MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andy99 | 2025-09-09 22:16:49+00:00
As part of our efforts to reach carbon neutrality by 2030, iPhone Air does not include a power adapter or EarPods. Included in the box is a USB‑C Charge Cable that supports fast charging and is compatible with USB‑C power adapters and computer ports.

I was seriously thinking of buying it for a minute till I remembered how much they just exude smugness. I like apple hardware but the company absolutely disgusts me.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-09 22:17:14+00:00
Did you miss the part about how this affecting the UK despite educational warnings? This is hardly US-exclusive, and education is not solving the problem.

> If a 14 year old watches porn

This is not 14 year olds either, these are teenagers and fully grown consenting adults, notably not in the US.

"A survey by the Institute for Addressing Strangulation, established with Home Office funding in 2022, after strangulation became a standalone offence, found over a third of 16 to 34-year-olds had experienced this."

The reality is that people are influenced by pornography, despite education, despite warnings, despite common sense, despite age, despite region, and it is killing people. Even sex-positive educators are stuck in cognitive dissonance on this one.
by znpy | 2025-09-09 22:17:54+00:00
This is great and... On a small scale, you don't even need samba or nfs.

Many file browsers can mount remote directories via sftp, and can browse the files as if it was a local directory.

Also: KDE and some GTK-based graphical environments have subsystems for this:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIO_(software)
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-09 22:18:28+00:00
I’m both sad and incredibly happy to read this. I lost my wife recently to a recurring metastatic melanoma. She was treated at MSK by an amazing team.

It was a terrifying diagnosis and literally would have been a guaranteed death sentence in 2017. In 2023, she had a very real chance of pulling through due to immunotherapy. Unfortunately some complications led to the worst outcome and we lost an amazing woman.

I remember that my wife said once that the everything she had on that journey was on the shoulders of those before. So maybe in some small way she helped with the research and a future mother, sister, wife, husband, son, dad will have hope where there was none.
by nashashmi | 2025-09-09 22:18:45+00:00
Those are provisions for visa grants. After the visa is given, was there any law that was broken? No.

I agree the terms of the visa explicitly did not allow for applicants to perform construction. And they are accused of doing construction work.

This means the State Department would issue visa cancellations and the company would get sanctioned. Instead ICE went ahead and arrested the employees. That is full overreach. Visa cancellation had not been issued.
by efitz | 2025-09-09 22:18:50+00:00
Android has always felt like a computer to me- too many customizations; too many technical decisions I have to make, too complicated. I can see why many people would like that; I don’t.

This is a very subtle point to try and get across, because it’s scattered across 1 million different design decisions. For example, since the beginning of iPhone, I don’t have to remember to save anything, when I open an app it usually remembers whatever state I need if applicable. Android has moved this direction, but iOS was always that way. Likewise, I do very little customization to my phone other than rearranging icons or changing the wallpaper.

I don’t want to think about the security implications of all the different permission grants when I install an app. iPhone apps ask me for a permission in context, and I can decide at that moment whether or not I want to share my photos or whatever.

Again, I gave two examples, but the thinking behind this is pervasive in the operating system. There just are not many sharp edges.

I am happy living in my walled garden, and I am generally satisfied with the capabilities that the phone gives to me. I am scared of apps because they are potential vehicles for malware, and Apple has a much better track record there than android, much less rooted android.
by xrd | 2025-09-09 22:19:32+00:00
Good point, you could, for example, accuse someone of being equivalently dangerous, say in the MS-13 gang, illegally deport him without due process, and then hold up a doctored photo with those initials tattooed on his hands and insist he had those tattoos on his hands.

Then, just do whatever the hell you want all the name of protecting people from crime and protecting jobs.

What am I saying, that's completely ridiculous and could never happen in a "law and order" country like the US.
by gnulinux | 2025-09-09 22:19:50+00:00
I honestly don't understand why Unicode still doesn't have all subscript and superscript letters, which I personally need to use almost every day--and I imagine many people who write math/code as well--but has 8 different varieties of alien emoji to choose from. I still can't write something as trivially simple as $1_G$ which would mean the "1" of group "G" (which is like being unable to write the word "the" if math was a language) because unicode lacks subscript G (capital) but I can send my wife a slideshow made solely of emoji. It's unfortunate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc...
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-09 22:19:51+00:00
Ohio senator introduces 25% tax on companies that outsource jobs overseas - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45146528 - September 2025

https://www.moreno.senate.gov/press-releases/new-moreno-bill...

https://www.moreno.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The...
by acdha | 2025-09-09 22:20:10+00:00
> What's your source for it is "harder" or "takes longer"?

