fucking scam.

My power company limits the size of panels and time limits net metering (they don't even do it anymore for new solar installs). So you can either not do solar or go completely 100% off grid with only one step.

It's a fucking scam. The engineer justified it to us when he was signing off on our solar install as "well when we do 1:1 credits c that's like you stealing from your neighbors. They don't want to pay your the full retail cost. They want to pay you what we pay the power producers."

When I asked if that meant my neighbors would have the ability to pay less, he just sort of looked flatly at me.

An absolute scam.

Edit;

Sorry, I forgot to add;

1. They also won't allow battery storage while connected to the grid. If they wanted to buy surplus but allowed my to store my own production, I would be fine with it.

2. They also net bill daily. So while I may produce extra within the billing cycle, they zero out excess production daily.
by nozzlegear | 2025-09-15 17:55:49+00:00
I think they kinda did? I'm not sure where to look for a link to this info, but I remember watching a YouTube video showing the ability to group and hide menu bar icons in Tahoe so they take up less space (and therefore encroach less toward the notch).

Maybe I'm misremembering the video though.

(edit) The linked page seems to hint at it:

> Personalized controls and menu bar. Your display feels even larger with the transparent menu bar. And you have more ways to customize the controls and layout in the menu bar and Control Center, even those from third parties
by torvald | 2025-09-15 17:56:26+00:00
Nice to see tooling like this pop up. At previous company, when we built our, mostly self-hosted, analytics platform, and had devs average on one schama migration per day, we spent so much time dealing with this semi-manually, leading to all kinds of breaking and hiccups downstream. We had something working rather automatically at the end, but it really felt like tooling that should exist for everybody.
by eqvinox | 2025-09-15 17:56:35+00:00
> It stands to reason that Apple wouldn't have developed this feature if they weren't using it. Where? We have no idea. But they must be using it somewhere.

Why must they be using it somewhere? The amount of dead code and features in common software is ridiculous. They might've changed directions 5 times through this, and the CSS property came in #2 and went out of use in #4…