MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by clearleaf | 2025-09-16 01:39:40+00:00
I discovered Gemini years ago and was completely enchanted by the whole concept. There are two main buzz kills though.

1. The TLS requirement really undercuts the idea of using Gemini for whatever you want. I know how to set up certificates and run DNS but it's too much infrastructure. I've seen the rationale and don't find it realistic.

2. The barriers to entry are so high that only hardcore tech enthusiasts survive the journey. I don't dislike the people on there but they ran out of stuff to teach me pretty quickly.

Due to these two things I find Gemini very self contradictory in it's goals. Is it serious or just for fun? Is it meant for everybody or for a small covenant of nerds?

In the end I was unable to find any value in Gemini, however I'm still very interested in the gmi format and gempub ebooks. It's my opinion that unlike web pages, ebooks actually DO need to be rescued in the style of Gemini. The creator of gempub gives a very good rationale of what problems ebooks have and why gmi is much more condusive to a comfortable and consistent reading experience than html and css.

https://codeberg.org/oppenlab/gempub

From what I can tell I'm the only person on earth who gives a rat's ass about this (even more than the dev possibly) so I would really appreciate people checking this out.
by kristjansson | 2025-09-16 01:39:41+00:00
> these [AirPods and Apple Watch] are the Apple products I care the least, together with HomePods and Apple TV.

I won’t defend HomePods much, but skipping the other three misses a lot of the ecosystem value less technical consumers are getting. Turn your lights off with your TV remote. Go to a run with just your watch and headphones and take a call at mile 3. Approve a payment (or a sudo!) by double tapping your watch. Start a channel on your TV from Siri. And so on.

I’m not sure if Liquid Glass (that iOS 26 just insisted on capitalizing) is going to be worth anything, and definitely doesn’t merit the marquee. But the some of the design thinking is still there, beneath the surface, in the delightful interactions between parts of their ecosystem.
by tomhow | 2025-09-16 01:40:06+00:00
HN's reason for existing is to discuss "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", and "anything that good hackers would find interesting", and things that involve "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon". It's right there at the start of the guidelines and it's always what we use to judge what content is on topic or off topic. That's been constant from the beginning. It excludes "daily political rage bait" for the important reason that most of the rest of the internet is dominated by that stuff and we think it's important that there's one corner of the internet that isn't quite so dominated by it.
by theamk | 2025-09-16 01:40:51+00:00
The backup security codes useful, but awkward and I don't know how to handle them securely.

Keep in a text file? Malware might find that file apparently. Also it might get uploaded to backup etc..

Keep in a password manager? But my main password (nice and strong) is already there, so putting both in the same place would defeat the whole "2 factor" thing.

Take a picture with a phone? This may be uploaded to the cloud automatically, and thus become accessible to attacker. Also those recovery codes are only needed if main MFA (a phone) is dead.

So far I think the best way might be to print them out (being careful not to save file) and put in the wallet. Let's just hope the copies are not left in the spooler dir or in swapfile...

Another option is to maintain 2nd password manager just for the recovery codes, but in this case it won't be used often, so there is a good chance I might forget the passphrase...
by scuff3d | 2025-09-16 01:42:36+00:00
The frustrating part is that the idea is incredible. Everyone has this piece of software on their computer that lets them run anything as long as there is a server to talk to. I love it. I don't want to have to download a thousand apps, especially not for shopping or banking. Just using a web interface is awesome.

Unfortunately we decided the correct way to provide the functionality was by layering bonkers ass abstractions on top of a system meant to largely display static text and images. In the year 2025 there is absolutely no reason we shouldn't have a unified coding language that allows you to render things in a web browser in a sane way.

At the very least we should have seen a substantial expansion of what HTML is capable of, closer to what HTMX is doing now, with a better way to style everything then fucking CSS. People complain about JavaScript but for my money CSS is the greatest sin.
by Fade_Dance | 2025-09-16 01:43:39+00:00
Fiscal policy is largely driven by political impetus and not data. Monetary policy is data driven, but sometimes the models are flawed, sometimes the response function is two tuned to be backwards looking, etc. In addition to that, monetary policy mainly has blunt tools to work with. Tweaking interest rates can't always head off a recession. I'd even argue that the effects are overstated.

