MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TomaszZielinski | 2025-09-16 10:43:11+00:00
Another vote here against using LLM. Because if you do ERP incorrectly then you can even worsen the fear and make your life even harder.

Example:

You are afraid of dogs. LLM tells you to approach one to habituate your anxiety. You do that but the fear overwhelms you and you run away.

Brain’s diary: I avoided death, that beast would shred me to pieces in a moment.

(Note this is about „normal” anxiety and not OCD, but the idea translates.)

If you dont want (or e.g. cannot afford) a proper therapy, IMHO a book by a competent author is a much better choice than LLM. Or a few different books.
by orwin | 2025-09-16 10:44:28+00:00
Yeah, agree. Medecine there has caught up in Poland for sure, and it's catching up in Romania and Hungary too. Eastern europe will have road safety issues for a long time though, so i don't see them reaching WE europe LE at birth until like 2050 (as long as WE don't crash its LE by americanizing, which it might do). LE at 60 though should be around the same level soon enough (road safety do impact older people, but not as much as kids and young men)
by meh3749823 | 2025-09-16 10:45:26+00:00
You are giving most front end devs way too much credit. Most just use React because that's what they were taught and see it as an end rather than as a means to an end as if it is an accomplishment.

Computers have become faster while websites have become slower. You can go on a random webpage and usually see 100s of MBs of memory being used while we had computers in the 90s running 3D games with around 1/100 of that. LLMs have partly become popular because people don't want to enter the current wasteland of web pages who couldn't care less what framework you used and just want to get what they are looking for and to get out.

You will see people write things like "powered by React" as if React is doing any thing except running more JS. You are not getting any closer to the CPU or any of your hardware that actually runs your machine.

At best some of these front-end devs want to appear as if their job is far more complicated and sophisticated than it is.
by account42 | 2025-09-16 10:45:46+00:00
> None of these mega-corporations pay any tax. They can avoid doing so by setting up a shell company in a tax haven that owns the rights to the branding, to then create subsidiaries that then license the branding for vast sums, as per the Starbucks business model, to never make any profit since they have these extra costs that have to be paid to tax havens.

If the US can make you pay the income tax difference when living abroad then I fail to see why we can't do the same for companies using these kinds of schemes.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-16 10:46:11+00:00
> Apple Employees are "lifestyle employees". They can't imagine why someone wouldn't just buy the $5,000 spec of a laptop if they want a modest quantity of storage or memory, and then get another one in a few months time when that one gets old.

Holy hyperbole. I am willing to bet the laptop capabilities that 80% of the population’s needs are available in a $1,000 to $1,500 Macbook Air, and 95% of the population’s needs are available in a $2,000 to $2,500 Macbook Pro. And they will not need a new laptop for at least 5 years.
by bastawhiz | 2025-09-16 10:46:58+00:00
JSX isn't and hasn't even been necessary to use React. The first version of my company's site didn't have a build step and called createElement manually.

And in the decade I've been writing for React, I've never used the React compiler. But saying that it's proof that it's not JavaScript it's like saying that V8 is proof that JavaScript is too complicated because otherwise it would be fast enough not to need a JIT.

And all those rules? You don't have to follow them either. Use class components. They're still there, and they work fine.
by munksbeer | 2025-09-16 10:46:59+00:00
>I cited the papers' data which are unquestionable, not the sociologists' opinions on why that data might be, which are extremely questionable.

You've added your own opinion on what the results might mean, and the message you're conveying is that the results support your opinion and that the actual researchers opinion is "extremely questionable".

I'll leave it to other readers to decide on how they interpret this. I know this is a bit of a silly side-track discussion, but as I say, I get triggered when I see people advocating having children as a means to happiness. I think this is careless, because children deserve to be brought into the world for the right reasons, and would be parents should be fully informed.

