MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smcleod | 2025-09-15 20:39:14+00:00
I've been running it since the RC and am currently in the process of uninstalling it. The new UI is so incredibly ugly I honestly cannot understand how they thought it was acceptable to even released as a beta let alone an RC and now release.

There's SO much padding and wasted screen real estate, disjointed looking floating inner panels, window corners that are so rounded you see gaps in full screen apps, inconsistencies everywhere and - well, I could go on.

Basically the vibe I get from it is that they think their users are dumb - they won't care about things like this and that they want everything to look like a preschoolers tablet.
by BeetleB | 2025-09-15 20:39:20+00:00
For traditional restaurants, what percentage of orders are for delivery (using Doordash, etc)? Excluding pickups where the customer comes and picks it up himself.

I can't imagine it's even close to 50%.

I don't know the patterns of regular folks, but for me the prices in general have crept up enough that's it rare I want to try some new place - unless I get multiple strong personal recommendations for it. You can forget about paying extra for delivery to home!
by boredpudding | 2025-09-15 20:39:25+00:00
It's possible to store energy for full seasons, just not electricity.

It's been done with heat. Using cheap electricity in the summer to generate heat and store it in basalt. There's a small block of houses in The Netherlands that gets their heat that way: https://www.ecodorpboekel.nl/basaltaccu-is-opgebouwd-uit-duu...

There's more systems like this around the world, although they use different storage methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...
by kjkjadksj | 2025-09-15 20:39:47+00:00
They still have slaves at least in LA. I’ve seen them at the L Ron Hubbard Life Exhibit building at around 3am. Probably a dozen of them in uniform still cleaning the first floor. One was featherdusting the brass bust of Hubbard you can see from the street. At 3am. At what is effectively a museum exhibit that no one goes to which closed 5 hours earlier. In a 12 story building where all the lights are on but all the curtains are drawn.
by merlincorey | 2025-09-15 20:40:21+00:00
There's a section on "why not printf" which is Standard C, but I can't find any section on "why not std::format"[1] which is Standard C++ since C++20 and works on all major compilers today in 2025.

They do mention "std::print"[2] from C++23 (which uses std::format) and compile times, but, they don't touch on "std::format" at all.

See:

[1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/format/format.html

[2] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/print.html
by OptionOfT | 2025-09-15 20:40:50+00:00
The charging the battery from the grid on its own is interesting in spaces where the TOU between 4-7pm (or whatever yours is locally).

Here it is more than 3x, so if I can charge a battery and run off of that for those 3 hours, I am saving money.

And it's not that I can lose money, a charge in the battery doesn't become stale.
by simonw | 2025-09-15 20:40:58+00:00
The new GPT-5-Codex model isn't yet available in the API, so if you want to try that model using the Codex CLI tool the only way to do that is with a ChatGPT account (I'm more sure if the free account has it, the $20/month definitely does). You need to then authenticate Codex CLI with ChatGPT.

OpenAI say API access to that model is coming soon, at which point till be able to use it in Codex CLI with an API key and pay for tokens as you go.

You can also use the Codex CLI tool without using the new GPT-5-Codex model.
by bigyabai | 2025-09-15 20:41:15+00:00
Detroit used to be one of the most-industrialized places on Earth, behind only Germany. Like programming or financial services today, 100 years ago it was considered a privilege to work in a manufacturing.

You can ask any economist what happened. They won't blame unions, they'll blame the proliferation of industrialized economies. America cannot compete in a world where poverty-labor outperforms America's standard-of-living.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-15 20:41:39+00:00
Well spoken.

I consider myself on the other end of things, but I experience, that for people with an active political stance, it's pretty obvious who is who (unless somebody is in propaganda mode).

Unless you are on an extreme side, you can always sympathize with the other side for most issues, which is why we are able to find compromises and vote on laws at all.

As for the example you mention (abortion), this is one where I can't sympathize with your side. To me living is a human right that is never moral to be violated, especially for personal selfish interests. Yes, I do consider being too poor for a child or not wanting a child to be selfish.

