MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by feross | 2025-09-16 03:18:18+00:00
Founder of socket.dev here. “AI detected potential malware” is what we call the alerts generated by our automated malware detection engine that runs on all newly published open source packages in real-time. However, these alerts are reviewed by our threat research team and once a human has confirmed the finding, we upgrade it to “Known malware”.

At this point (given we just published research about this) we've upgraded this threat to Known malware.

So in short:

- “AI detected potential malware” = automated system found something suspicious

- “Known malware” = human confirmed it’s real

The wording is intentional because not every automated hit ends up being true malware. It’s better to give developers early visibility into possible threats, even if they turn out to be benign, than to miss a real attack.
by motorest | 2025-09-16 03:18:38+00:00
> The article argues that while React solves a problem, not everyone actually has a problem that requires the complexity of React (i.e. "Build pyramids if you must").

I think this argument isn't valid. The problem that React solves is creating reactive user interfaces. React is trivial to use in it's happy path. The tool's complexity is a red herring because using the tool is trivial and effortless.

To me, this argument is based on specious reasoning. Take for example vending machines. They are trivial to use: pick a product, pay, see it drop and pick up your item. It's dead simple. Does it make any sense to whine that buying items from an automated system is a problem not everyone has, and that the vending machine is far more complex than a seller behind a counter? No. What makes sense is the complexity from the user's perspective, and what effort it requires them to achieve the goals they set forth to achieve. And React makes it trivially easy to put together highly performant reactive web apps.
by userbinator | 2025-09-16 03:20:18+00:00
While I don't doubt that trying to "show off" or "job security" is a reason, I think another big one is because too many developers have no knowledge of the low-level basics to even consider that things could be simpler, having only been exposed to overengineered code and indoctrinated in the belief of abstractions as the ultimate panacea. To relate to the example of React and JS in the article, there are likely many web developers now who have never written a single plain HTML page and always started with the minimum React SPA, so they don't realise the former is even possible.
by wiradikusuma | 2025-09-16 03:20:44+00:00
In the age of AI, it's all about popularity contest unfortunately. More people use it, more data points, more training data to feed, better AI response, more people use it.

Svelte shot itself in the foot with runes and other incompatible (but minor) syntax changes. Bad timing. Because now whenever I ask any AI, they will suggest old syntax that doesn't compile.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-16 03:21:39+00:00
> There's SO much padding and wasted screen real estate, disjointed looking floating inner panels, window corners that are so rounded you see gaps in full screen apps, inconsistencies everywhere and - well, I could go on.

Remember in the beforetimes when we decoupled themes from OS updates? Wouldn't it be nice if once again we discovered this lost technology that let different users have different UIs?
by justsomehnguy | 2025-09-16 03:22:04+00:00
>> Now, I knew that I couldn't just go to any ER. I had to go to one that had on-call ophthalmologists. I asked AI, and it told me to go UCSF Parnassus, so I called an Uber and off I went.

Well, at least he skipped on ER ride and used Uber.
by musicale | 2025-09-16 03:22:23+00:00
Apple transforms product categories from time to time, and the rest of the time improvements are incremental (though usually good). In the last 5 years or so Apple Silicon has transformed expectations, not just for Apple products but for the whole industry, starting with the M1 MacBook Air, then with the M1 MacBook Pro, and more recently with the M4 Mac mini.

(Meanwhile Mac Studio refactored Apple's desktop lineup, perhaps echoing the G4 Cube, and the iPad Pro M4 was a milestone product that leapfrogged Mac laptop hardware by including an OLED display and next-gen SoC. We may see something similar with an iPad Pro M5.)

I think AirTags also transformed their category. Vision Pro was a new product line for Apple but has not been a success so far.
Show HN: InfiniteTalk AI – AI Lip-Sync Video Generator for Long Videos
by laiwuchiyuan | 2025-09-16 03:23:30+00:00
Hi HN,

We’ve been building InfiniteTalk, an AI-powered tool that transforms images + audio into long-form, lip-synced videos. With just a single image and one or more audio tracks, you can generate talking, singing, or even multi-character conversational videos.

