MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Fwirt | 2025-09-30 18:27:06+00:00
There are a number of interesting creative apps for iPad that can make full use of its capabilities. A good example is Nomad Sculpt. There's also CAD software, many DAWs. I haven't tested Numbers yet but I would assume its fairly well optimized.

This really reminds me of the 80/20 articles that made the frontpage yesterday. Just because a lot of HN users lament the fact that their 20% needs (can't run an LLM or compile large projects on an iPad) aren't met by an iPad doesn't mean that most people's needs can't be satisfied in a walled garden. The tablet form factor really is superior for a number of creative tasks where you can be both "hands on" with your work and "untethered". Nomad Sculpt in particular just feels like magic to me, with an Apple Pencil it's almost like being back in my high school pottery class without getting my hands dirty. And a lot of the time when you're doing creative work you're not necessarily doing a lot of tabbing back and forth, being able to float reference material over the top of your workspace is enough.

At this point Apple still recognizes that there is a large enough audience to keep selling MacBooks that are still general purpose computing devices to people who need them. Given their recent missteps in software, time will tell if they continue to recognize that need.
by crab_galaxy | 2025-09-30 18:27:07+00:00
> The question is whether you actually need such a camera for anything. With a new smartphone that has multiple lenses, out-of-the-box photos will turn out MUCH NICER than from a camera, because initial processing is built into the software. Digital cameras don't have this. You need to take RAW and work pretty hard on it to make the photo look as good as what a smartphone delivers right away.

You’re completely neglecting to highlight Fuji’s film simulations. I use Fuji’s specifically because they produce excellent jpgs out of camera. Not really sure where your take is coming from, an xt3 on auto will blow any smartphone picture FAR out of the water.
by mythz | 2025-09-30 18:27:27+00:00
Running Qwen3 coder at speed is great, but would also prefer to have access to other leading OSS models like GLM 4.6, Kimi K2 and DeepSeek v3.2 before considering switching subs.

Groq also runs OSS models at speed which is my preferred way to access Kimi K2 on their free quotas.
by zdragnar | 2025-09-30 18:28:29+00:00
I was just looking at an HP laptop with a snapdragon X processor that claimed 34 hours of battery life while watching video.

It'd be tempting if I had any idea what the software compatibility story would be like. For example, the company I'm contracting with now requires a device monitor for SOC2 compliance (ensuring OS patches are applied and hard drive encryption remains on). They don't even want to do it, but their customers won't work with them without it.

Surprise surprise, a quick check of the device monitor company's website shows they don't support ARM architecture devices at all.
by StableAlkyne | 2025-09-30 18:28:29+00:00
> Would you say software still has this gate / barrier or is it disappearing?

Not OP, but if you wanna get an idea for how much of a barrier there was 30 years ago... Just look through a few shareware CDs. So much crap was hastily thrown together by someone who read a beginner book on Hypercard or Visual Basic - and you'd have to mail $10 to an address, hope they hadn't moved, and that your floppy wouldn't get lost in the mail.

The general shittiness of most software back in the 90s is still a bit nostalgic IMO. It felt like software that was written by actual people instead of a faceless corporation
by saltyoldman | 2025-09-30 18:29:13+00:00
I wouldn't be surprised if agents start getting managed by a distributed agentic system - think about it. Right now you get codex/claude/etc... and it's system prompt and various other internally managed prompts are locked down to the version you downloaded. What if a distributed system ran experimental prompts and monitored the success rate (what code makes it into a commit) and provides feedback to the agent manager. That could help automatically fine tune it's own prompts.
by liuliu | 2025-09-30 18:29:29+00:00
No, iPad Pro won't be faster than 4090s or 4070s (or even 5% of the speed of 4090).

But newer chips might contain Neural Accelerator to close the gap a little bit (i.e. 10%??).

(I maintain https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64...)
by input_sh | 2025-09-30 18:30:04+00:00
Soulless, uncreative, not fact-checked (or read by anyone before clicking publish), not contributing anything back to the original journalists, all of the editorial decisions are done by an undeterministic AI filter.