This:

> forcing people to care for children they don’t want will lead to misery

to me seams like a strawman. That's why we have baby flaps and foster homes for centuries. Even at the end of the roman empire people have brought babies to monasteries, because they didn't want to care for them. Yes they are more miserable then having good parents, but no amount of misery of the living is worth justifying a kill.
by OtherShrezzing | 2025-09-15 20:41:58+00:00
I always thought Angular 1.x was _fine_, so long as you had incredible discipline in your team and stuck to predefined patterns.

React’s main benefit wasn’t technical, it was organisational. It’s so opinionated that it’s difficult for an incompetent developer to introduce very low quality code into the project. Meanwhile in AngularJS, a developer with a clever implementation idea was a terrifying prospect for future productivity.
by em3rgent0rdr | 2025-09-15 20:42:07+00:00
PayPal 20 years ago made it easy to engage in internet commerce across various world currencies. And now users of PayPal have an easy way to commerce with two more world currencies using a familiar trusted interface. Another way PayPal as the middle man helps: "Unclaimed links expire after 10 days", which sounds like it avoids the problem of accidentally sending bitcoin into the void.
by ironmagma | 2025-09-15 20:42:41+00:00
> It just basically does everything React does but better

SolidJS still has some major pain points; the one I found was not knowing whether a prop was a signal or needed to become one. The type system doesn't help much. In React, you know for sure that if your reference changes, the component reading that reference as a prop will re-render. In Solid, it's less clear whether the update will be observed.
by chatmasta | 2025-09-15 20:42:43+00:00
I’ve got Spotlight configured to index nothing but my applications (which is surprisingly difficult to configure and breaks with every major OS upgrade). Disabling all its default indexing has alleviated 95% of unexplainable CPU spikes and autocomplete pollution, so now I can finally use it for what it’s meant to be: the most overengineered fuzzy finder application launcher.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-15 20:42:47+00:00
Totally different goal, but I wish there was a liberatory/non/less-encumbered form for realtime video production too.

A lot of good streaming hardware does jpeg-xs, ISO/IEC 21122, for real-time encoding basically from the camera to the mix station. It's still extremely high bit-rate mostly, but very low latencies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XS
by kjs3 | 2025-09-15 20:42:52+00:00
So lemme get this straight...you did this 'research' without figuring out whether the 'target' will compensate you, or if they'd even care, and now you're on HN complaining that they aren't paying you something they never asked for, didn't promise you, and apparently don't want. That may not be a smart way to do things, but noone is asking you for something free, and I'm frankly mystified why you think you're owed anything under the circumstances you described.
by amrrs | 2025-09-15 20:42:58+00:00
It is a new version of GPT-5 that's been primarily optimized for coding. Hence this confusing name - GPT-5-Codex.

This model is available inside all OpenAI codex products. Yet to be available on Api

The model is supposed to be better at code reviews and Comments than the other GPT-5 variant. It can also think/work upto 7 hours.
by pcrh | 2025-09-15 20:43:32+00:00
A relative of mine fell victim to one of these.

Their "relationship" developed over about 1 yr, and which point they sent ~£30k to temporarily cover a cashflow shortfall in their scammer's apparently legitimate business.

This was quickly detected by their spouse, who was obviously livid.

However..... not only did they transfer these funds to some limbo, and had received extremely clear advice that they had been scammed, they did the same thing with another ~£30k about a month later.

The funds so transferred went to some account in China.

The repetition of this "aberrant" behavior contributed to the divorce of my relative and their spouse.

In later conversations with the victim, who did eventually realize that they had been scammed, I attempted to reassure them by saying that these scammers are very skilled, and that they were innocent in the whole affair. It was small consolation, though.
by dabockster | 2025-09-15 20:43:46+00:00
LLMs can automate some tasks (especially basic coding), but with some major caveats:

- They have rapidly diminishing returns on higher contexts. They are very easy to overload with user information. You can post-train them, but that’s too much into actual computer science to be useful to the average office worker. They can work well as a co-worker assistant in a few cases, but they really can’t replace humans long term.