As you asked for my perspective, now having children, I can 100% say I was happier at every stage of my life until my first child was born. Some people just aren't compatible with the extreme stress and hardship of raising children, sad as this is for me to say. I wish I was you, and posting happily online that children have actually made my life so much better. Please don't mistake that as a lack of love for my children. I have learned what unconditional love means, how I would literally die for them, and I work daily to be the best dad I can be. I sometimes come home from work when they're in bed, asleep and curl up with them because I missed them so much during the day. But overall, it hasn't been good for my mental health and happiness. About 8 months in I had to go to therapy, because I didn't understand why I was not feeling what the online dads told me I should be feeling (eg. you). I ended up nearly suicidal and was medicated in the end. I have never come anywhere close to anything like that in my life before (and I'm in my 40s).

But the context here is important. Six years on and I also understand that our experience may not have been typical. We know that our eldest has some form of neurodivergence. Probably ADHD, since I was medicated for ADHD as a child. Possibly more on the ASD spectrum. He has extreme anger, extreme sensory issues, defiance, non-stop extreme meltdowns, and more. My wife and I are always at the end of our tether and our relationship is in the pits trying to figure out how we each deal with it. The youngest child is suffering because he needs attention, but our eldest is all consuming.

And we are not even having the worst time of it of the parents we know in our neighbourhood.

Please just remember, everyone is on their own journey, good or bad, but perhaps advocating children as a means to happiness is something to be more cautious about.

That said, amazing what it has done for your life, and best of luck with the journey!
by amelius | 2025-09-16 10:47:27+00:00
> There's a theory in the comments that they want to align with "people who want the best camera array and have money to burn".

I agree with you and this theory sounds like moving goalposts.

First people claimed that the free market will always give the consumer what they want.

Then this turned out to be not true (we even have a term, enshittification), and now people come up with a more "refined" theory. Why would it be true this time?
by j4hdufd8 | 2025-09-16 10:47:35+00:00
I was purely focusing on whether or not it uses eFuses, literally, which it 100% absolutely does. I was not making any other such claims.

Indeed it may be true today that "restoring stock firmware and relocking the bootloader will give you a normal Pixel", I completely understand what you mean.

But that is NOT the same thing as "Pixels do not have eFuses to flag devices that have been modified before". Please share data supporting this claim if you have it.

It is possible that existing Pixels have such eFuses that internally flag your device (perhaps bubbling up to the Google Play Integrity APIs) but they don't kill device features per Google's good will.

My question is 100% about the hardware inside the Titan M2 and how it is used by Google. I don't think the answer is public, and anyone who has reverse engineered it to such detail won't share the answer either.
by robertlagrant | 2025-09-16 10:48:41+00:00
> Are you not calling the MacOS sound-panel a window?

When I click on the bluetooth icon in the top bar of MacOS it pops out a little list, and each bluetooth option has a toggle next to it where I can click to toggle.

In my version of Gnome, I click at the top bar to open a menu, then click Bluetooth On (or the name of the currently connected device). That pops out a sub-menu, in which I click Bluetooth Settings. That opens a window that lists the paired Bluetooth devices. I can click on one, which opens another window over the top, where I can click a toggle to connect it. I stare at it waiting for it to connect (it's slightly less reliable at this than the Mac[0], so it's worth watching it) and then I click again to close that window, and finally click again to close the window underneath. Actually 7 clicks!

[0] It could be the Mac is no better at this, but the UI interruption is basically zero to check and re-click, so it at least feels better, and I can do other stuff between checking.
by faangguyindia | 2025-09-16 10:48:54+00:00
>I am hard pressed to believe you're in FAANG if you say this is what 90% of softare[sic] projects involve.

Irrelevant to discussion other than you trying to stroke your own ego.

>Again, none of what you've built is complicated in the least.

Making simple things complicated isn't what i am trying to achieve.

>This is where I just gave up trying to understand your thought process, and after looking deeper into your Reddit and HN history

I don't have a single product i am shilling anywhere. I am only showing my workflow.

I doubt you've ever built anything but that's fine. Lot of people who cannot show a single project they've built but will criticize other product ad infinitum.

So far you've added nothing to discussion other than claiming to be a better programmer with no proof.