Not gonna call it the worst insult to journalism I've ever seen because I've seen factually(.)so which does essentially the same thing but calls it an "AI fact check", but it's not much better.

It's like instead of borrowing a book from the library, there's like a spokesperson at the entrance who you ask a question and then blindly believe whatever they say.
by Jtsummers | 2025-09-30 18:30:05+00:00
The headline doesn't even really capture the worst of the remarks:

> Trump said he told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the U.S. "should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military," a reference to the Democratic-run cities that he has long said have high crime rates that make them uninhabitable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKxWz8dyKfU - 44:28 into this video.
by fatih-erikli-cg | 2025-09-30 18:30:20+00:00
My experience, real work is what a junior dev does, without an exception. Senior developer creates over-engineered version of what junior dev made.

Senior devs gibber about database systems, sql, nosql, clustering, etc. The real work storing the input in text file, querying with a simple loop.

Plus there is an additional huge misconception in industry, if something is realtime, it is a senior dev thing. It is something like a plague.
by gruez | 2025-09-30 18:30:43+00:00
>These two facts are not connected at all. There's no reason to assume the market cannot work or reliably find the "most productive" uses of capital in the aggregate.

Right, but just because it works "in the aggregate" doesn't mean that's how things work "should" work. I'm sure the road network would still muddle on if we allowed drunk drivers to drive, but we still ban them from driving. The article isn't even arguing for government intervention; it's just describing how things plays out naturally.
by rolph | 2025-09-30 18:31:04+00:00
"Fearing authority, having to move away from your home"

not violence, these are results of violence, its not always physical injury, and that often isnt the point of the violence, its the coercion, the threat of more violence if you dont obey.

there are different types of violence, such as coercive, sadistic, transgressional..
by rdlw | 2025-09-30 18:31:38+00:00
> as opposed to what? human editors?

...yes? If I go to a website called "_ News" (present company included), I expect to see either news stories aggregated by humans or news stories written and fact checked by humans. That's why newspapers have fact checking departments, but they're being replaced by something with almost none of the utility and its proponents are framing the benefits of the old system as impossible or impractical.
by IncreasePosts | 2025-09-30 18:31:50+00:00
Why don't they just make more plausible sounding brand names, especially with the advent of LLMs which can just barf out reasonable sounding ones that you can trust even if you don't speak English, and is almost as easy to do as smashing MIZOUW on the keyboard?

Gemini just gave me these as novel brand names for a sleep mask - some are not bad, all are better than random capital letters.

Umbra, Somnia, Driftdown, Ocula, Night Plume, Hushcover, Stillpoint, Aetheria
by amarant | 2025-09-30 18:31:58+00:00
I really like this!

I do wish I could have better control of what languages I'm getting. Right now the option is to either translate everything or nothing. I'd prefer news in their original, untranslated form if it's one of the 4 languages I speak, otherwise translate them to English.

I added the category "Israel" and everything was in Hebrew, so I had to set my language to English, but now news in my native Swedish are translated to English and I have to kind of translate it back in my head as I read them.

It's not the end of the world, but it seems like fairly low-hanging fruit!
by stevepotter | 2025-09-30 18:31:59+00:00
Hey there, thanks for writing. For those who don't know, the sales reps have to carry in racks and racks of parts. Most go unused but the last thing you want is something to go wrong and not have the piece you need readily available.

I've been in many different ORs and I've found that the rep's knowledge and level of participation varies a lot. Some of these reps have been working with the same products for years, the doc fully trusts them, and could probably perform the procedure themselves. Others not so much.
by kjs3 | 2025-09-30 18:32:05+00:00
Indeed. I cannot tell you how many time I've 'wasted time' on a one-line sed script or 10 lines of awk that obviously would have been better spent on several times that number of lines of a 'modern' language, that I would have to install before I could use. Terrible...something only a boomer would do, amiright. YMMV, though.
by convolvatron | 2025-09-30 18:32:05+00:00
Yes. if the work is installing software and being on pager duty then we can really stop pretending that identifying O(nlog(n))is relevant. And if the job is to write a compiler optimizer, it's pretty important you know the basics of CS (like decidability).

smashing these two together and pretending they are the same has been a huge source of cognitive dissonance in the industry and serves no one.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-30 18:32:54+00:00
One thing I found working on a startup which touched on the political sphere is people don't want curated lists imposed on them, they want to impose their curated lists on other people.

