MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aurornis | 2025-09-09 22:38:52+00:00
This question isn't very revealing because it almost entirely depends on this one variable:

> maybe I am even in a privileged position financially; but at this moment in my life I would rather quit my job

Someone closer to retirement with a lot of savings and low expenses will have a completely different answer than a younger person with low savings and a family.

The second variable it depends on is their current salary. Someone who currently earns a huge number can afford to give up a higher percentage than someone who earns barely enough to make ends meet.

The question becomes a proxy for the person's financial situation and current salary, not their remote work preferences.

This is also a question where people's claims don't match their actions. Similar to every election season when a lot of people declare they're going to move to a different country if their party loses, but the number of people who actually do it is much smaller.
by Kirby64 | 2025-09-09 22:39:37+00:00
114mi of range isn’t actually 114mi. That’s my problem. If you treat the battery properly, you’d not use the bottom or top 10% (better would be not using bottom/top 20%, but that’d be impractical at that range), and then you need to add battery degradation of 10% or so. That means your 114mi range is more like 82 miles. Then, because it’s epa range, that means the actual range on the highway is going to be worse. So you’re closing to 60 miles of range.

Sure that’s more than the “average” commute even in high usage areas, but people don’t generally have super consistent average commutes. You’ll have a shorter average commute and then a longer drive with errands and such.

Also, having a car that needs to be essentially fully charged every day means you have to always, always remember to plug it in. Not as convenient as a car you need to charge every couple days.
by willio58 | 2025-09-09 22:39:46+00:00
Funny/sad story, my friend works for the government making maps for watersheds. Elon comes along and forces people to go back to office. She’d been remote since she was hired 3+ years ago. So suddenly she’s assigned to the closest gov office near her, which is an ICE OFFICE in SF, about an hour commute from where she lives (each way). She’s massively against the goings-on at ICE and asks for an alternate spot. She now has to commute 1:15 each way to an animal holding office in SFO. She is currently zooming into work each day from an office full of transient animals and no humans related to anything she does, all in the name of government efficiency. Needless to say, her work efficiency has diminished greatly.
by jmcphers | 2025-09-09 22:40:07+00:00
I also have a Playdate! I think it's a Sharp MIP rather than TN LCD. MIP is actually pretty popular in some places -- particularly smartwatches where battery life matters more than bright colors; Garmin, Coros, Pebble etc. all use MIP displays for the lower end models.

The thing about MIP is that the viewing angles are just not that amazing. I have had a Kindle and a Kobo, and they look like paper no matter how I hold them. My Playdate however needs to be positioned at a pretty specific angle with respec to the light to get the best contrast.
by jimbob45 | 2025-09-09 22:40:21+00:00
Trump will outright win 2026 if he bans H-1Bs after this RTO charade and neither party would be able to oppose such a ban without fatal public outcry. With India choosing Russia over the US, there would be very little political backlash to wrecking their economy too. Huge unemployed force in the US to fill the gap too.

That is to say, if H-1Bs aren’t banned now, in what seem to be the most favorable possible conditions in history for such a thing, then they’re never getting banned.
by sfink | 2025-09-09 22:40:21+00:00
Nope. I don't know why just checking the tags during speculation wouldn't stop Spectre V1, at least for cross-type accesses? I mean, it's not that simple because your program won't crash if speculation has mismatched tags. Which means you can try as many times as you want until you get lucky. But that's certainly not a "completely novel mitigation", so I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.

Perhaps the real problem is that you can use speculation to scan large amounts of memory for matching tags, some of which would be different types, so you need something to handle that?

(talking out of my butt here)
by mschaef | 2025-09-09 22:40:29+00:00
Some of it's size, some of it the fact that the camera is a second device, and some of it's workflow.

I tried a Sony RX100 (1" sensor) when they first came out, optimistic about the possibility of using it for 'general purpose' photography. After all, it's small enough.

