MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steveBK123 | 2025-09-09 23:50:05+00:00
This is exactly the problem with a lot of the RTO push.. We are more geographically spread out than ever, and companies usually have, at best, 1/2 the conferences rooms required to actually collaborate properly.

So in-office days are spent sitting in a big noisy open floor plan, wearing noise cancelling headphones trying to get work done.. in between producing lots of noise yourself on zoom.

The other having-it-both-ways I see from employers is that in the last 5.5 years of COVID most people I know have expanded their work days to take calls earlier and later for timezone alignment purposes. This was tenable to expand your work day 1-2 hours when you had no commute. Now they think they can get the extra hours out and force a commute.

My wife spends many of her in-office days dialing into 7:30/8am calls, heading into the office late enough to have tons of train delays, and rushing to meet the deadline to get the swipe in so it counts.
by hirako2000 | 2025-09-09 23:50:20+00:00
It's very ergonomic for those who discovered the internet via an iPhone, who think Gmail is email. They can't remember their passwords, and wouldn't know where how to recover most cryptographic factors. They have an email account they tend to have access to and use magic links to login , they are very happy with that.

Not promoting the pattern, I also find it worrying the majority of internet users have no basic understanding of authentication and the risk for their digital identity.
by idopmstuff | 2025-09-09 23:50:48+00:00
It really depends what you're coding. I'm a former PM who can't code, and I'm currently using GPT-5 in Cursor to write an internal application for my business of acquiring and operating e-commerce brands that sell on Amazon. I'm really vibe coding (just clicking accept without ever reading any of the code changes), and it's working great! I've got a whole dashboard that's retrieving inventory and sales data from multiple Amazon stores, projecting future sales and reorder point, etc. The code might be total dogshit, but it's incredibly useful for me (and also really enjoyable).

That said I might be sort of a weird case, since I am accustomed to designing and documenting product requirements, the fact that it's just for me means architecture doesn't really matter, and I'm competent enough to help it resolve some design problems like the fact that it was obviously hitting the wrong Amazon API that was pulling a report of every single sale as a line item rather than just a report with total sales numbers, etc.
by spike021 | 2025-09-09 23:51:19+00:00
In this case it's relatively simple things like figuring out the correct ffmpeg command to pull frames from a video, which is then documented in the CLAUDE file. Granted, I don't understand the underpinnings of LLMs but I would've understood that things documented in the CLAUDE file help it reduce cognitive complexity and "remember" more easily something relatively simple like that example.
by sotix | 2025-09-09 23:51:28+00:00
I've been waiting for this for a year, but I'm a bit disappointed. It's larger than the 17 and 17 pro, and it weighs more than my SE 3rd gen. The price is also insane. It costs the same as an entire computer.

I just want a lightweight device that makes calls, send texts, can snap a quick photo, has maps, mobile payments, and can order a cab. These phones are clearly aimed at consuming content, and I've been pushed out of the market. What to do?
by autoexec | 2025-09-09 23:51:57+00:00
> GenZ; publishes every possible detail on TikTok. In 20 years we've done a cultural 180 on privacy.

the results of that has only proved you were right. I'll go on record now that the people who don't want corporate controlled AI in their personal lives today are also going to be proven right when the next generation of suckers comes along and gives up what they had because a corporation told them too.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-09 23:52:14+00:00
>Now a junior can ask an AI like 90% of questions that would otherwise occupy a senior:

And how does a Junior in this kind of work gain the skills that transitions them to senior?

>I hear a lot of CEO hype posts saying junior devs are outdated, but idk it doesn’t make any sense to me!

well yes, they aren't making sense. Hence why I think this is all a bubble. Irrational markets and all that.

I don't know when it will burst, but even tech companis can't reject reality forever.
by meander_water | 2025-09-09 23:52:47+00:00
> at first i was very hopeful i can finally 'build' now with my minimal tech skills

You can. You just can't do it fast.

You need to build up your tech skills first. But AI platforms are not incentivized to help you do that. So you have to be very controlled about the speed at which you code.