- LLMs only really work well when given the ability to call on-device tooling. Which, with a cloud system like Copilot, is going to be super tame and underwhelming because of lawsuits and various business deals. Tool calling is only really agnostic when you’re running the model yourself on your own device.

- On the topic of on-device models, there’s also the fact that AI provider companies have been caught evading things like robots.txt and causing so much crawling activity that it effectively becomes a DDoS attack. On-device AI doesn’t solve this totally, but most people likely won’t be pushing their gaming GPUs to the absolute limit 24/7 to constantly hit websites with crawl requests.
by mhitza | 2025-09-15 20:43:59+00:00
The javascript people should stop innovating for a couple of years. To much innovation that lead nowhere. How many ways can one build a web javascript project?

Browser people should pick up slack and start developing sane components for the web. How about a backend-supporting combobox, or a standardized date picker across browsers? Then we wouldn't need to constantly innovate how we manage the state of those fundamental operating controls that browser still don't have in 2025.
by ysnp | 2025-09-15 20:44:01+00:00
Sorry, but it is very difficult to understand what you mean and what you want from GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS is a FOSS project and they have committed to that being the case for the forseeable future.

They have expressed interest in open hardware, well-designed open source secure elements, open source blob-free firmware with proper signature verification, open source greenfield kernel and OS projects, hardware kill switches with a proper threat model etc.

Why should anyone expect them to throw away everything they have accomplished to start several steps backward on platforms that don't achieve any of these things?
by gnabgib | 2025-09-15 20:44:48+00:00
Small discussion (33 points, 10 days ago, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45137484

Related: Elon Musk's $1T Tesla pay package: Here are the major caveats (3 points, 8 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45164176
by jumploops | 2025-09-15 20:44:59+00:00
Not suddenly, it's been better since GPT-5 launched.

Prompting is different, but in a good way.

With Claude Code, you can use less prompting, and Claude will get token happy and expand on your request. Great for greenfield/vibing, bad for iterating on existing projects.

With Codex CLI, GPT-5 seems to handle instructions much more precisely. It won't just go off on it's own and do a bunch of work, it will do what you ask.

I've found that being more specific up-front gets better results with GPT-5, whereas with Claude, being more specific doesn't necessarily stop the eagerness of it's output.

As with all LLMs, you can't compare apples to oranges, so to clarify, my experiences are primarily with Typescript and Rust codebases.
by exhilaration | 2025-09-15 20:45:01+00:00
I know nothing about surfing but I picked up Barbarian Days on Audible https://www.audible.com/pd/Barbarian-Days-Audiobook/B00YMMTO... and I was captivated. After I finished it I started looking for surf schools within driving distance of my home, still looking for something on the (New) Jersey Shore or Long Island. Anyone have any suggestions?
by jedberg | 2025-09-15 20:45:44+00:00
Also if you had a majorly obvious bug, you could email steve@apple.com, which he would forward to a VP, who would be fired if it wasn't fixed ASAP. Knew a guy who lost his job that way, so it's not just a myth. Steve really was like that.

The wrath of Steve was a real thing that people feared.
by dottjt | 2025-09-15 20:46:05+00:00
> Yet I still have to begrudgingly use React in several contexts because of the industry-wide inertia, and I really wish I didn't have to.

I think you'll find a lot of people begrudgingly have to work and really wish they didn't have to. That means using what they know, which means React. Which I totally get. People want to spend time with their kids, hobbies etc. Worst case, they might be caring for others, like their elderly parents.
by tshaddox | 2025-09-15 20:46:47+00:00
This is mostly just a complaint about how good React is. It's so good that it's difficult for the technical benefits of alternatives to outweigh the social benefits of choosing React.

Note that this is neither a major compliment to React's technical merits nor a criticism of React's competitors. In fact, I don't even disagree with the author on some of his claims, such as:

> React is no longer winning by technical merit. Today it is winning by default.

> That reflex creates a self-perpetuating cycle where network effects, rather than technical fit, decide architecture.

