MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BeetleB | 2025-09-09 20:01:03+00:00
My bet is the majority are private individuals. Because people are more likely to respond to that than a "normal" person. Just look at your sibling comment who said:

> I'm not sure if I'd count a person who can buy enough investment properties to justify using a mass-texting service an "average person like me"

If your average HN reader can't believe an average person can buy investment properties, then likely most Americans won't :-)

Anyone can set up a company in a few minutes. And then pay someone to design a professional looking mailer.

There are RE bootcamps/gurus that walk you through the whole process (which LLC to set up, in what state, which online service to use to make those mailers, which data broker to get the mailing addresses from, etc).

BTW, don't pay for those bootcamps. They are anywhere from 10-100x overpriced.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-09-09 20:01:03+00:00
it seems that i am dismissive to others opinions because my optimistic takes on AI attract people dismissive to mine

Among my disagreements was at replying to someone who said managers who change requirements due to AI should be shot and killed in the upcoming “revolution”

Before disagreeing with anyone I always try to consider their point as thoroughly as possible. However it is very often I am not given the same courtesy in return. However many people perpetually biased against AI interpret my disagreements far leas charitably than they would be regarding any topic they don’t have a bias towards.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-09 20:01:08+00:00
Imho, there are only two unsolved problems in mobile devices: (1) maximizing screen size (in a portable form factor) and (2) input method.

Anything else on the hardware side is mostly noise.

If I had to futurism bet, it'd be on eyeglass AR + pocket device being the next major change. With input method for that still tbd.
by snarf21 | 2025-09-09 20:01:22+00:00
I agree completely. This isn't the world of BBSes where everyone had a corner or two that they hung out on. As long as posts are gamified with likes and notifications, decentralization will never win. Even HN isn't immune and it has carved out a pretty specific niche of text based and no ads social network focused largely on tech. I don't think another decen-HN is likely to take off or break into other self organizing segments even though this is easy to attempt with some Mastodon servers.
by hedora | 2025-09-09 20:01:28+00:00
The goal is specifically “affordable” cars. Even the 114 mile cooper is going to be fine for commutes. That makes it a perfect second car for two driver households.

I’ve never driven one, but if it’s anything like my i3, it’s probably by far the sportiest thing on that list. Apparently it’s “a hoot to drive”, but the suspension is a bit stiff:

https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/mini/cooper-electric

$30K for a quirky sporty commuter car seems completely reasonable to me.

(Also, the range is rated significantly higher in Europe for some reason. It probably outperforms EPA in the real world.)
by chlodwig | 2025-09-09 20:01:40+00:00
I don't want to optimize for the economy... but if I did ...

Instead of having the second parents work the non-greedy job painting a house or what-not, and then third-parties working in the child care industry ... just have the second parent take care of their own children and the third-parties painting the houses or what not. Your equation leaves out that the parent taking care of their own kid frees up the workers from the daycare industry to do something else. So their is no net loss in output. It only is a net loss if daycare is so much more efficient at taking care of kids that one day-care worker can free up multiple parents to work non-greedy jobs, but when you look at the all-in costs of daycare including administration and facilities and floaters that is not really the case.
by CodeMage | 2025-09-09 20:01:53+00:00
Is it a reference? It doesn't look like something anyone would consistently be reaching for. It looks more like a fun visualization of some core concepts, something you would show people as a cool thing you made.

Even if it was a reference, the same criticism about left-right scrolling would still apply, at least if you're using the combination of resolution and DPI that people like me do. In fact, if it's meant to be a reference, then it's even more important to make it ergonomic.
by adamrezich | 2025-09-09 20:02:00+00:00
The “LEGO (race) problem” was only a problem once LEGO began licensing IP (it was NBA first, not Star Wars, actually) and had to make minifigs to match real people. Before that, minifigs were perfectly raceless, able to abstractly represent whatever sort of characters that children could imagine—just like the yellow emojis.

Yellow minifigs aren't “white”—they're “LEGO people”.

Any other interpretation is post-hoc historical revisionism imagining past racial bias in domains where it was never present.

Yellow LEGO minifigs (1978) predate The Simpsons (1987). There is no evidence to my knowledge that the latter was directly influenced by the former, such that the “yellow minifigs = white” line of reasoning makes any sense at all.
by neilv | 2025-09-09 20:02:16+00:00
For better or worse, neither of us is a lawyer, but I'm comfortable in saying that the affected people should:

Talk. To. A. Lawyer.