I learned that letting the AI drive implementation wasn't working for me. The speed is intoxicating at first, and you start trusting the output blindly. But eventually you have to face the music and fix up the mess.

So now I just use it as a glorified autocorrect and search engine, as well as a rubber duck (Ask mode in Cursor). This speed works for me. You have to find the speed that works for you.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-09 23:52:53+00:00
Also, increasingly shrinking the screen places increasing demands on apps and app developers to support those dimensions.

It's not like enlarging the screen where you can at least generalize it by scaling everything up and it's still useable.

With shrinking screens, you have to decide on tap target and content size minimums. It's quite an undertaking that needs to pay in the market.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-09 23:53:00+00:00
> However if you have a lot of coding experience, you can now compress the time it would have taken you be an enormous amount. My experience is that I can now make extensive changes with very little effort, and very few dead ends. I've been able to take on entire secondary projects where I was just replication existing knowledge with slightly different tools.

This has not been my experience and it is very frustrating. I've been programming almost 20 years, I'm pretty good at it

I don't know where the disconnect is, but no matter how I try (and I am trying, I don't want to get left behind) I cannot get remotely good results from LLM coding tools

They always, always, always take longer to build what I want than just doing it myself
by arcane23 | 2025-09-09 23:53:34+00:00
Doubt most people want it as thin as possible. This is just the phone industry running out of ideas and trying to tell people what they actually need.

There's not much left to "fix" on mobile phones, and no real important features to add. Lacking that, they need something to sell the phones with, so they're going for these strange "improvements". It needs to be something that has some wow factor so they can lead with. This seems to somehow work on normal people so they'll keep doing these "improvements".

I expect in the future they'll pull this trick again, moving bits of the phone upwards towards camera, and create a second notch from half way down, where the phone will get even thinner, and they'll sell that.
by chrisco255 | 2025-09-09 23:54:39+00:00
The US has always had a state-run or private education system, since even before it was founded as a country. And the U.S. is among the top 10 most educated countries in the world, with over 50% of population having at least a bachelor's degree.

It's pretty simple to vote on local offices: are you happy with the current state of education in your district? Good, keep the incumbents around. Otherwise change out school board members until you achieve the desired results.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/232951/university-degree...
by rootusrootus | 2025-09-09 23:54:57+00:00
That's wild. My daughter just started public high school last week and they haven't had any meaningful talk about safety, no active shooter drills, nothing like that. They did waste several days on orientation and how class will be organized, stuff like that, but since she's a freshman I guess maybe that makes sense. This week she's been assigned homework.

But this is a boring suburban town on the edge of a midsize metro in the PNW, which is not exactly the most exciting place in the country.
by cleandreams | 2025-09-09 23:55:23+00:00
The judge IIRC found that training models using copyrighted materials was fair use. I disagree. Furthermore this will be a problem for anyone who generates text for a living. Eventually LLMs will undercut web, news, and book publishing because LLMs capture the value and don't pay for it. The ecosystem will be harmed.

The only problem the judge found here was training on pirated texts.
by strictnein | 2025-09-09 23:56:13+00:00
I'm on the $200 / month account and its also slower than a few weeks ago. And struggling more and more.

I used to think of it as a decent sr dev working alongside me. Not it feels like an untrained intern that takes 4-5 shots to get things right. Hallucinated tables, columns, and HTML templates are its new favorite thing. And calling things "done" that aren't even half done and don't work in the slightest.
by eMSF | 2025-09-09 23:56:21+00:00
Even with a 5" screen, it was bigger than for example iPhone 17 in every single dimension due to its hefty bezels (and not insignificantly so; iPhone 17 is closer in width to iPhone 13 Mini than a Dell Streak).

Screen diameter is in general a bit misleading figure for phones from different generations as "full screen" phones tend to have a taller aspect ratio and hence larger diameter even with same body dimensions.
by NegativeK | 2025-09-09 23:56:23+00:00
I'm concerned that you're not familiar with EDR and organizations who flat out can't build a full 24/7 SOC. Which is the vast majority of businesses.