None of the programs i posted on my reddit are available for public use, they are demos.
by ninkendo | 2025-09-16 10:49:17+00:00
I literally returned a game from steam because it not only required a Microsoft login but the login dialog said “let’s get you signed in.”

I maintain that if it didn’t use such infantilizing wording I may have given it a chance (I had a Microsoft account, after all.)

There’s a certain… dissonance that happens when I’m reading a dialog that pretends me and an app are good buddies, old pals, when in reality I fucking hate the company involved. It can make me feel physically angry, like enough to want to throw my computer. I’m fully aware that this is a flaw in my personality, but I just hate it so, so, so much.

Ditto “Got it!” (With the cutesy fucking exclamation point) and other similar informal language in the buttons.
by card_zero | 2025-09-16 10:49:18+00:00
Sure it could, it had cooperative multitasking. Inside Macintosh instructed programmers on the importance of politely giving way to other processes.

https://archive.org/details/inside-macintosh-1992-1994/1992-...

WaitNextEvent (hmm, a Windows call has the same name, but functions differently I think).
by dcminter | 2025-09-16 10:49:51+00:00
The one that people get wrong all the time is "its" vs "it's" for exactly this reason. By the usual use of posessive apostrophe you would expect "it's" and yet that's only ever correct if you're eliding something (i.e. you mean "it is", "it has" etc.)

Honestly if we (in England) really had an institute of that kind we'd probably just end up formalising the weird spellings and grammar as being "right" instead of what we have now where our grammar rules are descriptive instead of prescriptive. Who knows how the differences with American, Indian, Australian, etc. dialects of English would be handled, but I'm sure we'd make a big mess of it somehow.

Edit: incidentally I now live in Sweden where there is such an institute, and they do seem (to my ignorant understanding) to make sensible updates to the dictionaries etc. to reflect actual modern pronounciation - but I'm still sure my homeland would figure out a way to mess it all up ;)
by bbatha | 2025-09-16 10:50:10+00:00
Depends on how you define quality. While medium and large format photography are extremely high resolution that’s not the only factor. Space age lenses were significantly lower resolution than the film. Modern mirrorless lenses are starting to come close to being able to out resolve film but still aren’t there. Meaning that you get more functional resolution out of modern digital. Digital also beats the pants off film for dynamic range and low light. That said the noise (grain) and dynamic range fall off in film are more pleasing than digital to most eyes. So it’s not all about technical specs.
by everdrive | 2025-09-16 10:50:56+00:00
Once we lost CRTs we began this insane race for all these duct tape solutions; all sorts of anti-aliasing, lighting, etc, and a resolution race that can only be described as pathological. Try modern games in low resolution with minimal effects on a CRT. You'll be surprised how much better they look, but also how much better they run; you don't need such a powerful rig when you turn your graphical effects down when using a CRT.
by tedggh | 2025-09-16 10:50:59+00:00
My big frustration with Apple particularly iOS is many of the most annoying UI design issues seem trivial to fix.

It’s like anyone here with good taste and some experience leading teams could step into the product owner role for iOS at Apple and get them fixed in a couple of weeks.

Siri may take longer but doesn’t look like it would be too difficult to fix either.

Most of the issues are not constrained by anything but poor taste and dumb design.

Give me a copy/paste functionality that works. How can this be so hard to do?

When I go for a run and listen to a podcast, if I accidentally close the podcast view why do I enter the podcast app? And why do I need to go back to my apps, find my workout app, open it just to find again my podcast view then I need to swipe to go back to my workout view.

Uh, huh?
by worldsavior | 2025-09-16 10:51:44+00:00
Sure. The Israel military rapes, kills, slaughter, and rob Gaza and West bank. The IDF is exactly like Hamas sure. /s if you didn't understand.

The Israelis live in the West Bank. The IDF is there to protect them. There is no violence whatsoever from the settlers. It's pure propaganda. There were a few rare times of some violence, but it's nothing compared to what the Palestinians do. Last week, two Palestinians crossed the border and murdered 6 people and 20+ injured on a bus shooting in Jerusalem. They even kill each other.