Isn't that better than us random Internet people telling them -- although we think something shitty is going on -- they definitely don't have a case, and they definitely shouldn't talk to a lawyer? (For all we know, an actual lawyer might tell them that they actually do have a case.)
by Terr_ | 2025-09-09 20:02:22+00:00
> a colleague of mine recently insisted that bittorrent be included in web3 techs since it uses hashing

Related pet-peeve: Folks who say "there's still great promise in private blockchains." This is equivalent to saying that self-balancing Segway-style devices can still become the dominant mode of transportation if we juuuuust make them bigger, enclosed, and add another pair of wheels so that they don't have to self-balance anymore.
by humast | 2025-09-09 20:02:32+00:00
I built FileMock to solve a common testing problem - needing specific file types and sizes for QA work. It generates video, audio, PDF, and image files with precise size control, all running client-side in your browser.

Key features: - No server uploads (everything stays local) - Generated files are fully functional (videos play, PDFs have text, etc.) - Instant generation for fast dev cycles - Multiple formats supported - Completely free

Perfect for CI/CD pipelines, QA testing, and development workflows where you need reliable test data quickly.

Built this after getting frustrated with downloading random files or creating empty placeholders that don't behave like real files.

Would love feedback from the HN community!
by xp84 | 2025-09-09 20:02:32+00:00
> only B2C path for a company like them was to become Box

What does this mean? I used Box once in about 2011 at work (before Google and MS got serious with their "Drive" features my company had paid for Box) and my impression was actually "this is like if Dropbox were built by Oracle" -- worse than Dropbox in every way, both usability and performance, but with some corporate-tailored features. As a consumer, I would never have dreamed of switching to Box.

So that's why I'm curious what you mean by the comment with respect to B2C.
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-09 20:02:39+00:00
I think your use of Python decorators is a big usability improvement, with the point being that the glue is still there. You mention that in Go there's "a lightweight one-time registration step" but it seems like in addition to calling the registration steps, you also have to use `dbos.CallAsStep()` when calling sub-steps of a workflow, which is almost identical to the temporal Golang SDK which has you call `workflow.ExecuteActivity()`.

Can you explain what makes DBOS better to use in Golang vs Temporal?
by crooked-v | 2025-09-09 20:02:53+00:00
This is a real "you'll never make it perfect, so don't bother even trying to make it better" argument.

Paris is cheaper than SF, even in the middle of downtown along the river, because they actually have consistent housing density throughout the city. Look at the arrondissements that are even 20 minutes out from downtown by subway and you can find apartments that people in SF and NYC would kill to have at that price. Paris will never be free to live in, but it's extremely obvious that they have avoided the worst of the US housing crisis by just actually building lots of housing.

> There are ~ 15 million unoccupied houses in the US

Unoccupied houses across the entire country don't matter. What matters is housing in the places that people live.
by Flere-Imsaho | 2025-09-09 20:03:09+00:00
Definitely agree. Take a look at the number of Matrix clients:

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

The world doesn't need that many clients, it needs 1 or 2 really good ones that are well polished, supported and marketed.

This is a problem in other open-source ecosystems. Eg. We don't need more web browsers, we need Firefox to focus on being a great web browser.
by kelipso | 2025-09-09 20:03:11+00:00
Because I don’t have to waste my valuable time and mental energy to check the knitting before I wear them.

Hey I review and use LLM code slop as much as the next programmer, and I use it for lots of topics too, but I am not spending a second on reviewing LLM slop output on HN comments. Honestly it’s somewhat insulting that you expect me to.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-09-09 20:03:22+00:00
Looks pretty neat, but I have a vision for my web client that I'm excited to execute on (it's a 3d map that shows all active agents with branching, it has high performance zoom/pan so you can visualize your entire swarm's activity at once, lots of nice visual flash), I just have a jammed launch schedule so I haven't been able to put the time towards the work yet, I'm trying to ship 3 products this week!

Speaking of which, if you're interested in a CLI that creates a comprehensive refactoring plan for agents, I'm going to drop https://github.com/sibyllinesoft/valknut tomorrow once I polish the github and create a product page for it on my site. It's helped me keep my agents on rails while refactoring, so that I can scale my AI workflows to larger codebases. It's available on crates as valknut-rs and brew as valknut.
by non_aligned | 2025-09-09 20:03:24+00:00
The simplest way to answer this is to ask "whose dream?".

We have billions of data points conclusively showing that users don't care about nerd fantasies. No one cares if it's decentralized or not, if it's open source or not, if it's patent-encumbered or not. Maybe there are good philosophical reasons why people should care, but they don't.

So you can keep digging your hole, or you can build products that are simply good and happen to embrace your philosophy without that getting in the way of usability.

In this particular case, the dream the article is talking to was tainted even for the nerd audiences because of the sleaziness of a lot of what was happening under the banner of web 3.0.
by viccis | 2025-09-09 20:03:29+00:00
For some of them, it makes sense. Metasploit, Cobalt Strike, and similar tools are good because they can be used to give people a good idea of the impact of the vulnerabilities in their system as well as giving them knowledge of the TTPs that attackers use.