Key features:

Image + Audio Driven Lip-Sync: Upload a static photo and audio, and get a naturally synced talking or singing video.

Multi-Character Conversations (InfiniteTalk Multi): Sync multiple audio inputs to different characters for realistic dialogues.

Long-Form Video Support: Generate videos up to 10 minutes per render—great for podcasts, lectures, or performances.

Singing & Performances: Animate characters to sing songs, rap, or perform scripted content.

Fast & High-Quality: Deliver expressive videos in minutes, ready for marketing, education, entertainment, or social media.

Why we built this: Making engaging video content usually requires cameras, actors, editing, and lots of time. InfiniteTalk removes all of that—allowing creators, educators, and businesses to produce long-form, lip-synced conversational videos from just images and audio. We’d love your feedback on:

Where long-form lip-sync video could be most useful.

Features you’d want in multi-character conversation mode.

API or plugin integrations that could make this more developer-friendly.

Thanks for reading, and excited to hear your thoughts!
by jandrewrogers | 2025-09-16 03:23:32+00:00
I rarely see any earbuds except AirPods in the US, they are the overwhelming majority. Several other countries I’ve worked in also have pretty ubiquitous AirPods penetration, though not quite at the level of the US.

I have a few friends that bought every inexpensive alternative to AirPods, had a poor experience with all of them, finally relented and bought AirPods. Now they won’t use anything else. They spent more money avoiding AirPods than buying them.

Apple did a really good job with the AirPods.
by gabriel666smith | 2025-09-16 03:23:33+00:00
A real classic. As an author who was asked by my publisher to perform my own audiobook:

1. There is a reason 'reader of audiobooks' is a profession - it is stupid difficult. I will never do it again.

2. I loved this tape so much. It does such interesting things with its soundscape (from memory - if it actually is just Gibson reading it, then he must have embedded those memories through the sheer brilliance of his performance.

3. My fiancee is partially-sighted (I see her as an investment that will appreciate as biohacking becomes more and more prevalent) and she reads mostly by audiobook.

It's not really how I prefer to read - I get distracted too easily - but I've been appalled at the production quality of what I've overheard. While Gibson's work is a special case, an audiobook is only one dimension away from a film adaptation.

4. Literally all my millennial-Gen-Z-cusp friends who are non-readers opted for the audiobook of my book, not the book-book. Anecdata, but interesting. They would just switch Rogan or whatever out during their commute until they felt they'd listened to (what I assume as) enough of it to be socially acceptable.

5. I have no market knowledge other than that I signed my audiobook rights away to my publishers in the industry-standard way.

6. I'm sure it'd be very easy to procure data that made a case for audio fiction that was well-produced and incorporated soundscape-like elements, being incredibly commercially successful. It strikes me as a form that is ripe for innovation. And everyone loves books on tape.

7. There has been so much really interesting innovation in 'aural mood amendment' over the last decade or two. Some of it seems like pseudoscience, some of it seems legit - I wish I had sources to share. Apologies that I don't.

8. I assume someone has already built this concept - well-produced, soundscape-driven longform audio fiction - I'm not a consumer of that market well enough to know it. It'd be a really, really fun project. I'm sure it'd be very tough to get profitable, but it's almost too fun to care. This could be another reason it doesn't exist.

9. Gibson's 2003(?) novel Pattern Recognition is insanely underrated - probably not by people here - but I think the prose is better, and in a decade or two it will feel just as (if not more) prescient. It's a really, really good example of a literary classic that didn't get attention from book dweebs because it's from a 'genre' guy. If you like Neuromancer, and want to think about the next couple of decades in a similar way, you will really love it. I always thought it'd make a great double-bill with the movie Children of Men .
by doubled112 | 2025-09-16 03:24:31+00:00
At the time, Chrome was actually a lot faster than Firefox at loading the Gmail web interface. Firefox was also faster than Firefox ESR. I've noticed on lower end hardware that newer is often better with browsers, which is not what I would have expected.

