MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Valodim | 2025-09-04 18:50:39+00:00
It is impressive what a single person with a vision can achieve hacking away on Firefox, especially considering Mozilla's track record in recent years.

A bus factor of 1 is still a bit red flag on something as involved as browser maintenance. Hopefully a community can emerge around the project.

ref: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/graphs/contributors
by Jarwain | 2025-09-04 18:50:57+00:00
It sounds like different levels of influence/control/responsibility to me.

Fancy validator selection sounds like the individual financial institutions are still responsible for managing and maintaining their nodes, which gives them a fair (as in balanced not fair as in a lot) amount of liability/responsibility/control.

A distributed database, afaik, while geographically distributed, entails more centralization of power/control.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-04 18:51:43+00:00
Salesforce's weak quarterly revenue forecast signals lagging AI monetization - https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-r... - September 3rd, 2025

> Salesforce forecast third-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, signaling lagging monetization for its highly-touted artificial intelligence agent platform as clients dial back spending due to macroeconomic uncertainty.

> The cloud software provider also announced a $20 billion increase to its existing share buyback program, but that was unable to allay investors' concerns, sending Salesforce's shares down over 5% in extended trading.
by transpute | 2025-09-04 18:52:35+00:00
Sensing is (sadly) already part of Wi-Fi 7. If you have a recent Intel, AMD or Qualcomm device from the past few years, it's likely physically capable of detecting human presence and/or activity (e.g. breathing rate, keystrokes, hand gestures). It can also be done with $20 ESP32 devices + OSS firmware. The open questions are on custody and legal usage of CSI measurements, not their existence.
by magicalhippo | 2025-09-04 18:53:07+00:00
I asked her if she wanted to stop and she didn’t answer, but she still seemed tense as if holding her breath

I asked her why she didn’t reply when I asked her, and she told me that she had. However, I had asked her several times, and I heard nothing.

Seems a better way would be to ask in a way that requires a positive response. Something along the lines of "do you want to continue".

Then a missing response, regardless of reason, is naturally interpreted in the safe direction.

This would be similar to how STOP buttons on machinery should be normally-closed, so that a broken wire is interpreted as if the STOP button was pressed.
by aniketpanjwani | 2025-09-04 18:53:19+00:00
Thought HN might find this case study interesting.

Basically, how can local media adapt to decreasing ad revenue and less interest in local issues? Case study shows how one newsletter/newspaper adapts and is able to do quite well with heavy automations.

Corresponding YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWWmWo5WTGE
by mrandish | 2025-09-04 18:54:33+00:00
I agree with both your points. Wikipedia is extremely useful because it's generally very good - and it's also not perfect.

I'll add I don't think it can be any closer to "perfect" than it is because the same fundamental traits which lead to its imperfections also enable its unique value - like speed, breadth, depth and broad perspectives. The only areas where it might very occasionally not be ideal tend to be contentious political and culture war topics or newer niche articles with low traffic. Basically topics where some people care too much and those where not enough people care at all.

But this isn't as big a downside as it might be because anyone can look at an article's talk page and edit history and immediately see if it's a contentiously divisive topic or, on the other end of the spectrum, see when there's been little to no discussion.
by daveguy | 2025-09-04 18:55:40+00:00
Not sure if you don't know the difference between say and said or that inflation is measured as a yearly rate and not aggregate. Maybe a language barrier issue. 2019 and 2020 inflation was under 2% (target) each year. I agree with Elizabeth Warren and most other observers that they were late to raise interest rates. But they did start raising interest rates in early 2022 (but later and slower than they should have -- peaked early 2023). Regardless, have a great day!
by screye | 2025-09-04 18:55:41+00:00
I bet this is a computer use agents play. It's an acquisition of Perplexity Comet's main competitor.

Atlassian is in the 'productivity' business. The natural next step is to allow agents to do the productivity tasks for you.

