MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Dyad, local, open-source Lovable alternative (Electron desktop app)
by willchen | 2025-09-18 23:23:54+00:00
Hi HN!

I left Google earlier this year and created Dyad, a local, open-source AI app builder made with Electron.

The motivation: I tried one of the popular cloud-based AI app builders, but when I pulled down the app to run locally and debug in Cursor, it just didn’t work. So I created Dyad, an app builder that runs fully on your computer, making it easy to switch between Dyad and coding tools like Cursor or Claude Code.

Source code: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/

Download (free, no sign-up): https://www.dyad.sh/

I've gotten questions about how it works under the hood so I wrote an architecture doc explaining how it does tool calling using XML tags, etc: https://github.com/dyad-sh/dyad/blob/main/docs/architecture....

Let me know what you think and happy to answer questions about building an Electron app, etc!
by roxolotl | 2025-09-18 23:24:19+00:00
Very funny this is partly in response to a Brooks piece. He fits nihilism very well. Doesn’t every really write about much and when cornered contends that most of his attempts to make points are really just vibes[0] like famously claiming $60 spent on alcohol and a $17 burger make him relatable to Americans struggling with inflation[1].

But particularly hilarious is that he wrote this exact piece two months ago in the Atlantic[2]. He argued that the Greeks had it right and we all need to be more virtuous again.

As someone who’d describe themselves as a virtue ethicist I’d be inclined to agree. Utilitarianism leads to the bureaucratic tyranny Arendt discusses and deontology is just as hollow as belief in belief. The reality is that we can’t optimize ourselves out of where we are.

[0]: https://www.foodandwine.com/1911-smoke-house-bbq-david-brook...

[1]: https://newrepublic.com/article/142708/david-brooks-tyranny-...

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/trump-admi...
by autoexec | 2025-09-18 23:24:32+00:00
When billionaires stop fantasizing about AI allowing them to rid themselves of the filthy peasant class which keeps feeling entitled to take even the smallest fraction of their income from them just because they're also doing all the actual work that makes that income possible.

What passes for AI is just good enough to keep the dream alive and even while its usefulness isn't manifesting in reality they still have a deluge of comforting promises to soothe themselves back to sleep with. Eventually all the sweet whispers of "AGI is right around the corner!" or "Replace your pesky employees soon!" will be drowned out by the realization that no amount of money or environmental collateral damage thrown at the problem will make them gods, but until then they just need all of your data, your water, and 10-15 more years.
by cogogo | 2025-09-18 23:24:45+00:00
Never had a worse personal anxiety experience than visiting it 15 yrs ago with my nephews who were 4 and 5yrs old. At the time you could go up elevators on the side of the new facade but you had to walk down spiral staircases on the old side. Those staircases have a huge open circle all the way down to the bottom. I was so worried for those kids. First time I had experienced anything close to parental fear. My brother and my sister in-law on the other hand never seemed phased.

That said. Dying to go back. So much progress has been made since then.
by anthomtb | 2025-09-18 23:25:10+00:00
> Humans can still enjoy the land without roaring across them in 4x4s.

To clarify: In your view, someone using a vehicle to access a remote area is not "enjoying the land"?

Perhaps you mean that the presence of a motorized vehicle reduces your own enjoyment.

(Personal bias: I am an avid mountain biker, occasional dirt bike rider, and feel the wilderness designation is harsh and used excessively).
by bigyabai | 2025-09-18 23:25:35+00:00
macOS and Windows are both now laden with more marketing and advertisements than actual features. When you step onto GNOME or KDE nowadays, it really does feel like a breath of fresh air.

I reciprocate their comment; 5-10 years ago the cross-OS experience was pretty samey. Now I just feel deeply upset when a relative brings me their Mac/Windows machine asking to make the popups go away.
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-09-18 23:27:20+00:00
Are they actually treating their bigger customers this way? Anyone with an account manager is probably fine. Anyone that will potentially be a big customer is getting wined and dined when closing deals.

So who is being affected? The lowest tier customers? From their short term perspective I think they’ve just shed all the “low value” customers almost over night.