Pale Moon and K-Meleon are really just using an old Gecko engine fork, aren't they? I think Waterfox is the same.

Otter Browser is using QtWebEngine, which is Blink, so it's Chromium with a different UI.

At this point, as far as I can tell, if it successfully renders the modern web, it's a Firefox or Chrome fork anyway. None of the lightweight browsers ever seem to improve my life any.
by emh68 | 2025-09-16 03:24:59+00:00
Sometimes I think about the bizarre path computer technology took.

For instance, long-term storage. It would stand to reason that we'd invent some kind of big electrical array, and that's the best we could hope for. But hard drive technology (which relies on crazy materials technology for the platter and magnets, crazy high-precision encoders, and crazy physics like floating a tiny spring over the air bubble created by the spinning platter) came in and blew all other technology away.

And, likewise, we had liquid crystal technology since the 70s, and probably could have invented it sooner, but no need, because Cathode Ray Tube technology appeared (a mini particle accelerator in your home! Plus the advanced materials science to bore the precision electron beam holes in the screen grid, the phosphor coating, the unusual deflection coil winding topology, and leaded glass to reduce x-ray expose for the viewers) and made all other forms of display unattractive by comparison.

It's amazing how far CRT technology got, given its disconnect from other technologies. The sophistication of the factories that created late-model "flat-screen" CRTs is truly impressive.

The switch to LCDs/LEDs was in a lot of ways a step back. Sure, we don't have huge 40lb boxes on our desks, but we lost the ultra-fast refresh rate enabled by the electron beam, not to mention the internal glow that made computers magical (maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy, like people in the 80s who swore that vinyl records "sounded better").

Someday, maybe given advances in robotics and automation, I hope to start a retro CRT manufacturing company. The problems, such as the unavailability of the entire supply chain (can't even buy an electron gun, it would have to be made from scratch) and environmental restrictions (lead glass probably makes the EPA perk up and notice).
by 6510 | 2025-09-16 03:25:36+00:00
Here is an idea I thought long and hard about for the last 3 seconds....

Say one, rather than making the entire phone modular, adds just one cartridge slot. Have it span the bottom half of the back of the phone and be a few mm deep. Cartridges can have 4 form factors. 1) flush with the back of the phone. 2) stick out from the back. 3) increase thickness of the entire phone. Or 4) like 3 but comes with the same slot as the phone so that one can stack cartridges.

The first base phone should be functional by it self but have really low specs. A slow cpu, little memory, little storage, small battery. It may even run on android and have a ton of preloaded apps no one wants. Ideally the most expensive component should be the cartridge connector.

And then, here it comes, you've already guessed it! The entire linux computer goes on the cartridge.

Have a similar dock that turns the cartridge into a desktop computer and a dock that connects it to your PC.

Software development would be glorious.

In the initial demo it should run Windows! This will send a strong signal to other otherwise uninterested parties that this is a real computer... finally...

While official builds should probably exist let other vendors go wild building their own proprietary closed source cartridges.

There should be infinite possibilities. People will make things we cant imagine. Stuff we will never see on flagship phones because 99% doesn't need it.

Some might simply but badly want usb ports.

Stupid example: I have a digital camera, I have to plug it into a computer and do all kinds of things before they may appear on my server, like booting the machine, opening apps and figuring out where the hell folders are. The pictures are great but not that much better than my phone which can conveniently send them places. But what I really need is to just plug in the camera and have the technology figure out which are the new images and upload them. It should require zero screen time.

The next guy might want an ethernet port, hdmi, serial, scan barcodes by pressing a real button that also unlocks and opens the correct app. You might even have a bulky cartridge that prints receipts. A large antenna and/or a week worth of battery. I'm not at all sure if people want it but a cassette player would be possible. A boom box with atx drive bays. etc etc

Then when you buy the next generation or are bored playing with it, the screen is cracked and the battery is worn out you turn it into a security camera that works when the power is cut and can send [picture] sms, make phone calls and play threatening messages to intruders.
by xmprt | 2025-09-16 03:25:51+00:00
The biggest reason for me using Android is simply because of how much competition there is in the space. If I use Apple products and don't like something they do then I'm stuck on an older version at best and need to migrate everything from their walled garden (at great cost) at worst.