But some of these, like Bloodhound are not really telling you much you didn't know. They are tools to make exploiting access, whether authorized or otherwise, easier and more automated. Hell, even in the case of Cobalt Strike, they are doing their best to limit who can obtain it and chasing down rogue copies because used for real attack purposes.

I'm not really saying anything should (or can) be done about this. Just ruminating about it, as after many years in the industry, seeing a list of a mostly open source stack used for every aspect of cybercrime sometimes surprises me at just how good a job we've done of equipping malicious actors. For all the high minded talk of making everyone more secure, a lot of things just seem to be done for a mixture of bragging rights ego and sharing things with each other to make our offensive sec job a bit easier.
by awestroke | 2025-09-09 20:03:30+00:00
> It’s because the OS needs far less ram than their competitors to function

iOS doesn't magically need less RAM. It just aggressively kills background apps to stay within memory limits, then makes you wait while it reloads them from scratch (burning battery with CPU cycles and NVMe reads instead).

> RAM uses electricity and costs money so it makes perfect sense to pack less of it

No, it's bullshit. Apple kept RAM low to save money, not battery. They could easily pack 16gb with negligible effect on battery life.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-09 20:03:34+00:00
I buy larger phones, and I don't drop them...so no money saved/lost there.

I have big hands, and can use my 16 Pro Max one handed no problem with minimal shifting of the device in my hands. I've never dropped it during one handed use on the go either.

Smaller devices are almost impossible for me to type on/be precise with touches because of this.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-09-09 20:03:43+00:00
AI is a technology, the housing market in the mid 2000s was propped up by fraud deception and knowably unsafe financial engineering.

There is a degree of fraud in AI startups but not nearly to the degree there was in other boom/bust businesses like crypto. Even if AI progress were to stop now, the productivity benefits of existing LLM’s still haven’t fully spread.
by ysnp | 2025-09-09 20:03:54+00:00
I haven't read the articles posted (and I don't know how credible piunikaweb and cyberinsider are) but here is the first-ish hand information from GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115164133992525834

> ... Google recently made incredibly misguided changes to Android security updates. Android security patches are (now) almost entirely quarterly instead of monthly to make it easier for OEMs. They're giving OEMs 3-4 months of early access.. Google's existing system for distributing security patches to OEMs was already incredibly problematic. Extending 1 month of early access to 4 months is atrocious. This applies to all of the patches in the bulletins.

> ... The existing system should have been moving towards shorter broad disclosure of patches instead of 30 days. Moving in the opposite direction with 4 months of early access is extraordinarily irresponsible. ...Their 3-4 month embargo has an explicit exception for binary-only releases of patches. We're fully permitted to release the December 2025 patches this month in a release but not the source code.

> Nearly all OEMs were failing to ship the monthly security patch backports despite how straightforward it is. The backports alone are not even particularly complete patches. They're only the High and Critical severity Android patches and a small subset of external patches for the Linux kernel, etc. Getting the full Android patches requires the latest stable releases.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-09 20:04:01+00:00
Asking myself: are the cuts practical and soundly made, done intelligently? The answer is overwhelmingly: no, absolutely not, absolutely never. Cutting small little beautiful things that make the world better down won't have any net impact, yet picking fights with NOAA and CFPB and other good forces is the main course time after time.
by amarant | 2025-09-09 20:04:06+00:00
I think a large part of it is because modos is really good at partial screen updates. This is also, in my understanding, how they achieve the high FPS rate.

The parts of the screen that doesn't update, courtesy of being e-ink, don't use any power at all. LCD will use power if you're looking at a static image, eink won't. And a lot of the time, 95% of the screen is a static image and only 5 percent actually updates. One of Modos' biggest innovations is successfully taking advantage of that.
by bayindirh | 2025-09-09 20:04:08+00:00
Even my "ancient" iPhone X does it so rarely, I don't lose any context. Even if it's happening more frequently than I notice, the apps also restore their contents.

macOS supports context restoration for 7-8 years now at least. iOS has inherited that soon after, so any application "killed", they SHOULD return to the state they exited, given they are implemented correctly.
by torginus | 2025-09-09 20:04:11+00:00
You seem to misunderstand me - I'm not some nuclear fanboy, but I'm looking for a powerplant solution that's 3 things: universal (unlike hydro), always available (unlike renewables) and sustainable (unlike gas and coal).

It seems that with SMRs, nuclear is finally getting to that state. I would like to ask you - what is your problem with it?

For me I wouldn't like to live next to a nuclear power plant, but I'd overwhelmingly prefer living there compared to a chemical plant - and there are a lot more of those everywhere.

