MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by criddell | 2025-09-09 19:11:56+00:00
I don't think that's the case. The article specifically mentions multi-family units:

> Austin, TX presents the clearest example of this trend. From 2021 to 2023, an average of 9.9 multifamily units were permitted for every 1,000 existing residents in the Austin metro, by far the highest rate among the nation’s 50 largest metros. As these new units have gradually reached completion, the median rent in the Austin metro has fallen by 7.3 percent over the past year, which also ranks first among the top 50 metros.
by microtonal | 2025-09-09 19:12:21+00:00
I agree. Though I would formulate it a bit differently. You can live fine without HiDPI or >60Hz. But once you have used them for a few days, it's really hard to go back.

Our daughter still has an older iPhone with 60Hz and I cannot look at it. The flickery animations drive me crazy. Yet, I have had iPhones with < 120Hz screens for well over a decade.
by coppsilgold | 2025-09-09 19:12:23+00:00
I would assume any machine not owned by me is fully compromised and there is no recovery possible. And treat it accordingly, such as using it just for the purpose the owner of the machine dictates assuming I value that relationship.

The startup script you blocked could have just been a decoy. And set off a red flag.

A lot of these EDR's operate in kernel space.
by thinkingemote | 2025-09-09 19:12:30+00:00
>we don't and can't do this

10 months ago there was an Ask HN: No planes visible at LHR on Google Maps Satellite view. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41841727

No planes at all on the ground, none at any gates, none parked outside. I gave some thoughts (corona, bank holiday) but you would expect to see at least a couple. Seems like the imagery was altered: that someone did and can do that.

edits - another explanation could be that the airport was closed so that the plane taking the photos could fly over it.
by dunham | 2025-09-09 19:12:39+00:00
I wrote off paper when they announced (later 2019) that everyone would be migrated to the new storage in a few months and then kept pushing the date out over the next four years.

It seemed that they were not allocating any resources to the project.

I did check back every year or so for entertainment purposes. Mine was migrated in November of 2024.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200615075409/https://www.dropb...
by atonse | 2025-09-09 19:12:50+00:00
In past years, part of the new iPhone's hardware was usually coupled with a huge new software feature that was made possible by the new hardware (think of FaceTime for example that came with the front facing camera, or Dynamic Island that came from the full display).

Was there anything like that this year? It felt like the iPhone 17 Pro talk lasted 2 mins, and they spend 99% of their time just talking about the cameras. Although I only started watching parts of the event 52 mins in.

I understand that hardware has mainly reached a steady state, but have we also hit peaks of creativity from the software side, given that we have these amazing machines in our pockets?

Of course, no mention of anything AI, so Apple is either truly restraining themselves until they have something amazing, or they continue to slide into irrelevance and are missing the whole AI shift.
by PratyushRT | 2025-09-09 19:12:57+00:00
We just launched Silo, a personal AI app that is private by default.

We believe everyone deserves a personal AI that is truly theirs. Today, most AI apps require sending your conversations to a provider who can log, analyze, or profile your data. Our goal with Silo is to bring Signal’s privacy guarantees to personal AI, so you can use the best models without giving up control of your data.

How it works:

Open-source models (DeepSeek R1, Llama 3.3 70B) run inside NVIDIA GPUs with confidential compute mode enabled. This provides hardware-level isolation, encrypted memory, immediate deletion, and cryptographic attestation.

Closed-source models (GPT 5, GPT 4.1) run through privacy layers. Right now that means proxy routing with traffic mixing. Coming soon: a <1B parameter local anonymizer model that replaces sensitive info on your phone before queries ever leave it.

What’s included today:

Access to open-source models in TEEs, closed-source models with privacy layers

Fully local memory on your device (Postgres-backed on macOS, lightweight local memory on mobile)

Private voice input and transcription

Private web search

Coming soon:

Local anonymizer (<1B params, trained by us)

Multimodal models hosted in confidential compute

Doc and image uploads with private reasoning

Get Silo here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6749483886
by logifail | 2025-09-09 19:13:05+00:00
Apologies but this isn't unique, nor has it anything specifically to do with the current POTUS. The US jobs figures has had huge revisions downwards before, for instance last year:

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4142722-why-was-there-such-a-b...