With Android, I can use Samsung one generation, switch to Pixel the next, and give Motorola/some other smaller company a chance later. I can choose a phone that has the exact features I want - better battery life? great camera? best performance? great display? cheap price? smaller display? larger display? There's a phone for each of those.
by 627467 | 2025-09-16 03:26:09+00:00
> it's a pull rather than push

This is under appreciated, low effort'ish perspective. The simple fact of disabling all notifications (but for a couple basic ones like calendar) returns a good 80% of control back to you.

Pair with battery saving mode - that on iOS and Android - even locks involuntary notifications and saves you from battery anxiety.
by lyu07282 | 2025-09-16 03:26:17+00:00
In this case I was referring to economic liberalism, the believe in private property, free markets, etc., not what Americans believe it means. This includes democrats and republicans [1], they are both economically liberal. I forgot Americans are under the impression that liberal means left-wing / democrat or something. The differences you point out are within this ideology, so like which industry do and don't we subsidize and regulate, etc. it has less meaning for people who aren't liberals.

[1] see the overlap between the economic policies of Reagan and Bill Clinton
by jibal | 2025-09-16 03:26:28+00:00
Gravitating toward complexity is inexorable because simpler systems are prerequisites of more complex systems. We see the same thing in evolution--it's not inherently directed, except in this sense of prerequisites. Systems can go from complex to simple (e.g., viruses), but complex systems cannot leap into existence -- see https://www.tedcloak.com/uploads/4/5/3/7/45374411/gregory_-_... -- they appear over time, via accretion. Scientific knowledge largely works the same way -- there are prerequisites. e.g., Einstein's concepts were seeded by the Lorentz equations, and of course Newtonian physics.

Of course biologically evolved systems don't occur unless there's some fitness function they satisfy. Well, complex software also provides desired functionality--sometimes the desire is just a result of marketing, but often it's due to real needs.
by weikju | 2025-09-16 03:26:38+00:00
In the case of my bank:

I had to enable secure auth to access some features. This works only with the mobile app, even when logging on the web I need the mobile app.

Some functions are available only in the app as well. Now I’m stuck with the app because I need those and needed secure auth to access those functions.

It’s evil but I has no choice (no choice of other banks either for reasons I won’t go into here, just accept it and don’t tell me to change banks. Other banks are no better anyway. )
by a_bonobo | 2025-09-16 03:26:40+00:00
There's some discussion here about DNA-specific compression algorithms.

I thought I'd raise yesterday's HN discussion on 'The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208828

That blog post isn't about DNA per se, but it is about sorting data when you know there are only 4 numbers. I guess DNA has 5 - A,T,G,C,N the unknown base - but there's a huge space of DNA-specific compression research that outperforms ZSTD.
by pixl97 | 2025-09-16 03:27:45+00:00
I mean the places I've lived in my life I've left the windows open and the doors unlocked and not had issues. Maybe I'm lucky as your grandma.

Of course maybe your grandma like my grandma ignored all the cases of people that had abjectly terrible lives back then because that wouldnt fit her world view of 'make the present the past again'. Birthrates dropped in the US long before we were born. Homelessness was very high in the US before the postwar 'irregularity'.

All those poor countries are still richer than ever historically, it's just that first world nations are that much better.

Just stop the billionaires from sucking up everything and it's not really too bad at all.
by neilv | 2025-09-16 03:28:22+00:00
I used to run a Web server (and email server) like this. The novelty wore off, and I currently structure it for static hosting via AWS S3 + CloudFront.

(No matter how personal a Web site, the occasional prospective employer will go look at it. If you're a techbro, you normally don't want this site sometimes acting like it's running on a potato and wet string. Even if you still keep your 2002 visual design, ahem.)

