MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2025-09-27 14:17:01+00:00
It's really stark when you compare it to something like a linux desktop running KDE or Gnome. Both pretty full featured desktops that were built for the computers I used as a kid.

While there's been a bit of polish, the two simply sip hardware requirements. So much so that you can put them on things like a raspberry pi 3 and still get a decent experience.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-27 14:17:54+00:00
If you're an actual artist, who's taken the time to paint and learn its intricacies, yet you're still just as impressed by an automated CG rendering of a work in Old Master style vs. one really done by a dedicated human hand, then you either hate the thing you learned because something about it frustrated you, or you have no clue about forming qualitative measurements of skill.

Also, "old-fashioned"? This to imply that someone rendering painterly visuals in seconds with AI is some new kind of artist? If so, then no, what they do isn't art to begin with. That at least requires an act of effortful creation.
by jmull | 2025-09-27 14:17:55+00:00
> This is a useless statistic without a comparison of what percentage of activity is bots for any culture-war news story of the day.

Why is that?

The large proportion of early bot posts suggests the outrage was largely manufactured, which is pretty interesting to me.

Now, if culture war news stories are typically artificially manufactured, that would be even more interesting. So I agree that context would be good. But this info still stands on its own.

(And, of course there are sincere objections to this logo/branding change. But that doesn't appear to explain why this blew up.)
by Jcampuzano2 | 2025-09-27 14:18:25+00:00
I mentioned in my comment not liking how flimsy is felt. It is very light and that can be a plus but when I tried traveling with it with tenting setup, often the rods became loose, it formed an awkward shape so didn't fit in the carrying case they provided in the first place, would not sit well in my backpack, and often times I'm not sure why but keys would pop out.

Resetting the tenting up everytime I travel/go somewhere with it is not really convenient at all, so its not really a decent option.

I don't often travel with the 360, but when I do, I just lower it to the lowest level and its never had an issue except for the obvious bulkiness.

Another issue is because its so light, it would often shift around on my desk while typing, and I've seen others complain about this as well. Maybe its just an issue of how hard you type, or how much friction your desk provides.

If I could get a mix between a 360 with the shape of the glove 80's keywell and key setup, but with the sturdiness of the 360 I'd buy it no questions asked.
by nickzelei | 2025-09-27 14:19:20+00:00
I bought a moonlander in 2020 after work gave us a work from home credit when we transitioned to remote for Covid. I tried it but couldn’t get into it and it sat collecting dust for years. In 2024 I dove back into splits with a kinesis freestyle 2. I loved it as it felt more natural as it’s a basic keyboard just split.

After I got used to that I was able to migrate to the moonlander pretty easily. I just had to spend the time to sent it up properly for programming.

Now I own 2, each with the platform addon, which solves many of the issues with tenting as you no longer have to pivot the thumb cluster. It is expensive though.

Both keyboards also have shrimp switches to make typing pretty quiet.

This combined with a ball mouse have solved my RSI that developed a few years ago entirely.
by tkgally | 2025-09-27 14:20:13+00:00
Like the author, I used to be an avid user of dictionaries. In fact, my interest in them led to me freelance part-time as a lexicographer for a number of years. And, like the author, I find online dictionaries and apps to be a mixed bag.

But the biggest problem with conventional dictionaries, whether paper or digital, is that they cannot tell you what a word means in the specific context in which you encountered it. If you come across the word canonical, to use the OP’s example, and you look it up in a dictionary, the dictionary won’t tell you whether, in the text you’re reading, it means “conforming to a general rule or acceptable procedure,” “of or relating to a member of the clergy,” “of, relating to, or forming a canon,” or something else.

Take the following instance of canonical, from a recent Ezra Klein podcast:

“One of the things I always think when I hear this argument about loneliness is I don’t think we’re online because we’re lonely — I think we’re lonely because we’re online. ... And the loneliness is partially a product there. Sometimes you’re lonely being online with people you know — the canonical kids texting their friends instead of hanging out in person. But I also think that, even for people who are not lonely online, there is something really disastrous about the politics it produces.” [1]

None of the definitions of canonical shown in the OP's screenshots, or in the other dictionaries I checked, matches that usage.