And I’m sure orgs with enough spend can negotiate a bit.

I’m not saying I would use slack or that they are good. Just that I think they thought about this.
by JustExAWS | 2025-09-18 23:29:08+00:00
Because I have more important things to do than inconvenience myself because of a meaningless geek holy war.

1. When I paired my AirPods Pro and my Beats Flex (more convenient for traveling) to my phone, they were automatically paired to and auto switch between my Mac, iPad, Watch and AppleTV.

2. When I get messages on my phone, they automatically appear and I can respond to them on my watch, iPad, Mac and in my car with CarPlay

3. When I go to the gym, run or get in the pool, I can leave my phone at home and still listen to music and accept calls on my Watch

4. Widgets from my phone show up on my Mac.

5. I can control my iPad from my keyboard and mouse paired to my Mac.

6. I can use my iPad as a second display with my Mac.

7. AirPlay works from iPhone /iPad to my AppleTV

8. I can copy and paste between my Mac, iPad and phone

9. I don’t think it’s really an argument that all Android tablets suck and Google has given up in the space.

10. CarPlay

11. My M2 MacBook Air runs cool, quiet, fast and battery last for 12 hours+

12. iCloud - I can drop my phone in the ocean, go to the Apple Store and get a replacement, log in and you can’t tell the difference between my new phone and old phone.

13. While this isn’t iPhone specific and you can do this with Android - Apple Pay from both my Watch and my phone

14. When I’m walking around in a city, having directions on my Watch means I don’t have to take my phone out.
by silverquiet | 2025-09-18 23:29:13+00:00
Is it one of those things where it doesn't mean what it obviously means? I gave up studying the Bible because there were too many of those for me to follow.

But it seems to me like it would be crazy hard to push a camel through a needle. Also, it's one of those things where I think the translation is a bit off. Apparently the word in Aramaic is said like "gamla" which does sound rather like camel, but also meant rope, which makes a lot more sense in context, though still pretty difficult to get through a needle.
by iambateman | 2025-09-18 23:30:07+00:00
Same. After I went…

> On a perfect September afternoon, I walked alone to find the church.

> One moment, only trees. The next, La Sagrada Familia.

> To stand there, before the century of brilliance and determination that combined to create this mass of stone and glass, on the edge between nature and society, and see, and sense that I too am seen, was one of the great privileges of my life.
by Terr_ | 2025-09-18 23:30:11+00:00
I had a weird and painful experience like that with Reddit, where my account and 10+ years of content all vanished one morning for no reason... but its "appeals" webpage insists that my account is in good-standing, so therefore I can't submit any kind of request for help.

A real hard wake-up call on the importance of owning your own online identity and content.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-18 23:30:11+00:00
Discussion (93 points, 3 hours ago, 45 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294199

Related Trump FCC chair wants to revoke broadcast licenses–the 1A might stop him (9 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451557

Few heeded Trump's call to challenge TV licenses (2017) https://web.archive.org/web/20171019082700/http://www.washin... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15507866)
by slg | 2025-09-18 23:32:50+00:00
It is funny that you skipped over my criticism of you to agree with my criticism of the US government as if I didn't make a clear connection between those two. If you "know that it doesn't have to be two parties who have to convert all opinions into binary and pick a side", why did your original comment reduce this issue down to a binary? Can you admit that it is possible for someone to disagree with Kirk from the right?
by pxc | 2025-09-18 23:33:24+00:00
I do expect for my tastes to change if I study HCI, and to begin to notice things that I didn't notice before. And I'm interested in good heuristics for designing user interfaces for general audiences.

But I've been visually impaired my entire life, I'm colorblind, my colorblindness is progressive, and I'm going blind (timeline unknown). So my worries that HCI might not be "for me" come from a few places:

1. (This is the element you've perhaps picked up on.) Vision is generally the least compelling aesthetic dimension to me. I love music and poetry, but visual art virtually never moves me. Visual experiences generally lack spiritual depth for me, to the point that I sometimes find the way some people talk about visual art ridiculous or irritating. This is what I mean about not fitting in with people who are passionate about visual design.