One of the more relevant debates going around now is the "hyper-financialized economy" thesis, which posits that things like market downturns can directly lead to real economic downturns, because the corporate decision to do things like shed expenses and jobs is so closely tied to financial metrics like quarterly profits. In short, the tail wags the dog.

These days it's an especially complex situation though, with tariffs and all, and there are some pretty major decisions coming down the line, like big potential insurance costs spikes, etc, that directly influences the real economy. I would hazard to guess that even with well thought out economic policy, some of the changes that the world is going through is bound to have some unintended effects... and many would argue that we are certainly not seeing "well thought out policy" in the first place.
by Nursie | 2025-09-16 01:43:46+00:00
A lot of major banks worldwide have apps, and they usually require un-rooted phones.

People here seem to think this is some sort of Orwellian attempt to control them, but the reasons are more mundane and technical - many of them (mine included, from two countries) use security facilities on the phone to secure your accounts.

For example, my HSBC UK app has replaced the little calculator thing they used to ship, and uses iOS face recognition to secure the generation of log-on codes which you need in order to use the web interface, as well as for secure access to the banking app directly.

With a rooted phone they don't have the guarantees that these aren't being exfiltrated, or the app being subverted in novel ways, so they don't want to support it.

You may not consider this a good enough reason, and I have heard it said on HN that 'the banks shouldn't get to control what I do on my computing device!', and that attitude is absolutely fine, but then you'll most likely end up with either less secure banking (meaning more fraud, higher fees etc) or going back to having to have a dedicated security device.

> I can deposit checks through it on my laptop

American-like banking detected... who uses checks in 2025?! :)
by brikym | 2025-09-16 01:46:09+00:00
The media, owned and controlled by powerful people who benefit from the status quo, just tacked on the term 'far' to remind people not to venture outside the Overton window or think too hard. It's scary and far away. Stay the cosy middle where it's safe. Anyone against the pro-corporate status quo (for example mass immigration) is tainted having an extreme opinion; Discussion over.

There are a few nutters and poor people notice these trends first. The media tend to zoom in on those people and of course that taints all their concerns because normal people don't want to say anything that people might see as poor or nutty; they want to be seen as successful and smart. Only poor people would complain about immigration and only extremists and pedos would complain about censorship and you are not one of them right?
by tomhow | 2025-09-16 01:46:13+00:00
I've responded to you before about Hulk Hogan, but I'll elaborate further. A celebrity death is both "significant new information" and also not usually worth being on the front page of HN. We turned off the flags on the submission because it's a bit unseemly to have [flagged][dead] tags on an obituary post. We'd do that for any celebrity obituary post we see flagged. But we also let it to drop off very quickly and, with our help, it spent no more than 10 minutes on the front page.

Regarding political posts, there will always be grey areas and different people feeling strongly about whether or not particular posts should or should not be discussed. We're always looking for the test of whether the story of evidence of an "interesting new phenomenon", and whether it's a topic that HN can have a healthy, curious discussion about. Our bias is for HN to be a place for curious discussions rather than rage-filled flamewars, to whatever extent we can influence that.
by bl4ckneon | 2025-09-16 01:46:29+00:00
It always seemed quite cringe to me. A use it once and "Ehh I guess it works and is cool, sure" and then never touch it again sort of feature.

Other than old people that always send gifs on Facebook and children who this is probably one of the only AI art things they have access too, idk who else uses this.

If one tech giant has it then they need to too for feature parity. Not a whole lot of use cases for generative AI for the masses, so if someone comes up with one, gotta copy!
by kop316 | 2025-09-16 01:46:37+00:00
> I get the nostalgic aspect.

While you may understand the nostalgic aspect from a logical level, I don't think you understand it beyond that. This next line:

> But it's not like there aren't a zillion from-scratch brownie recipes to choose from.