LLMs do much better. Here is what Gemini gave me:

https://g.co/gemini/share/156820176dba

And Claude:

https://claude.ai/share/7fb2aabd-fb29-439c-925a-c2d4b167b35e

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
by mothballed | 2025-09-27 14:21:11+00:00
The constitution states the bounds of the government, then gives the president no authority to outstep them. The 10th amendment is what you seek, it stops POTUS from executing extra-constitutional law as it would outstep the powers outlined for the federal government in the constitution.

That is, the constitution limits POTUS powers to ones explicitly given. If the law exceeds it, he cannot implement it, regardless of the opinion of the judiciary or congress. This is bound on all 3 branches, and due to the design of the constitution it only takes one branch blocking a law to stop it.

Now, you state we need to challenge laws before the president can stop enforce them. Riddle me this, why is it the federal courts won't even let you challenge the federal Switchblade Act, because they state no standing as it hasn't been enforced (by their definition) in over 10 years (Knife Rights v Garland) []. How could what you say possibly be true if the law isn't even allowed to be challenged? If what you said was true, and POTUS had to enforce the law, then there would always be standing by the people jeopardized by it to challenge it. The courts wont even let you do what you've asked.

[] https://kniferights.org/legislative-update/court-opines-feds...
by arghwhat | 2025-09-27 14:22:18+00:00
For filesystems where in-memory cache is insufficient, maybe a generic ephemeral inode/dentry cache system - L2ARC without zfsisms - would be useful...

But to be fair, we are approaching the point where spinning rust stops making sense for even the remaining use cases, and so designing new optimizations specifically for it might be a bit silly now.
Show HN: An open source Launchpad for macOS 26
by roversx | 2025-09-27 14:22:48+00:00
An open sourced version of Launchpad that I enhanced, you can import from old system Launchpad (just one click), and most of things look same. There are also a lot of functions, like adjust / display / hide icon size and title, localize icons, game controller support, i18n, voice over, etc.

Still updating, open an issue if there are any problems. Hope this could help if someone updated to MacOS26 and not happy with new Launchpad :)

Thank you.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-09-27 14:23:19+00:00
Brave is a good option too. I use brave for websites that are too junk to work in firefox. I have never used arc. I was coming from librewolf/floorp with sidebery. I really like the layout in zen, it hasnt shown the performance issues i sometimes saw in stock firefox and the vertical tab bar is good enough yo replace sidebery for me. Tge only annoyance ia how it sometomes weirdly display extensions in the truncated interface. Otger than that i am pretty happy.
by jofla_net | 2025-09-27 14:23:23+00:00
Criticisms of his post aside. Isn't it unfortunate, the absolute degree everything legacy is at least in some way tethered to windows. If only there had been an open alternative, it would allow huge communities to emerge keeping very old software/games working indefinitely. Not that linux was even remotely close to being usable even only twenty years ago. Relying on a giants benevolence is never going to work in the long run. Their contemporary direction is only a function of what side of the bed theyd like to turn on today.
by the__alchemist | 2025-09-27 14:23:28+00:00
The ROTs I always heard was "don't use it it's shit!" I never validated it myself, and now it's gone from KiCad!

Would love auto routing if it was good; routing is tedius, and on cramped PCBs, can be frustrating and make your designs high-inertia to change.

Incidentally, team 6+ layers! Makes routing easier.
by linsomniac | 2025-09-27 14:23:35+00:00
Any experience with using Typst to produce "pixel perfect" reproductions of existing documents? At work we have a series of contracts that are updated every year, with fillable blanks that we fill in with provided data. We currently use latex for them and have a contractor is very good at making them look basically exactly like the original contracts, but at some point she's going to retire, probably sooner rather than later.