Agents rely on semantics (ie. business logic). Often, business logic lives on the frontend, with backend API calls having little resemblance to their intended business outcome. This means computer use agents, inefficient as they may be, win by default.

Browser automation is fragile and needs a lot of domain knowledge to do robustly. Why not acquire a group that literally built their own browser ?
by IAmBroom | 2025-09-04 18:55:56+00:00
That's an advantage of ICL over Lasik: the surgery is minimally invasive, and completely reversible (assuming no catastrophic accidents during surgery itself).

A 3mm-long slit is made at the very edge of your iris, and the lens is inserted, then unfurled in place. Reversing it involves pulling the little sucker back out, easy-peasy. I've had that done, during cataract surgery.

It's not risk-free, but it's ostensibly MUCH safer than Lasik. We don't have enough data to make that a stronger certainty, though.
by toast0 | 2025-09-04 18:56:03+00:00
If speed and reliability is needed, or desirable, you've already been doing this. My TV boxes have always been wired, because wifi is silly for (relatively) high bandwidth at fixed locations, given that wires in the wall have either been there or reasonable to add.

Some places, adding wires is expensive and given that wifi has improved over the years, it might not be worth the cost of adding wires.
by 3PS | 2025-09-04 18:56:07+00:00
> One way of thinking about a blockchain is to think of it as a shared datastructure to keep databases in sync. Any time you want to distribute your database over more than just a single central place, in a cryptographically secure way, you're probably going to re-invent a blockchain to do it.

Even more specifically, a blockchain is for when you want Byzantine fault tolerance, i.e. you don't trust one or more of the actors involved. This is the main distinguishing feature of blockchains IMO, the reason we have proof of work, proof of stake, etc. It's also the main thing I saw people getting wrong when using blockchains during the earlier waves of cryptocurrency fever; most proposals for blockchains did make sense as distributed public ledgers, but didn't really need the extra computational overhead because only trusted parties were adding blocks to begin with.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-04 18:57:02+00:00
> Electrical signal attenuation increases with the square of the distance

Power transmission lines at 60Hz primarily have ohmic losses, which are linear with length of the conductor.

Interesting fact - Power transmission lines are long enough that the capacitive and inductive effects do matter a little bit, even though it's only 60Hz. That's why spacing between conductors is important. 3-phase lines will also rotate the order of conductors every so often to keep the average spacing between all pairs of lines similar.
by hvb2 | 2025-09-04 18:57:48+00:00
So why can a traditional bank not solve this?

In Europe you can wire money across borders for free, you just need to know the account number. Arrives in seconds at 0 cost.

I feel like a lot of the fintech in the US is purely a result of a lack of regulation.

For the example of Argentina, the real reason that business is using crypto is because their currency is unreliable. It might be a good fit there but trading in dollars would've fixed that too.
by josho | 2025-09-04 18:57:54+00:00
4k jobs across the economy is far less than random variation in the stats.

Salesforce reduced their headcount in 2023 by 8-10%. Another reduction by 5% attributed solely to AI could be a half truth and the reality could simply be Salesforce driving an efficiency agenda.

Personally, I believe it will take a few more years for systems to be built. Once those systems are in place, then headcount reductions are going to come fast and wide. Or putting it simply think of it as exponential growth. Currently AI job displacements are small, but it's growing, and will continue accelerating in its growth.
by rmonvfer | 2025-09-04 18:57:57+00:00
I use Arc as my primary browser but, well, I guess I won’t be using an Atlassian browser (only thinking about it sounds insane) because we all know what will happen with telemetry and tracking.

I’ve been using Zen [1] on and off for some time but it’s time to go full time on Firefox again!

It’s such a shame tho, Arc is a great browser and I’ve felt more productive using it, not to mention the UI, which is cleaner and just slicker than any other browser.

[1] https://zen-browser.app
by syncsynchalt | 2025-09-04 18:57:58+00:00
The OS treats strings as a blob, yes, but typically specifies that they're a blob of nul-terminated data.

