MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ForHackernews | 2025-09-12 09:35:46+00:00
Human brains are not computers. There is no "memory" separate from the "processor". Your hippocampus is not the tape for a Turing machine. Everything about biology is complex, messy and analogue. The complexity is fractal: every neuron in your brain is different from every other one, there's further variation within individual neurons, and likely differential expression at the protein level.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11711151/
by koliber | 2025-09-12 09:35:58+00:00
I get the choice, but I make the choice I like less because it is more convenient to make it. If we only look at the positives, then the situation is better. But we have to look at the cost, and there is a cost, in terms of time and mental effort, to read the banner, figure out what the choices are, and if I am not accepting all cookies, how to go through the process of rejecting some of them. Sometimes it's very involved.

Also, I am an educated consumer and understand what a cookie is. Most people do not and do whatever is necessary to make the consent screen go away. Because of that, effectively they don't get this choice.

As one of the parent posts said, if it was implemented on the browser level, I would get the choice, and the cost of making the right choice would be smaller. If the defaults were to "reject unnecessary cookies" then most of the population would get the benefit.

The way it is right now feels like a net negative. Most people don't know what the consent is about and will not spend the time to learn it. Companies still find ways to track you that agrees with the letter but not the spirit of the law. I have friction whenever visiting a new website (or an old one that forgot my choice). The only winners are people who don't value their time and are smart enough to understand cookie consent. That's a small percentage of the general population.
by andersmurphy | 2025-09-12 09:36:32+00:00
You can hit 40000-80000+writes/s with sqlite on a 10$ VPS just by batching transactions (i.e wrapping all inserts/updates in a single transaction every 100ms). This is easy to do at the application level, then you also avoid BUSY/LOCK.

I'd argue writes scale better wtih sqlite than postgresql.
by Amezarak | 2025-09-12 09:37:36+00:00
I don't think there's particularly good alignment even on that "axis" (it isn't really an axis, because most things are not inherently one or the other.) A good example of that is the "sector wide union contracts" thing. The default "leftist" position in the US is that things that apply to an entire sector should be legislated rather than negotiated by workers

The US does have child allowances, by the way - during Covid, it was even increased and paid out monthly instead of annually. Increasing it as of late seems to be an "R" policy, at least on the Trump wing.

Are there European countries that offer free college regardless of academic achievement during high school?
by olau | 2025-09-12 09:38:23+00:00
Yeah, the only dumb thing about the digital mail is that they're not just using email with an official registry.

They could have started some kind of certification thing for email providers and even funded a couple of certified email providers much more effectively than the digital post monstrosity.

That would have been awesome and forward looking, and perhaps even helped ordinary people get better security for their personal emails.

Perhaps we'll get there some day.
by sandworm101 | 2025-09-12 09:38:33+00:00
>> Denmark is in a crazy situation where what we saw as a key trusted partner (the US) all of sudden is extremely hostile towards us due its re-ignited territorial ambitions

Canada will welcome you at thier clubhouse. Friends are enemies and enemies friends. And Putin is all smiles. (Let us not kid ourselves about who wants disharmony amongst arctic nations.)
by quectophoton | 2025-09-12 09:38:42+00:00
Not the person you asked, but I am running mpd[1] ("musicpd" in some package repos), using its httpd output to serve on localhost, and use a normal reverse proxy with Nginx to expose it on my VPN with HTTPS. To manage playlists and stuff, I connect to mpd from my LAN using ncmpcpp[2].

Nowadays there's probably better alternatives though.

[1]: https://www.musicpd.org/

[2]: https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp
by diggan | 2025-09-12 09:39:44+00:00
> I’d go further than this and say globally-scoped CSS is fine as long as you’re using a decent naming pattern (e.g. BEM), or @layers.

Hear hear. Started using BEM in like 2016, haven't had collision issues since. Not sure why people are so hellbent on doing CSS inside JavaScript when CSS by itself can do almost anything you'd want at this point, even handling basic interactions.
by Jarred | 2025-09-12 09:40:02+00:00
Here is the code:

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/blob/7d5f5ad7728b4ede521906a4...

