MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nerdsniper | 2025-09-16 07:40:10+00:00
Midwest, East Coast, and South I've seen some 1/2lb or 1lb blocks for fancier butters sometimes. But a pat of butter was definitely 1/4-1/2 tbsp of butter in the midwest - depending on if for toast (less) or for baking (exactly 1/2).

I've not heard "pat" used as a serious unit of volume since childhood though. In fact I rarely hear the word pat in relation to butter at all anymore.
by ziga | 2025-09-16 07:41:24+00:00
> Oh, and also batteries such as the tesla power wall can only be charged and discharged about 1000 times before they have lost a lot of capacity.

Powerwall's cycle life is much better than 1000. The Powerwall warranty guarantees 70% capacity after 10 years of daily cycles (i.e. 3650 cycles). This means they expect the capacity to be substantially above 70%.

We posted an analysis of Powerwall capacity retention: https://www.netzero.energy/content/2025-02/powerwall-analysi...
by jbstack | 2025-09-16 07:41:33+00:00
At least with LLMs you have more options (Deepseek, Grok, offline models, etc.). It's still far from perfect, but it's not as bad as phones where you basically only have a choice of Android or iPhone if you don't want to have to live with major inconvenience (such as being unable to do online banking or pay for parking). It's also a lot easier to launch a competitor in the AI market: you just need capital. With phone OS's it's essentially impossible. The barriers to entry are too high.
by Jare | 2025-09-16 07:41:37+00:00
> As they say, the best way to ruin something you love doing is by making it your job.

As someone who made a job and career out of what I always loved, it's far from ruined. Your relationship with the thing changes, and like anything that changes, sometimes it will go well and sometimes it will go bad, often both in succession like a rollercoaster.

> IMO people who chase some higher purpose and meaning are destined to be forever unhappy at their job.

I can 100% agree about people like that being forever emotional and passionate at their job. But to label it as unhappy is terribly reductive. "Unhappy" is a part of it, but there are plenty of other emotions you will go through: happy, scared, hopeful, dubious, frustrated, satisfied, elated, etc. Much like emotions that play out for us in "real" life events and relationships.
by gloosx | 2025-09-16 07:41:46+00:00
React isn’t just "winning by default" It's winning because at the core it's just JavaScript function composition. A component is a function, conditionals are `if (...) { ... } else { ... }`, loops are `map()`. JSX is just sugar for function calls.

In Svelte you are writing XML with little JavaScript islands inside it. Instead of if you get `{#if}{:else}{/if}`. Thats not "ergonomic" – thats a mini-language stapled on top of JS. No one wakes up saying "please let me write control flow in XML today"

The compiler tricks are neat, but React feels natural because it never asks you to stop writing JavaScript.
by palmfacehn | 2025-09-16 07:42:11+00:00
Even for dashboards or other cases where the React maximalists claim that application state is too complex, it is usually trivial to inline a bit of JSON representing the initial state and handle updates with Vanilla JS. For me, I appreciate that my pages can render with one single request. There's something deeply wrong when you have the entire browser API at your fingertips, yet include 10mb of dependencies. The browser is already a heavy piece of tech, yet the typical JS heavy page is larger than the equivalent static binary of a native application.
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-09-16 07:44:14+00:00
The rant feels more like "old man yelling at cloud" than an actual valid complaint.

The "issue" is probably more like smartphones are yesterday's technology. They're no longer the shiny new toys they were a decade ago, and the amount of innovation you can realistically do with them, as a physical device, is more or less limited.

That doesn't mean Apple isn't innovating, but most innovation right now is happening behind the scenes.

New chips for connectivity. I remember a time before the H1 chip (AirPods). I remember keeping my phone in my left front pocket, and for some reason most wireless headphones at the time had the receiver in the right side, and I remember sound clipping every time I moved. Enter AirPods and the H1 chip, and I could suddenly leave my phone at my desk and go get coffee, and I would still have perfect sound. Before the H1 chip, having Class 1 bluetooth in a wireless headset was thought of as if not impossible, then at least impractical due to the power requirements, and then Apple proved everybody wrong. They're currently doing the same with chips for mobile and desktop usage, where their CPU power to Watt ratio continues to be the benchmark to beat.