"There's still ongoing chatter about the huge revision to U.S. job growth seen yesterday and what it might signify for the economy and markets. 818,000 jobs were wiped out in the 12 months through March 2024 (or 68,000 per month), resulting in the biggest downward adjustment since the global financial crisis."
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-09 19:13:05+00:00
What about this sounds sensible?

I have already documented, in writing, in multiple places, that the automated software has raised a false alarm, as well as providing a piece of code demonstrating that the alert was wrong. They are asking me to document it in an additional place that I don't have access to, presumably for perceived security reasons? We already accept that my reasoning around the false alarm is valid, they just have buried a simple resolution beneath completely stupid process. You are going to get false alarms, if it takes months to deal with a single one, the alarm system is going to get ignored, or bypassed. I have a variety of conflicting demands on my attention.

At the same time, when we came under a coordinated DDOS attack from what was likely a political actor, security didn't notice the millions of requests coming from a country that we have never had a single customer in. Our dev team brought it to their attention where they, again, slowed everything down by insisting on taking part in the mitigation, even though they couldn't figure out how to give themselves permission to access basic things like our logging system. We had to devote one of our on calls to walking them through submitting access tickets, a process presumably put in place by a security team.

I know what good security looks like, and I respect it. Many people have to deal with bad security on a regular basis, and they should not be shamed for correctly pointing out that it is terrible.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-09 19:13:07+00:00
Considering how efficiently they utilize that "low on paper" RAM, I'm not complaining.

All the Apple iDevices I have contains comical amounts of RAM compared to other devices, yet they still can handle tons of tasks despite their age. While I'm pretty picky about RAM in my computers, I can't care less as long as my other iDevices works as advertised.
by general1465 | 2025-09-09 19:13:12+00:00
I have Samsung S25 Edge which is essentially same thickness (5.8mm) the biggest difference is weight, phone feels really light compared to my old phone.

The most annoying thing on the phone is wobbling when it is on flat surface thanks to lenses sticking out.

Battery life is alright. I can get 2-3 days of life from it with light use. If I am using it a little bit more, then it is barely one day of battery life.

And compared to iPhone Air it has real SIM slot.
by Groxx | 2025-09-09 19:13:33+00:00
tbh none of that sounds particularly bad, nor do I think capabilities are necessary (but obviously useful).

we could literally just take Go and categorize on "imports risky package" and we'd have a better situation than we have now, and it would encourage library design that isolates those risky accesses so people don't worry about them being used. even that much should have been table stakes over a decade ago.

and like:

>No language has such an object or such interfaces in its standard library, and in fact “god objects” are viewed as violating good object oriented design.

sure they do. that's dependency injection, and you'd probably delegate it to a dependency injector (your god object) that resolves permissions. plus go already has an object for it that's passed almost everywhere: context.

perfect isn't necessary. what we have now very nearly everywhere is the most extreme example of "yolo", almost anything would be an improvement.
by WesolyKubeczek | 2025-09-09 19:13:37+00:00
Isn't "more silos" the desired outcome, more or less? Has the web been anything but many silos? Of course it might have been different when everyone who wanted to have a presence on it was expected to build their own homepage. Now billions are online, courtesy of their phone, and don't even know what a computer is. So they naturally fall into silos where they and their friends are welcome.
by spogbiper | 2025-09-09 19:14:02+00:00
It's an interesting question. Services like Huntress (there are many similar) only work by looking at what is happening on the computer. To some degree they are automated but there is a human review element to all of them where ultimately some person A will be looking at what some other person B did on the system. Not publishing it in a blog like this, but definitely violating the privacy of the valid user and/or a bad guy to some degree
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-09 19:14:43+00:00
What a load of nonsense. The dream isn't "dying", it was never alive: crypto and "Web3" were never about anything other than "number go up" speculation and gambling; anyone who thinks otherwise is either profoundly dumb or in on the con and trying to leave you with the bag.