We trust the self-reported size by gzip up to 64 MB, try to allocate enough space for all the output, then run it through libdeflate.

This is instead of a loop that decompresses it chunk-by-chunk and then extracts it chunk-by-chunk and resizing a big tarball many times over.
by impossiblefork | 2025-09-12 09:40:06+00:00
Yes, we are much stronger than they, but once we decide to actually have a war with them some difficulties will arise. They do have some useful weapons which will have effects on us, so we'll have to be ready so that disruption is not excessive.

My view has been that we should be going in, bombing the Russian positions in Ukraine with stand-off weapons, bombing war-relevant infrastructure in Russia and going in where they don't have forces to oppose us-- seizing ships at sea. I'd like to see the Russian Baltic fleet sunk. It'd like to see parts of the Russian Northern Fleet sunk.

I'd also like to see a surrender of Kaliningrad forced by means of blockade.

If we want to do things like this we have prepare a bit.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-12 09:40:12+00:00
Honestly, that IBM PS/1 model 2168 computer case looks retro, but also classy and nerdy. I miss the days when computers had enough free slots for external media drives. I really like physical media like CD-ROMs, Blu-ray disks, and floppy disks (I don't use those anymore). It's getting harder and harder to find a computer case that has a slot for a Blu-ray/CD drive.
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-12 09:40:41+00:00
By EU DMA, Apple is not allowed to develop a free feature in iOS (!) in order to recoup the cost by restricting it to their own brands and crushing the competition with it in ANOTHER product-segment (in this case, Headphones).

They could easily make this live translation feature a separate app using publicly available iOS-APIs. Every competitor would be able to develop and provide the same feature.

Ah, not integrated enough for them? Fair enough, then whatever further integration they see fit needs to provide interoperability for competitors.

That's exactly the stance of the EU DMA.
by mmarx | 2025-09-12 09:40:57+00:00
> Theoretically, we could also go for finding the semantically equivalent C code. However, last time I researched, checking semantic equivalency is a very complex problem. I think it was NP hard.

Already deciding whether two finite automata decide the same (regular) language is PSPACE-complete; it's undecidable for anything that can decide arbitrary context-free languages (which C programs can clearly do).
by walthamstow | 2025-09-12 09:41:02+00:00
Did the guy above source their made-up number?

For the positive, see Finland, which is working hard to be a very well-prepared nation. Heavy buy-in from all across the populace. Exactly the kind of nation I was talking about - their survival depends on it. Poland, Sweden, Denmark all doing similar.

For the negative, see UK and US during COVID. The individualism that has underpinned society since Thatcher/Reagan as made us less likely be prepared, less likely to look out for our neighbour. Both are isolated by water, so we're naturally less bothered about invasion.
by sjw987 | 2025-09-12 09:42:50+00:00
I work with a few parents who spend the day texting/messaging their children.

Their children in school are being distracted and their learning is being hindered.

The parent at work is being distracted and their productivity and focus is being hindered.

It's a lose-lose situation all-round. When I was a kid I managed to get through the school day without looking at my phone (went through during the transition to smartphones, first iPhone).

I can't comprehend where we go from here if people use their phones this much. One of my colleagues probably sacks off 2 hours or so of their working day constantly checking their phone, and it's vibration patterns on the desk distract me working adjacent to them.
by jajko | 2025-09-12 09:43:26+00:00
Its just another heartless corporation focused purely on money, run by typical sociopaths, just like literally every other big megacorp. Profits and carefully crafted PR campaigns also here on HN, nothing more.

It never ceases to amaze me in worst way possible how quite a few people here keep treating them as something more, over and over. Or maybe its just that PR campaign.