Plants are huge investment of time and effort and I believe the costs mainly come down sabotage to pearl clutchers like the Greenpeace folks who think every plant is going to turn into Chernobyl, bureaucrats with their own loyalties and agendas of preserving a lucrative status quo and a huge civilizational laziness in the West results in a lack of will to get together and see things through in a timely manner.
by trod1234 | 2025-09-09 20:04:21+00:00
Well, you should stop being evil and rather be specific and unambiguous in what you are communicating instead of the vile sort of things you are doing; that is only if you want to demonstrate you are operating from a place of good faith and earnest sincerity.

The absence of such specificity in general correspondence following such is both admission and confession.

Most of what was said is strongly supported by established facts. What you say is just your hollow-opinion and downvote power to muzzle.

As far as I can tell you are simply play-acting and utilizing common tactics found in political warfare, what most people call "Identity Politics" or political nullification, where you label someone as part of a group falsely, and then use that group as false justification to disregard/nullify anything they may say in their defense while continuing to criticize and gaslight through distorted reflected appraisal you create in a purposeful trauma loop.

Just so you know, if you haven't figured it out yet I'm at a point where downvotes aren't going to muzzle me because you don't muzzle truth and rational thought and remain a good person.

The circumstance described is ironically distinctly different though seemingly similar from risk management in existential situations given the absence of information but presence of strong indicators supporting a likelihood (children often are just like their parents). There are many places where recognizing nuance is important.

While I conveyed a risk assessment, you are doing so with the effect to attack the person exercising their rights to convey truths through speech and idea. I find that morally bankrupt and reprehensible.

Be specific about what you call people, and the things you call insane, most would say this reasoning is quite conservative given the risk, known knowns and known unknowns that directly go to character, and by extension outcome.

We live in a world of mutually assured destruction, what happens when crazy people call the rational people crazy, purge them, and get themselves into a position to push that proverbial button. MAD doesn't work under the irrational and insane. Its far easier to destroy than to create, and evil people don't even realize that is what they are doing through small, mindless but iterative action ever marching forward to a single unthinkable outcome. Extinction is a very real possibility that few deeply consider the ramifications of.

Discerning people fact check for credibility both with words and in context, and liars of the most vile kind eventually must pay the piper in the consequences they set in motion through their own choices and action. The same goes for platforms that through design choice of systems, emerge outcomes that discard truth/reason promoting disunity, falsehoods and deception. There's a reason there's a growing movement of people leaving HN.

The crazies often don't recognize that they are crazy unfortunately, and they certainly don't base their communications or reasoning on objective measurable support or established facts.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-09 20:05:12+00:00
> They can combat inflation by speeding up the run off of their egregiously large balance sheet and keep El Jefe happy by lowering interest rates.

You want to combat inflation by lowering interest rates?

Also you want to "run off" the balance sheet (quantitative tightening) and lower rates at the same time? I.e., do two contradicting at the same time?
by jmull | 2025-09-09 20:05:24+00:00
> last year's revisions

To be clear, these are this administration's revisions, about what happened in the previous administration.

They also don't have much credibility. One problem with firing the economist running the BLS for reporting numbers the administration didn't like, and replacing her with a political loyalist is that no one will take the numbers the BLS reports seriously anymore.
by johncalvinyoung | 2025-09-09 20:05:37+00:00
The lack of a black iPhone 17 Pro... has me dumbfounded. I might skip this year.

I'm really happy with the camera features, but there's less differentiation between base iPhone 17 and 17 Pro this go-round. Probably enough for me to still get the Pro, but the iPhone 17 is looking like a pretty cool option this year.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-09 20:05:46+00:00
If you’re going to insinuate on Hacker News, that pornography is inspiring behaviors that are literally killing people… you need to bring receipts. Being in denial of harm is the favorite pastime here, but that's just the first stage of grief.

Case in point, the sex-positive educators in the UK... forced to say that certain bedroom behaviors actually are too dangerous to participate in. Even that, yes, we will control what you do in the bedroom, with the force of law, and even restrict depicting that act regardless of consent, with the force of law. Extremely ironic that sex-positive educators are now forced to say what you can do in the bedroom, after they said "who are you to tell consenting adults what they can do" for decades.

> This is the first comment I've seen from you that leverages the UK's authority on anything related to online safety.

Edit for a (now deleted) reply: This has nothing to do with the UK; studies objectively say this activity is more dangerous than waterboarding. If that is true, action is objectively necessary, including against depictions.
by nomel | 2025-09-09 20:05:52+00:00
200ns seems a bit high. But, if you do the math, you'll find that's a practically negligible difference, at only 6 hours at 5MHz.

DRAM appears to be closer to 300 hours, at reasonable temperatures [1], at the worst case workload.

It would be interesting if Google released their failure rates, like they did with hard disk vs ssd.

[1] modeled failures, page 75: https://repository.tudelft.nl/record/uuid:e36c2de7-a8d3-4dfa...