While things right now feels like a "standstill" I have no doubt we're in for an interesting ride in 3-5 years. All signs point to mobile and desktops converging, meaning in a relatively short time your phone could become your desktop also.

Apple has been working on unifying apps across platforms, with iPadOS being the latest development. iPadOS 26 apps have menus, and window controls (traffic lights) like desktop apps, and yet can still run as legacy iPad apps, and most of them will also run on iPhones.

The major hurdle to making a "single device for mobile/desktop" is not technology. We have the technology, and the A19 Pro processor has as much power as an Apple M2 chip, which is certainly no slouch. The major hurdle is that nobody wants to use "desktop apps" on their phone, and nobody wants to use "mobile apps" on their desktop.

So, Apple may not innovate in a way that "you" like it, but it doesn't mean they're not innovating. As always, nobody is forcing anybody to buy products, so vote with your wallet. Apple is still a "for profit" company, and they will go where the money is.
by piva00 | 2025-09-16 07:44:34+00:00
It shouldn't, you wouldn't be able to photograph candid moments in public of your own family/group of friends if anyone's else face showed up in the picture, that's not a world I want to live in.

It would also completely kill any form of street photography, even if you don't appreciate the art it would kill documenting times and places for posterity, for what benefit exactly?
by Panzerschrek | 2025-09-16 07:45:09+00:00
Yet another article misleadingly treating C and C++ both as memory-unsafe languages. But there is a huge difference between them. Modern C++ code written according to strict standards (like C++ core guidelines) is much less vulnerable in comparison to C code or old-style C++ code. So in practice it may be enough to write in C++ a modern way to avoid vulnerabilities or at least greatly minimize them. Adopting a new memory-safe language may be much more harder, especially in large existing codebases.

And strictly speaking Rust isn't memory-safe, since it allows to shot the leg via unsafe blocks.
by thinkingemote | 2025-09-16 07:45:21+00:00
I once went to a talk by Ian Banks, he said the key thing about his Sci-Fi future is that a super powerful AI would be benevolent.

The Culture is happens when an AI actually likes humans and easily surpasses them. It's quite unique, I think, in most sci fi. In Star Trek, for example, the AI is neutral, a tool.

Are there cases of jealousy in the AI towards humans? Does an AI want to be a human?
by jbstack | 2025-09-16 07:45:46+00:00
It's not a full solution. I've seen UK sites that, following the Online Safety Act, simply require all users to verify their age rather than bother to figure out whether you are actually a UK customer or not. I guess it's easier to implement and many sites mainly rely on domestic customers anyway so they don't care if international users are affected.

Also, this isn't just about porn. For example, I can barely use Reddit now if I connect with a UK IP address: the merest hint that there might be some NSFW angle to a post is enough to trigger their algorithm into requiring age verification.
by M4v3R | 2025-09-16 07:46:24+00:00
> Their biggest problems came with being "creative" (their solutions were pretty "stock")

LLM designed UIs will always look generic/stock if you don’t give it additional prompting because of how LLMs work - they’ve memorized certain design patterns and if you don’t specify what you want they will always default to a certain look.

Try adding additional UI instructions to your prompts. Tell it what color scheme you want, what design choices you prefer, etc. Or tell it to scan your existing app’s design and try to match it. Often the results will be much better this way.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-09-16 07:46:52+00:00
Suggestions for future blog articles:

"Keyboards and mice are winning by default and slowing innovation"

"Web is winning by default and slowing innovation"

"Linux servers are winning by default and slowing innovation"

They basically write themselves! Don't forget to mention touch screens and track pads in the first one. Have fun, you are welcome.
by foft | 2025-09-16 07:47:01+00:00
I've had great results with Codex, though I found ChatGPT 5 was giving much better results than the existing model. So ended up using that directly instead. So very excited to have the model upgraded in Codex itself.

The main issues with Codex now seem to be the very poor stability (it seems to be down almost 50% of the time) and lack of custom containers. Hoping those get solved soon, particularly the stability.