Don't take me wrong, they have fine devices for specific type of people and good business strategy overall but above applies hard.
Show HN: No More Feedback Widgets or Webviews on Native Apps
by vipulag | 2025-09-12 09:44:13+00:00
I have been working on feedbak.dev to help power in-app surveys (using Native components, not webview)

I tried to focus on a problem which i faced using other tools in the past - Placing a widget/ Feedback button somewhere in the App and hoping users would go in and share feedback/complaints. This works ofcourse but it only brought to the fore the negative sentiment and not the overall sentiment.

With Feedbak, i try to capture the overall sentiment with the App via CSAT, NPS and dig deeper with text based questions. All fully customizable.

You can target by App version, Geo, Page wise without putting in extra dev effort.

Install once. No App update required later. Wide set of questions which you can change/add anytime
by rickdeckard | 2025-09-12 09:44:37+00:00
This is very likely not about AI but the EU DMA Ruling, which identified that Apple was implementing features in iOS which are restricted to Headphones of Apple-Brands [0]

As no other Headphone vendor is able to do this, this gives Apple the Accessory vendor a competitive advantage in the market of iPhone Accessories. So forces cannot flow freely in this market and the EU requires this to be rectified.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...
by aucisson_masque | 2025-09-12 09:44:50+00:00
Of course it would require the game engine to provide context to the LLM, it certainly is quite a bit of work but nothing technically impossible and the result are endless possibilities and endless replayabilities. You could very well let the LLM decide if an npc should agree to give an object to the player or not, even let the player try to convince the npc.

I mean it looks like to me the next big step in gaming after 3D and yet this is being ignored.
by b112 | 2025-09-12 09:45:20+00:00
I was responding to you saying we could make fridges

Well OK, but you starting out by discussing the B-52, so I responded in kind.

They get heavy, months-long maintenance where they replace major components

Unless the documentary I watched was wrong, and of course it could be, that isn't "just replace things because". Instead, it's "if those components need replacement".

Now, I do recall that sometimes they'll discover an early-wear component, and do fleet-wide upgrades to fix that flaw. But that's different than maintenance to replace worn parts, for of course all B-52s fly different missions, have different wear as a result.

My point is, some of those B-52s are being inspected, but not having much done to them, where as others a lot more.

I don't think you can really, fairly compared a long running platform like the B-52 with a newer aircraft. Not in terms of stability of the platform, because the concept here is "fixing engineering defects that exhibit early wear".

Whenever I buy a car, I attempt to never buy the first year of a model revision. I wait until near the end of that run, often 4 or 5 years in, as car manufacturers constantly update assembly and build to deal with parts they've seen as early-wear. This isn't really debatable in a meaningful way, it's simply what's done.

And that's my point. If you look at my original post, I specify that the way to get 'stable', is to keep the exact same platform, and improve early wear points.

The post I responded to said:

Wear-and-tear, particularly on a heavy lifting robot, would probably be their biggest cost and might always outweigh the cost savings.

So you can see why I was specifying how this can be mitigated.

But all of that said, we clearly know this really isn't true. While people will still use shovels, we now have backhoes for a reason. People could use horses, but we have cars for a reason. Mechanical replacements exist for almost everything, and the wear and tear is cost effective and worth it, even with the price of fuel, maintenance, and regular upkeep.

And, even along with the fact that companies engineer for planned obsolescence and forced replacement.
by mnw21cam | 2025-09-12 09:45:39+00:00
That's not true. From the article, type 2 is more familial than type 1, but not all of that association is genetic.

As a more concrete demonstration, the type 1 genetic risk score (GRS) has good predictability of the risk of someone getting type 1 diabetes. We have linked certain genetic variants to increased or decreased risk of getting type 1 diabetes (and it's mostly in the HLA complex on chromosome 6 that significantly influences the immune system). The AUC (area under curve) of the score's ROC curve is 0.87, which is good. We use the type 1 GRS for patients incoming with type 1-like symptoms to separate out those likely to have rare genetic conditions instead, alongside antibody testing, and it works very well.

The type 2 GRS is very weak in comparison. We haven't found much link between genetics and type 2 risk that we can use to predict the risk. The AUC of the type 2 GRS is only 0.63 in the very best studies, which is a poor predictor.