The problem was, it's a second device to carry around and keep charged. Then once you capture the image, it's largely stuck on the device until you find a way to offload your images. I briefly experimented with cables that would let me do things like transfer images from the RX100 to my (Android at the time) mobile phone, for archiving and sending to family and friends. That turned the whole thing into the sort of science fair project that I didn't have time for as the parent of a very young child. (Although in fairness, I can't think of a single time in my life when I'd have had the patience, kids or not.)

This is why, for all the arguments you can make against them as cameras, I've come to be very thankful for the amount of effort that Apple and others have made to get appealing images out of devices I always carry around anyway. I can take a set of pictures, edit them, have them automatically archived to cloud storage, and send them to whoever I want.. all with a single device I was carrying around anyway.

This leaves open the fact that the 'real' camera workflow is still an option when there's the need for higher image quality and the time (or money to hire a photographer) to take advantage of what a DSLR or the like can do.

(When I compare what I can do with my iPhone to what my parents had available to them (a 110 format camera and 35mm Nikons), I like the tradeoffs a lot better. the image quality available now is definitely better than the 110. Some of those 35mm exposures are probably better quality than what I can get out of an iPhone, but they're all stuck in albums and slides, and nobody ever looks at them. )
by yallpendantools | 2025-09-09 22:40:45+00:00
If you quit (because of, say, RTO) then you quit. It's a fairly standard deal between you and your employer.

If you get laid-off, employer has to give you a severance package for any number of reasons (local labor laws, agreement with the union, corporate PR). This is not a standard deal and is, simply put, more expensive than if the employee just quit of their own accord.

In both cases, employer gets the benefit of reduced head count.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-09 22:40:54+00:00
It should be a trend. I've been wearing a crossbody small bag (I guess you could call it a fanny pack, technically) for a long time now and ever since I've gotten a smartwatch I rarely need to take my phone out, so it lives in the bag instead of a bulge in my pants pocket. I wear the bag in the front so when I do need my phone it's just as quick to pull out of the bag as my pants pocket.
by OgsyedIE | 2025-09-09 22:40:54+00:00
Structurally there's only a few ways disruption can happen to a platform that has existing centralized hosting of metadata and centralized hosting of data. Either the disruptor also centralizes both, decentralizes just the data or decentralizes both.

The second isn't viable in most real world cases until something changes the huge expense of decentralized CDN fetching. My gut says that the third would be on the losing side of almost every network effect.
by derefr | 2025-09-09 22:41:03+00:00
Well, yeah, Apple is being reasonable now because Apple just got through a big bad PR thing with their recent failed attempt at "AI". Apple are currently trying, as much as possible, to avoid applying the term "AI" to anything.

But that's not true of any other actor in the market. Everyone else — but especially venture-backed companies trying to get/retain investor interest — are still trying to find a justification for calling every single thing they're selling "AI".

(And it's also not even true of Apple themselves as recently as six months ago. They were approaching their marketing this way too, right up until their whole "AI" team crashed and burned.)

Apple-of-H2-2025 is literally the only company your heuristic will actually spit out any useful information for. For everything else, you'll just end up with 100% false positives.
by dotnet00 | 2025-09-09 22:41:15+00:00
Yep, the most obvious example (besides language) would be of math. Despite what kids (and unfortunately, some adults) say, it's worth memorizing the tables from 1->10 despite the ubiquity of calculators because the process of memorizing them helps with seeing the patterns that provide a deeper understanding, and it's much faster than pulling out a calculator and plugging the numbers in.

There are some subjects where the emphasis on memorization that some places have is detrimental, but that doesn't make memorization bad in general.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-09 22:41:17+00:00
I have 2 questions which I hope can be answered

Firstly, can there be an easier way to stop a microVM mid execution in this single executable bottlefire format and then rerun that and it would start mid execution. (something akin to how criu does it?)

Secondly, and although this isn't related to your product but rather about microvm and that is if something like microvm could be run in normal cloud infrastructure?