Probably our best solution is to decide that we don't care about nearly pixel perfect reproduction of the contract, which probably makes a switch to typst a lot easier.
by cjbarber | 2025-09-27 14:23:41+00:00
For more economics of AGI, see also:

This tweet recapping this paper https://x.com/lugaricano/status/1969159707693891972

This tweet with recaps of various papers presented at "The Economics of Transformative AI" by NBER in Palo Alto a few weeks ago https://x.com/lugaricano/status/1968704695381156142
by xg15 | 2025-09-27 14:23:44+00:00
> But… there is one thing that seems to hold up. One of Buettner claims is that as western ultra processed diets came to these enclaves and displaced traditional diets, incidence rates of obesity and metabolic disease has spiked. That’s real.

Yeah, no disagreement here. It would be a miracle if a food that is designed and produced with the only intention to have people eat as much of it as possible had no bad consequences. That's before all the biological evidence we have.

The processed food/obesity debate seems similar to me to the climate debate. The evidence is well-researched and mostly very clear and most of the "debate" around the topic is with people who want to muddy the waters because they have personal stakes in it in some way - be it financial, political or psychological.
by onion2k | 2025-09-27 14:23:46+00:00
It is not me that's making music..

AI is a shortcut from an idea to something that resembles your idea in solid form. If your goal is to create something and get a sense of accomplishment from that creative act then AI will never work for you because the artistic process is exactly what the AI shortcut is short-cutting around.

On the other hand, that AI shortcut is circumventing decades of practice, so if you're at the start and you just want the output so you can use it in some way it's awesome.
by 0ct4via | 2025-09-27 14:23:46+00:00
You legitimated Hamas when Starmer recognised a Palestinian state

- *in the middle of a war* - nearly two years after October 7 - while Hamas still have hostages

...it ABSOLUTELY legitimises them, and rewards them for their attacks on October 7 and beyond.

Sounds more like you're "dehumanising the entire Palestinian people" by calling them a dog... and accusing Israel of "euthanising" the Palestinian people.

Hamas' literal goal — which you've conveniently decided to avoid commenting on — is the destruction of the only Jewish state in the world, and the destruction of the Jewish people.

If Netanyahu wanted to wipe Hamas from the face of the earth with no thought for civilians or collateral damage, the IDF could've turned Gaza into sand and glass on October 8.

Yes, how Netanyahu and his government have acted is wrong... but have you gotten daily emergency notifications from incoming Hamas missiles and drones? Have you ever had to live in the only country in the world that literally requires an Iron Dome defence system to protect it from attacks from Hamas and their ilk? Where buildings and public streets are literally required to have strongrooms and shelters as places of safety, and people can have to take shelter from attacks on a daily basis? — and this was going on long before the current war. In the 90's, when Hamas were just getting on their feet, it was Hezbollah firing rockets at Israel... then, when Hamas got its numbers and weapons up, Hezbollah supported _them_.

What's disgusting is you making such an asinine comment without evidently knowing the history or experiencing life in that area of the world, on either side of any manmade line in the sand...

A Palestinian state shouldn't be recognised with terrorists at the helm — that's like deciding to just give annexed parts of Ukraine up as "New South Russia". Hamas need to be removed from terrorising and controlling the local population and acting as an oppressive so-called government... and the Palestinian Authority should be installed as the legitimate government for a Palestinian state.

When you award that status to a proscribed terrorist group (which Hamas was made in the UK in 2001, nearly a quarter-century ago, FYI), while they are the active aggressors of this war, given October 7 —— and while they still hold hostages and oppress their own supposed people — it legitimises them more than anything else.

Mind you don't get arrested supporting PA in Westminster... getting an S13 charge under Terrorism Act 2000 wouldn't look good... but then you've ignored facts and missed the point altogether with your own disgusting rhetoric.