To me anyways really indicates that. I know there are a zillion from-scratch recipes online and in books and in other media. That isn't the point.

> If throwing away some extra premix destroys the pleasure, then that's a low bar.

Once again, I think you are totally missing the point. I think this captures why it's a big deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8TEJtQRhw Betty Crocker is effectively doing that.

Without understanding it at more of emotional level, I can see why this doesn't resonate with you. Unfortunately, that also means it is unlikely that you will able to understand why it is a big deal and why other folks are arguing with you the way they are.
by theamk | 2025-09-16 01:47:26+00:00
> Real-world applications of magnetic mixing bars underscore their versatility. For instance, facilities employing reliable magnetic stirrers can avoid incurring a handling charge of 15% of the invoice value for returned products, subject to a minimum charge of £30. This highlights the necessity of dependable equipment in research environments.

:) :) :)

This AI slop is so bad, the website managers could not even read through the post once.

I wonder if there is a single human who read this nonsense from start to end....
by marktolson | 2025-09-16 01:48:11+00:00
Not sure if you read the description but I clearly stated that I wanted no middleman, so I'm not sure how this solves my use case. Also not sure how it requires the same amount of time, and 'manual intervention every time'? You provision a remote server, install docker then update the local config file and it's done. One line deployments everytime. And why would I update the code inside the container when you need a build process to install dependencies? If you want to update code while the app is running then restart, then docker is not the right solution.

Additionally there are a million different and better ways to deploy services, this suits the use case I described.
by fzeroracer | 2025-09-16 01:48:31+00:00
I think this is an exceedingly short-sighted view of something that can and will prove to be an increasingly existential challenge to HNs existence. States are already pushing towards and have passed age verification laws for example with supreme court signoff. This is just a continuation and the next step down that pathway. In any other year I would agree with you that this is just a single thing pushed by a loon that would be shut down in court. If these laws get passed and anything tangentially related to transgender stuff is viewed as obscene are you and the rest of HN prepared to either censor the site or deal with the consequences of being in the political crosshairs?
by spankibalt | 2025-09-16 01:48:31+00:00
> Every developer hour wasted on an Android ROM is an hour not invested in a platform free of Google's control.

As it stands, and the way things are devoloping, accurate. But as the relevant systems are an integration of hard- and software, significant work needs to be done on the former as well. And I've yet to come across a Linux phone (or phone-like pocket computer) that ticks most of the neccessary boxes.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-16 01:48:45+00:00
Every slr with an eye level viewfinder (instead of focusing on a waist level ground glass) has optics in it. It is an MLR by your wording. Your eye has to focus on the reflection of a ground glass within an inch or so, or else is viewed through a lens that makes it possible to see what the camera sees. You wouldn’t be able to focus with your eyes if there wasn’t another lens.

In other words, your “standard” lens is an artifact of the optics chosen to allow your eye to see the image.

In terms of what your eye sees: The FOV of what you are focusing on with your eyes is narrower than a 50mm lens. The FOV where your eyes can recognize symbols (can read letters) is wider than a 50mm lens. The FOV that your eyes can see from periphery to periphery is drastically wider than 50mm.

Quite simply put, the fact that on some cameras you can shoot with both eyes open at 50mm is an artifact of design, not some natural law. This is proven by the fact that there are cameras where you can do this with a 35mm lens or a 60mm lens. Camera manufacturers settled on calling 50mm at 1.0x magnification a standard view is arbitrary.

There is precisely nothing behind the common belief that 50mm is the same view as your eyes. It isn’t.

You can keep insisting otherwise, but it is in contradiction with physics and nominal human anatomy.
by kragen | 2025-09-16 01:48:45+00:00
They aren't old. They were passed this century—because, in democratic countries, they were politically radioactive until the 9/11 attacks allowed the Intelligence Community to get its wishlist passed into law.