Unfortunately some text encodings (UTF-16 among them) use nuls for codepoints other than U+00. In fact UTF-16 will use nuls for every character before U+100, in other words all of ASCII and Latin-1. Therefore you can't just support _all_ text encodings for filenames on these OSes, unless the OS provides a second syscall for it (this is what Windows did since they wanted to use UTF-16LE across the board).

I've only mentioned syscalls in this, in truth it extends all through the C stdlib which everything ends up using in some way as well.
by bayesnet | 2025-09-04 18:58:01+00:00
My grandfather, with whom I was very close, suffered from Parkinson's in his last decade or so. For a long time he was doing OK: Occasional confusion and the slow, shuffling walk that is characteristic of the disease.

One day he had a minor operation that left him needing a wheelchair for what we thought would be just a few weeks. But he never regained his strength and was never to walk again, which led to a steep and sudden decline in his mental condition. It was truly devastating to see one of the sharpest people I knew become an angry and confused simulacrum of the man I so admired.

I wish I had realized two things then: First, as you say, maintaining mobility is the crucial to the well-being of the elderly. Second, immediate physical/occupational therapy after a fall or surgery is essential to people at risk of losing mobility. Sadly it wasn't offered to us and we didn't think to ask.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-04 18:58:07+00:00
>Why must a concept be empirical and objective?

You are an LLM that is gibbering up hallucinations. I have no need for those.

>Nagel's paper deals with the fundamental divide between subjectivity and objectivity. That's the point of the bat example.

There is no point to it. It is devoid of insight. This happens when someone spends too many years in the philosophy department of the university, they're training themselves to believe the absurd proposition that they think profound thoughts. You live in an objective universe and any appearance to the contrary is an illusion caused by imperfect cognition.

>But we don't know what the resulting sensations are for those creatures.

Not that it would offer any secret truths, but the ability to "sense" where objects are roughly, in 3d space, with low resolution and large margins of error, and narrow directionality... most of the people reading this comment would agree that they know what that feels like if they thought about it for a few seconds. That's just not insightful. Only a dimwit with little imagination could bother to ask the question "what is it like to be a bat", but it takes a special kind of grandiosity to think that the dimwit question marks them a genius.
Show HN: Sequoia – App to Improve Male Sexual Health Without Pills
by asaskevich | 2025-09-04 18:58:18+00:00
Hey HN,

I’m Aliaksei Saskevich, CTO & Software Engineer at Sequoia Health. My team and I have built an iOS app to help men improve their sexual health through lifestyle changes and guided exercises — no medications involved.

We noticed that many men struggle to talk about sexual health and often seek help only when things get critical. Our goal is to offer a science-backed, stigma-free tool that helps earlier and more effectively.

What makes Sequoia different:

- Exercises are personalized based on the IIEF test (International Index of Erectile Function).

- Content is written by certified sexologists and psychologists on our team.

- We offer optional online consultations with real specialists.

- We’re building a structured knowledge base focused on practical, non-pharmaceutical solutions.

Achievements so far:

- Partnered with a local lab to offer discounts to users.

- Members of the World Association of Sexologists.

- Official partners of UNFPA.

- Ranked #2 and #5 Product of the Day on Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/sequoia-men-s-sexual-we....

Results:

- We ran a user survey inside the app — 79% of respondents reported improvements in their sexual health. Full report: https://sequoia.health/research/research-report-user-survey-...

- The study was accepted and presented at a medical conference.

Current features:

- 21-day exercise plan with progressive difficulty

- Symptom tracker

- Articles by medical professionals

- Calendar & reminders

- Regular checkups

- Health stats dashboard

What we’re working on now:

- AI-driven personalization: We’re developing an AI module that analyzes user input and IIEF results to recommend tailored exercise plans and summarize the user’s current health status in clear, actionable terms.