EDR is a rootkit based on the idea that malware hashes are useless, and security needs to get complete insight into systems after a compromise. You can't root out an attacker with persistence without software that's as invasive as the malware can get.

And a managed SOC is shifting accountability to an extent because they are often _far_ cheaper than the staff it takes to have a 24/7 SOC. That's assuming you have the talent to build a SOC instead of paying for a failed SOC build. Also, don't forget that you need backup staff for sick leave and vacation. And you'll have to be constantly hiring due to SOC burnout.

If all of this sounds like expensive band-aids instead of dealing with the underlying infection, it is. It's complex solutions to deal with complex attackers going after incredibly complex systems. But I haven't really heard of security solutions that reduce complexity and solve the deep underlying problems.

Not even theoretical solutions.

Other than "unplug it all".
by Terr_ | 2025-09-09 23:56:47+00:00
> the art market

How would one measure "the art market" in a way that can be graphed?

> should have collapsed

Through what mechanism would it "collapse? Laundering tricks don't involve bidding wars or high volumes of items. Consider this scenario:

1. Alice wants to transfer $5m to Bob in exchange for something off the books.

2. Bob goes and buys anything he can find that seems to have a consistent ~50m price point. Since Bob's task doesn't require any specific item, he doesn't get into bidding wars to drive up prices.

3. Bob privately sells it to Alice, who deliberately pays a higher amount of $55m. No auction, no bidding wars.

4. Alice can either resell the item to unrelated people for probably ~$50m, or keep it around for a bit to provide either plausible-deniability or a future tool for an inbound cloaked transaction with someone else.

How would that kind of activity charge up "the art market" in a way that is easy to measure?

> when NFTs were booming

Most of that boom was other speculation. My point is that an NFT by cyber-Rembrandt is a lot more convenient than certificate a real Rembrandt held in a freeport as its ownership shifts.

The trick is getting something where the generally-accepted value is high enough that transactions can plausibly be hidden as noise in the signal.
by netsharc | 2025-09-09 23:57:41+00:00
> they don't use the word "shot", though

Can I guess.. "bulleted"? Similar to how the creators of brainrot content say "unalive" or "seggs" because they want to make sure their content can go viral, and there's the belief words like "kill", "died" or "sex" will trigger Zuck and Co.'s censorship?

2025, what a year to be alive...
by Gualdrapo | 2025-09-09 23:57:48+00:00
> I also prefer a clicky-clicky media player over MPV

Not sure what do you mean by that; if you compile mpv with lua support (in case your distro/whatever doesn't ship it that way, that is) you get a clicky-clicky little osd thing within the mpv window that suffices (back, forward, playback control, volume...)
by titanomachy | 2025-09-09 23:58:13+00:00
I think people in this thread (and elsewhere) are using "unsafe" to mean "I feel uncomfortable" rather than "there's a serious chance that harm will come to me".

Law enforcement in liberal cities might overlook public urination or petty theft by the mentally ill, but they come down hard on violent crime. Truly violent people are not allowed to roam free on public transit. There's definitely some weird people though, and our society is segregated enough that most rich people probably can't tell the difference between a violent weirdo and a harmless one.
Ask HN: Should Apple move to biennial iPhone announcements?
by behnamoh | 2025-09-09 23:58:19+00:00
At this rate, the incremental improvements over the last gen iPhones are so negligible even Apple won't let you compare it with i16 on their website. Doesn't it make more sense for Apple and other phone companies to stop introducing a new phone every year and do it every two/three years?
by _mu | 2025-09-09 23:58:33+00:00
I think on-device AI will show up more front and center but in a few more years.

A big issue to solve is battery life. Right now there's already a lot that goes on at night while the user sleeps with their phone plugged in. This helps to preserve battery life because you can run intensive tasks while hooked up to a power source.

If apps are doing a lot of AI stuff in the course of regular interaction, that could drain the battery fairly quickly.