Enabling everyone to skirt around it completely would be in effect a return to the state of affairs that prevailed throughout the entire 20th century, and that would probably be a good tradeoff.
by BoredPositron | 2025-09-16 01:48:52+00:00
It's under 1% you little cherry picker. The people that are living with these pipes are also getting notified and a filter in their homes from their municipality. You could have found that in the same report/website. Get over it and admit that other countries have figured out how to protect their citizens without putting the burden on the individual. Can't wait for the next aKsChuAlLy.
by overgard | 2025-09-16 01:49:01+00:00
I'm not sure I'd say that React's DX is actually that great. I've watched C++ developers come over from using QT and the learning curve is massive. Plus almost all the bugs come from dealing with React's renders.

I think React by default is weird because most things don't actually need that degree of reactivity. Like, if most of the time only one thing is displaying or updating a value React just adds a lot of headache. And the amount of useEffect I see? (By necessity mind you) with the need for linters in order to figure out if you missed something in a dependency list.. I just think it's the wrong model for most projects
by ssl-3 | 2025-09-16 01:49:02+00:00
I am thinking about my older uncle and my niece in her 20s. They're smart-enough people, and they're quite aware that a modern phone can be very expensive to fix.

In particular, I'm thinking that I (a person of reasonable technical skill) would love to help them out by changing the designed-to-be-swapped screen on the phone they dropped instead of them paying someone else to conduct surgery on it.
by vic1102 | 2025-09-16 01:49:27+00:00
Thanks so much for the clarification and for the great work on libvips!

In my Go project I’m using the Golang library github.com/davidbyttow/govips/v2.

Images are loaded via `vips.NewImageFromFile()`, which internally calls `vips_image_new_from_file()`. However, `NewImageFromFile()` doesn't support any flags or options beyond the image path, so for JPEGs I manually call `AutoRotate()` before resizing, which wraps `vips_autorot()` — and that works well.

Thanks again!
by alililil | 2025-09-16 01:50:57+00:00
> This is maybe down more to the maturity of the category(/ies) than any fault of Apple's though.

LiDAR was cool.

They could buy Oura and let you write apps with programmable micro LEDs, and that would’ve been cool.

If iPhones had Star Wars style holographic projector, that’d be cool.

They could just be content with keeping the lights on without unnecessary UX changes that literally no one asked for, and that would be cool.

I’m still happy with Apple, but the problem is that they now perceive staying relevant is wasting battery on visuals and making the phone thinner. Those are recycled old-ass ideas. They need to find the new Jony Ives.
by TomaszZielinski | 2025-09-16 01:51:01+00:00
Pretty handy, right :)?

And seriously, managers like 1Password clear the clipboard after some time. I would guess that there’s some clipboard API that allows managers to exclude copied passwords from being permanently added to the history.

Still, there are pieces of data that one might not want to store in such unobvious place as clipboard history so it’s good to know about it.
by beeflet | 2025-09-16 01:54:54+00:00
You can install debian on a pinephone https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/PinePhone

But for a "normal" linux environment on a phone I recommend postmarketOS. They make an effort to support a variety of user interfaces, init systems, devices.

Still, it is important to consider that the hardware and driver support is the limiting factor here. The camera is very bad on the pinephone because it doesn't have the image processing capability to record video in realtime. It also has no OpenGLES3 or Vulkan. Very poor lima GPU.
by alsetmusic | 2025-09-16 01:55:39+00:00
> The startup has also drawn interest from global technology firms. We reported back in April that Meta had made an $800 million (1.2 trillion won) offer for the firm.

> FuriosaAI rejected the acquisition, despite it being roughly $300 million dollars over the startup’s estimated market value, because it disagreed with the planned direction post-acquisition.

No word on the cost of this tech.
by hopelite | 2025-09-16 01:55:42+00:00
Not to mention why specifically government apps? Would those not be covered by general compatibility with web standards?

Wouldn’t well designed mobile web-apps suffice for that use case? I have several web-app site shortcuts linked on my Home Screen which behave just like the native apps. In most cases I don’t see why that would not be sufficient, including most “government apps” use cases
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-09-16 01:56:46+00:00
There’s no way this was developed by Apple. I keep thinking that they outsourced the macOS development to some amateurs online and took a year off traveling the world.