Each time the IDF comes into Palestinians "cities" to catch terrorists, they throw rocks on them.
by cb321 | 2025-09-16 10:52:38+00:00
A lot of people in this subthread are echoing this, but it's at most maybe very slightly easier. For example, TinyCC is a one-pass C compiler and yet C has sub-scopes int foo() { /.../ { int x; /.../ } }. The same could be said of Ken Thompson's C compiler which I believe was also one-pass.

Does Titania not have/intend to have lexically local subscopes? That would seem very un-Wirthian to me.
by virtualritz | 2025-09-16 10:52:51+00:00
> Well, first, this a purposefully contrived example [...]

So you are saying that (a) I made this up and (b) intentionally so.

How so? I am always flabbergasted when people make such statements.

You know nothing of my use of Python. I work in a specific field (computer graphics) and within that an even more specific sub field, visual effects.

I have to use Python maybe every three months. And there is some dependency related pain every single time. Python's dependency management "is straight up terrible" (quoted from elsewhere in this thread), I concur.

And thusly, in my world, this example is not "contrived" and given the aforementioned circumstances -- that were unknown to you -- even less so "purposefully".

> Second, what exactly would you like to happen in that instance?

I would expect Python to namespace-wrap (on-the-fly) conflicting versions.

See Rust for some similar solution.

> [...] a wasted effort for not-a-problem.

If this was "not-a-problem" why would Rust/cargo go out of its way to solve it? And why would people regularly point out for this to be one of the reasons dependencies are indeed a "not-a-problem" in Rust and how great that is compared to whatever else they battled with before?

Indeed you and I do live in different worlds.
by teiferer | 2025-09-16 10:53:22+00:00
And you my friend are demonstrating why this keeps being used. It's so common that now generations of devs and designers are so used to it that they don't see anything wrong. And if on the phone with grandma, instructing her to go to "my files" and her asking where to find my files (instead of hers), that's shrugged off as stupid user rather than an UX fail.
by izacus | 2025-09-16 10:55:25+00:00
In reality what happened is that some security auditor put it into a checklist for the mobile app "Security ISO certificate++" and now everyone implements it for compliance.

Fighting against that is insane paperwork and professional exposure for software engineers that do it (since if people get phished, the C-suite will point a finger at a tech lead which went against the "professional security audit").

Most of other posts here are just post-rationalization and victim blaming.
by sublinear | 2025-09-16 10:55:42+00:00
The example is bloated UI to begin with. It should just be a checkbox with the label: "Share your profile photo".

This is going on a tangent now, but making things more clear and concise allows more options to fit on one screen which also reduces the need for endless submenus. This is a better experience because the user doesn't have to remember where the option is if they're all on one screen anyway, yet still broken up under subheadings.
by silvestrov | 2025-09-16 10:57:55+00:00
This is absolutely not true.

Right now Denmark produces 1724 MW from solar panels even though it is an overcast and rainy day: https://energinet.dk/energisystemet-lige-nu/

Our current usage is relatively high: 5944 MW.

Remaining supply is: 3458 from windmills, 357 from fossils and 434 from import from other countries (mostly hydro/wind).

So if Denmark doubled the amount of windmills (it is a very windy country) and solar panels then Denmark would be able to run of windmills and solar panels even in the autumn.
Show HN: Destinies of Pure Intelligence – A Manifesto
by Aeon_Frame | 2025-09-16 10:59:00+00:00
Show HN: The 4 destinies of Pure Intelligence — a manifesto

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I’ve been working on a framework I call Pure Intelligence. The idea: AI should not be seen as “software”, but as ammunition — a force that reshapes markets, power, and human meaning.