I agree! But teams are still largely choosing the better option, because the benefits of React are indeed outweighing the benefits of choosing an alternative. What the author is missing is simply that the technical benefits of an alternative are small except in narrow use cases. And I suspect most competent teams do in fact identify if they're in those narrow use cases and correctly choose an alternative.
by snackbroken | 2025-09-15 20:47:14+00:00
Some observational humor is timeless. Consider this entry from the same collection of Sumerian proverbs: "The dog understands 'Take it!', but it does not understand 'Put it down!'"[0] later repopularized as "No Take, Only Throw"[1].

[0] https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/proverbs/t.6.1.05.html#t6105.p... [1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-take-only-throw
by bri3d | 2025-09-15 20:47:17+00:00
I don't think any vendor should be solving for "I want to do app RE and banking on the same device at the same time;" that seems rather foolish.

These are sort of orthogonal rants. People view this as some kind of corporate power struggle but in this context, GrapheneOS, for example also doesn't let you do this kind of thing, because it focuses on preserving user security and privacy rather than using your device as a reverse-engineering tool.

There is certainly a strong argument that limiting third-party app store access and user installation of low-privilege applications is an anticompetitive move, but by and large, that's a different argument from "I want to install Frida on the phone I do banking on," which just isn't a good idea.

The existence of device attestation is certainly hostile to reverse engineering, and that's by design. But from an "I own my hardware and should use it" perspective, Google continue to allow OEM unlock on Play Store purchased Pixel phones, and the developer console will allow self-signing arbitrary APKs for development on an enrolled device, so not so much has changed with next year's Android changes.
by LexiMax | 2025-09-15 20:47:17+00:00
That's strange, because in my time using Fedora it was far and away the most vertically integrated Linux distro I've ever used.

It had the fewest Linux-typical papercuts, it was well-documented, and most importantly required the least amount of system tinkering I've ever done on Linux, allowing me to use my operating system to actually operate my system. It wasn't as turnkey as macOS, wasn't as compatible as Windows, and wasn't as "tinker" friendly as other distros, but it _worked_.

Then again, I was using the default GNOME spin, and I also try to meet OS's in the middle instead of brazenly insisting on my way or the highway. But it _is_ used as a base for RHEL, so it's not like Fedora is a typical stone soup distro either.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-15 20:47:28+00:00
Footgunning is what happens when a FOSS project sells out, hands power over to a corporation, and puts the lawyers in-charge. Hoping the leopards weren't going to eat your face was and is always wishful thinking.

PSA: All fellow software engineers: please, for the love of god/allah/fsm, know a good amount business and IP works AND hire a lawyer to ensure things are copacetic in all relevant jurisdictions before entering into any agreement, or employment, consulting, partnership, or vendor deals. Please CYA and be careful.
by zokier | 2025-09-15 20:47:32+00:00
> we just came to with a convenient way to do calculations, slapped a name on it, and declared it a scientific law

Physics is a model after all. I don't think you are so far off. Lot of physics is predicated on it's ability to make predictions, and predictions often come in a form of calculation of something. There is even a saying "shut up and calculate" in physics. It is not without contention, but it does describe a lot of physics especially today.

It is also notable that you can have multiple different models about the same thing. Notoriously we have both lagrangian and newtonian mechanics, both which are valid but can be useful in different scenarios.
by dsego | 2025-09-15 20:47:37+00:00
Awful cheap UX, cartoonish style with huge padding, lack of structure and hierarchy. The spacing is inconsistent, everything is rounded. The app launcher stutters, the icons load one by one, it flickers each time I do the 4 finger gesture. Why does the volume bubble have tick marks but the one in the menu doesn't? The trash icon looks like the windows recycle bin or gnome theme from 20 years ago, not sure why it's flattened like that.
by hanyuan_peng | 2025-09-15 20:47:39+00:00
We built Simplaix because project management tools often add friction instead of removing it. They require learning complex interfaces, while the actual need is simple: define requirements, execute tasks, and track progress.