I like that it only provides the list once a day (I do think that's a clever feature), but the inability to influence bias seems like a mistake, especially since the sources already seem to follow a bias.
by JLO64 | 2025-09-30 18:33:02+00:00
My experience with Cerebras is pretty mixed. On the one hand for simple and basic requests, it truly is mind blowing how fast it is. That said, I’ve had nothing but issues and empty responses whenever I try to use them for coding tasks (Opencode via Openrouter, GPT-OSS). It’s gotten to a point where I’ve disabled them as a provider on Openrouter.
by lemonlearnings | 2025-09-30 18:33:11+00:00
I think there is a bitter lesson to the bitter lesson.

Sure you can throw more compute at it. But it cost a lot of money and you hit resource limits.

We have been doing an end run around the bitter lesson with prompt engineering. Also by using different models for vision vs. text. By getting (human coding) agents to "think" and run code.

The bitter lesson might be that you cant predict what the thing is that will be most optimal tomorrow and any player in the AI game can be innovated out of existence at any time.

Maybe anyone except TMSC.
by ttoinou | 2025-09-30 18:33:27+00:00
Love this tiling ! So beautiful

I made a few pinwheel tilings visualisation on shadertoy https://www.shadertoy.com/results?query=tag%3Dpinwheel including a few original use of pinwheel to simulate a "snake" walking inside the tiling https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4sSBRy . and this one gets really trippy if you wait a few minutes there are interferences patterns in the colors that become really crazy https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XsSfWm
by ericmcer | 2025-09-30 18:33:33+00:00
Isn't that just the nature of capitalism? When a need is identified people rush to fill it as cheaply as possible.

It sucks that it drains the soul out of things, and that mass produced cheap variants can crush anyone trying to make quality things by hand.

On the upside I can get shitty custom art (If I need a victorian painting of my dog or something) for like $20. That would have been hundreds a few years ago, and maybe thousands 20+ years ago.
by xusbnet | 2025-09-30 18:33:52+00:00
Hi,I’m the author. Thesis: storage should obey the owner, not the host. Over the last decade we’ve let the host OS become the sovereign of removable media; most “policies” live in user space and can be bypassed. I wanted something minimal that lets the device owner set non-negotiable boundaries in hardware.

So I built a tiny USB “hardware proxy” between host and flash. It’s standard Mass Storage Class (no drivers). At enumeration it presents multiple logical disks, and then a sector mapper constrains every SCSI READ/WRITE by LBA. One stick shows up as four independent disks; the host can format each as it likes.

It’s plain Mass-Storage-Class and driver-free across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS/iPadOS, and Android. Because it operates beneath the filesystem, you can format each logical disk as you like (FAT32, APFS, EXT4, etc.). Extras I show in the write-up: a hardware read-only switch (reported via MODE SENSE), transparent on-the-fly encryption, DIP-switch-revealed hidden volumes, LEDs that expose SCSI READ/WRITE activity, and a simple guard that rejects non-MSC identities (so it won’t act as a HID keyboard — the classic BadUSB trick). The current board runs on a 120 MHz MCU at USB 2.0 High-Speed.

Full technical explanation and a demo are in the post. Happy to answer questions here.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-30 18:33:53+00:00
> Existing taxi medallion holders were absolutely harmed by Uber. Existing licensed hotel operators were absolutely harmed by AirBnB.

Then they should have sued and sought a judgment if they had a claim.

This is the NIMBY argument in a different market: Can't let anyone else build anything because it might reduce the value of what I have, thereby harming me.