I saw this article (https://blog.alexellis.io/how-to-run-firecracker-without-kvm...) and It mentioned PVM and I was thinking if this can be applied here because then I feel like if I can run a container as a microvm on big cloud and then stop it mid execution and rerun it elsewhere, then I have essentially got an incentive to use spot instances which are (I think) 80% more cheaper and I am just curious about it from a devops side of things.
by seec | 2025-09-09 22:41:18+00:00
Exactly in the same boat.

Apple offering is underwhelming to say the least and way too expensive for my use case.

I want to go Android anyway, I'm too disillusioned with Apple currently, I'm tired of dealing with their predatory behavior. But there aren't a lot of decent options there as well but at least you can get it much cheaper, so that's something, I guess.

Previously Apple was the provider of hardware which made the right compromise to allow specific/focused use case, they called it "taste" in a sea of nonsense with bullshit "features". But now it feels like Apple has joined in on the nonsense and is actually leading the pack; which is why the price feels bad. If you are going to make the same crap as everyone else with the same set of bad compromises, I'm not going to overpay for it.

I think this is why Apple "AI" got so much backlash. If they didn't make it or at least market it as heavily as they, did it would have been fine, but it was just the same crap as everyone else, just worse and more expensive. They could have released the exact same phone, just shaving a 100 dollar and have been acclaimed and made more money that way I believe.
by ewoodrich | 2025-09-09 22:41:28+00:00
"Now"? Are you referring to the future developer signing requirements that won't begin until 2027 globally? It's trivially easy to sideload on Android right now:

1. Flip one switch in settings to enable sideloading

2. Download and open an APK

3. Flip one more switch (which you get automatically redirected to and it's highlighted at least on Samsung phones) the first time installing from whichever app source (Chrome/FDroid/etc).

4. Click install

Other than step 1, the user is led through the process via prompts, and step 3 only has to be done once per source. i.e. the first time you install from FDroid, after that you just click install without any nags or scare screens.

As far as I remember the "enable sideloading" switch in settings has always been a thing, and the per source setting was added at least 5+ years ago.
by greyb | 2025-09-09 22:41:40+00:00
I don't feel that your comment has corrected anything.

I like their OCR offering but it is suited for certain use cases, and would be overkill for many industry use cases. Mistral Saba is cool but there's no evidence uptake has been significant within the Global South compared to Chinese open weight models. Mistral Medium performs worse and costs double what gpt-oss-120B offers.
Show HN: ArduinoCogs adds web-based dashboards and config to ESP32 projects
by eternityforest | 2025-09-09 22:41:49+00:00
Still a work in progress, but it's usable.

This lets you create "tag points", which are variables with metadata, view and set their state from the web, and create basic automations via the web.

The automations are based on state machines, where each state has a list of "bindings", that set one variable to an expression as long as you're in that state.

Every state also has a variable, so you can enter it by setting it to 1.

There's a (currently unsecured, meant for private WiFi only) WebSockets API, and a Python client.

WiFi Power Saving is supported, power consumption is ~7mA when connected to WiFi, but you have to compile under PlatformIO with the right sdkconfig(There's an example code file).

There's a tiny command shell, which lets you dump the files and then push them to a new device. It is just some regexes, but it pretends to support here docs(They have to start with cat << "---EOF---" > FILENAME ) so that the dumps can be syntax highlighted.

There whole thing is modular, you don't need to use the web based automation features.

One of the modules is MP3/WAV playback, with a background track and an FX track.

Still some bugs, missing features, and especially missing docs, but I thought I'd post it now under the "release early" rule!
by brailsafe | 2025-09-09 22:42:08+00:00
> They are so commonplace and also not really that expensive where it is a financial flex like some watch that cost 10k+ or something.