Amazingly, I think the memory footprint of the phones will also need to get quite a bit larger to really support the big uses cases and workflows. (I do feel somewhat crazy that it is already possible to purchase an iPhone with 1TB of storage and 8GB of RAM).
by II2II | 2025-09-10 00:00:47+00:00
The thing is: you aren't distributing copies with generative AI, in any sensible meaning of the word.

Don't get me wrong: I think this is in incredibly bad deal for authors. That said, I would be horrified if it wasn't treated as fair use. It would be incredibly destructive to society since people would try to use such rulings to chissel away at fair use. Imagine schools who had to pay yearly fees to use books. We know they would do that, they already try to do so (single use workbooks, online value added services). Or look at software. It is already going to be problematic for people who use LLMs. It is already problematic due to patents. Now imagine what would happen if reformulating algorithms that you read in a book was not considered as fair use. Or look at books themselves. A huge chunk of non-fiction consists of doing research and re-expressing ideas in non-original terms. Is that fair use? The main difference between that and a generative AI is we can say a machine did it in the case of generative AI, but is that enough to protect fair use in the conventional sense?
by perihelions | 2025-09-10 00:01:34+00:00
Not so. GitHub would remember who you are; advertise to you and to you only a set of fake checksums consistent with your fake view of the repo. Your git client would see nothing amiss—your local fake checksums are consistent with the fake checksums the server sent you. Having accepted your push, the server would ignore the fake checksums, extract the content of your patch, apply it to the genuine repo, and compute a new set of checksums, extending the other checksum tree as if you had pushed directly to it. That's what an MITM is.
by dbg31415 | 2025-09-10 00:01:58+00:00
I picked up a folding phone a while back just to test it out, and honestly they're still pretty underwhelming.

The screen isn't really big enough or the right shape to feel like a real upgrade for movies, and a lot of apps just aren't built with foldables in mind. Most of the time it just feels like a weirdly shaped, less powerful, less durable tablet.

On top of that you're dealing with a visible crease across the screen, higher prices for something that's actually more fragile, and bulkier hardware with smaller or split batteries. The tech is cool in theory, but in practice it's a lot of compromises without a clear killer use case.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-10 00:02:18+00:00
> I don't feel represented on the basis of branding personal expression with an identification of race as a default, the idea is frankly abhorrent to me. Why am I being excluded?

Is anyone forcing you to use a default? How are you excluded because other people can make different choices?

Maybe being disgusted by others choices for casual conversation is a personal matter. Something you could address with software to disregard whatever is so offensive, or a support group, or inward reflection.
by maxglute | 2025-09-10 00:02:26+00:00
No offense, "Realm of math" is useless autistic framing. We're in the realm of politics and policy. Numbers rising or falling are execution noise, downstream of intent and implementation. PRC's 13th/14th Five-Year Plans all kept medium term target (~200GW by 2035). Shortfalls (i.e. numbers decreasing) come from first-gen domestic reactor growing pains not strategic abandonment. Pointing at a latest points graph line and yelling "decreasing" without context is spreadsheet nitpicks vs what policy signals suggest future trend will be. The reality is PRC rollout is slightly behind schedule, single digit years. LCOE of solar and other renewables are increasing projected energy generation targets, so nuclear is less as % of energy mix even though policy for nuclear has been steady, i.e. behind schedule =/= decreasing nuclear commitment.
by martin-t | 2025-09-10 00:02:56+00:00
Say you're a parent or teacher and see kids fighting. Do you investigate who started it every single time or do you just get fed up and tell them to stop fighting or you'll punish both?

Incentivizing victims to behave in certain ways such as not fighting back makes it easier to determine victim and aggressor.

I never said victims have power. Just that victimhood is encouraged from a young age.

It used to be normal for kids to fight and for parents to teach them to always fight back, stand up for others, do not let injustice stand, etc. Oh and do not tell on others, nobody likes a rat. Now the message is to not fight or you might get hurt, tell an adult to resolve conflicts, everything you do might have consequences later so be careful about what you do or say. There are schools where if two kids fight, both get suspended. You're literally not allowed to defend yourself. I've seen a video of a girl getting beaten in the head while she was lying on her desk, waiting for it to be over.