It's not the same as materially misrepresenting a financial investment.
by carlosjobim | 2025-09-30 18:33:58+00:00
"Community-driven sources: Our news sources are open source and community-curated through our public GitHub repository. Anyone can propose additions, flag problems, or suggest improvements."

This sounds like it's going to be a massive headache. Activists with nothing to do all day will be all over this, for their chance to try to have influence over what other people read.
by webstrand | 2025-09-30 18:34:04+00:00
Although there are "experimental" labels on features in the kernel, there's no coherent definition for what that means. Historically most distros have enabled CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL features by default, until the flag was deemed meaningless and removed. Linux has never removed a mainline-merged feature this quickly. Features in staging may be removed quickly, but bcachefs was merged into mainline. The bcachefs removal, not to mention the removal timeline, is unprecedented for a mainline-merged feature. There's never been any expectation that experimental means it may be removed on short notice.

Going forward, I'll agree with you: mainline does not care about users of experimental features. But it's disingenuous to suggest that this has always been the expectation.
by ruralfam | 2025-09-30 18:34:51+00:00
I can relate. Buy a lot from Amazon, and play the "crazy-Chinese-brand-name" routlette a lot. Most are low value purchases which makes the risk not too bad. Most purchases have me saying, "Damn that's good quality (e.g. drill bit sets)." So the China brands do a pretty good job overall. Note: One needs to spend a good amount of time sorting thru reviews to avoid the obviously bad stuff.

So now I want to spend several hundred dollars on a magnetic-resistance stationary bike. This is a whole new level of exposure vs. my "small-dollar, small-risk" previous purchases. Main brands (Peleton etc.) are just way out of my price range. So I have spent several days now researching these products. Am confident I am going to make a good purchase... Why you say ??

I was looking at a very niche "vote your favorite mansion" competition on a football fan forum (chiefsplanet) thread. Some very expensive mansion had a photo of the exercise room, and there was my current contender for first choice. What a strange way to get positive feedback.
by ranger_danger | 2025-09-30 18:35:12+00:00
The way I see it, the people who would cause friction anyway won't be stopped by a CoC.

And the people who wouldn't cause friction are already behaving so they don't need one.

Another commenter (cannot find their name now but I saved the text) said exactly what my experience has been:

> A written code of conduct can legitimize petty disputes based on interpretations of the text, even if the issue itself is something easily addressable like using the word “master” in a programming context. It can become a tool for manipulation (pushing someone out for “CoC violation” vs simply correcting the wording).
by fluoridation | 2025-09-30 18:35:20+00:00
>my assumption is that you want to read my article, and not to be distracted by whatever performance is happening in the comment section

Pfft. Half of the fun on the Internet is arguing with people about what other people said. I like to link to this blog post with over 500 replies about a constructivist who doesn't believe in the well-definedness of real numbers and shows up in the comments to respond to people: http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2011/02/10/e-e-escultura-and-th...

I really do not believe that blog would be better by not having comments enabled.
by rrauenza | 2025-09-30 18:35:53+00:00
I've been using btrfs for maybe 10 years now? -- on a single Linux home NAS. I use it in a raid1c3 config (I used to do c2). raid1cN is mirroring with N copies. I have compression on. I use snapshots rarely.

I've had a few issues, but no data loss:

* Early versions of btrfs had an issue where you'd run out of metadata space (if I recall). You had to rebalance and sometimes add some temporary space do that.

* One of my filesystems wasn't optimally aligned because btrfs didn't do that automatically (or something like that -- this was a long time ago.) A very very minor issue.

* Corruption (but no data loss, so I'm not sure it's corruption per se...) during a device replacement.

This last one caused no data loss, but a lot of error messages. I started a logical device removal, removed the device physically, rebooted, and then accidentally readded the physical device while it was still removing it logically. It was not happy. I physically removed the device again, finished the logical remove, and did a scrub and the fsck equivalent. No errors.

I think that's a testament to its resiliency, but also a testament how you can shoot yourself in the foot.