Looking at the screenshots and review videos, I cannot believe how ugly and out of proportion it is. Normally, there would be a consistent design and some people like it while others don’t. But this is simply ugly.
by shkkmo | 2025-09-16 01:56:53+00:00
> the scam will remain as this level is rather cheap.

The less efficient you can make the process, the less you make it attractive to put resources into scaling it. Focus on making them generate the types of proof that aren't as easy to fabricate or at least give them as little information about why their initial approach failed as possible by playing along for a while after you catch on so they can't figure out how they got caught.
by eddieroger | 2025-09-16 01:56:57+00:00
I have to believe that Apple had anonymized telemetry that told them how many people used Launchpad and acted as justification to nix it. I remember when it came out, and I probably used it more in the first month when it was novel and new than I have since then. I'm sorry a feature that you liked is gone, but I'm sure it wasn't done blindly.
by MostlyStable | 2025-09-16 01:57:05+00:00
My bank doesn't yet require the mobile app (quite), but all interactions are significantly more annoying without the app. My 2FA options all require a phone, either for the insecure method of texting me the code, or else an app-only option (they don't allow generic 2FA apps, but instead require a specific app, that almost definitely won't exist for a linux phone). Even verifying my identity on the phone is better with the app (the app generates a code that they just accept, it can be done without but it's slower and more inconvenient).

So no, my everyday interactions don't require the phone app. But any interaction that is novel enough to require direct communication with the bank has been rendered annoying without the phone app.

I'm someone for whom I'd probably be willing to deal with all these inconveniences to make my statement about ownership over my hardware and software, but I doubt that very many average consumers would.
by aljgz | 2025-09-16 01:57:45+00:00
Writing this comment from my FrameWork laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, 96GB Ram, 4TB Storage, that I got for $4k. Running Fedora with KDE. How much would I need to pay Apple to get a laptop with this much ram?

The day I got my only Apple device, an ipad, only to know they will kill my browser download as soon as I switch to a different app, it became my last. I don't want to pay a company only to be subject to their decision of what I can and cannot run on my machine.

If I vote for that with my wallet, I deserve it.
by Animats | 2025-09-16 01:57:48+00:00
> modular iphone that has an easy to replace battery, easy to replace screen and is maybe 2mm thicker to account for it? That would be a sellout.

Go the other way. Hermetically sealed, no connectors, inductive charging, rugged, with a solid state battery that will outlive the rest of the phone. Solid state batteries are more expensive, but that's a cost issue for car-sized batteries, not phone-sized batteries for US$1000 phones.

Samsung expects to have 20-year battery life in 2026.
by ggm | 2025-09-16 01:57:55+00:00
Asimov was fond of the trope that the future was starved of protein, and even america had become a land where people had to eat communally, and eat significant amounts of manufactured "zymoveal" protein, because real meat was scarce under population/land pressure. It was clear that "people didn't like it"

Oddly, "cafeteria" cooking has sometimes been the best food I've eaten at the time. It very much depends on the circumstances and budget and your expectations. I've eaten like this in Leeds, London, Rome, France, Beijing. And not always in universities, the experience extends to factories, railways and even just the streetscape.

The FSU had a preference for ground meat and sausages at a state level because it was easier to ensure as much as possible of the meat inputs became food outputs. [This is wrong: they didn't] The Khrushchev flats had communal kitchens. They were universally hated I believe.

Ghost kitchens failed on lack of regulation and motivation to be the best they could be. There was never an intention to be "Jamie Oliver's ghost kitchen"

Re-intermediating consumers away from direct food carries on. Uber eats and Panda are delivering food from restaurants all around me, and one of them is a chinese take-away eponymously called "A Chinese Take Away" -I think it's a hack on the search engine carried forward. I've eaten their floating market soup in the shop, it's fine. Most of their trade is carry-out.