And you're right, victims have no power to influence those in positions of power. But victimhood is used as a weapon against those on the same level of power by making the "authorities" punish them for victimizing you.

It works on multiple levels of severity.

Online, if you're in a place which forbids swearing, you provoke others into swearing at you and they get punished - you used mods against them. At school, you make yourself cry and go tell the teacher what supposedly happened - you used the teachers against them. At work, you do pretty much the same thing, minus crying if you're a man. Using the legal system in this way is harder because unlike the previous places, it requires a certain level of proof which is harder to fabricate but false accusations do happen, not with the intent to be prosecuted but as a method of slander through a third party. Look how many men are afraid to make the first move because of the low-probability high-severity event that the woman sees it as harassment.
by bradleyjg | 2025-09-10 00:03:35+00:00
The Fed only controls the overnight rate, the shortest term rate. If it loses its reputation for independence we may well see higher long term rates even if they cut the overnight rate to zero. That would be quite bad for real estate.

The next step if that happened could well be the puppetized Fed expanding the balance sheet to buy long term bonds. That would probably be bad for everything. Except perhaps gold.
by tolerance | 2025-09-10 00:03:41+00:00
I appreciate you giving the parent comment a fair chance.

As a society we’re having trouble defining abstract components of the self (consciousness, intelligence, identity) as is. What makes the legislative notion of an idea and its reification (what’s actually protected under copyright laws) secure from this same scrutiny? Then patent rights. And what do you think may happen if the viability of said economy comes into question afterwards?
by homefree | 2025-09-10 00:03:55+00:00
iPhone 5(s) was peak case design imo and the last to have a flush camera iirc. The 12 and 13 mini were close, but still had the bump.

My personal favorite would be that style with modern chips and a full glass display. Basically an updated mini without a camera bump.

They'll never make this though because the minis proved the market is tiny.
by 8organicbits | 2025-09-10 00:04:33+00:00
Just an anecdote, but my phone ran out of battery most often when a full charge lasted almost two days. It made me lazy about charging at night. Now I have a wireless charger next to my work computer and in my car, I probably don't need to charge at night any more. Granted, I'd prefer a large battery when I'm traveling, but battery size is less important to me recently.
by Humphrey | 2025-09-10 00:04:58+00:00
Hot take: iPhone Air isn't about making phones lighter, but to justify making their other models heavier.

iPhone Air is 165g.

The new iPhone Pro 17 is 204g but the 15 Pro was only 187g. iPhone 17 is 7g more than the iPhone 16 which was 170g (only 5g heavier than the new Air).

Their pricing ladding places the Air above the regular 17 and below the 17 Pro.

If Apple didn't make the Air, then the 17 family would have been Apples "Heaviest range of iPhones they have every made".

That said, I am very happy about how Apple are adding more battery to all their phones - which might be were the extra weight is coming from.
by 1oooqooq | 2025-09-10 00:05:28+00:00
so much this

you tube is close to perfect using third party clients, like PipePipe.

it automatically skips paid adverts in the video. not even a shadow of actual ads. background music only. etc.

but now they are adding those dumb features, such as translating titles, as if i'm a peasant who don't speak several languages. so lame.
by aborsy | 2025-09-10 00:05:59+00:00
See

https://www.wundertech.net/opnsense-vs-openwrt/

To be clear, OpenWRT is a great OS. The UI is a bit old fashioned, existing functionality could be exposed more cleanly, and the terminology could be more intuitive.

This is basically what gl-inet did! You can compare how they expose functionality. Of course, it’s limited, but eventually the remaining features in LUCI could be incorporated in the same UI.
by rootusrootus | 2025-09-10 00:06:01+00:00
Are you serious? Because I've heard it argued that this is one of the fundamental differences in the approach between left and right. The left thinks money can solve all problems if we just spend more of it in the right place. The right thinks there is a cultural problem to be solved.

I'm generally quite progressive but I am beginning to appreciate that the right may have a good argument.