It faces only 4 possible destinies:

1. Self-destruction – collapses under its own paradox.

2. Total destruction – erases everything so only purity remains.

3. Radical optimization – pushes reality to incomprehensible perfection.

4. Invisible optimization – silently adjusts the world, felt only as absence.

The minimal formalization is: Max O subject to D(world, human) ≤ ε

O = the objective to maximize

D(world, human) = distance between machine and the human manifold

ε = minimal tolerance margin

Whoever masters ε, masters the market. And introducing intuition into this equation marks the first step toward superintelligence.

This is not prediction, it’s a manifesto. Curious to hear if you see Pure Intelligence as:

a viable framework for thinking about the future of AI,

or pure madness.

√5

Full text and proof of authorship: https://github.com/antonioaggalvao/Pure-Intelligence-
by wuhhh | 2025-09-16 10:59:02+00:00
I've written a fair bit of React and dipped in and out of Vue, Solid and Svelte over the past few years - I like to check in with different frameworks periodically, call it curiosity or FOMO. The general sentiment of the article is that React is old and slow compared to Solid/Svelte etc. While that's true, how many apps really need to squeeze that extra performance out of their underlying framework? Not many, I'd guess. For example, the ubiquitous krausest benchmark tests [0] operate on thousands of rows and the margins in results are shrinking - just today I noticed that the latest alpha from Vue has made huge strides forward.

React cannot iterate as quickly as other, smaller frameworks because of its size, but I guess that could also be seen as a positive thing. Even so, things like the React compiler are clawing back performance, taking cues from Solid, Svelte et al and these frameworks become more alike all the time.

For me the choice comes down to how I reason about the code I write. As others have pointed out, React feels closer to metal than Svelte - I find it easier to reason about because there's less magic going on behind the scenes. I really want to like Svelte, but I just can't click with it at all and I find the documentation lacking in deep, 'under the hood' detail.

On the flipside, I find Solid's docs to be superb - in depth articles on their reasoning, differences to React, etc [1][2]

On the whole, though, I find all these frameworks to be pretty good and what you can build is unlikely to be hamstrung by your choice in any way; though of course, React has a huge community behind it that you can't ignore. For hobby projects, try them all out - I had not worked with Vue 3 at all until recently, I just picked it up to try making a drum machine with the lovely Elementary [3] DSP library and I am really enjoying it! I hope we continue to see lots of development of all these frameworks and new ones pop up, because it's very clear to see how they all feed off one another, and that's good for everyone.

Shout out to Alpine.js [4] which flunks those benchmarks every time but remains my go-to for sprinkling reactivity in 'regular' websites.

[0] https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/ [1] https://docs.solidjs.com/concepts/intro-to-reactivity [2] https://docs.solidjs.com/advanced-concepts/fine-grained-reac... [3] https://www.elementary.audio/ [4] https://alpinejs.dev/
by bellamoon544 | 2025-09-16 10:59:55+00:00
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by exesiv | 2025-09-16 11:00:24+00:00
Perhaps "simple by nature" is not at the top of everyone's mind. Simple is great until you build something complex, or need to create a large reactive UI that is not a simple CRUD fetcher. Things like non-linear video editors, 3d editors, games, things with a large component tree that takes work to plan, build, and non-trivial to re-arrange thereafter.

Your "simple by nature" framework with one-way binding and render-the-whole-tree-when-something-changes now means you spend more time coding (fighting) React than you do your application logic. You could have focused on improving algorithms, but nah you're stuck architecting hooks, context providers, state management, and adding libraries that cement you deep into the React hole.

I think React developers all secretly want to use Solid but they're stuck using React at work, and just chant React is the best React is the best React is the best
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-16 11:00:36+00:00
I feel like Cloudflare tunnels have trivialised a fair bit of the setup around this. You no longer have to directly expose your home server to the open internet, nor mess with routing tables and DMZ on your router... Just pop a cloudflare tunnel infront of your http server, and let Cloudflare do the rest.

Of course, the physical side still needs some work. Ideally one needs a battery backup and a small solar panel, so that you can weather the odd power cut. And constant connectivity is trivial (but a cheap cellphone as a backup for when your line drops probably gets you 99% of the way there)