MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Gigachad | 2025-09-16 02:40:09+00:00
Australia has like 100 reseller phone networks. There are only 3 real network providers and these as well as the majority of the resellers support esim, but when every single retail brand and supermarket has it's own mobile network offering, there's always going to be a couple that haven't put in even the smallest amount of work to support it until it's absolutely forced.
by pcmaffey | 2025-09-16 02:41:23+00:00
There are no alternatives that are 3x better than react. That’s the minimum it will take to change the ecosystem default. React is good enough for most applications.

Is that slowing innovation? Vercel’s rsc push is definitely headwinds. But IDK, I see lots of interesting libraries around state mgmt & local-first primitive. I’d like to see more focus on SSG and islands architecture. I think bun 1.3 (bake) will be a healthy alternative to next. Ultimately the basic work of building frontends will become more componentized, so it’d be cool to see more interoperability with web component standards.
by rectang | 2025-09-16 02:41:31+00:00
Launchpad is an easy gesture with the trackpad (pinch with thumb and three fingers), then type to filter and return to launch. I got used to it for stuff I don't keep in the dock (which is a lot, since I have the dock on the side and only a few things in it).

I suppose Spotlight is OK as a substitute: COMMAND-SPACE, then type to filter and return to launch. It's a little more clunky (as the search results take a few milliseconds to be assembled) but it'll work.
by Telaneo | 2025-09-16 02:41:52+00:00
I was hoping the US becoming more hostile towards Europe would wake them up and allow the relevant legislators to discover that the entire industry is at the behest of two American companies. The same goes for cloud services in Europe, just with different companies, and OSes for that matter.

Alas, this is a rather large set of elephants nobody in power cares to acknowledge.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-16 02:41:59+00:00
Apologies if the idea is absurd, but wouldn't a Linux handheld without a cell modem be easier to build and distribute? Think something of an analogue to iPod Touches, which were iPhones sans the the phone part.

This would skip a lot of the regulatory red tape, bring down costs, and make the devices more accessible so they’re in more developers’ hands. They’d have to tether from your primary phone which isn’t ideal, but workable.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-16 02:42:26+00:00
The part about AirPods is just…dumb. If you have seen the teardown of how AirPods are made…

https://nebula.tv/videos/realengineering-the-hidden-design-o...

There isn’t any way that you could have replaceable batteries and still make them as lightweight and comfortable in your ear without other tradeoffs. We can argue about the case - maybe.

The AppleTV is by far the most responsive set top box and the least slimy as far as privacy and invasive ads [1].

If you like classical watches, the Apple Watch isn’t for you. But there are enough people that disagree that they sell like crazy.

The iPhone Air is probably going to sell like crazy in places with low iPhone adoption where it’s only affordable by the wealthy minority like China where it will be seen as a status symbol. Ben Thompson of Stratechery has been documenting for a decade about the biggest driver of iPhone sells is models that look new.

But if you already have an iPhone 16, Apple doesn’t expect many to upgrade. The replacement cycle has been around 3 years for awhile now.

[1] yes I realize the default Home Screen of the AppleTV has Apple’s apps in the top navigation bar and when you are on the icons it is advertising for Apple services. But you can put any apps up there and those apps control the hero image when you on them. They usually show what you have been watching
by nemothekid | 2025-09-16 02:43:03+00:00
1. All these devices would sell out, because these are all of Apple's best sellers. I'm willing to bet a replacable battery iPhone will sell as much as the iPhone 6e. Replacable batteries aren't a strong feature.

2. "Current Apple Product" + "My own personal tweak" isn't a product strategy. "A convertible Macbook Air with a touch screen?" wouldn't move the needle sales wise, and would just be a headache for developers. If, for some strange reason, you need a 19inch touch screen, the iPad pro already exists and has better developer support.