Speaking of disgusting... it's Russia's speaking slot at the UN today. Do you think there will be a mass walkout when their representative goes to the podium to speak? I suspect if there isn't, there's some rather antisemitic hypocrisy going on...
Ask HN: Is Fortran the first high-level language?
by FerkiHN | 2025-09-27 14:23:49+00:00
I've been wondering if it's always so clear what and when came first, I think not. I think that before there were definitely some programming languages that were higher level than Fortran, it's just that Fortran gained a lot of popularity. If you know, please share those high-level programming languages that existed before Fortran, but almost no one knows about them.
by Zak | 2025-09-27 14:24:17+00:00
As I understand it, Apple's compliance officer (a position the DMA requires) can talk to the EC and get feedback on whether a planned feature creates compliance issues. Following the guidance that comes out of such a discussion is a near guarantee they won't get fined.

Simply avoiding self-dealing is also a near-guarantee they won't get fined. According to my inexpert reading of the DMA, including a translation app wouldn't create any compliance risk if:

* It allows the use of third-party hardware

* It documents any APIs such third-party hardware needs to support

* The app and OS allow third party access to said APIs

* Apple imposes no barriers to a third party creating a competing translation app

* Users can uninstall Apple's translation app

These are not complicated requirements if Apple actually wants to comply. Of course, Apple does not want to comply, and the risk of fines shows up when Apple tries to preserve a degree of control that the law intends to take from them.
by Scene_Cast2 | 2025-09-27 14:24:24+00:00
I'll copy-paste a comment I saw on Nikon Rumors (not sure whether it's copypasta or not)

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I drove my electric BMW the other day, blasting a simulated V8 noise from speakers. It was a cold grey murky day but no rain. I stopped by the gas station to fuel my stomach by a bag of chips and the Snickers bar, because I went without eating a breakfast that morning. I saw a lonely dog by the roadside. It looked sad. I took my digital retro-styled camera with film simulation function out of my retro Billingham bag and took a photo. A little speaker in the camera has simulated the film advance noise just like in the past. Doggo looked at me with its sad eyes and went away. I took a glimpse of a photo of a dog and pressed "film grain +2" in the menu. Lovely shot. I'll post it to the Insta, probably. Then I entered the store, bought my bag of chips and the Snickers bar and saw a vinyl record corner. Man, I love vinyl. Those digital files pressed onto tangible, tactile surface. An AI-generated woman looked at me from the record artwork. Fonts were crooked. The price was $8.99 with a discount. I knew it's a pop record right away. Though, I'd love to blast an IDM track from speakers in my electric BMW alongside with simulated V8 noise, a pop record with vocoder vocals and autotune is also good. I took a record to place the vinyl on the bookshelf in my room. I know I'll be listening to the music via Spotify anyway. Man, I love vinyl. Just like film photography, it reminds me I'm alive. I'm real.
by bertylicious | 2025-09-27 14:24:37+00:00
That analogy is off, because LLMs aren't a project I'm working on. They are a tool I can use to do that. And my expectation on tools is that they help me and not make things more complicated than they already are.

When LLMs ever reach that point I'll certainly hear about it and gladly use them. In the meantime I let the enthusiasts sort out the problems and glitches first.
by ttoinou | 2025-09-27 14:26:27+00:00
"asceticism" with a lot of stuff to buy though

I always wondered if we could replicate the physicality of vinyl / CDs, games ROM etc. through memory cards (like SD Cards) in an enclosure with a label on it with a player made on purpose for them. This way we get physical media, easy to create yourself, not too expensive, in a digital way
by kcplate | 2025-09-27 14:26:42+00:00
> I'm sure there would be people upset, given the nonsense that happened in the 80s

Why do you feel that was “nonsense”? Norm Macdonald had a joke about Coke and Pepsi—Basically he said it’s a misconception for restaurants to assume that if Coke is your favorite beverage, that Pepsi is your second favorite beverage and an acceptable alternative. In fact, if Coke is your favorite beverage Pepsi is probably your least favorite beverage. You end up opting for something else…that’s not a cola at all.

People rejected New Coke because Coca Cola turned their favorite beverage into their least favorite. Of course someone would complain about that.
by chis | 2025-09-27 14:26:57+00:00
Yeah it seems like the essence of this deal is that Nvidia is selling their chips in exchange for stock in AI companies. Makes a ton of sense, Nvidia has more cash than they need and it’s a great investment.