Very disappointing to see IEEE cover this as though it's an actual thing, would they cover the "dying dream" of Amway knives?
by coldtea | 2025-09-09 19:14:48+00:00
"Becoming evident it doesn't meet the needs of its users" is not the same as "packages evolve with the needs of their users".

The latter is a weasely way to put the blame on changing needs - as if initially it was fine, but user needs grew and it's not covering them anymore. Truth is, user needs are the same, we havent had any magical change in JSON use patterns over the last 10 years. The design was just flawed to begin with.

I'd argue it didn't "become evident over time" either. It was evident on day one, and many people pointed it out 10 and 13 years ago.
by mesofile | 2025-09-09 19:14:50+00:00
This is how I feel about my Honda, and to some extent, Kubernetes. In the former case I kept a 2006 model in good order for so long I skipped at least two (automobile) generation's worth of car-to-phone teething problems, and after years of hearing people complain about their woes I've found the experience of connecting my iphone to my '23 car pretty hassle-free. In the latter, I am finally moving a bunch of workloads out of EC2 after years of nudging from my higher-ups and, while it's still far from a simple matter I feel like the managed solutions in EKS and GKE have matured and greatly lessen the pain of migrating to K8S. I can only imagine what I would have gotten bogged down with had I promptly acted on my bosses' suggestion to do this six or seven years ago. (I also feel very lucky that the people I work for let me move on these things in my own due time.)
by crinkly | 2025-09-09 19:14:55+00:00
They're incrementally better each cycle. I don't want something radical.

For me, and a lot of people, we get a new phone every 2 years and hand the old one down to family. I've got 3 kids and 4 iPhones in service that get handed down every 2 years. Equivalent in the UK of about $80 a month to run 4 iphones including phone service contracts is pretty cheap.
by Etheryte | 2025-09-09 19:15:11+00:00
> [Metrics] from the Vibe Kanban - a tool which orchestrates AI agents - has shown Claude Code usage drop from 83% to 70%

I'm not really convinced that this warrants the title the post currently has. For one, I hadn't even heard of Vibe Kanban prior to this, and for two, the error bars on this must be insanely wide as is.
by logifail | 2025-09-09 19:15:29+00:00
> the BLS budget has been cut (DOGEd) and they have been warning for months now that this is impacting their ability to follow up on surveys

This was broken long before DOGE was a thing:

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4142722-why-was-there-such-a-b...

"There's still ongoing chatter about the huge revision to U.S. job growth seen yesterday and what it might signify for the economy and markets. 818,000 jobs were wiped out in the 12 months through March 2024 (or 68,000 per month), resulting in the biggest downward adjustment since the global financial crisis."
by Zak | 2025-09-09 19:15:35+00:00
> If you were targeted with such a phishing attack, you'd fall for it too and it's a matter of when not if. Anyone who claims they wouldn't is wrong.

I like to think I wouldn't. I don't put credentials into links from emails that I didn't trigger right then (e.g. password reset emails). That's a security skill everyone should be practicing in 2025.
by ndiddy | 2025-09-09 19:16:11+00:00
The monthly employment numbers the BLS publishes are basically nonsense and I'm sure they wouldn't publish them if Congress didn't force them to. At the middle of every month, they run a survey asking ~120,000 businesses how many employees they had as of the 12th of the month. It takes 8 weeks for all the responses to the survey to come in, but the initial monthly numbers are based off of the first 2 weeks of responses. This initial data is always more representative of larger companies. The BLS then generally issues two corrections to each month's data, one when all the responses to the surveys come in and the other when they get the actual unemployment numbers from quarterly unemployment insurance tax filings.

We see large corrections in employment numbers when there's rapid changes in the job market that mess with the models, or when the changes are focused towards small companies. Right-wingers have somehow decided that all of this is instead due to the BLS somehow being out to get Trump, despite there being no significant changes to how the jobs report is made since the mid-90s.
by sc68cal | 2025-09-09 19:16:20+00:00
> We doubled the labour pool with women entering it full-time, but we didn't double the value created.