Most Apple products are locally maximized. The last great new Apple product was the AirPods in 2016. Neither the Apple Watch or Apple Vision Pro seems like they will define a new product space.
by saghm | 2025-09-16 02:44:13+00:00
Your top-level comment does not refute that. As one of the replies to it already states, saying that aren't going to use to info to "create" a targeted profile doesn't really mean a whole lot when they already have so much data on most people already. Even for people that they don't already have a profile on, it's not obvious that they couldn't just add it in to an existing profile in the future if the person made a Google account or something.

It's also not nearly as unbelievable as you seem to think it sounds that it could be happening without anyone blowing the whistle. What would you expect to happen if they did? Does "Google tracks lied about tracking users through front downloads" sound like front page news, or something that would stay on people's radar for more than a day or two even if it was? It's hard to imagine that there would be any sort of fine that would reach a level that mattered to Google, or that the recent antitrust case would have had a different outcome if only the font conspiracy had been discovered. Trying to blow the whistle on it just wouldn't be worth it.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-16 02:45:21+00:00
I'd argue the whole point of React is to enable the modularization of components written in Javascript.

I realized as soon as 1997 that if I wrote some component in Javascript I wanted to stick into a web page I might want to stick two or three of those into a web page and to do that I have to keep the state for those separate, be able to reference the form elements (didn't have access to DOM elements!) with a unique name, etc.

React goes past that and lets you nest components into other components. In some point that's "managing complexity" and not "introducing complexity", except for the fact that when you can easily incorporate 35 third party components into your application that is 35 components each of which introduces its own complexity of one kind or another -- some of the complexity of "modern Javascript" is the complexity of the build system and the framework, but the build system and framework system let you build bigger systems that have bigger problems.
by davidivadavid | 2025-09-16 02:46:57+00:00
Again, this is lazy, topsy-turvy thinking. It's conjuring up a purely academic definition of utopia as a corpus of texts and saying that since they're all boring, that must mean utopia is by definition boring. The point of utopian thinking is precisely to identify those failure modes as such with respect to the utopian project. Thus, if something is "tedious", it can only ever be a failed attempt at utopia.

For the specific case of Banks, Yudkowsky has some interesting ideas about why it fails. [0]

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vwnSPgwtmLjvTK2Wa/amputation...
by mastazi | 2025-09-16 02:47:21+00:00
Anecdotal: Due to lifestyle factors, in my family we use Ubereats often, probably 4-5 orders per week on average.

I have never placed an order from a restaurant that I don't actually know beforehand. Maybe I haven't been there in person, but I know the name of the restaurant and I remember where is it and maybe someone I know ate there.

The only time I go completely blind is if I'm traveling. But that's like 1-2% of my total orders. And, in that case I usually stick to known chains or maybe I ask what's a good restaurant around here, then find it in the app.

I suspect it's not so uncommon to order from restaurants one already knows, rather than taking risks?

If that's the case, then ghost kitchens are going to have a very hard time getting their slice of the market
by travisgriggs | 2025-09-16 02:47:36+00:00
Huh. It’s been a while since Apple has “one more thing” awed me. So… “the awe tapers” sentiment, I can agree with.

The rest of the article I found full of non-sequitur, for me personally.

I think the Apple Silicon laptops are just about right. About the only thing that would fill an itch: I angsted for years after the discontinuation of the 17” models. Since what was 15 can now be 16, I’d put cash down for an 18” model.

I’m not much of a power photographer, but I really like the orange of the pro, and the trickle of feature improvements between my 14 and this one are enough to get enthused about.

My Pro ‘Pods (2) are going strong after a few washes, and I look forward to replacing them with 3s when they give out.

Here’s the thing for me I guess. I develop/maintain native apps on both platforms for my employer. I test with a couple of Samsung devices (why Samsung? Because 85% of our Android customers in ang tech are using Samsungs). And I just hate the experience. The hardware is ok, at times. We use them for testing (so not much daily driving) , and the failure rate is worse than the iOS devices. But the Ux is the worst. Apple will have to turn liquid glass into muddied frosted glass in a storm before the hodgepodge that is material, ui one, and the weirdest apps, make me want to switch.
by Defletter | 2025-09-16 02:47:39+00:00
This is one of the things that has me so hesitant towards upgrading my "server". I've been using an old Thinkpad for a while now and it has served me well, but lately I've been using it for more intensive things (like JetBrains remote development and a Jellyfin server). It's become a regular occurrence that, while I'm trying to sleep, its fans spin up and sound like it's trying to take off because someone downstairs is watching a movie from it. I don't begrudge them for it since I set it up for that exact purpose, but it can make it difficult to sleep soundly.