If that's not a concern, you can run a nonessential Web server from home, and it's fun and concrete, like the author suggests. You might want to forward/proxy the traffic through some external cloud server (even if you don't use CDN/caching features), to shield your home pipe a bit.
by oliyoung | 2025-09-16 03:29:00+00:00
I'll happily pay the premium for "it just works", especially device switching iPhone to iPad to MacBook to Apple TV, it works first time, every time. I have a pair of Sony XM5s, and even at that price point, pairing and device switching can be a crapshoot some of the time.

Bluetooth honestly feels like a non-deterministic stack sometimes, it even took Apple 4 years to support it on the iPhone, how they have the AirPods working is close to magic.
by ggm | 2025-09-16 03:29:41+00:00
The distinctions in score and stated value proposition need explaining.

70/100 (Strong, with nuance) 68/100 (Moderate-to-Strong)

I would argue the ratio of 70/100 to 68/100 is 1.02 (or 0.97 if you prefer) and this is a distinction without meaning.
by x0x0 | 2025-09-16 03:31:13+00:00
They also scammed the operators. It was an Uber-esque ploy.

What actually got sold was an uber-esque scam: these kitchens were rented to tiny operators who, instead of opening their own restaurants, opened in a ghost kitchen facility. I read an in-depth article that showcased the extremely high failure rate of the operators. They were sold indiscriminately to anyone who could be suckered into doing it, with no thought of whether the "restaurant" was likely to succeed. The parallels to driving for Uber are obvious.

I actually suspect that ghost kitchens would work fine, but it would be one company operating them and carefully selecting products that sell and controlling for quality.
by bigglywiggler | 2025-09-16 03:31:32+00:00
This is a perfectly HN style misunderstanding of what Apple actually is and does.

An iPhone doesn't need replaceable battery or an easier to replace screen, there are other phones that have these features and anyone is very welcome to buy them. Moreover, the screen is really not that hard to replace and you can charge any phone off a powerbank, you can even have a special magsafe powerbank that you carry in a bag. A 3rd gen SE (relatively crappy for an iPhone) can charge up to 50% in half an hour if your wall block outputs more than 20w. The point of an iPhone is that it's powerful enough to do pretty much anything that anyone needs and has software that's good enough to the point that it doesn't need some shitty skin over it. It's also supposed to be consistent with your other apple devices and supported for absurd amounts of time in comparison to the competition.

Touchscreen on laptops is shit, I'm not interested in fatiguing my shoulders while I work for a 0.01% usability benefit in some niche scenarios. It's a gimmick, nobody actually needs it. My current gen MBAir lasts literally days on battery. If you want a touchscreen Apple product with a keyboard then iPads are right there. They exist. The trackpad on any macbook virtually eliminates the need for a touchscreen and that's why they're the best trackpads on any laptop.

Airpods are the breakthrough product that they are because they aren't neckband style, they're literally the seashells that Ray Bradbury describes in Farenheit 451. For better or worse. They've been around for a long time now and we've forgotten that nothing like them existed in. the mainstream before they did. All the initial criticisms about them have evaporated, they have become normal as has their form factor. No neckbands or wires, the charge case juices them up and the battery on them definitely lasts all day, I've tried. If they had wires or a neckband then they simply wouldn't be what they are. If you want neckband style earbuds like you've descriibed there are plenty of options out there that existed before AirPods did.

Why would Apple make a TV when Samsung has that market fully cornered? In every way. What would be the point of competing with the company that makes the actual display panels that literally everyone uses? Apple can offer it's excellent software and they've done that, you can plug an Apple TV into any TV or, if your TV is 'smart' like all TVs nowadays, you can use the Apple TV app on your best in class TV. As well as the Youtube App, or the Netflix app, or the Prime app, or pretty much any service you want has a smart TV app really. What would anyone gain from Apple making a best in class TV?

None of these devices would cannibalize sales of any of Apple's products because they're all a terrible idea. If you want non-apple products then just buy them. They exist. All that stuff exists, just not made by Apple because those are inherently non-Apple ideas. Apple makes their devices for people who want their devices and everything that comes with their devices.