How can you say that? GDP _grew_ by adding more workers to the workforce.

You didn't even bother making an argument about households being forced to have double-incomes in order to sustain their standard of living. You just think the cause is women entering the workforce and the effect is cost of living increases.
by crims0n | 2025-09-09 19:16:24+00:00
I am looking forward to this feature, but worry about it's accuracy.

Every time I go to the doctor and they hook me up to a blood pressure monitor, it comes back way high (like 160/90). I then request a manual check and it always comes back normal. I didn't figure this out until after they prescribed me calcium channel blockers (and they didn't do anything). Something about the shape of my arm or something.

Anyway point being that a faulty reading led to me being prescribed meds I did not need. Hoping this doesn't lead to more of the same.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-09 19:16:28+00:00
I think hackers are not ready for the idea that unhackable hardware might actually be here. Hardware that will never have an exploit found someday, never be jailbroken, never have piracy, outside of maybe nation-state attacks.

Xbox One, 2012? Never hacked.

Nintendo Switch 2, 2025? According to reverse engineers... flawlessly secure microkernel and secure monitor built over the Switch 1 generation. Meanwhile NVIDIA's boot code is formally verified this time, written in the same language (ADA SPARK) used for nuclear reactors and airplanes, on a custom RISC-V chip.

iPhone? iOS 17 and 18 have never been jailbroken; now we introduce MIE.
by brewdad | 2025-09-09 19:16:34+00:00
The land, foundation, and utilities (often in the form of impact fees) are largely fixed costs regardless of home size. The larger the home one builds the less impact they have on the final cost to build. This is why “starter homes” don’t get built anymore. The builder has every incentive to build that 3,000 sq ft home on a small lot instead of something more reasonable in size.
by chlodwig | 2025-09-09 19:16:46+00:00
If that is what you mean then I seriously doubt your claim that there are few non-greedy jobs that contribute to the economy.

What I said is "that contribute to the economy enough to be of more value than childcare" Picking up trash or painting houses are important jobs that contribute to the economy, but they are not more valuable than caring for children nor do they pay more, so there is little point in a second parent going back to work as a house painter and then paying for daycare, or having the state subsidize daycare.

In a medium cost-of-living city in America, two kids in daycare will cost $40k-$45k. There aren't many non-greedy, non-sinecure/subsidized jobs that will pay enough after taxes and commute costs to make entering the workforce worth it. And I don't see the point in actively subsidizing the childcare versus giving all parents some assistance and then letting them choose the more economically efficient path.
by hedora | 2025-09-09 19:16:58+00:00
Those CO2 numbers probably aren’t trustworthy.

If the training run hadn’t happened, would the renewable/nuclear plants with lower marginal costs have curtailed production before the carbon intensive plants that have higher marginal costs? That doesn’t make any economic sense. Instead, carbon intensive power made up for the shortfall in production created by the run.

If the companies that ran the training can also show me a 6000 ton brick of carbon they pulled out of the atmosphere, or equivalent early-decommissioned natural gas / coal boilers, then I’ll stand corrected.
by OJFord | 2025-09-09 19:17:32+00:00
What is it? It's the fourth listed feature, and even the 'learn more' page doesn't say wtf 'dynamic island' means.

It's a bizarre page really, the entire top section is:

> 6.5" / 6.9"

[Makes sense so far.]

> Super Retina XDR display1

They're proud of the resolution, whatever it actually is, though only know that because they've used 'retina' for years, and Super & XDR sound high tech and better.

> ProMotion technology

Maybe something to do with motion blur of videos?

> Always-On display

That sounds... Undesirable? But presumably it must just mean it's faster to wake up or something?