I also wonder where the price will end up, it currently seems unsustainably cheap.
by mpweiher | 2025-09-16 07:48:10+00:00
The "nonsense" from the "tabloids" with no direct involvement or experience with the subject...like former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who initiated/approved the Nordstream 1 pipeline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k0xx8LA8-o&t=817s

"We got out of nuclear, during my time, and we also will get out of coal and we should count on renewables. But it won't be enough".

As a justification for Nordstream 1, which was kicked off shortly after the nuclear exit was made law in 2002, and for Nordstream 2, wich was initiated later.

Same story with that other tabloid reporter with no idea of what she's talking about, Angela Merkel:

"Sie verwies auf die damals schon hohen Energiepreise durch Förderung der erneuerbaren Energien, den Atomausstieg und den Beginn des Kohleausstiegs. "

She pointed to the already high energy prices at that time due to the promotion of renewable energies, the phase-out of nuclear power and the beginning of the phase-out of coal.

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Merkel-erklaert-wie-es-zu-Nord-S...

Nothing to do with the nuclear exit, no sireee.

Oh and more "tabloids", such as the Council for Foreign Relations:

"In the decade leading up to the February 2022 invasion, Russia became emboldened by the presumption that Germany valued its economic interests above all else. These interests were heavily tied to Germany’s significant reliance on importing cheap Russian natural gas."

"Russia rushed to finalize the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the months before the invasion and deliberately emptied German gas storages owned by Russian state energy company Gazprom to increase pressure on Germany."

https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/one-year-after-how-putin-got-ge...

Or the Brookings institute:

"The argument centered on whether it was a commercial project, intended to meet Europe’s growing demand for natural gas, or a geopolitical project intended to deepen Russia’s dominance of European gas markets and to starve the Ukrainian economy of revenues from natural gas transit."

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/europes-messy-russian-gas...

Or another German Chancellor:

"Putin’s plan to blackmail Germany with energy supplies has failed, Scholz says after one year of war

Russia’s attempt to blackmail Germany and the rest of Europe into giving up its support of Ukraine by cutting energy supplies has failed, chancellor Olaf Scholz has said on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion attempt of its western neighbour. "

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/ukraine-war-tracking-im...

CO₂ emissions went down minutely, and by less than the switch to fracking gas in he US in he same timespan. Yes, even fossil fuels are better than the failed German Energiewende. And of course CO₂ emissions are still 10x worse per kWh than France's. For way, way more money.

This is such a failed policy, it isn't even funny. Or maybe it's funny again, I can't tell.
by darkvertex | 2025-09-16 07:48:22+00:00
This uses UDS (Unix Domain Sockets) to communicate, which are file-like and can be mounted from the host filesystem inside a container.

As long as the socket is writable, the rest of the filesystem(s) don't have to be. Same goes for the networking, which can be very isolated and restricted.

It should be possible to do what you want.
by rckt | 2025-09-16 07:50:53+00:00
Oh my god. This heading reminded me of a statement/question about keeping up to date with things in the JS world. I do it only when required by a task or (only when I have time, that I don't have much) very rarely out of curiosity.

People creating new JS stuff with an enormous pace. I moved my personal website 4 or 5 times already trying out different frameworks. No benefits, just wasting time creating the same output, but in another context. And I doubt I'm gonna do it again without a serious reason.
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-16 07:50:55+00:00
The framework solution will end up costing more over the life of your application due to artificial restrictions, leaky abstractions, extra dependencies, performance decreases, and more code to maintain. In most cases all of those are acceptable if the developers are less comfortable making original architectural decisions.

For me that comfort is achieved through reuse and audits around data structure types through use of TypeScript. Now that ThpeScript is natively supported in Node it’s even faster still because there is no need for a build or compile step. The code just runs as is. This is also even true for code that executes only in the browser so long as it’s imported into a node module, which I do anyway to reduce the number of file requests into the browser.
by resonious | 2025-09-16 07:51:05+00:00
I'm kind of an Apple outsider (I've used Mac a little bit, never owned or wanted an iPhone). Honestly, I think their new stuff looks pretty cool. I thought Liquid Glass looked cool. I thought the iPhone Air looked cool too.