The most obvious solution would be make a small PC: more powerful and bigger fans means less noise. I've been considering something like this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr5MjhgPz_c)... but then how am I supposed to use it? Yes, I can ssh into it, but what if it fails to start? Just last month my Thinkpad server failed to restart properly. This was a trivial fix but it being a laptop whose lid I can just open and use immediately made it an extremely easy fix, which would not be true for a PC.

Thing is, I know that dumb terminals exist, ie, a screen, keyboard, and trackpad that takes the form-factor of a laptop but has no actual internals, it's just a convenient interface when plugged into a server. I've seen them. I've tried searching for them but there doesn't seem to be an agreed-upon search category, and the ones I manage to find are more expensive than the PC itself and are usually designed as a server-rack drawer.

Genuinely, what do people do here? Do they just have their server setup somewhere like a desktop? Or are people keeping spare monitors, keyboards, and mice around that they then need to unpack, plug in, and use awkwardly before putting it all away again?
by taspeotis | 2025-09-16 02:49:00+00:00
Less technical take than the other comments: I don’t care. React is good.

After suffering through JavaScript Framework Fatigue I was glad Create React App “won” for a bit until it was neglected so much a bunch of other bundling tools popped up.

Now the winners seem to be Next.js-but-try-to-ignore-the-Vercel-upsell and Vite.

I’m using Vite + React wherever I can and it just works.

I don’t need something else.
by caminante | 2025-09-16 02:49:17+00:00
Thanks for linking. I searched 'persistent' and it turns out it was 'repetitive'. Frankly, the study is inconclusive (lots of "mays" and no clear causal arrow) and the HN discussion is all over this, need for controls, more research, etc.

As for innovation, hasn't this been the ethical debate du jour? Unlike prior times, AI is posed as an existential threat.

I'm all for reducing waste, but you get into UBI and other issues.
by freetime2 | 2025-09-16 02:49:56+00:00
Regarding the iPhone 17 Pro:

> People who have no use for all these pro video recording features shouldn’t waste their money on it. Unless they want a big chunky iPhone with the best camera array and/or have money to burn.

I feel like people who “want the best camera array and have money to burn” probably describes a significant percentage of HN readers.

I’m honestly pretty excited that they’ve finally put the larger, high res sensor in all three iPhone cameras - which should result in pretty decent image quality across the entire 13 - 200 mm equivalent range. It’s a nice upgrade from my current iPhone which uses smaller 12 MP sensors for the ultra-wide and telephoto cameras - resulting in images that are noticeably soft and noisy.

I personally don’t consider the iPhone 17 Pro to be too big or chunky. I’m generally happy to sacrifice an extra millimeter of thickness for better battery life, and enjoy the usability of larger screen sizes. I know that a lot of people really want smaller phones, though, and I think it’s unfortunate that Apple cancelled the mini (and the smaller SE design). I guess it just wasn’t selling that well.

And finally, I’m at a point in my life where spending $1100 on a new iPhone every few years isn’t going to break the bank. And I also am able to give my current iPhone to family members, who should be able to enjoy it for many more years to come.
by neilv | 2025-09-16 02:49:57+00:00
Regarding updates: at your all-hands meetings, show inside customer success stories, and the real impact it had, or how your product/service is being used for great things?

(Different than a marketing testimonial, big sales landed, or charts showing financial growth.)