Having said that, type 2 risk varies quite considerably with race, with South Asians being more susceptible to type 2 diabetes than much of the rest of the world.

Note, an AUC of 0.5 indicates no predictive value whatsoever, and an AUC of 1.0 indicates perfect prediction.
by scns | 2025-09-12 09:46:34+00:00
> The Framework Desktop from the modular, user-upgradeable laptop company, has soldered-on memory because they had to "choose two" between memory bus performance, system stability, and user-replaceable memory modules.

No need to pick on Framework here, AMD could not make the chip work with replaceable memory. How many GPUs with user replaceable (slotted) memory are there? Zero snark intended
by sjw987 | 2025-09-12 09:47:51+00:00
This is it. You rarely see a grown adult making the decision to cut down their own screen time (including on the phone), so there's next-to-no chance they do anything for their kids.

Most people seem to be in a mass trance with smartphone usage. Everywhere I go, the majority of people I see at any given moment are on their phone. It's spooky. I don't look forward to the inevitable mental health crisis we're going to hit when generations who have always lived with a smartphone hit mid-life.
by olau | 2025-09-12 09:49:53+00:00
Greenland can become independent if they wish. There would be some things to work out, but the legal framework has been in place since the 1970es. And they seem to be working towards the goal.

The reason it hasn't happened yet is that they'd either have to increase tax income greatly, or reduce public spending greatly with financial support from Denmark. As I gather, infrastructure up there is really expensive.
by swiftcoder | 2025-09-12 09:50:04+00:00
There is a problem in convincing everyone on the internet to install a server-side tracking component.

Pretty much everyone was willing to give this away for free on the client side, in return for limited social integration, or (in Google's case) free analytics - server side is a significantly harder sell in many companies, and there is a much richer variety of backend languages/frameworks you have to integrate with.
by ghostking613 | 2025-09-12 09:50:14+00:00
We've just released GhostChat v2.0, a complete reimagining of AI chat applications with a local-first architecture. Unlike traditional cloud-dependent chat apps, v2.0 stores all conversations locally using IndexedDB with localStorage fallback, works completely offline (except for AI API calls), and gives users complete control over their data.

Key technical features: - Zero external dependencies for core functionality - Real-time UI with Zustand state management - One-click export/import of all conversations - Session management with custom AI prompts - Privacy by default with optional cloud sync - Complete TypeScript implementation with Next.js 15

The repository offers both the new local-first version (v2.0) and the traditional cloud-first version (v1.0) as production-ready templates.

This represents a shift toward "sovereign" AI applications where privacy and user control aren't afterthoughts but foundational principles. Would love to hear the community's thoughts on local-first AI architectures and whether this approach resonates with your privacy and performance needs.

Live demo available at the v2.0 branch. Full documentation in V2_README.md.
by zapzupnz | 2025-09-12 09:52:13+00:00
> That’s the idea behind the new PostHog.com. You can multitask, open a few articles simultaneously, and move them around as you please.

No, I can't, because the way I please is to use Swish (https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/) to move windows around with trackpad gestures. Can't do that on your website.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-12 09:52:26+00:00
> whether any of these hundreds of people got to defend their case to a judge. Shouting "I'm here legally" while being rounded up by LEOs is not due process.

Well, no, but that's not how US immigration works any more, and never did at the border. Everyone very loudly points out that non-citizens don't have constitutional rights.

As a UK employee of a US multinational (+), I think I know what happened here, because it nearly happened to a colleague of mine. He went to visit HQ for a week, and made the mistake of saying at the border that he was coming to "work" rather than "business meetings". Non-visa travel generally allows the latter but not the former, even if the distinction isn't always clear.

It seems ludicrous that someone doing the same job for the same employer on the same IT systems suddenly becomes a criminal if they bring themselves and their laptop to HQ for a few days, and up until now this was always waived, along with simply observing that the person had a return ticket and a hotel. Now there's a much bigger risk if you say the "w" word.