Windows devices’ power management and battery life has been behind Apple since the previous century? If you think hardware support is a simple #ifdef, ask yourself how a compile-time flag can detect firmware updates, driver versions, or flakey hardware. It’s not that Apple’s hardware is perfect but that those are made by the same company so you don’t get Dell telling you to call Broadcom who are telling you to call Microsoft.
by shirro | 2025-09-09 22:20:18+00:00
They said an LTT store message directed them to the Brodie Robertson video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hVwUjcsl6s so they did their own investigation which confirmed similar things.

It looks like Youtube might be measuring views differently and perhaps getting rid of unmonetizable views which doesn't impact the number of likes or revenue. I think the annoyance is over the lack of transparency and the power Youtube holds over content creators rather than any immediate concern over loss of income etc.
by m463 | 2025-09-09 22:20:26+00:00
well, actually:

The word clanker has been previously used in science fiction literature, first appearing in a 1958 article by William Tenn in which he uses it to describe robots from science fiction films like Metropolis.[2]

He actually taught science fiction and had lots of interesting stories of the classic era of scifi, like BEM's - a bug-eyed-monster, arms wrapped around a woman in s "brass brassiere".

hmmm.. which now I realize explains "the flat eyed monster"...

https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781476780986/9781476780986___...
by apparent | 2025-09-09 22:20:38+00:00
According to Apple's comparison tool, the Air has 27 hrs of video playback, compared to 30 for the 17 and 39 for the Pro.

Based on that, it doesn't sound like it's that much worse. Of course, if you're trying to maximize battery longevity by not exceeding 80% charge, that might make it not very useful for many people.
Show HN: Personalized Learning Pathways
by sridhar87 | 2025-09-09 22:20:47+00:00
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by Sohcahtoa82 | 2025-09-09 22:20:58+00:00
> So whatever makes Edlin Ring so special, it's appearently really hard to describe in a way that separates it from lesser games.

Actually, there is:

Knowing the difference between a game being difficult versus punishing. Here's a 12 year old, 7-minute video that talks about it: https://youtu.be/ea6UuRTjkKs

(EDIT: If it helps, consider changing "punishing" to "unfair")

The TL;DW is that punishing games are not fun because they often rely on cheap things like unavoidable damage, actions not being telegraphed, inconsistency of rules, long iteration times (ie, unskippable cutscenes, excessively long boss fights where you're redoing the same first 10 minutes over again). Punishing games are poorly designed by people that want to defeat the player, rather than allowing the player to overcome the challenge.

In Elden Ring, all damage is avoidable. Every attack is telegraphed. Boss fights aren't really that long, and if you die, the walk back to try again is always short and doesn't rely on fighting through waves of enemies. Some fights have cutscenes either at the start of the fight or during a transition to a second phase, but they're skippable.

It's still a challenging game. Some boss hits will eliminate over 60% of your HP in a single hit, but those attacks are telegraphed and you're supposed to dodge them.

But to a certain extent, ER is a "choose-your-own-difficulty" game. You can grind out higher levels to get your stats up if you want to give yourself more of an edge. The people complaining about Margit (A very early boss) being super hard were probably under-leveled. I got him to 1% HP on my second try (Seriously, his health bar was a single pixel wide), and got him down on my 5th.
by Asooka | 2025-09-09 22:21:07+00:00
Yeah, WFH doesn't work because you can't smell each other over the network. We can transmit video and audio, but so far we can't replicate touch and smell over Zoom calls. Now, touch is obviously not needed, because touching your coworkers is against policy, but smell is really important. As the esteemed researcher Mya S. Smith has shown, people who work emit a specific pheromone, known as the "Busy Efficient Employee" pheromone, or BEE pheromone for short. When a person smells another person's BEE pheromone, that signals their brain to focus on work and they themselves start emitting BEE pheromones too. The end result is a hive of bustling BEEs, delivering productivity, synergy, collaboration, and making line go up! This is also why open-office plans are so important to maximise productivity - it is the easiest way to make sure BEE smell is dispersed to every corner of the office. BEE also makes employees very happy to stay late in the office and work overtime without asking for additional pay.
by jeroenhd | 2025-09-09 22:21:22+00:00
Several brands have released an ultra thin version of their phone, followed by a foldable version of their phone. One phone depth is good for just about everyone, but you can't double that up, you'd get a phone that's too bulky for modern tastes.

It stands to reason the iFold/iPaper/iSheet/whatever Apple will call it is drawing closer now that Samsung and several Chinese brands have pretty much solved the design for Apple.
by skywhopper | 2025-09-09 22:21:48+00:00
Nah, the existing implementation is pretty decent, actually, but doesn’t address every use case and has some flaws that are hard or impossible to fix. But for lots of use cases it works great.