> Dynamic Island

Absolutely no idea.
by coldtea | 2025-09-09 19:17:53+00:00
And yet:

The researchers had 24 healthy participants wear an Apple Watch Series 6—which is outfitted with the same blood oxygen reader as the newer Apple Watches—on their left wrist while placing the medical-grade reader on their left middle finger. The participants wore breathers that slightly reduced the oxygen they took in over a few different phases, and the researchers recorded the blood oxygen levels recorded by each device at 30-second intervals. The Apple Watch is very close to achieving accuracy levels of a pulse oximeter. The blood oxygen level (which is called SpO2 in the study) bias across all data points was 0 percent. Here’s the rest: “The bias for SpO2 less than 90% was 1.2%. The differences in individual measurements between the smartwatch and oximeter within 6% SpO2 can be expected for SpO2 readings 90%-100% and up to 8% for SpO2 readings less than 90%.”
by dioptre | 2025-09-09 19:18:08+00:00
Hi Nicho, Andy (CTO Sourcetable) we have gone to extreme lengths to protect your security. We use a form of escrow encryption in maximum security mode to only send data through at the time of you using it. Data that you have selected in your spreadsheet or called upon in the context of the conversation can be used for mcp conversations. If you are really worried about sensitive data, you can always create a new sheet and only include data that you are 100% sure of. MCP is generally outbound (you choose what to ask) so unless you've directed the AI to do something that the MCP endpoint requires you should be ok.
by robotnikman | 2025-09-09 19:18:12+00:00
> Intel and AMD have had plenty of years to catch up to Apple's M-architecture and they still aren't able to touch it in efficiency

A big reason for this, at least for AMD, is because Apple buys all of TSMC's latest and greatest nodes for massive sums of money, so there is simply none left for others like AMD who are stuck a generation behind. And Intel is continually stuck trying to catch up. I would not say its due to x86 itself.
by jameslk | 2025-09-09 19:18:23+00:00
I don't have an answer to that (I'm sure others do) but I do feel this is a problem that can only make itself worse

The more prices go up, the larger % of net worth for an individual a home consumes. If your entire net worth is wound up in your home because your home costs so much, your incentives are much higher to keep the price of your home from falling than if it was just a fraction of your net worth. Worse yet if you're in debt and you have to sell

The longer this problem goes on, it seems the harder it will be to rectify
by pradn | 2025-09-09 19:18:25+00:00
They have a super fast and slick file storage app. Some of the features that are natural additions to that feature set work quite well, like document scanning. But so much of what Dropbox does seems like they can't stay put and be happy with their core offering. Of course, they have to do this to increase revenue, for fear of becoming a mere commodity. It's tough.
by mmargenot | 2025-09-09 19:18:30+00:00
For better or for worse, AI enables more, faster software development. A lot of that is garbage, but quantity has a quality all its own.

If you look at, e.g. this clearly vibe-coded app about vibe coding [https://www.viberank.app/], ~280 people generated 444.8B tokens within the block of time where people were paying attention to it. If 1000 tokens is 100 lines of code, that's ~444M lines of code that would not exist otherwise. Maybe those lines of code are new products, maybe they're not, maybe those people would have written a bunch of code otherwise, maybe not. I'd call that an explosion either way.
by ryukafalz | 2025-09-09 19:18:40+00:00
Thanks, this was a good overview of some of the challenges involved with designing a capability language.

I think I need to read up more on how to deal with (avoiding) changes to your public APIs when doing dependency injection, because that seems like basically what you're doing in a capability-based module system. I feel like there has to be some way to make such a system more ergonomic and make the common case of e.g. "I just want to give this thing the ability to make any HTTP request" easy, while still allowing for flexibility if you want to lock that down more.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-09 19:18:48+00:00
For Unicode 17 more generally:

* https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45187274

There are some charts with the new characters available at:

* https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-17.0/

"CJK Unified Ideographs Extension J" has 4298 entries.
by bloomingeek | 2025-09-09 19:19:01+00:00
You're referring to history, which nobody gives a care about it seems. Here in the US, it's as if we're living in a bad sci-fi/horror movie the last ten years. People argue about politics, forgetting to hold politicians accountable to any laws. Most of SCOTUS is a party stooge and the POTUS is a mafia type thug, basically blackmailing corporations and law firms. Trouble is, this "cycle" will most likely have world wide repercussions and in a lot of cases already has.