2. Because of my vision, a lot of common assumptions about user interface design, especially about what is easy, natural, difficult, or awkward probably don't apply to me on a physical level. For instance:

- I often have to use full screen magnification, which violates the assumption that an entire application is visible to me at once - gaze detection data can't even be collected for people with eyes like mine because our acuity problems are *worse* in the central visual field to the point that in advanced cases people have to read text exclusively using their peripheral vision - sometimes it seems I have visual processing difficulties to the point of being unable to tell what a picture is even an image of, like if there are any objects in the image and what they are - visually recognizing things takes me a lot of time and effort relative to other people, even when I can reliably do it - although I am significantly and untreatably visually impaired, I do not yet use a screen reader in any capacity and I don't know Braille at all

I'm interested in HCI broadly— both for users like me and users unlike me. But I don't want to put a ton of energy into things that feel inordinately difficult or basically meaningless to me, either.
by lifthrasiir | 2025-09-18 23:34:10+00:00
One important thing to note: demo didn't fail! (Or, at least not in the way people usually think of)

> You've already combined the base ingredients, so now grate a pear to add to the sauce.

This is actually the correct Korean recipe for bulgogi steak sauce. The only missing piece here is that the pear has to be Pyrus pyrifolia [1], not the usual pear. In fact every single Korean watching the demo was complaining about this...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrus_pyrifolia
by eth0up | 2025-09-18 23:34:11+00:00
I could say a lot of mean things about Jimmy. But what good would it do? I can't stand him. But I will stand up for his right to say whatever he says. If this country, this side or that side, on a razor's edge or done gone cosmic can't see what looms in this direction, just take a chance and oppose it while you can. You don't want to live the alternative.

Quite seriously
by joekim | 2025-09-18 23:34:12+00:00
The community here is very forgiving of software bugs, but why did the rep act that way? To paraphrase Warren Buffet, what are the incentives that directed that led to this outcome? Why did the rep in this case act so viciously?

If Hack Club did pony up the $200k the rep would probably be compensated in some way. That would increase the propensity of a rep to strong arm with short deadlines and hold their 11 year chat history hostage even if it’s not the appropriate pricing for a non-profit.

Since this is bad for Slack and Salesforce’s brand I imagine they’ll be putting in new mechanisms to disincentivize this in the future. When it comes to the rep getting paid they’ll become an expert at how to do it properly.
by al_borland | 2025-09-18 23:34:12+00:00
When you said you were looking at a simpler device, I was not expected all those requirements and an AI device at the end. I was assuming dumb phone.

It seems an AI phone is going to also lock you into its own walled garden. So I’m not sure what this would solve.

What kind of AI phone did you have in mind? As it stands, it seems AI is an app or OS integration to smartphones as we know them today. Anything else seems like it would be too compromised as a product.

I stay with Apple’s walled garden, because it seems like the best option in terms of hardware, software, and services. I’ve tried Android tablets, Windows laptops, and use Linux on and off for various things. I don’t like any of it as well as what Apple, and the 3rd party developers on Apple’s platforms, put out. If Apple were to horribly fumble the ball on privacy and sell out their customers (they are going in the wrong direction in a lot of ways), I would have to seriously consider leaving, but I honestly have no clue where I’d go.
by felipeerias | 2025-09-18 23:34:35+00:00
The main concern when making maps is not philosophical but practical. The usual orientation responds to the simple fact that two thirds of Earth’s land is in the Northern hemisphere.

European and American maps place the Atlantic in the middle, because it minimises the distortions to those regions and makes them more visible. Asian maps put the Pacific in the middle for the same reason.

Reading the article, I am reminded of the medieval maps that put Jerusalem in the center, with Asia at the top and the Mediterranean flowing down from it. A spiritual map.

Perhaps what the article is describing is also a spiritual map in its own way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_and_O_map
by non_aligned | 2025-09-18 23:34:55+00:00
I think it's just clunky, like "a pencil can be used for a recipe". My first take is "wait, are we cooking a pencil? or stirring with it?"

The first meaning of "use for a recipe" is "use as an ingredient."