Now here’s a new implantation that addresses some of the architectural problems that made the old library structurally problematic for some use cases (streaming large JSON docs being the main one).
by roughly | 2025-09-09 22:22:05+00:00
“Terrible numbers sales-wise” is a bit of a distortion when talking about iPhones - the number that went around in 2022 was the 13 accounted for 3% of iPhone sales in 2021, which indeed sounds terrible - except Apple sold somewhere around a quarter billion iPhones that year, which means ~7.5 million iPhone 13 minis in 2021 alone. Those are numbers that anyone else would kill for. That’s just about the entire population of New York City buying an iPhone. There’s 35 states with fewer people than that. Ford sold fewer F-150s in the last decade than Apple sold iPhone 13 Minis in 2021 alone.
by greensoap | 2025-09-09 22:22:43+00:00
Actually, the court really only said downloading a pirated book to store in your "library" was bad. The opinion is intentionally? ambiguous on whether the decision regarding copies used to train an LLM applies only to scanned books or also to pirated books. The facts found in the case are the training datasets were made from the "library" copies of books that included scans and pirated downloads. And the court said the training copies were fair use. The court also said the scanned library copies were fair use. The court found that the pirated library copies was not fair use. The court did not say for certain whether the pirated training copies were fair use.
by minitech | 2025-09-09 22:22:58+00:00
> Sadly we don't have any defense against 0 days if an emergency patch is indistinguishable from an attack itself.

Reading the code content of emergency patches should be part of the job. Of course, with better code trust tools (there seem to have been some attempts at that lately, not sure where they’re at), we can delegate that and still do much better than the current state of things.
by edude03 | 2025-09-09 22:23:13+00:00
You don't need it, it's essentially a hosted version of their tool bake[0], which is actually pretty slick - without any setup you can go from a system with just KVM to running any random docker container. I can think of a few use cases for this, especially anything where you want to use containers as the delivery mechanism

[0]: https://github.com/losfair/bake
by paulryanrogers | 2025-09-09 22:25:07+00:00
> Most parents just watch TV, stare at their phones and don't want to be bothered by anything that requires effort.

No?

Most of the parents around me are busy each working a full time job and doing their best to raise their kids.

They now spend some of their free time reading on the phones instead of a newspaper, magazine, or book. Some listen to books while they mow the lawn, clean the house, or do other chores like laundry. They also hang out a mix of kids and parents nearby, both inside and out, in front of bonfires and kitchen tables. RN I'm commenting on HN while my kids and neighbor kids turn dinner into an imaginary cooking show at the table.

Parents around here are also often tending to elderly parents or physically/mentally challenged relatives.

Too few can afford to have one parent stay home fulltime.

Of course there have always been parents neglecting their kids to do anything else: bowling, drinking, partying, traveling, tinkering, obsessively reading, etc. The fact that more activities are behind screens isn't the catch all explanation it's often promoted to be.
by kelnos | 2025-09-09 22:25:08+00:00
> iPhone 4S: 3'5"

This is a very funny typo, considering the topic at hand.

But yeah, I think I stopped being happy with phone sizes when they started going beyond 4" or so. It's hilarious to me that they can make a phone that's ~5.5" and call it "mini".

I'm an Android guy, and had high hopes for https://smallandroidphone.com/, but the guy who was originally driving it is running his resurrected Pebble company now, and there's been basically no useful activity in the Discord for at least a couple years now, so I assume it's dead.
by giveita | 2025-09-09 22:25:13+00:00
There are 2 concepts here. Problem with internet forums is the combinatorial explosion in points to talk to!

So the impact that the adoption of fungible value by human society. As you alluded to: unspeakably big and arguably good overall (lets see the next 200 years before we judge but lets say massively positive. We got vaccines and space travel.)

Obviously it is not all attributable to money. It is the inventions from the wheel to the sexstant, the schools, socialism, capitalism, invention of writing, religion, even war etc. etc.

On the other hand, "Impact is money and money is Impact". is not true.

A teacher gets a fixed wage. They can be a great teacher and inspire the kids to do great things, or they could make the kids feel insecure for life. Same dollar wage both ways.
by godelski | 2025-09-09 22:25:30+00:00
| Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.[0]

Please don't be disingenuous. You know that none of the authors were selling their books for $3k a piece, so obviously this is about something more

> because of Anthropic's stupidity in not buying the books.

And what about OpenAI, who did the same thing?

What about Meta, who did the same thing?

What about Google, who did the same thing?

What about Nvidia, who did the same thing?

Clearly something should be done because it's not like these companies can't afford the cost of the books. I mean Meta recently hired people giving out >$100m packages and bought a data company for $15bn. Do you think they can't afford to buy the books, videos, or even the porn? We're talking about trillion dollar companies.