I suspect what happens is that Hyundai sent over a bunch of Hyundai employees to get the Hyundai factory started, as everyone would expect, without going through the difficult and expensive process of securing short term work visas (which catgegory would this be anyway?)

(+) I suppose this makes me the evil offshoring taking all your jobs? Hi guys.
by matwood | 2025-09-12 09:52:49+00:00
From the article:

> Netflix has more than doubled the number of people watching its ad-supported tier over the last year. At its upfront presentation for advertisers on Wednesday, the company revealed that the $7.99 per month plan now reaches more than 94 million users around the world each month – a big increase from the 40 million it reported in May 2024 and the 70 million it revealed last November.

1/3 of Netflix users (the market) prefer ads over paying to avoid them.
by wtbdbrrr | 2025-09-12 09:52:58+00:00
nonsense for the public. they are Amazon, basically. they take the loss so the overall ecosystem ( x'D like with crypto ) can gain massively, onboard all kinds of target noobs, sry, groups, brutally prime users, discourage as many non-AI processes as possible and steer all industries towards replacing even those processes with AI that are not worth being replaced with AI, like writing and art.

of course there are a lot valuable use cases. irrelevant in the context, though.

the productivity boosts in the creative industries will additionally lower the standards and split the public even further, ensuring that if you want quality, you have to fuck over as many people as possible, so that you can afford quality ( and an ad-free life, of course. if you want a peaceful peripheral, pay up. it's extortion 404, 101 - 303 already successfully implemented on social media, TV and the radio ).

they don't lose. they make TONS OF FAKE MONEY everywhere in the, again, cough,

"ecosystem".

It's important to understand the Amazon part. The amount of damaging mechanisms that platform anchored in workers, jobbers, business people and consumers is brutal.

All those mechanisms converge in more, easy money and a quicker deterioration of local environments, leading to worse health and more business opportunities that aim at mitigating damage; almost entirely in vain, of course, because the worst is accelerating much quicker; it's easier money.

At the same time peoples psychology is primed for bad business practices, literally making people dumber and lowering their standards to make them easier targets. Don't look at the bottom to see this, look at the upper middle class and above.

It's a massive net loss for civilization and humanity. A brutal net negative impact overall.
by user34283 | 2025-09-12 09:53:07+00:00
I care little about privacy, but OneUI just looks ugly to me.

It starts with Samsung's app icons. They all feel like a cheap knockoff of either Apple or Google to me.

I don't want to get a device where the UI looks like this.

Other than that, the Z-Fold 7 looks like a great device. I hope Google catches up.
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-12 09:53:34+00:00
Hateful?

Really? Providing definitions of words that seem not to be in one's vocabulary is hateful?

Let's see:

hateful[0] (adjective) 1 : full of hate : malicious 2 : deserving of or arousing hate

Defining words arouses hate?

Should I warn the fine folks over at Merriam Webster that you might come for them?

Or is it that you think suggesting that context is an important part of understanding language is a hateful endeavour?

Please, do tell. This is fascinating!

I wish you well and hope there are folks who will welcome you and make you feel loved. Is that more hateful stuff too, friend?

[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hateful
by skylurk | 2025-09-12 09:53:50+00:00
Agreed.

> At the time, I went "WTF?" and just commented it out to get it running again. I had bigger fish to fry... and just kind of forgot about it. Everything seemed fine.

I get this, but now you get to laugh and dust yourself off. If it had silently started doing the wrong thing, that would be a worthy complaint.
by theshrike79 | 2025-09-12 09:54:45+00:00
Most meetings could be an email and most Youtube videos should just be a blog post with pictures.

In most cases I want to ingest the content, not watch a dramatisation of it.

Watching stuff for entertainment value is fine, I can watch a 3 hour analysis of some event easily. But when shit's on fire right now and I want to know how to fix it, I don't have time for fluff pieces.

(this is actually a good use for AI, a simple yt-dlp script + local LLM can easily grab the video transcription or subtitles and condense the actual points)