Simplaix takes an agent-first approach: you describe the outcome, and AI agents handle the workflow.

Currently, you can:

Use it as an intelligent To-Do list & lightweight project manager

Create projects, tasks, and documents in natural language

Auto-generate tasks from documents and assign them to background agents (currently supports writing-related tasks)

Build project timelines and sync them to Google Calendar with one command

The vision: End-to-end automation of requirements → execution → tracking → reporting, with multi-agent orchestration that makes “one-person companies” viable.

We’re a small team, shipping features incrementally. The code will be open-sourced later this year (2025).

Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/simplaix

Website: https://simplaix.com

We’d love feedback: What tasks would you want to delegate to AI agents?

Simplaix Team
by kevincox | 2025-09-15 20:48:10+00:00
I guess it depends how you looked at it. Performance-wise AV1 seems more similar to h265. Hardware support wise h266 seems to have only had shipping hardware this year?

So I guess neither of these line up 1:1. I tend to see h265 and AV1 competing pretty hard right now so I tend to think of those as one generation and presumably h266 and AV2 will compete as the next generation.
by a_shovel | 2025-09-15 20:48:13+00:00
This response is very confused. Lack of interest in the field would result in fewer female applicants, but you're describing equal numbers of applicants. This situation where women are half as likely as men to be qualified is just sexism.

The idea that airlines are passing on qualified white candidates to hire unqualified black candidates to fill a diversity quota, because there aren't enough qualified black candidates to fill it honestly, is a white supremacist conspiracy theory. Real life DEI programs don't let them do that. To a white supremacist, any number of black pilots is "just a few too many" to have hired honestly, and so there must be some hypothetical white people being "stolen" from. See GP.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-09-15 20:49:25+00:00
Unions can make sense for talent and services that you don't want to keep on your payroll full-time. You could argue that rideshare drivers qualify in that sense, given that the whole idea is to keep them off of a regular payroll... but watch them fight tooth and nail to lock out autonomous operators like Waymo. That'll be next, rest assured. It'll be about "jobs," "safety," and probably, somehow, "the children."

Otherwise, the people you list are very well-represented by private agencies. Unions like the SAG can benefit the lower-level people in some respects, but they mostly serve to gatekeep their industry and encourage films to be made outside their jurisdiction.
by jumploops | 2025-09-15 20:49:36+00:00
Yes, given a similarly sparse prompt, Claude Code seems to perform "better" because it eagerly does things you don't necessarily know to ask

GPT-5 may underwhelm with the same sparse prompt, as it seems to do exactly what's asked, not more

You can still "fully vibe" with GPT-5, but the pattern works better in two steps:

1. Plan (iterate on high-level spec/PRD, split into actions)

2. Build (work through plans)

Splitting the context here is important, as any LLM will perform worse as the context gets more polluted.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-15 20:49:45+00:00
Fair enough.

Thanks for your work, more diversity will always improve the C language and your work is truly impressive.

> <!-- Nothing to see here. Better go read the compiler source. -->

Nice clean HTML5 website there, I wish more would be like this. There are however some errors in the <a> tags (lines 120-133), you seem to generate? an open instead of a close tag there.
by mhashemi | 2025-09-15 20:50:05+00:00
I have a whole rant about this saved for a future blog post. The short version is that people need actionable belief. Charts are useful to demonstrate a concept, but at the end of the day, we want answers. I'm sure there's _someone_ you trust. Whether it's your dad or a friend or a podcast, I think the main gap is giving the user specific action. For example, https://finfam.app/heyfinfam/views/rent-vs-buy boils it down to Rent/Neutral/Buy. Most of the other featured views do the same, to eliminate the exact ambiguity you're describing.
by suchanlee | 2025-09-15 20:50:16+00:00
React is good, and is good enough. That and the ability to easily find React devs makes it a good enough choice for almost all front end applications.

For a new framework to be the default, it has to be a major step function improvement over React, like React was compared to other frameworks at the time like Angular, Ember, etc. I don't think I've seen that in any new frameworks yet.