- Integrated online consultations: Users can now book sessions directly with certified sexologists and psychologists through the app — for deeper guidance, emotional support, or clarification on their progress.

Pricing:

- Limited free features

- Monthly: $19.99

- 3 Months: $38.99

- Annual: $69.99

- Lifetime: $199.99

Would love feedback on:

- UI/UX: What works, what doesn’t?

- Features: What feels essential, missing, or over-complicated?

- Pricing: Does it feel fair for what’s offered?

- Motivation: What drives users to pay for health apps like this?

Try it here: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1553925344

We’re iOS-only for now and actively looking for an Android developer to help us expand.

Thanks for reading — happy to answer any questions or dive deeper into the tech, research, or product decisions.
by bee_rider | 2025-09-04 18:58:24+00:00
> Now, I'm thinking that was pretty much they only way they could think of to ensure kids were doing things themselves.

IMO getting too worried about this sort of homework “cheating” feels like the wrong way of looking at it. Although, there are lots of processes that accept and reinforce this wrong viewpoint.

For k-12, getting the parent and the student to sit down outside of school and “cheat” by having the parent teach the kid is… victory! You’ve reinforced the idea that learning can happen outside schools.

For college, having students get together and “cheat” by doing their homework together is… victory! You’ve gotten the students to network with their peers. That’s… like, the main value proposition of a university, to some.

The problem is when undue grade weight is put on these processes. It is a hard balance to strike, because you need to offer enough grade to incentivize the stuff, but not enough that it feels unfair to those who go individually.

As far as LLMs go, it offers an alternative to learning to collaborate with other humans. That’s bad, but the fix should be to figure out how to get the students to get back to collaborating with humans.
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-04 18:58:51+00:00
Where's the circularity?

What you're saying is fine as an abstract presentation, but I was talking about how students might initially come to learn about matrices, so just introducing column vectors as representing points in 2 and 3 dimensional space and how matrices transform them is fine.

Beginning with the field and vector space axioms might be fine for sophisticated students, but I don't think it would make for an optimal learning experience for most students. We also don't teach kids the Peano axioms before they learn to add and multiply
by tialaramex | 2025-09-04 18:59:14+00:00
No, several of these are hard cut-offs. So, 103 weeks isn't two years, you can't be unfairly dismissed under the terms of this law. In this case I believe the relevant paragraph of legislation is:

"Section 94 does not apply to the dismissal of an employee unless he has been continuously employed for a period of not less than two years ending with the effective date of termination"

Section 94 is the name of a section of the current law regarding the general idea of like, employing people, and that section says you can't unfairly dismiss them, so this sub-sub clause says that only applies after two years.

Edited to add: This stuff is easier to find in the UK because although it's legalese, the Westminster Parliament is obliged by its own rules to name laws after what they do, this is an employment law so I searched for "Employment". In the US it might be called the NICEHAT Act or Jim Smith's Law or some other useless nonsense because they have no such rule.
by siddthesquid | 2025-09-04 18:59:16+00:00
I think the technology of blockchain is irrelevant.

If something can be accomplished on the blockchain, which requires N nodes, a business can probably replicate that same objective with less than N nodes because they don't have to pay the cost of verifying that nodes are acting honestly. This business is incentivized to be honest because otherwise they lose their business. Someone has to pay those costs for the N nodes on the blockchain - who will it be? Transactions seem cheap now because funding for these blockchains is often used to subsidize costs.

You mentioned ease of use, like the use of SDKs, but blockchain technology does not enable that. All blockchain can do is that if you ask it "hey i was told the state of the world was this. is it true?" and the blockchain will tell you yes or no. If you want to provide those kinds of guarantees to customers in a reliable way, all you need is cryptography, not blockchain.
by goku12 | 2025-09-04 18:59:36+00:00
I don't think they started that way. Most companies start with lofty idealistic goals that motivate them to reach financial self sustainability. However from that point of time, any company is at risk of being taken over by people whose only motivation is wealth. They crossed that landmark a long time ago.