I wonder if OpenAI starts getting looked at for antitrust at some point. They now have significant ownership by Microsoft and Nvidia, 2 major parts of the AI supply chain.
by ossner | 2025-09-27 14:27:30+00:00
The crucial component for the success of this, in my opinion, is the acceptance of Typst templates in scientific journals and conferences. The adoption of something like this in universities relies entirely on the adoption by these publishers.

I see almost no support in the scientific community for Typst since everyone already has a LaTeX template for a thesis, paper, slides, etc. Researchers need to take the initiative and create a template that is accepted by first a chair, then propagate it in the university and try and get it popular enough so that it hopefully forces the creation of templates for conferences and journals.

This is an incredibly long, tedious, (and I am guessing ongoing) process, but one that is crucial for Typst to be a real contender with LaTeX
by ori_b | 2025-09-27 14:28:29+00:00
A modern x86 processor has about 200 physical registers that get mapped to the 16 architectural registers, with similar for floating point registers. It's unlikely that anything is getting written to cache. Additionally, any writes, absent explicit synchronization or dependencies, will be pipelined.

It's easy to measure how long it takes to push and pop all registers, as well as writing a moderate number of entries to the stack. It's very cheap.

As far as switching into the kernel -- the syscall instruction is more or less just setting a few permission bits and acting as a speculation barrier; there's no reason for that to be expensive. I don't have information on the cost in isolation, but it's entirely unsurprising to me that the majority of the cost is in shuffling around registers. (The post-spectre TLB flush has a cost, but ASIDs mitigate the cost, and measuring the time spent entering and exiting the kernel wouldn't show it even if ASIDs weren't in use)
by bobxmax | 2025-09-27 14:29:37+00:00
You seem to be the one who doesn't understand how special it is if you think good music is so simple that AI can zero shot it.

People are mixing and matching these songs and layering their own vocals etc to create novel music. This is barely different from sampling or papier mache or making collages.

People made the same reductionist arguments you're making about electronic music in the early days. Or digital art.
by exe34 | 2025-09-27 14:29:57+00:00
the way it goes is that a device/program of some sort displays a broad number of behaviours that previously was believed to be a future sign of artificial intelligence (e.g. somewhat coherent text, Turing test, giving the impression of following instructions and arriving at the correct results, etc).

some people claim this is artificial intelligence of a lower quality than humans, and these people expect that such mechanisms will eventually match and then potentially surpass humans.

then there's another crowd coming along and claiming no, this isn't intelligence at all, for example it can't tie its shoelaces.

my point was that every time you try to say that no this can't be what intelligence means, it needs to do X, I can find a human who can't do X, no matter how many years you might try to coach them. (for example, I will never be a musician/composer. I simply lack the gene.)

The retort is always "oh but in principle a human could do this". well, maybe next year's LLM will do it in practice, not just in principle, for all I know.

As they say, person who says it can't be done should not stop person doing it.

Heavier than air flight was once thought to be impossible. As long as you don't have a solid mathematical theorem that says only carbon replicators born from sexual intercourse can be intelligent, I expect some day silicon devices will do everything carbon creatures can do and more.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-27 14:31:02+00:00
Yup.

See, I am not an AI skeptic in the sense that I don't think the tech is great, I mean its kinda great but its also a lot overhyped tbh, but I mean its definitely a mix bag of opinions for me imo

But there are some people who think that just because a tech is great fundamentally makes it oh so lucrative and profitable.

That is the one thing that I really really took away from intelligent investor. And I think he even paraphrased it that this should be the one thing you should take away from the book iirc but I am not sure

Its that, just as how historically airplane companies have been kinda bad in profit even though they are technologically marvels. It doesn't matter the tech if there is a P/E mis-match imo / stock price is overvalued.

The same goes for tech.

You can appreciate tech while still thinking that its sort of being a bubble/shit's not good.

What are your thoughts?