I've never used RAID5/6 on btrfs and don't plan to -- partly because of the scary words around it, but I also assume the rebuild time is longer.
by hinkley | 2025-09-30 18:36:39+00:00
Restoration wise, you’re going to want actual salt marshes on the coast. Up to the historical range of those biomes at least.

The USDA reworked their fallow fields program a couple decades ago to pay for fallow fields low in watersheds, to reduce erosion and eutrophication. My reasoning is that you could use rice paddies to similar effect. Because they serve as containment ponds.

So in this hypothetical you restore the coastline, then approach the farmers you didn’t displace about what to grow in their lowlands.
by simonsarris | 2025-09-30 18:36:45+00:00
> What do you mean you have 4 million customers and a support staff of 20?

Sure to the rest, but: Whatsapp had 55 employees and 450 million users when it was acquired. It's at least conceivable to tell a story (lie) that's two orders of magnitude smaller. (And the real number was "only" off by one zero.)
by Esophagus4 | 2025-09-30 18:37:07+00:00
I hope they design and build the airframe properly this time. A plane that needs [cheaply outsourced] software (that relies on one sensor) to correct bad behavior at the flight envelope is just not acceptable.

I still refuse to fly on the 737 MAX. I know it’s probably fine given what pilots now know about the how to control the thing, but I just refuse to support Boeing’s malicious negligence or any carrier that enables it.

There are few companies on earth I’m as mad at as Boeing. As I see it, they are not done repenting for their crimes.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-30 18:37:10+00:00
It may still work. The prism emulation is pretty good, almost on par with Rosetta2.

I have the surface laptop 7 with the X elite in it. The only thing I've ran into that outright didn't run was MSSQL server.

It's not my main machine, that is still an M4 Macbook pro but I hop on it occasionally to keep up with what Windows is doing or if I need to help someone with something windows specific. I've got WSL2, Docker, VSCode, etc. all running just fine.

It's decent, but not amazing. Feels a little slower than my M2 Air I have but not much, most of that is probably just windows being windows.

Would be nice to be able to get Linux running on one of these
by loudmax | 2025-09-30 18:37:29+00:00
These videos are a very impressive engineering feat. There are a lot of uses for this capability that will be beneficial to society, and in the coming years people will come up with more good uses nobody today has thought of yet.

But clearly we also see some major downsides. We already have an epidemic of social media rotting people's minds, and everything about this capability is set to supercharge these trends. OpenAI addresses some of these concerns, but there's absolutely no reason to think that OpenAI will do anything other than what they perceive as whatever makes them the most money.

An analogy would be a company coming up with a way to synthesize and distribute infinite high-fructose corn syrup. There are positive aspects to cheaply making sweet tasting food, but we can also expect some very adverse effects on nutritional health. Sora looks like the equivalent for the mind.

There's an optimistic take on this fantastic new technology making the world a better place for all of us in the long run, after society and culture have adapted to it. It's going to be a bumpy ride before we get there.
by vient | 2025-09-30 18:37:40+00:00
> building a CPU that doesn't guzzle battery

It may be the software problem as well. On Windows I regularly need to find which new app started to eat battery like crazy. Usually it ends up being something third-party related to hardware, like Alienware app constantly making WMI requests (high CPU usage of svchost.exe hosting a WMI provider, disabling Alienware service helped), Intel Killer Wi-Fi software doing something when I did not even know it was installed on my PC (disabling all related services helped), Dell apps doing something, MSI apps doing something... you get the idea.

It seems like a class of problems which you simply can't have on macOS because of closed ecosystem.

Without all this stuff my Intel 155H works pretty decently, although I'm sure it is far away from M-series in terms of performance.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-30 18:37:50+00:00
I do worry that the ability of people to understand that there is more than one law that affects internet services.

the first clue is that its the ICO that is running this. the ICO has nothing to do with the online safety act.

Secondly asking a commercial company to conform to basic data protection isn't that onerous.

Honestly its almost like HN has tumbler level reading comprehension.