But then, it's a pretty weird thing to explain to begin with, approximately every human on the planet knows what the word "list" means. So what does this pseudo-definition add?
by red369 | 2025-09-18 23:36:17+00:00
This line very early on about iOS 26 made me worry about the quality of the article:

"Pros:

...

+ iOS 26 visual makeover"

This is a review of a new iPhone, so surely most people buying it will be upgrading from an iPhone. What percentage of those people are upgrading from iPhones that aren't also able to upgrade to iOS 26? What is the iPhone 17 having iOS 26 a positive point compared to? An iPhone 15 with iOS 26? An iPhone XS, stuck on iOS 18?

Also, given the mixed reactions to the iOS 26 visual makeover, is it really worth specifically calling out that makeover as being one of the top five features of the phone? The 5th best thing about the phone is something that a lot of people seem to wish they could opt out of forever?
by D-Coder | 2025-09-18 23:39:19+00:00
"Beginning Oct. 1, motorists with a Clean Air Vehicle decal will no longer be able to drive solo in carpool lanes because the program was not extended by the federal government..."

So it's a special EV privilege that is going away (because of the Feds). Now they'll be treated like other vehicles. Not as bad as the headline could be interpreted.
by akudha | 2025-09-18 23:39:29+00:00
I suppose people get automatically annoyed because who the owner of Slack is. It is reasonable to assume bad practices if the company is too large to care, have multiple prior bad incidents etc - that is why people automatically assume guilt with companies like Oracle, Comcast, Salesforce etc etc. If the company in question was a small 50 person outfit or unknown, people might assume it was an honest mistake or at least give benefit of the doubt.

Not saying it is right or wrong - just pointing out that people's patience is in short supply when it comes to mega corps, simply because of their very bad track records...
by Terr_ | 2025-09-18 23:39:46+00:00
The charitable interpretation here is that you don't realize what your post looks like in context, and you're being weirdly pedantic, sharing an abstract possibility that we have no reason to believe is relevant in this case.

The uncharitable assertion is that you want people to believe that the label is incorrect... but you're afraid or incapable of making the argument, so you are maliciously sowing doubt.

Neither are a particularly good look.
by tptacek | 2025-09-18 23:40:09+00:00
Just noodling on this:

He has better-than-typical odds of clearing the standing hurdle. He was directly harmed, right.

But he's going to have some pretty high evidentiary hurdles, right? Discovery may well turn up that Nextar pulled his shows preemptively, both because of political affiliation and because of an upcoming merger. They didn't need to be "jawboned", and there's not much indication that they were even contacted by the FCC.

When the largest affiliate network in the country pulls your show, it's harder to make the case that ABC itself was responding directly to the FCC, which is what Kimmel will need to establish.

These are positive and not normative arguments and my confidence level is extremely low.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-18 23:40:20+00:00
> "recommending" and "cautioning" social media companies on topics such as COVID

COVID was completely different because the government was essentially mandating certain measures in order to contain a widespread epidemic (which killed a million people by the way), and so calls to disregard those measures were extremely problematic to public health.

Can't believe you're equating it with what happened here.

Laptops: not sure what that is.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-09-18 23:40:23+00:00
I'm 100% against what's happening rn with Trump's fascism, but let's not pretend that there was no cancel culture on the left and pressure on companies. Example: Disney itself fired Gina Carano from The Mandalorian because of comments she made. There was no gov interference -- so what's happening here is much much worse -- but there was a fear (valid or otherwise) of blowback/ratings/whatever.
by archargelod | 2025-09-18 23:41:30+00:00
Yes, you can write code in a separate file and then import it to cartridge with tic-80 console commands[1]

You don't have to do this manually every time, just make a shell script with multiple commands; e.g. this will import code, save and run the cartridge:

./tic80 --skip --fs="$PWD" --cmd="load cart.tic & import code main.lua & save & run

The other way is indeed to buy or build yourself a PRO version, it can work with cartridges in plaintext format.