I worked for awhile in flight safety, almost entirely in software that I only ever ran on my laptop, and on servers seen through my laptop. I found that even little, but relatively concrete, reminders that I fit into this larger system of aviation, where great things are done, by very dedicated people, were nice occasional refreshers of inspiration.
by MangoToupe | 2025-09-16 02:50:18+00:00
Airpods are very, very expensive compared to competitors with 90% of the same features. I've been using a $30 set for several years and the main drawback is it's difficult to switch devices—because apple doesn't allow third parties to use access the proprietary comms that allows this for airpods.

Also, I think the white is ugly. But kids seem to love it.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-16 02:50:21+00:00
And this is why you shouldn’t listen to the “less space than Nomad. No Wireless. Lame” tech crowd [1].

A TV is bulky, race to the bottom commodity that is only replaced every 5-8 years.

> Neckband-style airpods with all-day battery life? Might not sell out, but would be popular.

I don’t think Apple has any issue selling AirPods. But honestly, I do like my $70 Beat Flex for traveling. I don’t have to worry about them falling out of my ears and between the seats on flights and the double flange ear tips block noise better than AirPods Pro.

I’ve had touch screen convertible Dells. I never used the touch screen. They are bulky, the screen ratio is off either way compared to an iPad. On the other hand, my wife now uses an iPad Air 13 inch with a regular old cheap Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and she loves it. Her x86 MacBook Air was getting long in the tooth.

This is before the newest OS with real windows.

[1] or more relevant to the HN crowd “For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.”
by georgeofjungle7 | 2025-09-16 02:50:43+00:00
React didn't "win" because it’s the best, it won because it became the safe default. Everyone knows it, hiring is easy, and the ecosystem is huge. That’s great for stability but not so great for innovation—lots of teams never even look at lighter options like Svelte or Solid. React still works fine, but we probably lean on it more out of inertia than actual fit.
by kragen | 2025-09-16 02:51:00+00:00
I found helpful this explanation of what Antithesis isn't:

> Property-based testing vs. Antithesis

> Property-based testing (PBT) uses random inputs to check individual data structures, procedures, or occasionally whole programs for high-level invariants or properties. Property-based testing has much in common with fuzzing—the main differences are heritage (PBT comes from the functional programming world, while fuzzing comes from the security/systems programming world) and focus (program functionality vs. security issues). Like fuzzing, PBT is generally only applicable to self-contained libraries and processes.

> Antithesis is analogous to applying PBT to an entire interacting software system—including systems that are concurrent, stateful, and interactive. Antithesis can randomly vary the inputs to a software program, and also the environment within which it runs. Like a PBT system, Antithesis is designed to check high-level properties and invariants of the system under test, but it can do so with many more types of software.

I've scrubbed through the video, and it seems to be 100% talking-head filler except for an outro still image—no actual video information content at all unless you want to analyze Wilson's facial expressions or think he's hot.

Regular reminder that yt-dlp (--write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en) can download subtitles that you can read, grep, and excerpt, so you don't have to watch videos like this unless you like to.
by WuxiFingerHold | 2025-09-16 02:51:25+00:00
I hate to say it, but Windows is much more productive than MacOS for the usually tasks you perform on an OS (with GUI, both have CLIs, but I'm not talking about them). I'm using both at work all day long switching between them. When reflecting why, I think it comes down to windows management and the file explorer (vs finder).
by smelendez | 2025-09-16 02:51:28+00:00
It really seems like it should be possible, but you have to put in the effort to develop recipes, buy minimum quality ingredients, and train the staff. Old school diners, especially Greek diners in the NYC area, used to be famous for their wide-ranging menus—burgers, spaghetti, spanakopita, chopped liver, etc.—and the food was generally pretty good. Cheesecake Factory has built something similar on a national level, and workplace cafeterias often aren't bad either, certainly not at the level of a ghost kitchen.