When I read articles like this, it's hard for me to get what the actual problem is. Apparently "the very introduction of the iPhone Air proves that Jobs’s words are falling on deaf ears on the hardware front ..". So I guess it's bad in some way? There's been months of criticism about Liquid Glass too it seems. I don't really follow any Apple-focused media, so I've never heard them at all (battery life concerns make sense, sure).

Even the Brownlee quote seems to answer its own doubt about iPhone Air: "it is surrounded by other iPhones that are better than it in basically every way, other than being super thin and light". What is wrong with making a new class of phone that prioritizes thinness and lightness?

To me, Apple is just as despicable as they've always been. Their "developer program" is as draconian as always. And lately is seems they're possibly more hypocritical than usual (e.g. super tight notification restrictions on app devs, then using notifications for their own marketing). Every time someone joins a Google Meet and can't talk, I know they're a Mac user because it seems they have to restart the entire browser (Chrome) to allow mic access.

Anyway, per the above paragraph, I have plenty of complaints about Apple myself. But it seems my complaints and the author's complaints are completely non-overlapping, which I found a bit surprising. It seems there's some emotional thing going on with long-time Mac users. In general I kinda get it. Most great things seem to teeter off after awhile of greatness.
by MonkeyClub | 2025-09-16 07:52:32+00:00
> [1] The New Yorker. “The Real Work: Modern magic and the meaning of life.” by Adam Gopnik July 28, 2008

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/03/17/magic-the-real...

a.k.a. https://archive.is/kBpwF
by jrflowers | 2025-09-16 07:52:35+00:00
I like how the author says that they only started a few weeks ago and (contrary to the title) find it good, actually, but has already amassed the requisite expertise to advise other people not to seek out therapy from human beings if they don’t get the result they want from a chat bot.

It is literally “My Mental Health is Improving Through Human Contact: Human Contact Might Not Be For You. The Only Way To Know Is By Asking The Computer”

It is kind of like “I started exercising with a trainer and I feel better and I’m losing weight, because of this I suggest you take up smoking and based on that decide whether or not you want to exercise”. Like the advice is simultaneously almost completely unrelated to their experience and also the exact opposite of their experience.

I cannot wait to hear more well-thought-out advice from the author of “God created men; Sam Altman made them equal”
by gethly | 2025-09-16 07:52:38+00:00
We, the millennials are the most tech-savvy generation because we were not born with the modern technology but we were able to have a childhood before it hit us. But when it did, in our very early teens, we got really into it and learnt a lot. We learnt the internet, the mobile phone, online games, PHP, websites, JavaScript, CSS, online forums... you name it. We invented this sh... :)

But Gen-Z, and now Gen-A even more, were born into the technology, so they never had to learn it besides as users. So they have no clue how thing work. All they know is how to push a button. So in a way, they are crippled by the comfort they were brought into from the get-go. They were never forced to build their own computer nor figure out issue with the operating system, let alone how to program something, etc...

So with each new generation, the technological literacy falls off the cliff more and more. It is not their fault, their circumstances are simply different.
by wulfstan | 2025-09-16 07:53:51+00:00
Yes I'm really not sure obsessive patterns of behaviour will be helped by an unqualified stochastic parrot giving you advice. Unfortunately, when treatment for conditions in some countries costs you an arm and a leg people will resort to quackery. But even in countries where it doesn't, the waiting list for therapy can be so long that you could be waiting years if your case isn't somehow life threatening or profoundly limiting you won't be a high priority.
by numpad0 | 2025-09-16 07:54:33+00:00
It gives me mild itches when this country feels a bit overrated or way overblown or 7-11's Jiro analogue shrinkflates yet again, since it's kind of where I live. Constantly humiliating national prides of e.g. French people with random JR facts just doesn't sound like a good thing to me.
by jajko | 2025-09-16 07:54:39+00:00
This isn't true when literally everywhere else outside of Apple, and only a problem if you are deep in their ecosystem. Why? Open standards, nothing proprietary and closed and fuck you all.