It's been what, a year since Eric Schmidt said to steal everything and let the lawyers figure it out if you become successful?[1] Personal I'm not a big fan of "the ends justify the means" arguments. It's led to a lot of unrest, theft, wars, and death.

Do you really not think it's possible to make useful products ethically?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220658/google-eric-schm...
by okanat | 2025-09-09 22:26:21+00:00
People don't buy phones every year. People don't want to pay 95% price for 80% of performance / features.

Smaller phones as an idea isn't the problem here. Companies just don't want to make equivalent smaller phones. Making a new phone every single year is a stupid trend that causes min-max effects. A good small phone will eat into profits that's harder to make up in a yearly cycle. People will not buy nerfed smaller phones which is a positive feedback cycle.
by basisword | 2025-09-09 22:26:42+00:00
You can export all the data from Apple Health from a button in the app. It exports a zip with data in a usable XML format. The Health data is also available via an iOS API so there are apps available which pull and export the data in other formats (e.g. CSV). I try to connect any health related apps to Apple Health (e.g. Withings, MyFitnessPal) and use that are the central repository.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-09 22:26:45+00:00
Bro, labor unions were the first to push the laws that limited citizenship for Asians. They are always anti-immigrant when they have any power.

It’s worthwhile for any foreigner to look around and see if they want software unions because without a doubt you will be outnumbered by domestic workers who will immediately turn on you the moment they don’t need you.

And here are some Asians, in detention because of a labor union. As anyone could have predicted.
by orwin | 2025-09-09 22:27:00+00:00
So you agree that if an employer might be breaking the law, we have to publicly humiliate its workers so that USians can have the jobs (maybe)?

Why is the public humiliation necessary? The cuffing and even detainment is already too much for people with clean papers imho, but you also have to post their picture on social media to make the world understand how you treat workers in your country, that's the reason?

"Your company is foreign and do bad things, if you come here, you'll be cuffed detained and shown to the world as an example" do not seems very USian, Statue of liberty and all, all the lines about justice and "fair punishment", but i'm updating my priors seeing that most of you seems to agree with that.
by nextos | 2025-09-09 22:27:36+00:00
True, there are incentives to avoid reporting abuse. I think in cases where abuse is reported, universities tend to support abusers because they are the ones who bring in grant money. Furthermore, internal control systems are not independent, and they tend to be linked to senior faculty members, who are the ones usually breaching the academic code of conduct.

In many cases journals have retracted articles after evident image manipulation was discovered. University committees rarely take disciplinary action against fraudsters. In some prominent cases they have even issued statements of support. This is starting to change, albeit slowly. For example, Sweden now has a national integrity board that investigates those types of breaches, much more likely to be neutral as it is not closely linked to the investigated subjects.
Show HN: Mermaid-animate, GSAP animations for Mermaid sequence and flow diagrams
by apimade | 2025-09-09 22:28:04+00:00
I work in cybersecurity and find that visualizing data flows across multiple disparate systems is incredibly difficult, and often immediately useless (ie the day you author something, is the day it's out of date). I started to think about what sort of novel ways you can demonstrate things like data sprawl, and the issue compounding over time.

This got me thinking about stuff like "is there rendering programs you can use to visualize data like water pipes?"

Of course the WebGL ecosystem isn't quite there, and I wasn't about to learn video production or rent a rendering farm, but I figured I already regularly abuse stuff like PlantUML and Mermaid diagrams for these ad-hoc tasks.. So, why not see if we can animate the paths in SVGs?

In an evening I came up with this demo repo. The initial idea was to add `id` like "A-->B" to each line between nodes (edges), and use an external animation library like GSAP to make it pretty.

.. Then I just sort of.. Kept going.
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by roenxi | 2025-09-09 22:28:17+00:00
It is technically different and there are trade offs, but that isn't much of an argument - at the end of the day we need to send yea many bytes of data from server to client with a known format. I watched a PeerTube video yesterday and it was the same experience as watching a YouTube one. Some company could implement YouTube by running large servers as peers if the unit economics made sense and it'd work.

The problem PeerTube has is that there isn't demand for what it is doing because YouTube is a pretty good video custodian. Although everyone seems to be sensibly alert to the risk that they eventually go bad, right now it works. Obviously don't expect any video currently on YouTube to be available in 20 years though.
by givemeethekeys | 2025-09-09 22:29:10+00:00
I was one of those people who bought an iphone 13 mini. When someone sees it, their first question is, "what phone is that?", unless they too own an iPhone 13 mini or owned a small iPhone before that.

People do think that being able to use the phone with just one hand is cool, but most people, even small-handed people, like to have a big screen to watch stuff on.