Not a week goes by without another news of one of their latest transgressions. At this point, news like this isn't a sign of something worsening over there. It's just them carrying on with their mission to subvert each safeguard in the pursuit of that little bit extra profit.
by jimmyshoes | 2025-09-04 18:59:37+00:00
Fine. Cool step for Zed to push ACP, and I think this is the right direction for the IDE space.

But tbh if it’s not as frictionless as the Codex IDE extension in a Zed-skinned VSCode, it doesn’t matter.

Tried giving Claude and CC many chances, but the cognitive load of constantly managing a hard context window is DOA.

Codex w/gpt-5 is on par if not better than any of Anthropic’s solutions at this point, and the ubiquity (web, CLI, IDE) + UX consistency of Codex under one account/plan just dominates any marginal value of using a different model at a higher price.

Codex just works. Then it keeps working. Then it keeps working.

Any solution that wants to compete with OAI’s latest hostile takeover attempt has to match then beat on “unlimited/anywhere/frictionless” UX across platforms AND price ($200/mo all in).

I don’t see a good way out of this for most, except through major spend on playing catchup.

Guess that’s why Anthropic just raised again. Cursor is clearly trying to play, but they will always be a markup product until they launch their own SOTA model. Is Gemini still alive?
by criddell | 2025-09-04 19:00:26+00:00
Atari ST support wasn’t added to GNU C until 1993 with Multi TOS. It was largely the work of Eric Smith.

You might be thinking of basic Motorola 68000 support which GNU C did have in the late 80’s but you couldn’t build a set of GNU tools that ran on the ST with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiNT
by Guid_NewGuid | 2025-09-04 19:00:40+00:00
Best as I can tell, and I'm just some guy, is there is a real problem with the job market, not just in the US. AI is mainly interesting for the media to report on and hype for CEOs and the kind of MBA airheads no one with any self respect should pay attention to. It's a fairly cool search, synthesis and retrieval tool with real value but it's not as impactful as 'thoughtleaders' want us to believe.

In the US as elsewhere it's a combination of factors, COVID overhiring and inflation, interest rates going up, market concentration and, US specific, the since Trump-reversed Trump-imposed tax changes. While this reversal probably helps the job market some in the immediate term the indicators of the fundamentals are flashing red everywhere and outside of the US it all just continues to be part of the same Omnirecession since 2008.
by jameslk | 2025-09-04 19:01:40+00:00
> so it might be interesting to share what changed our mind over the past couple of years

I'm guessing the GENIUS Act had something to do with it too? Now that bank depositors have an incentive to hold bank-issued USD stablecoins given their priority in cases of bankruptcy[0], it seems likely there will be a lot more transactions with them as well

0. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/158...
by tooheavy | 2025-09-04 19:01:42+00:00
You could probably look at them differently if you tried. I wouldn't make a strong argument as I wasn't leaning strongly on a precise distinction in the moment, but to at least connote more maturity and activity and knowledge building in how, while why appears more conceptual, distant, more philosophical, idea-driven, than scientific. It may be viewed as similar to asking why there is something rather than nothing. Why we experience some matter rather than other matter seems more appropriate 'considering first person experience as granted, but the presence of others as well that presumably could have been the case'. Why we experience a specific location and time in reality seems more appropriate than how: we have accepted it has occurred and reoccurred virtually countless times, but we are but one case. This is perhaps two reasons I can see for using a distinction, but that doesn't mean I would pursue it or stand by it in a serious inquiry or exposition.
by dmonitor | 2025-09-04 19:02:13+00:00
How do you know if you enjoy playing the game without a guide if you don't do it? Looking something up to unstuck yourself is one thing, but following a guide from beginning to end is robbing yourself of the opportunity to enjoy the game as presented.

"beating the game as quickly as possible" is such an obviously flawed reason to use a guide that I won't even respond to it. If you don't have the time to play the game, don't.