I think tech founders often underestimate what it takes to build a food business and what the margins are like and then start to cut corners to make the business viable.
by jamez1 | 2025-09-16 02:52:05+00:00
To be a good engineer you had to be stubborn in the early days of your career, you had to have tenacity and persistence to understand and solve the problems you saw. Unfortunately that filter selects for people who are prone to going too far into the detail, who get a satisfaction from conquering complexity rather than avoiding it. Given the lack of big picture thinking, they readily fall into herd-like behavior. Given the ego payoff for the complexity, it is very difficult for them to accept criticisms about their process or lack of perception.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-16 02:53:26+00:00
I would honestly just prefer that they use some semi-crap Chinese phone that is running on well-documented stuff a generation or four behind. If you could get Linux on a $50 phone, whoever was shipping them would sell 100K units. People would buy them just out of curiosity.

I'm behind though: aren't the UIs for mobile Linux still bad? I still can't get the experience I got out of my N900 that had only 256M of RAM, right? Every project I remember to bring the Maemo experience to Linux seemed to wither because there was ho hardware.
by pama | 2025-09-16 02:53:34+00:00
If that was a genuine question, yes I have a very decent idea what prions are. We were discussing if the computational design tech should be giving people pause and the answer is no. If anyone really wants to create nasty stuff they dont need computers much and certainly no fancy ML tools. After the design, getting nasty stuff into humans typically happens either via viruses, pathogens, foods, or illicit drugs. Illicit drugs and foods are monitored in many parts of the world, and in Europe it is hard to mess with the food supply at scale. But even if you did, there is really no need for these designer tools as there are enough nasty sequences, including prions, that are known. On the other hand, these computational tools can help create safe biomolecules — it is just too easy to create nasty stuff with chemistry and biochemistry, but it is still very very hard to create safe and effective therapeutic molecules.
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-09-16 02:54:40+00:00
i have a 55" panasonic LCD. no apps or wifi.From 2003. Still works.

We have roku, which at some point in the last 4 years, it went rogue and auto updated itself for who knows what telemetry . We almost never use it now.

I plug my laptop via HDMI and the possibilities are still there.
by majormajor | 2025-09-16 02:54:52+00:00
Blowing things up to that size is not representative.

Back when I first started playing things on emulators we were using 12" to 20" CRTs or LCDs with much higher resolution than a TV, so whether CRT or LCD the pixels were chunkier.

None of the nostalgia is how I remember it at all.

The average CRT TV had crap color and poor brightness and going from that and the flicker of 1-to-1 size NTSC on a 20-something TV to an emulated "chunkier pixel" rendition on a progressize-scan 72+hz 1024x768-or-higher CRT or an LCD looked way better.

Take the side by side pictures and zoom WAY out on a high-res screen or go stand several feet away from your monitor so that they're the size they were designed and expected to be seen at, and the vast majority of the perceived improvement from making the CRT subpixels visible goes away. And then put them into motion - especially vertical motion - and those lines in between, and losing half on each frame becomes more noticable and distracting.

The 4th image there of the yellow monster is a good example. Even zooming to 50% on my high-res display makes the "bad" version suddenly look way sharper and detailed as the size starts to show how frequently "rounded dots with gaps between it" just looks like fuzziness instead of "better".

And these comparisons tend to cherry-pick and not show examples of things that lose clarity as a result of the subpixels and scanlines instead of gain clarity.
by tho23i434234 | 2025-09-16 02:55:19+00:00
Mao said "Let a thousand flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend". Then he killed off all those naive ones who stepped out.

This is more or less the capitalist/liberalist/colonial/MAGA model from time immemorial: preach "freedom" to put yourself in a indispensable place. Then impose fascism with long-suspected hierarchies.
by ergocoder | 2025-09-16 02:55:29+00:00
Eating out in US or any developed western civilization is so expensive that everyone in those civilizations think cooking is a basic skill.

I don't understand why there is no good cheap option. In Japan, I could go to a low-tier shop. It would cost $1-3; the food is decent with taste, and it fills my stomach. In US, $1-3 would be the min amount of tips.
by joshstrange | 2025-09-16 02:55:38+00:00
> It is (as far as I know) for statically linked binaries.

No, it’s for system binaries or superuser binaries (depending on which you prefer, I’ve heard people say it both ways). I’m see people say it’s because they are statically linked but the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard says it’s “system” [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standar...