I have phone that's from Samsung, earplugs from Sennheiser, thinking about buying watch from Garmin (Fenix 8 pro), have chargers and powerbanks from Anker, laptop from Dell.

Bluetooth, USBC and other standards. Its beyond good enough for me, and I can switch each component for a better one from another company if I want (apart from those Sennheisers, no company makes better sounding earplugs and they integrate flawlessly for my needs).
by zelphirkalt | 2025-09-16 07:55:04+00:00
That's the crux of the matter isn't it? They want to have a JavaScript framework, but when you run it in the browser, all the accessibility issues pop up and additional workarounds are needed, to get the default browser stuff working properly again. We all have seen the many many websites, that break the back button. So they move rendering back to the server, where it was before, with traditional templating engines. But oh, now it's not so nice any longer? Could it be, that the whole approach is not actually that great? Could it be, that a traditional templating engine with a tiny js framework, that is only served on pages when needed and only does little interactivity aspects would serve us better in almost all cases of websites?

I think React and JSX and custom components as they are in React with JSX have people "programming" things, that don't need that kind of programming, as they are static things, that do not need the power of a full blown programming language behind them. In a way JSX is even more cumbersome than some PHP, because it makes you learn a new wannabe HTML syntax, which is not HTML (for example classList instead of class) for little benefit on most websites.
by winterrdog | 2025-09-16 07:55:58+00:00
Nice read!

I also believe the difference between expert level and amateur programmers will be a lot easier to spot. Especially around the software or system architecture

Due to the inherent GIGO behavior of any software, it'll be a lot easier to tell that the code or software wasn't written by someone with deep knowledge since LLMs' output is just a good reflection of your prompts and creativity while at it(prompting). For instance, a prompt from Ken Thompson can't be exactly similar to your average Joe programmer. I've seen it a lot with most new open-source projects nowadays.
by irjustin | 2025-09-16 07:56:09+00:00
We were on another thread where the study was saying LLMs being used as psychiatrists is bad.

Then another hnuser chimed that he ran a support forum for people. Said, these aren't the real problem. The real problem are the "AI girlfriends". They go off the rails completely and tell people to unhinged things. Apparently his forum already lost a few members to who knows what because of these things.

That surprised me a lot.
by krtab | 2025-09-16 07:58:07+00:00
If you're interested in this topic, I very warmly recommend the book You're not a rock by Mark Freeman. There are also episodes of podcasts around with interesting interventions from him.

The way I usually pitch the book is that Mark is not an MD, or a scientific expert on the topic, but he is a patient who's been through it, is very interested, and explains to you how it worked for him, and what he knows about the topic like a friend would. There are some mistakes, some things are a bit awkwardly explain, but the book is overall a tremendous read for anyone interested in anything dealing with anxiety, ocd, or more generally a mind too keen on spinning in a wheel.

https://www.markfreeman.ca/books/
by dariosalvi78 | 2025-09-16 07:59:19+00:00
there are thousands of apps that do not require to be "great native apps". If only Apple invested more on mobile Safari we could have "almost great" web apps and be out of their mafia ecosystem.

I am old enough to remember the days of Internet Explorer, I can tell you that it was not fun. It is a blessing that we can at least deliver some pretty decent web apps today, and we should keep pushing for it.
by austin-cheney | 2025-09-16 07:59:21+00:00
This has never been true for me. I never end up writing any kind of internal framework. Instead I write libraries that solve specific problems and achieve code reuse, which are really either functions or data storage objects restricted to their own files. At least, that’s how I think about code universally, libraries, but specifically in the browser this comes up less because the problem space is much smaller. Really in the browser it’s all about organizing code around event handling and putting text on screen. Let’s not over think this.

Anyways this idea of internal frameworks has always been weird to me. Nobody says this of code outside the browser, so why would they say this inside the browser? When I think about in those terms this clearly becomes a simple organizational problem and I don’t need a framework telling me how to organize things like a parent telling me to do chores.