I definitely agree about them being just about the most banal stupid toy you could spend the money on, but it's still a lot of money to a lot of people despite the cost of basic necessities making it not the huge amount that it used to be. I cringe at paying over $450, considering that every new model of phone since like 2015 hasn't really done anything worth significantly more money.
by refurb | 2025-09-09 22:42:09+00:00
Out of 12, only 6 saw their tumor shrink and 2 were tumor free.

Thats 17% saw a complete response, 33% a partial response and 50% no response.

It’s not particularly striking results, though any progress is welcome.

University press releases aren’t exactly the most unbiased sources of scientific information.
by homebrewer | 2025-09-09 22:42:41+00:00
It's already solved by pnpm, which refuses to execute any postinstall scripts except those you whitelist manually. In most projects I don't enable any and everything works fine, in the worst case I had to enable two scripts (out of two dozen or so) that download prebuilt native components, although even those aren't really necessary and it could have been solved through other means (proven by typescript-go, swc, and other projects led by competent maintainers).

None of it will help you when you're executing the binaries you built, regardless of which language they were written in.
by kamranjon | 2025-09-09 22:42:41+00:00
I sit on a few indie hacker rooms with folks that slurped up the vibe coding koolaid immediately and they've been posting about their 100x output for over a year now - but none of them have shipped anything remotely successful - so I think at least anecdotally I somewhat agree.

I also just overall haven't seen a huge influx of new and useful apps and websites as you'd expect based on how tech leaders are talking about the virtues of these new tools.

I don't think AI has really found it's niche yet, and I think it's going to be much subtler than most people think, it's going to be the tools that integrate features like translations and summarization and speech to text in ways that are seamless that end up sticking - all of this other noise is just marketing hype.
by rmunn | 2025-09-09 22:42:53+00:00
So when white people have emojis available that more accurately reflect their skin tone than the neutral-yellow one, and yet they prefer to use the one that DOESN'T reflect their skin tone nearly as well, to me that's pretty strong evidence that it is racially neutral, at least in their perception.

And really, when you're talking about perceived racial overtones of emojis, "in their perception" is what matters, isn't it? There's no objective, 2+2=4 truth that we can point to in this particular argument, as there is in some arguments, because it's all about what subtext different people are reading into things. The objective truth is that those pixels are a certain color; the perception of them is subjective, varying from person to person.

And while some people prefer to use emojis that reflect their skin tone (whether it's lighter or darker), others prefer to use the yellow emojis instead of the ones that would better reflect their skin tone. The fact that they chose that color when they had other options available suggests strongly that they are trying to communicate a "skin tone doesn't matter in the context of this communication" message.

You are arguing that the yellow color isn't inherently neutral, but I claim that you are making the perfect the enemy of the good. Even if the yellow color isn't inherently as neutral as it was intended to be, the fact that people are choosing it over colors that would more accurately reflect their skin tone means that it is neutral enough for the purpose.
by greensoap | 2025-09-09 22:43:16+00:00
That is only relevant to whether it is fair use not to whether the copying is an infringement. Fair use is what is called an affirmative defense -- it means that yes what I did was technically a violation but is forgiven. So on technicalities the copying is an infringement but that infringement is "okay" because there is a fair use. A different scenario is if the copyright owner gives you a license to copy the work (like open source licenses). In that scenario the copying was not an infringement because a license exists.
by albert-yu | 2025-09-09 22:43:18+00:00
Thank you for trying it out! Noted on the trackpad--I'll make some adjustments to make it snappier.

Funny you mention the integrations, since this started out as a spreadsheet project. I then ran into UX problems of how to toggle between the cell source and the result without shifting the layout too much. I'm sure there's a solution to this, but I just haven't figured it out yet.
by theteapot | 2025-09-09 22:43:42+00:00
Article:

> This is frankly a really good phishing email ... This is a 10/10 phishing email ..

Phishing email:

> As part of our on going commitment to account security, we are requesting that all users update their Two-Factor-Authentication (2FA) credentials ...