[1] https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/wiki/import
by sunrunner | 2025-09-18 23:42:24+00:00
> but there is value in doing it some years later where the details become less certain

Completely agree, but I also think there's value in re-watching within a short period of time. I find you retain enough memory from the previous viewing to be able to see subtle details and connect things that you maybe wouldn't have been able to in a first viewing.

And also, you can just drop the analytic brain and immediately rewatch something because you find it to be a beautiful film moment-to-moment.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-18 23:42:57+00:00
> he's going to have some pretty high evidentiary hurdles

Hmm, with ABC or the government? (Can individuals claim damages in court against the government for First Amendment violations?)

If it were found Carr was acting unconstitutionally, and thus clearly outside the colour of law, could he be found personally liable?

(Side note: thank you, this is what I was hoping for when I posted this here.)
by non_aligned | 2025-09-18 23:43:19+00:00
I know it's a joke and I had a sensible chuckle, but if you want to routinely use it at work, just keep in mind that it's probably gonna make things worse.

Since you can't exhaustively enumerate every good thing or every bad thing on the internet, a lot of security detection mechanisms are based on heuristics. These heuristics produce a fair number of false positives as it is. If you bring the rate up, it just increases the likelihood that your security folks will miss bad things down the line.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-18 23:44:49+00:00
> Terrorists

Terrorists do terrorism. What terrorism has Antifa done? (Answer: little to none [1].)

I’m not a fan of them. But they’re about as obnoxious as several far-right groups that have been legally sanctioned by both parties.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/27/us-rightwing-e...
by mysteria | 2025-09-18 23:44:58+00:00
Yes it increases compute usage but your 5090 has a hell of a lot of compute and the decompression algorithms are pretty simple. Memory is the bottleneck here and unless you have a strange GPU which has lots of fast memory but very weak compute a quantized model should always run faster.

If you're using llama.cpp run the benchmark in the link I posted earlier and see what you get; I think there's something like it for vllm as well.
by danpalmer | 2025-09-18 23:45:05+00:00
It's because Zuck doesn't actually believe in anything. Zuck's values, politics, and business goals change with the wind so everything that stems from them feels empty, because it's missing the true drive.

In contrast, nothing Steve Jobs said felt empty, whether we agreed or disagreed with what he was saying it was clear that he was saying it because he believed it, not because it's what he thought you wanted to hear.
by ksenzee | 2025-09-18 23:45:11+00:00
If the subject matter isn’t something the kid has a natural aptitude or interest in, and it’s not practical, and it’s not being taught in an unusually captivating way, why wouldn’t kids push back? I don’t blame them. I think adults should be able to justify why we’re using what boils down to the threat of force (if we’re honest) to make them sit in classrooms and listen to us.
by brandall10 | 2025-09-18 23:45:29+00:00
I've been twice, and unfortunately it was cloudy on my second trip.

The difference light quality makes to the experience is remarkable, and I implore anyone that visits to ensure you go at the right times on a clear sunny day.

You may think you've seen well lit stained glass before, but it's like freaking lazer beams of thick light penetrating the environment to the point where it doesn't seem natural.
by chr15m | 2025-09-18 23:45:32+00:00
Yep. I'm calling it. The churn is more dangerous and fragile than the rot.

Two alternatives:

- The occasional alert from `npm audit` that you have to carefully, deliberately, and thoughtfully upgrade your way out of.

- The shifting sands of 100s or 1000s of towering deps that change literally every time you `pnmp install`.

The second one is the current situation and it is madness.

There should be no package lock because package.json should be the package lock.
by jncfhnb | 2025-09-18 23:45:41+00:00
It was reading step 2 and he was trying to get it to do step 1.

He had not yet combined the ingredients. The way he kept repeating his phrasing it seems likely that “what do we do first” was a hardcoded cheat phrase to get it to say a specific line. Which it got wrong.

Probably for a dumb config reason tbh.
by macinjosh | 2025-09-18 23:47:35+00:00
Kayfabe all around.

Late night has been dying for a decade. Disney gets cover to end the show.

Kimmel knows it’s over. He gets to go down looking like he’s fighting instead of unentertaining.

Trump gets to claim he took down Kimmel, red meat for his base.

News and Social Media gets something to boost their numbers.