What does that even mean? What type of 2FA needs updating? One 2FA method supported is OTP. Can't see a reason that would legitimately ever need to be updated, so doesn't really pass the sniff test that every single user would need to "update 2FA".
by asdev | 2025-09-09 22:43:54+00:00
Everyone non-technical I know who vibe coded either ran into a bug they couldn't fix or abandoned their project.

I would love to see Lovable.dev's financials, I think they're running the classic low retention, high marketing dollar consumer playbook and are burning cash fast. Base44 seems to do the same thing after getting acquired by Wix, I'm seeing more and more of their ads.

As someone technical, vibe coding makes me feel disconnected from my product and feel like I don't know what's going on. I eventually just need to dive back into the code and find many things I need to change myself.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-09 22:44:31+00:00
Different phones have different sizes and shapes. Not sure what you expect, for a product designed to match the phone's size exactly?

And batteries don't last forever. When you upgrade to a new phone after a few years you'd likely need a new one anyways.

Worst case scenario just sell the old one on eBay if it's still holding a good charge!
by SL61 | 2025-09-09 22:45:03+00:00
I think remote work gets increasingly hard to manage the larger a company gets.

My parents both worked for the same Fortune 500 company when COVID hit and the thousands of employees in their branch had to abruptly transition to WFH. Something like 10% of employees just disappeared, never to be heard from again. Lots of people who had been perfectly fine employees in the office ended up getting fired because with WFH they couldn't manage to stay at their desk and get their work done. That division of the company was seriously crippled for about six months.

My own job is with a small business that has been remote-only since before COVID and it's all been great. They've never even needed to "prune" anyone who abused remote work. I guess they're good at determining how reliable someone will be during interviews. We're all adults and there's a high level of trust that we're all doing our jobs, but the team is small enough that it would take a maximum of a single day to notice if someone is slacking.

But when the company gets really large, they sometimes have to manage to the lowest common denominator, and "we're all adults" becomes an increasingly shaky assumption. So I kind of understand where the anti-WFH CEOs are coming from if they were at the helm of a massive company and saw all kinds of chaos during COVID. But I also think small, geographically distributed teams can massively outperform if you hire the right people.
by scoopdewoop | 2025-09-09 22:45:28+00:00
I have been so discouraged by the way that web3 crypto hucksters pounced on vibe-coding.

I truly enjoy programming with AI, it is my favorite hobby by a mile. I'm also happy to say that, for now, I get to capture some of the productivity increase for myself while my employer catches up to how effective it is.

It is sad that there is no space to discuss these new techniques that isn't full of opportunists and clout chasers.
by bithive123 | 2025-09-09 22:46:17+00:00
"Inflation" simply refers to a rise in general price levels. The cause of inflation is known: someone sets a price.

There isn't a single reason why someone might raise a price. It could be that they have some ideology about the size of the money supply (i.e. "printing money") or it could be that the costs of their inputs went up ("inflation") due to tariffs, or other supply chain problems. Or it could be a cynical bet that the market would bear a higher price ("using inflation as an excuse").

Blaming inflation on this-or-that cause is most definitely a political rather than theoretical exercise.
by janalsncm | 2025-09-09 22:46:47+00:00
This isn’t a deal to sell their books. The authors are getting $3k per book while maintaining the rights to their IP. The settlement is to avoid statutory damages which are between $750 and $30k or more per infringement.

One of the consequences of retaining their rights is that they can also sue Meta and Google and OpenAI etc for the same thing.
by consumer451 | 2025-09-09 22:46:50+00:00
This is a really interesting development.

> Developers making Office AI features found Anthropic's latest models performed better than OpenAI in automating tasks such as financial functions in Excel or generating Powerpoint presentations based on instructions, the report said, citing one of the two people involved in the effort.

> Microsoft will pay its cloud rival Amazon Web Services to access the Anthropic models, according to the report. AWS is one of Anthropic's largest shareholders.

Any folks here who integrate LLMs into their products have opinions on when to use Anthropic's models over OpenAI's?